ATHENA tRESS Published Every Friday Morning By J. W. SMITH, 'Proprietor. ,i. W. SMITH AND F. B. BOYD, : : EDITORS. Knlrod at Athenn postofflce a weond-clliH mall matter. Subscription Ha test Per year, In advance, Hi iile copies, In wrappers, 5c, $110 Advertising Kates: J.ooai reading notices, first Insertion, 10c per Ine. Each subsequent Insertion, fie. All communications should be addressed to the I'KEHH, Athona, Oregon. . ATHENA, OCTOBER 6, 1893. From the looks of our advertis ing columns the outside world who did not know better, would judge that Athena has only about one dozen live business men. From the looks of the Press not quite as favorable a showing for the town could be made from a newspaper standpoint. But you mustn't judge a town by its newspaper, dear reader. Inland Republican. ' There is some logic in the above item, for during these hard times the average country newspaper as far as the merits of the town in which it is published is concerned, is no criterion to go by. And as for the "looks of the Press," when ever the business men of Athena can see their way out of the present financial difficulty, ' and money comes into the country so that people can buy goods, then will Athena's merchants advertise their wares. As the ' situation now stands there is nothing to adver tise for, hence no money for the printer, and in consideration of the fact, where is the man who can blame us for curtailing expenses by running "bovler" plates, or any thing else to get the paper out and run a chance of paying our just debts when the wheat moves out of the country. We would respectfully advise our esteemed contemporary up the street that now is his time to get in and discard his patent, print his paper at home, and thereby earn the enviable reputation of publishing the "only live paper in the county." He might stand the pressure. We at present, can't do that same. Whenever the business men of Athena are justified in ad vertising, they will do so, and then, and not until then, will the Press come up to its usual standard. When we read of the terrible cyclones and floods in the Enstorn and Southeastern states of the des truction of hundreds of lives and millions of dollars worth of pro perty, we cannot help but think that the people who inhabit the Pacific . coast, and Oregon in par ticular, should be satisfied with their lot if wh eat is only 35 cents a bushel. Just imagine, if you will, going to bed for a night's rest and being awakened suddenly by the horrible roar of a cyclone, which is upon you before you have tho ghost of a show to. jump into .- your wearing apparal, and, in nine cases pui oi ten, you are lilted with your houso out into the night amidst flying wreckage, stones and bricks, 'to' be either crippled for life or killed out right. 'The writer was in the Grinnell, Iowa, cyclone of June 17th, 1882. - .. J 1 ! ... i . i k uuu .mum in g wnereoi ne speass, has no desire whatever for such playful zephj rs. . Oregon as it is, is cood enoutrh for ue. President Cleveland has signed the proclamation setting apart a large ' tract of land as a forest re servation, under the act of March 3, 1891. The reservation will be known as the "Cascade Forest re servation," and extends from tho Columbia river 200 miles in width, taking in the Cascade range. Here after no settlements will be allowed Mvithin its boundaries. At Astoria. Thursday Inorning Judge McBride sentenced John Hansan to death. Hanson, it will bo remembered, is the follow who brutally murdered his wife while she was engaged in picking berries last spring, by ' beating out her brains with a club. Ho confessed that ho did the horriblo deed in a fit of anger, because the woman would not give him some money to spend for drink. A. W. Waters, of Burnes, Har ney county, gives Hyde,' the, dis trict attorney, a good slap through the columns of,the, Oregojiian,. on hi9 biographical sketch in that paper of. the 24th inst, entitled "Border Outlawry," in which Har ney county came in for its share of cut-throRts, black-legs, etc.,' with Unatilla and the rest. IN THE SENATE. Senators who have been most active in trying to effect a com promise on the repeal bill do not express themselves as discouraged by the outlook. I hey say nothing is likely to transpire in that direc tion during the present week, but express the opinion that the be ginning of next week will see a change in the situation by which time the senate will be more thor oughly impressed with the futility of the effort to pass the pending bill in its present shape. Extreme men of both sides are still holding out stiffly, however, and if there is any improvement of the situa tion it does not appear on the sur face. m m m Carlisle has consulted again with' President Cleveland on com promise terms, but with no satis factory results, says a morning Eaper. It is understood the reply e has authorized Carlisle to give to the advocates of compromise, is that he will listen to no comprom ise until a supreme effort has been made by friends of unconditional repeal to avail themselves of their conceded strength as a majority of the senate to force a vote. If the efforts fail, then ho may listen to compromise terms as the least of two evils. Silver senators as sert that they are certain of sup port at a critical moment. m m m Some silver advocates who haye been studying the repeal bills pro posed in the senate by Voorhees and in the house by Wilson have reached the conclusion from a sil ver standpoint that the passage of either of these bills, instead of proving an unmixed evil may be of real benefit. They claim the enactment of either of these bills into law will have the effect of re storing free coinage of silver. Their leasoning is tne following effect: Repeal leaves untouched tho fifth section of the Sherman act which repeals . the purchasing clause of the Bland Allison act. This they argue leaves the Bland Allison act in lull effect. mum The following printed circular was received by every representa tive, senator and public oflicial in Washington Sunday. , ( 'There is a time in the affairs of men when patience ceases to be a virtue. Down with the United States senate, enemies of the peo ple." Although no skull add cross bones headed the circular the words were printed in large black ominous-looking type. Tho letters con taining the circulars were post marked New York To senate committee on public lands instructed Senator DuBois to report an omnibus bill for a num ber of bills introduced from the mineral lands, to aid the states in the establishment of schools of mines. The bill provides that out of the sale of mineral lands in California, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington. Montana, South Da kota nnd Wyoming there shall be paid a sum not to exceed $12,00C for a school of mines if the state will expend a like amount for the same purpose. m m The foreign affairs committee has decided to report favorably the McCreary substitute for the Everett bill. As agreed on it extends the Chinese registration period to six months from the passage of the act. It strikes out the word "white" from the Geary act, so as to permit the testimony of anybody except Chinamen to be adduced to prove that Chinamen are entitled to register. It also de fines a Chinese laborer. Geary de clares tho bill is a makeshift in keeping with the course of the ad ministration and that he w'll fight it tooth and toe-nail. GENERAL COMMENT. Portland Oregonian: Alas for the mossbackism of Oregon 1 We seem to have no conception of the possibilities of a world's fair state commission for advertising purpo ses. Of our $GQ,000 appropriation some $28,000 is unexpended, and the rest seems to have been fritter ed away in displaying our re sources without having secured any notice on tho board of lady managers or recriminations over the disbursements. Salem Democrat: The news papers of this city have heretofore deemed it their dutv to have noth- rf ing but praise in their columns of the state fair and its management. No matter how poor the exhibits or now inconipeieni me manage ment, they have seemed to be un der the impression that it would not do for a Salem paper to point out its defects or suggest changes. But the comparative failure of the present fair should convince them that it is time to tell the truth The fair has not been a success in any sense. N. Y. Times ( Deni ) : We do not wish to alarm the business men of the country about the situation of the repeal bill in the senate, but we feel it to be our duty to arouse them. It will not do to go to sleep under a delusive Bense of se curity. The country spoke out to the house last month and its com mand was obeyed. The senate is less tractable, but there may be a point beyond which it cannot or dare not resist the pressure the country can put upon it. In our opinion it is high time the business men were astir again. Telegram: There are just two classes of idlers who ought to be lopped off, the tramp and the bond holder. Neither contributes a farthing to the wealth of the nation, both are a burden upon industry, and together they make about as useless a pair of toughs as ever looted a treasury or robbed a hen roost. When the government gets around to a policy which will give no excuse for the existence of either, things will be coming just about right. m m m The English laugh at our slang names for money, forgetting that their own slang is just as nonsen sical. A joey is fourpence, a tan ner sixpence, a bob is a shilling, a bull is five shillings, a quid is one pound, a pony twenty-five Dounds. and a monkev five hun dred pounds. Alongside of such tenuis iu vuuiuiuu uau in Jiiiiguiliu the greenback becomes an eleeant euphemism. m m m "Somebody's Darling" is every vagabond or unfortunate who braves tho daneers of the brake- beam. An item about a tramp re cently run over and mangled near u ran vs. rass reached his old home in Missouri, and this is what the town paper said: "Deceased was 18 years of aere. and well known here. He had the faculty of mak ing warm friends and he had manv such. His death will caiira sadness wherever he was known. To be killed far from home, mang led beneath the cars, and buried in distant soil before the informa tion reached the loved ones at home' maktg the case a peculiarly saa one, m m m Spokane Chronicle: Four expi- ditions are now out in the searah of the north pole. The probable victory to lie between the hardy v venturesome .Peary an I the cool determined Jackson. It is a case of rivalry between Uncle Sam and John Bull again. Peary goes to Greenland and Independence bay; Jackson starts from Franz land. Dr. Nansen's expidition is the most daring ever attempted by an Artie explorer. This Norwegian scien tist has made a study of the cur rents of the Siberian ocean and has started to deliberately wedge his ship into the ice and drift across the north pole in the ice pack. He is provisioned for three ?ears, but there is small chance of fansen or any of his crew ever again being seen by mortal man. The Eliot party, the fourth on tho list, follow the old Peary, route. The Portland Market. Unchanged prices are quoted by Portland shippers, as former con ditions prevail. In the local i market valley wheat is worth 974 c- $1 per cental, and 87i 90 c is offered for Walla Walla wheat. Beerholm estimates the English crop net for consumption at only 44,000,000 bushels, and the French yield 22,000,000 bush ele below last year's, making a defi ciency in the United Kingdom and France of 250,000,000 bushels. The same authority estimates the American wheat in excess of do mestic requirements at only 48, 000,000 bushels. While there seems reason for believing this statement of foreign production approximately accurate, especial ly since the French yield has been fixed at less than 283,000,000 by other authorities. Dunn's agency states that the Beerholm report of the American surplu." is, as usual, made without regard to old stocks, and leads men to ex pect a supply nearlv, if not quite, 100,000,000 bushels below the actual figures. Oregon Wheat. Out of twenty-one varieties of Oregon wheat exhibited at the world's fair, Superintendent W. H. Savage, of the agricultural de partment, says that the judpes found nineteen averaged 62 pounds to the bushel, one weighed 63 pounds and another (spring wheat) went 58 pounds. The judges said that not half tho wheat exhibited by other states was holding to the standard weight GO pounds. One sample of Oregon oats went 50 pounds and nnother 51 J. This is a grand showing when it is re membered that the standard weight for oats is 3G pounds. Ore gon barley went 51 pounds on the scales, being three pounds above the standard weight. Louie LaBrashe, a well known farmer on the reserve, does not belive in forgetting the printer. This week he called at the Press otlice and paid up with wheat. . '' TO THE FTJBXjIO 'I I. BEG to announce to the people of Athena and surrounding coun country that I still carry a full 6tock of Drugs and Chemicals, Patent Medicines, Jewelry, Toilet articles and Perfumery, Glass, Oils and Pain. Also a Choice Line of Fresh Liquors and pure Wines for Medical purposes, only. THE PIONEER DRUG STORE. rp P. M. KIRKLAND, PROPRIETOR, Athena, Oregon. FIRST NSTIOEHL BENE o o o OF ATHENE, ! South side Main Street. CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, $ 60000 $21,000 Pays interest on time deposit. Proper attention given to collections. Deals In foreign and domestic exchange L. D. Lively, Cashier, Athenn, Oregon TIbLO j-biLenxa. Meal: Hax'Dsze'b ; FRANK BEAL, proprietor. AFRESH : MEAT ALWAYS OH HAN solicit tha patronage of the public and in return will give yon the best of fresh eats at the lowest price, FRANK BEAL. ARE U Going to buy any Household Furniture? IF SO Call on us andg et our Prices before going elsewhere Be assured it pays to call on us ess7 Do not be influenced by what our opponents may say to eep yo u from coming to see our goods. Come and see for yourselves. We car ry a fall and complete stock of Furniture, wall paper and underta ing goods. . GILLIS BROS. , 50 c For Wheat. The proprietor of the Ath ena PRESS will give Fifty Cents per bushel for No. 1 Wheat on Subscription ac'ts. IF YOU WISH TO borrow money on real estate, Sell or buy farm or city property; have your life in sured; have your property insured against fire in the best companies in the world; invest money at ; good interest and have it well secured; have Deeds, , Mortgages, Contracts, Leases, etc., drawn correctly, call on W. T. GILMAN, Athena, Ore. He represents the following first-class XXX fire insurance companies: Phoenix, Home, Royal, Ger man, La Iedonian ana Northwest. He writes his own XXX policies and guarantees correctness, and at the lowest rates at which responsible com panies will take risks.. He has the agency for the . " Equitable Life Insurance Co., the best of any m o BAKBETT CO. 'I'- UsSQL i n it' e fcSfep. DEALERS IN -J' -J. SHELF and HEAVY HARDWM FARM IMPLEMENTS, THRESHERS, MOWERS, RAKES, HARROWS, GANG PLOWS, MACHINE REPAIRS Main Street, Athena, Oregon MLLER ' THE RUSTLER THE irS. LEADING FURNITURE DEALEff Wants Some Gash ! ND TO GET IT, he will for the next 60 days, sell FURNI. TURE at the bottom notch. Bed Room Sets - Extention Tables Rocking Chairs - Sofas Bed-Lounges Parlor Suits - Springs Mattresses AT .: YOUR .: OWN .: PRICE :. FOR :. CASH. Wall Paper from 15 cents (double roll) to'65 cents. BorderV to match all paper, from 10 to 20 cents per yard. N. A. MILLER STORE ON MAIN STREET, ATI ffi.GMIiE STORE! Is now in its- NEW BUILDING, ;-!!t: On Gorner Main and 3rd Sts., " Where we will be pleased to meet all of our old customers and as many new ones as we can accommodate, and we can accommo date a great many by giving them 10 Per Cent 00 and i Purchases ZZTZTZTZZZZL 5 : Upwards. f DISCOUNT We have the largest stock of Dress 6oodsj IN THE CITY. We have the freshest Groceries a IN THE CITY. We have the largest stock of shoes in EASTERN OREGON. DON'T FORGET! The foct that we give youl a 10 per cent rebate for every cash purchase ofg One Dollar and upward. 3 BERGEVIN BROTHERS, : : : ATnENA, OREGON.3