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Show LEO ANDERSON IS BESTEDJT PRICE IllltOWN 1'ltOM llffKINU AMMlli DfltINO PKItPOllMAM'i:. .ccnr) to Call l'li)ilclaii In Can' for the Carbon Count) Young Man However, Ills Injuries Wen. Not of n hcrlolis Nnliiu Orcat Crowds Attend Hilcmlld Wild Wi-t Show. Irwfn llros. Wild West show wlfli henibiunrlers nt Che)enne, V)n. exhibited ex-hibited nt Prlco last Monday nfter-nnon nfter-nnon and evening. The show came here from a week'a engagement nt Ornml Junction, Colo., where It plaed to tho largest crowds In the history of thnt city. Tho afternoon performance nt Price vvns attended by more thnn n thousand people with n turge attendance at-tendance from tho coal camps to the south and from Helper and elsewhere west At night the crowd was some mailer Indians, covbos nnd cowgirls, cow-girls, right off the reservations nnd the ranch In W)omlng, contribute to tho entertainment. Accompnnvlng the show Is an excellent ex-cellent band, which gave a concert Hundu) evening on Main street. A ludy snloUt does some good singing stunts with the musical organisation. At Monday nfternonn'a performance l.cn Anderson of Price, who recently Joined the show na a broncho buster. wns thrown from tint horse lie attempted attemp-ted to ride, but wns not seriously Injured. In-jured. However, It wns necessary to call a physician to attend him. One of tho ludv riders came near being hurt by her horse running under the ropes with her Anderson clulms fnt the reason of his being thrown from the animal Is the fact that ho has not ridden much for the past two )eurs. After 'Monday's 'Mon-day's experience ho proffered to wager nnyone that he could conquer the horse that threw him He dlspln)ed his good faith by betting a hundred dollars, but the offer was not accepted, accep-ted, Anderson quit the show here. His friends were anxious to place the hundred for him or more for that matter A bad horse from Wellington and belonging to one of tho Tldwells was ridden to a fraxxle nnd went home gentler than when ho came. The people of Irwlu Dros. show nre In striking contrast to most aggregations aggrega-tions of this character that como nlong In that they ure clean, gentle-i gentle-i manly nnd ladylike. Thero Is nothing of the rough element The business 'end of the show does things In a ! business like way and nn the square i Those who attended the two perform. ances at Price got their money's worth. The show left here for Idaho on Tuesday, |