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ATHENA PRESS Twicb-a-Week Tuesday akd Fbidat v. b. botb, pdbli8hib. ' Entered second-class matter, March 1, 1904, at the pontofflce at Athena, Oregon, under the Act ot Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription Hatca: r year, In advanct 12.1 Single copies In wrapper!, 5c. Advertising Kates I Liimi reading notice, first Insertion, 10c per . is. Each subsequent Insertion, 5c. A II communications should be addressed to i he PRESS Athena, Oregon ATHENA, JUNE 24, 1904 KOCKEFEI.LER'8 "PILE." The news that Jobn D. Rockefeller has undertaken to form a combination of the mining interests of the country, with a capitalization of two and one-half billions of dollars, must be regarded from a republican standpoint as decided ly inopportune, coming as it does just at the opening of the national campaign. The avenge citizen does not look with favor upon the trusts, and it is but once in four years that he has an opportunity to express his dissatisfaction with the policy of protecting and fostering them. Mr. Rockefeller's latest effort in the di rection of crushing out competition and gathering into his possession another huge slice of the country's wealth has naturally aroused renewed discussion of the enormous extent to which his opera tions are carried and tbe menacing pro portions of his future. Well informed men assert that he is worth not less than $1,000,000,000. The figures seem incredible, says the Ore gon Journal, but the Chicago Tribune gives credence to the estimate and pub lishes a statement compiled by some financiers of that city which suggests that even this huge figure may not be an adequate measure of his fortune. According to this authority Mr. Rocke feller has controling interests in these corporations: Standard Oil ....... ... ... 8 780.000.000 Amalgamated Copper..... 127,500,000 Calumet and Hecla 11,250,000 American Linseed 1,172,500 Corn Products Company. . . 4,936,000 St. Paul Railway 145,280,000 Total.; 81,070,138,500 In addition he has heavy minority in terests in United States steel, Colorado Fuel and Iron, United States Leather, Consolidated Gas, International liar vester, New York Central, Pennsylvania, Missouri Pacific, Wisconsin Central and others. " ' It is safe to say that these figures will find no place in the campaign literature sent out by the republican committee. They are none the less significant, and to every thoughtful American citizen they are pregnant with warning. Mrs. Edison, wife of the "wizard," has been doing some inventing herself. She noticed thuj few men attended the services at the Orange (N. J.) Method ist church', and was told that many ot them stayed at home to mind the baby while wide went to church. Mrs. Edi bod planned and established a playroom under the church, with gameB for the children and a nurse to look after them. So now the families of Orange can check the baby, while father and mother go to church. Just what new excuse the men are preparing is not known. Prof. Starr, of Chicago University, says this "miserable continent is not fit for the development of the highest type of animal life." Perhaps the professor hits been compelled to lay in another ton of coal. The Journal ot the Deceased, devoted entirely to obituary notices, is the latest newspaper venture in Paris. Undoubt edly, ethical considerations will impel the doctors to try to keep their names out of the paper. The World's Exposition at St. Louis is the largest, though not the greatest, show that has ever been seen. The boast ot its urometers has been express ed in acres or in linear fet, rather than in the quality or novelty ot its exhibits, and the shame ot its management lies in the incompleteness of the exhibition even a month after its formal opening. For example, op to May 23, or later, not an American work of art was visible, and in the Agricultural Building scarce ly an exhibit was perfected. It is stated that Charles R. Flint, of New York, has bought two Chilian cruisers for 85,500,000 and is dickering for a third. For, a private individual Mr. Flint seems to be pretty well fixed in point of sea power. The London Times is reported to be adopting Americas, ideas. The next thing we know John Bull will be talking through his nose. The man who has an idea that any body can manage a sailboat is getting into the accident column rather early this year. Whatever else of Tennyson may or may not live, his phrase "the sweet girl graduate" is bound to be immortal. The New York Herald notes that "bicycling seems to be in the ascendant again." Advertising pays. "Alkali Ike" is dead, but "Weary Willie" and "Meandering Mike" are still going the rounds. Labor unions are a good thing. So is dynamite. But both have to be handled with common sense. The trouble with the submarine mine is that it can't tell its friends, from its fees. A $2500 Blow-Out Grand 4th ot July Celebration WALLA WALLA Grand parade, music by three Bands, Athletic sports, daylight Fireworks, ed ucated pig Ballonist, Hose racing, dan cing, . orations and amusements of all kinds, ending with a $1000 display of fireworks in the evening. Excursions on all Railroads. COME, MAKE IT A ROUSING 4TH t THE i ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, prop. 1!f Only First-class Hotel in the City. Iff THE ST. NICHOLS Is the only one that can acoommodale commercial travelers. Iff Can be leoomended for Its clean and well ventilated rooms. ' i Cor. Main and Third, Atbcka, Or. i Pianos of Worth. 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