The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03
The Famous Western PIainsman
Now in Africa.
Ready for His ROping and
Tying Performances.
LONDON REPORTERS.
Couldn't Quite Believe All He
Intended to Do.
Writes Entertainingly to the
Garden City Telegram.

Garden City, Kan, March 3.-Just
about the time this is being published,
c. ]. (Buffalo) Jones is disembarking
at Mombassa, British East Africa, and
preparing to cover almost precisely the
same territory as did Colonel Roosevelt,
in his animal roping tour of Africa.
The Telegram asked Mr.. Jones TO
send occasional word of his trip to that
paper, which he promised to do; and in
fulfillment of that promise it has re-
ceived a most interesting letter from
him at Naples where he was about to
sail for Nairobi, made famous by Col
onel Roosevelt on his expedition.
Mr.. Jones writes to the Garden City
Telegram:
There are so many friends in Garden
City to whom l would be glad to write,
sailing for Naroibi. East Africa. con-
cluded it best to write you, and,
through the paper, can say hello to all
of them for me through the Telegram.
4 left London January q. intended
vented. So was obliged to go in a
more northerly route. through Ger
many. Switzerland and Italy.
1T was desperately cold. Luckily, I
brought my catalo overcoat, or it would
have caught me hard.
Coming over the Alps was the cold
est place 1 have ever been since leav-
ing the Arctic regions. 1 had an all
day ride through the beautiful scenery
but being so accustomed to the
Rockies. it didn't impress me like those
who had never seen real mountains.
Il was delighted next morning to
awaken in Sunny Italy, at Florence.
bridge stood where brave Horatius he'd
back the enemy until his comrades
saved the bridge and thus Rome
'All the historical places of that an
- Ia
the mountains of Switzerland. 1 was
disappointed when l saw the River
Tiber. 1t is about as large as the Ar
kansas but with more water in it.
THE walls of Rome are marvellous. I
rode for miles paralleling them; and
tried to compute the lifetime of the
builders. I figured until it went into
the hundreds of thousands, and then
gave it up.
1.-THE Coliseum was of great interest
to me. 1 could imagine the thousands
who had persisted meeting gladiators
and wild beasts to make merriment for
the rabble. Had lived there in those
days, no doubt they would have forced
me into the arena to meet the lions
and other ferocious beasts. I will en-
deavor to show you upon my return
how would have met the enemy.
For expect to have a more start
ling ordeal with the dangerous beasts
than was ever enacted in Rome. The
consoling part is that we can reproduce
these scenes in moving pictures, and
the whole world can see the drama as
naturally as if it was an eyewitness.
TT will take IS days more of rolling
and tossing on the briny deep before
we disembark at Mombassa.
81 am writing you under the burning
mountain Vesuvius. I was out there q
little while ago, and the fire and
smoke rolled out in great volumes. To-
morrow, we will pass the end of Sicily,
and then steam for the Suez canal and
into the Red sea next; just think of it.
Sail over the bones of Pharaoh and his
hosts who were swallowed up in that
dreadful vortex. That is, if this really
occurred, and is not a parable or a
hoax!
Newspaper Men SE1eptical.
ct inclose a clipping from the Lon
don Mail. Quite number of reporters
interviewed me in London, but it was
so astounding to think man would
make such assertions about roping wild
beasts that they were all turned down
when their stuff reached the editors.
well / am sure Garden City editor
wouldn't have hesitated when 1 told
him 1 was going to rope lions, rhinos,
1eopards, buffalo. and all the animals
could find in Africa and tie them down
as 1 would sheep and calves in the
barnyard.
1.-THE saying, No prophet is without
honor save in his own country does