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Twenty-four Pages A Pendleton Street Scene During' Round-Up Time Pendleton's Business Streets Are How the Big Show Affeded a Man (By George CiUmore.) I shall huve dominion over the beast! exhibited a few moth-eaten animal With apologies to the reader forr' the field" and here wan the ful-il.iut were able to do a graceful Jlep having to use the Deraonal pronoun fllment of the command. Man and' about the ring? Wan this show, the quite frequently, I will launch head foremost Into telling how the Round up Impressed me a year ago. You see, I was green then, Indeed a mere youngster In western way, and I half expected to aee something after the manner of the wild went shows that uaed to blow into our village back in Masrachusettfl. This Impression i was gained, perhapa, from the fact that when I came west I did not see the wild and wool)- I expected. In other words I found Oregon a good deal like Massachusetts in many re spects. I found that Portland had an excellent street-car system, tall buildings and good streets. I found Salem, the capital city, a nice little town with beautiful trees and lawns and wide streets, and I found Pendle ton a hustling city, modern and pro gressive. So with these facts before me. ana tne illusion 01 m inu.i cr-up-BIll type of village entirely disappeared. I thought to myself, This Round-up about which every body Is talking Is bound to be a sort of side-show attraction, similar to the traveling medicine shows I u.ed to see back home. I recalled to mind a certain Fourth of July celebration we had once In Our Village when the boys whoopei'. It up and rode their horses bare backed through the streets, and I might say too. that they were pretty good riders considering that thev were "born and raised," as the ex pression goes, within a few miles o! Huston If the round-up Is anything l,k this celebration, said to miolf es I, then I shall feel that I hav come west In vain, all other adv'co to the contrary. So I waited with bated breath and palpitating heart for the great duys to come around. And as. time has u hnblt of pacing, soon the groat event was In full swing and I could scarce control myself till I hnl op portunity of going down to see what it was like. I approached the pr.rk with a feeling that after all I wis going to get a rude awakening fro.n ht past Ideas I held of the Round up. I began to believe,, when I saw the thousands of people from ail part of the country, that after all this show wns going to bent the whoop. .ie-rto of that certain Fouth of Ju:v by several whoops to tho go.i ami whoops that would not be or the lame, school-boy variety, ' And then I found myself in the grandstand, nil atom In the congrega tion, nnd the big, Uicked-looklng an na stretched out before me. Stirelv, said I to myself, there U ffolng to bo something doing here to day that will mako everything else ! ever saw look like a bevy of the ladles' sewing clrcln back In Our Vil lage. And was I right? Zip something started and the great show was underway. Thera was no need of a ringmaster to caM attention to the various events. I found that I had a thousand eyes a nrh eve took In a particular scene. I eaw that here was the rea west, the west I had dreamed abou: and read about, stalking In the flesh l efore me. I saw the genuine cow boy. the descendent of plijneer days when death lurked at every turn; tho unrtniinted man, whose watchword ever wns "There Is no such thing us lli-rent." For the while T wns back on the range. I saw myself not ns tho rrn dnot of a civilized ne, but as th.i titlzon of tho wilds when t'.tero were boosts to bo conquered. "And he DCKini rTHKL 1 J-jlXLl-Jlli 1 vi n home, servant and master; the one nerved against all effort to be sub- tlued. the other determined to con - quer him and doing It. Thin was; how the M had been won, thought'; I to myself Here wan the kind of n.nn that (I'm meant to be. And 1 found mvself swept a by a fierce wind, a w ind of human passion, ta'in: rn steel, biting as a knife I was see ing the went In all tin- Intensity of Its wonderfully compelling nature; atirt 1 rose In my seat and whooped j v hooped as loud an 1 could, as wild as t couM "Let 'er huok"--lf things came to the worst I would go down .nd ride one or those beasts myself; oh. yes and what a fine sensation It; 1 tn be rarrled off the field with a busted arm or leg. and a nugN dent In my 20th century dome! , "Was this Mound-up like the re- erred-seat circuit that came along every year back In Our Village m.l' QD PENDLETON IN 1869 sd Pidure Shows Goodwins Hotel Livermo e. Mr. Livermore is shown What strength!. what strlfel what rudo unrest! What shocks! what half-shape.l armies met! A mighty nation moving west, With all Its steely sinews set Against the living forests. Hear The shouts, the shots of pioneer, The rended forests, rolling wheels, As if some half-checked army reels, Recoils, redoubles, comes again, Ioud-soundlng like a hurricane. O bearded, stalwart, westmost men, So tower-like, so Oothlc built! A kingdom won without the guilt Of studied battle, that hath been Your blood's Inheritance . . . Your heirs Know not your tombs; the great plough Bhares Clenve softly through the mellow loam Where you have made eternal home, And s-t no sign. Your epitaphs Are writ in furrows. Heauty laughs While throush tho green ways wander inff m s . ' ' k m i 'i-r. ri.i. . . "0 I V7 t 1 T I i I w esiwara no! 3f ; Cast Oregonian Round-Up Souvenir Edition I'):'' From Down Eaft great realistic painting of the West, hke the merry-go-round of the dear cl cant 1 knew so well? Say, pal thirc-'. only one hw that is the itrtl thin. and that's the Kound-up. There is iv.tiilng In this to make one feel he la attending a neighborhood picnic. My past Ideas of this thing were ludeiy shattered. I was humbled tn spirit! But for all that. I was 1ad to find that somewhere In the West there Is a grim exhibit that brings ! m V to the observer the wild aid Wf.i.lv of the age that is gone. An I s i ItHig sk the Hound-up continues, to Inn. will thin spirit of the pat live an.l breathe. I was glad Indeed to have bepn an observer for the flrnt time a year ago of tnia snow and to unci mat noi een lne wuuesi inscriptions ui nu wn exaggerated in tne nasi, l hh a convert to the Round-up and and thfire , not gong to be anv batk sliding. 4 5-"oe.3 and the ReMdence and Store of Lot standing on the roof of his home, i Peslile her love, slow gathering i White, ttarry-hearted May-time uiooms Above your lowly levelled tombs; And then below the spotted sky. She stops, she leans, she wonders why The ground Is heaved and broken so, And why the grasses darker grow And droop and trail like wounded wing. Yea, Time, the grand old harvester, Has gathered you from wood and plain. We call to you again, again; The rush and rumble of the car Comes back in answer. Deep and wide The wheels of progress have passed on; The silent pioneer Is gone. His ghost Is moving down the trees, And now we push the memories Of blufr, bold men who dared an 1 died Ir. foremost battle, quite arldiv Joauuln Sillier. 7 f J 5 v't-i ' ! This Indian Would Take No Back Seat An Indian Is no man's fool. That's the opinion of Tom t.uyien tne younger, official tick et seller for the Hound-up and Tom ays he ought to know as he has had considerable dealing with the noble reda since he be gan exchanging pasteboards for long green. One of the Incidents which has convinced thehltherto doubting Thomas of the sagacity of the native American occurred several days after the opening of the seat sale this year. . A long haired blanketed Cay use brave appeared at the port able office and shoving a fifty cent coin through the aperture made It known that he wished a grandstand seat on the front row. Tom explained first that grandstand seats sold for twice the sum deposited and the other half wns forthcoming. There upon, he gathered in the silver and Informed the bronxe Indi vidual that all of the front seats were gone and also all of the others save those on the top row. Like all good salesman, however, he began exploiting the advantage of his market able product. "Up there" he said, "no dust, no rain, no wind, no sun." "lgh," grunted the big buck. "No see 'em too." Iji-iiw In Manners. Many humble Immigrants from Eu- rope can give Americans lessons in Rood manners. A well-dressed Amerl- ran woman wns walking in u park with her 4-year-old daughter when she saw an Italian beginning to ill ) vi.1e a very small cantaloupe among his eight children She stopped to look i .vhereiipon the Italian thinking the Ut I tie girl wanted some ,to, with a most I grneiou now nanuea ner tne nrsi (slice. The mother protested. h.,t t. 'Z' ? "l Z, J-"- jriri to accept, it ! had reduced the already inadequate feast, but she retrieved her error in r (the only possible way. Youths Com-'"oi panion. Pendleton, Oregon, Wednesday, "THE LARGEST TOWN ITS SIZE IN : i it 111 tel. How Pendleton How can Pendleton, a town of 7000 It Is not necessary of course for the people, accommodate the Round-up city to provide sleeping and eating ac ! crowds when the aggregate attendance ;commodatlons for all who come to the j at the three days exhibition runs up . show. A large number of those from I to 60,000 people? j distant cities, particularly the large I This la an Inquiry made by many ; centers come by special trains and land It Is a natural Inquiry. To thetnelr tra,ns are full' eiu'PPed with ! uninformed it look like the t'jwn ls "lepers and diner, so that the special : ittemptlng the Impossible when Ujtraln Kue!,,', are able to .rely entirely Seven undertakes to care for so many"P"n th" railroad and the Pullman I people. Pe It known there are a'car company for food and shelter ! .... ... ..: u liiln hum ' many us .'U.UOO out OI town people in; I Pendleton during some days of the j Round-up. But the crowd Is accommodated i an.l accommodated with what might ' be called ea.e. At least there Is J every reu.son to suppose that such is the case because the show has been j running Tor four years and there has been virtually no complaint on the l score of lnhospltality. If there ar- such complaints they have been mild j and they have not reached the Pen i dleton ear which by the way Is ver j keen for anything pertaining to the Round-up. j The first year the Hound-up was hp Id and when the crowd was com ' parutlvely small In numbers there was , some- complaint about lack of sleep ! Ing and eating accommodations. That j was because the . work of handling j the crowd was not well organized and j the local people did not know what to ; expect in the way of attendance. M.uv t:iat first year there has never been a time when the local accom ! moi'.atlons committee has been unable to handle the crowd. There are thousands of Improvised beds to be hud in Pendleton and tho.e beds go far towards providing sleeping places for the visitors. There i probably not a home in Pendleton that has Aot one or more beds for visitors. Some of the better and larger homes of the city accommodate as many as 25 or So out of town oeoole. It is done through using extra beds and cots. . . . . CI are placed several in a room .. in ih ha L. Some are on porenesi and some in yards. Then there are ti-niporary lodging houses established " ". . V Must for the occasion ami tnose places i jZ? for an enormous number of peo- J u trnr y si i-omm.ilate probably three times its L-iilur n.-pulation. That would mean; less than 20000 people counting .1 - ..1 residents in tne numoer Septemher 10, 1913 THE WORLD" f f s I t ! 0 i 1 is Able to Handle Its Crowds -" Another fact that helps out the sit uation Is the fact that thousands of those who attend the Round-up are able to return to their homes In the evening following the close of the pro gram. This Is true of local country people. It Is true of people as far north In Washington as Dayton, as far as Kennewick on the X. P., as far as Faker to the east on the O -V. R & X.. to Pilot Hook on the Pilot Rock branch and as far west as Umatilla on t1--- run toward Portland The chief reason however, why the Round-tin visitors have always been accommodated comes from the fact te Riund-up -directors work syste matically to provide quarters. The fact that thousands of special beds Chief Moses Friend One of the Indian chieftains who left his Imprint on the pages of north west history, both as an enemy and a friend of the '"paleface" was Kla-ka-ta-koo-sum or Chief Moses as he was commonly known by the soldiers and settlers. For years he led his braves in a relentless warfare against the whites in an effort to drive them from the lands of his forefathers but. after repeated defeats, reversals and ,,7 wn- foresight to se that whnt v l,.nm hardships encountered, he had . . . . . , '-'""''IZ . . .,. 1 1 r lo prom oy nis vision. ne oecame a sworn mend of the white m:.n Un,t .Wr.1... ..,!,... . " " ". urging of his own people and numer ous provocations from the people he sought to befriend, that friendship en- Z?ZVZ ZnS Z vmiv? uiutxeu. i i .... . ., . i"e nun m any one trlhe. he was the chief of many dif ferent ones, his bravery, sagacity and other qualities of leadership being so widely recognized that the chieftain ship of ninny tribes was offered him. Some he accepted and some he re fused. For many years he was known as a (blot of "outside Indians" as distin guished from the leader of those tribes which were settled on reser vations, and he resisted all efforts to place him under governmental Jurls olctton until he was granted a reser vation on the lands of his ancestors. Moses, ns described by Northwest makers of history who came in con tact with him. was a splendid speci men of Indian manhood, handsome, signified, brave and wise, and before he was won as a friend, the white soldiers feared him as much as ary one chief, because of his strength and hi, daring. Skilled In Indian wirf.tre rront his youth w hen he fought against trlVs of his own race, when the wMte man became a menace to the freiw. dom of his people, he ceased hostil ities against his hereditary enemies nnd heped unite the various tribes to leslst a common foe. m greatest ' little asalnst the I'nited Stat troops v.ns that nt Yakima River In IS 56 J when he led hU warriors against the "Bostons" under the command t Page Three OF Always Lively are waiting- for the visitors when, they arrive does not come about through! accident Neither are those beds pre pased by people who expect to make money off them. As a general ruin It is not profitable to take "guests" during the Round-up. In order to provide sleeping accommodation for the people for the three days of the show It is usually necessary for a family to either purchase or rent beds or cots and to buy additional bed clothing. That all means expense. The additional laundry and the housework must also be counted and when the fact Is considered the Round-up management sets a fixed price per bed beyond which people may not go without being considered grafters It may be easily seen there la little mercenary inducement for the thrifty housewife in this instance. It I- the Pendleton spirit that causes the local homes to be thrown open to the visitors. The spirit that the town Is facing a heavy responsibil ity and must not fall In its duty. If It were not for that spirit two thirds of those who find quarters here dur ing the Round-up would have to walk ti e streets at night. of the White Man Col. George Wright and was driven back with considerable loss. It was soon after this that he came . in contact with an Indian agent by the name of Wilbur, whose fairness in treating with the natives so Im pressed Moses that he took hla vow of friendship. Thereafter, he rould not be persuaded, even by the mighty Chief Joseph of the Xex Perces him self, to lift his tomahawk against the whites. Even when three Cayuso In dians murdered a family by the name of Perkins and he was accused by the settlers of giving refuge to the perpetrators of the atrocious deed, his determination was not shaken and, to prove his good faith, he offered to as. Blst in the search for the three Cay-uses-, With thirty of his braves, he took their track but before he could ac complish his purpose, he and his par ty were surprised In their camp ono night by a detachment of troops and. despite their protestations of friendli ness, taken prisoners. Moses was thrown in Jail and only regained hi freedom when Gen. O. o. Howard had been apprised of the capture aud ha-l ordered his release. Free again, he made another appeal for a reservation on the lands of hla fathers and It was granted. This was .. 1 . . 1 1 . . . I ... . II L B and upon It Moses remained until hU death ten years ago, hi friendship and his power keeping many hundred of Indians at peace at times when other tribes were waging bloody war fare. His g-nve is at Xespelem only a short distance from the little mound of earth under which lies the remain of the only chief of hi time whose glory was greater than his own, Chluf Joseph of the Xei Perces. Iii-tts It Is such a tittle thing. And it isn't hard to say. If you Use It. It will bring Smiles and Joy In work and play, Thi( who do not use It find Folks get crn at what they say. When you say It people mind, And do what's wanted right awny. u'.irn i say tn.ii wmi wll'l ie. ( This is It, roint mber 1'I.T:.R r If A Ivint ,