Arizona republican., 1910-01-30
A WILD WEST SHOW
 FOR CR|TTtM10M HOME
An Entertainment Next Saturday for Charity.

Next Saturday afternoon at the fair ! grounds a wild west Indian show will
 be given under the auspices of some
 of the prominent young society peo-
 pie of Phoenix for the benefit of the l Crittenton home. For two weeks the
 plans have been maturing and are now
 so far perfected that the promoters
 can announce the most spectacular ex-
 hibition of the kind ever witnessed in
 the west. an exhibition that will vivid
 throughout the world by the virile pens
 of Richard Harding Davis. owen Wis ter and Stewart Edward White and in
 brush and bronze by the late Frederick Remington. Nothing has been over
 looked that will contribute to the
 realism of the days events and the features have been so arranged as to
 throw in bold relief the striking char acters of a fast passing era which for two generations have thrilled the
 hearts of those who live lover the
 back of the beyond in that region of puny passions known as the effete east
 A stage coach. hoary with the mist of years and venerable as the dramatic center of some of Arizona's most cherished traditions will play an im- portant role in the days festivities, and for a period all too brief will re- vitalize the narrative of how the frontiers of civilization surged for ward by the hearty spirits of the past encroached on the sacred domains of the Apache and encompassed in it's protecting folds the perennially sum- kissed spaces of Arizona. For years this stage made regularrtrips between Phoenix and Maricopa when that sec tipn was infested with redskins and bears the marks of frequent combats. its exterior being scared by arrow points and dented with leaden missiles. while its interior holds a story of life blood shed and of the anguished cries of desert argonauts long passed to their reward.
 But this is only one of the many features of the three hours program of entertainment to be provided. The show will open with parade headed by the Indian school band. followed by the old stage coach drawn by six horses. behind which will come band of fifty Indians in war paint and feath- CTS uttering their loud yells of defi- ance., Next will follow group of cowboys adorned with .'chaps" and heavy spurs. hurling riatas and riding with that easy grace which has won for their kind the plaudits of common CTS and monarchs the world over. With them will also appear a number of feminine rough riders who will take part in the relay races.
 As the first event of the program, a sort of cocktail. as it were, will be a wild dash by the fifty Indians around the mile track. Next will be a wild horse rack in which seven of the most vicious equines to be found in the ter ritory will be roped and saddled by as many redoubtable riders and ridden once around the mile track. That's what the program says, but the chances are that more than one rider will be hurled through the air in more or less graceful parabolic curves long before the goal is reached. The wo- mems relay race will be twice around the half-mile track, and this most popular of cowboy sports will be made all the more interesting by the grace ful skill and daring of it's fair parti- cipants. Next will come the grand bronco busting contest for the cham pionship of Arizona, participated in by the most noted bucking horse riders in the west. mounted on brutes whose tempers are the superative of bad. A h A x.rfl g.< Al. winner of this event and a number of riders well known and popular in this section will do their best to uphold the reputation of the valley against the most skillful riders of the northern part of the territory and of New Mex leo as well. Then will come motor cycle race for the Arizona record, and