Tuesday, August 4, 1914.
Doug. Gurdane left Monday for an '
outing. He went to Pendleton and
from there he will go to some of the
Springs nearby. Doug, has stayed
pretty close to the store lately and will
enjoy this vacation immensely.
HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON.
PAGE THREE
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these now it the time to take advant
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your pocket.
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He was the Captain of the company ! "At Umatilla during church service
and we were glad to give them the an Indian came into camp and the
cow to pacify them. A little farther men seized their guns expecting an
on we met a band of five hundred ' attack. Another time on Big Buttel
Snake Indians and they had their Creek three Indians rode into camn
s:juaws with them or we would have j we thought they were spies and did
had trouble. not allow them to go until morning.One
"A few weeks later a young man 1 morning when we were near Cecil
came walking into our camp, they- j father went to look for the cattle and
called him a mountaineer. He want- the Indians shot at him. Our journey
ed to borrow my father's horse and j ended at Howell's Prairie, eipht mile
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MRS. ELIZA J. AYERS.
A short time before the death of
Clara Barton, the famous nurse and
Red Cross worker, which occured not
long ago, some one asked her what
was the secret of her long life, and
how she was able to accomplish so
much in ninety years. Her reply
was, "I work."
When Sara Bernhardt was in this
country last year she was asked the
secret of her power and how she look
ed so youthful at sixty-eight. "I
work," said Sara. "I work be
cause it is the only thing that makes
life worth living. And I work to keep
my beauty. The brain and the heart
must be satisfied if the human beir.jj
would be happy."
I spent an afternoon with Mrs.
Eliza Ayers at her home in Heppner
this week and in the course of the
conversation I asked her receipe
which enabled her to outlive the pre
scribed three score and ten years.
"Having something td do," she ans
wered. i No one can converse long with Mrs.
Ayers and not be impressed with the
fact that here is a woman who has
experienced the trials of life, meeting
them firmly, asking no odds and with
al, cheerful, happy and full of anima
tion. She was born back in Des
Moines County, Iowa, near the city
of Burlington, in the year 1836. Iowa
we are told, produces two great crops,
able women and corn. Her parents
were William and Elizabeth Green
wood, Virginians by birth who set
tled in Iowa in the early days. They I
wore accustomed to work, having
wrestled with the soil in the moun
tains of Virginia. The granite of
Virginia is strong in iron, much of
which sifts into the blood of the peo
ple. "Our family crossed the plains in
'48 and there wree sixty ox teams in
the company It was at a time when
ths Indians were restless and on the
point of rebellion. Just as we cros
sed the Missouri river we were stop
ped by a band of them and father
gave them a cow, which they demand-
I ed for passing through their lands.
ride on to the next camp, which he
said was a short way up the trail.
Father didn't want to loan it but
finally let him have it providing he
would not ride it hard. When he got
outside the camp he went as fast as
he could and father got on another
horse and went after him. We
thought that the Indians had killed
him but he came back late that night
and with the horse. We were so
excited about it that we forgot to put
out the guards until one of the men
who happened to think of it went
through the camp yelling, "No cam
tain, no pjards out, five old squaws
could ccpture the camp."
''On the way we met another com
pany who were driving sheep across
and we traveled with them for sev
eral weeks. The owners were in
sulting to ths drivers. One of them in
a meeting wanted to have every man
whipped who went to sleep on guard.
The next night we had another meet
ing and it was voted on as to whether
we would divide the companies. They
voted to divide and we left the people
with the sheep.
"We had one bad character on the
trip named Trimbell. His wife was
deathly sick and one night she asked
for a drink of water and he refused to
get it for her. Father happened to be
on guard and heard him but he was
such a desperate character that
nothing was said about it. His wife
died a short time later and we buried
her on the plains. A few days after
that one of his boyn fell off his horse
and broke his armv Trimbell threw
him back oh the horse and let him
go. One time he whipped him with a
rope which had a knot tied in it. The
little fellow died a few days later and
he put him in a badger hole and cov
ered the hole with rocks. John Davis
found it and buried it. Sometime
afterwards a man came to our home
in the Wilamette Valley and who
should it be but Trimbell. He had a
paper that he wanted my father to
sign stating that he had treated his
wife and family in a husbandly way
on the plains. Father would not sign
it and I afterwards was told that it
was for a new matromonial purpose
that he wanted to get the signatures.
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ROW COUNTY FAIR
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HEPPNER, OREGON
from Salem. There we farmed about
700 acres. A section of land at that
time cost about $400. One acre cost
that much there now. I lived there
until 1855. My father and mother
both died there, as did my first hus
band, William Shaw, six months after
we were , married in 1851. Three i
years later I married Harvey Smith
and we lived near Gervais.
We had six children in all
According to their ages, they are
Mrs. Josephine Forwood, of Sumpter,
Oregon; Mrs. Paulina Quaid, of Port
land; Mrs. Cora Vanduyn, of Spokane,
wasn.; Mrs. Eliza Wallbridge, of
Heppner; Mrs, Viola Swinburne, who
died in Heppner; Mrs. Ava Thornton,
wno with her husband and child,
Doris, were drowned in 1903, and
Charley, who died when six years old
We lived at Lebanon most of the
time and Mr. Smith was sheriff of the
county. In 1873 we came to Hemmei
for Mr. Smith's health but he diec.
the next year. I kept a boardine
house in a building just south of Bol
Hart's place for eight years. Here it
a picture of the place."
In the picture which Mrs. Ayei-E
handed to me, one could make out Mrs
Walt Richardson, who was a little
girl then, Viola Swinburne and Mrs
Herrington and herself, made up the
rest of the ladies. Art Minor wat
there and like all boys, barefooted.
Oscar, who was older, could be dis
tinguished.
"Ellis Minor wanted to buy me out
but I asked too much and he built the
present building occupied by Bob Hart.
In 1888 I marriet Mr, T. W. Ayers
in 1888 I married Mr. T. W. Ayers.
Geo. Stansberry and went into the
real estate business. When I came
to Heppner, Stansberry's log cabin was
the only house here. Our nearest
neighbor was O. H. Hallock who livec
on the Bisbee place one half mile
away. Tom Marlatt lived about t
mile. Mr. Ayers was County Judge
for three years and was one of the
men who started the light plant. He
died in 1909."
Mrs. Ayers told me that she ownes
and lived on a quarter section of lane
which she bought of George Brainart
after Mr. Smith died. This is a part
of the Whetstone ranch now, which it
four miles northeast of town. She
moved to town and lived in her house
where Thompson Bros, store is now
It was during the days when the mail
came from Pendleton and The Dalles,
at first three times a week and then
daily. About this time the Indiai
wars occured, and to protect them
selves, a stockade was built at Hepp
ner.
"I remember one night the youn
fellow who carried the mail to Pendle
ton was about ready to start with the
stage alone. I told him that he bet
ter stay at home for the Indiana would
surely cut him off. He replied, "It it
the United States mail and I have to
go." I made up a lunch for him and
jin the meantime two other men, Mr.
Glover, division agent for the Btage
line, and Mr. Romig, the horseshoer
jfor the stage line, decided to accom
pany him. Going over Butter Creek
they saw an Indian lying on his elbow
ready to kill the driver.When he saw
: that there were three in the stage he
did not molest them. When the stage
started back to Heppner, the Indians
stopped it between Pilot Rock and
Pendleton and they were forced to re
turn, i
"One day a man came to town say- j
ing that the Indians had surrounded j
John Day and the people wanted help I
The men here left at once and the
Indians withdrew. I also remember 1
one day when we lived on the ranch,
one of my daughters had gone to the
pasture for the horse. Two Indians
were watching her and when out of
sight of the house, one of them took
after her. She turned and ran for
the house and eluded him.
"In 1806 the Columbia river Indians
were on the warpath and it is sup
posed that they killed Whitman. My
brother-in-law, Daniel Smith came
along and wanted by husband to go to
war. He would have gone but I be
gan to cry about it and he ended by
giving him his revolver and field
glasses and staying home. While
camping on the Burnt River some
time later, Daniel and two other men
strayed a small distance from the
camp anl he and one of the other
men were shot l.y the Indians. Ik-fore
they could I reached hy the men in
the camp, the Indians had scalped
them and that night they built a fire
on the hill nearby and danced around
it and waved red blanket.
"Another incident that I rttnrmkr
very vividly was waterspout that
occured whep I liven, the ranch. It
was on a Sunday evening. Wesley
Marlatt came riding down the valley
warnirg everyone and we ewaped Just
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