The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-07-24
SWORE BY TEDDY
Yellowstone Park Rangers With
Roosevelt to a Man.
coionePs Characteristic Greeting Of
DosSn-and-outer, Whom He Had
Known in Happier Days, Ia
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 Spread-Eagle rangers.
de found the scouts, then serving as
ehaperons for luckless cavalry troop
ers and doing their own work besides,
TO be men after his own heart, and did
not hesitate to say so. Before he had
been In the park a 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 present chief
ranger, who was then assistant chief
OF the park scouts under the late Buff
falo Jones, knew a Bill Jones, wood
chopper and ne'er-do-well, chiefly re-
markable for an Unsuitable thirst and
knack Of ministering to it In a bone
dry park. He was about the last man
in the Rockies for whom president of
the United States would be expected
to inquire.
"Bill 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
a deputy in a horsethief posse.
TT took three days to find that old
horned toad and bring him In" said
Mcbride, In recalling the incident,
'but just to listen in at the coloneFs
hearty greeting of that down-and-out-
er was pay in full.
"'Well, Ted, you got a right swell
job since seen you last Jones re-
marked when they had exchanged
how'd'ye-do's; but that needn't stand
between friends--I got something on
my hip
Colonel Roosevelt didn't partake,
but he did spend the best part of an
hour swapping yarns of the days when
Bill was a white man. and sheriff Of
his county. The woodchopper tried to
buck up after his talk with the presi-
dent, but it wasn't to be done. The
HEAL W1AlCI VIC 1OuGd AA1n OCeu Ala NAAO
brush over on Bear creek.
"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 cropper.
""The government has fallen at
Iastp he cried with a molar showing
grin, as 1 eoasted down to help un-
tangIe living president and pair
of 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.
".Have you plenty of thesep Teddy
said.
"Only few pairs, and they are
the property Of the interior depart
ment," replied the officer.
in less than three weeks there came
rush shipment of hundred pairs
| next AFTERNOON TIE pEcSluShI SnoA-
lenged me to a race on snow shoes
from Canyon to Mammoth, distance
of thirty-one miles. Those with him
decided that the trip would be an un-
wise strain upon him, and began to
argue against his attempting 1t. He
| got me to one side after while and
whispered:
"sWe1l let them talk, Mcbride. Just
| you stick around until midnight
They'll be asleep then, and We'll hi
the trailp
at took Harry w. Child and Cap.
tain Pitcher two hours to talk him out
of that He wasn't at all pleased al
having to veto his own plan for
! secret departure. Ethel and James
Dorrance in Munsey's Magazine.