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k I - SEMI-"WEEKI VOLUME XVII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER lfi. 1905. NUMBER 65. mm u m ED.- MANASSE wmmu In all IDepartmeinits to Make Room for fall Goods. ED. MANASSE Do -'Uriels Warm the Homes ! Bake the Bread ', : and Roast tbe Meats . v.,!, that Make the Man. . But ONE QUALITY and that THE BEST . COX a MTWEN SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET; ATHENA. OREGON Shoes Shoes THERE When all that. is good in Groceries and Staple Provisions fail to appeal to you as" appetizers. THAT TIME IS HERE, tor the season of - Fruits And Vegetables is at its zenith. Our FRUITS AND VEGETABLES COME DIRECT FROM THE RANCn and therefore are fresh and palatable. DELL BROTHERS 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 ! ELY & SCOTT Wanted-Every man and boy to examine our Shoes before buying elsewhere ELY & SCOTT mwm CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THING3 TO EAT ALBERTA IS CHEAT DAN M'INTYRE PLEASED WITH HIS SEW HOME. ' Sold Twenty and One Half Section! to Umatilla County People in One Week. . " Dan Mclntyre arrived iu town yes terday from bis new home in Nantou, Alberta, and ever since bis arrival he has been nearly tongue-tied answering questions regarding resources and possibilities iu tbe land across the Canadian line. Dan answers every oue iu his own inimitable way, and there are many who have been up there and unhesi tatingly verify his statements. He is a member of tbe real estate firm of McPhail & Mclntyre, and that he is making a success in tbe real estate business, goes without saying. During the "past week his firm has disposed of twenty and one half sec tions of Aloerta land to Umatilla county purchasers alone. 5 He is enthusiastio about his new home and says that he only wishes that all of his Umatilla county friends and acquaintances were located there. Crops, are turning' out wonderfully well. The success of growing winter wheat in that country is practically assured, the present harvest turning out from 80 to 45 bushels per acre on sod land. ' Alberta is the home of the oat, this orop yielding from 90 to 140' bushels per acre. Heavy Bain Storm. Rain did not fall in this vicinity in sufficient quantity to lay the dust b.ut the western part of the county was visited by a severe rain and wind storm, and though reports are meager considerable damage was done. The O. R. & N. roadbed was washed out at several points between Barnhart station and Echo and traffic was de layed. Reports from Echo state that one of the heaviest rains known for many months, fell in the Butter creek country.. Some damage was done to small farms. - Separate Trial Prosecutor Heney has consented to Senator Mitchell's request for a separ ate, trial on the land fraud conspiracy indictment, in which he is a co-defendant with Hermann, Puter, et al. George Gaylor and J. S. Watersou, entrymen, were witnesses in the-Williamson trial. Judge Hunt admitted photographs of claims, as evidence which was barred by Judge DeHaven. Athena, Oregon. - . m Shoes J Shoes TIIESl A GHASTLY FIND. Dead Intent round In Bantu Drawer at Walla Walla. ' With its little hands grasped in the last agonies of apparent suffocation, its pretty blue eyes closed and .sight less, its limp little form curled up in a bloody sheet wrapped about in an old gray skirt, a beautiful baby girl lies cold in death at the undertaking parlors of McMartin & Co. , says tbe Walla Walla Union. It was taken from a bureau drawer in a room at the Louvre hotel, of Walla Walla, about 12 o'clock last night and con veyed to the police station. The circumstances of its birth and death coupled with the manner in which it was concealed, poiut strong ly to the fact that the child was suffo cated in order to shield its unhappy mother from disgrace of bringing it into tbe world. She is a rather handsome girl of about 19 years of age who does not bear upon her face the marks ot dissipation or depravity, which it would seem would be re quited to commit such a monstrous crime as murdering a defenseless, though illegitimate baby. She gave her name to the police last nigbt as Nellie McQueen and her home up until two months ago as Spokane. Since that time she has been working iu the Star restauraut in Walla Walla as a waitress. She said she came here to avoid disgrace of an exposure among her friends and acquaintances in Spokane and had been maintaining as best she could, waiting for tbe moment to come when she could go back again where she is known, free from the disgrace. According to her story, she was confined about noon yesterday, and was attended by a woman by the name of Lottie O'Brien, who is em ployed as a chambermaid at the Pal ace Hotel. When seen by the polioe last night, the O'Brien woman de clared that the child was "still born" and asserted that she had been called in the case through a friend of the unfortunate woman who came to this city with her, but is now iu Pendeton, and who went by the name of Miss Badwin. FARM HAND MISSING- Frank Wall Suddenly .Disappear From ' Havana Station. The Tribune says Prank Wall, who has been employed on the farm ot J. N. P. Snyder and Mr. Pa ikes the past several months, is missing, having mysteriously disappeared last Sunday. Young Wall was last seen near Havana station where his grip- was found on Tuesday. Charles Wall, a brother of the missing man, was noti-1 nea or tne anair yesterday morning and left for Havana station to learn something concerning the cause of bis brother's sudden disappearance. No one seems to know much about the case and it is feared that young Wall met with foul play. New Grain Steamer. Information is now given out that the new steamer Columbia will soon be carrying wheat from up river points to the portage road. The sinking of tbe steamer Jerome a few days ago has not deterred them and just as soon as their boat is ready they will put her in commission. Tbe boat has a gross tonnage of 150 tons, is 77 feet long, 30.4 feet beam and 36 feet depth of hold. She is comparatively a new steamer, having been built iu 1902. This will materially help the wheat situation in that locality, and will give the portage railroad some work to do and if the raising of the steamer Jerome is suoossful, the two steamers will move large quantities of wheat this fall. -TheDalles Chron icle. ' Kept Open Saloons- "Tex" Langiver, CVas. Hein and J. E. Russell, Pendlidpu saloon me'u, were before the circflpt court Tuesday to answer to the Jtiharge of keeping open their places of '.business ou Sun day. Langiver jra' fined on three charges. Judge Ellis placed the fine for tbe first charge at f 15; second $20 aud for the third 1 25, a total of $60. The other two men were fined on two charges amounting to f 35 each. Hill Road U a Go Railroad construction along the north bank of the Columbia river seems to be an assured fact. The en tire npper floor of a building at Van couver has been rented for the head quarters of tbe engineering and legal departments, aud great activity ia noticed. The work, it is said, will be in the iuterest of tbe Hill roads to secure tbe long contemplated line on an easy grade into Portland. Prune Crop Harvested. The packing houses at Freewater have now finished packing prunes, wnd are preparing to pack fall apples. The crop is from one-thkd to one half short this year owing to the un favorable weather in the spring, and the heavy winds this fail However, packers expect to ship fifteen car loads - , . '.. -, A FEARFUL DEATH- J. K. Bayna of Uellx Dragged to Death by a Team. A Helix special to the East Oregon' ian of Tuesday says: G. R, Bayne was dragged to death this morning while driving from Adams to Helix. Mr. Bayue drove over to Adams last night to visit his brother, who is in the grocery store at that place. This morning be started back to Helix. He took some wire along, intending to repair the barb wire telephone line on his way back to Helix. He was seen to stop once and make some repairs where tbe wire had become detached from the fence. About a mile aud a half from what is known as horseshoe bend, not far from Barger's place, one of the Gerk iug boys who was hauling grain, saw a team walking along the road with what seemed to be a large object hang ing against oue wheel and dragging along the road. When he came up he was horrified to And that it was the body of a man. Almost every boue was broken aud his head foarfully mutilated. It is supposed he got out of the buggy to repair the 'phoue line when the team became frightened and started to run. " . He had on a heavy ulster which caught in the hub and as the wheel revolved around it tightly drew his body up close to the wheel with his head hauging down ou tbe ground. He is a relative of D. B. Richardson, in whose general merchandise store he worked for a year or more. His par ents reside in Canada. He was very popular in Helix and his death is sin cerely regretted. NEWS FROM RABEITVILLE. A Phistfull of Fhunny Paragraphs Phrom the Irrigon Irrigator. . Dan Skedansky has got a pretty good summer job, considering he has a wooden leg. He has taken the con tract to drive the town hogs over to Wilier creek once each week aud let them stand in the water an hour or two to soak np, for the weather has been so hot it has warped all of the Rabbitville bogs so that tbey leak their swill ont about as fast as they swaller it. Your correspondent came . pretty near scrappiug with 'Rastus' Spin doodle last Thursday afternoon. He was a witness ou a little case down to Squire Sincbein's. and me bein in there remarked that I would bet $2 that 'Rastus couldn't tell the truth once in four times put under oath and allowed to choose his own subjects. We fixed it by my sayin' I'd 'pologize in this week's paper. So I 'pologize. I admit I was wrong. But I'll bet $3 against 30 cents he can't do it 2 times out of the I. For a nice mint julep, a Tom Collins or a high ball, or a nice clean shave or, a hair cut or anything iu the grooery, hardware, dry goods or mil linery line call at the city drug stofe. Also drugs for sale. Our barber is in the hospital over to Pendleton. He was shaviu' a sheep herder last Sunday and his razer slip ped and ampitatod about an inch of the sbeepherder's nose. Then the fit begun. The barber got walked on aud stomped on and sot on and pounded until he . was pretty near dead. So we had to take np a collection and send him off to have him patched up, for he was too fur gone for a country doctor, like Dr. Standpat, to tackle. He will, we fear, recover, but he will never again be what might be called a handsome man. Derrick to Handle Wheat. The Pacific Coast Elevator company has installed in its warehouse, at Pen dleton a small de'rick to be used iu pulling tbe grain sacks. Heretofore tbe work has been done by the men, making the work both slow and te dious. Tbe derrick is run by a four horse power gasoline motor, and will pile 500 sacks of grain an hour. Tbe engine is set on a wheel base, making it possible to move it around the ware house wherever needed. A Big Melon Water melons sometimes attain a Llarge growth, but it is seldom that musk melons get to be of any notable size. Tbe rule however, has been broken by'a couple of huge ones out at the La Brache place. Yesterday Mrs. Glen Baling brought in one from there that weighed J 2 pounds. There is another one that weighs 17 pounds. , Are you lacking iu strength aud vigor? Are you weak? Are you iu pain? Do you feel all run down? The blessing of health and strength come to all who use Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 85c at Pioneer drug store. Local Wheat Market. lAtheaar.-Seprrft Wheat today is quoted at C8 cents. t A delicious desert Washington Pie. Get it at tbe Preudergast Bakery. A 7000-BARREL RUN WORKING ON A BIG FOREIGN FLOUR ORDER. Prestcs-Parton Company Humming Away on 600 Barrels Every Twenty-Four Hours. There is a hum of activity out at the Preston Purton mill at the preseut time. The big 'machines are whiz zing away ou a 7000 barrel flour order for shipment to Hong Kong, .China, and for every 24 hours the busy pack ers have sacked 600 barrels of flour for their foreign shipment. At the present time 23 men are on the payroll which amounts to nearly $100 per day. The business prospects of the season's run are excellent, tho indications being that the demand for coast flour in the Orient will be greater this season than ever before in the history of the industry. This is the belief of J. H.Dawson, geuoral manager of the Harriman steamship lines. He believes that the bulk of the shipments will be used to replenish stock at Manchuria. A portion of the foodstuffs will go to Vladivostok. "There will be an unprecedented movement of freight to the orient this fall," said Mr. Dawson. "To take care of the heavy trafflo we have chartered the steamship Croydon. which will be loaded in Portland next month for Japan. We will probably charter another tramp in a few days. u tne aeal of tnis vessel goos through we will dispatch three cargoes in Oc tober; two will be the Croydon aud the Aragonia. " The British steamship Dumbarton has been ohartered to load on the sound for Japan, and a couple of craft were taken there Tuesday to load for the same destination. From now on it is believed that the chartering of tramps for the far eastern trade will be almost a weekly matter. Heretofore the regular liners have been capable of handling the traffic, with the exoeption of occasional periods in the fall and winter, when it has beeu necessary to engage an out side vessel to assist them. But it is believed the demand for Pacific coast products grain and flour particular ly will continue until late next spring. As the Japanese have suc ceeded to the control of Manchuria, it is declared that they will have to send thousands of tons of supplies to that seotiou. During tbe war it was reduced to the lowest straits. Siberian ports are also in tbe market, and will draw heavily ou the Paciflo coast for supplies of all sorts. With this as the outlook it is doubt ful if tbe shipments to Europe will reach the proportions expected a short time ago. If tbey do not. sailing vessel owners will receive a blow from which it will require them many months to recover. Tbe theory is also advanced that the rates for sail tonnage will decline. TRAINED ANIMAL SHOW Coxad's Dogi. Ponlei, Monkeys and floats to Kxhlbit Hare Next Monday. If pome of the little tots who find life so irksome in atteudiug school could only witness the little animals with Cozad's California Dog, Pony. Monkey and Goat Circus at their school they would have enough mat ter to prattle over for an entire sea son. The only difference iu the two schools is that tbe little children are taught to learn their A, B, C's, while the little four-footed tots are taught to mind their P's and Q's. Every morning at nine o'clock the respective traiuers and ring master call the lit tle four footed scholars together and tbe animal school commences in earn est. The oldest in their class go through thcr regular routine which they were taught to perform in pre vious years and then they rehearse their new acts, for everything now days must be np to date. Beginners are also given their preparatory les sons. You may be altogether cultured, too complex to enjoy a quadruped school in session, but if once you do go inside, you cannot meet tbe most ordinary animal of your acquaintance without looking at him as once long ago yon looked at animals after read ing a fairy tale. You can't help at tributing an uncanny consciousness to even the lowest ot them if they were to start suddenly into tbe most humauo course of action, you would look upon it with eyes that saw only the appropriateness of the thing. Cozad's California Dog and Pony Show will exhibit at Atbeua, Monday afternoon and night, Sept. 18. Ut-and free street parade at 10 a. ui. . ' : Notice. All knowing themselves Indebted to me will please call and settle as I have closed out and want to settle np my business. Charles Norris. 'XI if' "i Ft t!