The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-06-28
|S| \ J / ( / !. BY TEDDY
Yellowstone Park Rangers With
| #.:s Roosevelt TO a Man,
oslensI's Characteristic Greeting Of
oewn.and- ovter, Whom. He Had
! US Known In Happier Day., 10
|,3S34f Still Remembered.

OF the few out-of-season visits paid
to the Yellowstone, that Of Colonel
Roosevelt, who, when president, spent
"a days Of the late winter Of 1903
there, has the most prominent page in
the annals Of the Spreading rangers.
He found the scouts, then serving as
chaperons for luckless cavalry troop
ers and doing their own work besides,
70 DO men after his own heart, and did
mot hesitate to say SO. Before he had
been In the park week every ranger
vas swearing by him.
& Anybody know the whereabouts of
enc WILLIAM jones'" was one Of the
colonel's early inquiries.
Jim Mcbride. the present chief
ranger, who was then assistant chief
of the park scouts under the late Buf-
I alo Jones, knew a Bill Jones, wood
chopper and ne'er-do-well, chiefly re-
markable for an Unsuitable thirst and
1 . knack Of ministering to it in a bone
ldry park. He was about the last man
/ In the Rockies for whom a president Of
the United States would be expected
4 TO inquire. -.
'.:Bill put me into Office once" said
Roosevelt II want to see him. drunk
Or sober"
/ He further explained that the dere-
IFlict had been sheriff during his own
1 days 10 q ranchmal and had made him
j. deputy in a horssthief posse.
/ ut took three days to find that old
horned toad and bring him in," said
] Mcbride, in recalling the incident,
s'but Just to listen in at the colonel's
hearty greeting OF that down.and-out.:
l@.was pay in full. ,.~.
NJ. Well. Ted, you got a right swell
job since I seen you last Jones re-
/ marked when they had exchanged
how'd'ye-do's; but that needn't stand
between sfriends-Is got something on
ny hip ,,ss25&5,;s>@ .arf=& -. -
! Colonel Roosevelt didn't partake.
! but he did spend the best part Of an
hour swapping yarns Of the days when
Bill vas q white man and sheriff OF
his county. Tie woodchopper tried to
buck up after his talk with the presi-
! dent, hut It wasn't to be done. The
next winter we found him dead in the
brush eyer on Bear creek. p
B '.The colonel was enthusiastic over
tie sport Of ski running, and was
something Of performer on the slabs
himself; for a novice. He strapped his
feet into them as often as opportunity
! offered. One morning on a slide near
the Canon hotel he broke, one ski and
came ! heavy cropper. :.
B =. The government has fallen at
!. last |! he cried with q molaf showing
, srin, 10 Il I coasted down to help un-
tanrle q living president and pair
0f dead sticks.
| "He was looking at the wreck he
had made Of the hickory slabs when
Capt. John Pitcher Of the First cav
airy then in command Of the park, ar
rived. <: A..
..Have you plenty Of theser Teddy
said. +. .; ~
.Only a few pairs, and they are
the property of the interior depart
sment," replied the ohicer.
= f.'In less than three weeks there came
I rush shipment Of a hundred pairs.
r. ssNext afternoon the president chal-
lenged me to a race on snow shoes
from Canyon to Mammoth. q distance
Of ,thirty.one miles. Those with him
decided that the trip would be an nm.
wise strain upon him, and began to
argue against his attempting 1t. He
rot me to one side after a while and
whispered:
4. "eWe'u let them talk, Mcbride. Just
you stick around until midnight.
They'll be asleep" then, and we'll MT
the trail! -, >.,- 49,.
Ut took Harry w. Child and Cap
tain Pitcher two hours to talk him out
i f that. i He wasn't at all pleased at
having to veto his own plan Tor a
secret departure:"-Ethel and James
Dorrance in Munsey's Magazine.
l Bird Study Of Interest.
a novel opportunity for studying the