The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-06-30

officers OF the Rex organization of Ogden.
The city will capitulate to the music Of 100
gums. Then will follow the grand pageant
through the city, a feature Of which will be
. company of ladies on horseback who have
been requested to join the knights. OF
course the miners and cowboys will cut
nowiss inglorious figure in the parade.
At O'Clock p: m. the cowboy will begin
! ranchmen all over the state have been or
Ranizing in view of the carnival, and the
exhibition of horsemanship which they pro-
pose to give AZ send-of to the festivities
will doubtless astonish the strangers. Colo
mel Walton's cowboy troop will take up po-
tenderfeet, as well as others, how broncho
ought to be ridden. They will dash along
at full speed. picking up pieces Of silver as
they sweep past, the dollars being thrown
at random into the street. Some of the
ranchmen think of taking up polo and
challenging few of the eastern crack
But the event to which the cowboys look
forward to with the keenest interest is the
great cowboy ball to be given on Tuesday
evening after the coronation. The crown
ing of the new Rex and his spouse will be
an imposing spectacle, and when it is all
over the palace will be surrendered to the
cowmen. None but cowboys and their
girls will be admitted to the dancing floor.
There will be probably five hundred couples
who will dance and 10000 spectators in the
big auditorium outside the floor. All the
male dancers must wear the dress of the
ranohmen, otherwise they won't be ad-
mitted. There will be one division Of 200
cowboys from the Cache Valley who will
come with their girls and led by a brass
band will file into the hall just as the music
strikes up at p. IN. No cowboy will be
without a partner, and they will dance with
their hats and spurs on. The floor will be
managed by committee competent to set
any misguided dancer right without in.
volving a funeral, and it ia believed tina
there will be no pistol practice while the
ball Is in progress owing to the arrange
ments .sE carefully made BY the managers:
The orders will be given in the peculiar
dialect Of the cowmen. and such commands
as ''all stampede (all balance), run 'em
through the shute" fright and left to part
ners), lows to the center and steers all
around," (girls in the centre), and "brand
your COWS and turn 'em out to Craze"
seats) will be heard all over the hall at in
tervals. The ball will furnish amusement
enough for one night, and their majesties
will seek repose with a very vivid reminder
of Utah gallantry buzzing through their
Next morning the cowboys will have an
other innings when they will give an ex-
hibition Of lnsso practice on Tabernacle
square on Washington avenue. Each cow
boy will ride his broncho as he pleases and
show how he can AinG and twirl his leather,
and perform ail sorts of impossible evolu-
tions ON horseback The event Of the second
day, however, will be the tournament.
Knights in armor will compete, in the an,
cient style, for the honor of naming a queen
of the tourney. The grounds are situated
near the Weber and will accommodate
many thousands of spectators besides af-
fnr6iOO arnnIa fOr tho
weeks past many horsemen have been prac-
ticing at the different feats to be attempted
and it is fairly probable that Knights
Blackmen, Graham. Mahlon, Carver. West
over, Palmer, Obrey and Richardson will
are all under the command of Sir knight
Robert Armstrong. For the fitting there
are three arches, under which the knights
ride successively, catching on their lances
the rings suspended from the arches as
they pass. These rings are about ten feet
from the ground and it needs an expert to
take all three at gallop. Some of the
knights will Le in full chain armor and will
wear the cages of their ladyloves, which
they will deposit at the feet of the fair
danes when the contest is over. The
maiden who is chosen as queen of the tour
nament will be crowned at the tournament
ball, which takes place in the evening at
the palace, and at which all are to be in full
dress.
On Thursday competitive drills will be
held at the palace and in the afternoon the
cowboys will be given chance to ride ut
the rings in their own way, and to do the
same feats the knights did on the previous
day. The broncho riders are just aching to
get at those rings. The event of Thursday
evening will be the military ball, at which
all the uniformed companies will take part.
Friday will open with grand review by
the king and his court, at which all tho mil
it1r mud
this occasion Rex II. will present number
of valuable prizes to the victors in the vari-
GUS contests. A pageant in the afternoon
will be followed by the Rex mask ball at 8
O'Clock at the carnival palace, the event to
which the great mass Of townsmen and
visitors look forward with most interest.
Every dancer must be in fancy costume
and mask. At the wardrobe room of
the palace there have been provided for
this ball costumes Of every conceivable
character, including soldiers, cavaliers,
Spanish girls. French. Turks. Mexicans,
giraffes. crawfsh and almost every crea-
ture in the animal kingdom. Some of the
dresses to be worn by the ladies are exceed
ingly pretty, milkmaids, gypsies, princesses
and fairies predorhinating. The ball will
be opened by the maids of honor and their
escorts. When the fun IS at its heighth at
midnight the order will be given to unmask
and the last to uncover their faces will be
Rex II. and his royal spouse, whose identi-
ties will then be disclosed to the multitude
for thesfrst time.
Saturday will witness the close of the
week of gayety and the departure of the
military and civic bodies and other visitors.
Like all the other events, this will be man.
aged in proper style befitting the newly
created capital of a royal ruler. The troops
on leaving will be reviewed by the king,
and the queen will sing her adieu to her
loyal subjects, the troops joining in the
chorus of "Good-by'' AMI Home DSweet
Home"
Loads of costumes and other articles for
the balls are arriving from the east. The
Rex order of New Orleans has loaned much
Of its regalia and its valuable fnery for
the occasion. Everything is in readiness
and the town is waiting to welcome the
royal train whose arrival means the usher
ing in of the gayest time that has ever been
known in this part of the uni on.
Exchanges Falling OF.
BosroN, June 29.-The total gross ex-
changes for the last week by dispatches
from the leading clearing houses Of the
United States and Canada, were 81, ia, ,667,-
561, decrease of 2.5 per cent. as compared
with the corresponding week last year.
Wanted In Portland.
NEwBuRG, N. Y. June 29.-Edward w.
Doyle, aged 30, was arrested here tonight
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