The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-09-01
WILD and AND WOOLlY
WYOMING WROOPS
'ER UP FOR TEDDY
Typical Western Welcome Is
Given the x-President in
Capital Of Old Frontier
Commonwealth.

Cheyenne. Wyo., Aug. 3O.-Wyoming
today extended to Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt the first of the series of
demonstrations planned for him in the
far west. From all over the state came
men n women to join in welcoming
the colonel back to the country with
which he became acquainted over a
quarter OF a century ago.
The thousands who gathered at the
station did not come to meet a former
president of the United States. They
came to cheer Roosevelt, the cowman,
who ran a brand on the Little Mis-
souri, years ago; the former broncho
"peeler." and Dakota deputy sheriff,
and to greet him as a comrade of the
range and extend him a typical western
welcome.
Indian Braves in Crowd.
Cow punchers by hundreds urged
their ponies along the track with toy-
Gus yells, while Sioux and Shoshone
braves, gay in paint and war bonnets,
threaded silently through the great
crowd to see the chief Of whom they
had all heard. Some of the Indian
chiefs had visited Colonel Roosevelt
in Washington and crowded close, hop
snS to shake his hand again. To COM
c!eteHthe scenes tynical- of the old west.
soldiers In blue and khaki from Fort
d. A. Russell massed themselves about
the station.
Colonel Roosevelt arose early today,
and when approaching Cheyenne sat
on tine rear platform Of his private car,
Republic, viewing the long stretches of
cattle ranges. At the station to meet
him were Governor B. b. Brooks, Sena-
tor Warren. of Wyoming; Senator
Borah, Of Idaho, one of the i~nSurgent
senators who has been in close rela-
tons of Colonel Roosevelt, and many
men prominent in the political affairs
of state.
Negro Military Escort.
Drawn up in front of the station
cavalry, U. S. A, the negro regiment
which co-operated with the Rough
Riders at Santiago. Some of the men,
who were in the Cuban campaign, came
forward to meet Colonel Roosevelt, one
of them, who was warmly received by
him, having carried a message at San
Juan hill ordering a portion of the
Rough Riders to lie down while the
Calling guns were allowed to play
upon the Spanish forces.
The parade through the streets of
Cheyenne, headed by Colonel Roosevelt
In an automobile, began the day of
festivities. Everywhere there were
crowds of men, women and children,
cowboys and cowgirls on horseback,
and straying Sioux Indians awaiting to
see the visitor.
The new city rising amid small
cabins that had survived the transfor-
nation of the city from the crude set
Element Of the early days greatly in
terested the colonel. He responded
with cordiaiity to the greetings of the
throng as he passed along.
Reviews the Parade.
Reaching the reviewing stand erected
for the occasion in the center Of the
city, the colonel reviewed the troops,
detachment of cowboys and COW girls,
remnants OF Sioux and the various or
Pa njZ9tinnC .faEinor mart ", the no fa5o t.
As Colonel Roosevelt took his place in
The reviewing stand the head OF the pa
rade swung by, led by Chas. Irwin, of
Cheyenne, who forced his mount up to
the railing for a grasp of Roosevelt's
and Following the Frontier Days
committee came Brigadier General
Ralph Hoyt, c~omnlandant at Fort D. A.
Russell, at the head of a battalion of
the Eighteenth infantry, which was
followed by the mountain batteries Of
the Fourth field artillery and the col
ored troopers of the Ninth cavalry, I'M
der Colonel Dyer.
Each face of the dusky riders was
split with a wide grin as the command
'eyes right" faced them at the former
president, who grinned and waved his
hat in return.
Cow Punchers Biz Feature.
Then came the feature of the parade.
With their band playing "Auld Lang
Syne," 1,500 COW punchers, each on his
best mount. and headed by the best
rough riders of the world, flashed by
the stand in q gallop, with waving hats
and shrill cowboy yells of greeting.
The steady pace of the regulars was
too slow for the range riders and they
urged the sweating mounts past the
tai in a gallop with yells of "Hello,
Teddy" and flashes from silver mount
ed saddles pouring from the cloud Of
dust.
Close behind the COW men rode 200
Sioux and S%hoshone braves. squaws
and papooses, the braves in black and
red war paint and war bonnets. The
war cry that one made the residents
of Cheyenne feel for their scalps burst
out as they passed, and Goes Along.
squaw of Charlie Two-Bonnets, blew
a kiss to Colonel Roosevelt. A team
of buffalo driven to a WACO plowed
stolidly past the %grandstand wearing
trotting boots like a park team. HI
japanese delegation closed the parade.
1t halted in front of the stand and
shouted three 'Banzais' while the col
aonel smiled and waved his hat.
Stands Like a Soldier.
Colonel Roosevelt watched the parade
with the closest attention. He stood
at the front of the reviewing stand,
with Governor Brooks on one side and
General Smith on the other. When
.he colors were carried by he took off
his hat and stood at attention. head
thrown back. heels close together, like
a soldier. When the indian rode by,
yelling their war cries, the colonel
waved his hat at them and, turning to
Governor Brooks, said:
"Twenty-seven years ago we shot
one of these Sioux in a brush on the
plains and the Indians shot a cow
puncher. l stood off 70 of them for two
hours"
The colonel liked the cowboys, but
ne did not think they looked quite as
they used to when he lived In the
west.
Look at the chaps the boys are
wearing" he said, they are a good deal
p~rettier than we used to see when I
was out here"
Quickly taken to the Inter-Ocean
hotel, where a suite of rooms had been
reserved for him, Colonel Roosevelt
took luncheon with Governor Brooks.
VESSELS ASHORE.
Lo..don, Eng, Aug. 30.-Two British
naval vessels, the torpedo boat destroy
er Success and torpedo boat No. 10.
Were blown ashore on the Scottish coast
nv q. gale this morning. The Success