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-4 ,5 i ' 4 L --I 'V AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Publishes. Application for entrance as 2nd clans matter made on July 6, in07al the poatoffice at Athena. Oregon Under an Aclot Congress of March 8, 1S7K Subscription Htt S p r year, In advance 12.00 Single copies In wrappers, 5c, ATHENA. ORE.. JAN. 31. .1908 Reoently Pendleton inaugurated a ealesday. Other towns, including Waitsburg, Colfax, Bitzville. Engene and Roseborg have announced certain dates set aside for market days but it is u question whether or no they have a right to do so, if the following from tbe East Oiegonian is to be taken in a literal sense: "In this as in every other progressive movement Pendleton has taken the lead and has set an example. She has set a pace whioh is very allnring but which it will be very difficult for other places to follow. "Remember that Pendleton is not a small town. When you get into Pen dleton's class you will be going some.' Don't think ttiat beoause Pendleton makes a suocess of a thing that it is easy for any couu'ry village to do like wise. Market days and district fairs which are highly successful in Pen dleton fall far below tbe standard in towns where there is less vim and vig or and smaller bumps of aggressive ness on the heads of business men." Evidently it was unknown to tbe promoters of market days in tbe towns mentioned above, that Pendleton holds a copyrignt on market day departure and tbe f aot that the East Oregonian was slow in reporting Pendleton's monopoly by virtue of standard, vim and vigor, plaoes these towns at a great disadvantage and perhaps momoutary loss. Waitsburg, perhaps, may be ex cepted. A letter on file iu this office from Mr. Max Zimmerman, promoter of the Waitsburg market day, and who de sires to promote a series of market t davs in Athena, states that Mr. Zim merman is the only big IT in tbe mar ket day proposition. "I am," says Mr. Zimmerman, "tbe origiuutor of market duy celebrations throughout the northwest. The parties who pulled off tbe ouo at Pendleton, were nuder sticks of mine, and knew no more about market days than a Hog kuowH about Latiu. " All of whioh goes to show that Pendlotou did not get all that was coming to hor, aud that there are weeds growing iu sometody's roof gar deu. The Observer yesterday was made to fully realize the justice of the claims set forth iu tho case now before tbe Interstate Commerce commission, known as the Spokaue ruttfoase. Tbe point at issue being that railroads should not obarge intermediate poiuts in excess of the terminal rates. The Observer yesterday paid a ftieght trill ou a carload of papor from Maiue amounting to $523:63. This rate was bused ou tbe rate from the east to Portlnud, whioh was 75 oouts per huu- i drcd pounds. Had this oar gono ou to Portland, the railroad would have re ceived $283, but from tbe faot that this paper stopped off at LaQrande, 305 miles this side of tbe terminal . point, we were compelled to pay the looal rate book from Portland, here, which cost us 210.63 more than had tbe oar gono ou to Portland. This has been the policy always, but it is not right, and is a heavy tax upon every Hue of business iu the inland empire. La Grande Obsorver. Working iu couueotiou with several commercial bodies over tbe state, and aided by individual fruit growers, tbe Portlaud Commercial Club bas issued a fruit bulletiu composed of four pages of tbe Now Year's Oregouiau. Eaoh paper sout out bears a paragraph, con spicuously stamped iu two plaoes, tolliug tbe reader that he can buy his tioket ou tbe road most conveuient to iiiiu at a romarkably low colonist rate botweou Match 1st aud April 30th. Tho $30 rate from tbe grout middle west is made the striking feature of tbe stamp of course mention is also made of rates from other seotious. The bulletins are prepared iu advance for tho use of the agents employed by the various railroads, localizing the rate for their particular line. ' On tbe receipt of the news at Prine ville of the reversal of J. N. William sou's case the Review says: Sunset that day was marked by a fair-sized uelebrutiou iu honor of the eveut. A huge bonfire was started in tbe street, a battery of anvils was started, tbe oburob bells were ringiug for an hour, aud even a few sky rockets were sout up iu the air. Iu fact, Priueville had a Fourth of July celebration in miniature. Among other cities, Chicago is plan ning to introduce instruction in trades in tbe publio schools. "It is gradually beginning to dawn on the minds of teaohers," says tbe Chioago Journal "that tbe most useful, if not the high est, duty they can preform is to fit tbe boy for bis work iu life, aud thus to make existence easier for him. The tendency of tbe future is all in the direction of trade aud commercial schools. Europe leads us in this de velopment now, but it will not be for long. Within a few years oar publio schools will all teach useful occupa tions in addition to tbe "three R's." Garden huckleberries, which a Salem man is cultivating, are said to be especially good for pies, having tbe same or a better flavor than tbe moun tain huckleberry. The fruit is about three or four times the size of its mountain kind, aud is a prolific bearer. The vine is similar to that ot a tomato, but grows much taller. Tbe friut oan be canned or used fresh. The plants are started from tbe seed, and grow in a mauner similar to tbe tomato. Oregon winter weather is not appre ciated until one reads of tbe blizzards and extreme cold wave whioh prevails in tbe Middle West and Eastern states. So far this winter, California bas offered no milder weather nor a more even temperature than bas prevailed in Oregon. But very little fog bas been experienced aud rainfall has not reached the normal point. A new evil has appeared in the gov ernment's reclamation work. Over at Yakima, gay young tachelors, employ ed on tbe Tieton projeot are playing havoc with the married women. The husbands are complaining of the at tention being bestowed on their better halves and threaten, if tbe flirtation don't stop, to organize and drive the gay young cubs out of the oouutry. Tbe shipbuilding summary for 1907 compiled by "The Shipping World," shows the United States second for tbe year iu total tonnage of ships con structed, only England having out stripped this country. Great Britain's tounage is 1,673,121 tons, tbe United States 188,059, Germany 293,073, Franoe 109,822, and Japan 122,095. Now tbe moral wave, sweeping over the country threatens to strike Butte, popularly described as tbe wickedest city on earth. A policeman, a tew days ago, was fined for grafting and now an up-start of a proseuuting at torney threatens to close up tbe pooi rooms. The Pilot Hook Record remarks "No, Governor Geer is not editor of the Pendleton Tribuue. He grinds out stuff a week ahead for his paper, at tends Editorial Association meetings and all other doings of a social politi cal nature. In faot he is a candidate for office." Complete plans have been decided upon for the Oregon Buildiug at tbe Aluska-Yukou-Puoifio Exposition, aud up to dute it is tbe most attractive state building yet shown in Amerioa upon tbe grounds of a great Fair. CRIME IN OREGON. Oregon's criminal blotter lor tbe year 1907 shows the commission of 56 homicides. For these crimes not one oonviotion of murder iu the first degree has boon secured. Only two of the homioides were oonvioted of murder iu tbe second degree, and are serving sentences iu tbe State Penitentiary. One other was oonvioted of man slaughter, but he is out ou bail pend ing an appeal to the Supreme Court Fourteen were acquitted for different causes, teu oommited suicide, 11 have uot teen apprehended, and 13 oases are now peuding iu the courts. Of the 13 dofeudants awaiting trial nine will plead self-defeuse. Eight of the 11 aoquitted homioides were discharged on the ground of self-defense or justi fication, three went free beoause of laok of evideuoe, two were aoquitted as iusane aud one suooessfully pleaded the "unwritten" law. During the year there was but one exeoutiou at the State Penitentiary. Early iu the year Holliver Megorden was hauged for tbe murder of his wife in Malheur County-over two years ago. Four murderers were received at the penitentiary for tbe 12 months. Of tbe 56 persons who were slain, 11 were killed by firearms, seven were either stabbed or struck with some missile, four were probably killed with a hatchet and their bodies burned and oue was assassinated with a bomb. Iu 16 of tho 51 separate tragedies one or both of tbe principals was under the influence of liquor, or had been drink ing. There were no murders duriug the year iu 13 of the 33 oouuties of tbe Jtate as follows: Benton, Crook, Curry, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Jose phine, Lincoln, Liun, Tillamook, Washiugon, Wheeler and Yamhill. Estimating tbe population of tbe state at 500,000. tho ratio of presous killed by their fellowmen was one to every 10,000 of population. Iu tbe detection of murderers, their are Sold on prosecution and oonviction, Unatilla Gouuty has a creditable record for 1907. Three murders were committed, and in eaoh case the murder was ap prehended. Portland Oregonian. THE PROHIBITION WAVE. Tbe wind is blowing toward prohi bition. It has started in tbe South and is rapidly developing into a hurri cane whose avenging wings presage disaster to the saloon in many a city and community perhaps in entire commonwealths. Tbe saloons have sown to tbe wind and are reaping this whirlwind of destruction. So many of them have become dens of vioe and evil that it has brought the entire trafflo into intense public disfavor. Tbe'deoent saloon man who respects tbe law is so vastly outnumbered by tbe kind that reaches out after every dollar into the very sinks of degrada tion, that he will be overwhelmed also in the general cataclysm. The saloon must go, and even the advocate of high license to wbiob class the Lea der has always heretofore belonged are prone to say "amen." Everybody knows that liquor dispensed as a beve rage disseminates evil to an extent far greater than tho good it may do the temperate man whose system may require an occasional stimulant. The only valid exouse for the existence of a saloon is the rather sordid one that it provides revenue for a community by indireotly taxing its patrons, many of Whom contribute in no other way to the support of munioipal government. Yet the general taxpayer might better shoulder a heavier burden and do away with the saloon's support, pur chased as this assistance ofteu is at tbe price of wreoked homes and ruined lives. "Blind pigs" may afterward flourish for a time, but tbe "blind pig" is unlawful and unlicensed, and tbe community is not responsible for its existence. . Insofar as Weston is oonoerned, ' tbe saloons here are no worse, perhaps better, than they are in other plaoes, but enough unpleas antness has ooourred to indicate the patent faot that their presenoe oan soarcely be desoribed as desirable. They will have a haid struggle to keep above water upon tbe approach of the prohibition wave. Weston Leader. Rank Foolishness. 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