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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. TwiOK-A-WxEK TUESDAY AND FBIDAT V, B. BOTO, PUBLISHES. Entered m second-clai matter. March 1, 1904, at the poitofflec at Athena, Oregon, under an Act ot Congreit of March 3, 1879. Subscription Kates: I'er year, In ady.net 12.00 Blngieeoplei In wrappri,6e. Advertising Kstsst Local reading nottcei, nrtlngertlon,10cper ne. EMhiabieqnenttniertlon.se. All communication! ihould be addreued to i PRKSS Athena, Oregon ATHENA. FEBRUARY 9 1906 Tbe end of free political advertising iu tbe Elgin Recorder is at hand. Hereafter that paper will publish nothing that will tend to advertise any and all for political office, outside of just commendation due men for able service, unless it is paid for at the regular established advertising rates of tbe publication. Tbe Reo order says: "Whatever our readers may see in the columns of Tbe Record er hereafter in the way of political puffs they can understand that it is paid for the same as any other class of advertising. All that a newspaper man has to sell is space in his paper and hereafter that will be the only way in which we will dispose of our mite, and not dish it ont free gratis as has been the custom in the past." The government employes of Wash ington, are, according to their own story, the most abused and maltreated individuals ia tbe United States. Tbey a,re compelled to work seven hours a day and they may be dis missed at any time tbat tbe head of tbe department discovers tboir in capacity for their work. Still these inflagraot injustices do not result in any notioable number of registrations and according to tbe annual report of the civil service commissioners 149, 300 persons took the examination last year with the hopes of entering the ranks of the downtrodden. There is somewhere in Iowa a town named Dellauoe, whose citizens sent a petition to the legislature for a law prohibitiing honey bees from buzzing, running at large or roaming about tbe cities or' towus of the state. They meant it as a sarcasm ou tbe preva lent idea tbat legislation is a cure-all and a remedy for every big and little annoyance. Still, the Deflanoiers may have meant it as the real thing to do.' The bees may be defying Defiance. You "can't most always tell some times" what people mean by what they say. Admiral Togo will visit the U. S. in April, with two warships. The admiral cannot expect to bring his ships to this city, mnob as he may de sire to see tbe people of Athena. The noble sea captain should he visit this plaoe would receive a royal welcome by many admirers. Every state legislature ought to pass a pure food bill and all should be alike. Tbe U. S. congress, too, i ongbt to puss a law of tbat kind. Protection of that sort is the great ' need of the times. Tbe health of tbe 1 Send us Your 0 It 0 rders sent us by mail invariably eceive careful attention by the heads of epartmeots, whose business it is to see that L" verything you R emember that S mallest orders Use Our Rest Rooms THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12 14-16-18 20-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, -:- WASH. people ia of paramount importance and should not be neglected. The law makers who are not in favor of protection of this character should be left at bome hereafter. Tbe Chicago Tribune has fonnd ont that fars are higher now than pre viously, as they are worn only around the neck in that neck'o tbe woods It has also discovered John D. Rocke feller isn't lost to himself but knows where be is at Pretty Mrs. J. T. Yerkes married a California athlete and allronud sport. Yerkes died last December. A New York genius is going to in vent a motor tbat. will drive a ship across the Atlantic ocean and back in three days. You take ship at New York, get sea sick enroute, throw up at Liverpool and return next day to recover at bome. "O for life on tbe ooean wave and a home on the rolling deep," when ships fly like that Think of it I Marshall Field ac cumulated wealth to the amount of $120,000,0001 and did it honestly, too. But he was a great advertiser and was assisted immeasurably ! by printer's ink. Honest business methods and advertising will accomplish wonders for merchants and all other business men. Gen. Joseph Wheeler's death ap pears to bave done much towards making it apparent tbat tbe north and tbe south are thoroughly united. Ex-'confederate aud ex-union soldiers mingled ttaair tears together over his bier, unitedly wept at his tomb. There is more trouble ahead for tbe burners. It is said 300,000 coal miners will strike April 1, on ac count of wages. The operators, it seems, want to underpay the under ground workers for their services. Greed is at tbe bottom of tbe trouble. John A. MoCali insists that he is a poor man. What other folks are in sisting is tbat he is a poor official. Coal has been discovered iu Alaska. No one will say that Alaska doesn't need it with that climate. All roads hereabouts lead to Athena. If you can shorten them,, do so. A HISTORIC O t It. ft N. KNOINK. East Oregoniau. O. R. & N. passenger No. 134, which pulls the Spokane passenger train in and out of this city daily, boasts of one of the most exciting and remarkable histories of any locomo tive on tbe entire system, and perhaps on the coast Back in the '80s, when tbe Union Paoiflo had the O. R. & N. leased, en gine 134 was numbered 1,498 and was stationed at Kamela as a helper, where she was driven by Pete St. Cyr, or "Hair Oil Pete," as he was more familiarly known. On this engine Pete made his wild dash down the Blue mountains in tbe spring of 1889, to prevent a collision between a freight and passenger train which bad keen given a lap order. Engine 1,498 was standing in tbe yard at Kamela with steam up, when it was disooveied that tbe lap order bad been given and the two trains were approaching each "other on tbe mountain side. The freight train had just left Kamela, going eastward, aud the passenger train was toiling tip the mountaiu from the east and a horrible collision seemed inevitable. Grasping the situation in a instant "Hair Oil Pete" leaped into tbe cab of 1,498 aud dashed out of the yards to catch tbe freight train before the crash onnie. Out of Kamela is a Mail your ordure to us right now A nd we will endeavor to handle them so I ntolligentty and promptly tbat you will be on our L oog list of pleased and satisfied customers. order is carefully shipped. we handle your largest and with equal care. Make Your appomtments . Here three per cent grade, with sharp curves, deep rock cuts and high mountains, and tbe daring feat of catching this train was extremely perilous, since tbe curves were sharp and the train could not be seen -any great distance ahead. With whistle screaming and the en gine rocking and reeling around tbe c.nrves, St Cyr made five miles in less than four minutes and succeeded in stopping the freight train about a mile away from tbe approaching passenger, neither train being aware of the mistake until after tbe freight bad been stopped. St. Cyr is now in the Boise peniten tiary, where he is serving a ten year sentence for killing a man named Em mons at Meadows, Idaho, two years ago, in a difficulty over a team of horses. His feat stands alone in the annals of railroading on the O. R. & N. HANSBROUOH'S SUSPICIOUS BILL. Portland Journal. Senator Hansbrough's proposition to divert $1,000,000 from tbe North Dakota reclamation fund to the drainage of swamps in tbat state, as it has been presented, may well be regarded with suspicion and rejected. If one such proposition goes through, by aot of congress, many similar ones will show up, and the work- of re claiming arid lands will be greatly embarrassed and impeded. The drainage of large tracts of swamp lands may be a very meritorious project, but it would almost inevit ably lead to tbe substitution of priv ate for public interests in tbe ex penditure of the money. The area of swamp lands is small as compared with that of arid and semi-arid lands, aud speculators could scent spoils much easier in the reclamation of swamp lands. The reclamation bureau, under tbe supervision of Secretary Hitohoock and his assistants, while in some cases seem to operate with unnecessary dilatoriness, has on the whole done a splendid work, and may be entirely trusted to oarry that on, or at least may be trusted far better than con gress, if that body begins to interfere with it and divert the reclamation fund to other purposes. So far there has been little if any graft in con nection with this work hut it would be very different if senators like Car ter and Hansbrougb and many other congressmen had a chance to paroel out tbe millions to suit themselves aud some of their favorite constituents. The drainage proposition is not of itself - bad, if any state desires its share of the reclamation fund used in this way rather than for irrigation, but the "nigger in tbe woodpile" in Hansbrough's bill is a clause taking tbe expenditure of the money from the bands of the reclamation board and the seoretary of the interior and placing it in tbe hands of new com missioners nnder the secretary of agriculture. The latter official ia a nice old gentleman, but not very sharp, and the senators might get some favorites on the new commission. Besides, this is regarded as an enter ing wedge to pry this bureau loose from Hitcboock's control. : He has his faults, but there is no doubt that he hates a grafter and land grabber and therefore this business should be left in his hands. INSURANCE LAW CHANGES. World's Work. Certain changes in the law can help make life insurance what it should be, though wide public knowledge must be the basis both for the law and for tbe improvements. The law can make it easier to understand what one pays for when be buys a life insurance policy, and to prevent bis being swin dled by false representations. Tbe law can offer only part of the remedy, but it can do this: First Forbid a life insurance com pany from selling anything except pure life insnranoe policies. Second Prescribe a standard policy, simple and intelligible. Third Require tbat all savings in mortality, collections and interest on the reserve assets, be credited an nually on the next premium that will fall due. Fifth Apply the savings bank law to tbe investments of life insurance assets. , - Sixth Stop the robbery of unfortu nate policy holders iu surrender values, aud make life insurance irre vocable. A life insurance policy is not a personal investment, but a pro tection for the policy holder's family, or creditors. i There are companies which sell sim ple forms of policy and even the most complicated forms can be put in an in telligible language by an insurauce lawyer for a reasonable fee. The cost of the annual charge for death losses, tbe excess interest on the sums set aside for reserve, and the allowance to meet expenses, can all be ascertain ed through insurance publications and the gain and loss exhibits required in several of the states. But chiefly the evil of regarding life insnranoe as an investment and subjecting Tit to the perils of investments exists in almost every form of policy and requires posi tive legislative action. Pnbllo Nolle. Notl-e is hereby given that I will apply to the Mayor and common council of the city ot Athena, Oregon, at merlins tuereof to be held on the 7ih dy of Keb. JWK, for a license to sol', plrituons, mailt and vinous liquors in less qtiunliUm than one quart, said liquors to he sold only in a building situated on the west one-hair of lot No. 8. in block a, of said city. Bert Oartaoo. , iteted Jan. 23, 190B. Applicant. T. Car Cantlptln Fareve. rake Cascarets Oaudy Cathartic loo or So. fail to cure, ill ugKisUi rvfuuU mooes -COMPLETELY DISCOURAGED" ' Is the fecllug and plaint of women who are "run-down "so low that work drags, head aches, back ackes, hands tremble, voice quivers, iittio tilings annoy ana "everything goos wrong." Look the other miy just a minute and see what l)r. Pierce's Favorite Prescription has done for more than a half-million women in the last thirty years. What it ha done for others it can do for yon. Believing that alcoholic, stimu lating medicines were doing much harm, Doctor R.V. 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Pierce, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y., and reliable medical advice will bo sent you by return moil in securely sealed envelope. All correspondence free and strictly confidential. Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets tht favorite family laxative. One "Pellet" a laxative, two "Pellets "a cathartic dose. Do Yonr Eyes Need Attention? Do It Now! Don't Delay! I shall be pleased to have you call and consult me in regard to your eyes or glasses. I absolutely guarantee satisfaction. Eyes tested free. Chil drens work a specialty. - E. L. IIITEMAN, Graduate and State Licensed Optician. Of fice, next door to Ht. Nichols Sample Uooms, THE PALACE DRUGSTORE VM; M'BRIDE, Proprietor." South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. You know your doctor is all right, but how about tbe rilling of prescriptions? Our Prescriptions are precisely as the doctor ordered . nothing more, nothing less and always exactly right. THE WRIGHT LIVERY AND FEED STABLE mm mrwm COOD HORSES AND RHS. REASONABLE PRICES DRIVER FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED- Horses boarded )y tbe day, week or month Stables on 2nd street, South or Main street jr. r. Wright, - . Proprietor- If You WANT CASH For Your REAL ESTATE YOU CAN GET IT. No matter where your property is located or what it is, I have the ability and the facilities to sell yonr property. That is why I have the largest Real Estate busiuess iu Walla , Walla today. Why not put your property among the number that will be listed and sold as a resnlt of my advertising? I will not only sell it, sometime, but be able to sell it quick ly. I am a specialist in quick sales. If you want to buy any kind of a farm, home or business in any part of the country, tell me your requirements. I guarautee to fill them promptly and satisfactorily. Audy T. Cope, Walla Walla. 1 LZH" 1 I LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME. COMMERCIAL LIVERY. FEED and SALE STABLE. Best Turnouts In Eastern Oregon Stock Boarded by the Day, Week or Month ffl KING BROTHERS Prep & wfO seasonable J ! reasojuwe CONTRACTING Hereafter I will engage in Contracting and building in all its branches. I am in a position to carry on this line of business in a thorough and satisfactory manner, in connection with my Lumber Yard. I will employ the best workmen money can secure, and before you let your contract it will pay you to get my figures. A. M. CILLIS, PROPRIETOR, Z THE CILLIS LUMBER YARD i Peebler & Chamberlain ; Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co. Agricultural Implements WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC. ATHENA. : Xp PARKER F., & lanes ! o i ' 1 BARBER SHOP jsij.M.iJ ;: -v-': S"T ti - VV Everything Flrot r-, ip'",'ltr iJofJ'V H,v 4 Claim Modern & f3f'' - V SOUTH SIDE MAIN Umatilla Lumber Yard Ed Barrett, Manager Building Material Lumber. Shingles, Sash, Doors, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Paper, Building Paper, Brick, etc. Special inducements ou orders for carload lots. Fence posts in quantities to suit. : : : : : Roslyn Coal, Puget Sound Wood CONTRACTING. ESTIMATES FURNISED ON ALL KINDS OF BUILDING ON SHORT NOTIFICATION HENRY KEEN'S .Barber Shop. Shaving, Haircutting, Shampooing, Massage for Face and Scalp. .HOT BATHS. Shop North Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. BLACKSMITH AND REPAIRING SHOP A. II. LUNA, Proprietor. Shop West of King's Barn, Athena. AND BUILDING CITY MEAT MARKET C. H. Sherman Prop. Nothing too good for our pat rons. .We cut the best meat money can buy. Finh and oysters in season. Give us a trial. OREGON.