The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-03
Buffalo Jones Sails for African
Jungles.
Famous Old HunterWill Capture
Big Game Alive.
WILL USE A LARIAT.
Expects to Bring Live Animals
Back With Him.
New York Story Indicates an
Active Press Agent.

New York, Jan. 3.--''Yes, sir: An
if 1 don't rope and tie a rhinoceros
I'll never come back to this coun-
try
And Buffalo Jones, when he said
it, didn't stutter or hesitate.
He is from Garden City. Kan, but
spends some of his time in Kansas
City and New York. He is accom-
panied by his two expert cowpunch-
ers. "Rustler'' Loveless and Silent"
Means, ten trained cowboys. four
dogs and about half a ton of equip
ment
Buffalo Jones is about to invade
British East Africa, with nothing
more dangerous than a lariat, and he
expects to bring back enough wild an
finals to stock his western ranches.
Aside from the serious business of the
expedition, Buffalo states that he
will get rhinoceros, a small elephant,
if he gets into elephant country,
hippo or two and a lion, and the
amazing part of it is that Jones is
just the man who will try these start
ling stunts.
He has roped, thrown and tied the
biggest bull buffaloes in the country
wild ones at that-he has roped
hundreds of grizzly bears, dozens of
mountain lions and elk without num-
Der. The biggest and the strongest
wild animals in this country have not
been able to get away from this lean
and muscular old man and he believes
that the African wild game will fall
a victim to the same rope tricks.
To Rope the Rhinoceros.
Here's how I'll get the rhino-
in getting the rope over that horn of
his and in the same loop I'll get one
of his fore feet. 1t won't be any trick
at all to pull his horn and foot to-
gether and there he is-can't go
either way. Then I'll ride around
him once, the COW pony will give a
big yank on the rope and down comes
Mr.. Rhinoceros with his four feet
punched. I'll throw him so he'll lay
on the rope and it won't give and
then can ride around him three or
four times and wind him up like
shucksi It's going to be easy!"
Buffalo Jones is a man who plans
his campaign beforehand. He enter
ed against 1000 men in a nine-mile
horse race down in Oklahoma a few
years ago. The riders We're not re-
stricted to the number of mounts used.
Buffalo Jones entered several horses,
taught them to gallop alongside and
allow him to change from one saddle
to the other on the fly and won the
race by more than half a mile.
Jones Will Carry No Guns.
ct figure to be able to get a small
with his trunk up over his head, and II
can get a rope over that trunk some
things going to give way. A lion will
run away and I expect to ride them
down and rope them on the run. tangle
'em up and get 'em tied before they
know what's happened"
Buffalo Jones says he will not take 9
gun with him into Africa. Some of the
men with him may take guns but he
will do his hunting without them. He
will do his beating with firecrackers.
II have. been thinking of making a
trip of this sort for long time said
he, land when I began to make ar
rangements I went out and bought the
best COW ponies 1 could find. Every
horse in the string is trained to the
business OF working the rope, and I've
got a big. chunky fellow of my own
who knows as much about handling a
rope as any man. When he stiffens UP
on that rope you can bet that he's go
ing to spill anything that happens to
be on the other end of it
Raise Zebra in the West.
Stockmen know Buffalo Jones. He
originated two distinct animals, the Ca
talo, part buffalo and part COW, and the
Persiarina sheep. the latter cross be-
tween the Persian sheep and the Merino.
you want a sheep that won't lie
down and die in blizzard weather. said
the colonel. THE Turks never took any
care of their sheep and nature had to
do it for them, consequently they have
the hardest sheep in the world. My
Persiarino lambs are born right in a
snowdrifV and they don't die"
Colonel Jones believes that he will be