The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1924-07-02
AGED HIKER TELLS
Of LONG TRAVELS
SEEKING PUBLICITY, STEWART
GRANTS INTERVIEW TO
COURIER REPORTER

MEN
tanning to have traversed during
Tie past IA years, over 100, 900 miles
OF terra hrma, not necessarily ex-
clusiVeiy on foot; with his pure white
Clausian beard flowing gently
IN the breeze of a balmy afternoon,
and bearing on his breast countless
BRASS and other shiny badges, medals,
buttons and civic and military insig-
nla' an aged hiker, giving his name
as Henry Stewart, and claiming Eng
land as his place of nativity and
America his adopted country, breezed
into town late last Thursday after
noon and Immediately asked pedes-
trians to be directed to the two local
newspaper offices.
Without taking the time to intro
duce himself for fear his timid inter
viewer would, perchance, manage to
get a word or two in edgewise, the
self-styled globe trotter Immediately
launched into a melange, or Hungarian
goulash, OF words which purported to
be the description of some of his
numerous travel experiences, and in
which the use of the broad, or Hing
lish A" was sufficiently strong to
proclaim his Cockney birth without
further ado, or explanation on his
part.
Mister Stewart claimed that he was
bound for Helena, to consult Governor
Joseph NJ. Dixon about the condition
of the roads in Montana, some Of
which he candidly admitted he had
pedestrianated over. He intimated
that unless better and more resultant
highways were provided, fewer and
fewer mixers would include Montang
in their itinerary, which commentary
his interviewer preferred to accept il
the nature of a promise rather thar
Of a threat.
He said he intended to complain tt
the government, or the chief of police
or constable, or coroner, or whOeve
had charge of such matters, anent tn,
ruffianly treatment he said he has
received at the hands of some me-
whom he took for Yellowstone par
officials. They demanded his badge
and, upon his indignant refusal t
turn them over, they threatened t
remove them by force and mad
threats and gestures as if they real
w were in earnest. He said the res
son for their ungentlemanly cOnduC
was that the hiker was wearing GU
the park roads without a license or
permit, to which he replied that h
happened to be a Stewart and not
Ford.
. The bulky hiker-he boosted {
? carrying around $50 pounds avoirdl
pois, mostly from the waistline VI
ward-also admitted carrying arour
J with him a feeling of deadly revene
against the person of the mayor
: San Diego, Calf, who refused hi,
recognition and whom he is going
petition the governor Of California
Il remove from office, putting the sa
; hiker in the mayoralty chair, al
!. banishing the erstwhile mayor in
exterior darkness, or words to tn
n effect. only much shorter.
Referring to the long pole he ca
It ried a la militaire over his rig
1t shoulder, and on one end of which 7
is posed an empty stufed-olive bolt
tied to the stick with a brown sh
Il lace, he said it was his most faithf
!. friend. Reaching a high bridge
. would extend the pole over the strea1
,e dropping the bottle gently there
be of a kindly fish, not noticing my W
Of fed appearance, happens to jump
the bottle, by Jove, I ave a fish