The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
GLAD TO SEE HIM .
Cowboys, Indians and Soldiers
Turn Out by Thousands
To Welcome Col. ROOseVelt's Re
turn to the West.
PARADE IN HIS HONOR
Includes 5000 Troops, l,oOO
COwpunchers, 200 Redskins.
Five Cars Added to His Train
Since He Started.
PARADE IN HIS HONOR

Cheyenne, Wyo., Aus
thousands which gathered at the STA
ton here today to meet the Roose-
veIt special trtin did not come to gree'
a former president of the Unlteo
States. They came to cheer Theodore
Roosevelt, the cowman. who ran
brander on the Little Missouri years
ago; the former broncho-peeler ana
Dakota deputy sheriff. and to greet
him as a comrade of the range and eX-
tend him a typical western welcome.
Cow puncherS by hundreds urged
their ponies along the track with JOY
Gus wells while Sioux and Shoshone
braves, gay in paint and war bonnets'
threaded silently through the crowd to
see the great chief of whom they bau
all heard. Some of the Indian chlets
had visited Colonel Roosevelt in Wash
ington and crowded close. hoping TO
shake his hand again. To complete
the scene so typical of the OLD west
soldiers in blue and khaki from Fort
D. A. Russell, massed themselves about
the station.
When he arrived Colonel Roosevelt
was greeted by Gov. B. B. Brooks. Sen
ator F. f. Warren. General F. A:
Smith. commanding the department OF
the Missouri, and members of the from
tier committee. From the station he
escorted by a squadron of United
States cavalry and a mounted band.
From the porch of the club. Colonel
Roosevelt reviewed great parade ar
ranged in his honor. The parade was
headed by regular troops from near
" everv branch of the service. field ar
tillery and mountain batteries and sig
nal and hospital corps from FIT. d. A.
Russell numbering more than 5000 Of
ficers and men. The regular troops
were in command of Brigadier Cen
eral Hoyt.
Following the soldiers were 1900
cowboys and COW girls and 200 Sioux
and Shoshone bucks, squaws and pa
pooses.
Civic and secret societies completed
the parade which required an hour
and a half to pass the reviewing stand
After luncheon at his hotel. Colonel
Roosevelt will drive to the frontier
grounds, where he will deliver an ad-
dress and witness the finals in the
championship riding and roping con-
tests and frontier sports. He will be
the guest of Governor Brooks at din
ner and later will attend a smoker Civ
en- to the visiting newspaper men and
distinguished visitors.
Old Comrades in Arms.
Colonel Roosevelt arose early today
and when approaching Cheyenne sat
on the rear platform of his private car
viewing the long stretches of cattle
ranges. Drawn up in front of the sta
tion as an escort of honor, was the
Ninth cavalry U. S. A., the negro regi-
n.ent which co-operated with the
Rough Riders at Santiago. Some of
the men who were in the Cuban cam
paign came forward to meet Col
Roosevelt one of them who was warm
ly received by him, having carried d
message at San Juan hill ordering a
portion of the Rough Riders to lie
down while the Gatling guns were al
lowed to play upon the Spanish forces
The parade through the streets of
Cheyenne, headed by Col. Roosevelt in
an automobile, began the day of festivi-
ties Everywhere there were crowds ne
men, women and children, cowboys and
COW girls on horseback and strayinS
Sioux Indians awaiting to see the Wis
itor.
The new city rising amid small
cabins that had survived the trans
formation from the crude settlement
of the early days greatly interested the
colonel. He responded with cordiality
to the greetings of the throng as he
passed along.
Reaching the reviewing stand erect
ed for the occasion in the center of the
city, Col Roosevelt reviewed the
troops, the detachment of cowboys and
cow girls a remnant of the Sioux, and
the various organizations taking part
The Parade.
AS Col. Roosevelt took his place in
the reviewing stand the head of the
parade swung by it led by Charles lr-
win of Cheyenne, who forced his mount
up to the railing for a grasp of Roose-
Velt's hand. Following the frontier
days committee came Brigadier Cen
eral Ralph Hoyt. commandant at FIT.
d. A. Russell at the head of a battal-
ion of the Eighteenth infantry which
was followed by the mountain batter
les of the Fourth field artillery and the
colored troopers of the Ninth cavalry
under Col. Dyer.
Each duslxy face of the cavalry was
split with a wiGS grin as the command
eyes right, faced them at the former
president, who grinned and waved his
hat in return. Then came the feature.
of the parade. With their band playing
Aud Lang Syne 1,500 COW puunchers,
each on his best mount and headed by
the oest rough riders of the world flash
ed by the stand with waving hats and
shrilI cowboy yells of greeting. The
steady pace of the regulars was too
slow for the range riders and they urged
their sweating mounts past the stand
in a gallop with yells of Hello Teddy
and flashes from silver mounted sad
dies, pouring from the cloud of dust.
Squaw Throws Him Kisses.
Close behind the cowmen rode 200
oAOuA auO sollOSnOuS braves. SquaWS and
papooses, brave in black and red war
paint and war bonnets. The varcrv
tfaat once made the residents of Chey-
enne feel for their scalps burst as thew
passed by and Goes Alone. squaw of
Charlie Two Bonnets. blew a kiss to
Col. Roosevelt A team of buffalo
driven to a wagon ploughed steadily
PAST the stand, wearing trotting boots
like a park team. The Japanese dele
cation closed the parade. 1t halted in
front of the stand and shouted three
Eanzais, while the colonel smiled ard
waved his hat. Col. 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.