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Record 6/5

Warning to the Cowboy Racers.

President Shortall of the Illinois Humans society is taking steps to prevent the cowboy race from Chadron, Neb., to Chicago. He believes that a 700-mile run would be cruelty to horses and he has sent a letter to Harvey Weir of Chadron protesting against the race and citing the law bearing on the project. In it he said: "Such violation of law being from hour to hour, arrest after arrest of the same individual can and will be made. I may also add that all conspirators in and abettors of such violation of law ill be arrested as found, and punished equally with the principals.

Chicago Globe 6/5

ALL QUIET OUTSIDE

Scenes Along Stony Island Avenue and in That Vicinity.

RAIDS PROVE EFFECTIVE

Catch-Penny Devices and the Circus Lemonade Man Still Catch Many Visitors.

NO GAMES OF CHANCE.

"All quiet along the Potomac" was the password on Stony Island avenue and contiguous streets yesterday. Sunday opening has effected a noticeable depreciation in the size of the crowds in that vicinity which has heretofore been the Mecca of all classes. As it now is, only the stragglers of the great throng going to and from the Fair stop by the wayside to indulge in the many diversions there to be found, or simply to watch the others.

Within the past week many new places of amusement and catch-penny enterprises have sprung into existence. There are museums galore, with a gaudily colored array of pictures setting forth the charms to be found within, and oily tongued lecturers with stentorian lungs shouting forth the many sights to attract the passer by. Strange as it may seem the hideous distortions portrayed on canvas outside these shows catch multitudes of people who willingly exchange their dimes for the privilege of admission. But these deluded individuals have but one story to tell when they have seen the "elephant," and it swells into a mighty howl of malediction, which even the proprietors do not care to face.

The gambling element of these resorts has been pretty well eliminated, owing to the persistent efforts of the police.

Fitzgerald's retinue of crooks and museum attaches has been scattered, but their operations have not been entirely stopped. In the O'Brien & Gold smitu place there are several of these characters, but they are still under the ban of the law and are very quiet. The notorious "art annex" of this resort still flourishes and rakes down a bag of shekels at each performance. This is not the only place now catering to the lewd tastes of many people that frequent Stony Island avenue. Several so-called museums of anatomy, "for gentlemen only," have opened recently, and are to all appearance doing a good business.

It is interesting to investigate some of the other fake amusement places in this locality. Every conceivable freak of nature can here be found on exhibition, within tents and hastily constructed sheds, to be seen upon the advance of a small fee. Monstrosities, ranging from a six-legged calf to the far famed guttapercha girl, make up the collection that invites the public's inspection; satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded (?). The blue stocking lemonade man with his quart schooners of the delusive beverage is not absent, while fakirs with all manner of toys and curiosities fill the air with their discordant shrieks.

Sunday opening of the Fair has not interfered with the patronage of the legitimate shows, however, and they still continue to prosper. Buffalo Bill had a good house yesterday afternoon and evening, showing that the drawing power of his varied performance is not on the wane. The Pardo company, who really gave a first class exhibition, have a thriving trade and never fail to please.

Police authorities claim that Sunday is the quietest day of the week in the vicinity of the World's Fair grounds, and yesterday proved to be no exception. Friday's raids on the "quiet stills" and the five convictions on the following day have had the desired effect upon this class of would-be evaders of the law, and the thirsty in the Hyde Park district will have to look elsewhere for refreshments in the future.

Police records show the arrest of two pickpockets and a confidence man Saturday and the prisoners now recline in the dungeons of the Woodlawn station waiting for trial. Lane and Burkely are the pickpockets and were gathered in while in the act of robbing a woman on Sixty-third street. George Balmar, the "con" man was captured on the Fair grounds, being recognized by one of Capt. Bonfield's men as a celebrated out-of-town crook and bunco operator.

Few complaints have been received by the authorities lately and everything goes to show that the profession is not making the easy thing it expected.

Rain yesterday afternoon scattered the crowds on the avenue, and it was not until late in the day, when the people began to leave the Fair grounds that the street presented its old time gala day appearance.

A WARNING TO COWBOYS.

There will be widespread sympathy in humane hearts with the manly appeal of Mr. Shortall to the cowboys, so called, who are making preparations to engage in a horse race from a point in Nebraska to Chicago, a distance of some 700 miles. No such contest, especially as large reward is to be adjudged the victor, can take place without the infliction of awful cruelty upon a dumb beast. The statutes forbid the practice of cruelty to animals, and on such an occasion as their operation may well be invoked. When the reward was offered the cruelty thereby encouraged was probably not contemplated, but anyone may see that in what will be a strenuous effort to reach Chicago and win $1,500 horseflesh will not be spared.

A few months ago thoughtful person who read accounts of the hard riding done by army officers between Vienna and Berlin merely upon a wager were shocked at truthful description of the distress to which the animals, urged beyond their strength until they dropped in their tracks, were subjected. A true cavalryman is kind and thoughtful of the beast which bears him, and only for his life will he put the willing creature to perilous exertion.

If the cowboys have any communication to make to Chicago it can be done rapidly without much charge and no cruelty by telegraph. If the need is not so urgent as to require use of the wire by the expenditure of 2 cents for a postage stamp the message may be conveyed safely and quickly at greater length. It may be hoped that the boys will lay the counsel of Mr. Shortall to heart and forego a race which may be fun for them, though they will not find it so, and must certainly be death to many of the horses urged to fearful exertion.

Chicago Journal June 5 1893.

Chicago Record 6/6

Buffalo Bill's Wild West is still attracting vast crowds to his "twice daily, rain or shine" performances at 63d street and Stony Island avenue. Many distinguished visitors have lent their presence to the entertainment during the last week, among them being Gen. Schofield, staff and ladies, who expressed themselves as particularly pleased with the excellence and true merit without tinseled clap-traps of the exhibition. Last Tuesday the grand stand was packed to the roof with two crowds of [illegible] -tions who went into ecstasies over the various features of the programme, and especially over the cowboys and their buck-jumpers and the beautiful evolutions of the soldiers of the four great nations in their stirring international musical drill. Buffalo Bill is certainly displaying the finest lot of attractions he ever got together. His engagement of the representatives of the cavalry arms of the United States England, France and Germany was a happy idea, and they make a beautiful display. The Cossacks are marvelous horsemen, but do not outshow our own "knights of the rope," and the vaqueros from old Mexico. The Indians are the best lot Col. Cody ever brought east. In their barbaric splendor they form the most picturesque of all the groups. The Arabs are fine riders and as acrobats are wonderful. Miss Annie Oakley and Johnny Baker show their skill in marksmanship and do wonderful work with the rifle and pistol. The emigrant train, the Deadwood coach, the buffalo hunt and the attack on the settler's cabin are still absorbing features of the show. The grand review, when all hands are on the scene at once, is something not to be forgotton. The foremost figure of the aggregation is the friend and avenger of the lamented Custer. the hon. William F. Cody, whose hand has not lost its cunning in throwing the rope or handling a Winchester.

Chicago Dispatch. June 6/93.

8 CROOKS AT WORK Short Change Men Use Buffalo Bill Tickets.

Capt. Shippy and Lieut. Bonfield Know Billy Beecher's Gang of Crooks Are at Work.

They Secure General Admission Tickets to the Wild West Show, and by Representing Them to Secure Reserved Seats Find Buyers Who are Fleeced--Bonfield and Shippy Make Damaging Admissions--Big Ed Price, Bunk Allen, Gil Fitzgerald and Other Notorious Crooks at Work Without Fear.

Those who witness the mimic warfare at the Wild West show between the Indians and the pioneers, in which the rascals are repulsed by honest men "under command of Buffalo Bill," little realize that a real warfare is being waged between other rascals and honest men in which Buffalo Bill is as ever on the side of the people and fighting for the people's rights.

Billy Beecher's gang of circus grafters saw in the Wild West show an opportunity for a summer's engagement and Billy went to the managers of the show with a proposition for the "grafting" privilege. This was refused and Beecher went away vowing that he would do business anyway. Since that time he has with a gang of smooth men successfully victimized verdant strangers by selling them 50 cent tickets of admission as reserved and even box seats. This caused considerable kicking, in every instance the victim abusing the management of the show for the swindle.

In truth the management was not an interested party, but for the past month has been doing its utmost to break up the gang. In this it met the antagonism of the Woodlawn Park police, whose actions and statements lead to the supposition that they are not only cognizant of but a party to the swindle and participants in the division of the spoils.

How the Swindle Is Worked.

The game as worked is this: Buffalo Bill refuses to sell tickets of admission to these grafters. During the week they get small boys to go in and buy two or three tickets, giving them 5 cents as pay for their trouble. In this manner they secure several hundred tickets and are ready for the Sunday's rush.

About an hour previous to the opening of the show they range themselves on Sixty-third street, just outside the main entrance to the grounds. Here they announce that tickets to the show inside are for sale, and keep up a continual cry. They stand as near to the grounds as possible and thus fool many. They do not tell anyone that they charge the "usual slight advance," leaving the victim to do all the talking. If a man asks for a dollar seat he gets it, and if he asks for three box seats he gets them, but they are not box seats or reserved seats, but merely the 50 cent general admission seats. Repeated attempts to break up the gang have failed. Yesterday Manager Scheible, of the show, stamped the tickets in large type 50 cents. This covers the whole piece of cardboard, and in a measure spoiled the game of the swindlers.

The fakirs were on their guard yesterday. They suspected an attempt to trap them into the short change game, and were honest for two hours. A reporter for THE DISPATCH handed them a $20 bill, asked for a reserved seat ticket, and had the bill returned with the information that they had no change. Another reporter gave them a $10 note and was given $9.25 change and a ticket. He thought he had a 75-cent seat, but was sent down into the 50-cent section. He made a kick and returned to the entrance, where he met Manager Scheible to whom he stated the case. The latter was ignorant of the identity of the reporter and, in answer to his tale of woe, replied: My dear sir, you should have purchased your ticket at the box office. You have been swindled. We have done everything in our power to protect our patrons and would esteem it a favor if you would enter complaint at the police station. The ticket is stamped plainly '50 cents.' Yours is not the first case today. There have been over a hundred similar complaints."

Many Cases Reported. While this conversation was going on George Belfeldt, a visitor from Wisconsin, came up, accompanied by his wife and a lady friend. They told the same tale. They purchased reserved seat tickets and got 50-cent tickets. "Were you told they were reserved seat tickets!" he was asked. "Yes," was the reply. "I don't care for the amount out of which I was swindled, but don't like to own up to being beat." A young man, accompanied by his best girl, met a similar fate. They left the grounds and approached the fakir, to whom they, or, rather, he, kicked. "You went into the wrong gate," replied the cheerful liar. "Just go around grounds to the Sixty-second street gate and you will be shown the best seats on the grounds." The hour was late, the show was in progress, the crowd was inside, and the Beecher gang adjourned for a division of the spoils. Yesterday they were cautious. They knew they were watched and charged no more than 75 cents for 50 cent tickets. How did they know they were watched? They received their information from the police at Woodlawn station, where Captain Shippy is in command, ably assisted by Lieutenant Jim Bonfield. One of the officers saw the reporter in conversation with one of the employees of the show and communicated the fact to his superior. The latter, instead of offering aid to the newspaperman in getting the facts of what appeared to be a swindle, assisted the supposed swindlers, told them to look out for THE DISPATCH reporter described his appearance and has obstructed the way to an investigation that was carried to a successful finish despite police antagonism.

Lieutenant Bonfield's Vile Talk.

When THE DISPATCH reporter visited the Woodlawn station to get the police version of the affair he was met by Lieutenant Bonfield, who launched into one of the most violent and vilest anathemas that ever issued from the lips of a totally depraved man. He continued to grow in warmth as he talked, and swore at the top of his voice, cursing THE DISPATCH, Buffalo Bill and his subordinates, and condemning the investigation into the methods of the crooks as an attempt to injure his reputation. The loud talk of the lieutenant attracted a crowd and soon no less than a hundred spectators were listening to Lieutenant Bonfield giving his imitation of a mad policeman. But his talk was not wholly without truth. He made some admissions which, in a soberer or calmer mood, he would not have made. "I knew you were coming," he said. "I was posted and it didn't đo you much good. The ticket sellers were on. Beecher was here yesterday in this station and your trick didn't work. They didn't overcharge anyone today, did they? If they did bring the man here and let him swear out a warrant." "How about Officer Henderson, who was transferred from Buffalo Bill's show?" "It was easier to transfer him than to have him before the trial board. He shoved a man off the sidewalk in front of the Wild West show." That was the exact reason of his transfer. A man had been overcharged by the grafters and had objected. The grafter made himself obnoxious, blockaded the sidewalk and was shoved off, after refusing to move on. Officer Henderson enjoys the reputation of being one of the best men on the force, but erred in objecting to the presence of those whose existence, it is alleged made a probable increase in the finances of his superior.

The theory should be advanced in charity to Lieutenant Bonfield that his temper got the better of his judgment, but the fact must not be lost sight of that he admitted that through the police department fakirs and alleged criminals were posted on the expected arrival of a man detailed to discover whether or not they were crooks.

Other Noted Crooks. Captain Shippy overheard the blasphemous remarks of his subordinate and offered no objection. For his benefit THE DISPATCH will volunteer the information that three notorious crooks are working the short change game in his district. Here are their names and here are their records briefly put: Henry Pierce did four years at Fort Madison, Iowa, for short change. Was released six or eight months ago, and is trying to earn a term at Joliet, but can't. Charley Ziegler, pal of Pierce, also short change man. He did a stretch of four years recently in Anamosa, Iowa, for that offense. Eddie Masters, an opium fiend, buys and speculates in world's fair and Buffalo Bill t ickets, as a blind; is a short change man. Big Ed Rice, who operated in Shippy's district, was arrested by Detective Bill Stewart, on general principles. His presence here was made known by THE DISPATCH. Bunk Allen is now located at Tony's saloon, West Madison street between Peoria and Green. Bunk, in company with Gil Fitzgerald, visited the fair yesterday. They walked up and down Stony Island avenue with two famous lost angels. It is said that Gil is looking for a new location to be run in someone else's name.

DEDICATE NEBRASKA'S BUILDING.

Elaborate Program for the Exercises Tomorrow- The Speakers.

Commissioner-General Joseph Garneau has arranged an elaborate program for the dedication ceremonies of the Nebraska State Building tomorrow. Buffalo Bill and his outfit of soldiers, Indians, and cowboys, representing the early history of Nebraksa, will form an interesting feature. They will assist in receiving Gov. Lorenzo Crounse and party at the Fifty-seventh street entrance, and will escort them to the east door of the building. In a brief address Gen. Garneau will turn the structure over to the Governor, who therupon will formally dedicate it to the public. Brief addresses upon the subject of the resources of the State will be made by W. J. Bryan, Member of Congress, ex-Gov. Robert W. Furnas, and others.

At the conclusion of these exercises the "butter artist" of the world, Mrs. Caroline W. Brooks, will mold butter in the presence of the public in the second story of the building the seal of the state to be put on exhibition in the Nebraska Dairy Exhibit. The party will then march to the Administration Building and pass in review before her Royal Highness, the Infanta, and thence to the Nebraska exhibit at the Agricultural Building, where the profession will disband.

It is expected that a large number of Nebraska people will be here to attend this event. Four or five hundred arrived yesterday and several special train loads are scheduled to arrive today.

Chicago Tribune June 7/93.

THAT COWBOY RACE. It seems the "cowboy" race, on horseback of 500 miles, from Chadron, Neb., to the World's Fair, is still in contemplation, and that the announcement of its abandonment was not true. The villainous exhibition of cruelty to animals will be a failure, however. The Illinois authorities propose to take a hand, and to arrest any and all persons participating therein the moment they cross the state line. This is the proper way to do. Iowa should do the same thing. It is a shame to American civilization to even allow a start to be made. Nebraska is failing in her duty.

TO PREVENT THE COWBOY RACE. President Haynes Will Offer Reward for Any Taking Part. NEW YORK, June &-Special Telegram.-President Haynes, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, announced here to-day that he is determined to prevent the cowboy race between Nebraska and Chicago. He says he will offer a reward of $500 for the names of any alleged cowboys, who attempt to take part in the contest.

Chicago Herald June 7/93.

NEBRASKA WILL OPEN

DEDICATION OF HER STATE HALL.

Preparations for Travelers' Protective Association Day at the Fiar--Good Reasons for Expecting Lower Rates by Railroad in the Near Future. To-morrow will be Nebraska day at the world's fair. The state building will be dedicated with appropriate ceremonies. Governor Crounse will receive the building in behalf of the state from Commissioner General Joseph Garneau, Jr., and in turn will dedicate it to the uses for which it was erected. There will be music and speechmaking and other exercises of a typical western nature. Buffalo Bill and his band of cowboys and Indians, numbering 200, will be on hand as an escort for Governor Crounse and his staff. The Nebraska building is the first of the state buildings to be reached at the Fifty seventh street entrance to the fair grounds. It has not only a commanding position, but is in every way a credit to the enterprising transmissouri commonwealth. Nebraska makes a fine showing in the general departments of the exposition, and has special pavilions in such buildings as agriculture, forestry, dairy, horticulture and the apiary. In the state building there is also a collection of grains and other products of the state. These are arranged by counties. The second story of the building has reception and retiring rooms for ladies and gentlemen. In a large room upstairs there is an Indian tepee and a pair of stuffed buffaloes. The popular interest in the latter exhibit has been so great that it has been necessary to put a railing around it. Visitors wanted to peer into the teepe and handle the buffaloes, to see if they were real. There is one room on the second floor completely furnished and decorated by Nebraska women which contains various articles of skilled handiwork. To the agriculturist, however, the center of attraction is the large room on the lower floor, containing the exhibit of cereals. "Corn is King" and "Sugar is Queen" are two prominent mottoes that are worked in native grasses. The building contains a reading-room, postoffice and other conveniences for Nebraskans. There will be a room upstairs set apart for Nebraska people who bring their lunches to the fair in baskets.

Procession to the Building. To-morrow Governor Crounse will be escorted from the Woodlawn station by Buffalo Bill and his cowboys and Indians, the latter representing Nebraska in the early days Colonel Cody calls himself a Nebraskan, and a portion of his troops hail from the same state. On arriving at the state building there will be addresses by the governor and other prominent state officials. Congressman W. J. Bryan, ex-Governor R. T. Furnas and Senator Allen are expected to be present. Later the visitors will march to the agricultural building, where the Nebraska section will be opened to the public. The procession will march past administration building and will pay especial honor to her royal highness the Infanta Eulalia and suite. Mrs. Caroline Brooks will give public exhibition of butter-making during the day at the state building. A large number of Nebraskans from Omaha, Lincoln, Hastings and other cities in the state are expected.

NEBRASKA'S BUILDING TO BE OPENED

Ceremony Takes Place Tomorrow, When Distinguished Speakers Will Be Heard.

At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning the governor of Nebraska and suite will arrive at Woodlawn station, whence he will be escorted by Col. William F. Cody, cowboys, Indians, etc., to the state building. This escort is intended to represent Nebraska in the early days. On arriving at the building the governor will be received by the Hon. Joseph Garneau, Jr., commissioner general of the Nebraska Columbian exhibit, and the following program carried out: Address by the commissioner general, tendering the building to the state. Response by Gov. Crounse. Music. Addresses by W. J. Bryan, M. C., ex-Gov. R. W. Furness, and others. Music. After the exercises the visitors will march to the agricultural building, where the Nebraska section will be opened to the public. The line of march will be south from the state building past administration building, where it will pass in review before her royal highness the Infanta Eulalia and suite. Mrs. Caroline H. Brooks, the butter artist of the world, will give a public exhibition during the day at the state building, where she will model in butter a great seal of the state of Nebraska which will afterward be placed in the dairy exhibit in the dairy building. J. Sterling Morton, the secretary of agriculture, is expected to be present and take part in the Nebraska day exercises. Large delegations of Nebraskans from Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Hastings, and other cities in the state are expected. No special invitations have been issued, but a general invitation is extended to all visitors on the exposition grounds to witness the ceremonies.

NEBRASKA'S SHOW. State Building Dedicated With Buffalo Bill's Assistance.

Colonel William F. Cody and the cavalry company of Indians took a prominent part in the dedication of the Nebraska state building this morning. The governor of Nebraska and a distinguished party of citizens of that state were met at Woodlawn station by Colonel Cody and his Indians, and escorted to the state building. This was done as a representation of Nebraska in the early days. Commissioner General Joseph Garneau, Jr., received the party and delivered an address tendering the building to the state. He was followed by Governor Crounse, who accepted the gift for the state of Nebraska. Other addresses were delivered and after the exercises the visitors went through the agricultural building, where the industrial section was opened to the public.

Chicago Dispatch June 8 1893

NEBRASKA'S BUILDING TO BE OPENED

Ceremony Takes Place Tomorrow, When Distinguished Speakers Will Be Heard.

At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning the governor of Nebraska and suite will arrive at Woodlawn station, whence he will be escorted by Col. William F. Cody, cowboys, Indians, etc., to the state building. This escort is intended to represent Nebraska in the early days. On arriving at the building the governor will be received by the Hon. Joseph Garneau, Jr., commissioner general of the Nebraska Columbian exhibit, and the following program carried out: Address by the commissioner general, tendering the building to the state. Response by Gov. Crounse. Music. Addresses by W. J. Bryan, M. C., ex-Gov. R. W. Furness, and others. Music. After the exercises the visitors will march to the agricultural building, where the Nebraska section will be opened to the public. The line of march will be south from the state building past administration building, where it will pass in review before her royal highness the Infanta Eulalia and suite. Mrs. Caroline H. Brooks, the butter artist of the world, will give a public exhibition during the day at the state building, where she will model in butter a great seal of the state of Nebraska which will afterward be placed in the dairy exhibit in the dairy building. J. Sterling Morton, the secretary of agriculture, is expected to be present and take part in the Nebraska day exercises. Large delegations of Nebraskans from Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Hastings, and other cities in the state are expected. No special invitations have been issued, but a general invitation is extended to all visitors on the exposition grounds to witness the ceremonies.

Chicago Times June 7 1893

Rain-In-the-Face, one of the Sioux Indians who was with Sitting Bull at his last fight, and Curly Head, a Sioux scout, said to be the only survivor of the Custer massacre, blossom into members of the polite world next Friday morning. Their debut into fashionable life will be signalized by a reception which will be held in the parlors of the North Dakota building from 8 to 12 o'clock. They are obliged to adopt those early hours because their professional engagements compel them to display their histrionic abilities in the afternoon and evening. North Dakota's stuffed ox, which is hitched to an antique cart on the grass plot, has fallen under the ban of the director of woka.He has ordered this display of the traveling facilities in North Dakota prior to 1871 to be re- Chicago Record June 7 1893

Chicago Dispatch June 2 1893

PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Lillian Russell still crowds the Columbia nightly. Buffalo Bill's Wild West is coining money and deserves it.

BUFFALO BILL. Qui ne se rappelle encore l' accueil enthousias qui lui a été fait à Paris, à l'exposition de 1889. nom du Colonel Cody était dans toutes les bouch petits et grands se précipitaient en foule pour le vo Puis son voyage en France, qui ressembla à une vra marche triomphale. Le Colonel Cody n'a pas chan depuis, toujours la meme allure superbe à chev toujours le meme tirurm, ne manquant jamais s but. Les cow-boys sont toujours surprenants d'auda et d'adresse, et lui font la meme escorte, que no avons tant applauded.

Des sauvages authentiques, des Mexicains habil à lancer le lasso, des Arabes exècutant leurs plu brillantes fantasias, des Cosaques, qui chanter dansent, et font les tours les plus-pèrilleux sur le chevaux. Des Anglais des Allemands Magnifique de prestance dans leurs uniformes-brillarts, et c valiers corrects. Enfin je les ai gardés en derni ieu, nos petits chasseurs à cheval. Ils n'ont paso uniformes aussi brillants, mais quels gracieux ca valiers, comme leur officier a bonne allure et comm leur porte-drapeau fait fièrement flotter nos trois co deurs. Autant de sujets différents, autant d' éléments d succès; allez donc à Buffalo Bill, vous y passere une soiréetrés-agréable. Nous rappelons aux Etrangers, qu'un interpret parlant le Français, l' Allemand l' Espagnol et Te Portugais est à leur disposition dans nos bureau de 9h. à midi. Nous serons heureux de recevoir le visite, et nous nous mettons à leur disposition, porous tous les renseignéments, dont ils pourraient ave besoin.

NEBRASKA'S BUILDING OPENED,

General Invitation to the Public to be Present. Nebraska's state building will be formally opened this morning at 10 o'clock. Headed by Col. William F. Cody with his cowboys, Indians and in fact the whole Wila West show, the governor of Nebraska and suite will march from Woodlawn station to the building. Gov. Crounse will be received by Hon. Josepb Garneau Jr., commissioner general of the Nebraska Columbian exhibit and the following program carried out. Address by the commissioner general tendering the building to the state. Response by Gov. Crounse. Music Addresses by Hon. W. J. Bryan, M. C.; ex-Gov. R. W. Furness and others. After the exercises the Visitors will march to the Agriculture building, where the Nebraska section will be opened to the public. No special Invitations has been issued, but a general invitation has been extended to all visitors on the Exposition grounds to witness the ceremonies.