Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03
SWORE BY TEDDY
Yellowstone Park Rangers With
Roosevelt to a Man.
ColonePs Characteristic Greeting OF
pown-and-outer, Whom He Had
Known in Happier Days, Is
Still Remembered.

SN'ti remembered.
or the few out-of-season visits pa;d
20 the Yellowstone. that of Colonel
Roosevelt, who when president. spent
- days Of the late winter of 1909
there, has the most prominent mage in
the annals of the Spread-EagIe rangers
lie found the scouts. then serving as
ch2peronS for luckless cavalry troop
eFS ana doing their own work besides.
{" be men after his own heart and dld
not hesitate to say so. Before he had
heen ia the park 81 week every ranger
was swearing by him.
Anybody know the whereabouts Of
one William Jones?' was one of the
colonel's early inquiries.
Jim Mcbride. the preesnt CHIEF
ranger, who was then assistant CHEZ
OF the park scouts under the late Buff
fa'o Jones. knew a Bill Jones. wood
chopper and ne'er-do-well, chiefly re-
markahle for an Unsuitable thirst and
a knack of ministeriug to # in a hone
dry park He was about the last man
in the Rockies for whom president Of
the United States would be expected
10 Inquire
"Ril put me into Office once" said
Roosevelt. 81 want to see him. drunk
or sober"
He further explained that the dere-
lict had been sheriff during his own
days as ranchman and had made him
deputy iii horsethief posse.
ut took three days 70 find that old
horned toad and bring him in," said
Mcbride IN recalling the incident.
but Just 10 listen in at the coloners
hearty greeting Of that doWn.aud- out
or was pay in fun.
"'Well Ted you got n right swell
job since l seen you last Jones re-
marked when they had exchanged
how'd 'yedos; but that needn't stand
between fricuds--I got something on
my hip
Colonel Roosevelt didn't partake,
but he did spend the best part of aR
hour swapping yarns Of the days when
Bl was white man and sheriff OF
his county Tho wo0dchopper tried to
buck up after his talk with the prcsi-
dent but II wasn't to be done. The
next winter we found him dead I'm the
brush over on Bear creek.
1.-THE colonel was enthusiastic over
the sport Of ski running, and was
something OF performer on the slabs
himself. for novice He strapped his
feet into them as often as opportunity
offered One morning on slide near
the Canon hotel he broke one ski and
came "a heavy croppcr.
1.-The government has fallen st
lastF he cried with a molar showing
grin. as coastcd down to help IN
tuucir living president and 81 pair
of dead sticks.
"Ile was looking at the wreck he
had made of the hickory slabs when
Capt John Pitcher of the First cav
airy then iu command of the park, ar
rived
"Haye you plenty of thcseY Teddy
said
"Unly few pairs, and they are
the property of the interior DEPART
mcnt." replied the officer.
"lu less tAan three weeks there came
rush shipment Of hundred PAIRS
next afternoon the president chai-
lcugd me to race on snow shoes
from Canyon ia Mammoth. 81 distance
of thIrty-one miles. Those with bin
decided that the trip would be an uu-
wise strain upon him, and began TO
argue against his attempting it, He
got me to one side after while and
whispered:
oven let them talk, Mcbride. Just
you stick around until midnight.
They'll hc asleep then, and We'll hit
the trallY
1T took Harry W Child and Cap
tain Pitcher two hours to talk him cut
Of that. He wasn't at all pleased III
having 20 veto his own plan for IA
secret daparture Ethel and James
Dorran.c 10 Munsey's Magazine