The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-10-25
THE MILLER SHOW
Coming to Cairo Sunday, October, 81
Description Of the Ranch Home
OF the Show

| The 101 Ranch Wild West Show,
| the only distinctively and exclusively
authentic prairie amusement organi.
2aztion OF the country, will visit this
city on Sunday, October 81, present
ing afternoon and evening perform.
anceS. and introducing itself with an
elaborate and original forenoon street
parade. Miller Bros. & Arlington,
Joint owners of the institution. make
promise that nothing like the 101
Ranch travelling amusement adjunct
in character or in magnitude has ever
been seen in this city. The real life
of ranch and range and Indian camp
will be reproduced in all its vivid
and romantic picturesqueness by act
ual living figures of the frontier
The organization comes here direct
from the Miller Bros. ranch at Bliss.
okla, the largest and most famous in
all the world Every one Of the 700
members of the show is a permanent
employee Of the treat prairie enter.
prise, paroled to give the public a
truthful view of the life that has vital
lied western history. They look upon
their summer tour in the nature OF a
holiday lark. At its conclusion they
will return to their duties among the
thousands of horses and cattle which
roam the 10t ranch fertile acres.
There are three of the Miller Bros.
Joseph C., Zaeg T., and George L.
Oklahoma and all of the other great
and they are the pride ami wonder OF
southwest, Their land holdings EN-
brace more than thirty square miles.
They are survivors of the days of the
buffalo drive and the emigrant trail,
and are proving in these days az
crowded cities and contracted com
mercialism that the stock Industry, on
gigantic scale is just as immensely
profitable today as ever in the his
tory of the country.
The 101 Ranch has remained intact
IN all its vastness, despite the influz
of the small farmer into Oklahoma.
Regulation quarter section homesteadsI
completely encircle its area, but the
l01 Ranch range stiH remains largely
and roads end and the
trails begin there, Several tribes of
Indians. living as primitively as in
the old da.'s, have their homes on the
great tract end the buffalo wanders
ut viii. Incidentally. the MiIlers own
more than one,tentn Of the present
day number of this one distinctive
animal
This is the second wear that has
the lol ranch owners mi
the ranks Of professional traye.inr
purveyors.
For many wears the l0l Ranch has
been The HonIerspot and the show
place of all the southwest. Frequent
Iy the MiIlers gathered their cowboys
and cowgitis and horses and steers
and hgfralcs into prairie arena
summoned . few score Of the red.m5r
who had their wigwam homes nearby
and gave impro,nr.r entertainments
The came OF these Spectacular dis
plays attracted first the attention oil
Oklahoma, and then their fame spread
through the country. In juno. 1a05
the railroads deposited more than
Ia.500 persons, who came from cities
even as remote as New YORK anu Sa,
Francisco, at one Of these gatherings.
TWO years later, when the jamestown
Exposition was promoted, the 4
rectors turned to me Miller Bros. as
the most famous representative OF
the cattle raising business, to give ar
arenic illustration o. its features
That the show from the Oklahoma
prairie vas the sensational triulnph ell
the fair is known of an who attended
So intsanttaneously tremendous yves
tho patronage and popularity tFatI
New York City demanded a duplicate
entertainment The Millers hurriedI
back to the ranch recruited another
show from the resources Of their acres
and sent it en- to Brighton Beach. New
York City. where for SIX weeks il
broke metropolitan records of attend
ance md fayor.
Before the first snow os winter Mad
Whitened the 101 Ranch range-land
the Millers and their men and women
and live stock were back from what
they all called Their spree, with ne
notion h"t that their experience rs
show people" was over But the
reputation their entertainment aid
achieved had made too deep an i'm.
preston not to focus the longing
eyes OF famors amusement men upon
the l0l Rpnch. The three rench-men
resisted all oyertures andpr1posit,
ions came to them from MANI ana
varied fIattering sources until I'd
ward Arlington placed his plans he
fore them. Then they capitulated and
tho 10l Ronch Wild West Show be
came a nemanent factor In the worhi
of tented amusements. Mr.. Arfngtun
assumed exclusive charge of route
publicity and the other manifold
duties Of promoting the progress and
pull licity of the show leaving the Mil
Ter Bros untramI&e;ed in their con.
duct Of the arena
The record made BY the show last
year is one unDrecedented in the hie