Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-11-21
PHENIx CARNIVAL.
Elaborate Preparations Being Made for a hidwinter Celebration to
 Be Held Next Month.

The business men of Phenix, hay ing made most complete success of a carnival held in that city last De cember, have decided to repeat the same, the dates selected being De- cember 10th to 18th. inclusive, 1900. It is, however, proposed to elaborate somewhat on the plans of the previ- ous year, and combine with the COW boy and Indian features, a street fair, with all of its attendant pageants, midway, queen and her court, exhibit booths along the streets, and similar attractions.
 ] Of course to the customer and a great many throughout the west the sports and games of the cowboys, which will include roping and tying of steers for championship honors, pony racing, broncho busting and ex- hibitiOns of the marvellous skill of the best range riders in the territories. or in fact of the entire southwest, will form most unique and attrac- tive numbers of the entire program. It is, therefore, very wisely considered that three days Is none too much to be devoted to this portion of the car nival. The arrangements for the cow boys sports and races have been left in charge once again of Jack Gibson, who is known throughout the western country, to those who would partici- pate.
 Gibson is a man of extraordinary proportions, being over six feet tall. He has plenty of ability in this par ticular line of equestrianship, and with the aid Of J. w. Benham, an other well known ranger for years, the cowboys will flock to his standard from all directions.
 The street fair exhibits, midway, free vaudeville shows and pageants will be handled by various sub-com- mittees, and under the immediate supervision of Louis w. Buckley, di- rector general of the late Stockton, Riverside, Ventura and other Pacific coast street fairs.
 The midway will be composed of a number of the principal side shows such as BOsco, the Australian Snake Man Lunette, the hypnotic wonder; La Lista, the rival of La Louie Full Ter, in her prismatic and gorgeous fire dances; the Coontown 400 cake walk CTS and jubilee singers; Juno, the plastique poser; the Zulu village, the oriental show, with several camels, and Little Egypt, the great oriental dancer; the moving picture machines, merry-go-rounds, razzle-dazzles and other midway attractions. These shows will be placed in the center of the town opening off of the main street with the midway with an arch in front of it, and it will be beauti- fully lighted throughout. A small extra admission will be charged to each of the side shows of the midway as is usual in fairs.
 The queen and her court of forty people will reign during the entire carnival. This will consist of the queen and prime minister, master of ceremonies, court jester, ten maids of honor, ten gentlemen of the court, heralds, pages, equerrys and others. They will all be beautifully costumed and reign on an elaborate gold and white throne with a canopy covering it in the carnival cOlors.
 The merchants have prevailed upon s. NJ. McCowan, superintendent of the Indian school, to serve as presi- dent once again of the carnival. and have elected General R, Allyn Lewis, a well known business man of thecity and prominent in military and social circles, as director general. The ex- ecutive committee is as follows:
 $. NJ. McCowan chairman, s. P. Clark, Dave Goldberg, J. c. Adams, G. H. N. Luhrs, Gus. H. Hirschfeld, J. W. Benham, R. Allyn Lewis.
 The railways will make special low excursion rates from all points in the southwest to Phenix during that week.
 The Los Angeles chamber of com merce will be invited to have day and bring an excursion of Los An geles business men over during that time.
 There will be a special day for Tucson and vicinity, and Prescott and vicinity. with prominent speakers of those cities present to tell the visitors of the glories of their respective sec tions of the territory.