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Twenty-Four Pf East OrMronin Round-Up Souvenir Edkiott PensflMoo, Or trim, ThurtAty, $ptmhr 21, 1818 u l jm i n n mn btti w ft m wt Round-Up Gives Visitor Glimpse of the West in "Real Action" & (By Merle K. Chessman.) Some une many years ago spoke or the '.'wild went" and ever since that time the two words have attained such an affinity that In the popular mind they are rarely disassociated. It has become axiomatic that the west Is wild, and the tourist from the east expects to find it so. If he doesn't h returns home disappointed and with a cherished conception or tho Pacific Blope sadly shattered. Time was, and not so long ago, that the west, all of it, was wild enough to suit the fancy of any tenderfoot. The principal citizens were the In dian, the cowboy, the miner and the gambler, and singly or collectively they managed pretty (well to keep the taint of tameness from their habitat. However, the processes of civiliza tion amiot be denied. They have largely claimed the great western frontier as their own. The boundless weep of range and plain has been bisected and checkered with the fenc es ol homestead and rarm. Cities have sprung up like mushrooms in a bog, have rapidly grown out of their swaddling clothes and, connected so closely with their eastern sisters by rail and wire, have so developed that there is not much to differentiate them to the seeker after change. The Indians, the newer generations ot whom are beginning to assimilate the Ideas and customs of their white brothers, have been confined to res ervations, the ranks of the cowboy have been decimated and the bold, adventurous type of miner, known to the days of '49, has given way to the unionized workman as common in the east as In the west. And so, unless he knows where to look, the sightseer from the east finds on bts western trip very little thai somewhat of a king and where th seeker for the wild wet will find that which will Uelight his soul and sture his mind with memories that will make sweet the age of reminis cence. These spots where the old west still retains Its hold are few, stuttered and not always easy to reach. Nor. when reached, do they furnish on demand all that the tourist might wish to see, A continuous residence fenceless range for unnumbered herds is now under cultivation, there are still thousands of acres back of Pen dleton devoted entirely to stockrals Ing , Thus the how-legged, sombreroed. picturesque cowboy has always been and still is a familiar figure on the street of l'endleton. And Just as familiar, or more so. Is the sight of blanketed Indians for, at the very edge of Pendleton Is the I'mutlHa re- Si ii i iii i illilll li i If I I I II of several weeks in these remote places might satisfy his cruviiig, but few tourists have the time or patience fur such. To those who. In a limited time, wish to Bee the most interesting the most picturesque, the most enter taining und withul the wildest side of the west that Is passing, the Pendle ton Houud-L'p, property understood ' -v?iV . - . iiistr fits in with his preconceived Idea. Beaut'ful scenery he can find to de- light his soul, the "rubberneck" ' I gon will take him to interesting build-l lngs. monuments and parks JuM as inj the east, but the wild, rough romance and glamor thai history and tradition i have taught him lies west of the Rockies, he cannot encounter by an undirected tour ulonp the main ave nue of traffic. Hut, even, though the west Is no longer the went of buffalo Hill, it is not yet so reclaimed, reformed and regenerated that It contains no 'trade or vestige of Its glorified , past. It still has Its uncurried spots. There are communities where the vaccine of civilizaton has not tasen or taken but mildly, where the cowboy still Is cannot hut commend itself. Certain ly there Is no other Institution in the world that can so completely and so truly present an epitome of the west ern frontier that all but belongs to another day. Heal Artlon (,f West The Kound-L'p is not a wild west show, though It is a show of the wild west. It bears hardly any more rela tion to the routine performance of the traveling trnup of cowboys und Indians than does the fearrul carnage at Verdun to a bloodless battle of the movies. This one U as real as the other is artificial. Pendleton, the home of the Hound l'p. bus been the center of a greut cow country since its Infancy. Though much of the land that was once a ervation, where live the descendants of the knightly tribes of the north west, the rmatillas, ('ay uses and Wal la Wallas. With the cow camp and the reser vation at her back door. Pendleton does not huve to Import the partici pants for her great frontier festival, does not have to rely upon profession al performers to furnish entertain ment for the thousands who gather each year in her mammoth stadium. Indeed, were It not so, those thou sands would not be gathering there each year. The Hound-L'p is in reality the play of the cowboy, cowgirl and Indian, and yet it reflects, too, much of their natural life. While in the bucking contest buckaroo vies with buckaroo in an effort to ride the meanest buck er In the truest form for a handsome purse and trophies, yet many a time during the year, In a corral on a lonely range and with only one or two of his kind for an audience, does he ride Just u bard and Just as spect ularly. In the steer-roping contest he strives to rope, throw an tie bis steer in the shortest time possi ble and he does the same thing month In and month out in the course of his duties. F.arly West ln Review. No phase of the early west Is overlooked by the programers of the Kound-Vp In their efforts to present, in a limited space and within a short time, a glimpse und more than a glimpse of pioneer life with all of Its dash and danger, Its excitements, haz ards und typical recklessness. The pony express, the fast mall ot frontier days! the lumbering old stage coach, forerunner of the passen ger train, find a place in the rapid sequence of thrilling spectacles; there are races of all varieties, cowpony, maverick. Indian pony, squaw, relay, cowgirl and novelty races, and all are typical of the western frontier. Col or, a barbaric riot of It, Is added by the Indians who, clad ln their sav age, brilliant trappings, pass byin a stately parade or dance the war and love dances that are traditions of their tribes. Speaking ot Plumbing LET 'ER BUCK MILLER WILL FIX II! VE rare Pendle- JiaM vv ton's only ex-, elusive plumbers. We use the best materials and employ the most compe tent plumbers. When we in stall plumbing it is installed to render you service and not to bring you grief. PLUMBING AND STEAM HEATING PLANT CONTRACTORS No job ton large nor too small for us to handle and handle satisfactorily. Following are a few of the larger jobs where we were awarded the contracts because we gave better work for less money. Lack of space prohibits us listing the otker hundreds of patrons who have received efficient plants with MILLER service. Pendleton Nutatorlum O.-W. It. & N, lVndloton Depot. O.-W. H. & N. Baker Depot. IVnfllrton High Briiool. Quelle ItcMtaurant & Rooming: House. U. M. lUce Residence. A large and up-to-date line of fixtures always on hand, Let me figure with you. CHAS. P. MILLER SiKvomor to Bcdtlow & Miller. Court and Garden StroeU, Phono 202. "You Can Do Better" at The Golden Rule Store We Lead, Others Follow WE are one of a chain of One Hundred Twenty-Five Buy Golden Rule Store who make all their purchase together, paying spot cash for all good. You will find at any one of our store that there is an unvarying element of economy at tached to the purchase of any article at a low price or at a high price or at a price anywhere between. It i the element of real worth at each price the fullest measure of value in fabric and workmanship and service. ' We are the true "Cost of Living" reducers Our method is "BUY FOR CASH, SELL FOR CASH and ELIMINATE ALL UNNECES SARY OVERHEAD EXPENSE." We have no Dead Accounts, No Collector, No Delivery, No Bookkeepers, and we stay out of the High Rent district. AH these thing mean a saving and thi saving- is given to you our patron, All Good Things are Imitated The Round-Up, The J. C. Penny Company's Golden Rule Stores but there is only one real genuine Round -Up The Pendleton and there, is only one real genuine Golden Rule The J. C. Penny Company's. There is a store near you, we cover the entire Northwest. Here is the list of stores located in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, and it will pay you to become acquainted with the one nearest you. OCXOI I0E3O ORHGOX Pendleton Dallas Koseburg Athena Albany Baker The Dalles La Grande Marshfield Milton Eugene Astoria Walla Walla Dayton Wenatchee Leavenworth Centralia WASHINGTON Chehalis Colville Colfax Pomeroy Sedro Woolley IDAHO j.L.renne yuo. inc. Everett Ritzville Monteaano Pullman Waitsburg St. Anthony Shoshone Rexburg Mackay Moscow Rigbf Kellogg Wallace Downey Cour d'Alene Preston Shelley Lewlston Jerome Malad Sand Point anil! , .,; ,-. :,;,.;; I'HflWH'Hffitnmma iiiitiiiiua llliiitiiiiilililiiiiiili fame of the P.ound-TJp has grown so great that remote Indeed are the com munities to which some echoes of it have not spread. (iroatewt outdoor Show. It is no idle boast that the Round l p is the greatest outdoor entertain ment in the world today. Few who have seen it will admit of having seen anything to compare with it in the elements of the thrilling, and the spectacular. The P.ound-1'p never has been and never will be staged any place but in l'endleton. Efforts nave been made to imitate it, but sooner or later they have ended in failure. Attempts have been made to lure It away by prom ises of rich reword, but these efforts have only provoked smiles from those who understand. The Round-Up can not be transplanted. The horses, the riders, the Indians, the very directors themselves, might be taken to some other place but the setting, the spirit. the heart, the soul of the Round-Lp is immovable. The Round-Up belongs to Pendleton and Pendleton belongs to the Round-Up. They can never be divorced And so Pendleton, "the biggest lit tle city in the world,1 offers to the tourist something thai none other can offer. Her Round-Up Is her fame Article 2. Whoever burns a dwell ing house shall be hung. Article 3. Whoever burns an out building shall be imprisoned six months, receive fifty lashes and pay all damages. Article 4. Whoever carelessly burns a house or any property shall pay all damages. Article 5. If anyone enter a dwell ing without the permission of the oc cupants, the chiefs shall punish him as they think proper. Public room are excepted. Article 6. If anyone steal he shall pay back two-fold; and if it be of the value of a beaverekin or less, he shall receive twenty-five lashes; and if the value is over a beaverskin, he shall pay back, two-'old and receive fifty lashes. Article' 7. If anyone take a horse and ride it without permission, or take any article and use it, without liberty, he shall pay for the use of it and shall receive from twenty to fifty lashes as the chiefs may direct. Article 8. If anyone enter a field and injure the crops, or throw down the fence so that cattle and horses go in and out and do damage, he shall Continued on page ten, Concrete and Fire Proof. One of th e Largest and Most Modern Gar- ' aires in all the Northwest. THE 1915 BUCKING CHAMPIONS 0 A Q til u , -w g.gft ;- M t- M B 'a' Icft to rtght Lc caUlwcl', fl': Va klnia Caimu, sci-oml; Jackson Sun- down. third. The men who stage the Round-Up know the life they arc trying to re produce, for they are the sons of pio neers. The completeness of their or ganization, the thoroughness of their preparation, and the rapidity with i which they stage their exhibition ! have been a large factor in the suc- 1 n .v.- D..iir,TT,i Th. total ah. sence of commercialism from the con ception, purpose and conduct of the show has given them but a single end for which to strive, the presentation of a festival that will attract thou- sands o'f visitors to their city, and, while there, entertain them so well that each will leave to become a liv ing advertisement of Pendleton and her great show. How well they have succoedod Is evidenced by the fact that within a space of six years, tho and her fame' Is her guarantee that whosoever comes to see the one shall go forth to swell the other. -' -:iiTi tu l SAFETY SERVICE CONVENIENCE Laws of Nez Perce In 1842 Elijah White, sub-agent m the northwest, visited the Nez Perce Indians and held a council with them for the purpose of allaying the distrust which had begun to develop and which eventually led to the Whit man massacre. At mat time the fol lowing "Laws ot the Nei Percos" was drawn up and agreed to: Article 1 Whoever wilfully takes Ufo shall be hung. PIIlllIllitlllllllllllltMllllllll llllllliltllMIIIIIIIllllllllltltttltsttliltlllllltltJtllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllMtltatlltllllllll Mtslt Jbf ! 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