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Page Fourteen East Oregonian Round-Up Souvenir Edition Pendleton, Oregon, Friday, September 12, 1913 Twenty-four Pagei The Old West is Passing; The Day of Development is Here The Old Days Were Romantic and Adventuresome. Some Early Day Tales of Pendleton. By George Gilmore. TliQ "M Sloro" Ttie old west ts pausing. Put the fplrU "f the old west lives on for lever. When the kltiR died, the multitude shouted: ng IJve the King! So too, lie old west 1b d-ad. Long IJve the Old Wrt. For hng years the west was the !at)d of beauliTul dreiinis. It mount m t han, c to be Rin anew to thousands of men; it !:old promise of fortunes 10 thousands of men: it beckoned families to come, braving the terrors of :' travel across unknown nj aevn, tn befrtn t'.u-ir lives anew. And 10 the cry of the elusive voii-e of For tune and Opportunity, the thousands letfponded. They came, they saw, New Kngland. But the Pilgrims long ago Joined the great Invisible throng; and so most of the pioneers of Ore gon have passed on Into the unex plored regions. Pendleton today has a fair share, however, of the survivors of that hardy band which set out to cross the plains In the days when railroads wire unknown. The Journeys then were made by ox teams In most In stances, and the progress was slow. The colony now is thinned consid erably, but a few of the old timers remain, and those who dd can tell stories that for pure western flavor told In the cosy glimmer of the open fire, as the family, now happily ride of the terrors of the past, gathers round, are of grim death or close es cape. Some of the yams are of the lighter type, the Incidents which per haps at the time were stirring enough but which viewed from the present, take on an aspect of humor. One Is told of the time when the Indians were In warlike mood and Pendleton was stirred with excitement awaiting what was believed would be a desperate assault. I'pon a day dur ing this particular period, a party of men were out some distance from the city when they sighted the Indians. Not being of sufficient force to with- I j-jj m Ji '' , In the New West. The Zest Now is in Development Work; Not Adventure they conquered. The west has long been the land of romance. It has been the new lanJ of liberty. It has called young and old; men and maidens. And they all, true to the vision, set out for the promised land. Year have gone; and from the set tlements bullded by the pioneers; from the little hamleta In the midst of forests and on lonely plains, have arose the grand cities, busy with In dustry, receiving the goods of the world at their doors. The same hardihood, the same cour age, the same determined effort to win, has characterised the west as had characterized the early days of the Pilgrims on the rough shores of have all the fiction stories outdlst-, a need. To lived to have seen the pioneer days give way gradually to the pres ent time, surely Is a great privilege. Those who have passed through the stirring events can be said to have re ally lived. They have faced the great dangers of life the same dangers that! to all appearances the inhabitants, of the wildest Jungles have to meet every hour. They have been the Instru ments In the proces which have grad ually subdued the wild beast and the wild man. And the cities and towns we view- today upon the plains of the west of yesterday, are due to their ef forts and indomitable will. Put not all the stories that are stand an attack, they immediately put the spurs to their horses, with one exception, and this man happen ed to be riding a mule. Now this mule was peculiar in one way he tfould not stand the sight of an Indian, and worse still, the smell of an Indian, so that when he once got a whiff of the savage, there was no power on earth that could stop the animal from beating a hasty retreat Otherwise, this mule was a docile, and slow beast. On this occasion as the Indians were sighted, the wind was not blow ing from them and consequently the mule, plodding along failed to get the nece.vary scent which was guarantee! to put lightning In his ffcet. The other men galloped off but the mule refused to run and the man aback him cried out: "Hey, you fellows! You alnt go ing to run off and let me be killed by the Indians, be yon?" Hearing this, the rest of the party drew rein, turned and came back, de termined to stand by their companion and see that he was safe. They said they would keep with him and If the worst came to the worst would put up as good a fight as possible. They had not gone very far, how ever, and in the meantime the In dians had come into closer view al though it was not evident they had seen the white men before the wind changed. No sooner did the mule get a smell of the ozone from the direc tion of the Indians, then up went its tall and with head out, burst into a run. The other men had been riding a little ahead and in surprised the pulled up as the black streak of mule ehot past. The mule's rider wore a broad grin as he held on for all he was worth to the horn of his saddle. "Hey. you fellows." he yelled back, "whatcher so slow about? Wanta get killed by the Indians?" The rest of the party spurred their horses but they never were able to catch up with the mule until all wert safe in Pendleto. So on in this way, stories could be told of the perils and the narrow es capes of the early days. But the deuth that stalked by day and night now has ceased to be and where once savage warfare played its part, now the hum of Industry Is heard. The old west Is Indeed pass ing. The only vivid picture of the old days, is to be seen now in the Pendleton Round-up. And here la no make-believe show, but a genuine scene of real west as it was in the times before civilization tempered the elements that won the country to peace and prosperity. Much Interest Taken. Interest this year in the Hound-up has extended alt around the world. Many comments of this show have been in newspapers in almost every city of any Importance in the world, and travelers from Pendleton and other cities In Oregon have been ask ed to tell about the Round-up. 80 It is not by any means a local show but one that appeals to all classes of persons the world over. WHEN you come to the Round-Up you will want our Celebrated i Round-Up Chocolates and Bon Bons. We made them especially for you. J5hQ DELTA Frank Quinlan, Proprietor A DRUG STORE that specializes on pure drugs, correct compounding of prescriptions and attentive service . 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