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"Buffalo Bill" To-Night.

The entire "Buffalo Bill" combination
will give their thrilling border drama,
entitled, "Knights of the Plains," at
Davis Opera House this evening. Of
this entertainment we can do no better
than quote a notice from the last Monday's
Davenport Democrat, as follows:

A grand audience in every respect
greeted the native Scott county boy, Wm.
F. Cody, whom all the world knows as
"Buffalo Bill," at the opera house last
evening, with his well-chosen dramatic
company. Mr. Cody has a protean character
in the drama, "Knights of the
Plains," and when he appeared in the
first scene, horseback, in the character of
scout, he was welcomed with tremendous
applause, which must have been highly
gratifying to him. The play presents
life on the frontier and on the plains, as
Buffalo Bill saw it in his young days,
when he was a pony express rider, scout
and guide, several of the scenes representing
actual experiences in the life of
the hero. It is an interesting and exciting
play, with not hardly so much
shooting and murder play as generally
accompanies dramas and stories of border
life. There is a great deal of humor
in it, and frequently the house roars with
laughter.