Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-07-23
BURKE SAYS CODY
IS ON LAST TRIP
Well Known Advance Man for
Buffalo Bill Spends Day
in the City.
FIGHTER SHOWS TEMPER
Suggestion That Exhibition Will Cease
After This Year Is Indignantly
Denied.

With big. broad-brimmed Stetson
cooked on the back of his head, and
a sunburst OF seven huge diamonds
adjoining his manly chest. and looming
up like the dubious proboscis Of the
town tippler, Major John NJ. Burke,
an old time Icd skin fighter, and one
Of the men who made the last peace
treaty with the Sioux at Pine Ridge,
after the Ghost Dance war. Monday
sat back IN an easy chair in the New
Harper lobby and discoursed upon the
merits OF Buffalo Bill and his wild west
show
Major Burke travels ahead Of the
frontier day exhibition. and starts the
shekels rolling into the Golfers by his
advance dope on the only attraction in
the universe
NOT LAST APPEARANCE.
so this is the farewell appearance
OF the wild west show. eh?' was quer-
led, at which the major became purple
under the collar and threatened the
reporter with complete humiliation.
mo, no. no." he shouted wild west
shows and this particular attraction
will be doing business when you and
I are gone. But the chances are that
Colonel Cody will never play another
season. Figure II for yourself Buffalo
Bill is now 20 years old. and for the
past 30 years has devoted himself TO
the business eight months out of the
year. rain or shine. You get out on
horseback and 20 through the stunts
he does at your age and how long
would you last? The chances are this
year will be his last OF active duty.
He has ridden the pony express over
a stretch OF 322 miles for q hours at
a time, and when he got done his
clothes looked like a piece of Swiss
cheese from bullet holes.
SHOW IL EDU CATIONNL.
Our show is an educational one
but, nowadays. the American youth
knows it all. He knows more than
his father, or his grandfather or his
teacher. because he has been through
his high school He looks at our at
traction as he would at a moving pic
ture film. and that is all it conveys
TO him. He does not appreciate that
everything portrayed is taken from ac-
tual life. and was actually participated
in by Colonel Cody himself But he
knows IL all He thinks that the In
dams we carry are nothing but bunch
Of Irishmen painted up.
You are going 10 have a circus or
two in town soon. Now YOU go to our
show and then TO the circus. and when
you have seen both. II you do not say
that the wild west attraction makes the
other bunch look like a funeral, I'll
buy a drink We educate the people
and give them something 10 occupy
their minds so they will not be running
around after the Bull Moose.
Where is my home? Right here
in Rock Island. Anywhere l hang my
hat sign my name on the register
and after Il ! writes United States
Look at the Harper register 40 years
ago and you will find the same ad
dress"
After which the major ordered g
taxi with the admonition that a good
docile. careful driver be placed at the
wheel, as he did not care to pass into
the great beyond with the stencil o.
gasoline decorating his habiliment.
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