The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-05-20
STUDENTS AND WILD
WEST IN A BATTLE
Parade Of "Pawnee Bill's' Show
Through Princeton Broken
Up by College Boys.
LIVELY TIME FOR AWHILE
Rotten Eggs, stones and Pistols
Brought Into Play---No One
Seriously Hurt---Violuted
Towns Traditions.

l~flnCetOn, n. d., May II.-IrlI1cetoH
students and Pawnee Bills Wild West
employees INDUCED i'll a pitched battle
yesterday and continuous and serious
rioting was prevented only by the
presence of men with cool heads and
the action of President Patton, OF
Princeton university, later in the day.
in calling a mass meeting of all the
students.
For fifty years it has been an un-
written law of Princeton that no cir
Gus parade must pass through the
streets. Every show proprietor in
making his dates has always left
Princeton from the list, for it rms been
a matter of M knowledge that
the students would enforce the un-
written law. Yesterday morning
Pawnee Bits Wild West combination
violated the unwritten traditions and
paraded. The result was the t%iercest
battle Princeton has seen in many
years.
When posters We're hung up a few
days ago announcing the advent OF
Pawnee Bill, the town authorities,
fearing trouble, advised the circus not
TO attempt q parade. The advice was
unheeded. q
Things were proceeding in the usual
course in the university when the pa
rade started. The procession reached
the college campus without trouble,
but passed down Nassau street at a
bad moment, for just as the bands
music wa heard the students We're in
the act of passing from the first morn
ing lectures to the second. The towns
people were out in force and waiting
for the parade. and the great majority
of them were massed near the campus.
Word passed along the line and within
a few minutes GOO or 700 students had
assembled on Nassau street. Cannon
crackers left over from previous cele-
'brations. eggs purchased at nearby
stores, and vegetables bought or con
Ifiscated from the stores were assem-
'bled quickly. The men unable to OBJ
tain these missiles armed themselves
with clods of turf hastily torn from
the lawns. The trouble started with
the band wagon. Cannon crackers
were thrown, and exploding under the
six horses made them frantic. The
musicians were on top of the wagons.
y serious runaway might have result
ed had not one of the leaders stumbled
and fell. dragging down the other
horses with him. The students, mean
while kept up n merciless lombard
ment with eggs and vegetables.
On the return the parade wheeled
into John lane and the students made
n grand rush to head off the process
sion. Again the employees of the circus
were rotten egged. The cowboys and
Indians finally charged the students
and used their whips freely. Stung by
the whips and bruised by the riders
running into them. the students be-
came nglyand in n moment the missiles
that were annoying but not dangerous
were replaced by stones, and the fight
became serious. Revolvers were drawn,
but fortunately the wne We're wise
enough to fire over the heads of the
enemy. Some of the Mexican or South
American cowboys unslung their bolas
and used those with effect. the leaden-
covered ends being exceedingly effect
i've. The cowboys charged the crowd
several times and rode down those who
could not get ont of the way.
In this manner Edward Dillon. a col
ored man, was knocked down and was
kicked in the head by a pony and his
skull fractured. A student was injured
by a pony trampling upon him. An
other was wounded by a bola. and an
other was struck by an Indian with
one of the snake whips. Many students
were less severely hurt. The cowboys
and Indians We're also badly bruised
and hurt. That the canvas would be
upset at night seemed a certainty un-
til late in the afternoon, when Presi-
dent Patton called a mass meeting of
the undergraduates and the faculty.
President Patton forbade any stu
dent to go to the show grounds last
night.
Hundreds of students went to the
show in spite of the presidents order,
but there was no disturbance. 1t is said
the disobedient students will be disci-
Dlined.