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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1905)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Twick-a-Week Tuesday aicd Friday F. B. Boys, Publishes. Entered as second-clan matter, March 1. 1901, at the postofflce at Athena, Oregon, tinder an Actot Congress of March 8, 1879. mechanical device of destruction. Even i our bide will go further than his. His miserable carcass wouldn't so much as fertilize a hill of potatoes on his relin quished Franklin county ranch. Subscription Kt: ier year, in advanct Single oopies in wrappers, 6c. 12.00 Advertising latest . Ijotai reading notices, first insertion, 10c per me. Each subsequent insertion, 5o. All communication) should be addressed to i he PRK88 Athena, Oregon ATHENA, FEBRUARY 7, 1905 There has been a bill before the legis lature making the crime of robbery pun ishable by life imprisonment. It should become a law. Chicago is receiving some criticism because of her rigorous treatment of robbers. The statute making highway robbery punishable by life imprisonment has been resurrected and in one week nine holdup men were sent over the road for life. All rightl It is humane and just to talk about re forming criminals. Every man who errs and is sorry, and wants to do better should be given as much opportunity for reformation as the welfare of society can stand. But the man who makes an assault for the purpose of gain is at heart a detestable murderer. He isn't an ordinary thug. He is prepared to slay. Human life is sacred. It is a fact pretty well grounded into the brain of every human being. The man who waits in the dark armed with a bludgeon and a revolver, keyed to the point where he will kill in order to gain your personal property, is a premeditated murderer. He knows what he is doing and what he proposes to do. That kind of a man is an enemy of society. Decency forbids eletrocutiDg him unless he has taken life, and so wisdom demands that he disappear, not for a few months or a few years, but until he shall emerge from behind the dark walls of a prison in his coffin. Reform him in his cell if you will. Treat him humanely and kindly. But keep him where he never The Weston Leader-Athena Press burlesque newspaper war stands out as a mild incident of punctured atmosphere when compared with the hornet's nest that has been stirred up between the editors of the Pilot Rock Record and the Sumpter Miner. Away back in the '80'a McManus of the Record and Connella, of the Miner were unfortunate enough to cross trails in the Black Hills. They are still at sword points, end after the lapse of years, are darting shafts at each other that are dipped in the poison of satire and polished with the rankling essence of sarcasm. Holy ginger! Just im agine that for years ' the journalistic brethren of this country have harbored in their midst in the person of the meek and effeminate McManus, a riproariog, bloodeating stage robber, that in early day was a fearless terror to the Pier and Sundance stage line. At least he is so charged by Col. Connella, and will stand enmeshed in a cloud of doubtful character until his side of the case is explained. irst National anc; of Athena CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS .$50,000 12,500 s Propel attention given to collections. Deals in foreign and domestic ex change. Fire and burglar-proof vaults and safes no charge for keeping your valuable papers. H. C. Adams, President. T.J Kirk, Vice-President. F. S. Lb Grow, Cashier. I. M C. A oarrett,) P. E. Colburn, Directors K. 8. LeGrow.l Kemp, Assistant Cashier ' ! ROCK SPRINGS & COM BERLAND! Judging from the sentiment of the large number of citizens who partici pated in the nomination of candidates for city officials, the past year's muni cipal government affairs have been tran sacted, in a satisfactory manner. The mayor, four of the present city council man, the treasurer and city recorder have been renominated. The past year in Athena was marked with substantial progress, municipally speaking, and the present year is to see this progress car ried on. The Psess believes the men who have had to do with the inaugura tion of contemplated municipal enter prise are quaiinea to carry it to a suc cessful termination, and for this reason it is satisfied with the men chosen for councilmen, from the very fact that in the council is vested the responsibility of carrying on the work successfully. The Press man is not surprised at the turn taken by Col. Wood. For aome little time we have been trying to smother a persistent idea that something was rattling around in the Colonel's thinktunk, and it develops that we are correct in our surmise. The Colonel is harboring a rock crusher not in his stomach but in his mind. The dis torted lump of gray matter stored by nature not in his stomach but in his cranium, has conceived a diabolical plot that centers on the destruction of the Press man by mechanical means. He has "edged up" a scheme to de molish us, that for appalling misery and hoiror, would place on a bed of com fortable and painless ease the terrible throes of the Spanish inquisition, or the unpublished feats of a starving horde of Cannibals, the chief of which the colonel is said to have associated with on the St. Louis "Pike." He proposes to feed us to his ingeniously devised rock crusher, and use our mutilated remains to pave the street in front of the Leader junk shop, The Press man always did harbor a chain of notions that the only method the Colonel could employ to keep up with our company would be to resort to a gattling gun or some such To Core Constipation Forever. T alee Cuscarets Candy Cathartic lOeortse. u. u. u. lau to cure, aruparlsts refund mones HEALTH "I don't think we could keep bonne without Thedford'e Black Draught. W have need It in tbe family fororer two years with the best of results. I have not had doctor in the house for that length of time. It Is a doctor in itself and " always ready to make a person well and lioppy." JAMES HALL. Jack sonville, IH. Because this great medicine relieves stomach pains, frees the constipated bowels and invigor- , niea me torpm aver ana weak ened kidneys Mo Doctor is necessary in the home where Thedford's Black-Draught is kept. Families living in the country, miles from any physi cian, have been kept in health for years with this medicine as their only doctor. Thedford's Black -Draught cures bilious ness, dyspepsia, colds, chills and fever, bad blood, headaches, diarrhcea, constipation, colio and almost every other ailment because the stomach, bowels liver and kidneys so nearly con trol the health. THEDFORD'S Am nion- B 7) 1 - 3 TSX EOXS 07 TOIOIi To Mothers of Ailing Children Many little boya and girls n thia town are weak, thin-legged, hollow cheeked and bloodless. , We wish every mother could know what our Vino 1 will do for such children. We promise that it will create flesh, build them up and make them strong, robust and rosy. If it fails to do this we will cheerfully return all the money paid us for the Vinol taken On these terms it's your duty to try it. PIONEER DRUG STORE GOAL i SPECIAL RATES OH CAR LOTS I A. M, GIIL,IS, Athena, Oregon 2 rvvVrMrWrWrvVVrVTVVvWrWvVWvVvVVyW 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 r i . ... : m mi nn-ain will hn tmnt tn roian fci. mm-. I iea wm matte you . . , , f weH Pinee drug store. uoiuua uaaue against urn kiuu. a iuuii at the criminal statistics of this country and perusal of the thousands of criminal tragedies reported in the newspapers prove that the terror of the law does not appeal to those who do wrong with the force it should. Umatilla Lumber Yard Ed Barrett, Manager Building Material Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Paper, Building Paper, Brick, etc. Special inducements on orders for carload lots. Fence posts in quantities to suit. : : : : : Roslyn Coal and Puget Sound Wood CONTRACTING. ESTIMATES FURNISED ON ALL KINDS OF BUILDING ON SHORT NOTIFICATION The Clearance Sale Is Now Over This year's sale exceeded all previous sales, by a large margin and our stock i3 now reduced to a minimum, but our new Bpring stocks will soon be here, in fact most of , them are now on the way. We obtained the object of the sale, to reduce , our stock, and will fill in again with the best and most desirable goods on the market. With the, addition to our store which is dow under construction we will have the most complete stock of house furnishings in this part of the country. We believe, in fact we know, " that thia year will be the greatest we have ever had. - We have made all plana accordingly. Bought more goods ... and better goods than ever before, and our prices are go ing to be as low as is consistent with conservative mer chandising. The 'same policy that has made the Da vis Kaser store what it is today wiil be continued. One price to all and satisfaction guaranteed. 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