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T r-7 f VIM v ' y SEMI-"WEEKE VOLUME XVII. ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1905. NUMBER 62. ED. MANASSE mom In all etartihenis to Make Room for Fall Goods. ED. '."MANASSE. Agent for Butterick's Patterns. Warm the Homes ' 1 - ; ; Bake tbe Bread ... and ' 1 Roast tbe Meats f ., that Make the Man. But ONE QUALITY "' and that THE BEST SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET. ATIIENA. OREGON LT & fflEEE KM When all that is good in Groceries and Staple Provisions fail to appeal to you a appetizers. THAT TIME IS HERE, tor the season of is at its zenith. Our FRUITS AND VEGETABLES COME'DIRECT FROM THE RANCn and thtrefore are fresh and palatable. DELL BROTHERS Albums Do We Sell Them? Before buying call and nee our line of SAMPSON WIND MILLS, , BUCKEYE PUMPS, . ECONOMY FRUIT JARS, HARDWARE and PLUMBING SUPPLIES. The Best Ever! small pboht Its the careful buyer of Har vest supplies that we are after at the present. We ask - that you call and investigate our stock and get our prices. "First class goods and small profits" our motto SO OTT Fruits And Vegetables CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOI THINGS TO EAT COUNTY WINS AGAIN SUPREME COURT REFUSX8 MO TION FOR NEW TRIAL. District Attorney Phelp Will Colleot $40,000 Tax Money From . 0-K. & N. Company. f ... Motion for a rehearing of tbe ; tax, case of Umatilla county and the Ore gon Railway 8c Navigation company has been denied in the supreme court,: As soon as a mandate is granted District Attorney Fhelpa will take up the matter of collecting the sum of $10,000 which the road owes the' county. .,.. ; In this action the railroad denied that the tax was made properly and one connection was that the O. B. A; N. company did not necessarily mean the Oregon Railway & Navigation company. The only recourse left the road will be filing a suit in . equity asking that the tax be reduced. FARMERS FACE DISASTER. Boats Cannot Navigate Klver nnd Crop , will Ko In Field. V , Thirty per cent of tbe fruit crop will go to waste on the Snake river this season because there are no tran sportation facilities for bringing it to market Hundreds of tons of other produoe will also have to be thrown away by the farmers of that section for the same reason. The steamer Mountain Gem, the only boat which was plying between Lewiston and Riparia, has been tied np, says the Portland Journal. For the last week she' has been cutting her way through the 1 bars, and the hard - knocks she received mean speedy ruin. The vessel was charter ed about three weeks ago by the O. R. & N. company with the hope that she could be operated until the steam ers Spokane and Lewiston would,, bq able to resume their runs. Fruitgrowers of the Snake river estimate that one third of their crop will rot in tbe fields; this in addition to great quantities of vegetables, which had heretofore beeu . shipped to the Portland market. It is said that this loss will be sufficient to affect the looal price of I rnits and vegetables. It is the first time that the Snake has been closed to navigation for years. Service can not be resumed until heavy raius fall and it is asserted that this will be too late to save even a small portion of the crops. THE FEOPL'ES GROCERS TIIES Athena, Oregon. FIND A RICH MINE. Sampler District Startled by Dlicovery of Gold Ore. The Blue Mountain Amerioan of Sumpter gives the following aooount of the discovery of a remarkably rich body of gold ore in an abandoned mine near Bald mountain ; One of the most remarkable strikes yet recorded in Eastern Oregon is herewith annonnoed in the uncovering this week of one of the richest, if not the very riohets, surface paysboots opened in this land of gold. . , Remarkable not alone, from tbe quartz, full ten inches wide, being shot , and sprinkled with free gold and running into the thousands of dollars per ton but from the fact that as depth is attained in the "glory hole" the paystreak is widening, as when the representative of the Ameri can left there yesterday morning it had increased to almost a foot in width, and the highly interesting stories connected with its looation and abandonment by tbe original lo cator and subsequent ' location and abandonment four times by people well known throughout tbe district The strike was made in wha t is known as the Nugget group, acquired this year by Dan Dunne, A. M. Bess- ler and Charles Butler, three of the best known underground workers in the district and who are now lifted from wage earners to owners of a property that bids fair to place mag nificent sums to their credit Fast as the phenomenally rioh ore can be extracted it is sacked by two of them while the third is busily en gaged in cutting a trail to the con necting wagon road just Mow the Bald mountain hoist, and tomorrow some two or three tons of. the rioh stuff will be packed over and brought to the Sumpter smelter. Speaking of its richness, Oh as. F. Cbatten, traveling correspondent of this paper, who has just returned from the scene of tbe great strike, said: "It is undoubtedly tbe richest ore yet opened on the surface in . the camp and from pannings made right at the 'glory bole it is safe to say that every ton taken from the pay- streak will run far above $5000 per ton and some of the ore will most certainly rnn above $50,000 per ton. " The group is 'situated about eight miles from Sumpter on tbe east slope of Bald mountain and was originally located in 1896 and abandoned ; re located the following year, abandoned again and remained - idle till 1900; located and abandoned again and re mained idle and unnoticed till it was relocated and incorporated iu tbe Combination Gold Mining company in 1900 nnder the name of the United Bullion group. i : Internal dissension arose among the officials of that organization and not even the- assessment work was per formed and it was relooated by a well known mining man of Sumpter, who also abandoned it and this year it was relocated by the present owners who have fonnd the treasure vault A GREAT BIO FR03T Many Walla Wallam Who Investigated Boom Village Have lleturned. A nnmber of people from this sec tion of the country have recently vis ited tbe town of Orovilie, in Okanog an country with a possible view of locating, says the Walla Walla Union. The future prospects of the little town were very highly colored by reason of a possibility of a railroad being built through it Those who have returned are not very much impressed with the prospect and say it is a little mushroom town, with 14 saloons waiting for the approach of the construction-crews of the railroad to furnish the required trade. At pres ent all of the inhabitants of the town are engaged in business and are simp ly trading around among themselves, while waiting for tbe , brief harvest Tbe 11 saloons do not all together sell a bairel of beer iu a day. They further gay that there . is not enough surrounding country to support a town of any size big, high, rugged moun tains, without even buncbgrass, rear ing up on all sides. One man ventured tbe assertion that there is not enough tillable land within a radius of ten miles of the town to make a fair sized wheat ranch in Walla Walla county. The Widow and the Fool. "The Widow and the Fool," Nat Goodwins' 4 -act comedy drama, was presented at the Athena opera bouse Wednesday night by Mr. and Mrs. Welch assisted by local talent John son's orchestra added much to the pleasures of the evening by the rendi tion of several musical selections. Tbe piece is evidently a bard and trying one for amateurs, but doubtless interesting and entertaining when pre sented by a professional cast The local players did well considering tbe number of rehearsals tbey gave tbe play and the short time intervening when tbe cast was made up and tbe presentation. Mr. and Mrs. Welch as nsual gave evidence of much dra matic ability, They go from here to Pendleton where they will put on a series of plays. PLEA FpR INSANE. Dr. Howell Believe! Too Many Patient are "Railroaded" to Asylum. In behalf of tbe great number of unfortunates arrested, tried and con victed every year on the charge of in sanity, many of whom later proved to have been ill of body, rather than of mind, W. James Howells, late super intendent of the eastern Washington hospital for tbe insane, has had pub lished in the Medical Sentinel, a journal printed in Portland, an article dealing with tbe carelessness often exhibited by physicians in the exam ination of persons arrested for in sanity, the laxity of the law regarding commitment to the asylum and the consequent great injustice done alleg ed insanity patients..,, "It is a mighty serious thing to com mit a person to tbe madhouse unless be really is insane," says Dr. JHo wells. "It bands with a man to his dying day, no matter whether he is really insane or not, and physicians and courts cannot make too sure that an accused person is crazy before com mitting him. ' Lots of instances I could call to mind wherein the patient was not at all iusane when commit ted to the asylum, but only ill suffer ing, perhaps, from some acnte kidney trouble or some such disorder, which temporarily affected his mind but which if the patient could have had proper medical treatment for a few days, would have passed away and tbe patient would not have been com pelled to spend the. rest of his days nnder the cdium of having been at one time an inmate of tbe lunatio asylum. Then, there are oases where old people are shoved into asylums by children who . are tired of caring for them. -:".' -'-' . " When we stop to realize that it is altogether upon the recommendation of the examining physicians" that a patient is sent to the asylum by the court, we realize that a grave respon sibility rests upon the doctors, and bow important it is to the one ac cused, and to the state generally for that matter, that they take every pre caution possible to make snre the ac cused is insane beyond all question before recommending to the judge that be be committed." NOTHING FOR PUBLICATION. Governor Mend Not Willing t DIhcmm , , Guard a Matter. Governor -Mead, who arrived in Walla Walla Wednesday from Port laud, said to a representative of the Union that he had nothing new to give to the press concerning the pro posed removal of guards at the penii tentiary. Tbe governor was met at the station by Warden Kees, who is entertaining him while in the city. During the afternoon be received a number of the prominent citizens of the city at the warden's office, where he freely discussed the question re garding the guards. Among those who called : upon ' him were United States Senator Ankeny, State Senator F. M. Pauly, ex-Senator O. T. Corn well, members of tbe city conuoil and many prominent republicans of the county and city, who appeared to dis cuss with him the matter which brought him here. Governor Meade did not indicate wbat line of action he proposed to recommend to Warden Kees. He said, however, that he would au nounoe his final position " regarding the matter. City Wood Burn. . A blaze out at tbe city pumping station early yesterday morning de stroyed about five cords of wood, a portion of the fuel on hand for pump ing city water. The fire was discover ed by flour packers in the Prestou Parton mill, but was under such bead way that no attempt was made to sub due it It is thought that it ignited from a cinder pile which was close by. Alberta Land. D. L. McPhail, of tbe firm of Mc Pbail & Mclutyre, Nariton, Alberta, left for his home in Northwestern territory yesterday morning. While here Mr. McPhail interested several persons in AlCerta land. A club of seventeen persons may -purchase one half of a township, and with this object in view George Gross and E. L. Barnett accompanied Mr. McPbail on bis return. ! ; j t Fruit Blown From Trees. Reports coming in from La Grande show great loss of frnit in Sunday night's storm. It is estimated : that only fine-fourth of the frnit remains ou tbe trees. Iu some fields the grain is badly threshed out At Alice! a warehouse was blown across tbe track on the Elgin branch, and it was neces sary to construct a new track before tbe train could proceed Monday. local Wheat Market. Athena, Aug. 25. -Wheat today is quoted at 58 cents. B A n N E ft 8 A LVE trio meat heeling aalv In th world. ATTEMPTED HOLDUP WILLIAM BANNISTER BRINGS, HIS KNIFE INTO PLAY. One of the Fellow Ha Hii Clothing: Slashed and Retreat in Short Order. William Banister, the engineer at the city pumping station, had rather an exciting experience while at work the- other night Two men acting in a suspicious manner, called on Mr. Banister and one asked for cigarette pavers. .Being told by Mr. Banister that he had none the fellow replied . all right" One then went into the furnace room and the other suggested that the engineer see wbat he was doing iu . there, and followed Banister to the door. The engineer saw that some thing had to be doing and quick as a flash whipped out his knife and made a stroke at the fellow who was follow ing. The attack was so sudden that the man was taken by surprise and in his hurried retreat, fell over a pile of cinders and said he had enough. The other fellow came out of the room and rnn away. Mr. Banister believes that if they had gotten bim into the en gine room, they would huvojheld him tPv SERIOUS DROUTH AT COLFAX. Vie of Water for Uwni flat Been Prohibited. " ' . Colfax is without water for irri gating - lawns, and strenuous efforts to husband the water until ruins fall are being made in order to prevent a famine. The big spring near Elber ton from whioh water is being piped to the Colfax reservoir was found to be insufficient for all city purposes, and for sevoral weeks water has beeu pumped from the Palouae river into the reservoir iu addition to the flow from the spring. . The Palouse river has become merely a stagnant pool and investigation by physicians show ed it dangerous to be used for drink ing purposes. , Accordingly the city oounoil voted to discontinue pumping from tbe river, and passed an ordi nance forbidding the sprinkling of lawns uuder a penalty of $S 'flue. It is believed that by close economy the spring will supply enough water for drinking and bouse use until the fall rains come. Had not water been piped from the spring this year Col fax's condition would have been serious, for the Palouse river, from which water had beeu secured many years, is dry in many places for the first time in its history, and the town could not have been supplied from it. Damage in Frnit District. ' ' . According to tbe officers of tho Fruitgrowers' union of Milton the loss to the orchardists through the storm Sunday is heavy. Since that afternoon reports have reached them from most of tbe more important fruitgrowers of that section. These show that all of tbe peaches and pears that were ripe were knocked from the trees and will be a loss. It is also estimated that from one-half to two thirds of the winter apples were blown to the ground, making almost an abso lute loss of that portion of tbe crop. Besides the loss of fruit, much loss was sustained from trees being blown down or broken. Many of the tree were uprooted by tbe strong wind. Cough Left and Death Came. Mrs. Lena Hurt, tbe wifo of C. O. Hurt of Moscow, died suddenly Sun day afternoon under most peculiar circumstances. After having suffer ed for years with tho asthma, which caused her to cough almost continu ally, some new medicine was pur chased a few days ago. The medicine was taken a couple of days, and 011 Sunday, afternoon it seemed to have stopped tbe cough. But as soon as tbe congh stopped Mrs. Hurt died of strangulation. Oregon City Strike. Fifty-three men and women employ ed in the weaveroom of the Oregon City Manufacturing company woolen mills, walked out Wednesday after noon because of a reduction in wages. Tbe action of the employes is a result of trouble which has been brewing several months. It is claimed many of tho oldest employes of tbe factory were discharged to ,, make room for cheap bauds. Hii Sleeve Caught Henry Hill bad a narrow escape from being torn to pieces whilo work ing around a threshing machine near Helix Monday. His sleeve became caught in the cylinder, but he man aged to pnll himself away in time. Beyond a few bruises he escaped unharmed. ... 1 i It.