The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-14
BILL and HIS SHOW
Wild West Aggregation Arrives
On Time.
Designed to Take Place of Buff
falO Bill.
HAVE MANY PEOPLE.
Features Are Distinctively of
Wild West Order.
Owner All0tt Says He Wants
Only the Truth Told.

Buckskin Bills Wild West show is in
town today; doors open at and p M
This show was purchased last year by
H. E. Allott and Val Hoffman, two chi
cago brewers. For the purpose of hav-
ing picturesque name, bony looking
Arizona gent named William Cohoon
with long sunburned hair and a skill
at shooting was engaged to pose In the
title role of Buckskin Bill Bill was IN
the parade this morning and ne didn't
look like a man who had been mixed
up in several murderous fights, served
as a government scout in the lndlan
wars, and had gained reputation all
over the west as dead shot with a
Winchester Yet that is what the adj
vertisements say OF him, and there is no
evidence to contradict them
The Buckskin Bill show has been I'M
mercifully abused by some of the pa
fell on it like carload of pig-1ead, and
the Ottawa Republic says in its We'd
nesday edition:
1T was a poor, f1abby, thin, exhibit
ton. 1t was worse than that, it was
robbery They attempted to charge
man for turning his head. They would
catch a green young country boy with
his equally verdant girl and would pun
his leg to fare-ye-well. 1t was the
worst aggregation of grafterS, robbers
and hold-ups that has been in the city
for a long time. The genuine cowboys
and performers weren't so bad. but 1t
was the hangers on, the bankers, the
spielers, the grafterS, the parasites OF
the outfit The management was just
as bad or they would have cleaned them
| out
| 1t is too early to judge of the show,
| because nothing has been seen but the
| parade. Henry AllOtt said this morning
"All we want to have told about us is
| the truth
| To prepare for the anticipated influx
of grafters, Chief Donovan went to Hoff-
mann and Allott this morning and
gave them talk like this:
ma bays, the police is riddy to give
| We all the protection you need, and we
| will be yer frinds. But if liver l see inny
breaks, or if inny of these fine fellerS
! We hes wild We tries to do inny wurrk,
1 wants to tell We right now that I'll
come down on we without mercy. Do We
| understand"
| Perhaps Buckskin Bill is not as bad
as the Ottawa papers think, however.
While the show was at Ottawa, show
man got into fight with d local negro
scrapper, and the result was that the
negro had his head broken by the show
mans hoss-pistol This served to preju
| dice Ottawa somewhat. The show peo-
| pie claim that the negro was a tough
| who had the local police terrOriZed and
! that he tried to break into the show
! tent.
! The tent for the Ruckskin Bill show
| is arranged very much like the tent for
! the Buffalo Bill show. The seats are
|
| to the air At the further end of the
arena are the Indian tepees, the horse
| tent and the performers quarters. 1t
| is claimed that there are 800 people in
| the show, including 40 Indians, 20 cow
| boys, Mexicans, 5 Cossacks and lot
| of star performers. If there are 300 peo-
pie in the show, they were very clever1y
concealed in the parade this morning
| The parade was strung out for all 1T
was worth, but it did not promise any
very great possibilities. The Buckskin
Bill managers claim that they have
| more bona fide wild west features than
| Buffalo Bill himself has.
| Henry Frost, the advertising man and
strong lunged announcer, said today:
Buffalo Bill has taken his show to Eu-
rope for two or three years, and while
he is away, Buckskin Bill will have
things all his own way. The show is
to be immensely increased. and some
| of the military features of the Colonel
Cody show added Cody's show is now
| really a military show, not a wild west
show We have more wild west fea-
| lures than he has,"
| Buckskin Bill got off cheap on the
| license proposition. He paid the city
only SO for the show and SO for tie
| sideshow, and City Treasurer Hale adj
mitted that he had to rob the company
| to get that. This is because the present
| license ordinance is so careleSSly drawn
| that it does not provide for wild west
| shows at all, and there is really no way
| to collect more than So from a show OF
| this kind, no matter how big it is The
managers of the show showed their ap-
| probation of the city's generosity by
| leaving enough tickets for everybody
| connected with the city administration.
| Among the features of the Buckskin
| Bill show which are especially adver-
tised are the following: Indian crema-
| ton scene, stage coach robbery, hang
| ing Of a western horsethief. burning
| trapper's cabin, the Mountain Meadow
massacre, expert craftsmanship exhibits
| by Indians, cowboys and Cossacks, rifle
| shooting from horseback by VIM Co
hoon (tBuckskin Bil1D, Lantlinger and
wife, shooting from bicycles; Geo Elser,
| fancy riding and vaulting; Big Jim
Hopkins. the Texas champion steer
| roper, who owns big ranch in Texas
| and 1000 head of steers. He travels
with the show simply because he likes
| to. He has lots of money.
| One of the star features of the parade
| is a piece of artillery which was cap
| tured by Oliver Cromwell. At least il
looks as though it was old enough to
have been in existence at that time. 1t
| which you see in the pictures of the
| Spa aish defenses at Manila
| There are a lot of bucking horses in
the show. which go by the names OF
: Black Diamond, Outlaw, Niagara Falls
and Cyclone.
| The managers of the show promise
plenty of excitement for those who at
| tend. They say that 1000 rifle shots
are fired at each and every perform
ance They have big museum with
| all the standard features, also a con-
| cert alta chment-
and Tenth streets on Jefferson.
| Alfonso Has a Cold
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