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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1895)
'1 FHENA 1 4 A BIG JOB. BUT ITS DEAD EASY NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND It woold be a blt Job to tell one hundred peoples day anything that t would Interest tbem In your goods, but Ksdeadeusy If done the right ; way. hl paper wUl tell several thousand at once at nominal cost. I 7 tn the week but that yon do not need stationery of some sort or other T IiNmr we furnish neat, cleuitgirlnllug at tho very lowest rates. Mod- T era presses, mimern types, modern work, prompt delivery. VOLUME 8. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1S95. NUMBER 40. i 5 i I I si t) Thnmaa F. Oaken, nurjr '. rayar, U. V. at. Receiver. mmmm PACIFIC U . . ; ::: - N S " PULLMAN SLEEPING CARS ELEGANT DINING CARS TOURIST SLEEPING CARS 8t Paul Minneapolis Vulutlt tar - Crand t'arku . , Crooksleu Wluuliieg Helena and . Butlc, , THROUGH TICKETS. TO 4'bicaga V imliiUKton ' r rhlladelphla flew lerk Bestaa Am All VolnU bust and South ' TIME SCHEDULE. fc Trains arri ve every Wednesday at 11 a. m., and depart at 11:15 a.m. For time cards, enrds, mans and.tickest, call on or write J. A. Much-head, Agent, Athena, Oregon. Or A. D. Charlton, Assistant General Passenger Agent, 4 Morrison Bt. Cor. Third, Portland, Or 0 E. MoNEILL, Receiver. TO THE EAST Gives the choke of TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTES GREAT' UHIOH01 I10RTHERII RY.PACIFIC RY VIA VIA SPOKANE DENVER MINNEAPOLIS OMAHA . . ) -: AND ' ' ; AND ' "s ST. PAUL KANSAS CITY i Low Rates to all Eastern I Cities. j Ocean Steamers leave Portland ' every 5 days for "' SAN FRANCISCO For full details call on 0. R. & N. Agent, Athena. ; Or address: W. H. HUELBUT, Gen. Pass Agt. Portland. Oregon. Furniture Did You Say? Furniture - Is Just What JOHNS. BAKER, The 2ndjC Man of Court Street, Pendleton, Sells so Cheap. t THE ATHENA' RESTAURANT t MRS. HARDIN, Proprietress. ' : : : H. P. MILLEN, Manager. Can be recommended to tho public M being first-class In every particular. I ' Ml V e '...;: JLir;T ' vWkite kelp only t meals at all hours i C ; t-j F :Uiz Powder 014 VAO XilO LOIMiK BIKECTOBT t" F. .V AM NO. 80 MEETS THE A., First and Third Saturday Evenings f each month. Visiting bretlivren cor iialiy invited to visit the lodge. I 0. 0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY L. Friday nijht. Visiting Odd Fellows n good standing always welcome. A 0. U. W. NO. 104. MEETS THE Second and Fourth Saturdays of month. Fred Rozenswieg, Recorder. ATHENA CAMP, NO. 171, "Woodmen of the World, meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of sach month. Visiting Choppers always wel come. : G. C. Osbtrn, Clerk. PYTHIAN, NO. 29, MEETS EVEItY Thursday Nujh. 1 p B. SHARP, . Physician and Surgeon. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third fitreet, Athena, Oregon. . yi. I. N. RICHARuSON, PROSTHETIC DENTIST. THENA, - - N OREGON. E.DcPeatt, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Athena, Ore. rain c. "W. Ghapman, Of Thirty Yeare Experience, is Desireous of Locating in Athena; - - Sign and Buggy painting. Charges to suit the hard times. -A.. O". PABKEB, iEo-px-xetoiL? of oTfiwrvr - THE ELECTRIC BARBER SHOP. IIAIRCUTTING SHAMPOOING, HAIRSINGING, In Latest Styles. $gr; HOT OR COLD WATER BATHS, 25 CENTS. fffiSr SSTIOHSL B3SK ' . Q HTHEM. ' , Pays L. D. W. P. LEACH, --- THE leCdihc FURU1TURE dealer J W SPillTH, ATHEHA, OREGON, HAMILITON & ROURKE CO. GRAIN AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS , Dealers In Grain, Grain-bags and do a general Warehouse and Commis sion Businees; pay the highest prices for all kinds of grain. Handle grain on either road at the same price. EE SURE YOU SEE THEM EEFOHE DAVID TAYLOR, AGENT, SIM MOM S REGULAT0? Reader, did you ever take Simmons Liver Regulator, the "Kino op Liver Medicines?" Everybody needs take a liver remedy. It is a sluggish or diseased liver that impairs digestion and causes constipation, when the waste 'that should be carried off remains in the body and poisons the whole system. That dull, heavy feeling is due to a torpid liver. Biliousness, Headache, Malaria and Indigestion are all liver diseases. Keep the liver active by an occasional dose of Simmons Liver Reg ulator and you'll get rid of these trou bles, and give tone to the whole sys tem. For a laxative Simmons Liver Regulator is better than Pills. It does not gripe, nor weaken, but greatly refreshes and strengthens. Every package has the Red Z stamp on the wrapper. J. II. Zeilin & Co. , Philadelphia. All Jobs . . . . Entrusted to him will be done honestly and in best of -..Style'.'.". Satisfaction is guaranteed in all his Work. er. Plain and decorative paper hanging, house South side Main Street. CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, $ 50000 $21,000 interest on time deposits. Proper attention given to collections. Deals in foreign and domestic eschanga, Lively. Cannier, . . Athena, Oregon UCCESSOR TO N. A. MILLER, IflTiY PUBLIC YOU BUY SACKS OB SELL CHAIN. . Athena, Oregon; ONE ON THE HORSE. Civilization Downs the Lordly Cayuse on his Native Heethj The cayuse is rapidly passing over the great divide, says an ex change, and soon the liu-t of his race will face the inevitable and ex pire lo satisfy, the cravings of the human stomach. It is, perhaps, according to the eternal fitness of things that here in Eastern Oregon where the first horse, the eo-hip-pus, nipped the cenozoic hecbage from the hole in the ground -out of which our rolling prairies have grown, the beginning of. his des truction should occur. Truly the cayuse is of royal descent, if length of pedigree can be taken as a meas ure of nobility, for the firsts horse, though no larger than a sheep with the tariff off him, was cotomporary with the earliest vertebrates, and has seen, the great animal of the earth passaway. He has survived them all, because he was of all the innumerable types of animal life, the fittest. The plesiosaurus chew ed grass for breakfast with him, but the plesiosaurus Vanished cent uries ago! The megatherium fed on the top branches of the tr?es, a beast so large that the horse seem ed to him but a microbel The pterodactyl became an iambic, shed his pter and winked out! The sabre-toothed tiger with a head as large as a water bucket and a paw like a boxing glove devoured his speciea, but the horse survived him. Granivora, carnivora, ymnivora all vanished long ago from the earth leaving but their bones to show their types types that printed their story on the pages of the great geological book of Nature. But the cayuse stayed, because he was always a stayer. It was a long time ago, my friend, when the lit tle horse rehearsed for his . first bucking match! It was a long time ago that his little bones were turned to stone down on the fly leaf of the geological book! It is a long way down 'into the eocene formation to where his petrified bones bear silent but convincing evidence of his antiquity! Down to where the clay beds that cover ed his bones eons ago turned to stone! Down 1800 feej. below where his descendants now crop the bunch-grass from the undulating plains! Yes indeed! It was a long time ago! Year by year century by century, the dust, the sediment, the detritus from the hills accumu lated over these petrified bones un til they were buried nearly half a mile deep. Nor was that all ; after they were buried the John Day river, year by year and with infi nate slowness, cut out a channel down through the rocks until after, no one knows how many centuries of centuries the little bones are again brought to light. The cay use grew up with the country, 1800 feet of it, and is at least that much above his ancestors. But his day is done. Nature could not down him, but civilization will. He stood the saddle and the harness, but the slaughter-house, the tin can and the hippophagous anthro poid called man have measured and marked the circle of his ex istence. The rubber-footed bike and the electric current has des troyed his usefulness, the ruminat ing animal requires the grass and he must give way to the new con ditions. Behold the end of him! Knocked in the head, a hawser is fastened to his hide which is strip ped ruthlessly from him, the haw ser being used because it requires something horaer than the horse to peel him. The carcass is hung up by the heels and the inside ' and buck removed. But let us trace his career no further, for we are not disposed to eat him. Whence he came we know, but for the sake of our stomachs let us not inquire in to the whither into which he dis appears. CAUSED A SENSATION. The Cowboy Preacher and His Wife Arrested In Boise. An itinerant preacher and his wife created a sensation on Main street Saturday night about nine o'clock, says the Boise Statesman, Their name is Rice and they ar rived in the city with a determina tion of making a vigorous assault upon the battlefield of sin and vice in Idaho's capital. They opened up on Main street near the Coffin corner and their singing and praying and exhorta tions soon drew a crowd thatswell ed'to upwards of 1.000. The offic ers informed the evangelists they would have to desist, as there was an ordinance prohibiting such gatherings. Ride said he had vio lated 36 ordinances just like it and that he proposed to proceed. Chief RobbUis and Officer 'McAtee and Robson could make no impression in t he direction of dispersing the crowd and were finally forced tn place Rice in jail. They advised his wife to go to her hotel but she re fused to desert her post and open ed up anew single-handed. The croivd was divided in senti ment as to the action of the officers and when chief Robbins arrested the woman a loud houl of protest went up. The woman gave the chief a severe tongue lashing and the crowd of spectators surged for ward. Serious trouble was immin ent. -"..' "If there are, any Americans here they will proVent these officers from dragging me to jail," she said: Some of the crowd stepped for ward, but the determined looks of the officers deterred them and the woman was taken to the city tall. After some parleying the chief al lowed the pair to retire to their hotel providing they would not ap pear on the streets and gather an other crowd. They will have a hearing Monday. ELOPED WITH A SQUAW. A Traveling Man Becomes Infatuated by a Dusky Maiden, The La Grande Chronicle is au thority for the following: The well known story of Poca hontas i8 brought to mind by the escapades of Edwin Shepard, a traveling man of Portland. Not Ions since Shepard met a young Indian woman in Pendletqn and fell violently in love with her. As he had a wife and two sons in Portland this was a bad state of affairs. However, he eloped with the dusky maiden and went to Union. There his wife found him out and he is now in sackcloth and ashes as he had been hiding his light under a bushel. Since then there has been consternation in the Shepard family and the old man don't dare show himself in Port land. He is over fifty years of age and ought to know better, but he don't. He is now in Boise and will probably stay there until the smoke clears away. The squaw has re turned to her father on the Umatil la reservation and will no doubt await the final outcome of the ex pose. O. R. & N. PROFITS. Interesting Statements Made in the Walla Walla Interstate Com merce Case. To the Interstate Commerce Commission has been sent a brief by the counsel for Milton . Evans, who represents the farmers and grain shippers of Walla, Walla county, Wash., injtheircaee against theO. R. & N. Co., to have the frieght rates on grain between Wal la Walla and Portland reduced from $4.70 to $2.45 a ton. The brief gives numerous statements as facta from which it is charged that, when the 0. R. & N. Co. was underthe control of the Union Pa cific, the latter juggled its accounts so as to make the 0. R. & N. ap pear unprofitable, by not giving the 0. R. & N. proper credit for earnings, and by charging it with express that had not occured. It is declared that the failure of the road to moke a good showing un der Union Pacific management was" owing solely lothis alleged remark able juggling. According to the brief, the action for reduction in freight rates is based chiefly on the allegation that the 0. R. . & N. Co. gave rebates amounting to over 50 per cent on certain freight business. A successful suit was brought in 1887 to compel the company to re duce the wheat rate between Walla Walla and Portland from $C to $4.50 per ton. The present action was begun one year ago to enforce reduction to $2.45. Last Decem ber the company lowered its rates to $4.25, and asked the interstate to consider that sufficient. The petitioner represents that the 0. R. & N. Co. between July 4, 1894, and April 30. 1894, paid to the Pacific Coast Elevator Company rebates amounting to $88,933.85, it being paid in the form of com mission to Peavey & Co.. on grain shipments "and allowed to them for the purpose of making purchases of grain for shipment over the road. It is pet up that the Union Pacific charged the O. R. fc N. Co. with more than its share of the cost of fuil, advertising, etc. It ia alleged that while receiver Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report NcNeill bought Rock Spring coal of the Union Pacific, .delivered at Huntington for $4.40 per ton, the Union Pacific, as lessee of the Ore gon Railway & Navigatien, charg ed the road for freight alone on said coal to Huntington $5.75 per ton. The Oregon Railway and Navi gation was charged by the Union Pacific for advertising per year from $18,338.70 to $38,805.69, while under receiver McNeill the Oregon railway & Navigation has paid less than $3300 per year for advertising. In 10 months it is niso charged, Receiver McNeill paid -$169,614.04 to engineers and firemen, whilo the Union Pacific charged the Oregon Railway & Navigation with from $250,944.15 to $354,832.73 per year for the same service. Caused By an Opn Switch. . An open switch caused a collis ion between the west bound freight train and several box cars which were standing on the warehouse siding on the 0. R. & N. Co's yards early Monday morning in Pendle ton. The train arrived several minutes ahead of time, and, strik the misplaced switch, left the main track and crashed into the cars, doing some damage. Four .flat cars attached to the train, were do railed, and the corner of a boxcar containing five race horses en route to Salem was smashed. Part of the beds of the flatcars were splin tered, and it was Reveral hours . be the trucks could be taken off and the wreckage cleaned away, The damage to the cars is estimated at $2000. Nobody was injured. Abstract Company Incorporated. The Hartman Abstract Company has incorporated, with a capitaliza tion of $20,0C0, by 0- A. Hartman, C. P. Davis and Sam P. Sturgis. The capital stock is divided into 200 shares ot $100 each. The ob jects of the company, as set forth in the articles of incorporation, are to make abstracts of title to real estate, engage in the real estate business, make sales of bonds, stocks, warrants and other eviden ces of indebtedness or liability, and to transact a general insurance and commission business. Jap's Wonderful Race. At San Jose, Frank Frazier's Chehalis won another race, taking three heats in the remarkably -fast time of 2:10$, 2:074 and 2:08. This performance places the little black pacer well up in the vicinity of the fast eastern record breakers. It is believed that there is more speed in him than has yet been brought out. "Jap" js fast winning a national reputation, havmg al ready been shown to be the best racing animal on the coast. His 2:07 J mile is closo to be the best Coast record and Chehalis is ex pected to send it lower. Mary Anderson's Autobiography. Mrs. de Novarro (Mary Ander son) has now completed the auto biography of her st age career, and a series of tho most interesting chap ters from the manuscript will be printed in The Ladies Homo Jour nal. In those articles Mrs. de Na varro will tell of her first appear ance on tho stage, tho experience of her theatrical life, and the famous people in America and England whose ' acquaintance she made. The Journal will begin th,p auto biography in an early issue. Another Timber Case. John Stoddel, a German, had a hearing before U. S. Commissioner Bean, in Pendleton, Friday, on the charge of f tealing timber from gov ernment land. He claimed he bad procured it from Fisher's place on a debt owed him. I. N. Wilkerham and W.-C. Miller wore witnesees against him. He was held to the grand jury at Portland. Everywhere we eo wo find some ono who has been cured by Hood's Barsaparilla. It is the greatest curative agent. It i? the one great blood purifier and nerve tonic. Hood's Pills for the liver and bowel?, act easily yet promptly and effectively. TWO LOST LETTERS. How Poatnl 'Officials t Time Arc Com pelled to lTi Their Wit. An English merchant was advised by his agent that a check of six hundred pounds sterling would be sent-to him by the next mail, says Mr. Iiaines in his "Forty Years at the Post Office." It did not come and the merchant at once made complaint at the post office. The postman on that route was called in by the postmaster, and, in answer to ques tions, said that the missing packet was duly received and delivered. Ho re membered it distinctly its shape, col or and postmark. As his habit was he had poked it under the house door, with two other letters and a newspa per. The merchant's wife had picked up three packets and was positive there had not been a fourth. The postmaster went to the house and examined it carefully. Then he looked into the back garden. His eye lighted on a litter of puppies. A thoughf struck him. "Have the dog kennel cleared out, please." "Nonsense! Why?" "Kindly have it cleared." "Well, if it must be. Thomas, take out the straw." On the floor of the kennel, torn into a hundred bits, lay the missing letter and check. A current of air along the passage had blown the letter about. The puppies, naturally enough, had pounced upon it as a plaything and had had a good time. A merchant complained of the loss ot a letter mailed from his office contain ing some hundreds of pounds in Bank of England notes. Finally an expert from the post office department called upon him. ' "Believe me, sir," the expert said, "1 have an object in what I ask. Will you kindly sit at your desk and recall each operation connected with the miss- . ing letter?" "With pleasure. I sit here, I take a sheet of this note paper and one of those covers. Then I write my letter , and fold it up so. Next I go to my safe and take out the notes, enter their numbers, fold them, put them in the letter and the letter in the cover. Then I seal them all up as you see me do." "Just so, and what next?" "Why, my clerk comes in and clears off my desk for the post." "But you wrote this one at noon, and the post does not out before night." "Oh, yes, of course! I quite forgot to say tliat a money-letter, for greater se curity, I put in a left-hand drawer." , "Which one?" , "Which? Why, this one. I open it so and I bless my soul I Goodness me I I am very, very sorry for all the trouble I've given. Here is the letterl" A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD. PUnkt Hade of O ork Will Be Used In New Ship. Several months ago the board of in spection and survey of the navy depart ment was directed to make an investi gation with a view of obtaining some practicable substitute for wood , in fit ting naval vessels. The desire for a substitute was tho fact that a lighter material was wanted if possible, one that would not take so much space in tho vessel, and more than anything else a material that would not splinter. It was also desirable to have a non combustible substance. The board, says tho Washington Post, has made a report to the secre tary of the navy and some of its recom mendations have been adopted by him, and it Is probable that some of the new ships will be fitted with the new ma terial us a substitute for wood. One of the best materials which has been found by the board is a wood sub stitute composed of waste cork, or any cork. This is subjected to four hun dred degrees of heat, and it is then pressed into blocks of any required size. It cun be sawed into thin strips or handled very much as wood is handled. Cork has a gum that great heat melts and glut-s its particles to gether in a compact mass. After being pressed it sticks together as tightly as if it had grown that way. The cork boards may be made heavy or light, as wanted. Some of tho lighter kinds are used In the walls of refrigerators. It is a non-conductor, and can scarcely be made to burn. This material is used in the place of wood in Gorman vessels. Commander Bradford, who made the search and examination of this particu lar substitute, found that the Germans were usintf It under a rtatnt takon nt by John Smith, of New York, and that companies in the United States had ob tained rights for its manufacture here. Battle and Wild Cat. Herman Browser, of Port Jervis, N. Y., while going to work witnessed a terrific battle between a full-grown wil.T cat and a big rattlesnake in a nar row cleft of rocks. The rattler won. tho cat dying from numerous bites. Browser killed the snake. It support ed fourteen rattles and measured three feet six iaclies. i i 1 -aril 1) 1 'A