The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-14
YES, BONE is HOME
And This Time He Brought Buff
falO With Him.
Seven Big Animals Are Here for
Topeka Zoo.
1T WAS A HARD TRIP.
Buffalo" Bone Says He Would
Not Do 1t Again.
Unloading of Beasts at Brick
Yards Tomorrow.
II WAS A HARD TRIP.
Buffalo" Bone is here.

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| The last time the announcement was
| made in these columns the city COM
missioner who went to Pontiac, Mich.
| to capture seven wild buffalo for the
| city zoo, came back to Topeka because
he couldn't get the buffalo.
| This time he has them and they are
| in the Santa F'e yards-safe and sound
| The next question is to get them out
| to Gage park and the commission IS
making plans today to make the trans
| fer The plans now are to set the car
out at the brick yards, about two miles
west of the city on the Rock Island:
From this switch they will be loaded
one by one in the cage constructed for
them and hauled to the temporary cor
| raj at Gage park. half mile away;
Buffalo" Bone is tired out He mas
been at Pontiac for the last three
weeks in the worst kind of weather
snow many inches deep ana IN the
coolest season the people of Michigan
have known in history.
eff my candidacy for city commls-
sioner next spring depended upon my
going to Michigan again and capturing
those buffalo, I wouldn't go, SAID TINS
citv commissioner as he made a jap
with his letter opener into MS pushei
basket of mail this morning
'It was the worst job l ever hau Va
NV life And I want to say somethlns
else. If Buffalo Jones has an idea thas
a person can swing a little rope anu
down those buffalo and lead them u
Topeka with ease he has another guess
oon,iDg Furthermore 1 would like to
see him take a hand in this. business.
| 7 am in favor of the city of topeka CIV
ing him 500 if he takes these ahlihaie
out to Gage park-and they nave oeen
| roped, tied down and kept III coniAiie
ment for ten days
"Eere is his chance to make good the
| statements he has made 1 Will resign
in his favor and grant him all OF the
honor of the occasion
VIII start Unloading Tomorrow.
commissioner Bone arrived in To-
peka on the Santa Fe early Inns me-
came late this afternoon. Iney vs.
he watered-not with bucket pul
with a hose, mind you-ano le ; t h;s,
evening Tomorrow morning Ine a s
caoa will be unloaded from the car
and nossibly the hauling or the nrsL
animal to the park Will pc mace a.
| that time Commissioner Bone ns ne
that it will take several days TOT tn1
buffalo to be transferreo-'4 ms f',n
| giva everyone a chance to see the 1uil.
The big animals are each roped III
+he car with fifty feet of rope. Edcn
/ one has two ropes around ms neSA
| and they are able only TO ear, ul!i ~.
t'and lie down This is about the Only
| Movement allowed them. II they were
given any more freedom, ACCORDING "
/ "Ruffalo'' Bone, they would cause
panic wherever they were: s.s.,,.
.'The people in Pontiac: Mich' dro als
think that I could catch those anlmals
/ this winter said Mr.. Bone this AFTER
| noon, seIt was standing Joke up
| there that no one could cage VI "a, 20.
| huffalo in a lifetime unless unusual
! fore left the hotelkeeper told me tna t
- vas the surprise of the town lhae
We captured the seven bufalo
| "Tt was only through tedious. anu
constant manipulating OF ropes y 80 ~
| and cages that we were apie 70
| them loaded in the car. FIST tney
| we're corraled, then placed IN a pig
cage which was placed on a SEQ anu
driven four miles to the STOCK va. a 10
| where we put them in the stock a. Co.
| We had to eaten eaeH
| way. o,,d snov
| ing most of the time. one oay we ha ~
| a fierce time. The pilzAalu 90
ali over into a ditch at the side OF the
,oad we had the big bull tied ny the
head to the cage and he couldn't get
AWAY but his whole hind quarters were
/ thrown out of the cage mere III 80
hlinding freezing blizzard we WORKED
piit.unne +t,at cage back right side up
ia Getting the buffalo back INTO
| place.
Lost Two Fingers.
| .rxvo hauled the animal into town on
| its back with it's feet STICKING 81
m in the air That was the worst eA-
perience of the trip-and 1t VIII De re-
membered for some time.
lone poor fellow who was heIplhs
me- got his hands caught in a rope
while we were teasing the bunalo 70
| enter the cage and two OF ms myers
were pinched off He quit the 1oo
right there and 1 didn't see him again
until I settled with MN. 1870, of
II wanted to have pictures taken 10, OF
the cage. the pen, the coral, etc, pu.
If was so cold THAI / couldn't get d
nhotographer in town to go out tnere
with me. 1t was so cold that only tne
workbench were at the corral wnen we
were working. Considering the inte mel,
lest and the excitement connected VIII! VIII
the the capture you can imagine how cold
it was. ,;,a when
y the train stopped crowds of people
gathered around the car ana asAeu
questions about the buffalo, Wnere
thew were going and so on III ha9
thought of it in time would nave nao
a banner painted and tackled on lne
Side of the car But Topeka got plenty ).
, of advertising out. of the way
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