Lively Scene In A Nevada Theater
At tlie theater last eveuing, In order to give general eclat to the scène in which Buft'alo Bill scalps Yellow Hand, it was detormiued to euact it on horsebaek. Accordingly in the afternoon two very gentle horses were brought on to the stage frcra Mooney's livery atable and trained to familiatize themselves with the explosión of firefirms. In an hour they became so accustomed to it that pistol shots eould be íired in rapid succession under their very noses without giving tliem the slightest concern. Wlien the curtain rose for the grand eqnestrian scène, Buflalo Bill, niounted on a Bnow-white eharger, galloped across the stage. A moment later Captain Jack (as Yellow Hnnd) trotted out from the wings, and then the trouble was begun. Bill raised his Henry rifle and began firing, while Jack pulled his revolver, firing one shot in doing so. He feil heavily on the stage, with his foot clinging i'or a moment to the stirrup. The. horse, relie.ved of its rider, rushed about wildly, confused by the suildrn fall and continued tiring, and at one time ran toward the footlights and seemed about to jump into the auditorium. Gapt. Jack rose to his feet and limped olï the stage, but a moment after made his appearance again in a hand-to-hand encounter with Buffalo Bill. He stood upon one leg with blood streanring down the other, nnd seemed to be in great pain, all of which was conideied by most of the audience to be only a part of the performance. At the siglit of the blood, Miss Granville, wlio was in the box on the right, fainted. The eurtain feil abrujitly, and all the uetors rusluil ou the Ktüge to see what was tSe matïer. They found Jack h:'.rilly :il)lo tó And lilecding l'rom Hu ■ grou. He was taken t the thvpriing-rooni, aud physjejauti wea immediately summoiieil, When hi leggings were removed, an ugly wouod was founJ in tlie luit Riviin. frOQ wliin!! tlic ,k: was flowiüg so eopiously tliat the physicians were apprehensive that an artery was severed. The wouud was causea by the premature explosión of Jack's revolver, the weapon having been diseharged as he was pulhng it ftom the
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