The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-03-01
WAS SERGEANT AT ARMS
IN OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE
Enroute 10 East Africa Where
He Expects TO Catch
Lions Alive
(William Maxwell In London Daily
Mail

(Wiliam Maxwell In London Daily
Mail,)
If any other man had given me
chat answer would have looked /
around for a policeman. But it was
Scull, my American friend, with |
whom have had adventures in Asia
aud Africa-Scull, the cavalryman I
he cowboy and the war correspond |
ent
| met him by chance in Piccadiily.
The collar of his heavy coat was |
turned up: his hands were deep IN
his pockets. Though raised in New
England, he feels the cold.
Where are you off to now?'
asked.
'iEast Africa"
What for?"
Rope lions. .
Scull is always laconlc and always
serious, and | always take him seri-
ously. Thus il happened that |
found myself in an old fashioned
hotel next day shaking hands with
Buffalo Jones'. can still feel the
grip Of that iron hand and am sorry
lcr he ions in East Africa For
Buffalo Jones is going to show the
world that lions may be caught by
hand instead d being raped or
shot. WhaHwil happen after he has
iassopd hem he does not pre- end to
-as nai is secret be'ween the
ion aud Mr.. Jones.
u am not going to have to submit
nv proofs to Copenhagen remark
ed Buffalo Jones with a gay twinkle
in his eye. "Our friend Scull is go
ing to take photographs while | do
he roping No Copenhagen for me.
Mas.er of the P.ansmen.
After YOU have shaken hands with
Buffalo Jones you believe him capa-
bic of anything. His spare figure is
compounded of steel and his face Is
the face of an eagle, SiXty-five years
have abated none Of the strength and
ale tness Of the last of the plains
men. Mr. Jones Is not starting on a
new career at that age.
when | was II years old ! caught
nv first squirrel. 1t bit my finger,
but sold It for 50. Since then I've
oeen chasing everything on four legs
trying to get a fortune. And I'm
/ still at it,"
Lest you ,hink him Don Quixote
setting out to tilt with windmills, let
me tell YOU that Buffalo Jones was
appointed by ex-President Roosevelt
, 10 be game warden of Yellowstone
park, and tha. every school boy in
America is familiar with his marve--
, Gus adventures with buffalo and griz
zly bea aud panther or mountain
Hon, AS hey call tho panther IN The
/ United States
: Years ago, when Oklahoma was
thrown open to settlers, Mr. Jones
gave proof of his mettle. Seven
y thousand horsemen mustered on the
border waiting the signal TO start, fol
he land was to be the reward OF the
5wiftest.
Il took two horses, trained to run
{ side by side, and made seven changes
- In nine miles leaping from horse tt
horse at full gallop without halt.
won the race by half mile Owe
F seven thousand competitors. II Wa'
wonderful sight The solid pha
lanx Of horsemen twenty deep and ,
n lie wide swept over the body of The
soldioe who gave The signal. Th'
whole earth shook as when a here
0f buffalo stampedes.
Adventures Among Indians.
His adventures among the indiana
+ are as wonderful as any recorded b.
O Fenmore Cooper On one occasion
!" he chief OF a tribe shot arrows rounC
IS ils fee and cross-plnned them witt
more arrows. i looked him in tn
Ie ave and laughed and saved my life,
q said Buffalo Jones, and ii you saw
him am sure you would not doub
o him.
II But the real business of his life j
l. Wild beasA
/ Does NOT the Bible tell us" SAT-
+, Buffalo Jones, that man shall hav'
II dominion over every living thing tha
move.h upon The earth? | hay
proved the truth of this promis
" many times Every animal loves an
clings TO life. The moment 1t reaI
r. ICES that man can, and will, take it
Ic life, even lion or a grizzly is tn
lr worst whipped animal ID the world
a. That is the principle on which MI
Jones acts. telylng on his promis
t. and on his own strength and skin, h
IN has ente ed the dens Of panthers an
r pulled them out and tiled them n
-e like pigs He has chased them a
,r trees and with n fofked stick hur q
them TO earth again and bound then
lo with ropes You have TO drag lhcs
~ confessions out of Buffalo Jones, 10
r he Is naturally taeitufn and has
" habit Of referring you to the chrcn
cles known as The Last OF tn
painsmen
~ What was my most exciting as
D. venture? Well. my worst time wa
n with buffaloes. AS you know, III
le buffalo was almost extinct. 0f Ia
in original herd, only eigh.y-lyP an
mas we're say5a, and Qf these ! csl