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The Scouts Programe!
Messrs. CODY, JUDSON, OMOHUDRO & NIXON ................................PROPRIETORS
Manager, ......................Col. E. Z. C. Judson
Gen'l Director ...................... J. M. Nixon
Stage Manager ...................... W. J. Halpin
Armorer, ...................... W. J. Speck
Scenic Artist, ...................... Frank D. Skiff
Properties and Effeots, ...................... Geo. Beach
Costumer, ...................... Mrs. Beach
Music ...................... Carlo Patti
The New Sensation Drama, written by NED BUNTLINE, and founded on some of the most thrilling and interesting incidents of his great New York Weekly Indian Stories, entitled The
SCOUTS OF THE PRAIRIE
And Red Deviltry As It Is!
CAST OF CHARACTERS:
BUFFALO BILL--by the Original Hero......................Hon. W. F. CODY
TEXAS JACK--by the Original Hero...................... J. B. OMOHUNDRO
CALE DURG............................................................NED BUNTLINE
DOVE EYE........................................................M'LLE MORLACCHI
Mormon Ben............................................................Mr. Wentworth
Sly Mike .......................................................................Mr. Walters
Phelim O'Laugherty.....................................................Harry Gilbert
Carl Pretzel..............................................................Walter Fletcher
INDIANS.
Wolf Slayer.....................................................................W. J. Halpin
Big Eagle........................................................................W. H. Ferris
Ar-fla-a-ka,....................................................................Grassy Chief
As-ge-tes,........................................................................Prairie Dog
As sin-ah-wa...................................................................Water Chief
}Pawnee and Indian Chiefs,}
Te-ko. tic-pown,.....................................................................Big Elk
Kit--kot-tons,...................................................................Great River
Chuk-Kak,.......................................................................Seven Stars
HAZEL EYE..............................................SENORITA ELOE CARFANO
Nat--lah............................................................................Mrs. Beach
Synopsis of Scenery and Incidents:
ACT I.--SCENCE I.--On the Plains--Cale Durg, the Trapper--Arrival of Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack--Story of the Hunt--A warning om Dove --Danger--"We'll wipe the Red Skins out,"--Of on the trail--The War-Whoop.
SCENE II.--The Renegade's Camp--Mormon Ben--Phelim O'Laugherty and Sly Mike--O'Laugherty's continued Drouth--Danger to Hazel Eye
SCENE III,--Hazel Eye's poetic tribute to Cale Durg--Hazel Eye Suprised--Cale Durg to the Rescue--The Renegade Foiled--Wolf Slayer, the Treacherous Ute--Cale Durg overpowered--Search for the Bottle--Cale Durg's Temperance Rapsody
SCENE IV.--Doomed to the Torture Post--Dove Eye's Appeal to the Chief,--"Death to the Pale Face"--Then burn, ye cursed Dogs, burn--The blazing Faggots--Dove Eye's knife--The Severed Bonds--Cale Durg Denant--"We'll Fight ye all"--Timely Arrival--Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack -- "Death to the Redskins"--Rescue of Cale Durg.
ACT II.--SCENE I.--Mormon Ben, Sly Mike, and Phelim O'Laugherty--O'Laugherty declares "he is not a Mormon"--The Meeting with the Indians--What Mormon Ben wanted--What O'Laugherty wanted--Wolf Slayer's disdain of Fire Water, "Its the Curse of the Red Man as well as the White"--The Departure of the Indians for the War-path--Dove Eye's invocation to the Great Spirit.
SCENE II.--Dove Eye had Hazel Eye, the two friends--Buffalo Bill Declares his love--It is Reciprocated--Texas Jack arrives and interrupts the Meeting--"The Indians are Coming"--Buffalo Bill and Jack retire to Ambush--How Jack ropes them in--(Buffalo Bill)--"That's the kind of a man I am"--How they Scalp 'em on the Plains.
SCENE III.--Phelim O'Laugherty and Azteka--the Apache-Child of Coohis--Cale Durg to the rescue--God's Beverage--Love Scene between Texas Jack and Hazel Eye.
SCENE IV.--The Search for Hazel Eye--"The Cage is here, but the bird has flown"--The Trail--The Search and Capture of the Forest Maidens--Dove Eye's Contempt for the Renegades--Cale Durg arrives upon the scene--"Fly, Fly Your Enemies are too many"--Cale Durg Never runs--The Capture and Death of Cale Durg--The Dying Curse--The Trapper's Last Shot!
ACT III--SCENE I.--Grief for Cale Durg--Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack--Bill's Oath of Vengeance--"I'll not leace a Redskin to skim the Prairie"--Dove Eye dejected--The White Girl and Red Maiden's affections--"We'll be Sisters"--Revenge for the Slain Trapper--Vengeance or Death.
SCENE II.--The German Trader--The Loss of the Bottle--Carl Pretzel's Agony.
SCENE III.--The Scalp Dance--Eagle and Wolf Slayer--"I Come to Kill You"--The Knife Fight--Death of Wolf Slayer.
SCENE IV.--Phelim and Mormon Ben on their last legs--No prospect for the fiftieth wife, or a replenished bottle.
SCENE V.--The Trapper on the lookout--Dove Eye's faith in Manito--The Indians--Buffalo Bill's red not reception--"Give it to them boys"--ONe Hundred Reds for one Cale Durg--The American Scout Triumphant--Great Heavens the
PRAIRIE ON FIRE.
Magnificent Scenic Effects: Life-like Illustration of a Great Western Prairie, as seen when on Fire. Imposingly Grand. K. P. Railway Train in a Herd of Buffalo--Clear the Track.
To be preceded by the Short but Terribly Laughable Farce of
A KISS IN THE DARK
Mr. Pettibone.........................................................................Harry Gilbert
Frank Fathom....................................................................Harry Wentwoth
Mrs. Pettibone........................................................................Gussie Logan
Mary.........................................................................................Mrs. Beach
Unknown................................................................................Miss Jackson
MATINESS WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY!
50 Cents................................Children................................25 Cents
D. H. ELLIOTT. (Gen'l West. Agent Kan. Pac. R'y.,) Trav. Agent for this Combination.
Railroad, Hotel. Restaurant at
Amphitheatre Play Bill.
SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY AND INCIDENT
ACT I
SCENE I.--Cale Durg at the Camp Fire--A regular growl--The Reds have stolen his traps--He'll life hair the first time they cross his path--Dove Eye remonstrates--Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill join the pow wow. SCENE II.--Mormon Ben, with fifty wives and wanting one more in Hazel Eye takes her trail--No friends; what's to hinder. SCENE III.--The Girl Trapper on the line--The Surprise--the fight of the Hero Girl--Cale Durg to the rescue--Overpowered--Off to the Torture Post with the Trapper. The Girl to Mormon Ben's Ranche. SCEEE IV--Torture Post--Scalp Dance--Defiance--" Friends in need are friends indeed"--Grand Tableau.
ACT II.
SCENE I.--Cabin Scene at Hazle Eye's Headquarters--"Thanks to Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, I am home again--Cale Durg and taht Scouts take the trail for Vengance--Hazel Eye goes to her traps--Mormon Ben once more in mischief--Belzebub Bottle on hand--Dove Eye a spy. SCENE II.--the Mountain Gorge--Wing River up--Magnificent Scene, painted by an Artist who has been there--Savage pow-wow--The bargain made by Mormon Ben and Wolf Slayer--White Wives--Horses and guns--A prospect that there will be two handles to that jug, and one broken. SCENE III.--Battle Scene--Cale Durg goes under--The Oath of Hazle Eye--Vengeance! Vengeance!
ACT III.
SCENE I.--The Trail--"Follow, follow, while water runs and grass grows!" SCENE II.--Reds on the war-path--Red Panther and Wolf Slayer on the boast--War Dance--News--See Pale-faces come--Scatter for the ambush. SCENE III.--A strange visitor to Hazle Eye's Cabin--Belzebub Bottle--No rum there; awful dry--The Trader's visit--The Capture of unlicensed spirits--Mormon Ben the Judge--Laughable Drunken Scene--Enemies on the Trail--" Drop your fire-water and fight!" SCENE IV.--Hemmed in--The Scouts must fight or die--Standing to arms in real earnest--"Burn the cusses out; thats the way to sweep clean!"--Fire! Fire on every hand--The fight for life--The Victory--Carl Durg Revenged--Grand adn Thrilling, CLOSING TABLEAU!
NOTICE:--Every Lady visiting the Matinees, will be presented with beautiful Photographed Portraits of Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack, Ned Buntline, and Morlacchi.
OLD POPULAR PRICES.
Admission - 25 Cents.
Dress Circle, - 50 Cents.
Reserved Seats, and Parquette, - - - - 75 Cents.
Matiness, - 25 and 50 Cents
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"WILD BILL."
Dry Your Tears, Sonny; He isn't Dead.
If anybody in this City has shed tears or rejoiced because of the late announcements of the death of Mr. William Hickox, better known as Wild Bill, these presence will inform them that they have had their trouble for nothing. William isn't dead; the public placed some reliance in the report of his demise, when the scene thereof was located in Glaveston; it was the first report; but when it came to killing him in Ft. Dodge also the thing began to look fishy; nobody believed he had been killed twice. Now, here comes a commuinication from Springfield, to say that he has not been killed at all. Those papers that have been wringing their hearts for a suiutatble obituary of Willd William, had better adopt the plan of a certain Kansas paper in reference to another individual whom it had killed and buried several times, and wait with their obituaries until he notifies them of its necessity.
SPRINGFIELD, MO., March 6, 1873. Journal of Commerce:
The paraded accounts of Wild Bill, or Wm. Hickox's death, are simply farces. I have seen the gentleman "in flesh and [skin?]" in this city to-day, and from his appearances should judge he was not ac-cosumed to "laying in his gore" in saloons at Fort Dodge.
His friends in Kansas City may be pleased to hear an authentic report concerning him.
Yours, C.
Buffalo Bill
The challenge issued by Buffalo Bill, through the columns of this paper, to a trial of Buffalo killing, has been accepted by a man at Fort Russell named Knox, formerly a government scout.
Mr. Cody left for Fort Russell on Sunday evening, woere he has gone to make arrangements for the hunt, in case Knox means business. It seems that he wishes to hunt with bow and arrow, and Mr. Cody informed us that he would like that much better than having to use a rifle. He is perfectly familiar with the use of the bow and arrow, having formerly hunted with them altogether.
Mr. Cody will put up a forfeit of $500, the hunt to take place inside of thirty days. The groud has not been selected yet, but Mr. Cody expressed a preference for the range about twenty miles south of here.
Men Discharged Rank. By Whose Order. Remarks.