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Show Characteristic Scenes in the 101 Ranch Wild West H Show, Which Exhibits in Salt Lake City Tuesday Eg The romance- of tbo Old "West is giving giv-ing away to tlio reality of the New Wosi. Roving bonds of wild Indiana no longer iittak the prairiu Bubooner caravans of .tho pioneors, and the banditti ban-ditti who formerly held up tho Dead-wood Dead-wood atuge coauh havo adopted tho moro scientific method of dynamiting tho express car on tho limited mail. Tho old days, howovor, Htill havo a fascination fascina-tion for young and old, and it ia this fact that makes tho 101 Ranch Wild West show possible. Intorcst In the Bports and pastimes of the modern ranch ia accontuatod by the roproduo-tiou roproduo-tiou of scenes and incidents character-iblii; character-iblii; of pioneer days. The 101 Ranch Wild Wost show, which will Btrotch its big canvas pa-vilionH pa-vilionH at Main and Eighth South strcots the coming Tuesday, May 7, is credited with bolng the most typical ox-lubition ox-lubition of its kind now beforo tho pub. lie. The show is a development of the annual roundup formerly hold on the MiUor Brothors' famous 101 Ranch at BlisB, Olcla. Iiko tho great cowboy congresses nt Cheyenne and Pendleton, tbo roundup at Bliss always attracted vast crowds and ccccitod the- interest of, the public all over tho country. It was a time for making records for roping-in and for riding wild bronchos. It was daugorous sport, bnt it was typical of life on tho cattle range. The 101 Ranch offers many of the champions of Bliss, Cheyenne, Pendleton nnd tho recent llo-iloo llo-iloo in Los Angeles. Among them are said to bo many of tho most.expert ropers rop-ers and moat during rough ridora in tho world. There aro also many cowgirls wrEh records na rough riders' and crack rifle shots. Weuona. an Indian girl, nnd other crack rifle shots, perform difficult and unusual stuuts, glass ball and clay pigeon pig-eon shooting, on foot and on borsobnek. A. hunch of practically untamnblo bronchos bron-chos tost the daring and skill of the many rough riders with tho show, and incidoutally croate a world of amusement amuse-ment for tho spectators. "Ursus" Pickott, a cowboy, not only successfully rides a bucking steer, it is announced, but he also wroatlos with the animal and thrown it to the ground. Thin is said to be a soene with more thrills than laughs, for tbo long horns of the stoer axe sharp, and more than onoo Pickett has narrowly eaopd being fan. paled on them. The cowboys and cow- I Bj girls give a quadrille on horseback: , wM they give exhibitions of rough and In fancy ridinc, and thoy illustrato tho BH humor as well as the dangers of the ranch life. A company of oowboj' j Hfl clowns nlso wiu many a spontaneous i Hj laugh from tho audience. As an inter- j 99 estiug contrast to tho cowboy method of rough riding, there in & band of Cop nH sacks whose reckless horsemanship is H described as exciting in the extreme. SB An important feature of tho 101 HJHJ Ranch show is tho great congresB of In- full? diaus. Thoro are representatives f the WPa Sioux, Choyennes. Ponces, Oomanoht, vaBl Arapahoes, Navajos and othr trftw. 6I Mnny of the braves aro accompanied by $93 thoif squaw3, and there are several pap- j fflm pooues m the party. Tho Indian oamp jivlftl is said to be one of the most interest- lima ing sections of tho wild west incloaura. SflHS These Indians, ns well as all the other mm characteristio people of the Bhow, will anpoar in tho street parade which leaven 'Wph tho exhibition jjrounds Tuesday morning Mar shortly aftor 10 o 'clock and passes ovtr $mv tho principal downtown streets. Thmn 'm;1' will bo only two performanoM in BwJ ' 'K Lake City -in the afternoon - 8 -.t n'dock. and at night at 6. iji hhhI |