Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-03-17
COL. ROOSEVELT OUT
Of AFRICAN JUNGLE
Press Correspondents Welcome the
Fx=President Back to Civiliza-
ton on the White Nile.
NOTHING TO SAY ON POLITICS
Colonel Is in Good Health and Spir-
its After Facing Perils in the
Dark Continent.

After a year in the African wilds,
Colonel Roosevelt and his party halted
at Renk on the White Nile, Egyptian
Soudan. and there on the threshold
of civilization met a party OF newspa-
per correspondents. The Roosevelt par
~ were aboard the government steam
or Dial. placed at their disposal by Sir
REGINALD Wingate, the British sirdar.
Colonel Roosevelt received the cor
RESPONDENTS on board the Dial, which
was tied to the right bank of the Nile.
He is tanned brown as a cigar and is
in excellent health. I'm ready for
ANYTHING" he said, with the old ia
miIiar smile. But he did not smile
when he answered almost the first
question the correspondent put: Il
have nothing to say and shall have
nothing to say on American or Euro
pean politics. on any political question
or any phase or incident connected
with politics. I shall hold no inter
views, and anything purporting to be
in the nature of an interview can be
accepted as false. This applies during
nv entire stay in Europe" The for
mer President received an enormous
number of letters at Renk.
Colonel Roosevelt expressed delight
that his son. Theodore, Jr., is engaged
to marry Miss Eleanor Alexander of
New York. she is the dearest girl"
he exclaimed, affectionately.
Colonel Roosevelt talked enthusiast
ticalIy of his hunting adventures. He
warmly praised the courtesy Of British
and other officials The facilities they
offered him largely enabled him to
complete his collection. The talk
aboard the Dial revealed that Colonel
Roosevelt had several narrow escapes
in the Jungle In the last an elephant
which he had wounded charged him.
He was trapped; there was no escape
through the thic kjungle. The infuri-
ated beasts trunk almost grazed him,
when, at that close range, Colonel
Roosevelt fired. Luckily he hit vital
spot; the elephant dropped in its
tracks.
Kermit Roosevelt is in perfect health
and condition So are the others of
the party-R T. Cunninghame. the ex-
perienced African hunter, who pre-
pared and conducted the expedition;
A. J. Loring and Edmund Heller and
DR. Mearns.
The Dial towed a large barge laden
with a thousand trophies of the plain
and Jungle They constitute the larg-
est collection of specimens ever taken
out of Africa. The rare specimens in
clude the first whole skin of the great
Gland killed after great hardships;
a white-eared kob, a Gray's waterbok,
a shoebill stork, and a dix dix, an an
telope about the size of a jack rabbit.
After leaving Egypt Mr.. Roosevelt
goes to Naples, then to Budapest and
Paris He will pass through Holland,
the land of his ancestors, and arrive
the first week of May in Christiania.
The colonel then goes to Berlin and
London. He will stay in England I'M
til early in June, when he sails for
America, and expects to be in New
York June 20.
Colonel Roosevelt and his son have
killed about 500 specimens of big game
These include II lions, II elephants,
10 buffaloes. 10 black rhinoceroses, 8
white rhinoceroses, 9 hippopotami, 8
CRATES. Ieopards, and almost in
Vulnerable deer of various sorts.