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A THENA t NOT ONE DAY CAN RE FOTINn ' ! A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY J It would be a big Job to tell one hundred people a day anything that t I would Interest thera in your (foods, but Its dead easy If done the right J t way. This paper will tell several thousand at once at nominal coat. I f I n the week but that you donot need stationery of some sort or other I Now we furnish neat, clean printing at the very lowest mien. Mod- t t era J era presses, inouern typos, inoaurn worK, prompt aellvery. I ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1895. NUMBER 41. VOLUME 8. t Theme F. tnhf, Ut-mrj C. Vnjnr, U. Vouse, Kccelvcr. ,. ,. . e. it PULLMAN ELEGANT TOURIST SLEEPING CARS DINING CARS SLEEPING CARS IBt Paal Minneapolis Italulk Vrgo Grand Forks rookMon Wiuulpeg Helena and Unite, THROUGH TICKETS. TO Chicastt WualitnKtOII 1'hlUdelphla a'ew lark KvKtoa And All 1'olnu hut and south TIME - SCHEDULE. ItTrains arrive every Wednesday at H a. m., and depart at 11:15 a. in. For time cards, cards, maps and tlckest, call on or write J. A. Muelrhead, Agent, Athena, Oregon. Or A.I). Chnrlton, Assistant General Passenger Agent, 25ft Morrison St. Cor. Third, Portland, Or E. MCNEILL, Receiver. , TO THE EAST Gives the choice of TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL R O UTES CHEAT UNION NORTHERN RY.PACIFIC RY VIA VIA SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS DENVER OMAHA AND AND ST. PAUL KANSAS CITY Low Rates to all Eastern Cities. Ocean Steamers leave Portland every 5 days for SAN FRANCISCO For full details call on O. & N. Agent, Athena. . Or addreHs; W. H. HURLBUT, Gen, Agt. Portland. Oregon. R. Pass Furniture Did You ' Say? Furniture ' Is ., Just What JOHN S. BAKER, The 2ndggr Man of Court Street, Pendleton, Sells so Cheap. THE ATHENA RESTAURANT MRS. HARDIN, Proprietress. : : : H. P. MILLEN, Manager. Can b recommended to the public as beln Brst-class in every pnrtlcnlar. tir We Employ White help only. 511iAL AI ALJL, Dr. Price's Cream Caking Powder WerU's fair K!j!;t Award. iuii i mrnu : U ::: .N til 'lAi'"wff LOItCK Bl RECTOR F.ftA. M NO. 80 MEETS THE A.. First and Third Saturday Kveningi if naoh month . Visitinir Urethoreii cor iiiilly invited to vUit the lodge. T 0.0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY 1 . Fridnv niiht. Vixitinjt Odd Follow u good standing always welcome. A 0. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE Second and Fourth Saturdnv of month. Fred Rozenswieg, Recorder. A THENA CAMP, NO. 171, Woodmen of the n Worid. meets 1st and 8rd Wednesdays of sach month. Visiting Choppers always wei- ne. . U. UdbubHi vuhk. PYTHIAN, NO. 20, Thursday Night. MEETS EVERY p 8. SHAKP. Physician and Surgeon- Calls promptly, answered. Office on Third Btreet, Athena, Oregon. D R. I. N. RICHARuSON, art 1TUENA, OREGON. E. DePeatt, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Atiiena, Oee. A Painter, G. W. Ghapman, Of Thirty Years Experience, is Desireous of Locating in Athena. - - Sign and Buggy painting. Charges to suit the hard times. J", JPJJElElJEls SHAVING, IIAIRCUTTING SHAMPOOING, HAIRSINGING, In Latest Styles. CT HOT OR COLD WATER FIRST: KSWHE. BREK ' OF -ATHENS: Pays L. D. W. P. LEACH,- .SUCCESSOR TO -N. A. MILLER, THE LEADiiic FURNITURE dealer J Lg' HOTAHY PUBLIC 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. BE SURE YOU SEE THEM BEFORE DAVID TAYLOR, AGENT, SIM mom ax Mr regulator7 Reader, did you ever take Simmons Liveb Regulator, the "Kino of 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 grea'tly refreshes and strengthens. Every package lias 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. Plain and decorative paper hanging, house Propriotor of THE ELECTRIC BARBER SHOP. w 'v - - k J : BATHS, 25 CENTS. 3 South side Main Street. CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, - $50000 $21,000 Interest on titne deposits. Proper attention given to collections. Deals In forclgu and domestio exchange. Livkly. Cashier, Athena, Oregon YOU BUY SACKS OR SELL GRAIN. Athena, Oregon. THE ARMY'S BEST SHOT. His Record as Marksman Began at Vancouver Barracks. There is a soldier in troop (, of the second cavalry, nt Fort Win gale. Ariz., aj- a correspondent in ihe Bofiton Traveler, tfho bears the distinction of being the best shot in the United States army. He is Sergant Henry Henst-r, and, not only is he a thorough cavalryman in every sense of the word, a per fect carbine and pistol Bhot, but he has had some adventures that few men would have lived through. I saw the sergant the other day in his comfortable quarters, and ob tained a record of his wonderful shooting, as well as the story ot a desperate battle he had for his life in Arizona in 1890, near Fort Huachuca. Sergeant Henser has served as a soldier for almost 19 year3. He is a powerfully built, athletic man of about 38 years of age, a pleasant conversationalist and a thorough good fellow, so his comrades say. In bis competition for a place on the army team of 1880, when marksmen were to be selected for the great army team shoot, he scored 557 points, against Captain Kerr's 567. He was therefore pre vented from shooting on the army team that year, and it was mortify to him later to learn that Captain Kerr won the army medal by 557 points, the very score he had made in the preliminaries. ' It taught him a lesson, however, and he grim ly declared in future the man who disqualified him would have to do some shootins. He proved this a year later, for, notwithstanding the fact that he hid been almost torn to pieces in December, 1880, by a silver-tip bear, he won the third place in a preliminary department shoot for a place on the army team and secured the first prize there, winning a handsome gold medal, more than seven ounces in weight. He scored 546 points in the army team shoot. In the distinguished marksmen's team shoot in 1892he won the cel ebrated "Buffalo," medal, a huge gold adornment sought after more, perhaps, than any other insignium of marksmanship to be found in the army, It is larger than the government's gold medal awarded to t,he winner of the army team shoot, and it has to be won from the most distinguished marksman in the service. He scored 600 Doints in this shoot. In the same competition in 1893, at Foit Sheri dan, he again won the "Buffalo" medal, with a score of 582. borne one tampered with tha sights of his carbine at this 6hoot, and after he had commenced to fire he had to take a new carbine, about which he knew nothing. He found that it shot a trifle too high. He allow ed for this and won first prize in spite of the machinations of his enemies. Again, in 4ast year's shoot he captured the greatly-prized "Buffalo" medal, and now has three of them, in addition to the first prize medal of the government for the army, andjess valuable dec orations enough to cover his breast. He has made the highest scores in skirmish firing ever attained, namely, 170, 177 and 104, out of a possible 200 points. The shooting at these various competitions is not ''still shooting" by any means. IS either are the distances from the targets known; neither are the targets the great immense square affairs at which the militia shoot at Creedmoro. The targets are silhouette figures of soldiers, life size. One is stand ing in the act of firing a rifle, an other kneelrng, and the third is lying prone upon the ground, with only shoulders and head in sight, a hit on the standing target counts three, a hit on the kneeling one four, and the lying figure counts five when hit. The men are given 4C rounds of ammunition. They are etarted toward the targots at a distance of 500 yards." They are commanded to halt at some point, the distance of which id unknawn to them, between 500 yards and 200 yards from the targeta. They must tire one shot at each stop, and there are five halts each way, oing and coming. The second shot is fired at an unknown distance further on and the competitor may fire as many or as few as ho likes, during ihe 30 eecondp' halt. He must estimate his distance, arrange his sights, al low for windage, load his piece at each shot, and respond promptly to the call to stop firing and advance to the next hault. Of course, the men are very expert in the hand ling of their carbines, they will drop to the ground like a shot, with fingers full of cartridges, and, at the closest ranges, will fire from 10 to 13 shots at the targets in 30 seconds, and hit the target every time. Serf:int'irenser is thought to be a better shot today than he has ever been, and if he does not win the "Buffalo" again this year, eoino one will have to shoot very fast and very well to prevent him from doing it. Fruit Not Accepted. The Oregon Fruit Union was preparing to ship three carloads of prunes from Union Saturday, says the Republican, but it was dis covered just befoie loading them into the cars' that they had not been properly sorted, oi at any rate in such a manner as not to be ac ceptable to Mi'. Brown the manag er of the Union who was here to in spect them and the producers were compelled to haul them back to their homes, Mr. Brown informed the Republican that he was great ly disappointed but could not af ford to injure the reputation of the union by shipping anything but the very best fruit packed .proper ly. The trouble was causod by the frost which injured the prunes for shipping in the green state, and it, seems that some of the damaged fruit was packed with the sound, instead of carefully seperating it as the Union claims it instructed the packers to do. The fruit however, will not bo lost as it can be saved by drying it. Worth Your Confidence. The success of Hood's Sarsapar illa is conquering scrofula in what ever way it may manifest itself is vouched for by thousands who were afflicted by this prevalent disease, but who now rejoice over a permanent euro by Hood's Sarsa parilla. Scrofula may appear as a humor, or it may attack the glands of the neck, or break out in dread ful running sores on the body or limbs. Attacking the musoua membrane, it may develop into catarrh or lodging in the lungs lead to consumption. SAVED BY THE PRESIDENT. Cleveland Commutes the Death Sen tence of a Kansas Murderer. Tho president has commuted to imprisonment for life tho death sentence imposed upon Clyde Mat tox) of Kansas. This is the case in which the prisoner's mother, after appealing personally to the presi dent, secured a letter assuring her that the death sentenco would not be carried out. Mattox was convicted of killing an old colored man, John Mullen, who was seeking to protect two colored girls. He was convicted and sentenced to be hanged in Kan sas in 1891, but gained a new trial from the United States supreme court, and after two more trials was again convicted, and sentenced to death March 25, 1894. Another anneal was taken to the United States supreme court, and this time the judgment was affirm ed and the convict sentenced to be hanged October 11, this year. As a last resort, an appeal was made to tho president. In his endorse ment the president says: "It is with much hesitation that I can show any measure of clem ency in this case, inasmuch as I do not regard this convict as entitled to any sympathy because of his former life or the testimony taken in the trial. I have concluded, however, after an anxious, perplex ing consideration of all the facts presented me, to pave the convict from the death awaiting him, under- sentence of the court, and at the same time to effectively protect society in future against his vic ious propensities by directing im prisonment during life. I am con strained to this course simply and solely because I cannot shut out the tear that certain testimony of fered upon his trial and excluded by the court, and which a strong minority of the supreme court held should have been received, might, if admitted, have produced areault more favorable to the convict, and probablv have averted his sentence of death." "For nearly two years my moth er has been troubled with a pain in her eide. She procured two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and before she had finished taking them ehe was enabled to sleep soundly on either sido. Ethel Gilliland, Uk iah, Ore. . Hood's Pillti cure all liver ills. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report 33 'AS SQMNTOSff -. PUCE HARD WINTER COMING. Old Su-wap-a-to Gives His Reasons for a Long and Cold Winter. Su-wap-a-to, an aged Indian from Okanogan country, says that winter will set in earlier this year than for a long time past. Ho has discoursed with old men from great distances in all directions, and such was the unanimous opinion. Su-wap-a-to is not an astronomer, in the sense that white people under stand that term, yet long experience and little else to do but make ob servations and store up results in his memory, he is equipped with a fund of knowledge as to weather signs, which in his judgment are infallible. "The Great Spirit," he said, "gave men plenty of horses, but they stolo his lightning and killed the cuitan for food. Then tho wheel came. Even with these old eyes of mine, and with sick turn turn, I saw Indian boys from the sehool, side by side with whitefaced kloochmen, dressed in broochclouts, riding man style, before the wind. I saw Indian kloochmon turn away in shame, for when they ride straddle they have the modesty to cover up their legs with blankets. I know all this would offend the sun, and was not surprised when ho turned his face away from the world one day. I thought it would never be seen again, and was glad when he turned and looked back, seeming to say he pitied the poor old Indians who had watered the desert- with blood to prevent the sickness called civilization from poisoning the pure air of the west. He pitied the Indians, but his face was red with rage. That night the storm king flashed his axes and knives in the north sky.. Next morning when the sun arose from a troubled sleep two sundogs sat on his right v and left hand. He turned them loose to roam over all the sky and warned the good spirits to go back to their wigwams. The sun pulled a black blanket over its face and its folds spread across the sky. Behind it the dogs growled all day, and tho little lightning thore was left was poured out on tho world. Two nights later the frost king floated over the world. He camped last night with a great army this sido of the north end of the world and blew his breath to the south. He is marching swift and fierce. He will be here earlier than ever before, and the oldest man will say this is the coldest and longest winter ever known." THEY ARE BAD BOYS. What Might Have Been a Most Serious Wreck. Huntsville, between Dayton and Wnitsburg, contains a number of bad boys, who have greatly incon venienced the 0. R. & N. railroad company during the past year, on several occasions throwing rocks and eggs through the windows "of tho passing trains, says tho States man, a.nd obstructing the track, etc. says the Dayton Courier. On Sunday last the up train, M. 11. I'atton, conductor, narrowly es caped a serious wreck on account of these same boys. Two young men, both of whom attend the pub lic school at Huntsville and whose parents are very highly respoctcd, had placed a "fish-plate," or, in other words, a long steel rail, be tween the rails of the "frog" just this side of the station and it a ftoint where the train is usually at ull speed. Two coupling ptns and a number of bolts had also been placed in tho "frog" in Buch a man ner that a wreck would have been certain had the train run on to the "frog" at ordinary speed. Besides this the boys had driven fourteen spikes between the rails at inter vals on each side of the place where the "fish-plato" had been placed. Fortunately, however, W. II. V. Richards, who is employed in tho warehouse at Huntsville, discovered tho obstruction and also recognized tho two boys as they departed. Conductor I'atton has secured the pieces of iron which were used, also the names of the boys, which, for good reasons, aro not given at this time. Prosecutions will cer tainly follow. It was a narrow ii vvVcWU escape from a serious wreck and loss of life. There is no excuse for the acts of such boys and arrest3 should be made. Sympathy for Cuba. Every. mayor of every city, town and village throughout tho United States will be advised and requested by the executive committee of the Cuban sympathetic mass meeting, held in Chicago last Monday night, to confer with the most prominent and public-spirited citizens within their respective municipalities to arrange for a national mass meet ing the night of Thursday, October 31, for the purpose of awakening a kindly feeling toward the suffering and patriotic - Cubans who are struggling for liberty. The com mittee will also call upon every prominent organization in the country for the co-operation of its branches in every section. Churches of every denomination, and frater nal and benevolent societies will also be called upon for assistance in making the mass meeting on October 31 a groat wave of public opinion and sympathy with the Cuban cause from the Pacific to the Atlantic and from British Col umbia to Mexico. Human life is held too cheaply when the individual who needs a tonic, for his system, seeks to cover his wants by purchasing every new mixture that is recommended to him. Remember that Ayer's Sar siparillalias a well-earned reputa tion of fifty year's standing. , To remove the constipated habit, the only safe treatment is a course of Ayer's Pills, followed by a laxa tive diet. Most other cathartics do more harm than good, therefore leading physicians . recommend AVer's Pills, especially as a family physic. The uso ot Hall's Hair Renewer promotes the growth of the hair, and restores its natural color and beauty, frees the scalp of dandruff, tetter, and all impurities. MADE THEM NERVOUS. A Bear Walked In a Yellowstone Hotel and Mingled with the Gneata. At the hotel which was located at the Upper Geyser Uasin, but burned last winter, there was last summer a big black bear who slept under the house, and became s tame that the fruests fed hiin, and one evening the porters enticed him into the hotel ofllce with sugar. lie came in, walked through the big lobby, smiled at the telegraph instrument as though he understood that it was clicking" mes sages back to the great cities of Amer ica, and the walked to the front door gazing out at Old Faithful, and hesita ting about his return to the pine woods beyond. This playful prank of the porters was, however, enjoyed more after bruin had gone than while he was in the hotel. The guests, who had no fear of him out at the garbage box or around the grounds of the hotel, were somewhat nervous when he took possession of the big lobby, where they were sitting about the big, open wood fire, talking about what they would do if a bear should walk into the. hotel. They sat like statues, and Manager Howe, who had fed bruin fron his hand outside, felt that this was a closer acquaint ance than he desired to cultivate. He thought the bear might next move on the dining-room and play the part of the bull in the china shop. Mr. Ilaynes, the official photographer of the parlc, sat near enough to the door to lay his hand upon bruin, but he did not attempt to get his picture, though he had been waiting years for a bear to come up and sit for his photograph. The kodak enthusiasts were too nerv ous to even press the button and get a snap shot. They all felt more com fortable when the bear walked out the front door, across the veranda, and out across the lawn to the pine woods. Manager Ilowe told the porters that while he wanted to keep 1 on friendly, and even intimate, terms with the bear, he did not want him to infringe the rules against dogs being allbwed in the parlor or dining-room, and a bear, gentle and friendly as he might be, could not be allowed privileges not given tcutho dogs. That bear, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, still haunts the Upper Basin, but the hotel which sheltered .him has been burued, and Mr. Howe has only a lunch station there now, but he finds him out at the garbage box just aa be fore". ; '. . .