The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1907-07-12
PAWNEE BILLS WILD WEST
AND GREAT FAR EAST
Has Many Unique and Interesting Fea-
tures-Will Exhibit Here To-
morrow

Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West
and Great Far East Show will
spread it's tents here on Saturday
and give afternoon and evening per
formances. It's owner is the man
who opened Oklahoma to public
settlement, who is the only White
Chief of the Indians, and who is
historically famous as cowboy, guide,
explorer, plainsman and soldier.
He founded the city of Pawnee,
Okla, and is president of the Arkan-
sas National Bank of that place.
The organization travels in fifty
cars,and comes with metropolitan
demonstration of supremacy, full of
honors of Europe and with a record
of more than score of years of ever
increasing popularity. Its browning
feature, The Great Train Robbery"
is the melodramatic spectacle which
was the sensation of New York last
summer, a locomotive, engine and
train of cars are employed. Pawnee
Bill has the exclusive travelling
rights. Nothing like it was ever
seen under canvas, it is said.
The other multifarious depart
ments of Pawnee Bills institution
are an improvement in every way
over anything that has gone before.
The dreamy and imaginative Orient,
mysterious Hinduland and savage
Africa and Australia are mingled
with the whoopjng west and its cow
boys and cowgirls, Indians, soldiers,
Vacqurees and picturesque COM
panions and their concomitants.
Pawnee Bills explorers have
ransacked many remote countries in
their search for amusement novelties
and sensations and have returned
with a heterogeneous horde.
India was the object of the
especial industry. For months they
sought the most adept men of magic
the country yielded, and the result
is an exposition which was never be-
fore granted and which has startled
American eyes. Every trick which
for centuries has puzzled western
scientists and laymen is performed
at all of Pawnee Bills performances
the marvel of the mango tree, the
basket; the snake, the sword, the
bird, the gun, the beast; they. are
apparent miracles, passing all under,
standing and conception.
A blooming, fruit-bearing bush
grows before your eyes from a fresh
ly inferred mango seed.
A Hindu is buried under six
feet of earth and energies directly
from the midst of the audience.
A girl is confined in a small
wicker basket and apparently butch
cred, an 10, the receptacle is empty
A lean dog is shut up in box
it is opened and litter of puppies
are found.
Balls are thrown in the air and
they fade slowly away from sight
Deadly snakes bite grinning per
formers to no purpose, but insort
their fangs in dumb animals anc
they die on the spot.
Cannibals from the Dark Con
tinent" show their fesh-eating pro
clivities. Australian Bushmen give
demonstrations of their proves:
with the boomerang. From the
Panama of South America are the
Gauchhus, whose skill with the bols
is the marvel and despair of every
nation. There are Hottentots
Dahomians, South Sea Islanders
Singales and bands of wild riding
Cossacks, Russia's cavalry depend
ence, bowling and dancing der
vishres and their tireless pious evo
lutions; and Arabs, with their su
perb native horses, show the Gus
toms and habits of the desert.
Pawnee Bill is, of course, the cen
trail and conspicuous figure in the
Wild West division of the show. He
is a product of the days of the
trail and the range, and typife.
them calamity and picturesquely
The annals of the early west afforc
no more lively and adventurous ca
reer than his, and he reproduce.
without illusion, under canvas, the
life and environment of the Amer
lean history which he had a con