| 260NEBRASKA'S STAR,
Buffalo bill, who Looms Up as Brilliantly
as Ever in the Theatrical
Firmanent
Omaha Republican.
Hon. W.F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
arrived in the city yesterday afternoon
from his home at North Platte,
and leaves this afternoon for Chicago
whence he goes to Lanesboro, Minn.,
to witness the [sun?] dance and the
corn dance of the Winnebago Sioux
Indians, it being his intention to secure
some Indians to travel
with theatrical tour during the
next season.
Dr. Frank Powell, formerly of
Omaha, and who was an army surgeon
in the military department of
the Platte, will travel with Buffalo
Bill in charge of these Indians Dr.
Powell resides at Lanesboro, where
he is the surgeon and oculist at a
celebrated sanitarium. He is a great
favorite amond the Winnebago Sioux
by whom he has been made the chief
medicine man, and he is the first
white man who ever this position.
Buffalo Bill's company is already
engaged in Chicago, and will meet
on the 1st of August in Davenport,
and regearse there until performance
of the season will be given. The
troupe will then play in Rock Island
September 2d, Clinton 3d, and then
in Chicago for one week beginning
September 3th. The route then lies
through Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa
and Nebraska. The will appear in
Omaha on October 3rd, and from here
they go to Lincoln and Nebraska
City, and thence down the Missouri
to St. Louis. Bill expects a more
profitable season than ever before,
He is one of the most successful stars
now before the public, and being a
Nebraska star, and a self-made one at
that, the people of the state take a
great deal of interest in his career. | 260NEBRASKA'S STAR,
Buffalo bill, who Looms Up as Brilliantly as Ever in the Theatrical Firmanent
Omaha Republican.
Hon. W.F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) arrived in the city yesterday afternoon from his home at North Platte, and leaves this afternoon for Chicago whence he goes to Lanesboro, Minn., to witness the [sun?] dance and the corn dance of the Winnebago Sioux Indians, it being his intention to secure some Indians to travel with theatrical tour during the next season.
Dr. Frank Powell, formerly of Omaha, and who was an army surgeon in the military department of the Platte, will travel with Buffalo bill in charge of these Indians Dr. Powell resides at Lanesboro, where he is the surgeon and oculist at a celebrated sanitarium. He is a great favorite amond the Winnebago Sioux by whom he has been made the chief medicine man, and he is the first white man who ever this position.
Buffalo Bill's company is already engaged in Chicago, and will meet on the 1st of August in Davenport, and regearse there until performance of the season will be given. The troupe will then play in Rock Island September 2d, Clinton 3d, and then in Chicago for one week beginning September 3th. The route will appear in Omaho on October 3rd, and from here they go to Lincoln and Nebraska City, and thence down the Missouri to St. Louis. Bill expects a more profitable season than ever before, He is one of the most successful stars now before the public, and being a Nebraska star, and a self-made one at that, the people of the state take a great deal of interest in his career. |
