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2 H )Jt)$f$l SIEHVEI-W JbJBTCTi VOLUME XVII. ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 3, 1905. NUMBER 7. ED. MANASSE Athena's Leading Dry Goods and Clothing Emporium 11 IM This is your opportunity for BARGAINS. We must make room for spring fabrics soon to arrive. . ED. MANASSE Agent for Butterick's Patterns. Cox & Mcliwen rd ware Dealers SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET. ATHENA. OREGON A NARROW ESCAPE MBS. MASTEBSON FALLS UNDER TBAIN WHILE MOVING- BOTH ARMIES NOW REST AT MUKDEN Jumped to Station Platform and Then Boiled Backward Alongside The Moving Wheels. Stirring Description of Five Day's Bat tle In a Manchurian Blizzard. People standing about the depot Wednesday evening witnessed a scene that narrowly escaped being a horrible accident. Mrs. A. Master-son, an elder ly lady of this city, had boarded the passenger train for the purpose of speak ing to a friend. The train started and the lady jumped to the platform, losing her footing as she did so. She rolled off the platform near the rail, and but for the presence of a brakeman, would un doubtedly have been crushed beneath the wheels. He held her close to the ground and just as the last car passed, swung to its rear, when the lady, now liberated, in her effort to rise, rolled over the rail directly on the track, a thing she would in all probability have done had she not been held. A blight scratch on the face was her only injury. It was a miraculous escape and the dangerous position of the lady sent a thrill of horror through the crowd of on lookers. Mrs. Masterson did not ap pear to be much frightened when first rescued, but after all was over and she fully realized how near she came to be ing killed, she nearly collapsed under the strain to which her nerves had been subjected in the terrible ordeal. 60,000 Crackers and Bombs- The China New Year will be ushered in tonight, and all good celestials will celebrate in appropriate style. 1 ng Yuke, the cook at the, Athena Hotel, called at the Press office laBt night and requested the paper to announce that tonight at 8 o'clock in front of the hotel he would be the principal actor in a fire cracker and bomb exhibition. He will gyrate about the street in his spectacular stunt of exploding 60,000 firecrackers and Chinese bombs. He described his fantastic attraction in pig-tail English and his oriental eyes snapped with ex citement when be told of strings of crackers 20 feet long. He extends an invitation to the citizens of Athena to witness his exhibition, and would be pleased to have all horses kept off the street during the performance, which lasts about 30 minutes. INCORPORATED. if :- i -it 'it m 1 I Hi' i'l lumbing Supplies We do Plumbing at the Proper Prices Standard Material and Workmanship Hardware Stock is Complete. Groceries Crockery, (rents' lurnishinffs TIE BELL MOTHERS State Senator Brownell Is Accused of Perjury Charges Against Him Involve Lands in Eastern Ore. Oku' Headquarters, Feb. 2. The Russian force remains opposite the -fap-anese left. Occasional shots are fired but no serious attacks are attempted. It is evident that both armies are preparing for battle as soon as the weather mod erates. It in believed the present period of cold weather is the last of the season. The five days combat which will go down in history as the battle of the Hun river was fought out on a seemingly un ending plain which is broken only by southern mountains around Yentai, the solitary eminence of which is the Liao yang tower of bloody memory. The bright glare of the sun reflected from a dazzling expanse of snow was painful to the eyes and it was with difficulty that one could follow here and there black streaks marking the Russian columns or waves in the skirmish lines marching against what resembled dull gray rocks, but which in reality were the villages of Lidiatoun and Tanlepu and the hamlet ofSandepas, bastioned by Chinese de fenses and converted by the Japanese into veritable fortresses. Exposed to the severity of Manchurian winter, mounds of earth had become like granite and was impenetrable as the steel sides of a modern battleship. For five days Russian soldiers hurled them selves against the defends and the field artillery pounded them until the frosty air reverberated with the thunder of cannon, the din of bursting shells and the rattle of musketry, but neither steel pointed shell nor nickel bullets availed against the frozen earthworks. The gunners actually wept with despair at the impotence of the attacks. Mortar batteries came up at a gallop in the hope of demolishing the fortifications. Night and day the stream of shots was poured against the earthworks, but it had little effect. The men seemed indifferent to hunger and cold, which later reached Arctic intensity. Their fingers, hands and feet were benumbed, while stinging snow and dust blinded them. The slightest wound caused excruciat ing pain. Warm blood no sooner ex uded from lacerated flesh than it began to freeze. The wounded could not be left exposed, and if they did not receive attention within an hour they died. The surgeons, their assistants and nurses were almost powerless in the bandaging of wounds, for tbey were obliged to wear leather gloves or mittens in order to re sist the cold. The men seemed to be living again the horrors of the winter campaign of 1812 against the Turks. -1 - Conspirators After Heney Portland, Feb. 2. The federal grand jury is investigating this morning, the alleged local conspiracy to obstruct just ice by securing the removal of the prose cuting officers through blackening their reputation and defaming their character. Witnesses who testified have been asked by the conspirators if they would give evidence along certain lines desired. The conspiracy was to accuse Heney of lewd conduct with a woman interested in the case. The latter, it is stated, had been requested to lay a trap by inviting Heney to her rooms and other witnesses stated they were asked to swear having seen Heney coming from her appart- ments. The secret service agents dis covered the conspiracy and the result is that all are summoned before the grand jury. ' The Supporters Wore Out Salem, Feb. 2. Representative May- ger's bill to create the office of county attorney in lieu of district attorneys, was defeated yesterday morning. An attempt last week to shelve this bill when it was up for final passage failed, as the meas ure had a strong host of supporters. Several times it was brought up for con sideration but it was always re-rqferred to another committee. The supporters of the bill at last wore themselves out and allowed it to be postponed indefini tely yesterday without so much as a pro test. The Multnomah delegation was strong against the bill and refused to compromise on the stand they had taken Irrigation Law is Assured Advices from Salem, coming from ob servant and deeply interested and com petent observers, indicate, says the East Oregonian, that the passage of the Cole irrigation bill is reasouably assured, though not by any means certain. The joint house and senate committee meet ing of last Tuesdny night was an auspic- IT'S MITCHELL ACAIN FEDERAL GRAND JURY ADDS BRIBERY TO INDICTMENT. ious event, as the arguments pro and con were brought out in detail, and hard ly in any degree to the disadvantage of the measure. Hon. T. G. Hailey made a masterly plea for the bill, supnorting it with a splendid marshaling of statis tics, facts drawn from the experience of other states, and a profound knowledge of the legal conditions. South Side Main Street, Athena, Oregon. MYBICK MITES- Myrick, Feb. 2. Miss Maggie Mumm entertained a number of young people at her home Monday evening. Games were played and everyone reported an enjoyable time. Messrs John Marshman and John Mumm will give a social dance at the German hall next Saturday evening. Invitations have been issued. Mr. Elmer Kennedy, of Pendleton, is visiting his father here. Mrs. Krebs and two children left this week for Washington, where she with her husband will remain permanently She was accompanied by her sister, Ella Uudeman. Mrs. Fenner and daughter Dottie, of Colorado, arrived last week and will spend a few weeks here visiting at the home of Mrs. J. Myrick. Dr. Griswold reported six cases of La Grippe at the home of Fred Peters, Wednesday. Louis and Isabel Le Doux are ton fined to their rooms with pneumonia. Mr. J. E. Montgomery's warehouse force spent the week at Fulton, loading wheat to ship east. Mr. J. E. Withrow will leave next week for the state of Washington, where he will engage in farming. The Washington Irving Literary so ciety will give a shadow social in the school house Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. D. Osburn spent Satur day in Pendleton. J . Myrick was in Pendleton Saturday on business, J. B. Kennedy was in Pendleton Sat urday. Everybody is plowing. There's a pretty girl in an Alpine hat, A sweeter girl with a sailor brim, , But the handsomest girl you'll ever see Is the sensible girl who uses Rocky Mountain Tea. Pioneer drug store. It makes no difference how many medicines have failed to cure you, if you are troubled with headache, constipa tion, kidney or liver troubles, Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will make you well. Pioneer drug store. Interest in the land fraud cases is again at fever heat by the announce ment by the federal grand jury of the indictment of Senator Mitchell on an other charge of bribery. The grand jury also indicted State Senator George C. Brownell on the charges of subordi nation and perjury. The indictment against Mitchell al leges that, while the senator from this state to the federal congress, accepted on seven different occasions sums of money aggregating $4,200 from a timber dealer named Frederick R. Kribs, for services rendered in, it is alleged, in cluding Congressman Hermann, then commissioner of the general land office, to expedite, make a special order of and approve certain applications for publio lands and reoommending issuing patents to lands located in the Roseburg land district. The indictment makes the charges that in consideration of his services Kribs gave Mitchell two checks for $500 each on the Roseburg bank on February 13, 1902; two checks on June 14, 1902. for $1000 each; one check January 4, 1904, for $500, and one check October 8, 1904, for 9700. The indictment against Senator Brownell involves land in the same dis trict in eastern Oregon, in which forged applications for surveys were made and upon which ex-Surveyor General Henry -Meldrum was convicted last year. Fair Is Assured- Senator Smith's bill, creating the Third Agricultural Society of Eastern Oregon, comprising Umatilla and Mor row counties, has become a law by a bare majority, both Linn and Douglas counties fighting it hard on the floor of the house. The bill will be signed by Governor Chamberlain and go into effect at once, it provides for an appropria tion of $1500 to be expended annually in premiums. A board of commissioners will be named by the governor to have charge of the organization. The perma nent meeting place is Pendleton, Brents for Federal Judge. If.Senator-elect Piles carries out bis agreement and succeeds in having the state of Washington made into two fed eral districts with the Cascade moun tains as the dividing line, the chances of Judge Thomas II. Brents of Walla Walla being appointed as federal judge are bright. It has been known for many months that the friends of Judge Brents have been working quietly in his inter ests and have been laying plans to land him on the higher bench in the event that the new district is created. Mormons at College Place. It is persistently rumored that the Mormons are now closing a deal for the Adventist college at College Place, near Walla Walla. Whon the adventist col lege was built a public subscription was raised, many prominent citizens giving large sums for the establishment of the college. The rumored sale of the prop erty has caused much comment from the donators to that fund. Will Fat in New Front 0. A. Barrett has let the contract for putting in a modern plate glass front in the building formerly occupied by the First National Bank. Donald Mc Fadden, a contractor and builder and a recent arrival in Athena, was awarded the contract. The building will be oc cupied by Ely k Scott, grocers, who have leased thq store room for a period nf three years. A Bousing Meeting. The attendance at the regular meeting of Pythian Lodge No. 29, K. of P., hut evening was very large, there being over 100 Knights present. Visiting members from Adams, Helix and Weston lodges to the number of 30 men were guests of the local lodge. Degree work in all three ranks was given and the meeting terminated with a splendid banquet. Card of Thanks. We take this method of expressing our heartfelt thanks to our Athena friends for kindness and assistance given us during the funeral and burial of our dear mother. George W. Ely, Mr. and Mrs. Bamford. . ' I I I - .-, i I t