The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-07
FIFTY CAR LOADS
That Much Amusement Equip
ment Booked for Fair.
Management Spent Money Law
iSh1y for Entertainment.
WILD HORSE RACE A FEATURE
Lincoln Paper Says That This
Is q Thriller.


1t will require nearly fifty cars 20
bring the State fair amusement feat
ureS to Topeka The Workman and
Allen Shows United will arrive in To-
peka late today from Lincoln, Neb., by
train consisting of twenty carS. A
twenty-five car train will bring the
Cheyenne Frontier Days show from the
same city either tonight or Sunday. On
the grounds is the equipment for Pion-
eef Days, the sensational show that will
be put on by the Pain company; in fact
a village of log cabins and frontier
stores has already been constructed IN
the quarter stretch.
Never before has fair management
i'll the middle-west been so lavish in the
expenditure of money for amusement
features. The Cheyenne Frontier Days
celebration is said to be the greatest
Show of its kind in the world and the
rams Pioneer Days show followed by
fireworks is the best that this we'll
known company produces.
OF the wild west performers in con-
nection with the Cheyenne Frontier
Days celebration the Lincoln State
journal has the following to say:
In front of the grandstand at the
close of the afternoons racing card
yesterday afternoon a wild horse
race, in which animals never before
saddled nor bridled were tanned by the
cowpunching outfit to the huge graft
hcat1on of those in the stands The
thlngs are done on the range and the
actions of the horses roped and led
from the corral testified to the fact that
they We're wild The race was to
mount the plunging animals and To
force them about the track
The celebration, as seen at t,a To
peka State Fair, Topeka. is a brinsine
together of the best and most daring
outdoor sports of the region of the cow
boy and indian, and this show each
fhn 9th
much IN demand are the feats of the
DAY OF the Indian and cowboy that
numerous wild vest shows have
sought to satisfy the craving public
But none pleases like the Cheyenne
Frontier Days celebration which has
attracted the patronage of Presidents
Roosevelt and Taft, and dignitaries of
the Old World. Be it understood that
the Cheyenne show is the greatest of
all-it has the greatest living wild
west performers of the time 1t in
cludes every great stunt on the range
the cowboy and the Indian-fresh in
the minds of the few remaining pio-
heerS, but unknown to the young men
and women of today.
The Cheyenne celebration will be
charge of Major c. B. Irwin, who holds
the worlds record for hog-tying steers
for 100 feet start, SO Is seconds His
daughter, Joella, is the champion relay
rider of the world and they have three
strings of relay horses that have never
been beaten. The show includes:
Champion men and lady rough riders
of the world.
Champion men and lady relay riders
of the world.
Champion trick and fancy ropers.
Bucking buffaloes. steers and cows.
Bucking and trick burros.
Champion steer and bulldog men,
catching steers and throwing without
a rope.
Fifty head of the greatest bucking
horses left in the world today, incIud-
in "Old Steamboat" Teddy Roosevelt
and "AerODlane.''
Only team of buffaloes in the world
broken to ride and drive
Wild horses and Texas steers and a
band of full blood Sioux Indians. They
put on all sorts of races and games,
quadrilles on horseback, and many
other interesting features.
All of this combines to make a great
SHOW. but here is where the lavish ex-
penditure of money comes in: This
show will be put on in conjunction
with Pains spectacular production of
Pioneer Days. in which more than
Pains part of the production will
appear the panorama of the plains,
including the supply post and camp
ing grounds. The prairie schooner,
drawn by half dozen yoke of oxen,
Will drive up, camp will be pitched,
supper eaten, the Indians appear,
whites are scalped, fire is set to the
wagon, the blacksmith shop and the
store, and the Indians having about
completed their depredations are
ready to escape, when 100 cowboys ap-
pear and a slaughter of the Indians
occurs The scene is thrilling; the eff
feet cannot be described All this and
much more that cannot be told, takes
place, to the delight of the spectator.
A Grand Combination.
This is absolutely the first time that
the Cheyenne Frontier celebration and
this Pains gorgeous spectacular have
been brought together. The idea is
that of Secretary Cook of the Kansas
state fair. His idea was that to put
on the Cheyenne Frontier days with
out a setting of colored light and fire
works, would be like putting on a
great theatrical performance without
spot lights and scenery. Proceeding
on this theory, he has brought these
two great shows together and, for the
first time presented to any people, will
they be seen in conjunction at the To-
peka state fair every night during the
week of September to 10, inclusive.