East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-09-24
5000 PEOPLE
ENJOY WILD
DAYS OF '49
Happy Canyon" is Some Great Town
According to Unanimous Verdict
Of Throng on Opening Night.
EVERYTHING RUN WIDE OPEN"
Program Arranged by Committee
Proves Treat and Depicts Life As IL
Csetl 20 BE In the Frontier Towns Of
FroMier Days-Ten Buck Notes
Onl, Currency used

Happy Canyon" is some little old
town
That was the verdict of 3000 psople
who crammed and jammed their way
last evening into the pavilion in
which the replica OF the ss5ntier Wa
lage is situated. II was the opening
night of the new evening entertain
ent for Roundup week and the in
st.tution rose to popularity making
1. fl; companion for Pendletcn's
great cowboy carnival.
Nobody. least of all the Commercial
club committee which planned aniI
staged the show, expected that tGe
opening entertainment would attract
such tremendous crowd. At Z o
cleck the streets began to empty
| their Thongs through the portals Of
the pavilion and until 10 o'clock the
ticket takers were the busiest men
ia Pendleton. Every seat was fiilel
and the standing room was insutf!-
cient go much larger than anticipat-
ed was the crowd that carpenters were
PUT to work early this morning en-
laIging the standing room. The en-
trance Is also being enlarged to pre-
ven. the congestion which occurred
las: evening.
The Illusion created by the max
ers CT the town Is complete. From
saloons, gambling houses and dance
hall TO the Chinese laundry. black
smith shop and hotels, everything Is
there that existed In the days OF
| 40" At Spender's Bank large sheafs
OF Ten Buck" notes were exchanged
| for real money and only this fake
| currency was used from first to last.
The most popular place OF amuse-
ment proved to be the Red Dog Sa-
loon and gambling parlors where
roulette wheels, faro banks klondyke
and chuckaluck games. craps and
many other games OF chance known
70 the early-day town drew crowds
eager to buck" up against dame for
tune. old fiddlers sawed away in one
corner of the room as they did 40
years ago in the real Pendleton and.
in the immense dancing pavilion.
hundreds Of couples found enjoyment
W. ohVAAtl hihA ohAAA laAC hOhAs
The entertainment took as did the
J first Roundup and the western spirit
! charged the very air with its conta-
; gion.
} Prior 10 the general festivities
. there was an hours program of from
tier pastimes and other activities that
, gave the crowd many laughs. Cow
boy Paul Heinz rode a bucking horse
and was gyrated into space, the town
militia went through the antics OF a
drill, the town band footed and
squeaked out a few tunes, the town
fire department made a heroic res
cue of the "Stagger Inn" Miss Doris
; Riber, clad in cowgirl costume, sang
Il from horseback, bad men shot up the
town, Jinks Taylor drove the stage
!, coach in and out with the passengers
. and mail, cowboys and cowgirls dane.
ed the mounted quadrille, Jock Cole
man sang his Roundup song, the
concert band played, long queuec
:, Cinnamon were made victims of the
+, cowboys sportive nature and dozer
other events were pulled off with ra'
pidity and dash.
But the event that threw ths
crowd into the greatest uproar wal
n the bullfight as the American COW
boy does II. The most vicious. long
g horned steer in the Roundup herC
1 was turned loose in the town stree
Z and the cowboys, unarmed and wav
Z ing red blankets. teased IL into {
q fury. After dashing through two oil
Q three of the stores and creating havoc
q like the proverbIal bull in the china
Q shop, the animal ceased its efforts tC
O escape and turned upon its torment
n ors.
n Buffalo Vernon, Otto Kline. De
: Blancett, Benny Corbett and a hall
|, dozen other cowboys, one of whom
d was not a real cowboy but none 9th
er than Charles wellington Furlong
the author, in disguise. fitted abou
the arena, ducking and lodging the
: steers rushes with a recklessnes
IS that would shame a Mexican bull
= fighter.
n Vernon, however, grew once to'
daring. slipping and falling directl!
8 in front of the ipfuriated animal al
q 1t made its rush. There was a quicl
o indrawing of breath when the Grove
saw that he could not escape and th'
other cowboys hurried to his aid
. The master bulldogger, however, wa
u equal to the emergency. Selling tn
y long horns as they lunged toward hin
!, he wrapped himself about the animal
head. Immediately several othe
cowboys leaped upon the animal bu
Vernon ordered them back ant
fought his battle alone. II was
thrilling battle, too, and the long ex
: perlence OF the bplldogger stood hin
- In good need. For five minutes tn
= man and brute tussled. the heavy AMI
= NAL dragging the cowboy all over tn
j. west end of the arena until finally
the great muscles OF the latter woi
n out. As the steer fell, a great shou
"A OF wild applause greeted the victor
n OF the man.
l. The crowd was turned loose int
tho tnwp M q o'ptock and mmediatp