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VOLUME XVII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY. MAY 9, 1905. NUMBER 34. T ED. MANASSE LADIES' SHIRTWAISTS fl& Style, Quality, W orkmanship Each one a tailored creation. To see them is to verify our state ment. We will not quote prices, but you will find as far as quality is concerned they are all right. JUST IN A sample lot of SHIRT WAIST SUITS at FIRST COST. Come and make your selection. ED. MANASSE Agent for Butterick's Patterns. THE HARDWARE STORE THAT "DOES THINGS" Mfcer Hose and awn COX & M'EWEN i SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET. ATHENA. OREGON A 3 Ml Are Light Hardware iVil i b Groceries, Crockery, (rents' FurnisMnffs THE DELL South Side Main Street, ! I . I lit JMl owcrs INCORPORATED. .Running, Strong Stock is JJlLU 1 HMlu MASONS OWN HALL PURCHASE WORKMAN AND ODD FELLOW INTERESTS. Will Alter Hall to Accommodate Charter Meeting: of A. 0. U. W.. Members Friday Evening. Masonic Hall is now owned exclu sively by Dolph Lodge No. 80, A. F. & A. . M. , the lodge having acquired the property by purchasing the inter ests of the I. O. O. F. and A. O. U. W. lodges. These two lodges each owned a third interest in the hall, and these interests have been bought for $550 each. The Odd Fellows own a one half interest in the new hall, the Knights of Pythias owning the other one half. Athena Lodge, No. 104, A. O. U. W. will hereafter pay rent for a place of meeting leaving the Masonic brethren in sole ownership of the old hall. It is understood that a Chapter is to be instituted here, and it is for this purpose that Dolph lodge purchased the holdings of the other two lodges. The hall will be altered to better ac commodate Masonio work. A meet ing of the members of the A. O. U. W. lodge is called for Friday evening, at which business of importance is to be transacted and the attendance of all members is desired. Poundinr Iron. Tharp Bros, who lost their black smith shop and chop mill last week by fire, have two fires and two anvils running at the S. L. Spencer shop on Main street They commenced attend ing to the wants of their customers yesterday morning. It is found that a greater part of their nif jhinery, especially the heavy machines, can be put to use again when repairs have been made, and the boys will soon be in a position to again do all kinds of machine work. Suicide at Meacham. ; Justice Korpie, a railroad . laborer, committed suicide in a bunk house at Meacham Thursday. That he wanted to make a good job of it, is verified .by the fact that he fired three shots into his body. Two shots- had pierced his abdomen, and the last one went downward , through the top of his head. . Went to Walla Walla. A number of Athena people went to Walla Walla Sunday morning on the excursion to witness the ball game. Pendleton defeated Walla Walla the score being 7 to 4. and Durable Complete. Athena, Oregon CORflP'Y COLT SHOW Umatilla County Colts Eligible to En try in Two Classes For Prizes. Charles Norris, A. B. MoEwen and William McBride, who have the colt show iu charge, have perfected all necessary arrangements and the show will take place in this city Saturday, May 27. The owners of stallions aud the own ers of colts foaled this spring, are tak ing active interest in the coming ex hibition, and all indications point to the show being a success iu every particular. There will be two classes eligible to entry, namely, light horses and draft stock, both of which are well represented in Umatilla county. In fact,- the horse raising industry in this bounty has made more than its share of progress when placed in com parison with any other industry. The right men are in charge of the show and horse owners are taking more than passing interest; the own ers of stallions for the reason of fair practical advertising, aud the owners of colts as a matter of pride in their stock. Entries will be confined to BONDS EOT New Issue Will Be Years, With 10 At a special meeting of the council last evening, it transpired that the present water bonds of $12,500 will not become due until 1915. It was found on referring to the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds that they were taken for 20 years in stead of 10 years, as has been supposed. A resolution calling for bids for $26,000 water bonds was out down to $16,000, in consequence. Engineer Miller's estimate for material and con struction of the new system is $18, 913.81. The cost of land for water rights, reservoir and right of way will take up very nearly all the balance over aud above cost ' material and construction. . The following reso lution, submitted by C. A. Barrett, member of the fire and water com mittee, was read aud passed : Pendleton Nabs a Forger Pendleton, May 8. Once more the forged check business has been re sumed here, and as usual, the operator is now in the county jail. Bert Wilson is the name of the prisoner, and he is under arrest for having passed a forged check for $25 upon George Froome, in the Mer chants' Cafe saloon, early this morn ing. The check bore the signature of J. T. Hoskins, a stock man living northwest of Pendleton, and it was on the strength of this name that the check was taken by Mr. Froome. Missouri Showed Them All New York, May 8. News of a big ocean race in which seven United States battleships participated, was brought here today by the battleship Alabama, 'which will go to the navy yard to be overhauled because of her poor showing made in the contest The ships were coming up the coast last Saturday and were about 200 miles south of Cape Henry, when word was Lights for West Side- A number of residents of the West Side met at the office of Mr. Pason, electrician for the Preston-Parton Milling Co., Sunday afternoon at which time the matter of lights for that portion of Athena's residence district was discussed. Mr. Pason in forms the Press that it is now prac tically assured that the West Side will have an arc light at some point on Hunt Avenue, a sufficient number of residents there having signified their intention of taking Light to justify the running of a line into that district ON MAY 27 colts, and mares must be exhibited ' v-ith foal at foot Colts may be en tered at any time between now and day of show, giving name of sire and sire of dam, if possible. Judges ! for each class will be selected on the grounds, prior to the exhibition of the stock. Anyone desiring information should address Charles Norris.Athena, Oregon. The list of prizes is as fol lows: Draft Class. First prizo, leather suit case, price $10. Second prize, a flue Cathedral clock, price $8. Third prize, a first class all wool blanket, price $4. Light Harness Class. First prize, set of single harness, price $15. Second prize, a standard made lap robe, price $6. Third prize, a whalebone buggy whip, price $4. Prizes now on exhibition at Norris' t Pioneer harness shop. 20 YEARS For $16,000 for 20 Year Option. "Resolved: That O. G. Cham berlain, City Recorder, be authorized and instructed to advertise iu the name of the City of Athena for the sale of $16,000 City of Athena water bonds, said bonds to be 20 year 5 per cent bonds with ten year option, in terest payable Bemi-aunually, in Jun uary and July of each year. Bids to be received up to 6 o'clock p. m., Monday, Juua 5, 1905. All bids to be sealed aud endorsed proposals for City of Athena water bonds. Each bid to be accompanied with a certified check fof 5 per cent of amount of bid, said certified check to be made payable to the City of Athena, as forfeiture in event of successful bid der failing to take and pay for said water bonds if awarded by City of Athena. The right is reserved to re ject any and all bids. " The check was drawn on the First National Bank of Pendleton, and when it was presented for payment at that institution, payment was refused by Assistant Cashier Hartman, as Mr. Hoskins has no account with them. Immediately upon the discovery that the check was a forgery, the sheriff's office was notified, aud Deputy Davis at once set to work with the result that within a few hours Wilson was found and placed nuder arrest His identification is complete, as two fingers of one hand are missing. given for a speed test. For two hours it was nip and tuck. By that time the excitement was running high on board the battleships, and the speed contest had developed into a race. At the finish the Missouri, which had drawn away from the others, was only 73 miles south of Cape Henry, having covered 126 miles in eight hours. Mead Is Roasted. If Governor Mead keeps up his pres ent pace he will retire from office with the well earned reputation of being the greatest political sidestepper that ever held a public position in the history of this young state, says the Seattle Times. Politicians who have had dealings with him do not hesitate to say that he does not keep his word ; that promises, once made, are swept aside like so much dust, and that a positive statement that he will ap point this man to a certain office means absolutely nothing. WALLA WALLA NIT NO PICNIC FOR GAEDEN CITY CALEDONIAN SOCIETY. Gathering of the Clans Depends on Efforts of Umatilla County Cale donian Society. The Walla Walla Caledonian So ciety has decided that it will not hold a picnic in the garden city and it is now up to the Umatilla county Cal edonian Society whether or no there is to be a picnio at which the clans of the Inland Empire can meet Sometime ago it was understood and given out that the Walla Walla so ciety in connection with the Umatilla County Society, would hold the an nual picnio at Walla Walla, and next year the picnio would be held iu Athena. It appears that the Walla Walla Sooiety has not been equal to the occasion and if the society here does not take the matter up the pionio will go a glimmering. There will be a meeting of the Umatilla County Caledonian Society iu this city next Saturday night, at which time the matter will come up for discussion. Several members of the society have already spoken in terms favorable to going ahead aud holding the picnio. Should it be de cided to do so the picnio, necessarily to making arrangements and securing attractions, will have to be held in the latter part of June instead of May, but it is considered that this change in time of giving the pionio will be an advantage and not a detriment for as a rule, bettor weather prevails during the month of Juno than in May. SUIT AGAINST M'ELROY. Alleged Wilful Spread of a Contagion. Dueaae. Suit was commenced Saturday in the circuit court by W; P. Souther land against B. F. McElroy to Becure a judgment agaiust the latter for the sum of $485, and also to prevent the foreclosure of a chattel mortgage hold by the defendant agaiust the plaintiff, says the East Oregonian. It is stated in the compliant that the plaintiff purchased of the defend ant hogs and some imileiuents val ued, in' all, at $365, and that in pay ment of this, cash was paid in part and the rest in a note for $215 secured by a chattel mortgage. Thut at the time of the sale the hogs were infect ed with a contagious disoase, and were so known to be by the defendant. That as a result of the disease the hogs died, as did also 85 other hogs belonging to the plaintiff, said hogs contracting the trouble from those purchased of the defendant As a consequence, plaintiff declares ho has been injured to the extent above in dicated. GRADING OF WHEAT Tliomaa Akin Ham Filed a Suit Afalnut the Board of Railroad., Thomas Akin, a St. Louis grain mer chant, has filed suit ' iu the circuit court against the board of railroads and warehouse commissioners of Mis souri; Frederick II. Tedford, chief inspector of grains for Missouri, and the Merchants' Exchango, to restrain the grading of red Russian wheat as No. 2 winter wheat. Akin states that he has bought sev- ' eral hundred thousands of No. 2 red winter wheat, deliverable this month. Wheat grown in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin is mostly red winter wheat ;he states. The red Russian wheat is growu on the Pacific coast, and sells for several cents a bushel less than No. 2 red winter wheat, it is alleged. Echo's Annual Picnic. Saturday was the greatest event in the history of Echo, when the town eutertainod royally 850 visitors from Pendleton, 50 from La Grande, 12 representative men of Portland and a huge crowd from Echo and vicinity and other places at the farmers' basket picnic, for Echo and vicinity. A splendid dinner was served to over 2000 people. There were victuals iu plenty, but tables were not Dear largo enough to accommodate the crowd. A Creeping Death. Blood poison creeps up toward the heart causing death. J. E. Stearns, Belle Plain, Minn. , writes that a friend dreadfully injured his hand, which swelled up like blood poisoning. Buckleu's Arnica Salve drew out the poison, healed the wound and saved his life. Best iu the world for burns and sores. 25c at McBrido's drug store. Y