The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-04-07

OF the Kiowas as Told to An
Old Scout Fifty
Years Ago.
(Dy /. n. Payne.l

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4 The first day the Great Spirit
painted by the side OF the waters
the Great Way Tres, whose bouehs
extended into the heavens. by way
tof which all creatures were sent
down upon earth. and lastly 4
Kio%a man and woman walked
about the creation, but in the even
ling they returned to the Great way
Tree, and there they met the Buffa-
10, and the Great Spirit descended
and said: Here are the Buffalo. They
shall be your food and your raj
ment, but in the day thou shall see
them perish from on the face OF the
earth, then know that the end Of the
Iliowa is near and the sun set. 2"
The American buffalo will soon
become extinct unless something is
done to perpetuate them.
/ Our neighbor on the north Ganada
now own the only wild buffalo, which
lare few in number and the largest
herd OF tame buffaio in the world.
five hundred OF which were pur-
shased from Michael Pablo, a full
breed indian, Of Rayalli. Montana,
for the small sum OF two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, which
was small in comparison to their
real worth. CIR. Pablo captured
-four buffalo calves and bought
\ thirty-six buffalo about twenty-five
years ago, Of which the increase has
been small, caused by the lack Of at
tention and the low estimation Of
their real value.
The United States being aroused
Ihy the loss OF the buffa,o has estab-
listed national Bison range in the
'Flathead Indian reservation, near
Ravalli, Mont, comprising twelve
thousand eight hundred acres and
it was supposed TO oe stocked by the
American Bison Society. but where
are they to get the buffalo?
Not Including the few that are IN
parks and shows, there are only
about one hundred and eighty in.
the United States, eighty of which.
are owned by the Conrad estatci
near KalispelI. Mont. and one huns
dred owned by Col. Charles Good
night. OF Goodnight, Tex, hero OF
the sixties" in west and northwest
Texas, and the greatest breeder oil
cattle and buffalo in the worla.
There Is no Texan who has reached
his or her majority that needs an
t Introduction to Colonel Charles!
Goodnight, and even the school boys
and girls have read the story of his
services to the great state of Texas
In the early days among the Ihdiausi
in northwest Texas, and the cattle
men Of the West know him by his
success IN breeding cattle.
But Col. Goodnight has done
greater things by perpetpating the
! American buffalo, and in little
more than twenty years has develop
ed new animal, the cattalo, and
by breeding the buffalo with the
Pooled Angus cow COW imported
from Scotland which has large
hind quarters, and the buffalo with
its large fOrequarters, has found a
/ happy medium. And also the one
I extra pair of ribs the buffalo has
more than the common cattle, has
ir3een bred into the cattle on the
Goodnight ranch, and this ranch is
now able to produce COW from
l,200 to 1890 pounds. on even less
food than other ranches produce
500 to 1000 pound cows. This can
be appreciated only by the cattle
raising men who understand what
the present and future competition
in cattle raising means to them and
their posterfty. few of the lead
ing cattle men of Texas, New Mex
leo, Oklahoma, Kansas and Goiora-
do have kept a watch on Col. Good
nights progress and have been glad
to pay from 800 to $3.50 per head
for one-eight to one>fourth buffalo
bull calves. 1t is the intention OF
Col. Goodnight to buy not less than
500 head OF standard bred heiEers
and breed with the lS-S, Ia and is
bufaloes and place on the market
cattle at a cost OF production of ct
least ~ per cent less than any other
ranchman can do and naturally
make better dividend than can be
made by any other rauchman in the
world. This Col. Goodnight knows
can be done, and he Is anxious that
lit be known to the world by actual
delivery of the goods" in the cattle
markets of the world. He has also