The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-08-02
Sacred Bull, Educated Baboon,
ALI Now in His Charge.
BLAINE MEMS EXPERIENCE.
WiIlisOn's Great Australian shows
cess-The Last straw Comes when
They Reach This Cfty-Secure Aid
Who Are Now Sorry They Spoke.

AFTER fortnsght's experience in the cir
Gus business as joint proprietors Of Wilt
sons Great Australian Shows. three we'll
known citizens OF Blaine are in trouble in
Seattle. and the sheriff of King county is
in charge OF the big curcus tent. baggage,
wagons and show outfit. including twelve
trained horses with fancy names, three
trained donkeys, one sacred bull, two
framed goats, six trained dogs and an
educated baboon. according TO an inven-
tory fled in the superior court yesterday.
The proprietors of the show are O. H.
Walker, Lester W. David and T. A. Ken
nedy, and they lay their troubles at the
door OF +. l.. Y. Martyr. the late owner
and present manager of the glittering
combination. whom they charge. II is said
with giving two bills of sale of one show
The Great Australian Shows, which are
simply an old-fashioned one-Ting circus
minus the elephant. and the rest OF the
menagerie, came TO the United States by
the way of Honolulu few weeks ago
landing in Victoria and thence drifting
across the line at Blaine. There the
shows stranded. Proprietor Martyr could
not pay the fees demanded by Unc.e Sans
customs officers and things looked black
indeed.
Just al the darkest hour relief came
from an unexpected source, and Proprie-
tor Martyr. SO the story goes, unloaded
his show upon the three Blaine men who
had ambitions 10 manage circus of their
own. Financially they were well able to
afford the luxury. Walker Is a prominent
mllman, David is we.l-to-do citizen,
who under Cleveiand's .ast administration
VAS postmaster at the boundary city. and
Kennedy has just retired from profitable
position IS a customs inspector in Blaine
n "a no Cd h. 4 t.t-a
land
Walker WAS the one of the trio selected
20 chaperon the circus. and employing
the ex-propr.etog as active manager. he
started on. on grand tour Of the Puget
sound country. The future looked bright.
TIL show, for its size was a first-class
institution. and the new owners had OBJ
ianed a bill of sale by paying a little
&c sh and paying the overdue ob,isat.o ns OF
Proprietor Martyr. 1t Is said their total
investment was about Sl.259.
But the new propr.etors soon found that
the venture was i douotfu. one consid-
cred from a financial standpoint II is
said. The story goes that a Whatcom
the show lost money. and that in the tew
days it had its tents pitched in North
Seattle the box receipts have not been
heavy enough 10 justify hiarity. To cap
the ,lmaX. soon after the show came 20
Seattle. ii is alleged A wemaa named Mrs
f. q. Powell APPEARED on the scene with
what purported 10 be hill cf sale of the
circus given her by Martyr Tin cousidera-
ten of 81 and other good and valuable
considerations. Mrs. Powell dema ndcd
possession Of the tent. performing animals
and the rest OF the circus pararhernal.a,
Walker refused Indignantly and showed
his OWE bill OF sala.
Sunday evening after the audience had
departed ana the educated baboon had
gone to his rest for the night, there was
a performance not announced on the bills
Proprietor Walker was forc.bIy ousted Of
possession by force and with arms-''to-
Wit. carving knives and other deadly
weapons OF like character" as the lawyers
says-by Mrs Powell and her husband,
Charles E. Powell. 1t IS alleged with the
active aid of the roustabouts OF the circus
and Manager Martyr himself. Anyway.
there was a lively row, in which Mr.. and
Mrs. Powell came out first best.
Proprietor Walker fled for aid 10 the
law and wired his Lawyers, Kerr & Nc
Cord OF Fairhaven. to come down post
haste. Mr.. McCord came, and the result
was that yesterday he brought a suit in
the superior court in the name of Walker
against Mr.. and Mrs. Powell to replevin
the circus outfit. which is alleged in the
complaint 10 be valued at $1,000. and now
a deputy sheriff Is monarch of all he sur
veys on the circus grounds. He is the
whole thing. Performances are 10 he sus-
pended. il is stated. until the two bills of
sale can be reconciled in court.
Mr.. McCord was seen At the sherifs
office yesterday soon after the properly
was replevined. but he laughingly declined
TO make any statement regarding the case
The story as given above was cleaned from
conversation with the circus men and the
sherlT's deputies.