The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1907-06-27

Pawnee Bills Historic Wild West and Great
Far East Show will spread its tents In Brook
ings Wednesday, July 8, and give afternoon and
| evening performances. Its owner Is the man
who opened Oklahoma to public settlement
who is the only white chief" of the Indiana,
and who is historically famous as cowboy, scout,
guide, explorer, plainsman and soldier. He
founded the city of Pawnee, Oklahoma, and II
president OF the Arkansas Valley National bank
Of that place.
The organization travels in fifty cars and
comes with a metropolitan demonstration of
supremacy, full OF the honors of Europe. and
with a record of more than a score of years Of
ever increasing popularity. Its GROWING fla
ture, The Great Train Robbery" is the melo-
dramatic spectacle which wa the sensation OF
New York City last summer. A locomotive
engine and train OF cars are employed. Pawnee
Bill has the exclusive travelling rights. Nothing
like it, it Is said, was ever seen under canvas.
Pawnee Bils explorers have ransacked many
foreign countries in their search for amusement
novelties and sensations, and have returned
with a heterogeneous horde. India was the
object of their special industry. For months
they sought the most adept men of magic the
country yielded, aud the result is an exposition
which was never before granted startled Ameri.
can eyes. Every trick which has FOR centuries
puzzled western scientists and laymen is per.
formed at all. Of Pawuee Bill performance
the marvels Of the mango tree, the basket, the
sword the gum the grave. the bird, the beast
and the snake. They are apparent miracles,
passing al! understanding and conception. A
blooming, fruit. bearing bush grows before ones
eyes from a freshly inferred mango seed a
1890 go E%CE " ahhN
energies directly from the midst OF the audience ;
a girl Is confined In a small wicker basket and
apparently butchered, and 10, the receptacle is
empty pigeons fly from eggs: a leaa dog is shut
up in a box, it is opened and a litter OF puppies
is there balls are thrown into the air and fade
slowly from sight deadly snakes bite grinnins
performers to no purpose, but insert their fangs
in live animals and they die on the spot.
CannibalS from the dark continent" show
their flesh eating procliyities. Australian bush.
men give demonstration OF their proves with
the boomerang, and from the pampas of South
America are the GauchOs, whose skill with a
0ola Is the maryed and despair of every nation.
There are Hottentots, DahOmians, South Sea
ISLANDERS, Singhalese and bands OF wild riding
Cossacks, Russia's cavalry dependence. Howl.
ing and dancing dervishers IN their tireless pious
evolutions, and Arabs, with their superb native
horses, show the customs aud habits of the
| desert.
Pawnee Bill is, Of course, the central and
picturesque figure in the Wild West division
OF the show. He is a product OF the days of the
range and the trail, and typlhes them CALAMITY
and pictureSquely.
OF Indians there are several hundred, fresh
from their wigwams-real children of nature,
away from their reservations for the first time.
Mexico contributes a quota Of the champion
yacqueros of the lasso. The vivid tournament
they all provide is the summary of the west.
the west before the long trails were blocked (;
before barbed wire traVersed ranges before the
superb freedom. of the uuOwned plains was ex.
changed for the limits of exact ownership.
A street parade will lnaugurate the day.