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
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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
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Cast Oregonian Round-Up Souvenir Edition
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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' 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.
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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
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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
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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
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1 1 r lo prom oy nis vision.
ne oecame a sworn mend of the
white m:.n Un,t .Wr.1... ..,!,...
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urging of his own people and numer
ous provocations from the people he
sought to befriend, that friendship en-
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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
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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
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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.
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