ATHENA tRESS
Published Every Friday Morning
By J. W. SMITH, 'Proprietor.
,i. W. SMITH AND F. B. BOYD, : : EDITORS.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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"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,
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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.
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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
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; FRANK BEAL, proprietor.
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solicit tha patronage of the public and in return will give yon the best of fresh
eats at the lowest price, FRANK BEAL.
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MLLER ' THE RUSTLER
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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
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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