Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-29

Miss Lillian Calvert Van Osten, spe.
cial press representative of the Paw
nee Bill Wild West show, who was in
Ottumwa yesterday, is famous as the
only woman press agent of big show
and has been successful in this novel
field. She is thoroughly familiar with
every detail of the show which she
represents and talks most interesting
ly of it's special features. During the
war in the far east the Cossacks and
Japs with the show have attracted
much attention and yesterday Miss
Van Osten told Of their circus life.
She said:
"Cossack and Jap live side by side
in the Pawnee Bill show but they are
not speaking to each other, and it re-
quires but word in anger or look
Of hate to start an international row.
In fact the management finds it hard
at times to prevent the far eastern
ers from bringing their war to Amer
lea.
Con more than one occasion since
the show started out this year the
Cossacks and Japs have stolen across
the boundaries Of their respective res
ervations and proceeded to give good
limitations on minor scales of the bat
tie of Yalu and the recent conflict in
the far east. From previous expert
ences, however, the managers of the
show have learned wisdom and now
the belligerents are separated by al.
most the entire length Of the lot and
every effort is made to keep them
part
"The Cossack contingent is compos-
ed Of twenty representatives Of Rus
sia's eastern possessions All these
men are magnificent horsemen and
marksn1en. Several Of them are edu.
Gated and all of them take the deep.
est interest in the war reports from
the far east They occasionally get
letters or papers from home giving
first-hand information Of the war In.
cidents there and these papers are
passed around and read and re-read.
Illustrated American papers showing
incidents Of the war in the far east,
or the movement Of troops
are eagerly read and frequently
an English interpreter is called upon
to translate the dispatches in the
Al1Cl lCdA pdpCl lA0 SOS0dCh0 al =
big, husky looking men, and most OF
them wear heavy boards and long
hair
Japanese Are Quiet.
The Japanese with the show are
fine little fellows, active, 1.-THE, clean
cut and thoroughly up-to-date. They
do not talk much about the war,
in fact, it is with the utmost difficulty
that they can be made to discuss it at
all, but they are most gracious in
their refusals to talk and have a very
norance. Those with the show, how
ever, say that the Japs know ten
times as much about what is going
on in the east as do their Cossack
friends. They are great readers OF
newspapers and get everything in the
way Of printed matter that they can
about the great eastern war. They
get more letters, too, than do the
Cossacks, and have all sorts of inside
information about what is going on
Occasionally one of the Japs becomes
homesick for the war and then there
is vacancy in the Japanese quar-
ter. Nobody knows what becomes Of
him and his compatriots profess in
terest
Celebrated Indian Chiefs.
Maj. Gordon W. Lille, (Pawnee
BID has with him some of the great
est Indian celebrities living. 1t is
not easy to secure them and the gov
eminent exacted many guarantees
and bonds before permitting these
somewhat dangerous people to roam
away from their reservation. Promi
nent among them is Spotted Tail,
son of the famous old warrior, Chic
Spotted Tail, to whom was presented
a home worth about $4,000 by the
cattlemen of St. Francis mission
Rosebud Agency, S. Dakota. For 70
mantle or sentimental reasons Chic
Spotted Tail preferred to dwell in hi!
own tepee, but after his death hi
family were reared in comfort ant
smoked the pipe of peace in the com
modious dwelling
Saved Two Children.
Another noted chief is Black Heart
who was really as great warrior a
Sitting Bull. He was q scout in tn
service of General Miles and it wa
during the Ghost Dance war when tw,
i white children were stolen by the II