East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-10-03

ton, and that leader frequently start
ed the air. The .Tacomans rose and
with flags waving, let loose their voic-
es. Section by section of the grand
stand took 1t up and then the infec-
tion filtered out into the bleachers far
away, singing several beats behind
the band, the cadences being waited
back to the grandstand after the Ia
comans were done. like echoes from
the yellow and brown hills that rolled
high and brillian north of the vast
arena.
Telegram for Il. H. Martin"
shouted the announcer through his
siX-foot megaphone.
Read it. Read it," shouted Mar
tin and others took it up. The an
nouncer rolled 1t out:
Before leaving Pendleton engage
all available parking space for Ia
coma special trains next year.
(Signed)
THE Bunch That Couldn't Come"
He read it to every section of the
$4,000 spectators and each swing of
hiS hu6e trumpet DTOuSHl llOOu Oh
cheering.
After a while the announcer bawl-
ed:
Telegram to the Roundup man
agement"
''Pendleton deserves thanks of en-
tire Northwest for staging grandest
show of the age.
"W. w. SEYMOUR,
''Mayor of Tacoma"
That brought round after round of
cheers. A half dozen messages of
this sort were read by the loud voiced
man in the announcer's tower, and
there always arose the crimson
badged bunch, just to let the crowd
see, with its own eyes, that Tacoma
really was there, though, If it had
ears, there could have been no doubt
of it.
Sheard Adopts Indian Maids.
over in the Indian village behind
! the arena where lived during the
Roundup the hundreds of red men
and women engaged for the show,
were four handsome Indian girls in
their brilliant costumings They were
college girls and one of them was
the daughter of a famously rich In
dian farmer.
"They are Indian princesses," de-
clared w. F. Sheard to the crowd ar
ound him, ''and I'm going to adopt
and educate them in Tacoma"
This was Friday evening. The girls
! taking up the joke, carried It out to
perfection, and until late Saturday
evening the tepee in which they lived
with their watchful mothers was the
object of ceaseless quest and inquiry
! by visitors Women of fashion heard
about 1.-THE story had reached the
newspapers-ani many of them called
on the girls that were to be adopted
by that Tacoma man." Some per-
sons left them gifts of money. and
I kettle at the door was full of vis-
| iting cards.
"Oh. You. TacOmans.''
The streets at night were an un-
/ forgetable din of "Yips" and Let 'er
bucks" and "Oh you Tacomans!"
Now and then, but not often, re-
| NOlNtI SllOl rang Oul' Inc merry
makers waded through confetti in the
half gloom of electric lights puzzled
by the ever-increasing- dust. There
was little rowiyism, however, and a
noticeable absence of flirtations per-
siflage ordinarily heard on such oc-
casions.
The cowboys treated the gentler sex
! t1,- I, lit Irt- In,
, is demonstrated in ordinary carnival
jcustings.
> Never Such Show Before.
AS for the big show itself, probably
the world never saw its equal. There
is noting artificial about it. 1t is
. merely a collection of cowboys and
Indians, the cowboys expert in the
ways of cowboys, the Indians mantled
in the brilliant, beaded blankets anC
other barbaric haberdashery, such a!
they have worn in their native do
, main for decades.
A race between two ancient stage.
, coaches of the old Concord type, each
, drawn by four horses, is but a re-
5 plicatiOn of what took place on the
plains years afo when these high.
wheeled leather-swung vehicles hat
not been supplanted by the Pullman
, The roping and mastering of horses
and the roping and tying of steers
for branding, are both living arts o
use now in the cattle country. Bu
to see 1t done in a great arena, witt
all the realism of reality, and perhaps
dozen cowboys engaged at it stimuli
taneously steers wild as hares charg
ng here and there, ponies perfectly
trained in the desires of his rider
and the rider himself fearless to the
point of sending a tenderfoot almost
to distraction, renders a circus stale
Makes Steer Flip Somersault.
What the Tacomans were most in.
terested in, perhaps was the
"bulldogging." Out of the CORA