Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1912-09-12
Big Western
Show Opens
"Wednesday
All in Readiness for the Four Davs
OF Thrilling Western Events
Cowboys and Busters Coming
from stampede" to Participate.

Border Days Celebration to be held i
Grangeville next week, the opening da
being Wednesday, September Is an
from that time until the close, mid
night, Saturday, September 81, ther
will be four days replete with western
life and the visitors will live over agail
the palmy days of the frontiersman
The tenderfoot from the east will her,
be afforded sight of the cowboy at hi
best and rub shoulders with the bad man
From the present indications tn,
show promises to pass beyond the mos
sanguine hopes of it's promoters whit
assure program the like of which ha.
never been seen in the northwest. The
list of participants range from the ex
ecutive of the state to the ox-team
driver, and the scenes depicted cover g
period from the days of forty nine
to the present time.
The program had been completed but
the committee decided to give the peo-
pie even more than advertised and with
this object in view secured bunch of
western show people who alone could
put up entertainment sufficient to oc-
cupy the four days.
Art Accord, who took second money
at Calgary show, or the "Stampede y,
as it is known, will be here with twelve
head OF tried and tested bucking stock,
coming direct from the north. Accord
goes from Grangeville to Pendleton
for the Roundup" and has most
enviable reputation as a buster. In
speaking of his work at klamath Falls
last June, the press of that city has the
following to say:
Riding bucking horses, bulldogging
steers, and doing Roman and Cossack
stunts on horeback are not catalogued
with pink teas in the sporting annual,
according to Art Accord, the scintillat-
ing star of the Elks Rodeo. Art rambl-
ed about the city yesterday minus
large area of cuticle as the result of his
last strenuous days performance at the
Dig outdoor show here when he swept
everything before him in the events he
entered.
But little thing like bruises, scrapes
and hard bumps doesn't worry Accord.
It's all in the days work. In fact
are part of his stock in trade. Yet he
does not like to have the impression
go abroad that he lives a life of ease,
treads pathway strewn with roses and
oasks in the sunshine of opulence all
sne while. Nothing like that.
Art thinks he earns his money. And
tne management of the Rodeo were in
clined to back him up with that belief.
directors of the show were unanimous
In declaring that they did not begrudge
'ne champion bull-dogger and bronco
f'der one cent they paid him.
Here's What He Had to Do.
II any ambitious youth thinks of
taxing up Acord's profession for his
nVing the following list of few things
sne champion had to do in the three
aays OF the Rodeo may make him pause
lor more deliberate consideration:
First day
bulldogged steer.
Did Cossack riding stunt.
hode bucking horse.
Did Roman riding.
Did Drunken race.
Did trick riding.
cared down two wild horses while
'ney were being saddled.
AIDED officials in getting events
''srted, entries ready and did general
mandy man" stunts around the arena,
rack and paddock.
Second day
same as the first day and more so.
Third day I
same as first day and second with the
'ollowing stunts:
node three bucking horses the worst
n the paddock.
NOT that the life Of successful wild
'orse rider 10 without its reward in
POPULAR approval.