Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-06-18
PAWN E BILL.

Pawnee Bilrs Wild West show has
come and goge-to the sorrow of the
/ small boy, To the JOS Of the older heads
4 and with ii has gone much unbound
/ ed prejudice. Before the shows arrival
it was presaged that there was connect
ed with it as tough lot of grafters as
ever worked skin game. 1t appears
| that the show has been "done" in some
towns and though there are undoubted-
ly tough characters travelling with this
concern, as there is with every circus,
yet its employees were a pretty decent
lot of people generally considering.
The attendance was not such as is
usually drawn out by a circus and was
composed mostly of people from the
city, very few farmers being in town,
and of the 10000 seats which the show
claims to have, there were many vacant
| ones. The show is far better than the
people had expected and taken on a
whole was very good. Of course it was
not on so extensive or varied Il scale as
the Buffalo Bill show, but there are
many features about it that are excel
lent. The Craftsmanship, especially
that of the Cossack, was as good as ever
witnessed by an audience, the lariat
throwing by Mexican vaqueros and by
boys was on a par with any. The
artillery and cavalry drills showed a
finish, and robbing of stage coaches, the
attack of the Indians on Uncle TOMS
cabin and the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre were all portrayed in such man
ner as to draw forth applause from the
small boy or reader of dime novels.
There was one thing lacking about the
show and that was an absence of rifle
and revolver shooting. May Lille,
who is after the laurels of Annie Oak
ley, is the only one who participated in
any fancy shooting and her work was
such as to bear criticism. One of the
best features OF the show, revolving
though it seemed to those of finer tastes,
was the hanging of the horse thief by
the yigllence committee who lassoed
him on the horse and drew him from
the animal and dragged him around the
arena and up to the gibbet where he
was executed The stoical Indian was
much in evidence and many tribes OF
once savage Indians were represented.
There were some of as fine specimens
of the aboriginee as it is possible to find
at the present day. They were not of
the half breed kind but were of the
same blue blooded, scalping kind found
on this continent at the time of its dis
covery. There were races by cowboys,
Russian Cossacks, Indians, cavalry
men, lady equestriennes, Mexican va
queros and Bedouines There were
saddle races, bare back races and the
old sterotyped Roman chariot races.
At the conclusion, like at all shows,
there was the concert, at which many
features eliminated from the big show
were displayed. There was also the
proverbial side show with its snake
charmer, midget and ossifiod man.
The parade in the morning was wit
messed by vast numbers of people and
the same was of q fairly good order.
1t is reported that the oxen seen in
the parade drawing the two wheeled
cart, ran away and upset hack.
During the two days the show was
in town there was very little pilfering
or fighting going on among its people.
There was a police force suffic emily
large, however, to keep order and also
keep slrvelience on suspected crooks