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Joaquin Miller Spread Near John Day
Named for Famed Gold Rush Era Poet
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By LEVERETT RICHARDS
Staff Wrltar, Tha Oragonlwi
The old Wfld West of song
and story. That's what the
dudes from the effete East
want to see when they come
West to share Old Man Ore
gon's 100th birthday cake next
year.
They can find it (among oth
er places) 100 feet off the main
highway at the Joaquin Miller
Guest ranch, 10 miles south of
John Day on Highway 395, just
10 miles off Highway 20, one of
America's main streets.
We set out on an Oregonian
Oregon State Motor Assn.
motorlog in search of the Wild
West to complete the educa
tion of Jaap Wertheim, the
Dutch student who spent the
year with us under the Amer
ican Field Service program.
Cowbodys are scarce in the
Netherlands. So are moun
tains. "We have just one. It is 300
feet high and all sand," Jaap
used to say.
Pin Trees Scarce
Pine trees are scarce, too,
and the deer are not for hunt
ing.
Joaquin Miller dude ranch,
named for the rootin', tootin'
poet of gold rush days, looked
like a frontier ranch should
a cluster of red buildings with
false fronts that looked like the
Red Dob saloon and the Dead
Eve Dance Hall, the country
store and the blacksmith shop
of a typical cowtown, all nes-
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Joaquin Miller Guest Ranch
,s ca Highway 395, 10 miles
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At Niles Sprout's urging, Jaap Wertheim tries his hand
with branding iron, holding it like a professional. Ranch it
oh of last using old "head and heel" handling of calves.
lone Girl Breaks
By ECHO PALMATEER
Marjorle O'Connor, daughter of
Mr and Mrs Charles T'Connor,
fractured both bones in her left
leg just above the ankle when
she fell in the swimming pool at
Hat Rock park Sunday. She was
taken to Hermiston for treatment
and then brought to the Pioneer
Memorial hospital in Heppner
where she will be a patient for
a few days,
Mr n Mrs Ralph Crum and
family visited relatives in The
Dalles Sunday. Mrs Glenn bnuey,
Mr Crum's sister, returned home
with them.
Rev and Mrs Charles Wilkes
and family are visiting relatives
in Grangeville, Idaho. Recent
guests at the Wilkes home were
his mother, Mrs WHKes, nis sis
ter, Margaret Wilkes and a niece,
Judv Wilkes of Idaho.
Stephen Ring of Heppner is
visiting his grandparents, Mr and
Mrs Harvev Ring.
Those from here who attended
a Nazarene Singfest in Irrigon
Friday evening of last week were
Mrs Ralph Crum and children,
Bonnie, Jack, Bobby and Monty;
Ralph and John Akers, Judy Wil
kes. Rev Charles Wilkes and
Frank Wiley.
A social meeting was held af
ter the regular Bunchgrass Re
bekah lodge meeting Thursday
evening of last week. The nos
tesses were Mrs Omar Rietmann
and Mrs Walter Roberts.
Henrv Clark and son, Lowell,
Harold Martin and Alecia Swales
tied in a mountain meadow un
der redolent pines at the foot
of Canyon Mountain.
Sure enough there is a sa
loon, now converted to tamer
use: a blacksmith shop, and a
real western dance hall. There
is also a cook house where
steaks, mashed potatoes, pie
and cake are served family
style in quantities.
There is also a comfortable
swimming pool, 24 by 70 feet,
fed bv natural hot springs and
open from dawn to near mid
night. James E. (Jim) snarp
used to run the ranch as a pub
lic resort until he and Volney
McHaley teamed up 'ast year
to establish it as a guest
ranch and hunting headquar
ters, season June 1 to Oct. 30.
They have cabins tor 18
guests on the banks of Canyon
Creek under the murmuring
pines, and apartments for a
half dozen more in the main
lodge building, which includes
dance hall and lounge. They
also have horses, dozens of
them. And thereby hangs a
tale.
Horse Said Famous
Jaap, our Dutch student, had
never seen a real, live saaaie
bronc close up, much less
straddled one.
"Your horse is famous,"
the ranch hands had assured
him, solemnly. "Widow-Maker,
they caU mm, oecause nes
killed so many riders."
"When I saw that horse,
now, I was believing it, too,"
Jaap later confessed. "He was
so much bigger and stronger
than I."
But Jim and Deke and
Frank McHaley, Deke's dad,
who introduced bareback buck
ing to the Pendleton Round-Up
-and a dozen dudes were wait
ing with wide grins. So the
Dutch boy got up. He and
"Widow-Maker" - whose call
ing name was really Tracy
were close friends in a few
minutes, except when Tracy
trotted. Jaap didn't trot when
Tracy did.
"Tracy is always coming up
when I am coming down.
What's the matter with him?
jaap complained.
Nevertheless, the whole fam
ily rode ten miles that day,
winding through the parklike
woods, up steep hills and into
the o?en re?.chcs of the high
Leg Swimming
of Hermiston were lone visitors
Sunday. Henry Clark has pur
chased a home In Hermiston.
Mr and Mrs Roger Klncald and
daughter, Debbie, left last week
on a vacation trip to San Diego,
California.
Mrs David McLeod gave
birthday party Wednesday after
noon, August 6 at the city park
in honor of her daughter, Deb
orah, who was four years old.
Other children present were John
and Stevie Wagenblast, Greg
Jacobs, Terry and Cathy Cannon,
Marlene and Anita Crawford,
Melvin Gaarsland, Carol Hausler,
John and Lisa McCabe, Ricky
Barnett, Barbara and Ricky
Boyce, Bradley Ramsey and Bill,
Frances and David McLeod Jr.
After the picnic swimming was
enjoyed at the pool.
Mrs Norman Nelson gave
birthday party at" her home Fri
day, August 8 In honor of her,
son, Charles' 8th birthday. The
children enjoyed swimming at
the pool in the afternoon and
a barbeque party at the Nelson
home in the evening. Children
present were Jimmy McElllgott,
Kerry Peterson, Bobbie Ball,
Floyd Wiley, Bill McLeod and
Bradley Ramsey.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Heliker re
turned from a two weeks trip
Sunday evening. They spent most
of the time in Seattle where they
visited their son-in-law and dau
ghter, Mr and Mrs Jerry Bol-
man. The Bolmans brought them
home and left for Seattle Mon-
of Wild West
country, where Deke and Jim
rode off through the chaparral
to scare up a dozen deer.
This is the heart of the deer
country. Dudes have seen as
many as 150 in a day. In hunt
ing season the open woods are
ablaze with gunfire. But Sharp
and McHaley take their parties
in to a 6,000 acre private
ranch near Izee where a hunter
has only to sit and shoot The
ranch adjoins the Canyon
Creek archery reserve where
only bows and arrows may be
used. Here Jim and Deke drive
the deer slowly past the firing
line for the hunters. Elk hunt
ing is more rugged, but good.
More than 9,000 deer and
more than 1,000 elk were killed
in Grant County in 1956. ,
Good Fishing Available
Fishing, 'too, is good on
Canyon Creek, and irresistible
on more inaccessible tributar
ies. The refrigerator was full
of tender ten-inch Rainbow
trout when we were there,
We couldn't get our gang out
of the old swimming pool ex
cept for riding, eating and
square dancing, however. The
Mt. Vernon square dancers
showed up in force and lured
some of the dudes from the
ranch into joining their
scavtres.
There's something about the
sweet scent of pine at high
noon on a hot day that makes
day. The Helikers attended the
Sea Fair, the boat races and
many other points of interest
there. They also visited at Whid-
ley Island, Anacortes and Mercer
Island. '
Mr and Mrs Fredrick Martin
and family returned home Sun
day from British Columbia, Can
ada where they spent ten days.
They stayed at Kamloops, Lucky
Strike fishing camp and toured
the central part of British Col
umbia. Dates To Remember:
August 17 Grange picnic at the
city park with potluck ain-
,ner around noon.
'All grangers and their fam
ilies and friends are wel
come. August 22 Three Llnw of
Bunchgrass Rebekan lodge
. meeting.
Books added to lone library
are: By Love Possessed, Cozzens;
The Northern Light, Cronin;
Pemberton Ltd, Glyn; The Town
Faulkner; The Time of Dragons,
Ekert; Ella Gunning, Deasy;
Victoria and Albert, Anthony;
Ice Palace, Ferber. .........
Mr and Mrs Alfred Nelson and
family are yacatloning at Pend
Oreille Lake in Idaho.
Mr and Mrs George Slora and
children of Nampa, Idaho are
visiting at the Ernest McCabe
home.
Mrs Howard Crowell and Miss
Patricia Steagall spent last week
in Portland.
Mrs John Voorshees and daugh
ters of Portland are visiting her
parents, Mr and Mrs Wate Craw
ford.
Mrs Olive Engleman is ill at
her home.
Miss Shirlee McGreer is coun
selling at the Colton Youth Camp
at Colton.
The lone public library board
met Monday afternoon. Mrs Dix
on Smith was elected president;
Mrs Fannie Griffith was elected
vice president, Mrs Victor Riet
mann secretary-treasurer. Other
members of the board are Mrs
Verner Troedson and Mrs John
Proudfoot. The board decided to
have hook shelves made for the
librarv and library week was
discussed.
Mrs Noel Dobyns underwent
surgery at the St Vincent's hos
pital in Portland Monday. She
and Mr Dobyns went to Port
land last week. They took Mrs
Grace Ware to Morton, Wash to
visit her son-in-law, Mr and Mrs
G V Crumb.
Mr and Mrs Henry Gorger of
Pendleton are staying at the Da
vid Baker farm while the Bakers
are in California.
Mrs Tony DeSpaln of Cascade
Locks visited at the home of her
son and family, Mr and Mrs
Robert DeSpaln last week.
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Padded Vans
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TRANSFER CO.
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12 Noon
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more of the Old West-a calf
branding bee on the Niles
Sproul ranch in nearby Bear
Valley.
There a half dozen neighbor
families converged around the
big log corral on a sunny Sun
day morning to help with the
branding.
Calves Headed,. Heeled
No fancy mechanical squeeze
boxes here.- These cowmen
"head and heel" their calves.
One passes a loop around the
rugged range calf, then leads
the balky critter into the center
of the corral where another
mounted cowhand passes his
loop over one or both of the
calf's hind legs.
The well-trained horses then
stretch tha bawling calf out
while he is branded, vaccinat
ed, emasculated, his ears
notched and his horn buds
cauterized. This wu almost too
much for our Dutchman on his
first dude ranch, until he saw
the calves frisk away unhurt
by their ordeal.
We were only sorry we could
not stay for the potluck dinner
which concludes these tradi
tional branding bees.
But we each had a date with
a horse. We didn't want to
waste a ninute of the magic of
Joaquin Miller ranch.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Dalthorp
anrj children of Seattle spent last
week with her sister and family,
Mr anfj Mrs Donald Peterson,
Rev and Mrs Floyd Bailey left
i Monday for Hemet, Calif. They
WM help their son and family,
Mr and Mrs Robert Bailey move
to Oregon. During their absence,
Rev George Pollard, congregat
ional minister of. Portland will
preach in the Community church
Aug 17 and 24. He and Mrs Pol
lard will stay at the parsonage
over the weekends.
Miss Patricia Peck left for her
home in Monmouth Saturday af
ter visiting her grandfather, Ed
a man want io sp uy me
murmuring creek. But our
hosts had to show us some
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Monument News
By MARTHA MATTESOIf
Ray Gienger Is in the John Day
hospital with pneumonia.
Mr and Mrs Mead Gilman were
in John Day Saturday on busi
ness. While there they called on
several friends who were in the
hospital.
Rev and Mrs Jack Chan and
daughter returned home this
week after spending six weeks
visiting in Washington.
Mrs Oleta Farrens of the Mon
ument post office and Lois Hill
of Kimberly drove to Fossil Sat-
Buschke and other relatives. Her
uncle, Louis Buschke, took her
to Monmouth.
Mrs Doris Gollyhorn reports
that her son, Airman Wayne
Gollyhorn, is stationed at Guam.
Kenneth Lundell left Saturday
for his home in Oakland, Calif
after visiting his parents, Mr and
Mrs O L Lundell and other rela
tives. Mrs Elmer Holtz entertained at
a pinochle party at her home
Friday evening of last week.
Those receiving prizes were Mrs
Wallace Gaarsland high; Mrs
Vester Hams, 2nd high and Mrs
Tom White, low.
Mrs James Botts returned home
from California last week where
she visited relatives.
Harold Holtz attended the wed
ding of friends at Stephenson,
Wash. Sunday.
Weekend guests at the Gar
land Swanson home were Mrs
Swanson's sister, Mrs Anna Sol
strom, her niece, Mrs Clara Ro
bertson and daughter, Dottle Ann,
all of Salem; her cousins, Mr
and Mrs Robert Bonnie and two
children of Portland.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Turner
of Heppner stopped at the Swan
son home last week while on
their way to attend a wedding in
Corvallis.
Mrs Rodney Crawford Jr and
children of Portland are visiting
at the home of her mother, Mrs
Ida Coleman. Mr Crawford spent
i the weekend with them.
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urday evening for post office
meeting.
Mr and Mrs Roy Cork took a
load of cattle to Madras for his
brother Harold.
The Bob Leslie family of Bend
were visiting her folks, the Roy
Corks for a few days.
George Stirritt and Fred Mc
Willis were business callers in
John Day Monday.
Cecil Rinehart has returned
from his vacation and is at the
home of his sister, Mrs Chrytle
Enright. He drives the school bus
from Top to town.
Mrs Lois Bleakman and two
daughters and Mrs Carl Cox and
daughter were in John Day on
Tuesday.
Mrs Fred Page of Oceanlake,
Oregon was here for a few days
on business. She owns five hous
es here that are rented.
Mrs Arlet Flemings and two
children and Jessie Jewel and
two children went to Seattle last
week to meet Arlet Flemmlngs,
who had been in Alaska this
summer, fishing.
Mr and Mrs Wayne Leathers
and two children left Wednes
day for California to visit their
daughter and family, the Abe
Gates.
Mr and Mrs Charlie Roach
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were called to Washington Fri
day evening by the illness of
his mother.
Mr and Mrs Bert Howard of
Mt Vernon were in Kimberly Sat
urday getting peaches and visi
ting. They used to run the Kim
berly postoffice. and store.
Mrs Harold Cork was in Seattle
last week to attend the annual
Alasklan picnic.
Dalton Wilhelm of Spray is
now working at the State forest
ry office. He is taking the place
of Aubrey Crum who broke some
ribs while fighting one of the
fires in July.'
June Hutchison drove George
Kirk to John Day Monday morn
ing for medical care.
Mrs Boyd Hlnton and Mrs Mat
tie Stubblefield were in John Day
on business.
Mr and Mrs deorge Stubble
field and four children were In
John Day Wednesday.
Gus Peterson was In John Day
Wednesday on business for the
power company.
Mr and Mrs Earl Sweek, who
have been visiting their daugh
ter and family, the Ray Bow
mans at Dayton, Washington, ar
rived here on Tuesday. They
spent the night with their son,
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