The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-18
TALES OF BUFFALO
Ebert Hubbard Writes of Jones
of Garden City.
Born i'm HELPS Bend Near Writ
er's Birthplace.

ElDerC HuDDard, one OF the us
tinguished admirers OF Buffalo
Jones, has the following to say of
Garden City's former citizen:
Eeven miles to the east of where 1
was born, in Mclean county, Illinois,
is the classic district known as HelPs
Bend, was born Buffalo Jones. the
best man who ever put his legs over
a cayuSe.
Buffalo Jones is getting along to-
wards 20 years of age, but Time has
treated him gently. He is 1.-THE, lanky,
agile and loves horse.
Buffalo Jones has preserved the
buffalo from extinction. Through his
energy, in catching the young buffalo
on the plains and demonstrating them
we now have herds, or fine speci-
mems at least, in great number of
PARKS and geological gardens all over
the world.
Jones took two cowboys and ten
Colorado horses and went to Africa,
with the intent of rounding up those
savage things which are supposed to
claw, chew, destroy and consume
everything that comes in their path
way.
Here, in America he had captured
mountail lio1.s dozens of them. full
grown, by lassoing them, hog-tying
them, placing a bag over their mouths,
then putting the beast on a horse and
carrying the animal triumphantly into
camp. eventually selling him to some
circus.
His Tour a Triumph.
Buffalo Jones is not afraid of any,
thing that has claws or teeth. He
had captured dozens of mountain
lions. and this filled him with de-
sire to go across the sea and do in
Africa. in a bigger way, what he had
done in America. His tour was the
triumph of the American cowboy and
the American horse.
The wild boar chases Buffalo
how
chases the boar. They bring his pig
ship down close to the camera. They
rope him, throw him end over end in
the dust, tie him. and play horse with
him to their hearts content. Then
they simply unrope him, give him
kick, and off he goes into the desert
to find his family and tell about being
chased by a Observation-Disclosures So
they catch CRATES and zebras.
The zebra, we are told, is never sub
dued when caught full-grown; but the
camera shows us, Buffalo Jones
throwing his rope over a wild zebra,
Jerking him endwise and tying him
fast.
Cowboy Rides the zebra.
The cowboy jumps off his horse,
rushes up to the zebra, unties the
ropes and as the zebra gets up on
his feet, the man leaps to his back,
without saddle or bride, and away
goes the zebra kicking up he yellow
aust OI Africa ana Gil tie ClIH0 TIE
cowboy is basting him over the head
with a Stetson, his thrill ki-yis fill
ing the circumambient ether.
The next thing is to catch a lfoness,
full-grown, wild, and the most terrible
''animiIe" on earth. The lion is king
of the beasts-but Mr.. Lion always
gets out of the way when Mrs. Lion
talks piccolo.
Buffalo Jones shows us pictures of
how he chased the lioness through
the tall grass, how she hides, then
turns about, leaps after her pur-
suers. follows them, changes her
mind and starts to run away.
Catching the Lioness.
The Americans are right after her.
Jones filings rope, catches her by
the hind foot. Lovelace throws and
lands the lady by her front legs. The
horses stand stiff, holding the beast
captive.
Buffalo Jones ties her feet and
trees, make a sort of a raft or stone
boat, place the Queen of the Jungle
on this stone-boat, attach their
lassoes to the raft, tie the Iassoes
mount and away they go.
Dozens of animals they roped-i
chetahs, wildcats, leopards. warthogs,
ebhas-and never weapon used.
Not an animal injured or hurt. Some
of them. no doubt. were badly scared
and have had nervous prostration
since, for fear Buffalo Jones would
come back.
Nothing more romantic, nothing
more poetic, nothing more courageous
was ever seen in forum of coliseum,
on field or flood, than these feats of
Buffalo Jones and his cowboy
friends. Within two seconds of dis
aster they stood in their stirrups
and flung their rope into the face of +
danger, laughing at Death.
Bully boy, Buffalo Jones. Hell'S |
Bend is proud of you-so is the whole
United States. And a few of us love
you, you grizzly old rogue with the
boyish heart. Ki-yi, and yet again, |
ki-yi.