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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1952)
SATURDAY, JUNK 21, 10r2 ; v w.,. -y "1 I BEAUTY on a chimp. Loretta Stevoni ii ihown on Golden JPoy, judqod (ha bail palo mino at the Queen Trials (hit year. r ALLEN HOWARD, rat.d on of lha Weit'i best iquara dance callers, ii to work tha big Jamboree itreet dance here the night of Saturday, June 28. Following the street dancing, the Roundup Ball will be hold at the Armory. Rainmakers Halt Efforts YAKIMA I Rain-making e. forts am about to end tor the aea on In the Horse Hravrn llllla ol nouth central Washington. Leo Horrlgnn ol Prosser, a wheat rower and n lender In the attempt to milk" the cloud formation! over lite arid region, anlrt the cf form will be discontinued this week end. tin flnld It I' now Rclllna loo lute In the season lor rain In the area to bring much benefit to the v. heat. Ilorrisnn mild rulnlall hj been about an Inch below normal, de Mine the attempt! to urine It bv sending silver Iodide particles Into the clouds. f Mi Jkaer Ily MYKTLK WIMLR FOP.T KLAMATH Rail bucka roos of the cnrlv dnvs of the old West arc I11.1t becoming a tiling of the pa.sl. and Fort Klnmatli Is In dud of the fact that one of thcHe ). numbered In Its population. He Ik Walter J. WrlKht. respected and loved, loim-tlmn reHvlcni, who cele brated his 10th birthday on Jan uary sixth of this year. Much vounucr In uppenrnncc Hum his venrs would warrant, Wal ter Is nix loet thrco. Inches tall, welclis I HO pounds, and his deeply tunned complexion show! the yen in Mr-I. In the outdoors: 111 summer, It jltri on the appearance of ma luignny, so dnrk does It become on exposure to tho sun and wind. Indian Bill Action Due WASHINGTON MV- Rep. Ells-ti-Mfih n.nret finld Frldav he expects tho rules committee to act early next wcea on m.s rcsuiuium cnlliiiK lor liivesllniitlnn of the Bureau of Indian AffrilrH, The resolution calls for tho House Interior Committee to re port, among other tilings on "tran Millions Involving the exchange, lease, or sale of lands or Interests In lands belonging to Indian wards, wllh specific findings as to such transactions In the stnto of Ore lion." The resolution actually Is a com )io.slto of two earlier proposals In t induced by Ellsworth mid Rep. Bow (R-Ohlo). The Oregon congressman was pilmaillv Interested In an Invcsll untlnn liilo reported Irregularities bv bureau employes In the sale of flilO acres of Indian land near Oold Beach Ore. Two bureau cmployoa havo been suspended as an out growth of those allegations, , Bow's resolution dealt with the wider problem of determining the extent to which the Jjuieau has gnnciflicad Willi " program to free Indians from government super vision, I 1951 Roundup Queen Margy Brown He Is a typical cowhand of .the old school, and adheres strongly to tho code and ethics of a bygone day. He Is still very active and by no means ready to hang up his spurs land saddle yet. NATIVE Walter Is a native Oregonlan. He was born In 1881 at Myrtle Creek, where his parents were engaged In cattle. At the age of 10. Walter became restless ana aeciaea iu seek his fortune across the moun tains. So he saddled up his own little black horse, stowed a sack of clothes behind the saddle and fared forth. His travels ending at T t. a hab I nbatlUHl hn wwwd unftc, 1 . i 1 ....... . ... , . - he became short of cash. Here ho got a Jon at tne Alex Kcia rancn. where he worked for two years mnmltmA !. Inltlnilnn In the art of buckaroolng which was to become nis uioiime won. In addition to Mr. and Mrs. Reld, IK. rn-.lt., InMllrieH thrPA ROnS. Bird. Joe and Elmer, all of whom wcro fine riders. Many hundred head of cattle were pastured on .1 ..... Dnrl nl the work of the cowhands was break ing of wild horses, ana waiter soon became an expert In this line. a it... Mff .r lha tu-n venra snnnt at the Reld ranch, he came to this region to wora ior jh omr wood on his Klamath Marsh ranch. . . . ... u. u- Ur in Ihn Wood Lmier lie wui im , ... - River valley for Jack Pelton and Cary V. Loosiey. tie aiso nenieu . -,nnw In, 'nhftrurnnrl and Pel- Illiivc niiiva """" ., , Ion from Dlllard (10 miles from Roseburg) to seasonal pasture here In the valley some 00 yenm ". Ha tells of the cattle drives made. 1. ,1 . nM rlatri when I.OflQ head of Loosley's cattle were driven at one lime irom nere ui : Valley, a trip which took eight in J...- tii n.nlrn fm nf lllONn I11CI1 In tin.vn m . - - - drives was especially memorable. Walter ana mrce ier punchers started out with 400 head nr en 1 11. from Warner Valley, headed for Lakevlew, where the stock was to oe snippea via rmi to market. A man was supposed 1. lUam ii,IIH aiinnlle: on the III hici:i hiv'im .- - edge of the desert, but through some misunneraianning,' no nm to materialise and tha cowboys were forced to go on wnn wc my km cattle, sans food or water, either for themselves or their horses. To add to their discomfort, It started to snow, and the ground was covered to a depth of four inches, and "plenty cold, too." Waller re calls. After 24 hours of riding herd on the cattle without food or water, and cold and miserable to boot, they finally reached a Camas prairie ranch where they and their horses were cared for with 'the good old-fashioned Western hospi tality provided for man and beast alike. TO FORT ROCK, Later on, Sherwood -moved to Fort Rock, where be had taken up a homestead on which he' ran horses. The voung buckaroo of our' story next went to work for Felix Duncan at his Lone Pine - ranch on the bank of Silver Lake. The name was chosen because, there was one solitary pine tree growing on the land. Here lie also worked with horses and oattle, and at one time, when the horses broke out and es. caped Into the desert, tanch hands with a cook and chuckwagrm made a trip Into the wasteland, rounded up the cavuscs and brought them back t the corral!.. - . In 1008, Walter and a friend, Jess Voss, went Into partnership and rented tho E. R. Cardwoll ranch on Wood River northeast of Fort Klamath (now,' the Earl Kerus property), where they put up hay and also cut some timber late In the fall for Utter and Burns for their Kingdom sawmill which was located on the neighboring Samuel Fflng ranch,- now the ALvin Cope- land place. , , .. , While ho was living at the Card well ranch, .Walter said that Har rison Brown of old Yainax rented tho old Blllv Moore ranch south of here (now the Fred L, Pope ranch) and moved 200 head of horses there. Forty of these broncos Moore wanted broken to ride, so Walter and partner Jess contracted to do the lob. Pete said "we worxea 'at It llko we were chopping wood," riding ten horses a day, five apiece, as according to their agreement wllh Brown, they had contracted to ride each animal three times for the sum of $5.00. (Walter re marked here that this was a little different from the present day, HEfiALI) AND when a cowboy would scarcely put a saddle on a wild horse for $5.00, much less ride him even once . . .) They kept the horses In a large corral out in the meadow, and would ride for a distance of half a mile and back each time theymnnt., were trimmed and the WtBBSBKSSSSS 1 WALTER NKWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Who Crowns Her Successor Tonight rode one, also if the occasion arose, they would ride some of them to town once in a while. When they were ready to be sold as gentle horses, broken to ride I,,, saddle ponies, their tails and Li) WRIGHT I l, t! f l t 1 . & t X y. . ' 1M1M iiiiiiiwi'riml "with knots" removed therefrom before the two buckaroos turned them back to their owner, Harrison Brown. Old-time buckaroos known (and they were really top hands, too, Walter opined) included Heavy Roberts of Warner Valley; Jack Rose, who spent two years here; J; C. Mitchell of the old Weed ranch." now the property of the Hawkins Cattle Co.. who moved later to Warner Valley and sub sequently passed awav at Lake view; and J. Upton "Dad" Worth mgton. All are now deceased. Dad Worthington having . passed away last summer at Paisley where he had been for some time living in retirement forced upon- him by phvsical disability. He was very well known and liked here, having been a long-time employe and personal friend of R. S. (Seth) Dixon, local stockman. - - LONG JOB In 1917.' Walter went to work for Samuel H. Miller, and can claim the outstanding distinction of hav ing been employed byi the Miller family for 35 years. Following Miller's -death in 1941, the business was carried on by his son. Loren L.. and several venrs rdo. Loren L. was Joined by his son, Loren L. Jr., a company of Loren L. Miller and Company was formed by father and son..- who are partners in- tneir Oregon, and California cattle oper ations. Loren Jr. Is theiatner 01 three young sons,' and a baby daughter horn June 12. Tne sons no doubt will follow in his footsteps when they become old enough to help. All through the changes of the years. Walter has been and still Is a loyal and faithful em ploye of tbe Miller family. In his early dnvs with the Mil lers, the cattle were moved from their rancn at Dlllard to the wood River valley for seasonal pasture. and In the winter, Walter fed beef cattle at the Dlllard ranch. ' The stock was shipped to market by rail from Ashland in those days until tho advent of the railroad to Klamath Falls In 1908. when the cattle were consigned Irom that point: when the railroad came to Chtloqutn a few years later, beef cattle were shipped from there to Southern markets. Speaking of those old-time cattle drives (which were so many that he can't recollect the exact num ber In which he took part) Walter said that it took eight or ten riders two' weeks, with good luck, to move the stock from Dlllard across the mountains to Fort Klam ath, a distance of approximately 190 miles. Compared to the modern means of transportation of cattle by -dlesel and - gasoline-powered trucks and -trailers, accomodating 35 or 40 .head according to their size and piloted by drivers known as "diesel or gasoline" cowboys to buckaroos of the -old school. Al though the majority of local cattle men now move their stock by the faster means of transportation of truck and trailer, a few cling to the old way of shipping via rail road to Chiloquln,. with buckaroos on horseback driving the cattle from there to the lush green pas tures of the Wood River valley. FOOL THINGS Reminiscing about his younger days, with a twinkle In his eve Walter allowed that he had done a lot of "fool things" as a youth, such as riding miles out of his way Just to ride a wild horse he had heard about. On one such occasion, he rode ten-miles to CanyonvlUe where he had been told there was a bronco which his owner was afraid to ride because he was so mean. The animal was kept In a stall in a livery barn where he -was fed grain and hay, and in connection with the livery barn was a saloon, the two combined establishments being run bv a man named Johnny Jackson. After arriving at . Canyonville, Walter told the owner of the wild horse that be would ride the horse for a quart 'Of whisky, so the deal was made, with much skepticism on the part of the owner as to the sue cartful outcome. However. Walter saddled and got on the wild pony, rode him all over town, returned to the livery stable, dismounted and put the. horse back in his stall. got' the quart of whisky he had bargained for. and returned home. He aald -that he had done many similar stunts In his early days, but unlike many riders who will never admit that they were ever PAGE ELEVEN r SUE SESSLER, Klamath Falls, was a member of the 1951 Roundup Royalty court. B. M. ANTLE is one of tha square dance callers who will be at the big Jamboree street danca here Saturday, Juno 28. ' Power Needs More Money -.SPOKANE m Bonneville Pow er Administrator Paul Raver, said In Spokane Thursday low-cost fi nancing is needed lor power de velopment. He made his itatement at tha opening session of the BP A 'a re gional advisory council's two-dav ' meet. Raver described the electricity business as a "mass market busi ness" ana said "low cost unit is the key to the development of that system.'' He told the council more power must be generated to "maintain mass production through the low rate approach." Another speaker, Cus Norwood, executive secretary of the North west Public Power Association, also called for low-cost financing for power development. He told the council the "six per cent rate of return type of investment cannot do the job of the future." bucked off a horse, he said that he had been thrown many a time. Comparing wages of those times and the present day, Walter said that then, the going wage for a buckaroo was forty or fifty dollars a month - and board, although he was paid slightly more as he was an all-round ranch hand in addition to having the ability to break horses. Before he entered the em ploy of the Miller family, he was offered several jobs running dif ferent spreads, but as this would have entailed staying put for sev eral years at a time, he didn't accept any of these offers, as he wasn't ready to settle down yet and preferred to be .foot-loose and independent.- Present day pay for an ordinary -. ranch hand is at least $200 a month, with Tent and a few other incidentals thrown In. Last School Election Due The last of this year's local school elections is scheduled for next Monday, to elect one mem ber of the Klamath Union High School board for a five-year term. Voting will be between the hours of 2 to 8 p.m. at the main KUH3 building. Nelson Reed, board member lor many years, Is seeking re-election to the post, and Is opposed by L. Ernest Taylor,-who is office manager and treasurer of the Palmerton Lumber Company. Some electioneering is being' done now, in contrast to the usual deadly quiet of school elections, In behalf of Taylor. A good many residents of town- have received printed postcards outlining Tay lor's education, business career and qualifications for the school board post. A telephone campaign for Reed was also being carried out. All registered voters who are residents of the - Klamath Union High School district, comprising Klamath Falls and much of the suburban area, are eligible to vote. The residence requirement is six months, )
