The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1910-08-28


folded and Whitney jumped on his
back. while the band played and the
crowd cheered. Sand Creek did not
wait d minute after the burlap was
removed from his eyes. The cowboys,
jumped aside, ana he leaped straight
into the air Colonel Roosevelt grinncd
and the crowd yelled. but Whitney
stuck 10 his saddle. Whitney Stayed
on him until the horse ran into the
fence, when he lost his balance and
fell.
do II again, AL" the crowd shouted,
and he said he would. once more the
horse was bulldogged" ana blindfoldcd
ana Whitney nonchalantly leaped into
the saddle. He stayed there about three
seconds. sand Creek surprised him by
plnnging madly to one side. through
the gate to the nficld, and before
Whitney could recover his balance he
! man shot through the air and fell In
Il heap on the ground.
Teddy Roosevelt. Steamboat. Silver
City and Rocking Chair. all known
over the west as horses who almost
no one can ride, helped to amuse the
crowd. Steamboat, who had thrown
many crack riders, IL getting old, but
he gave viii Mckinley. who won the
worlds. bncking championship con-
tests today. one of the hardest fights
, of his life.
The Sioux and Shoshonc braves had
their dearest wish gratified when they
! were called over TO shake hands with
Colonel Roosevelt. Deckcd in every
bit of gandy fncry they possessed.
they rode to the stand and each was
given a hearty handclasp In response
to their greeting How"
RooscveIt's Speech.
Theodore Roosevelt delivered the fol-
lowing address today:
When, at the close Of my hunting
trip In Africa, ! reached the borders
of civilization. the first invitation |
accepted was this to visit the capital
of Wyoming on the day when the peo-
pie OF the frontier came together To
commemorate their achievements:
was glad 1t was so. because have a
peculiar feeling for the men and wom-
en- Of what used To be called the Far
West. and especially for those of the
cattle country. For II number or years
| lived on n ranch on the Little Mis-
souri,, sharing work and play. good
fortune and bad fortune, with my
,neighbors; working. on the roundup
district to- the Montana Stock Grow
tna II,
acting as deputy sheriff at my end OF
the country count those years as
! among the most valuable of my life
because nothing breeds such commnn-
| tty OF feeling as to work with ones
felloWmen at their life tasks. and to
! learn to know their feelings by actual.
ly sharing them. The man of the west
throughout the successive stages ol
| western growth, has always been one
or the two or three most typical fig.
ures--lndeed, ] am tempted t. sa~. The
most typical figure-in American life
and no man can really understand oui
country and appreciate what 1t really
Is and what II promises unless he has
tho fullest and closest sympathy with
the Ideals and aspirations of the west
( Tho prime reason for this Is to ID,
found in the fact that the westcrne,
Is so good an American. He Is ar
American first and foremost. for this
Is tho great lesson. friends. that al
of us need to learn and to keep, tht
lesson that 1t IL unimportant whether
a man lives north or south, east o,
west, provided he Is genuinely and III
good faith an American. that he feels
every part OF the United States as
his own. and that he Is honestly de,
sirous to uphold the interests of nj
4 other Americans In whatever section.
of the country they may dwell.
Ths Old. Time West.
"A hundred years ago, when me,
4 spoke of the west, they meant thu
country between the Alleghanies ant
the Mississippi Fifty years ago thu
white mans west took In Minnesota
Iowa and Kansas. and then skipped
across to California and Oregon. Th,
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