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THE ATHENA PRESS Is in receipt of a fine NEW PRESS of the latest improved pattern, and other machinery also modern faces of Job Type.r We GUARANTEE our work! JrKii Is the LEADING PAPER of the "East End" of Umatilla county, in the very heart of great wheat belt ; is read by everybody. Subscribe for it. VOLUME 6. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON JUNE 30 1893. NUMBER 32 OUR JOB DEPARTMENT n 1 i 4 The way to bcild cp Athena 13 to patronize her institutions, and industries. The Mail. Mall clones for Pendletoi, Portland, and all polhu east, except the Dakota, Minnesota nd Wisconsin, at 5:30 p. m. For Walla Walla. Spokane and North Paci fic points at 7:1.5. Mall a Ives from Pendleton, Portland and the east rr 7:45 a. in. From alalia Walla, Spokane and North Pa cific points at 6:15 p. m. . Olflce hours General delivery open from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m. Bur.days, 8 to 11 a. in. Money order window open from 9a in, to 4 p. m. , . - Onto. Uakskli, PoHtmoster. LOBCK B1KECTOBV A. F. 4 A.M. NO. 80 MEETS THE . First and Third Saturday Evenings of each month. Visiting bretheren cor dially invited to visit the lodge. IO. O. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY , Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows in good standi ig always welcome. AO. U. W, NO. 104. MEETS THE Second and Fourth Saturdays of each month, , t J. E, McQuaht, ' " ' Recorder. PYTHIAN, NO. 29, MEETS EVERY Thursday Night, PROFESSIONAL CARDS. F. a SHARP, Physician and Surgeon. Calls promptly answered. . Office on Third Street, Atueua, Oregon, . ; D R. GEO. W; KING, Physician aad BorgeoB. ' alls promptly answered and charges of calls by Telephone paid. Office on 3rd between Adams and Main Kt. JJE. CARLISLE, PHYSICIAN A SURGEON. , Calls promptly attended to day or night. Office : Main Street, Athena, Or. p.:L N. RICHARDSON, PEK1T1VE PKOSTHKTIt DENTIST. l 4 ATHENA, ' - OREGON. ., " i .PE PEAT. . . LAWYKK, VracUceS in courts of the state of Oregon. Athena, Oregon'. - 0 L. REEVES, - llAltBER & HAIRDRESSER BATHROOM IN CONNECTION WITH SHOP. & . hena, - Oregon a H. HILL, - WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, Fifteen years experience In all kinds of watch making ana rcpnjrlng. rJutlsfaction guaranteed. Next to M. Flnneran & Co.'s Athena, Or. J A. MOFFITT. m Physician and Surgeon, DISEASES OF WOMEN A SPECIALTY. Office with Dr. Sharp, 3rd Street, Athena, 43-Sleeps in office. GEO. E. BATES, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. CEflERAUOBBER. Estimates furnished on all kinds of wood work. Header beds and cook houses built o n short notice. Prices reasonable. Box' 4a, Athena, Oregon. PROF. J. S. HENRY, INSTRUCTOR ' ON- ' PIANO AND ORGAN- Will be in Athena on Thursday's and Wd neKdavs of eacn week hereafter. Leave ojder wllb F. Kozenswelg, at C. W. Hoi lis' Athena, J. F. FORD, Evangelist. Oi xx.it iioinea, Iowa, writes under date of , Mftreh 2S, 1803: . S. B. Med. Mfo. Co., . Dufar, Oregon. Gentlemen: On arring home last week, I found all well and anxiously awaiting. Our little girl, eight and one-half years old, who had wasted away to 3'J pounds, ia now well, strong and Vigorous, and well fleshed up. S. B. Cough Cure has done its work well. Both of the children li it. Your S. B. Cough Cure has cured and kept away all hoarsness from me. So give it to every one, with greetings for all all. Wish ing yoa prosperity, we are Yours, Mr.& Mrs. J. F. Ford. If yoa wish to fl fresh and cheerful, and . mdy for tire J.tpring'8 wirk, cinsnse your 3iem with the Hejulaeii nt Liver Cure, ly taking two or tl.n-e tiii w-h wevc ' jO cents per bolilt' b : r:j :!.s. " ' s ld unlr a potluv j . : v tie Ptuueer iAnij 1 ' ' ) C BAKBETT OO. ' "SSMKOirr4r t" 't-" . " il l 11 DEALERS IN SHELF and HEAVY HARDWARE. o FARM IMPLEMENTS, THRESHERS, GANG PLOWS, MACHINE REPAIRS. Main Street, - - -. - - Athena, Oregon MILLER -THE RUSTLER THE LEADING FURNITURE DEALER CALLS SPECIAL ATTENTION TO HIS Line of Wa I am the only .dealer in Atheua that buys direct from the manufacturer, and that manufacturer, Wm. Campbell, of New York, is independent of the Nation al wall Paper Combination. I buy my paper to the best advantage to myself and I sell to the best ad vantage of my customers, I have the largest line of wall paper in the county and it ranges in price .all the way from 15c double roll, to 65c for the best gilt paper made. A fine line of undertaKing goods con stantly on hand, and I am prepared tb do embalming E STORE ON MAIN' STREET, ATHENA, ORE. HAS. . IMPORTERS OF 5 ' HABPmRE,. AND mm nicHiNERT. FRONT, hRST AND VINE STS.i PORTLAND, OR. BOB rREAPERS yiOiVERS To the many superior points that hav eharaeterlsed the old reliable Iturkeye Mowers have been added many atv features including a powef balance tor tlftlns the cutter bar, eto. 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At Waldheim cemetry, where, in November, 1887, the Haymarket Anarchists were buried, a Tnonu ment was unveiled Suriday! ' The preparations for the dedication have been on a scale unprecedented in anarchist affairs, and noted men from America and Europe who profess the radical views of the Chicago groups, have been invited to speak. Among those to whom invitations have been sent are Louise Mitchell and Prince Krapo tkine. It is believed that fifty thousand people attended the ceremonies at Walheim, which lies about nine miles west of Chicago. The men who lie buried are Par sons, Spies, Engel, Fischer and Lingg. One of the speeches to be delivered by Mrs. Parsons, the widow "-.of the leader of the Anar chists The monument, designed by Albert Weinert, is a rectangular plinth of granite upon a broad, firm base, surmounted by an en tablature ornamented at the corners by plain Ionic volutes. Directly in front of the plinth upon a ped etal is a heroic group in " bronze, the principal figure of which ig a woman in an attitude of defiance. Her head is thrown back in a fea'r less manner and the face is full of fire and determination. Her right arm, with clenched hand, is crossed upon her breast, and with her left hand she is placing a laurel wreath upon the brow of a peasant, who lies dead behind her. Bronze palm leaves are strewn upon the base of the monument at the feet of the figure, and ort the lateral faces of the plinth are bronze medallion portraits of the dead "Anarchists. The inscription is the last words of August Spies, "Our silence will be more powerful than our words can be." The cor nerstone of the monument was laid last November. ": ' ; They are Pardoned. Governor Altgeld Monday par doned Fielden, Neebe and Schwab, anarchists who were serving life sentences in the Joilet peniten tiary for complicity in the Hay market riot in Chicago May 4, 1885, in which a large number of police were killed and wounded, and for which Parsons, Spies and others were hanged and over whose graves a monument was unveiled by Chicago anarchists Sunday. . After reviewing the history of the Haymarket riot, the trial and conviction of the men, the gover nor says that the people who urged for executive clemency based their appeal on the ground of -assuming that the prisoners were guilty, but that they were punished enough, but others assert that the jurv which tried the case was packed and according to the law the jurors were not competent and the trial was therefore not legal. Further that the defendants were not proved guilty of the charges in the indict ment and that the state's attorney declared that there was no case against Neebe; that the trial judge was either o prejudiced or else po determined to win the applause of a certain class that he did not grant them a fair trial. After re viewing these reasonSj the gover nor says if the defendants had had a lair trial there should be no exe cutive interference in this case. On the firBt proposition the gov nor 6hows that the jury were not selected in the usual way but men were summoned who were known to be prejudiced against the defen dants. On the indictment question the governor says it is not known who threw the bomb. -He further tffeows that the actual throwing was probably an act of vengeance by some one who has been mal treated by Police Captain Can field. The governor also' quotes a statement made by the then Chief of Police Ebersold, from which it appears it is the policy of a num ber of police officials to stir up a sentiment by largely exaggerating the number and activity of the anarchists, ftbersold is quoted as saying: "I began to think there was perhaps not so much due to the anarchy business as they claimed." The governor holds from thi.3 that most of the so-called con spiracies were really mere creations of police officers in search of glory and reward by subsequently dis covering them. As to Neebe's in nocence, the governor quotes from a letter written by Mayor Harrison, in which it is feliown that thre never war,'TaTu him'"'""'0 I'S"1-'1" ifl i rop. Z'f ' ' The Coming Session.: r General Catchings, of Mississip pi, who was a membsrof the last house committee on rules, in speak ing of the legislation which will occupy the attention of congress at the special session this autumn, said: "The repeal of the Sherman act and the reform of the tariff are two great subjects with which we have to deal.jThe numerical strength of the free silver vote is uncertain, But it is certain many members will oppose its repeal unless some thing nearer to free coinage is of ered. ' When the tariff debate springs up, every protected indus try in the country will have a re presentative on the floor. With the opposition so strong, it will be absolutely necessary to modify rules, else nothing can be done, it is nearly certain as anything, and be that quite a considerable change will be the results of a con ference and past experience. Last winter the committee on rules for mulated a provision which should meet the case. It was to the effect that it shall always be in order to call up for consideration to report from the committee" on rules. The rule declares that after a report of the committee is made but one motion, to adjourn shall be enter tained. It will be as direct and strong a method of closure as can be devised, and I have little doubt of its adoption. By this course the conduct of the business of the house will bo placed entirely in t6 hands of the majority. . With re gard to the sentiment of the South concerning the repeal of the Sher man act, I believe it is in a formen tive state. Eighteen months ago the South was strongly in favor of free coinage, but it is not so today. I should say the sentiment is now about half and half." - ' . Corbett Becoming Exclusive. ' "Gentleman Jack" Corbett, who with his wife is ensconced in a suite at the Grand Pacific 1 Hotel, Chicago has been affected with the hobby of exclusivencss. Corbett has grown wonderfully discriminating in the matter of receiving Griffo, the Australian, whom the Califor nia club has offered to back against all comers at his weight. G riffo called on Corbett today, but the cha'rflpion was "not in" The champion has hundreds of callers daily, but like other great, men placed on the too rung of the lad der of fame he has come to make a study of discrimination. In pri yato Corbett says he docs not want everybody to feel at liberty to make his acquaintance; and, going still further, he does not want every body with whom - pugilism has brought him in contact to presume upon his friendship on that ac count. The Cost of It. Paymaster-General Stewart has completed a statement of the ex penditures of the late naval re view, lhe total expense ot the re view was $76,800, and the appro priation was $850,000, leaving . a balance of $273,200, of which $250,- 000 will be converted into the treasury on June 30, leaving the department a balance' of $23,200 to meet any contingent expenses which may be reported later. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher Stowe is 81 years old this month. She lives in a pretty but unpretentious gray stone cottage in Hartford, whefe she is cared for by her daughters. Notably active of body, for her years, she is ever on foot, and her bent, slight . figure, with its white hair crowning the dark, wrinkled face, is a familiar sight in the neighborhood. She wanders in and out, and is fond of slipping across the street to the home of her sis ter, Mrs. Hooker, and one of her delights ia to hear music sung or played. , G. A. R. National Encampment. The twenty-seventh encampment of the Grand Army of thaRepublic will bo held in the week beginning Septembe'r 4, 1893, and ending Sunday, September 9, 1893, at Indianapolis. Into this week it ia proposed to crowd a great deal to amuse and entertain the veterans. The local G. A. R. have received invitations and circulars from head quarters and some of them will at tend. It is expected that a large number will attend and participate in the parades. The Special 4th of July Train. Agent Borie the Pendleton agent, gives notice that the special Union Pucific train - into Pendleton on July 4th will leave Walla Walla at 7 a. in. and arrive here at 10 a, m. The time of leaving intermediate stations ."is as: follows: Spofford, 7:25; Milton, 7:37; Dates, 7:57; Blue Mountain, 8:20; Downing, 8:35; Wf-ston, 8:4"; 'Athena. 8:55; i. A-Uni, 9:15: KasthmJ, 9:25: llay- X9:35; Saxe, 9:45. - v ... . '-' CARRIED DOWN 400, England's Flagship of th8 Med iterranern Squadron Sunk FOUR HUNDRED MEN DROWNED. Cascade Locks A Female Miser. A Minature Placer Mine. A tragedy, on the 6ea without paralled m navifl annals was re ported Satutdav. The British bat tle ship Victoria,'" the flagship of the Meuiterarlean squadron, com pleted her checkered career by sinking off Tripoli, after a collision with the Camperdown, a sister ship of the squadron. The tragedy resulted in the loss of 400 men, in cluding the vice-admiral of the squadron. It has not been, equaled in fatal leiults sirce the sinking of the Royal George, in 1782, when 600 souls found their shroud in the ocean's waves. The account of the disaster is meager, and the responsibility for the woful lo?s of life has not been fixed. Fifteen minutes after tho Victoria received the fatal blow the water closed over her. and the brave "hearts that had prepared to battle with all the enemies of their country had ceased to beat, because of the probable mistake of a friend more deadly than the design of a foe. The loss of this ship, with the at tending terrible sacrifice of life, is looked upon as confirming the opinion of many naval officjia concerning the monster warships of the present day. Naval engi neering, they point out, has not progressed as rapidly as naval architecture, and the stupendous mass of a 10,000 ton warship can not be controlled with the ease a navals oflicer ' generally directs. Taking it all together, the disaster is regarded by naval people as a severe lesson to the navies of the world. BPECTI.ATION AS TO TI1E CAUSE. An interview was had with Lord George Hamilton, to ascertain his views aa to the disaster. He said without eh ubt the Camperdowns ram cut away the plating on the Victoria outside of several of her transverse bulkheads. Had this not been the case the bulkheads could have been closed and the water kept in one, or at the mos t, two compartments, and the vessel would still have flolated. An in terview was also had with the lit. Hon. Arthur Bower Forvvood, the well-known ship-owner, who was formerly secretary to the admir alty. Forvvood said it was a won der such an accident had not oc curred before. The Victoria had a longitudinal ' bulkhead running through her, besides a number run ning across the ship, She was divided into compartments on each side of the longitudinal bulkhead, without communication between them. Tho Camperdown probably struck the Victoria a ripping blow, opening the plates over several of the compartments. The water was then admitted into a number of compartments on one pide of the ship, causing her to capsize by the great weight, Tho longitudinal bulkhead is a good thing in a way, Forwood said, but it did not seem to avoid the disaster. Lord Bras sey, for some time secretary of the admiralty, said that the sinking of the Victoria supplied a strong argu ment against building more big men-of-war. It was evident, he said, that the Victoria's armor af forded her no protection from the Camperdown's ram. While not convinced tho smaller vessels were safer than the large ones, he thought it wiser to distribute the country's war strength among many less pretentious men-of-war, rather than among a few monster battle ships. It was poor policy to put so many eggs in one basket. The Cascade Locks. - Work is being crowded forward on tho Cascada , locks as vigorously as possible under the circumstances. J. G. and L. N. day, the contract tors, have a thirty-ton engine on their track to the Herman creek stone quary. It is their intention to have 350,000 cubic feet delivered at the locks under the stone shed before Christmas. They have al ready quarried in one month over 20,000 cubic feet. " The saw mill will be in full operation in a few days, and in addition to lumber for theft own use they will manufac ture all kinds of building lumber for the many homes that will .be built at the locks this summer. It is stated that a fctearn shovel has also been ordered for the purpose of getting sand gravel for the ce ment work. Two more concrete mixers will be added to the two they already have, thus, giving them a capacity of four hundred barrels a day. As soon as the water lowers two gangs will be put on and the work pushed day and night until it is completed. A Female Miser. Mrs. Queener is a woman about - - 50; odd in her ways and likes . flashy colors in her dress nnd good jewelry. She lives alone and while she is well supplied with the goods of the world, she lives the life ef a miser, denying her- self of every comfort and even the necessaries of life. Sunday morn ing the-atteiition" of the mar shal was called to thev fiifiJ,hat she had not been seen sinjgbiv!--v day'afld fearing that siet bo' sick, an entrance wa3 made tjrrou'&f' ' . a rear wiod. bit.rp" answer was recdveirTYimi her, she keeps a revolver and- know'ss -how to use it. She wa found " lying on the floor with o oovo ing or protection save a short undergarment and one stocking without , a foot. She was, in a semi-concious condition. L'Je odor of the room and surroundings was so ioul and putriathat the officers had to rush out for fresh air. Assistance was procured,and the suffering woman was placed in bed and a lady nurao employed. Her side is paralyzed and her con dition is very critical. Her sis ter at Grande Rounde was tele graphed for and arrived Tuesday. The revoltin gfeaturesof the condit ion in which the woman was found by the marshal and her sqnalid Burrounding we omit. The facts given must suffice. She is reputed to be worth from $25,000 to $30, 000. Some gold and sil ver, a fine gold watch and lots of jewelry were found in a satchel by her side. As she was possessed with means the Rad plight in which Bhe was found was brought about by her insatiable greed of gold. Junction Times. Minature Placer. Mine. Decidely one of the most attract ive exhibits of all the displays in the very fascinating , mining building is the minature placer mine that is in daily operation in the Oregon booth. Here tho curious people of all nations and more particularly those interested in mining congregate to witness the operation of seperating gold from the sand, earth and gravel, just aB it; is brought from off the badrock of a number of the rich est placer-mining properties of tho . Btate. . The process used is that in vogue wherever there is sufficient force' of water hydraulic. "The mine in operation, while only a minature one, shows tho entire process quito accurately, and not a day passes but the washings of gold amount to quito a Bnug sum. The gravel from the different mines is by turn heaped upon the platform erected in representation of the side of a hill or mountain. Then the sluico boxes are arranged, and the force of the stream from the hydraulic muzzle is turned on and the mine is active, washing" out the -virgin gold and congre gating it at the riffles all the way along down the sluice box. lhous ands witness " this operation day in and day out. The process of actual gold mining is new to them and the superintendents are be siaged with auestions, They are also kept constantly on their guard, lor the relic hunter would make quick work of the nuggets. Several . nice ones have already been stolen, despite tho vigilance of tho at tendants. Mining men are all interested in this exhibit, and they are generous in their compliments 6f the hydaulic placer mmo and also of the entire exhibit. Pitchfork and Revolvers. Eat Oregonlan. A slight fracas occured Sunday afternoon at Hicks' feedyard. A young fellow lately arrived fnm "Portland had been around there a few days and Mr. Hicks considered that he was growing "to , fresh" so he ordered him to . leave. . He would not go, and the services of a policeman were necessary" to en force the order. The young man afterward came back and made gome taunting remark to Mr. Hicks, who struck him a fierce blow with a pitchfork, the 6tranger a moment' before having drawn a revolver. A bystander seized the latter and no tragedy resulted. , California's Proposed Fair. Friday morning Mayor Ellert ap pointed a committee to consider the advisability of moving the European exhibits at the world's fair to San Francisco, and holding there a mid-winter fair. The 'com mittee; which will report a plan of organization, is as follows: ,", W. E. Fisher Irwin C. Stump, Henry 8. Martin, E. It. Swain, L. C. McAfee, R. B. Mitchell, C. 'E. Grunsky, A. Andrews. Irving M. Scott, N. P. Lillienthal and llpbt. Wieland , . ; Samuel J. Roberts, 'of the Lex ington Leader, and president of the Kentucky Press Association, is edi tor of tho only r ('Lliear news paper in tho state., 4 ! ;f-v . '".';j; " ' 3- ' .'. is. V