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mm SEMI-WEEKL VOLUME XVII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1905. NUMBER 35. ED. MANASSE LADIES' SHIRTWAISTS Style, Quality, Workmanship 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 Rubber an d Lawn M COX & M'EWEN SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET. ATHENA. OREGON IVf Are Light Heirdwaire Groceries, TIE DELL BEOTIEES South Side Main Street, THAT ' DOES THINGS" Hose owcrs INCORPORATED. IF it Running, Strong and Durable Stock is Crockery, Gents' Eurnishi TRAIN AND CYCLONE BOTH COMBINE TO TEAR LIMBS AND BLIGHT LIVES. Passenger Train Crashes into Dyna mite Cars Oklahoma Cyclone Wrecks a Town. Oklahoma City, May 11. Five hun dred persons are reported killed or in jured asjthe result of a tornado which swept the town of Snyder, 40 miles west of here at 11 last night. All telegraph and telephone connections with the town is gone and only meager informa tion is obtaintable. It is said that practically every house in town, the population of which is 2500, is wreck ed. Shortly after 2 this morning com munication between Chickasaw and Hobart was established. Hobart con firmed the earlier report and said every house in town except one hardware store and the Frisco round house, was destroyed. f A Terrible Train Wreck. . Harrisburg, Pa., May 11 Poor air hose of a freight train on the Pennsyl vania road at South Harrisburg at 1 : 10 this morning, caused the loss of about 20 lives and injury to about 100 people on the second section of the Cleveland & Cincinnatti express, and destruction by fire of the passenger train and part of the freight. The bursting of a hose in the middle of the train caused several cars to buckle and fall across the passenger track, causing the explosion of two cars of dynamite and strewing the ground with dead bodies. . New Lumber Yard T. L. Terhune announces by ad vertisement in today's Press that he will engage in the lumber business. The contracting and building business done by Mr. Terhune, so he states, has grown to such proportions that he finds it necessary to carry a stock of lumber and building material. .... His yard is on the west side of Hunt Av enue, near his residence. Joint Convention-, That there will be a good attend ance of prominent men from over the state at the Good Roads and De velopment League convention to be held in Pendleton on May 15 and 16, is indicated by the answers to invita tions that have been received thus far. In most of the cases the requests to at tend and participate have been ac cepted. Complete. Athena, Oregon tigs WANT ATHENA THERE Stop-over Privileges For Holders of It stands Athena in hand to be well represented at the joint convention 'of the Good Roads Association and the Oregon Development League at Pen dleton next Monday aud Tuesday. At this gathering of men who are in terested in the welfare and advance ment of Oregon, much good will be done aud that it is to Athena's best interest to be on hand with a live del egation will be seen from the import of the following letter: Portland, May 8. Mr. M. W. Smith, O. R. & N. Agent, Athena, Oregon: Our mutual friend, CoL R. C. Judson, is as you know, espec ially interested in the upbuilding of Athena. He wants you to see that Will Educate Denver, May 10. Sturdy Leroy Irven Dixon, the boy hero of the San Juan division of the Denver & Rio Grande railway, is to receive an edu cation to be paid for by Helen Gould. It took a long time . to overcome the strong spirit of independence in the son of the poor rancher of La Plata county. The boy will be sent east shortly to enter one of the best schools in the country. As soon as he completes the; grammar school course he will be placed in a prepara tory school. After graduation at the latter he will be given his choice of universities. - , With only a red bandana handker chief for a signal, Leroy, in October, 1904, prevented a Rio Grande pas senger train from being hurled hun Bingham Springs Leased "Pendleton, May 11, Dr. C. H. Bingham has leased his popular Bing ham Springs resort to M. E. Foley, formerly of the Rochester hotel in Tacoma, an experienced summer resort hotel man, who will greatly improve the hotel and make it the leading re sort in Umatilla county. The sani tarium features will be entirely done away with, and Mr. Foley will cater to excursionists and campers exclu WILL EXPEET BOOKS- Will Involve All the County'! Record For the Fst Six Years. For the first time in the history of Umatilla county, says the East Ore gonian, the books of the county offici als are to be thoroughly overhauled by experts. Tuesday afternoon the commission ers contracted with Messrs Clark and Buchanan, of Portland, for the work, and it will commence next Monday. The-work of exporting will require considerable time as it will involve an examination of all the work of the clerks, sheriffs, assessors, recorders, treasurers and school ' superintendents that have served during the past six years. The investigation will go back only that far because the county would be unable to collect shortage occurring longer ago than that time. The matter of employing experts has been considered by the commis sioners for some time, but was not fully determined upon until this ses sion. In speaking of the matter this afternoon Commissioner . Walker, who has continually urged that the offices be experted, stated that he re garded the matter as purely a business precaution, and something that should be done regularly. When the present investigation has been completed aud the work brought to date, it is antici pated that the experting will be done regularly In the future. Treat for the School. George Bannister has been giving the school children a series of treats, having on different occasions taken bis Edison phonograph to the school house and given the several rooms a concert, which was much appreciated by all. Ice Cream Social Tonight; Tonight in Epworth Hall, at the M. E. church, the Epworth League will give their first ice cream social of the season. The refreshments will be especially tempting. Don't fail to attend and spend a pleasant evening. Can Be Obtained Fair Tickets. there is a good delegation present at Pendleton and that a plan is agreed upon which will result, not only in getting the stop-over privileges f-om the O. R. & N., and hulf rate to hold ers of Lewis and Clark tickets, but also in a plan which will actually locate people, and that is what you and your neighbors are interested in. Now please bear in mind that Col. Judson came to this office especially to ask me to write you, and we will depend upon Athena being well rep resented. Hoping to moet you person ally, and oalhug your particular atten tion to the enclosod circular which gives details of the convention, I am, Truly yours, Tom Richardson, Seoretary Treasurer. Young Hero dreds of feet in the canyon of the Las Animas river. Leroy was walking to school, several miles from home, when he discovered the rookslide on the track. Far down the canyon he heard the whistle of the approaching train and scrambled down the moun tain side to the tracks, where he ran forward waviug his handkerchief. Engineer McCabe saw the lad in time to stop the train 200 feet from the rookslide. Trainmen and passengers tried to make a hero of the boy, who was then 12 years old. Someone wanted to Bass the hat for him. but he refused to accept anything. He j was finally persuaded to accept the ouiucoi o jauan.uAJ.ci. Alio uuij buiuij Leroy wanted was "store clothes and a red top." sively and hopes to receive his share of the trade pf this vicinity. Dr. Bingham will retire from.the manage ment aud will spend the summer at Walla Walla and in the mountain. Mr. Foley goes to Portland tomorrow to make arrangements for new fixtures and supplies to add to the hotel and will open the season fully equipped to greet the many friends of this old and popualr mountain resort. PAPERS ON EXHIBIT. Umatilla County Prens Will be Repre sented at Kxponitlon, One of the unique and valuable fea tures of the Umatilla county exhibit at the Lewis and Clark fair will be a daily and weekly file of every news paper published in the county, kept at the exhibit booth in the agricultural building for the benefit of visitors aud friends at the fair. . A space will be provided and each paper will be asked to send a regular copy of their paper to the superintend ent of the Umatilla county exhibit. Each editor in Umatilla county has been asked by the Lewis and Clark committee of Umatilla county to act as an associate committeeman from his locality, to be on guard for valu able exhibits that might come undor his notice aud in this way it will be possible to secure a first class display of the resources of the county. East Oregonian. Cost of Irrigation. The United States consulting board of the reclamation service met at On tario Monday, with the members of the Water Users' association and after a two hours' session no conclusion was reached. The minimum cost of re claiming 100,000 acres was announced at $10 an acre, which was $10 an acre more than the former estimate aud this threw a damper on the hopes of the peo ple, though they have decided unani mously to attempt to put the project through. Application will be made to the secretary of the interior to secure the payment for the government work in .installments, the first five to be $1, $2, $3, $1 and $5 a year and $5 for each subsequent year. " The matter stands in abeyance until the question cun le settled. To Repair Opera House. S. L. Spencer has let the contract for repairing the opera house to T. L. Terhune. Mr. Terhune's bid wan $088, aud does not include the paint ing of tho building. IS AT DEATH'S DOOR UNITED STATES JUDGE BEL LINGER SERIOUSLY ILL. , Contracted Cold While Hearing Land - Fraud Cases and Complications Haye Set In. Charles B. Bollinger, Judge of the United States Court, is critically ill at his home on the East Side, and the chances for his recovery are so slight that hope is practically abandoned and family aud friends are waiting for the end. The mental strain caused by the re sponsibilities incident to the land fraud investigations aud trials which have boon proceeding uudor his jurisdic tion for the past several months, have says the Oregonian, sapped the strength of the aging jurist and weak ened him until when he was attacked by the grip upon tho day of his decis ion iu the case of the Mitchell abate ment plea, he was unable to rally com pletely, aud is now on the verge of the grave, suffering from a relapse. When Judge Bellinger renderod his decision iu the Mitchell plea on Tuos day, April 25, it was seen by those iu the court room that he was suffering and that it was with difficulty he was able to finish his reading. Prior to the convening of court he restod on the couch in his office, and as soon ab court .adjourned he returned to his room aud wont to bed. His physician pronounces the case a severe attack of the grip aud prescribed , accordingly. By Friday the Judge had recovered to such an extent that he went to his farm on the following day, returning in the evening. Sunday he wus appar ently well and on Monday morning attended court, but became ill and returned to his home with all of the former symptoms greatly intensified. From that time on his condition has grown stendily worse and the progress of the disease cannot be checked. As a result of the infection due to the grip, it is said that the Judge is suffer ing from septicemia, or constitutional blood-poisoning. While the physician in charge of the case will make no other statement than that Judge Bell inger is critically ill, still it is known that there is but little hope for his recovery and that his death is expect ed at a near date. Judge Bollinger has had the dis tinction of having had jurisdiction over the most important cases perhaps ever brought before the Anioricna bur, those now pending in which Senator Mitchell, Representatives Hermann aud Williamson and so many other prominent men are accused of having transgressed the laws of the United States. ' " '"' - The effect of the death of Judge Bellinger, if the worst should eonio, upon the land fraud trials would be serious. His knowledge of the cusos at issue, gained from his familiarity with the testimony of the grand jury wit nesses, and his study upon the points of law at issue, would have had much to do with speedy and impartial trials of the casos pending. In any eveut there is now small likelihood that tho cases can be hoard at the present term of court, for if the place held by Judgo Bellinger is vacated it will be some time before a successor could be ap pointed and the cuses would be cer tain to go over at least until tho Octo ber term of .court. In the event of Judge Bellingers recovery he would not be able to hear the cnsos before Octo ber, if then.- New Barber Firm. - ; i t Henry Keen and Clyde "Willaby have sold their liar her shop to A. J. Parker and Elmor Lano, who recently arrived from California. Mr. Lane some years ago was iu the employ of Mr. Parker, and is known in Athena as a first class tonsorial artist.' Tho new partnership includes the business and fixtures of both shops. Lane will conduct the Keen shop and Mr. Pur ker will continue to preside over the destinies of the old stand. For tho prewiiit the Keen place will le a one chair shop and two chairs will be oper ated at the Parker shop. Wagon Overturned. While hauling fence posts on the Pine Creek ranch yesterday, Henry Barrett met with a serious accident. The wagon overturned on a stoop hill side, and as Henry went over, became in contact with one of tho side posts on the wagon rack, the result being that the flesh on different parts of the body is lacerated and bruised. Wheat Shipment. The first shipment of wheat to. bo made from'Atheua for gome time was made yesterday, when David Taylor shipped three carloads to Tacoma. The wheat was in storage aud was sold by a resident of Tacoma at a price not stated.