East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-09-07
Various Committees Have
Details of Frontier Show
Well in Hand.
GROUNDS ARE BEING PUT
IN CONDITION RAPIDLY
Race Track Almost Finished-GraDd-
stand and Bleachers Will Seat
Observation-Disclosures Ho!" Pa
rade VIII Be Brilliant Pageant
List OF Events Is Prepared-Excur-
sion Rates Are Secured-Mounted
Bands Will BE Feature.

Is DuZZiuB JUDI
ling about the Roundup headquar-
ters and will be from this time until
the date for the big event arrives.
Every committee chairman and every
committeeman Is working as
though the success Of the affair de-
pended upon his individual effort with
the result that all plans are being
brought to maturity in manner
highly creditable to the organization.
No detail Is being neglected.
Paul Sperry. OF the parade commit
tee, is completing the elaborate de-
tails for the Westward, Ho" parade.
He has already arranged for the
"Girls of the Golden West" stage
coaches for "The Old oregon Trail
and galloping cowboys. Many other
features will be added before the day
arrives.
w. Z. Brock, chairman Of the fl
nance committee, is busy gathering up
the loose ends Of the financial side OF
the proposition and likewise the
loose dollars. He still has about $500
worth OF stock which he is anxious
to sell and anyone desiring to help
finance the show are invited 10 call
upon Brock or notify the Roundup
headquarters in the basement of the
American National Bank building.
Putting Grounds in Shape.
Roundup park is rapidly being
put into shape under the direction or
l.. G. Frazier. chairman of the COM
mittee. The race track is rapidly
nearing completion and will be ready
for those who wish to train their
horses on it, within very few days.
The grandstand and bleachers are
also being rapidly constructed. The
grounds are being arranged in the
form of an amphitheater and the seat
ing will be so arranged that every part
of the grounds will be visible from the
grandstand and bleachers alike. The
committee hopes to be able to provide
seats for everyone of the thousands
of visitors who are to be here.
Strong List OF Events.
Chairman Fred Steiwer Of the COM
mittee on competitive events has COM
pIeted his list and according to Mark
Moorhouse and others who have seen
Il. the list compares more than IA
vorably with the Cheyenne frontier
celebration. The different events are
we'll distributed over the three days
and will give the visitors an entertain
ment they will remember as long as
they live and will want to come back
and see again every remaining year
OF their lives.
Ben Hill has completed arrange
ments for the Roundup mounted cow
boy and Cowgirl bands. These are
regular organizations and are not hit
or miss aggregations. The cowgirl
band is composed entirely OF girls
and women and will be the only band
of its kind to appear in the north
west this year.
Thousands coming from Outside.
Harry Gray of the transportation
committee has not only secured spe-
cial rates of one and one-third fare
from all points on the o. r. 4 n.
and Northern Pacific, as far east as
Baker City, as far west as The Dalles
and as far north as Walla Walla and
wallula, but he has also arranged for
special excursions from Portland, Sc
attic and Spokane. 1t is expected that
several thousand people will come in
on these excursion trains and were
Il not for the fact that they will re-
turn the night Of the day they are
here the city would never be able o
accommodate the great throngs.
Great Interest I'm Seattle.
Mrs. Guy O'Melveny. who is here
this week from her home in Seattle,
says the Roundup is the talk of the
sound metropolis. The Seattle papers
have been giving the event much
space and the Northern Pacific rail-
road company has been considerable
money in advertising the event. She
looks for several hundred people to
come over from that city alone.
Many Outlaw Horses Secured.
Sheriff T. D. Taylor who has been
conducting an organized and syste-
matte hunt for the worst outlaw
horses in the northwest reports that
he has already secured a large num-
ber. Some of these 1t is expected will
prove worthy rivals to the famous
"Steamboat" and Theodore Roose-
welt.
Roy Bishop and Major Lee Moor
house have ben having good success
In lining up the Indians. There will
be a large number of braves, repre-
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