The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-12-11
THE PERIL Of
THE PRA|R|ES
Realistic Portrayal Planned of
Stirring Western
Happening.

Great preparations are under way a
: the ball ground in connection wit.
: the coming Wild West Show. Addi
tionaI bleachers are being built. an
this, with the making of corrals TO
steers and horses, is keeping corp
Of carpenters busy.
The steers will arrive from the Ho
nouliuli and Waianae ranches today Il
the number of fifty-six head. The!
are heavy critters that will aver.
age a thousand pounds. Two tons o.
green feed and sixty sacks of keawt
beans will keep the stock from starv-
ing.
The stage coach which will figure in
the great hold-up spectacle on Satur-
! day has been brought from Glenwood
| Springs, Hawaii, and is a typical stage
of the old frontier days, with box
| seat, prairie schooner curtains, bag
gage receptacle at the rear and place
| for the indispensable messenger with
his sawed-off Winchester shotgun.
This item of the program will be
well worth seeing and will wildly por-
tray what was once a common Incl
dent of the Western plains. The stage
drawn by a spirited team will enter
the arena and be attacked by a band
of mounted Indians who have been ly-
ing in ambush. Pursuit follows and
guns pop merrily. The stage is f.
nally overtaken and its occupants
bound while their baggage is rifed
and preparations made for their tor
ture and death. Then enters a band
of soldiers, who rescue the unfortu-
mates of the stage and put the red
skins to dire rout.
The stage will be in the parade on
Saturday, in which nearly two hundred
horses. ridden by Indians, pau riders,
cowboys and cowgirls are expected to
take part.
Angus McPhee, champion roper of
the world, who comes from the States
on purpose to defend his title, will
arrive by the S. S. Alameda on Fri
day. He is a Wyoming man, and
Wyoming delegation, including r. w.
Breckons, r. w. Shingle, ]. G.. Pratt,
Chas. Bond and Ed. Towse, will meet
him outside the harbor and bid him
wizard with the lariat and has toured
the mainland with Buffalo Bits Wild
West aggregation.
McPhee won the championship at
the last celebration of Frontier Day
at Cheyenne, his best time being 81
2-5 seconds. In the finals his time was
46 seconds, but he took first prize for
the best average time. Two fine horses
have been reserved for McPhees use
and he will have nothing to complain
of on the score of quality in this re-
spect. Whether or not his work in the
saddle will be affected by the voyage
remains to be seen.
Another mainland competitor will be
J. w. Winter, a Colorado product who
took second place in the broncho-bust-
ing contest for the worlds champion
ship on Frontier Day. He was the
only man at that carnival to success
fully ride both the steer and wild
horse.
Winter, by the way, went down the
line the other day to ride broncho
which had been selected for him by
some sportive cowboys. The latter
fully expected that Winter would find
the steed surprise package but in
this they were disappointed. Winter
subdued the BRONX and rode him in
a comparative twinkling and afteTward !
to one of the cowboys:
why didn't you get me- a wild |
horse; that one was a pudding. Where |
1 come from we ride two or three of
that kind every morning just to get an |
appetite for breakfast
The honor of Hawaii with the rope |
and in the saddle will be upheld by |
such well-known performers as w. /
Spencer, Sam Mahuka, Ikua Purdy, |
Archie Kaaua, w. j. Hawai- and w. |
r. S. Lindsay of Waimea, VIII Roy of /
Kona, Henry Beckley of Kohala and |
Keau of Honolulu. In addition to this
galaxy of talent there will be J. Page,
an Arizonan and silent Burns, the
Los Angeles baseball pitcher, at pres
ent here with Coast team.
Eben P. Low may give an exhibition
Of one-armed roping and if he does
a new record in class may be set. Low,
better known in cattle circles as Raw
hide Ben" is an expert with a lariat. |
In 1892 he injured his left arm so bad
" while roping a steer on Hawaii, that
partial amputation was necessary.
Entries for the various events close
this afternoon at the office of Chas. r.
Frazier, 122 King street.
SCREWS TO HOLD BONES.