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Aug 2

The last week has been a truly Gaia one at the famous Wild West. Not only have the audiences been invariably large, and of course enthusiastic, but each night has in point of receipts been larger than the one before, and the new and splendid addition to the program in the reproduction of "Custer's Large Charge" has proven of absorbing interest. As an evidence of its faithfulness to facts it may be noted that the representations have been witnessed by a very large number of United States army officers stationed in and about Chicago, who have testified to the correctness. This can be more thoroughly understood when it is remembered that the terrible scene is re-enacted by many who were active and prominent participants in the tragic drama. They are, of course, to be found among the red men, for none of the brave band who followed Custer's lead lived to tell the sad story. The "battle of the Little Big Horn," like the Alamo, had no messenger of defeat.