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January 23, 1878 -- The Wild West as represented by Buffalo Bill (William J.) Cody and company played at Rouse's Hall the other night in the melodrama, "Life on the Border." Texas Jack (J. B. Omohundro) played opposite the noted scout and buffalo hunter. The audience burned and chilled at perils that beset the brave frontiersman Old Sloat (Texas Jack) and they cheered loudly and madly when he was yanked from under the scalping knife just in the nick of time by Captain Huntley (Buffalo Bill). Jedediah Broadbrim, the peace-loving Quaker who packed a mighty wallop in his fists, furnished the comedy and EmmaReynolds, betrothed of Buffalo Bill, the romance.