The evening world., 1911-03-08
BUFFALO JONES
TELLSOF "R0P|NG"
BIG WILD GAME
With Lasso and Camera He and
Two Cowboys Got About
Everything in Africa.
MISSED AN ELEPHANT.
Wants to Go Back and Hopes
to Get Other Colonel to
Join Him.
MISSED AN ELEPHANT

For the spor,smen's Show they have
turned tho Garden into a four-acre
square OF the forth Woods. with bits
OF the Rockies and small cross sections
OF Maine and the Florida Everglades
and the likes OF that i~nterspersed here
and there. And upstairs. IL you lake
the second turn to the LETT and go down
n long aisle ,iat ~ fragrant wit spicy
evergreens and equally spicy beas;pelts'
YOU come to Col. Buffalo Jones, the
mar who went TO Africa on n New
Mexico COW pony and roped the AMI
mails that certain other people wont
shoe, with an express rife unless ksr-
nit 10 right there with a spare gun
IT'S q big sportsmen's SHOW TINS
ySar-they had the reserves out last
night TO hold back the overflow thai
tried 10 nreak In after the Garden wa
already fuli-but the biggest thing about
IL. taking him one way and another, IL
this samc Col. Buffalo Jones. You
wouldn't think It. either. Just to LOOK ~
hin.
The big Maine tn xidermis. Che skins
animals as distinguished from a taxi
cabb.s:, who skins people,. Is a fear
some person, with mustachcs that meas
IRE eleven inches from tip TO tap, ana
a wild, rowing eye, and a thunioha''
that looks as /, he could open oysters
On the half shell with 1t. The champion
ay-caster can hurl a tin minnow one
hundred yards and LIT a wooden fsh on
ina nose every time. The professional
irlp shooter stands UP there in his can
vas coat and mows down ferocious clay
,lgeons by the hundreds.
Looks MIld Beside EN-.
ALONGSIDE OF these parties this elderly
Buffalo Jones person seems 4 Very mn"
proposition indeed. lie Is tail thih
and out OF a saddle he is ana
he looks something like pictures or
Uncle sam and something like the Oldest
ODD Fellow In Iowa. Also. despite the
fact that he comes from AS far West as
ina can come from without wading
IA tho Pacific Ocean. lie cocsn't tain
at oil like a frontiersman ak IN o
Western play or q Western short story.
But II you drop in and look at the NOV
ing pictures OF his trip 10 the big rame
country and hear him give his lecture
describing how he and his two COW
punchers-Means and Lovelace-ran
down. roped. tied and brought back
with them such dainty little household
pets as a full grown %lioness. a three ton
rhino. a warthog with q perfectly mis-
cradle disposition. a hartcoeest, a chea'
tab. a book buck, an Gland and n girane
twelve feet tall. you begn to realize thai
tho elderly gentleman in the Southern
SLOUGH hat and the white chin whisker
tina locks like a real lace jabot Is q
considerable parsonage.
His crinkly eyelid In It's nest OF puck
cry wrinkles fickered slightly over q
small clear blue eye when an Evening
World reporter asked him II he'd ever
had any doubt Of the success OF his un
%dertaking when lie and Means and Love
lace sailed for Africa.
Never Doubted Success.
Mary a doubt" said Col. Bural,
Jones. II had two OF the best Gov
punchers that ever straddled along wit
me-. ! had the pick OF all the COW ponie
In the Western country-ten rangy it'll
HOSES that were trained like soldier
ana not afraid OF anything that eve
walked, swami. few or crawled. kne,
those HOSES could stand the African ell
mate because they'd stood all the othe
climates there are. and one climate NOR