East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-05-07
RESIDENTS OF
PEHDLET0N VISIT AT
THE OREGON BUILDING
FORMER DAYS ARE RECALLED
BY VISITORS AT PANAMA
PACIFIC EXPOSITION.
CranstOn Takes Hand in Boosting
the Roundup 20 Fasteners Who
See Tame MOtiOn-picture Of Bull
dOgging-Ffee Motion Picture
shows at Fair Are Numerous.
(By c. X. Cranston.1

Wy - "a NA0AAsNNAAsN
SAN FRANCISCO, May IL went
into free motion picture show yes
terday in the Palace of Liberal Arts
which is being operated by the U, s
department of agriculture. BY the
way, free motion pictures are plenu-
full l cant begin to tell you how
many there are of them. went IL
see this one by invitation of the gem
tleman in charge of the public road
exhibit of the federal government who
delivers daily lecture on road sub
iects, Illustrated by motion pictures,
However the attendance was so slim
that the lecture was dispensed with,
so l will have to try again, and / will
have to postpone my letter on the
subject of roads but l sat and enjoy
ed the picture for a while and was
impressed by two points in witnessing
them. First, that whenever your ola
Uncle sam does a thing he generally
does it up pretty brown. That is prov
en- by the superior quality of all the
government work which is scattered.
as never before, throughout the whole
show The other point Is that our
Roundup is really a thriller. After
a really meritorious little series of
pictures illustrative Of development OIL
irrigated land in the west, in which
a romance" is cleverly and naturally
woven. a roundup" was announce Il
= 90 xsghf oh
thrilling scenes of cowboy life" we're
to be projected l Immediately sat up
and got ready to take notice. Two
other spectators of the half dozen or
so in attendance, who sat immediate
~ back Of me and had already prov.
ed themselves to me to be tender
feet" by their audible comments on
the pictures, also evidenced increased
interest. Well they put on a lot oil
very interesting. but perfectly tame,
pictures of driving about a hundred
and fifty or two hundred head OfI
stock cattle across a field in view ard
then flashed a title "Roping and
Throwing Wild Cattle" About three
men then proceeded to rope a little
thin necked -year-old steer. After
they had the poor little calf tied by at
least two and think three ropes, one
of the bold buckaroos dlsmounteafl
took hold of one Of the ropes andI
cautiously approached the ferocious
arms length and soothingly pettei
the steer on the neck and then care
fully laid hold of its little horns and
proceeded to throw It by the "bull-
dog" method, When this had been
accomplished my friends in the REAR
evidenced their excitement and won
der by numerous exclamatlons OF de-
light What do YOU think of that II
could not restrain an inclination TO
butt in and tell them a little about
what real "bull-dogging" is. / also
told them that l hoped there would
be some pictures of real roundup
on exhibition in the oregon building
before long. They excitedly asked
where and when they could see them
and had to reply that l did not know
just when they would be on view.
Visitors from Umatilla county are
not frequent | have had several
pleasant calls from former Pendle-
tonians and people who are acquaint-
ed with our home people. Among
the latter l recall Merl Farrell, Her
bert Manasse and Mrs Cert Carrie
Sheuerman). W. T. owen of Grent-
wood, Tennessee, inquired about PEN
dleton and Umatilla county and ask
edparticularly about prices of wheat
land. He told me he spent several
weeks there some eight or more years.
ago as a guest, / understood him, in
the home of John F. Hill, then at the
Hill ranch near Helix. Mr.. owen is
farming in Tennessee and said he was
seriously considering removing toI
Umatilla county. Frank H. Borden,
who knew Wess Matlock in Portland, |
asked all about the Matlock family
and was much interested to receive
recent news from them. Lester V,
Sones Of Portland, Maine, introduced
and asked If / had ever heard
of a man named Colesworthy, who
used to live in Pendleton. had
quite visit with Mr.. Sones and was
amused at an account he gave of Mr..
Colesworthy's start in the feed busi-
ness. The story was to the effect
that "Charlie" Colesworthy landed in
Pendleton "busted" and soon after he
struck the town a man came along
with load of hay. The hay man Oh
served Charlie Ga perfect stranger) |
and wanted to sell him the load of
hay. c. F. replied that he didn't have
money enough to buy bundle. not to
mention a load But the farmer In
sisted that he would let him have it
ION tick" to be paid for when 1t had
been resold and on these terms the
newly arrived tenderfoot tackled the
The hay was soon dis
posed Of at a good profit and Mr.
continued in the hay and
feed business. Pendleton people know
about how successful he
has been. Ask him II the Portland
Maine, man got the story straight.