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SIEILVEI- W JiilEIEZL, VOLUME XVIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY. JULY 31. 1906. NUMBER 48. ED. MANASSE REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS J. A A 30 Summer Goods Most Go A Few Shirt Waists Left Prices Cut In Two. A A A" A Come Early And Oct Your Size ED; MANASSE Agent for Butterick's Patterns. ' ... 1 D L" ITS National - of Athena CAPITAL STOCK......: SURPLUS,.. .... .... We do Strictlj' a Commercial Business. We Solicit the Accounts ot Individuals, Firms and Corporations. OFFICERS D. C. ADAMS, President. T. J. KIRK, Vioe Presideut, F. S. lie GROW, Cashier, I. M. KEMP, Aes't Cashier. Good Groceries, Coffee In this trinity should the grocer build his business temple. The difficulty is not great, but it ;s exceedingly difficult to build well without these 3 things. We have highest grade goods in every line lach Article the Acme of Perfection Our entire stock is selected with the same care and discretion. REMEMBER Our prices are always consistent with quality. DELL BROTHERS 30 30 A A A A .$50,000 17.5UU - DIRECTORS . H. C. ADAMS, T. J. KIRK, F. S. II Le GROW, D. H. PRESTON, P. E. COLBERN. CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN - GOOD THING3 TO EAT Bank B Water Fight Ends in Disor derly Conduct. JOHN VANSLYGK GETS SHOVEL Hineteen-Year-Cld Orville Duncan Charged With Assault With a Dangerous Weapon. After a long peiiod of inactivity, Judge Chamberlaiu oiled up his court machinery Friday eveuiDg and got busy. He disposed of Dave Stone and Chester Post who were brought be fore him on a charge of disorderly conduct by giving the boys a fatherly talk and a seven dollar and a half fine. From the evidonoe given to the court the boys were indulging in a water - fight with the bose at the Christian church, and when they squirted water on little Jimmie Howe, a blind boy, J. M. Bays, the janitor, admonished them to desist The matter would perhaps have dropped there, bnt the boys called on Hays the next day, and told him to' do something or quit " bawling them out" Hays, who has a reputation for "doing things," in this instance went to court with it, with the above result. The judicial attention of the court was next given to John Vanslyok, a big Weston brickyarder, who came before his honor with a gash on his wrist and another on bis head. He preferred a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, and wanted the arrest of Orville Duncan, a 19-year-old Weston lad, quiok at once. He was accommodated. Constable Smith drove over to Weston and bronght the boy to Athena. Judge Chamberlain plaoed Dunoah under $200 bonds to appear before him for trial, the date of whioh has not yet been set. The man and boy are both employed at the Weston brick yard. Vanslyck's tale of it was that Duncan and an other boy were bandying words, when be, Vanslyok, volunteered the sug gestion that if Dunoan"oame through." the other boy could even up matters with a olub. Duncan "came through" ail right, all right, and laid a shovel in a not too gentle manner against big Vanslyck's head, and followed it up with the Irish trick of throwing brick bats. The only weapon Vanslyok had for protection, was a little COURT WAS US Peering Giant Alfatf a Mowers LIGHT DRAFT - EASY RUNNING AND NEVER CHOKES C A. BARRETT & CO., Athena and Tea Athena, Oregon. "stick," which he used to ward off blows. Duuoan's side of the story will be told, if it is ever told, in open court. WOMEN IHJMEST FIELDS An Athena Young Lady -As "Rousta bout" Women Eun Engine. ; Athena is the home of a praotioal and ambitious little maiden who is making "hand" in her father's har vest crew. She is Miss Lnla Gross, and has taken the position of "rousta bout" for the season. The yonng lady makes regular trips to town for provisions, extras, supplies, etc., aud the other day she was successful in hiring a mau to take the place of one who had quit v oik, when farmers in need of men were looking the town over and returning home without them. For her work, which she docs in a most satisfactory and bnsiness-like way, she is receiving two dollars per day. In addition to being competent in the transaction of business, Miss Gross is one of the brightest scholars of the Athena high school, and com mands the esteem of a large circle of friends. There are dozens of other womeu -and girls who are doing their part in tne wotk of harvesting the Umatilla oouuty wheat crop ,but for the most part they are employed in the cook wagons, where they receive good wages. A Pendleton paper gives the following account of womeu opera ting machinery. "If men refuse to work in the fields, before long it will be ueoessary for women to do the work. Just to see what it would be like if this was the case, Mrs. Mel Shutrum of Fulton, and Misses Bertha and Ollie Hooper of St. Louis, run the engine and sewed sacks on the thresher while they went twice aronnd a quarter section Hold at the Shutrum ranoh near Fulton. "Miss Ollie Hooper handled the throttle of the engine, while Mrs. Shutrum and Miss Bertha Hooper handled and sewed the sa'ks ot wheat V EDITORS TO JOLT TICKET Whitman County Newspaper Men Forming a Combination. That the days of political bossism are nearing a close in Whitman coun ty Washington, has been manifested many times, bat never so forcibly as by the editors of the county who, at their convention held last week, en tered into a secret agreement not to support straight party tiokels in the future, but to pick candidates and support ooly those agreeable to the editor. No more will the chairman of the oounty central committee ar range with the country editor for sup port of the "straight ticket" All of the, newspapers outside) of Coltax entered into this agreement, and the editors have agreed to stand rigidly by the new rule. A scale of prices for political support was ar ranged on the basis of advertising rates, and the candidate is expected to pay this scale. The tickets of every political party will bo run, without editorial comment, at adver tising rates. This is a radical change from condi tions existing in the past Heretofore it has been the custom of the chair man of the county central committee to send out copy 'booming" the can didates of the party to the editors of the papers in the smaller towns of the county. A small check was usually sent, with apologies for the smallness thereof and regrets that the meager ness of the campaign funds and the heavy expense for speakers, eto. , left but little for the papers, which were expected to work for the "interests of our great party." That Colfax papers, the republican Gazette and the democratic- Commoner, usually got the big end of the campaign funds is alleged by the editors of the coun ty papers, and what little was left was divided ont among the editors of the smaller towns. SALT LAKE ELKS WON. Silver Elk Valued at $1000 Taken by the Mormons. The Salt Lake- lodge of Elks has been awarded the silver elk, valued t f 1000, by the committee of awards, for having the greatest number of la dies registered at the Elks' reunion in Denver last week. Kansas City lodge received the second prize, 1300, in this contest and Davenport, Iowa, the third piize, f 200. The Colorado awards will not be an nounced for another week, owing to the fact that some of the state lodges had not properly certified their actual membership on July 1. The outside awards are: . Lodge having the largest attendance Kansas City first, prize $500; Pitts burg second, prize $300; Butte, Mont, third, prize $200. - Greatest average mileage Pittsburg , first, 98,000 miles, prize $700; Brook lyn second, 68,000 miles, prize $300; Syraouse, N. Y., third, $49,000 miles. WOULD ASK FEWGONGESSIONS Predicted Outcome of the Demands Made by Association. .Saturday was the day scheduled for a conference between the local wheat buyers and the executive committee of the Wbeatraisers' association upon the subject of sales day and rules and wurehonse charges. However, up to 8 o'clock the members of the farmers' committee had failed to meet and so no conference had been held. During the afternoon Dan P.Smythe, secretary of the wheat raisers, was given a copy of changes in the sales day rules desired by the buyers. Some of these are regarded as reasonable and will doubtless be granted. The complete rules will be published after adoption. Kegarding the matter of warehouse charges the buyers hi.ve intimated that no concession will be made by the companies having warehouses over the country. At present the warehouse charge is SO cents per ton for storage of wheat and 10 cents extra if the wheat bo left until after January 1. The farmers object to the additional 10 cents and also insist that when they sell their wheat in the field and the same is delivered direotly to the ware house, no charge should be made. Should the warehouse companies continue to rofnso concessions it is very probaole that independent ware houses will be erected over the county by the farmers. Under a state law they may do so, aud railroad companies are required to lay sidetracks for the same if euongh wheat is guaranteed. It is held that independent ware houses would be of benefit to the farmers in numeious ways. At present they declare the buyers decline to purchase wheat when stored in an other company's warehouse, thus leaving tho farmer at the mercy of the company having his wheat By having wheat in independent ware bouses it is held that a farmer would be in better position to sell to any of the local buyers, aud would also be free to sell to independent buyers should such enter the field. East Oregouian. NO TRACE OF LOST BOY. Story From Portland is, Unfounded as No .. .Gypsies Have Been Seen. The story of a Portland woman hav ing seen Cecil Brit to in in the oustody of a Gypsy outfit iu Portland is whol ly unfounded. Tho parents of the child have run the story down through the Portland police eud find that there is no gronnds for it whatever. . Absolutely no trace of the child has beeu found and while the belief that he has beeu kidnapped is growing stronger, yet the mystery is as deep as ever. Owing to the publicity given the disappearance of the child the parents feel that every community iu the en tire northwest is aware of it and it would be impossible for any traveling outfit to exhibit the child anywhere without immediate detection. Small searching parties will continue in the mountains, in hopes of locating the remains by means of odor should the child be dead on the mountain. Donald Victor Raley Peterson. Will M. Peterson, all round good follow, our well known attorney, or to Clark Wood's coinage, " Athena's legal luminary," never does things in halves. He has the sweetest baby boy in all Oregon, and be knows it He has christened the little follow Donald Victor Baley Peterson, and Colonel J. H. Raley of Pendleton, in appreciation of bis name being select ed iu connection with the obristeuing, has sent a $50 check whioh is to be used in the purchase of a fine baby buggy, wearing apparel, eto. A Fine Present. Frank Swaggart has been con ducting harvest operations for bis father on the Birch Creek ranch, aud so well did the boy fill the position of manager, the father made known his appreciation for services rendered by making bim a present of a fine gold watch. Frank was not "swelled" up to any great extent over the presenta tion speech made by bis dad, and yesterday morning assembled himself to the high seat of a combined har vester, Where be will handle the reins over. 18 bead of horses during har vest. Convict Labor Problem. The competition of convict labor with the regular workingman is con stantly assuming a more serious as pect. This is the conclusion reached by the bureau of labor upon complet ing a third investigation of the sub ject after a year's interval. It is evi dent that reasonable grounds for the complaint of manufacturers employ ing free labor that aucb competition is ruinous aud unfair. THE HARVEST FIELD Wind . Whips Forty Fold Wheat to the Ground. DRY AMD SHATTERS OUT BADLY Only Seven Sacks Per Acre From Field That Gave Promise of Forty Bushels. The value of Forty-fold wheat does not appeal very foroiply to A. J. Wag ner and Wm. Tompkins, farmers who are engaged iu wheat raising north of town. While there are many instances where this variety of wheat hnn hnn known to yield well in this vicinity, the instances are not to be found this sousou, which for the past month has ueen marKod witb exoesBive beat and draught. With those conditions, which beaan when the stalk of tlm grain was rank with sap, wheat ri pened so rapidly that the bead shat ters out uaaiy wnen struct by wind, and the straw necessarily weak, breaks to the ground easily. This vmir tlm above is true witn all varieties of wheat, bnt the condition of the Forty -fold variety is decidedly worse than any of the others. On the Wagner piaoe . a field gave every indication of yielding 10 bushels or better to the aore three weeks ago, ouly netted seven sucks to the aoro. The grain was there but the most part of it lay shattered out on the ground, and the only way it can be picked up is by turning bogs into tho field, aud there is enough wind-shattered wheat there to fatten several car loads of hogs. Mr. Tompkins experience with Forty-fold is mnch the same as that of Mr. Wagner, and he will not raise any : more of it. Harvest Notes. Like "Jinks"Dudley, Tom Defrcooo, after thoroughly testing the Campbell motbod of, cultivation unhesitatingly deuouuees its practicability when applied to the wheat raisiug soil found hereabouts. The whole of last season Tom virtually lived on bis summer fallow laud and diligently cultivated. The result ii that his grain "nearly all went to sap." He says that the yield will be light Harvest bands ore still scarce, but it is thought the condition will be somewhat relieved in a week or ten days, when the machines now at work iu the Walla Walla valley, will have finished and moved over in this sec tion. M. L Watts' steam outfit pulled over from tho home plaoo Sunday, where it had finished harvesting a crop of wheat that averaged better than 45 bushels per acre. Wheat is shattering and falling so badly that farmers in some localities are said to be offering a bonus for threshers who will enter their fields at once and thresh the gruiu. Bill Booher's 160-aore crop of whout on the reservation went be tween 40 and 45 bushels per acre. THE V P. S. C. E. IN EUROPE The Great Fan-American Convention ' in Session at Geneva. Christian Endeavorors from all parts of the world are assembled at Gonovu, Switzerland, to attend tho World's Christian Endeavor lonvou tion and the all-European Christian Endeavor convention, which will be held iu connection with each - other. The all-European convention opened Saturduy and will continue until August 1, when the world's conven tion will be called to order. The num ber of delegates is larger than at auy previous world's convention. Show ing a heulthy growth of the Christian Endeavor movement throughout the world. During the little more than 25 years since the founding of the Christian Endeavor, society, many millions of young people have enlisted under iU -banner iu all parts of the world aud its literature has been translated into scores of languages. There are now more than 70,000 Christian Endeavor societies with nearly 4,000,000 mem bers. Miners' Strike Is Off. The strike of 8,000 minors, which has been on in Eastern Ohio since April, will be officially declared off today. The 'Juiiiers and opertors bavo agreed to accept tho terms drafted by t be scale committee. '.V "