The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-03
BACHELOR PRINCE Who Became KING
Ed7Ca1d Just Young Fer to HarBiten Canadian Rancher

high corral fence, cheered and
laughed and shouted his words of
praise.
When the show was over the
Prince shouted that if the cowboys
would get him a horse he would
race with them. Instantly a dozen
mounts were offered and the
Prince, choosing a spirited animal,
swung into the western saddle and
with whoop led the cavalcade in
wild and thrilling gallop.
A T almost every city there were
L n dances and balls for him and
on several occasions there were
small and intimate private parties
where the smarteSt and most
charming of Canadas young
women would dance with him UNI
til the pink showed in the eastern
skies.
At little Albert station the
Stoney Tribe of Plains Indians were
gathered to make him their chief.
With their faces vivid with war
paint, their eagle-feathered head
gear quivering the breeze, and
with their beautiful buckskin cos
tunes of the old days, the tall,
silent Indian men and women
gathered in circle about him.
A headdress was put on him
and then first in Stoney and then
in English, Little Thunder, the
chief, solemnly made him Chief
Morning Star Slowly the TOM
toms began to sound their weird
rhythm and then came the high,
almost unearthly notes of the war
songs of the tribe.
Two days later his special train
chugged the 40 miles from CAL
gary to the real COW town of High
River.
BY car, over rough dirt roads,
he rode straight toward the tower
ing Rockies, looming up to the
westward. He was bound for the
famous sBar U Ranch to be the
guest of one of the colorful char
acters of this Alberta cattle coun-
s try, George Lane.
Tall, rangy, with scraggly
mustaches, and a picturesque and
blunt way of speaking, he was to
delight the Prince more than any
other single individual he met in
all Canada.
TINE next morning there was a
Il roundup and late fall brand
ing. George Lane, his soft black
$40 hat pulled down over one eye,
showed the heir to the British
throne how to cut out COWS from
the herd.
Don't do it thata way, young
feller," crusty old Lane would
shout at the Prince. Didn't I tell
you to let yer pony do it fer va?
He's got more sense than most
men"
Or, again he would shout to
him while they were branding,
you're gonna get kicked in the
eye, young Teller, if you don't
watch out! You gotta use yer
head around cattle.
That afternoon there was quail
shooting, and a little tired from
tramping and the excitement, the
Prince lay down in the tall grass
on the brow of hill and gazed
down on beautiful rolling valley.
The Prince turned toward his
companion, w. L. Carlyle, a
Canadian, who had for years been
one of the distinguished profess
sors of animal husbandry in AM
erican agricultural colleges. Sew
eral years before Prof. Carlyle
had come lack to his native Can
ada as the manager of the Bar u
Ranch.
Magnificent" exclaimed the
younger man. do you know I'd
like to own a little ranch here?"
The elder man thought a mo-
ment before he answered.
You can buy that ranch right
there, sir. There is no finer
small ranch in the world"
TOR long minutes the Princes
Il eyes fairly Toasted on the beau
tiful scene. After four years of
war and hate and fear it was as
sweet and peaceful as sleep to a
tired and worn man.
Finally he said: 81 could raise
pure-bred stock here-cattle and
horses and sheep. 1t would be a
good thing for the ranchers and
farmers, wouldn't it, professor"
That night at the old Bar U
Ranch house there was random
talk of the possibilities of buying
this Beddingfield ranch that the
Prince had fallen in love with
from the hiltop-its size, price,
number of head it would carry,
etc.
But nothing was done. The fol-
lowing day the Princes party mo-
tored the 30 miles back to CAL
gary and boarded the special train
for the West coast.
Back at the ranch it was an
interesting little episode to talk
of, when the chairs had been
pushed back from the ranch din
ner table at night. Of course,
nothing would come of it.
Then three days later a tele-
gram came from the Princes Sec
rotary saying that the Prince had
decided to buy the ranch if the
price did not exceed a certain
amount, and if Carlyle would
manage it for him.
TOMORROW-His second trip
to the United States as Raron