Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-12
THE WILD WEST ON THE SEA.
IUish
Indians, Cowboys, vaqueros and
Buffalo or for Paris.
SAYING FAREWELL IN THE RAIN.
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Buffalo Bills European Route and
what He WIFI Exhibit to the
Foreighsrs-Red shirt
is ,Disgustcd.
SAYING FAREWELL IN THE RAIN.
or For the Exposition.

orously at IA Life on the Ocean Wave"
when the steamship Persian Monarch
backed out into the stream yesterday
afternoon with the whole "Wlld West"
on board, says the New York Herald.
Colonel Cody himself stood on the
bridge, his big hat in his hand and his
long hair glistening with the rain. The
band played, the cowboys yelled, the
Indians ki-yied, and the dripping
crowds cheered. Buffalo Bill waved
his hat in q comprehensive farewell to
everybody, and the steamer started for
Havre.
Many of Colonel Cody's friends came
down to the pier to see him off on his
two years. trip and try to dispel the
gloom of the dreary day. 1t was
| melancholy start. The rain came down
in floods and everybody was soaking
wet. The Indians looked the picture of
despair walking up and down the deck
with rivulets running from their soggy
blankets and rain drops trickling down
their faces. The old Deadwood coach
on the forward deck was leaking pool
of water down upon its seats. The In
dian dogs looked dismal and half
drowned. About the only things that
were not visibly affected by the sloppi
ness were Buffalo Bill's spirits and the
steamers old stewardess.
RED SHIRT is DIsGUsTED.
Mr.. Red Shirt, the pampered favorite
of European sovereigns, sought the Sc
| clusion of the squaws' cabin early in the
day and denied himself to reporters
while he relieved his feelings copiously
| in the vigorous dialect OF the, Redbud
i 4 thn,.
| board 102, more or less, untutored sons
OF the forest, four squaws and five
| papooses. OF these, Black Heart, Lit
| tie Chief and Kills Plenty, had accom-
| panied Red Shirt on his former trip
| abroad. The others had never before
| been away from their agencies. They
are all Sioux, mostly from the Ogallala
and Redbud agencies, selected by the
| government agent from the Indian aris-
| tocracy, as it were. John M. Burke who
is the manager Of the show, says they
| skins than he took abroad in 1887, and
the best specimens Of American Indians
he has ever seen together.
The names, as entered on the ships
passengre list, are more striking than
| euphonious. Among them are Messrs.
yellow Eye. jumping Grow, Wooden
Face, Medicine, Horse, No Neck, Raw
Meat, Sick Antelope, Dogs Ghost and
other members OF the Indian four hum
dred, said to be yell known ON the
| agencies.
The Indians are quartered in the
| steerage of the Monarch. just below
| them on the two decks, are the 100 In
dian ponies as ugly:as sin, and in the
forward hold areEwenty head of buffalo.
Eight Indian dogs occupy acoop on the
| quarter deck 1iMajor Burke repelled
with emphasis theIsuggestion that the
dogs were to furnish the Indians with
| their favorite' soups and ragouts on
the way over. Judging from his expe-
rience on the former trip the Indians
would probably have little occasion to
eat anything after they passed Sandy
Hook.
| INDIAN DOGS GO ALONG THIS TINE.
| There are two teams of the dogs, and
as matter of fact they are intended to
| give the Parisians an idea of Indian
methods of travel. They are under the
charge of two Canadian trappers. Am
brose Lepine and Maxine Goulet, who,
| by the way, were engaged in Riel' s
rebellion in Manitoba, and only es-
capped hanging by flight to this country.
General Dumas, who was Riel's lieu
| tenant, is also with the party.
The horses, buffalo and dogs were
hoisted over the ships side yesterday
| morning in sings worked with a
tackle. The horses made tremendous
fuss about it and it took all the skill of
their cowboy riders to get them on
| board. The buffalo went over without
murmur, though almost scared to
| death. The people who watched the
transfer from the shore made the inter-
esting discovery that a horned buffalo
being yanked over a ships side in a
sling, hanging up by the middle with
head and heels together, is much
the show itself, and they laughed until
their sides ached, though the buffalo
didn't seem to find it at all amusing.
In the company are three young
women riders; two young women rifle
shooters-Miss Annie Oakley and Miss
| Lille Smith-thirty-twO cowboys, seven
Mexican vaqueros and big staff of
property and camp men. There are
2lS persons all told. They go first to
Paris for several months, then to
Vienna, Berlin, st. Petersburg and to
other cities on the continent; then to
England, and here in 1891.
GOODBY AND GOOD LUCK.
Albert Bierstadt, the artist; Marshall
=. Wilder, the funny man; Colonel
John S. Bell, chief of the United States
secret service; DR.. H. q. Bullock, of
Hartford; Erastus Wiman, John Dos
Passos, George G. Ames, OF Boston, and
John w. Hamilton were among those
who stood in the rain and gave the
party cheer afterclfeer as it went away.
Mr.. Wilder cheered, the loudest, be-
cause Colonel Cody had just made him
present OF little Indian pony, which,
being conspisuously ugly, is named
Juliet. noJ
Just as the steamer was starting it
was discovered that one of the party
was missing. Mrs. Thompson, a young
woman hired as assistpnt to Mrs. Whit
taker, the camp matron, had slipped
away and left the pier. She didn't
want to go very much in the first place.
and at the last minute the idea Of two
years away from home was too much for
her courage and she He'd.
Mothers give Angostura Bitters to
their children TO stop collie and loose
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IL Sons, sole Manufacturers. AT all
druggists.
Ohio's Oldest Citizen.
| Mrs. Margaret Arnold, the oldest