El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-15
CARNIVAL AT PHOENIX
Wild Indians and Wilder Cowboys
VIII Make the WeikIn Ring
Several thousand Dollars Raised
For the December Entertain
ment.

For the December Entertain
ment.
PHOENIX. Ariz.. Nov. 15-Some of
the most interesting Indian and cow
boy exhibitions ever witnessed on this
continent will be features of the "Phoe-
nix Indian and Cowboy Carnival and
Free Street Fair" which will be held
here during six days beginning on De-
cember 10.
The fiesta will be widely advertised
and hundreds of people will swarm in
from all parts of the country.
A similar carnival was held last win
ter and attracted hundreds from the
east increasing the population or
Phoenix during the celebration almost
three fold The celebration was not
thoroughly advertised, but was success
full as an initial performance. No ex-
pense will be spared to make the ef-
fort this year a success and the dis
play of wild Indians and cowboys will
be such as only Arizona, the home OF
the typical western cowboy. and the
stamping grounds of the wild abort
CINE OF today. can present.
In recent years the areas over which
wild Indians roam are clrcumScrlDed-
The redskins have been forced before
the white men for SO many years that
at last the few remaining. whose ap-
pearanceS bear out the descriptions of
Cooper and other writer's of fiction,
have been herded for the most part
to the mountain Businesses of Arizona.
Even the bloody Apaches have been
dealt with so summarily that many of
them wear an air of submission, and
only an occasional outbreak recalls
the scenes of stirring encounters with
those bloodthirsty savages. Still there
are many ApacheS, comparatively I'M
fettered and free from the frills and
ruffles of civilization.
Those few have an inherent hatred
of the white man. and are not inclined
to mingle with his race. They con-
tent themselves with roaming over the
widest sections of Arizona. putting in
their time hunting and fishing, and oc-
casionally picking of a prospector or
cowboy who ventures too far into the
bad lands. 1t is this class of Indians
that the carnival committees will seek
and attempt to place them before the
eyes of visitors in their native Simpli-
city. There are just enough partially
civilized Indians among the widest
tribes to induce the more timid to ex-
hibit their customs and methods be-
fore the white man.
The carnival association is planning
lagos on the outskirts of Phoenix,
where members of the various tribes
will erect their own tepees and wig
vans and live as their forefatherS
taught them to live years ago.
An Apache war dance will be one
of the features of the carnival. At
midnight several scores of dancers and
medicine men will assemble in an i'm
mense arena and conduct their per-
formances as they would in the wilds
of the Mongollon and Chirichuahau
mountains eliminating the savage fea-
lures.
While in the real ghost dance the
medicine men conduct their orgies for
days and until they are overcome by
sheer exhaustion. on this occasion their
dance will only be of one or two hours
duration. Instead of boiling live
mail rider. they will dance about a
pot emitting the odor of beef. Tom
toms and native Indian instruments
will constitute the pieces of the or
chestra and the production mingled
with the monotonouS chant of the
braves will afford the spectators very
good conception of an Apache ghost
dance. made famous only a few years
ago because it served to incite the va
riouS Arizona Apache tribes and send
them on bloody warpath.
Representations and delegations will
also be present from almost every In
dian tribe in Arizona, including the
wealthy and at times troublesome Ma
va1os. Pimas, Maricopas and Papagos
The Indians will amuse the public with
their native games. pony racing. foot
racing and wonderful feats of horse
manship.
Squaws in profusion at their villages
will be constantly engaged nj the man
ufacture of pottery and the weaving of
baskets and blankets.
An effort will be made to secure a
contingent of Moqui Indians to per-
form the famous snake dance, which
has puzzled science and attracted nu-
merous visitors to their village near
the Grand Canyon of the Colorado for
years. but THERE is little hope that the
Moquis can be induced to put on the
dance as it is a religious rite which
the reds are indisposed to present to
vulgar and unappreciative public.
The most noted among the cowboys
OF the southwest will be called in from
the ranges to contribute to the enter
tainment of the guests of Phoenix
In the heart of cattle country, sur
rounded by wild mountains and extern
sive cattle ranges Phoenix is the Nee
ca for cowboys when they take their
vacations from the rodeo.
The last roundup this year is about
completed and cowboys and vaqueros
will swarm into Phoenix in numbers
during the early days of December to