The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-14
region and passed the plains alone, on

region and passed the plains alone, on
 horseback in 1865.
 He stopped a year or two in Idaho where he supported himself by trapping
 and hunting, and he became famous as
 a killer of bears. Tn 1867 he went further westand settled in Morrow county, where he engaged in stock rais- ing.
 About twenty years ago he removed
 to his present location ia Umatilla
 county, where he has been engaged In
 the raising of horses, sheep and cattle.
 About this time he married Maggie
 Barker, a daughter of John Barker, the
 was killed at Heppner by "Bill' Jones
 in a brawl The mother of Walker S
 wife was a Pitt River (Cal) Indian,
 and therefore Walkers children are
 now quarter-breeds, the strain of Indian
 blood being very apparent in the girls.
 Walkers marriage was blessed by eight
 children, all girls, the eldest being about
 IS years of age and the youngest two
 years.
 During the Bannock Indian war of 1878 his services were secured as scout
 C'
 Heppner, father of Thomas Ayers of Pendleton, Ore. He performed valuable
 services in this capacity, serving under Col. Brown. While on scouting duty he
 discovered a very dangerous ambuscade
 prepared by the Indians in a narrow canon, where they had gathered great
 masses of rock to roll down upon the
 troops when passing through, hoping in
 the confusion to out them to pieces. Walker was surrounded by the Indians for two days on this trip and escaped only by crawling through the brush like snake When he reported the ambus- cade the troops marched against he In dians by ad ifferent route and surprised them, infiicting great damage. For this service he was presented with $100 in addition to his wages.
 Walker Is 6 feet 1 inch high, weighs 190 pounds. is as straight as an Indian, has regular features. calm blue eyes, heavy mustache and chin whiskers slightly touched with gray, and when In Pendleton wore coarse woollen cap, typical bucksikin hunting shirt and was armed with a six-shooter strapped on the horn of hjs6 saddle. It was to be ex- pected that man of his antecedents married to a half-breed Indian woman would raise 2. family of bold, adven- turous character, and the expectation is more than realized When he came to Pendleton about a week ago he brought with him his two oldest girls, Mar cialette, familiarity known as Babe" aged IS, who tips the scale at 160 pounds and Susie, aged 16, weight, 145 pounds The girls were in charge of a band of horses which they had driven from John Day River. a distance of nearly one hundred miles. The arrival of this party with their horses produced a great sensation in Pendleton.
 The girls, who rode astride and man. aged their ponies with the utmost grace and Gexterity, wore cowboys hats, mems coats, Dolly Warden calico dress es, heavy shoes, thick wooden stockings, loosely tied ha.ndkerchiefs about their necl1s, and their faces were brown as barries from exposure to the elements. This was their holiday attire for ser vice when on dress parade in a large city: but when riding the range at home they wear the typical cowboy dress, consisting of wide-brimmed somberos, overalls, "chaps," hfgh-top boots and spurs Their reputation IS horsewomen extends all through the bunchgrass re- gions, and they have standing offer of sl0O reward for any cowboy who will perform any feat of horsemanship which they will not equal or surpass, but no man has yet claimed the re- ward,
 These girls take care of 300 head of horses, band of 1,500 sheep and nu- nerous cattle, together with their fath- ar performing the entire work of the .anches, including breaking and brand ng of wild horses and all the other ar I luous duties which pertain to stock | ,aising. About one year ago Susie | started to round up bunch of wild | lorses which seemed on the point of | getting away from her. They were on , slightly elevated ridge of rim rock, | which was so narrow that she was un ,ble to pass them and head them off, , without the slightest hesi- ation she spurred her broncho off the ,dge of the level on dead run and anded on the level ground feet below, without being dismounted or injuring Ter horse. and succeeded in turning the ,and back and rounding them up
 The horse upon which she performed his remarka ble feat is a thoroughbred, or which her father gave fifteen of his test horses. and the same which she ode into Pendleton,
 Marcialette. the oldest, is no less extrous horsewoman than Susie, and s an artist in all the branches of her but she Is also famous as an xpert shot with rifle. About one year