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Show COiVEOY IlftRLY KILLED BY HOUSE Oscar a ray. a Wyoming cowboy. who undertook to rid Circle Dot. prtae winning win-ning outlaw bora, within th narrow eoDflnea of the Saltair arena, had a cloee I call from death Saturday night, at th first production of th John T. Rich wild wet show. That he escaped at an the spectator can hardly understand. HI forehead hit th fence of the arena with a resounding thud, but U must have been a glancing blow. Gray had promised to rid the nor, a huge whit animal, for a prise of $10. He lasted probably on second . The attendant at-tendant had no aooner let go their hold nd snatched the blind from the horse than M mad a dart atralght aa an arrow for th fence. The sudden atop aa th horse struck the fence threw the rider agalnat the heavy board, and he was knocked unconecloua. He was carried from the arena, but. much to the aur- trlse of all. soon recovered hla sense, at set partially, and In about an hour waa able to walk unassisted. For the rest of the show John T. Rich lived up to hi promisee In almost every regard. He had promised a series of contests of a moat dtverelfled nature. In which wild black Oalloway steers and wild horeeo played prominent porta. The were all pulled off aa erheduled except one. the ateer riding, and there was every evidence of good fth m that. Th trouble waa that the steers wsr too wild to be mounted In th narrow run-wav run-wav entering the arena. The show Is announced to be repeated next Wedneeday night. |