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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 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 murfer 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.