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here May is for a three-day stand or
the same grounds where the Wild West
had to "bite the dust
One cowboy said he was heading
home for wyoming by the thumb route
or the "side-car Pullman" Another
was planning to have fling at Holly
wood. They seemed to think it just
wasn't good year for rodeo, or not in
the East. anyhow, as the show failed
in the box Office appeal its promoters
had so fondly expected.
The plight OF the stranded riders
had dismal parallel in August, 1881
When the 10l Ranch went on the
financial rocks here with some 5000
In back wages owing to the troupers
Meanwhile, the receivers appointed
by Justice Peyton Gordon in Dis
trict Court yesterday went ahead with
plans to care for the bronchos, per-
forming horses and rodeo cattle which
were loaded into the stock cars last
night and will be disposed of here
The live stock probably will be turned
out to pasture today pending arrange
ments for their sale.
The receivers are Attorney William
H. Collins and Edmond M Toland.
Mr.. Collins said today that all en-
ployes were informed they had first
lien on the assets and would event.
ually be paid in full They we're
instructed to leave their addresses
or prospective addresses with the
paymaster.
The wampum worries of the Sioux
Indians with the show were eased by
the knowledge that bond had been
posted by the show back at their Pine
Ridge, S. OAK, reservation to pay
wages and transportation home in
event Of unforeseen emergencies.
They camped in their teepees today
on the otherwise deserted show
ground.
The Sioux took their grievance to
Indian Commissioner John Collier
yesterday. They charged the show
had been holding out their wages of
from $40 to $50 month. and that
they were running short of war paint
while headdresses and other regalia
were in need of repair.
Twenty members of the band in
native dress sat around a pow-wow
table while Chiefs John Sitting Bull.
American Horse, Black Horn and Re-
turn-From-Scouts set forth their
troubles with the aid of Thunder
Hawk, an interpreter borrowed from
the Office of Representative Case Of
South Dakota. The Indians were ad-
vised that the 81 900 cash bond would
be used to square their claims in case
they were out of jobs.
The receivership order was issued
on petition Of Providence, r. l.,
creditor. who contended the show was
insolvent and unable to pay his ST.
500 claim. Last-minute efforts were
made to effect compromise to en-
able the show to continue to Balti-
more for performances scheduled to
open there today.
Washington police, who supervised
the final roundup of the show last
night and early today, received a call
from Baltimore this morning saying
the town was plastered with advance
advertising and asking If the show
was coming.
The reply was that the show could
not move today in any event.
The creditor on whose petition the
court order was granted was F. Stew
art Stranahan of Providence, and
he was represented by Attorney Ray
mond S. Smethurst.
Friends Of Col. Mccoy, who could
not be reached for a statement today,
had said he had tossed plenty of blue
chips into the pot" to keep the show
on the road. They said he had been
willing to gamble that the American
public would support a real Wild
West show and that If he lost, he
would be a game loser.