The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-22
BUFFALO BILL
Features of Great Wild West Show
 Coming June 3.


 Coming June 3.
 The performances in the arena O
 Buffalo Bills Wild West have alway
 been noted for their realism, and in
 tense vigor, but this season are more
 animated and earnest than ever before
 much more so, it is opined than, de lights some of the foreign contingentt participating in them, though nightly contributing to the gaiety of the native cowboys and American cavalrymen. IT the big railway disaster at the close ot | the season of 1901, not only were the famous bucking mustangs killed, but ! 150 of the broncho horses used in the arena were destroyed. Replacement of so large a proportion of the compara- lively trained horses by others fresh from the plains and almost wild, in troduces an element of exciting uncer- tainty into all the equestrian exercises which are a very large part of the pro- gramme. Over two hundred of the new horses, taking the places of those worn out or in bad condition, as we'll as the killed and crippled, are young, Vigor- ous, high-spirited brutes, just broken to so much knowledge of briddle and saddle as enables a skilful cowboy rider to mount them and stick on. Each is liable, at any moment, to break loose in fight against enslavement, bucking, kicking, biting and rolling, aVoI f,la cat " is very apt to infect others among the trained and supposedly reliable. anil mas All this Is fun for the sprightly cowboy, who despises a horse that has not enough spirit to make a fight, but it means anxiety and pain for the European soldiery, and even the Be- douin Arabs and Cossacks, none of whom is used to dealing with such ebullient equine cussadness. In the course of time. the hard continuous work and enforced subjugation in- volved in twelve arenic performances weekly. will convince these new horses that they must be good" but the les son is not one that they will learn will ingly or easily.
 As for the new lot of "bucking mustangs" They will never have such training, their share in the perform ance being limited to a short fierce combat which always ends in what, from their point of view, is the defeat of the obnoxious persons who bestride them. Being lassoed saddled and mounted by a man who manages to retain his seat despite all frantic ef- forts to dislodge him, is exceedinely exasperating. almost humiliating to the brute, but when at the end of five or ten minutes the man gets off, the mus. tang feels that he has triumphed and Is all the more encouraged to stubborn and malignant resistance the next time q renewal of the abhorent experience confronts him. In this way the buck ing broncho" and "bucking mustang" which is even more vicious, instead of being ultimately broken, only grows worse as time goes on. It would hardly seem possible to make worse the equine devils added to the outfit this season. They have been selected from far and wide over the West and South west, for their individual notoriety as bad ones" Three of them are noted as killers" from their savage tricks of biting and jumping on man if they can get him down, so that every contest with them is really a question of life or death. The Wild West will exhibit here on June 3.