Wichita eagle., 1888-11-15
MOTHER SHO TO-NITE.
It's ten times winner, and no
MISTAIK.
Everybody cum, high and 10 ritch
an pore without fale.
By order Of the comitty.
By order Of the comitty.

Well we opened and the hall was packed,
standing room being at premium. The
windows on the sides Of the building were
forcibly torn out and the apertures packed
with rough. bronzed, eager faces. As stood
at the door cbuckling over this stroke of for
tune the leader of our captors of the previous
night came up and said:
Vars S22, pard, that l collected at the
winders. You can't tend door an winders
too. If any more crowds UP I'll collect from
'em.n
Our performance was cheered to the echo.
A more enthusiastic audience | never saw
Round after round of applause shock the
building, and every feature was encored
again and again.
When the show was over the leader Of the
committee came to me and said:
''Pard, we've concluded to hold onto them
wheels another night Thar will be a show
var tomorrow night at the usual hour
You can keep us here year TO such busi-
ness as this" l joyfully exclaimed as he
strode away
Well, we played there for six nights to big
business, and left amid many urgent requests
to come back at an early date. Our fame
had preceded rs to Yankee Jims, and a
week Of immense business IL that camp was
the result
Six years later l was standing on a San
Francisco street talking to a professional
friend when he hailed an acquaintance ard
said to me:
II want 10 introduce you to Lew Rattler,
who is making a big hit here in niger bust
ness
After the usual exchange of greetings
Rather asked
Didn't you have a show company up at
Red Dog in '55s"
yes. Were you there's"
'In all probability | was I was one Of
the committee"
Zone OF the gang that captured US! Rattler,
for the love OF heaven explain that business
to me. I've worried my brain over it for six
years"
He smiled in a peculiar way end said:
''Old man, you had the closest call of your
life that first night of the show. I'll tell you
the whole business We had been beat three
times by snide shows. After the second
swindle we formed a committee of fifteen, and
took a solemn oath to eyterminate every
snide show that came along. The next called
itself q circus, an when it begun the rotten
est performance you ever saw, we turned
loose on them, cut the canvas into ribbons
and burned it and ran the mob out Of
town on foot. Then we held meet
ing and resolved to hang every mothers
son Of the next outfit that struck the
camp. You come next, and we counted five
men in your party and prepared five ropes
We wouldn't have harmed the women. Well.
you noticed you had just fifteen il your houss
that night. That waS the committee, and We
had our ropes with us. We let you begin.
and darn my eyes If you didn't start out
splendid The performance got better and
better tin IN be blowed clear across the bay
if you didn't give the best show ever seen in
tho diggins. That saved your necks, for
though we might not have banged you, you
would have had hard time We held
consultation on the seats and it was unani-
mously resolved that you would stay another
night and let the people see you. and we took
you to the hotel and tried TO do the square
thing by you II your show had been rotten,
Old man, we'd a hung every one Of you as
sure as there's God in heaven. Come in
here and take something with me-"
S. Il. MORGAN.