Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-16
INDUCES In Pitched Battle With
Princeton Students.
UNwRlTTEN LAW VIOLATED.
Cowboys aud Indians charge the boys
and scatter Them some serious
~ wounded.

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students and Pawnec Biil's Wild West
employees INDUCED In pitched battle
today and continuous aud serious riot
ing was prevented only By the presence
Of mon with cool heads. and the action
OF President Patton u Princeton uni.
vcrsity. later In the day. In calling a
mass meeting Of all Of the students.
For nifty years It has been an un-
written law " Princeton that no circus
parade must pass through the streets.
Every show proprietor IN making his
dates has always left Princeton from
the list. for II had been matter of
common knowledge that the students
would enforce the unwrittcn law This
morning Pawnce Blii's wild West COM
blnation violated traditions and
paradcd. The result was the nerccst
battle Princeton has seen In many
years
Whom posters were hung up few
days ago announcing the advent u
pawnce niii u was at first considered
Joke. Finally when u became known
that the management Of the show was
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fcnring trouble advised the circus men
not 10 attempt parade. This advice
was unhccdcd. A. a result one man u
unconscious and may die. ana a num-
her ~ students and employees Of the
show are nursing wounds received IN
That thc show would be upset at
niFht seemed q certainty until late this
afternoon when President Patton
called mass meeting NJ all the under
graduates and the faculty, and the re-
suit OF the meeting Indicates that the
show will leave town unmolested. hut
viii have lost money, for word has been
passed through the town that no one
II 90 enter the tent and the townsrep-
pie. who are IN sympathy with the ru-
dents, arr n unit In refusing "a attend,
Things were proceeding In the usual
course In the univcfHlty whom the pa.
radc started. The procession reached
the college campus without trouble
but passed down Nassau street at u
bad moment. for Just ns the band's
music was heard the students worr IN
the act ~ passing frnm the iirht morn
ina lecture TO the second. The towns
people were out In force ana waiting
Tor the parade. ana the great minority
" them were mapacd near the campus.
Word passed all along the line ana
within a few minutes elk or seven
hundred students had assembled on
Nassau street Cannon crackers left
over from previous occasions, eggs
purchased nt nearby stores aud vere-
tables bought ~ conilreated from the
stores werr assembled quickly. The
men unable TO obtain these missiles.
armed themselves with cloda OF turf
hastily torn from the lawns.
The trouble started with the band
wagon. Cannon crackers we're thrown
and these cxplodlng under the slN
horses made them frantic. The muHi-
clans were On top ~ the wagons, \
serious runaway might have resulted
| had not one ~ the leaders stumbled
| aud fell dragging down the other
horses with him. The students mean
while kept up mcrviiess lombard
meut with oEFH and vegetables.
on the return the parade wheeled In
10 John Lane and the students made u
| grand rush Ia head m the procession,
| Again tho employees ~ the circus were
rotten egred. The cowboys and Indians
/ finally charged the students and used
their whips freely. That was the turn
ing point u the AFFAIR. stung by the
whips and bruised by the riders run
ming into them. the students became
| ugly and In a moment missiles that
were annoying hut not dangerous, were
| replaced by stones and the fght be-
came serious,
Hevoivern were drawn. but fortu-
nntely their owners were wise enough
10 IRE over the heads ~ the enemy.
Some Of the Mexican or South Amefi-
can cowboys unHlung their bolns and
used these with great eject, the lenden
| covered ends being exceedingly cTcc-
| tive. and the cowboys charged the
crowd several times and rode down
those who could not get out Of the
way.
In this manner. Edward Dimon. n
| coiofed man, was knocked down ana
kicked In the head by pony. and his
skull fractured a student was In
| jurcd by a pony trampllng upon him.
Another was injured by q h0la. and
another was struck by an Indian with
one OF the snake whips, Many stu
| dents WIRE less severely hurt, The
cowboys and Indians We're also badly
bruised and hurt
a mass meeting Of students was
called this afternoon, attended by the
whole undergraduate body, at which
| President Patton spoke In condemnn-
| tlon ~ the attack on the parade and
| positively forbade any student To go
10 the show grounds tonight, ~ the
same time the college authorities ar
ranged 90 have the proctor and large
force N assistants on duty there.
Hundreds ~ rtudcntn went 10 the
show tonight IN spite ~ the presidents
| order. but there were no disturbances
II Is said the dlaobedlont scholars will
be dlHClnllnp1