Smyrna times., 1910-08-31
T.R. Gets TOUCH
OF WILD WEST
Rides Twenty Miles With Cow
boys 10 Sheep Ranch,
THEN GOES TO DENVER

Colorado Capital and Addresses Leg
islature After Reviewing a Parade
and Attending a Banquet.
Colonel Roosevelt arrived in Den
yer, Colo, on Monday and was greet
ed by a salute of twenty-one guns
The ex-president received the most
enthusiastic reception of his tour and
was kept on the move all day. He first
reviewed a parade and then attended
a banquet given by the Denver Press
club. In the afternoon he addressed
the Colorado legislature.
T. r. got a touch of the real west
at Cheyenne. The old hankering fOr
the plains and the plain people, with
whom he spent several years before
he broke into the political game seri-
oCsly has been satiated He mounted
a horse and rode twenty miles out to
Senator F. 2. Warrens sheep ranch.
He ate a game dinner that included
sage chickens brought over from Lara
mie. And he who0ped whenever &c
felt like it. Formality had flown.
Cheyenne spent Sunday in its usual
quiet way. Saturday night wasn't so
fast that it left a hangover. and tbs
clear-eyed inhabitants who live on the
elevation of 5000 feet rustled around
early in the morning. Mr.. Roosevelt
was tired after a dinner party and a
late reception Saturday night, so he
slept later than he does as a rule. He
went to church in the morning, and
right after he got away from the con-
gregation put on his riding togs and
Joined his party. Lieutenant TOmp-
kins, r. 5. Van Tassell and Nat Baker
a ranchman. went with T. r. Senator
Warren used an automobile. Van Tas-
sell is seventy years old, man of re-
markable vitality, who years age
fought the Indians and nearly got
scalped. Pole Creek ranch is about
twenty miles from Cheyenne. Senator
Warren bought it some time ago to
raise sheep on. He started a system
of irrigation and has been mighty sue
cessful with a dry farming process
that has produced an extraordinary
amount of stuff. An ample supply OF
water from Pole creek has turned the
arid plains into fine soil Roosevelt
and his party started out from Chey
enne for Pole Creek under a sun thai
baked the plains. The pace that ole
man Van Tassell set for the buncf
caused the colonel to sit up and take
notice, but T. R. stayed on the job anC
never wavered for a second. They haC
three COW ponies ready for him, usins
them as relays, because the colonel i:
heavy and keeps anything, whetheI
its human or animal, working steady.
OuI at Pole Creek, northeast o
Cheyenne, the colonel found man,
COW punchers and range riders ant
twisters and peelers awaiting his al
rival. He rode over the ranch will
the crowd, saw them do a few stunt
and then sat down to a big game din
ner in the house. T. R. enjoyed tn
eats to beat the band Everybod
pitched in and helped themselves an
got after the sage chickens and lam
and things voracioUsly. When they go
through they weren't served with fir
ger bowls. either. The riders sa
around and smoked awhile after III
dinner. They were too full to be jos
gled and bucked by mean little COZ
pony and they weren't taking chances
Mr.. Roosevelt sat on the streets an
spun yarns of the old west as b
knew it twenty seven years ago.
At one place along the road ther
was a reception for T. r. The schot
children in their white organdies weI
lined opposite an enthusiastic ban
The colonel had to pass through th
narrow lane. while the band worke
and the school kids sang America
shrilly. A busy little horse that /
rode stood up on its hind legs an
reared and fused something awfr
T. r. expected at any moment to sls
a flock of our future voters, but /
had to smile and bow just as thous
he loved il above everything. Th;
ride between the school children az
the band was one Of the hardest ]
ever made. he
Charue ff" i.Jfge Hers
and the others who had the 'front.'
celebration in their hands receiv,
the highest praise from Mr.. Rooseve
He told them that it was bully al
that he'll be out again if he can g
away
Along about 8 o'clock in the event,
the colonel and others said farew
to Pole Creek and began the journ
home. T. R. motored back.