The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-06
CAUGHT A RHINO.
Buffalo Jones Talks of African
Experiences.
ROped and Tied a Giant
RhinOcerOs.
ALSO BAGGED A LION.
Only One of Beasts Captured
Brought Home.
Thrilling Experiences for Bene-
fit of Moving Pictures.


Buffalo" Jones is here. He is on his
way from Africa, where he has been
lassoing game, to his ranch near Ros-
well, Ariz. He stopped over to attend
t--e commencement exercises of Wash
burn college, where his daughter. Miss
Jessie Jones, graduates this year. She
has been making her home with her
sister, Mrs. Whitmer.
The hunter says that the stories
about wild animals Charging people
unless driven to bay, are all 'bosh.
Incidentally, his description of captur-
ing a rhinoceros and a lioness bear out
his statement
The lioness is on her way to New
York in a cage, but the rhinoceros es-
capped after being fastened to trees by
four thick ropes tied to each leg. The
other animals as harte beasts. cheetah,
and other game, were let loose AFTER
having been branded. He did not use
a gun and was not even armed with
revolver while in the jungle.
All of the thrilling captures will be
shown to the public in moving pictures.
The purpose of the trip, which lasted
seven month, was to take pictures Of
wild animals in their native haunts.
The party included two cowboys, ex-
pert ropers, Ambrose Means of Las,
Vegas and NJ. D. Lovelace of Roswell.
They took ten COW ponies with them
The pictures of the rhino capture
will be startlingly realistic, as the big
beast finally broke the tripod of the
camera, but the photographer had
kept making views until the animal
was within about 20 yards of him.
In speaking of the capture and 9TH
err things Buffalo Jones said:
mo, the rhino didn't charge US first.
No animal seeks to charge a man.
They are all bosh, those stores about
iv1cy TCf
less molested or that they think that
they can not escape any other way,
they will not do so. rhino for IN
stance, ought to wear glasses for his
eye sight is so poor that it could not
see half way across an ordinary street,
but it has a keen sense of smell, ana
when it smells a man, it will run
against the wind and naturally comes
toward him. But if the animal after
coming within a certain distance OF
the two-legged animal, thinks that no
attack will be made, it Will not modest
the human being.
I'VE discovered a huge rhinoceros
on the Dingo river, not far from the
spot where Kermit Roosevelt killed
his first lion. One of our party on
horseback finally threw rope over
his head I got a rope on a fore leg
| then the beast dragged the horses
along. At last we had him partially
| tired out and about shutdown, tied him
to some trees with four thick ropes
on hind and fore legs. We intended
to ride him.
THE next morning he was gone. He
had snapped those heavy ropes like
| threads No wonder, he must have
weighed two tons.
LAS to that lioness: 1 want to say
right here the lioness is a brave ami
NAL, and will always fight for her
! mate, but the reverse is true of the
| lion. He will make big roar if Mrs.
| Lion is attacked, but will run away
and leave her to her fate.
THAT was what happened when our
| party came upon a pair of those ami
mails The beasts always hunt in pairs.
| The lioness does all of the killing of
| the game by springing upon 1t after
her mate has driven it toward her
| by his roaring.
| "And when we were after this lion
| ess the lion ran away and roared
| loud enough to be heard two miles.
1--WE drove the lioness out from
among some rocks by dropping giant
frecrackers. She charged upon US,
| but hurt no one. The lion ran away
| with a loud roaring, leaving his mate
| and out into the plain, and finally had
| her SO tired and docile that we came
| close to her. Then 1 caught her by
! slipping over her head a rope attached
| to a stick only about ten feet long.
| 1.-The mate escaped. Yes, If you want
| to kill a lion, kill a lioness first, for
if her mate is slain or injured she
will kill you if she can"
Buffalo Jones will leave in a few
days for his ranch near Roswell, Ariz