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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1895)
ATHENA PRESS Published Every Prlday Morning By J. W. SMITH, Puopkietou. Entered at Athena postofflco u second-claw mail matter. Subscription tates: Per year, In advance, - - - - 11.00 Single copies. In wrappers, 5c. Advertising Hates: Locfti reading notice, first lnnortion, 10c per line, Each KUbBequent Insertion, 5c, All communications Bliould be addressed to he PRESS, Athena, Oregon. ATHENA, MARCH , 29, 1895. ; The question of what is to be done in the matter of absconding bank cashiers, county and state treasurers who decamp with other people's money ought to be foremost in the minds of our politicians, preachers and teachers. It seems that bonds and securities will not prevent such crimes, . and neither do they make good their losses in all cases. Tho evil seems to be growing and some means must be devisad to call a halt upon such wholesale robbery and breach of trust. It seems that one great need towards this end is to elevate the moral responsibility of 'the people, and to bring tie whole community to a sense of great dis grace and degredation that should attach to such acts. There is too ' much of a tendency among those who are not direct loosers, to laugh at and make light of those defalca tions, and too little efforts is made to bring the parties to justice and punishment. The different church es, societies and lodges can do a great deal toward bringing up the public senMment against these things. Let the schools, lodges, churches all unite in a crusade against dishonesty--in any form, and when such things do occur, let the punishment bo prompt, suro and adequate. A measure known as the Nich olson temperance bill passed the Indiana legislature, the object of which is to divest the saloon busi ness of its various fprms of attrac tion and make it stand upon the simple merit of selling liquor. It provides against music in saloonp, forbids the business to be run in connection with any other a di rect blow at the restaurant and bar attachments does away with screens, and requires all saloons to be operated on the first floor, thus doing away with wine rooms. Whether the restrictions will be more conductive to temperance than the famous "standing ordin ance" in Boston, which forbid men to sit down while they take their tipple, remains to be seen. The silver question will undoubt edly be the leading issue in the next presidential campaign. The people aro alive to their own best interosts and demand recognition of the white metal at the hands of the government, and the next pres ident of the United States will most certainly be a man in favor of free coinage of silver at a ratio of 15 to 1. It will be impossible to elect to the presidency and ad vocate of the single gold standard hence it may naturally bo ex pected from both the old pariies to insert in their national platform in 1890 a strong and binding silver plank. ....., V Recently the wife of Mayor Strong, of New York was quoted in the newspapers. She has been ac cused of dictating either an appointment or a line ot policy and her reply was: "I never mention ed politics to Colonol Strong. He runs the mayor's office and I run the house." This old-fashioned JJ..S . .. v : uiviMun ui mm ih him prevauent and popular in the great majority of American homes, and it is not likely to lose any of its hold. The newspapers of today are the prim factors in cultivating the morbib curiosity of the public, in asmuch as their columns are filled with lurid accounts of every crime that is committed. Crimo is con tagious, and such descriptions as oe continually lendn helps it to spread. The Boston Herald thus recalls a surprising repetition of events: Twelve years ago there was a pro longed deadlock over the United States sehatorship in Oregon, and it looked as if there would be no election. Finally the 78th ballot wat taken but a few minutes before the expiration of tho constitutional limit' of time for the legislative session, and Mr. Dolph was elected. Now the table has been turned, and Senator Dolph is defeated and another man is elected under ex actly similar circumstances. The whirling of time frequently brings about .some remarKable coincidences." The La Grande Gazette has not yet learned that the Umatilla Indians are American citizens, and as such, entitles them to buy and drink all the whiskey they want or can pay for. In giving an account of an Indian being killed by the train at Pendleton lately, it says, "It is a fact that there is a law prohibiting the selling of whiskey to Indians, but that seems to trou ble the whiskey dealers very little and they keep right on letting the poor uncivilized Indians have the deadly 'firewater.' " The .establishment of full women Buffrage in South Australia is in somo respects the most re markable triumph ever gained in the cause. It establishes women's freedom over 190,000 square miles of territory a region larger than the United States east of the Mis sissippi river. It is a country des tined to become densely populated by the Anglo Saxon race and to dominate the southern hemisphere. Eastern Oregon is now ship ping potatoes, eggs, etc. to the east ern states, instead of buying them from those states as formery. Now if we could have a meat pack ing and cold storage establishment, we could furnish onr own bacon, lard, etc., instead of importing them., Athena or Pendleton would be an excellent location for an es tablishment of this kind. It seem to us that it would be advisable for the city council to hold its meetings in the ciiy hall instead of the Recorder's office There are a number of citizens who like to attend those meetings, es pecially when matters of import ance are under consideration, and the Recorder's office is too small to admit many spectators. It is becoming more apparent every day that diversified farming is what pays. About the only money made by Grande Ronde farmers this yeau is from their hogs, cattle, fruit and 'vegetables. Wheat rtfTsinir has been overdone. Experience only could teach our farmers this lesson. It is estimated that the agricul tural earnings of the United States are $3,490,000,000; from manufac turers, $3,330,000,000; from mines, $480,000,000; from .transportation, $1,550,000,000; from shipping, 1100,000,000; and from banking, $200,000. The farmers and manu facturers take the lead, The Baker City Epigram thinks tho county court of Baker county in its efforts to bo lenient with the taxpayers by putting off the time for enforcing the collection of taxes has caused more dissatisfaction than had they enforced the law to the letter. The fellow with money to burn isn't in it' with the man who has money to pay the expenses of es tablishing a new political party. As A result of the 'immigration ofSweeds and Norweigians, it is said that there aro more men train ed as sailors in Minnesota than in all New England. ' "Swindling the state," is put be fore the public entirely too often. The people would prefer seeing "prompt juBticn." Great Britain is always willing to arbitrate disputes with nations strong enough to fight, but very seldom with weaker ones. The fullest reward t our con sciences aro tho result of the aidjwe gave to homo industries and the poor among us. , Coxky did not rind Philadelphia congenial, so he lias gone back to Ohio. He is sore ubout being left out in all the new party deaL. Wanted. ro rent a house and small am ount of land, not to far from town. Call on C. C. Thompson. - A SPECIAL MEETING. Of the Council in Relation to the Water , ; Works. The city council convened in special session Monday evening to discuss matters pertaining to the water system, all the members piesent and Mayor Hollis in the chair. Councilmen E. R. Cox in troduced a resolution prohibiting tapping of the mainsjuntil thejsys tem is duly tested and excepted by the city. The resolution brought fourth some discussion, in which all members except councilman Tharp participated. Mr. Cox argued that Supt. Cum mings, nor any individual, had any authority whatever to go ahead and tap the water , mains until an ordinance had been formed and passed upon by the common coun cil creating the office of water sup erintendent, defining the duties thereof and regulating the price of putting in the water service, etc. It seems that Supt. Cummings tapped a joint of the main at the Maloney residence at the solicita. tion of Mr. Maloney, and his reas ons therefore as he stated before the council, was that it could be done cheaper before the mains were covered over with dirt, than after the ditches had been filled in. He further stated that he thought by tapping the mains at the present time, it could be done some cheap er, and in consequence be of ma terial benefit to the consumer. Councilman Kirk was of the op inion that the water service could be put in cheaper with the pipes uncovered than it could be after they were covered, but wanted it distinctly understood that be would not favor the creation of any more city officials than at present existed; but was in favor of th city marshal being instructed to look after the water system. Councilmen Jones took the floor was of the opinion that it was all right to tap the mains and put in the water service, so long as the party ordering it payed for it, and was further of the opinion that it could be much cheaper done now than after the mains were covered with earth. Mr. Cox at this point more min. utcly . explained his resolution, stating that which he wished to convey was that no one had the right to tap those mains until an ordinance was in effect giving some one authority to tap them ; defin ing his duties and regulating the price of putting in the water serv ice; also that if "Tom, Dick and Harry" were allowed to tap the mains, the city partially accepted the system before it was tested. Councilmen Spencer was of the opinion that an ordinance should bo enacted immediately regulating the tapping of the mains, but was of the opinion that Mr. Cox's resolution wus out of order inas much as the system at the present time was the property of the con tractors; that they had tho exclu sive right to tap the pipe, cut it up or do what they pleased with it so far as the city was concerned; that the city had nothing to do with the matter until the time came for the city to excopt the system, then if any portion of the pipe was not satisfactory the city could reject it. " v ' Mayor Hollis was of the opinion that an ordinance should at once be drawn up, the councilmen thought likewise, and on motion of Cox, the ordinance committee was instructed to draw up an or dinance constituting the office of water superintendent, defining the duties of that official. Also one regulating the price for putting in water service, and governing price of water sold to consumer. .Appointments Made. All appointments under the new law changing boundary lines of Eastern Oregon judicial districts have now been mnrln. Tho siit.h district has Judge Fee and Prose cuting Attorney John Lawrey; the eight district has Judeo R. Eakin ana rrosecuung Attorney j. nana; the ninth htm Jnrl M TJ PliffVird and Prosecuting Attorney C. W. I'arnsh. Judge Fee and Judge Clifford and Prosecuting Attorney Rand held their offices by virtue of nrovisiona in tho hill nnswfifl at t.hn last legislative session, and tho other officers were appointed by uov. Lord. DIED FROM EXPOSURE. Mrs. Pete Pamburn Found Dead by the Rondside. Last Saturday afternoou Mrs. Pete Pamburn came to Athena from her homo on the reservation, and proceeded to get drunk, as was her custom whenever she could get the liquor. She went to a restau rant and atelier supper, after which she insisted on gmng home, She started for home about 8:30 o'clock accompanied by Jerry 3t. Dennis, jr., whom the restaurant people prevailed on to accompany her, as sho was very drunk. When near the bridge across Wild Horse creek, St.. Dennis say she declared she was coming back to town to get more whiskey, and began to abuse him because ho would not get it for her. Then' she started her horse on a run towards home, and he camo back to town. That was the last seen of her until her body was found Sunday morning by Dave Taylor just inside his pasture pear where St. Dennis says he left her. The ground looked as if she had fallen from her horse in the road, and had then tumbled into a ditch by the side of the road which contained about two feet of water. She had doubtless crawled out of the ditch and under the fence into the pasture and stretched out in a drunken stupor. It rained heavily all night and the belief is that she chilled to death. Coronor Kimery came up from Pendleton Sunday and held an in quest over the remains. The jury was of the opinion that death was caused by dissipation and-exposure. A Jailor in Limbo. . Saturday evening at Pendleton, OH Wolf, the official keeper of the Indian jail at the agency' while un der the influence of liquor, fired a shot in the bar room of the Trans fer house which fortunately lodged in a wall, missing a human target. Upon complaint of Indian Joe Creig, Old Wolf was arrested and deposited in the city jail. The key of hia prison was taken from him and he was left to spend the night in company with, several ! fellow comrades, who were afterwards im prisoned for participating in their customary Saturday night revel ries. BIMETALISM ASSURED. England, Germany and France to Join With the United States. President Hill, of the Great Northern, has just reached home from an extended visit in .Europe and the Eastern states. He said: "I found that there was a great depression in some of the countries of Europe, particularly in Great Britain, and . most particularly in the, cotton and iron industries. The United States is England's best customer, and our imports have been largely reduced, to the advan tage of this country and to tho cor responding disadvantage of Great Britain. The English manufac turers and landlords owning agri cultural lands are taking active in terest in bimetallism and the great er use of silver. They are realiz ing that Argentine, Australia the East Indies. China and Japan, who are on a silver basis, forcing their labor to accept silver, whish they buy for 56 per cent on the value of gold, have a margin on labor alone that enables them to undersell the English farmers and manufacturers in the market which England has heretofore controlled. England is either compelled Jo give up a large amount of the world's trade or in crease the use of silver in the world to Buch an extent that it will not be possible for her competitors totake advantage of the lower cost of their labor growing out of the difference of gold and silver. ,4If the silver men in the United ,States will only let congress alone ana leave the matter to be worked out by the commercial profit and loss account of Great Britain, the latyer nations will be compelled to join with Germany, France and our own country in bringing about acbndition of things that will en able the English people to meet the competition of our nations on something like an equal footing. The low prices of wheat have al ready found during the past year a new market for the product. The California and west cofist wheat, that has heretofore gone to Europe, is now going in shiploads to" China in the form of flour, where it is taking the place of rice, formerly used by the Chinese." "Has your opinion changed re garding the ratio of gold and silver?" "That is immaterial. The pro portions of gold and silver, taken for 1000 years as long as we have history upon the matter re mains practically the same. For a period of ten years or more, one or the other may 6how a slight change, but the ratio remains 15-J or 16 to 1, and if gold and silver were in terchangeable for so many hun dreds of years in the past, it is dif ficult to see what has occured to prevent changeability now. provid ing all the nations are willing to receive it.' CONFERENCE FEELING. "What did you find the feelinp regarding an international mone tary conference?" "France and Germany are will ing and the land owners and manu facturers of England are now wag ing an active campaign to bring the British government to realize tho necessity of enhancing the val ue of silver, not so much for the reason that they like silver any better, but that they desire to in crease tho cost of silver paid to labor in other countries, and in that way to increase the cost of production of tho many commod ities that England is interested in supplying the world with, and in restoring tho value of her own ag ricultural lands." . . "Why cannot the other nations act independently of England?" "Simply because London is the financial clearing house of the world, and all commercial balan ces are practically adjusted through the medium of sterling exchange or British credit." Lost Half His Face. Geo. Chulinski, aged 23, had a difficult operation performed on him Saturday in St. Joseph's hos pital in Baltimore, Md. He was suffering from a cancer of the bone in the right side of his face, and the entire upper portion of his face and jaw bone 'was removed. In order that he might breathe while the operation was going on, a tube was placed in his windpipe. The whole right side of his face was taken away, with the right half of the mouth, also the teeth of the af fected side. He will recover. More Potatoes Going East. From Pendleton several cars of potatoes have been recently ship ped to Eastern markets. Oliver & Co. Bent out one car for St. Paul yesterday, and two more from the same firm will be shipped to Oma ha today. Orders for. five mor9 cars have been received at the O. R. & N. depots from other shippers of the same commodity. Each car contains 30,000 pounds and up wards of potatoes, from 300 to 500 sacks, weighing at least 100 pounds each. Inbune. Tax Law in Danger. ...... 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