w .4144 i - .. . --' ' faje Two East Ort.tnian Hound-Up Souvenir Edition Pendleton, Oregon,. Saturday, September 24, 1921. 4 i" IS FOUND BY THE LATE COL USEVEEI TO BE PEOPLED BY IN 10 WEREBRAVE," RESOLUTE AND TRUTHFUL; HE HAD SHE VIVID WESTERN EXPERIENCE-- His Foreman Once Grew Mad Because a Visitor Said He Had Given Him a Runaway Team to Drive ; "That Could Not bo" Said the Foreman, "Because That Team Had Not Been Driven Before.'.' ',. . ! t.f,! .... -Hi. no,. ; J '' Viililo in tho things he thought hail in Hie days of the battle of Hast nnd wroie- ami (in! ami in the mailer ' ings, and. ethically and morally, he i f h friendships, the real opinion of I is decidedly In ndvaliee of the vikings, the lain Theodore Itoosevolt of the who were the ancestors of those same cowboy and frontiersman is one thai Is ; nobles and to whom, hj- the wny, he of t.irTm!K interest, j himself oovd.1 doubtless trace a por- cine Ih'nu Unit should i.e Dome in; mind when rending the ureal Ani'-rt-r-an' no ouiii of his acquaintance with tho 01, w',-oy is Hint ho was on tho plains many yen ago. and some of the ol.m-i.-iiicms he made then, while true us a mutter of history, no longer apply to the picsinl; or at lea si there ore comparatively (k places in the Wejil where I hey i' re now lrne. Kn o'v5 would question Roosevelt's right to say what ho thought of the i owbn . lie was one himself, ho lured many of them on his ranch, he was the : (ominanihnv offieer of a regiment ruinp'H-cd of iii'Ii)k and other west- i rn men in the (punish-American war, i wilder lands, ho ends by Retting hang tin,! thin noniminlanie ivith them, even ; od instead of founding a family which if he had not been a very keen student would revere his name as that of a end observer, would have qualified; very capable, although in not all re hlm, to los as having knowledge of, speets a conventionally, moral, ances the'r wax- of living and their philo-i tor. n' volume entitled. "HuntinJ -le. TW The ;rlly.' the final chapter is de-j Most of the men with whom X -was voted to the subject. "In Cowboy j intimately thrown during my life on Lund." and under this head, Koose-j the frontier and in the wilderness v.ot n,.mlilert msnv experiences, ooth i were pood fellows, hara-working, amusing and traffic, which had come under hi observation. For those who love adventure the story is one richly deserving readinp. It follows: The I3cimiital Life .. . Out on the. frontier, and generally . .i..i ii. in mims tnnuA uno siieu.i Liieo iiirs or on the borders of the wilderness, life is reduced to its elemental condi t oil. 1 he passions and emotions of these Slim hunters of the mountains, and wild rough-riders of the plains, are sampler and stronger than thoee of people duelling: in more complicated stte of society. As soon as me com- iiunities become settled and hecin to prow with anv rapidity, the American contact witn some o. wno.u . instinct for law asserts itself: o-.it m I lions were very close and """Mly the earlier stages each individual Is had at different times led rather obliged to be a law to himself and to ! tough careers. This was accepted by guard his rights with a sfrtmg hand, them and by their companion, as a Of course the transition periods are fact, and nothing more. There were full of Incongruities. Men have not yet certain offenses. such ns rape, the adjusted their relations . to morality j robbery of a friend, or murder under anr taw with any niceness. They circumstances of cowardice and hold taronsh- bv certain rude virtues, j treachery, which were never forslven; and on the other hand they quite fail j but the fact that when the country was 10 recoirniae even as shortcomings not j wild a youns fellow had Rone on the a few trait that obtain scant mercy road that is, became a highwayman. In older Communities. Many of the or had been chief of a ganS of des ,.ii!i.r, nrt r,,ad peradoes. horscthieves and cattle-kil- j , ,i,ir rhsr. acters. Offen they are people who, i i tn. eit-iitJn do. or bv- rtone cood work but who. when ih. slices hve nassed. find them- wives surrounded by conditions wh'ch accentuate their worst qualities and make their bet qualities useless. The average desperado, for instance, has, after all, much the same stand ard of morals that the Normal nobles Trices $100 n WvWilk a jail J&ioLi. jij l" I II III M. t I." ' I s 1 ft; ' ; I" :li ' ' j '-rrim'$ioo io$ioo nun or nis wnou. u in iranaun from the wild lawlessness of life in the wilderness or on the border to a higher civilisation were stretched out over a term of centuries, he and hisj ilcscendrnla would doubtless accom-i. ni'Mia'e themselves by degrees to me changing circumstances. Hut unfbr innatelv in (he far West tho transition takes id.ice with marvelous abrupt-J ncss, and at an altogether unheard-of; speed, and many a man's nature isf unable to change with sufficient rapiditv t "How him to harmonise? i with liis environment.. In conse-1 I onenoe. unless he leaves for still; hfave. resolute and truthful. At times of course, they were forced of neces sity to do deeds which, would seem startling to dwellers in cities and. in old settled places; and though they , . Mlanltao VHP. o tiro iiimn evi -doers whose misdeeds ! had immediate and traruribie bad re ( stilts, they showed a wide toleration - of all save the most extreme classes of wrong, and were not given to in quiring too curiously into a, strong man's past, or to criticising him over harshly for a failure to discriminate In liner ethical questions. Moreover, not j a few of the men with whom I came in tiers was scarcely to weigh against ! him. being treated as regrettable, but ! certainly not shameful, trait of youth. He was regarded by his neighbors I with the same kindly tolerance which respectable mediaeval Scotch border ers doubtless extended to their wilder young men tvho would persist in raid ing English cattle even In time of Of course if these men were asVed 1 (. to $750 J. - ' ' I JOUR i! ino. t . -Jk I. t ,4. f.r ov , f 1, v., i f"il , .. , . for this beautiful mans-on CC JrViory one of U oW-si mansions avail .OOU. I Uaiikl of Heaven " outright as to their stories, they would have Tefused to tell them or else would have, lied about them; out when they J . . . ' . ". . had. grown to reward a man as a friend an companion they would often re count various incidents of their punt lives with perfect rraaKness, ana as they combined in a vetry curious de gree tooth a decided sense of humor. and a failure to appreciate that there was anything especially remarkable in what they related,' their lales were al ways entertaining. .. ' ... in Search Of JCoiHo Early one spring. -nor:-nearly ten years ago, I was out hunting some lost horses. They had strayed from the range three months before, and we had in- a roundabout way heard that they were ranging near some broken country, where a man named Brophy had a ranch, nearly; fifty miles from my own. When 1 started thither the weather was warm, but the second day out it grew colder and a heavy snow storm came on. Fortunately I was able to reach the ranch all right, find ing there, one of the sons of a Little Beaver mnchman, and a young cow puncher belonging to a Texas outfit, whom I knew very well. After put ting my horse into the corral and throwing him down some hay 1 strode into the low hut, madq,partly of turf and partly of cottonwood loss, and ppeedily warmed, myself - before the t- fire-. We had a food warm supper, of bread, potatoes, tried venison and tea. ' Speodial Offer Dim Any Phonograph in Our Store up to $125 for CasM JUST THINK 19 CHOICE OF BRUNSWICKS, LVICTROLAS, l&como ray1 PIione711 mis Mean i'cvice in olluiai WmV I Y ,,.,T 'Zf. n. " .alnln m Ireland n i u. aituatco at CUbriU.w , My two companions (crew Very socia- I b'e and began to talk freely over their v ,,C3- Th;re were lwa bunks. one above the other. 1 climbed into the upper, leaving my friends, who oceu- pied the lower, sitttntr together on a bench recounting different incidents In the careers of themselves, and their cronies during the winter that had just passed. Soon one' of them asked the other what had become of a cer tain horse, a noted cutting pony, which I had myself noticed the preceding fall. The question aroused the other to the memory of a wring which still rankled, and he began (I alter one or two of the proper names): Tl!o"S.tileii Pony "Why, that was the-pony that po stole. I had leen workiiv' him on rough ground when I was out with the Three F-ar outfit and he went tender forward, so turned him loose by the Iizy H ranch, and when I came back to get him there wasn't 'anybody at the ranch and 1 couldn't find him. The sheep-man n-ti lives about two miles west, under -tied Clay butte, told me he seen a fellow in a wolfskin coat, ridin'.a pinto bronco, with white eyes, leadin' that pony of mine just two days tiefore; and 1 hunted around, till I hit his trail and then I followed to where I'd reckoned he was headin' for tho Short I'ine Hills. When I got there a rancher told me he had seen the man pass on toward Cedartown, 'and siire enough when I struck Cedartown II and $5 OF THIS OFFER, LESS Til - AN Day c h Complete Stock of Victor and Brunswick Records T freiaiid? " t -'Woolston's Kiluue county and ta known' .found ho lived there in a Mobo houe, jusi oiiisiue me lawn. There waa a boom on tho town and it looked pret ty slick. There was two hotels ami I went Into tho first, nnd I says, 'Where's .the Justice of tho peace?' says tf),th9 bartender. " 'There ain't no Justlco of the peace,' says he, 'the Justice of the Peace got shot." : ' , . " 'Well, whore's tho constable?' says " 'Why, it was him that shot the justl of the peacel' sayg he; 'he's skipped the country with a bunch of horses.' " 'Well, nin't there no officer of the law left In this town?' stivs I. " 'Why, of course,' says he, 'thnro's a probate Judge; he's over tendin' bar at the Last Chance Hotel.' "So I went over to the Lost Chance Hotel and I walked in there. 'Mdrnin', a I. " 'Mornir,', says he. " 'You're the probate Judge?' says I. " 'That's what I am,' says he. 'What tlo jou want?' says he. " 'I want Justice,' says I. "'What kind of justice do you want?' says hes 'What's it for?" " 'It's for stealln' a horse," says I. " 'Then by tjod you'll get it,' says he. 'Who stole tho home?' says he. "'It is a man that lives In a 'dob house. Just outside the town there,' soys I. w a montja CHENEYS, AND SONORAS. Co Ug Pcndlel6n, Oregon Well, where' do you cum tromtho inorrotV, ralhor than" 'with VertTJ yourself?' eald ho. ' " 'Prom Medory,' Bald I. "With that he lost Interest and Ret- I tied kind o' back, and says he, 'There won't no Ccdurtuwn Jury hnnir a Ced- artown man (or sloallu' a Medory man's horse,' said he. i ''Well, what am I to do about my horse?' says I "'l)o?' says he; 'well, you know where thu Hum lives, doii't you?' suys he; 'then sit up outside Ills house to night -ttnd shoot him when he comes In,' suys he, 'and skip out with the horse.' t " 'All right.' says I, 'that It what I'll do," and I walked off. . "So I went off to his house and .1 laid down behind some sagebushes to wait for 'him. Ho was not at home, but I could see his wife niuvln'; about insido now and then, and I waited and waited, and It. grawad darker, und I began to say to myself, 'Now herd you are lyln" out to shoot this ntan whim he comes home; and It's getliu' dark, and you don't know him, and If you dc. shoot the next man that comes into that house, like as not It won't be the fellow you are after at all, but some perfectly Innocent man a-ooihln' there after the other man's wife!'; "So I up und saddled the bronc' and lit out for home," concluded the nar rator with the air of one Justly proud of his own self-abnegating virtue." "Muvhmoiu'' Town The "town" where the Judgo above mentioned dwelt was one of those squalid pretentiously named littlo clus ter of makeshift dwellings which on the edge of the wild country spring op with the rapid growth of mush rooms, and are often no longer lived. In their earlier stage these towns are frequently built entirely of canvas, ond are subject to grotesque calam ities. When the territory' purchased iront the Sioux, In the Dakota, a couple of years ago, was thrown open to settlement there wan a furious In rush of men on horseback and in wagons, and various ambitious cities sprung up overnight. Th new set llera were all under tho influence of that curious crane which causes every true westerner to put unlimited fnlth In the unknown and untried; many had left all they had In a far better farming country, -because 1 hey were i staunch upholder of the existing or true to their Immemorial belief that, ! ,!,.,. 0f things. But while he never whs-rever they were, their luck would be better If they went somewhere else. Thev were always on the move, and headed for, tho vague beyond. As miners see visions of nil tho famous mines of history In each new camp, so these would-be city founders saw fu ture St. Pauls and Omnhas In every forlorn group of tents pitched by ome muddy stream In a desert of gumbo and sager-brush; and they named loth the towns and the eanvs buildings In accordance with their bright hopes for j - . . L V I -31.1' i ' Prices $25.00 - Trices $25.00 I , I onoe to tho lueun fuct:of thB oy. On of those iowna, which when Iwentys. four hours ord'housleiT'of Slu'sartltins, a "courtlnitise',' autjl an. "opera Iioum," was overwhelmed by early ' disaster. Thu third of IIh lifo. a whirlwind came uluiu and took off halt . the ,. opera house und hulf tho saloons; and, -the. following evening lawless mqn, nearly finished the work ot the clement The riders of u huge trail-outfit from Tex as, to their glad surprise, discovered tho town and abandoned themselves to a night v. of roaring , and lethal curousal, Next morning .Ihe city au thorities were lamenting, with oaths of hitler rage that "them hell-und-twcn- ty Flying A cowpunchors hud cut tho cdurt-houso up Into pants," , t was true. The cowboys were In need of snaps, and with uu admirable mixture of udvcnturmisjittfwet Cf'Hiullty and ready adaptability. tt9tfuh;cumstanacH, hud made. HuhsuVs.f.hrfefor in the shape of omivati(OVAf Mis. jfjut from the .roof And wiills,,! JVWl'fn' temple of An I'ncotiveiitloiial Philosophy' One of my valued friends In. . the mountains, and one of the host hunters with whom I ever traveled, was a man who had a peculiarly light-hearted way of looking at conventional soclul obligations. Though In soma way a true backwoods Dunatello, he waa a man of much shrewdness and of great cournge aiul resolution. Morecvpr,. ho possessed what only a few men tlo pos sess, the capacity to tell the truth. Ho saw facts as they were, and could tell them as, they were, and he never told an untruth unless for very weighty reasons. He was pre-eminently a Philosopher, of a happy sceptical turn of mind. Ho hud no prejudices, , He never looked down, as so many hard characters do, upon a person possess ing a different code of ethics. . Ill; at titude was one of broad, genial toler ance. Ilv saw nothing .out, of ,. the way in the fact that he himself had been a road-agent, a professional gam bler, nnd u desperado at different singes of his career.. On. the othor hand, he did not In the least hold It against any one that he had. always acled within the law. At the lime that I knew him ho hud become a man of Home NiiliMtn nee. nml nHtliralltf . boasted of his. past deed, he never apologized for them, and "evldeutly would have been quite as Incapable of understanding that they .needed an npology as he would have, been In--npniile of being gulty of mere vulgar lioastfulness. He did not often alludo to his past career at "alr.,,.Whcii, bo did, he recited It Incidents perfectly naturally and simply, as. cvttnts, with out u'ny reference to, or regard for (Continued on pag to $300.00 l f.l. . e to $1000 i -