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WILD WEST ECLIPSED.
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The Great Sham Battle Which Put
Buffalso Bill in the
Shade.
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Rifle Shooting and Other Features Attract
Large Crowds to the International
Encampment.
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Massachusetts Carries Off the Honors of the
Day-The Score in Detail-Camp
Notes.
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A GREAT SHOW.
The day at the encampment was what might
be classed as a red-letter day, because it was
one of the few days when anything like a fair
attendance was had. There were probably
8,000 people all told at the show yesterday afternoon
during the skirmish fight and Indian
trouble. The skirmish was between the Twenty-
third infantry on the one side, supported by
a battery and the calvary, and marines on the
other side, supported by a light battery. The
fight was short and sharp. Both sides won the
day and marched off the field with colors flying.
Then came the Wild West show. The poor Indians
were ambushed, and Major George came
across the field on horseback in a lone horseman
act. The Indians shot him and he fell off
his horse in true Buffalo Bill style. Then the
poor Indians rushed up and scalped him. They
took a fine horse-hair wig as big as a blanket off
Major George's bald head and waved it aloft in
triumph, doing a scalp dance in the meantine.
While they were going through this
splendid performance twen privates
stole up and began shooting them, but
never a redman fell. The poor Loe returned the
fire in style, and the ten men fell dead one by
one. Then the calvary got word that there was
business for them at the West Side Driving
Park, and Captain Carr cried, "Come on, boys!"
They came on in columns of fours, and charged
right through the group of Indians, fifteen in
all, slashing right and left with their keen-edged
sabers. But they could not kill them. Instead,
some more Indians got the tip that there was
trouble among Red Shirt's little picnic party,
and they hastened to get there. They charged
on the calvary and shot carbines like real
soldiers, and the result was that they drove the
United States army clear to the quarter-pole of
the Driving Park. Then the cavalry got together,
talked it over, and determined to make
another break upon the poor Indians. They
charged real well, and then ensued a lively mix
up. The soldiers and Indians were all shuffled
up like a pack of cards, and if anyone had drawn
five he would have got an Indian full on soldiers.
Not that Indians ever get full on such a diet,
but simply to carry out the poker joke so aptly
suggested. Colonel King, who was running
the Wild West show, went out and said: "Now,
boys, 'this is enough." Then the men went out
and picked up the dead Major George and carried
him back to a place of safety, about twenty
yards from where he died. Then he got up and
put on his hat and came over to the club-house
and washed up for dress parade, which followed
within half an hour.
Among the prominent visitors were Lieutenant
General, IL Sheridan and Commissary
General McFeely, Mayor Roche and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Potter Palmer, Charles Schwartz, John
Dupee, Colonel Follanabee, Mrs. General Bently,
the Misses Bently, Mrs. Randall, Miss Boisot,
Evanaton; Mrs. C.W. Wilkins, Mrs. C. Whiteker,
Miss Bell, Milwaukee; Mrs. General Williams,
the Misses Williams, Mrs. Moore, Mres.
Reid, Mrs. and Mrs. C.B. Raymond.
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