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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 15, 1893)
f THE Athena Ad vert I lng is to business what steam pow cr is to machinery Uit grand motive power. . Macaclat. There b.bnt one way of obtaining business pnbllctty; but one way of obtaining public ity Advertising. BicKwoon. I. VOLUME 7. A Part of BUT THERE IS TO I have 1250 acres of excellent wheat land, located in the Helix country, which I will pay for the same . w AT .-.r....T cisr All the land is well improved, has good houses and plenty of water. "' Will sell in tracts to suit purchaser. If you desire to secure a good farm, call and see me. I will make terms to suit you. .,'-.,....-'"'.... .. . , .. I am not in the Real (.- ..... . ; I it is individual property that I wish to dispose of, aud I I dence property in Athena, which TOR FULL PARTICULARS CALL ON OR ADDRESS, ' J. W. SMITH, Athena, Oregon. it is Sold LEFT sell and allow the purchaser ' '. er Bushel Estate Business; also have some choice resi I will sell very reasonable. ATHENA; UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, "As olafas the hills" and never excell ed. "Tried and proven " ia the verdict i f millions. S iramo ns Liver Keim- lator is '"the 'only Liver and Kidney medicine to which you can pin your faith for a" cure, A mild laxa tive, , a n d purely veg etable, act ing , directly on the Liver and Kid- an Pills ,- neys. Try it. Sold by all Druggists in Liquid, or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea. The King of Liver Medicines, ' ; ' " I have used yourHlmmonS Liver Reitn lalor and can eouKcienelously Bay It is the telnjr of all liver medicines, I consider It a .'iiwl id no cheat In llwelf. Geo. V, JACK SOS, Tueomu, Washington. 4S-EVEKY PACKAGE"Si Hm the Z Stamp In red on wrapper The Mall. Mail closes for Pendleton, Portland, and all points east, except the Dukotas, Minnesota ami w lKconsin, ai o:tw p. m. For Walla Walla, Spokane and North Pnci fie points at 7 5 Mail arrives tram Pendleton. Portland nnd the east at 7:45 a. in. From Walla Walla, Spokane and North Pa ul ue puuiLs at o :o p. m. Office hours General delivery open from 8 1. m.to 8 p. m. Sundays, 8 to 11 a. in. Money jiuw wiuuuw upen inim vn in. w p. m. i Geo. Hanskll, Postmaster. tO&GR BIBECTOBV A; F. k A. M. NO . 80 MEETS TBE . First and Third Saturday Evenings 3i eacn montn . v letting bretiieren cor iially invited to visit the lodge. " . T 0. 0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY 1, Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows in good standing always welcome,' A O. "P. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE . Second and Fourth Saturdays of month, it. A. Githens, Eecorder, PYTHIAN, NO. 29, Thursday Night. MEETS EVERY y r-sass PE0FESSI0NAI, CABDS. Physician and Surgeon. Calls promptly answered, fitreet, Athena, Oregon. Office on Third DR. JOSEPH J. BILL, - Graduate M. E. c. V. S. London, England VETERNIARY : SURGEON. Office at Froome's Stable, Athena, Oregon. : . . : , . D R. I. N. RICHARDSON, OPERATIVE PB08TU ETIC DE.VTI8T. THENA, OREGON. & C. R. Ry. Co. Ill connection with - NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R. , - Forms the QUICKEST AND BEST ROUTE Between Eastern Oreeon and nslilncton and Puget sound Points, as well as the Popular and direct Line to all Points East & Southeast Pullman Sleeping Cars. ' y &uperb Dinning Cars, t Free 2d-Class Sleepers. ROUGH TO CHICAGO VIA THIS LINE Passenger trains of this Company are run ning regularly between ..'... Dayton, Waitsburg, Walla Walla, Wash, and Pendleton, Oregon. .... Making close connections at Hunt's Junction with Northern Pacltic trains for Taeoma, Seattle, Victoria, H. C, Ellensburgh, North Yakima, Pasco. Hpragne, Cheney, Daven port, Spokane, Butte, Helena, Bt. Paul and Minneapolis. - AND ALL POINTS EAST. TOUeiSTS-SLEEPiKQ-CARS. : , For Accomodation of Second-Class ; Passenger Attached to Ex - press Trains. w.F. WAMHLEY, Gen'l Fr't and Pass. Agt, Walla Walla Wash W.D. TYLFR, Pres. and Gen'l Manager. " . . J, A MUIEHEAI). . ' Agent Athena, Oregon. PROF. J. S. HENRY, INSTRUCTOR ' -" " .,,,.. . " OX y PIANO AND ORGAN " Will it ia Athens on Thursday's and Wed ontdays of eacn week hereafter. Leave order ilJ'5 Koenweig, at C. w. Hoi lis Athena. V. For. Gang and walking plows, harrows and geedershe C. A. Bar ret Co., will" give you special' bar gin a for the next CO days. . STEAMBOAT JiiLNING. Rich Returns ; of Gold from Bed of Snake Elver. a ivovei mean of TTorklng the Bars of Idaho's Great Waterway The Gold Canght on Copper Plates with Qnk-ksUrer. . . Extravagant stories are told about the wealth of g-old sprinkled through out tne bnake river country in Idaho. As a general thing, says the Helena independent, the gold is very fine, the particles being of so light weight as to be elusive. Save when worked on a large scale it is difficult to make good wages in recovering the gold. ' Numer ous bars along the river would prove profitable could water be commanded for sluicing or hydraulicing... An ade quate supply is hard to obtain, oh ac count of the slight and gradual fall of the stream and the' level character of the outlying lands. To overcome this lack of water as well as insure suffi cient dumping ground, a big floating T.l ! J! .1 i ' 1 . yiiu-&avuis ureugo nagj-ieen con structed and is now at workbnthe Idaho bank of the 'Snake river about ten miles above Payette. , It is a stern-wheel flatboat propelled by steam. Substantially constructed, sixtyrfive feet lonf and twenty-two feet wide, it is equipped with a thirty five horse power marine engine and boiler and adapted in every way for navigating Idaho's .great waterway.; With a slight alteration it could be transformed into a Bteam dredge and used to scoop up sand and gravel from the bottom of the stream. That has never been attempted. .As in the past, operations are How confined to work ing bars out of the ,bed or channel of the river. The method pursued is to anchor alongside one of these gravel deposits and by the use of scrapers bring the material to be handled with in the reach of the gold-washing ma chinery with which the craft is rigged. The gravel is scooped up by buckets attached to an endless chain. ' There are forty-eight of these receptacles on a belt sixty feet in length, and each has a capacity of about twenty pounds of dirt, which is delivered into a hop per. This is also an agitator, and the process employed may be described as a steam rocker, with tlje exception that it has an end motion instead of one sidewise. The gold is caught on cop per plates with quicksilver. The tail ings are carried otit in sluice boxes by the force of a stream of water of one hundred and fifty mineral inches, sup plied by a China pump, run by the en gine which drives all the other ma chinery. The gravel is "worked so thoroughly that no gold escapes in the tailings that are dumped into tho riv er. An average Of one hundred tons of gravel are daily handled, and for this ivork three men asc iCipjloyed-aaan- gineer, one to wort uae scraper, and another one who shfeveis the dirt intoa pile so that the buckets can scoop vt full load.'.: :..,...-. ...., - .k,7 The bar now being worked covers an area of ten to fifteen acres. The gold is on top or close to the surface and will not pay to handle to ar greater depth than one foot to eighteen inches. This shows a value of one and one-half to throe cents a pan. A clean-up is made every night, and the average of the runs for the first three days was very satisfactory to the pwner of the craft. - He says he expects to take out upward of one hundred dollars a day as long as he works, which will be un til cold weather sets in. When he has gone over the bar which now engages his attention he will tackle another. INDIANS AND COMETS. A, Belief That the Sun Chases Staff and Bites Them. When the last comet was streaming in the sky I was camping one night in a canyon near the foot of Coo.t's peak. In the party was an old and for an Indian fairly intelligent Ute, named Sam. Sam had been attached to some cavalry troop at Fort Cumraings as a scout, but his day of leaving the service being reached he attached himself to me for a consideration says a writer in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ; Pointing to the comet I asked Sam what he could say in its defense from the standpoint of a Ute. Sam was, un like most Indians, a great talker, and could speak English very well. lie was ambitious to perfect himself in the language, and readily seized on every chance for a talk. Indeed, I discovered him on one or two occasions all alone and talking vigorously at a mark like a savage Demosthenes. "Tell about that?" said Sam, point ing toward the comet. "Sam do it in a heap easy. The sun is the man and he have moon for squaw. The stars big stars and little stars are all their children. The sun don't like 'em. If he catches one he eats it. ;This makes the stars heap 'fraid,' and when the sun has his sleep over and comes out the stars run and hide. When the sun comes stars go creep into holes and hide. But the moon is good. She loves her children the stars and when the sun sleeps she comes out in the sky, and the stars are glad, and they come out of the places they hid in, and forget to be 'fraid and play. Cut when the sun wakes again they run. He is always after them and he catches them sometimes. This one," continued Sam, again pointing to the comet, "the sun catch one time. He got away, though, but the sun hit him I and hurt him. That's why he bleed co. Now he's heap scared and so keeps his face always toward the place where the sun is sleeping." Sagacity of Wild Fowl. Wild geese and wild ducks show knowledge as to the resistance of the atmosphere and sagacity in overcom ing it When flocks of them have to go long distances, they form a triangle to cleave the air more easily, and tho most courageous bird takes position at the forward angle. As this is a verv fatiguing: pos.t another bird ere lont? ' takes ttie place of the exhausted lead- er. Thus they place their available Etrenfftlj at the servica cl tlis soclsty, 1 DECEMBER J5 1893. DEATH OK A NOtu GIANfT" Tho Chinaman Chang, Who Was Not Lea Than Nine Feet In Height. "The famous Chinese giant, Chang,, died at' Bournemouth,' England,. No rember 5. Chang had been seen several times in America, says tho New York Herald.- Iiecause of a prevailing super stition among the Chinese people his height was never measured, as they believed that death would immte diately follow the measurement -' Iut there are none who have observed him or who have stood up beside him Who estimated his stature at less than niue feet. His physical proportions were very symmetrical and his strength was herculean. Having traveled and exhir ited throughout the civilized globe he acquired and spoke with fluency five! different languages English, Ger man, French, Italian and Spanish." He" was a very companionable man and delighted to meet and convers'e with intelligent men and women. . Chang was born in 1847 atWaang-s, Hue, near Pekin, China. His: parenW who are still living are -large tea add silk growers, and . are independent. There is nothing in their constitution nor that of their progenitors, to indi cate the possibility of transmitting gigantic proportions to-their extraor dinary son. On the contrary, Chang's parents are about the average, size of Chinese people, who are well known to be rather undo the ordinary size.' At his birth there was nothing to in dicate that he was to grow to his pres ent stature, and up to the age of nearly six years his height did not exceed most children of his age. After a short illness he began to assume such gigan tic proportions that his parents were much alarmed at the growth of their huge 6on. At the age of twelve he was 'equal to the height of his father arid the generality of the neighboring people. The phenomenon of his being as tall as a man, and yet showing all the habits and actions of a child, caused him to become the wonder and astonishment of the neighborhood. At the same time he suffered great per sonal discomfort, for the men would not associate with him and the chil dren would not play with him. At the age of eighteen he commenced to ex hibit himself in public. .. i Chang was here in 1880, in 1883," and in 1880. After his last 'Visit here he re turned to his ' native land to marrv a Chinese beauty. It was his intention at that time to come back to America and to settle down in the west. He used to wear a watch given him by Queen Victoria which- weighed two pounds and a half, and had a chain nine feet long, which barely, reached around his neck and down to his vest pocket, no had a large stock of gloves and jewelry presented to him by royal and other distinguished personages. FAIR WAS A DRAIN1. " ' . Other titles Gradge the Millions Spent ..In Going to Chicago. . ' 'The elose of . the world's fair must have an important effect upon the business condition of the Country, says the New York Post. For six months there has been a steady drain of money from all parts of the nation into Chicago money which but for the exposition would have been ex pended in thousands of ' cities and towns. Millions of people went to Chi cago between the 1st of May and the 1st of November, and snont on the average a large sum for the round trip. The St. Paul Pioneer Press est! mates that there must have been, at least 100,000 visitors from Minnesota, ana mat it cost tnera on an average 820 apiece for the journey and 830 ex penses in Chicago. This would make 85,000,000 that was taken out of Minne sota by the exposition. We believe that this not an over-estimate. We observed the other day a statement in an Iowa paper that no fewer than 450 people had gone to Chicago during the season from one county seat in that state, and although a large proportion of them went on cheap excursions, their average expenditures were esti mated at $35 apiece. While there was a great number of visitors from the city and vicinity who paid but little, the expense was heavy for people from a distance, and there was a constant stream to Chicago from the remoter parts of the country. v If it be estimated that the 21,500,000 admissions represented no more than 4,000,000 separate individuals, and that the average expenditures were as little as 825, this would mean the diversion of $100,000,000 from the ordinary chan nels of trade into the treasury of the fair, tho receipts of transportation companies, the pockets of Chicago ho tel and boarding-house keepers, and the other classes who levied toll upon the travelers. It must be remembered, too, that the large part of this monev came not from the wealthy, but from people who were forced to save , in order to raise the necessary amount. and who consequently refrained from expenditures at home which they would otherwise have made. In this way the fair has aggravated the nor mal effect of the financial depression in almost every community. Its close will arrest the streams of money which I frdm thousands of points for half & ' year have been flowing toward Chica go, and will thus have a very percepti ble influence in improving the business situation. Legislative Intelligence. The intelligence of a member of th Kentucky legislature has at times been called into question, but it ia hardly fair to that distinguished bodv of statesmen to have any doubt on this subject. In testimony whereof is this: Two newspapermen reporting the pro ceedings at Frankfort were disputing over the spelling of a member's name. "By'deorgc," contended one, "I tell you it Is spelled with an a." "I ll bet you a dollar it ia an e," in sisted the other. , . "I know better and well leave it to him." The other gave a long whistle. claimed; utioo 4K ia Hiju, aQiawK, e ex- he doesn t know how to spelt his name, and I've seen him run his tongue out four laches trying to write it.'' Highest of all in Leavening l Vt. :'li::,:'rjis3as,. HUiNTISG THE KACC00N. ExoitJniii.Sport-ln'thbtPall brriha ; :. Western Reserve, iy An- Exceedingly Tricky Anlmalj That Can . Be'Captuftd- ugly .by the 'Aht-; ance of Trained . ' '. .'.. Dots. - v ) ' . ,The corn i fully ripe in.the shock in many fields on the western reserve, and tlie season for raccoon hunting, or "cooning," as it is more often called, bas arrived, with its attendant scenes of sport and excitement. He who has never experienced , the pleasures inci dent . to a night in the woods with a trained "coon" dog during the month of October can only learn what he has missed by enjoying such an outing at the earliest opportunity,- says ' the Cleveland Leader. , : ', . To hunt the raccoon at night with success, a trained dog is indispensable; for the scent, disposition and "coon'.' education of the dog are directly re-', sponsible for . tho number of pelts which are brought in at a sometimes early hour in the morning. In the se lection of a dog for the sport it ls,,not best to ohoose a hound, as the ability and persistence of these dogs in "giv ing, tongue" warn the raccoon of his danger and , give that crafty little animal ample time to seek safe seclu sion in the hollow of some large tree( which size and value prevents the hunter from cutting down. If the dog s education has been neglected, and he manifests an inclination ' to follow the trail of rabbits rather than that of the raccoon, the hunter will not be likely to carry anything home lurmer uian tne remembrance of a midnight ramble in the woods. ; However, many dogs about whose ancestry there clusters an imperish able naio of mystery, develop into re markable "coon" dogs. Some of them are very keen-scented, and will follow the trail of a raccoon over the ground where the scent of rabbits and other animals is enoountered jevery '.fow yarys. a well-trained dog will take large circles and skirt along the eds o of woods that border corn-fields, never giving tongue" until tUeir approach, to tne coon is so close that the viva cious .little animal , finds . escape by mgni impossible and scales the near est tree. Then . the frantic and pro longed notes of the dog proclaim to the hunter, who may be some distance away, that the game is "up" and a coon has been "treed."- If the tree is a small one so much tho better. The animal is either shaken out of tho branches and tho dog given an oppor tunity of testing his metal, or else the i "V."v,; il ! " ; dog allowed in at the finish. It often "' v luiuw .u ifiuu mm iuu happens that the tree is a large one, and then the scientific part of coon hunting is brought into requisition. The hunter resorts to what is called "shining thf)coon.:' Thi3 is done by placing a lantern upon tho head and walking around the tree until the re- ion of two small balls of lire de notes the location ot the game. iSome tirnes several pairs of gleaming eyes are revealed by the rays of the lantern, and then the hunter knows that the night's work will be a good one. The explosion of a heavily-charged shot gun is tho means employed to dislodge the coon from his lofty perch, and he falls to the earth with a substantial thud. The coon is an exceedingly tricky animaL especially so if he be an old timer of the "swamp" variety--one that has encountered steel traps or in numerable dogs or been filled with bird shot. He will take to rail fences, cross streams, run along tho bottom of shallow creeks for long distances, and jump anything but a freight train when thoroughly alarmed. If the dog is inexperienced, the coon is usually able to batlle his pursuers, and is safe from further annoyance for the time be ing. But of ttimes the sagacity of the dog will resurrect the trail that suddenly terminated at the creek, and the gen eralship of the pursuer proves him mas ter of the situation. A favorite haunt of the coon in Octo ber is in tho cornfields that skirt the largest tracts of woodland. They visit the cornfields to feed as soon as dark ness settles, and will sometimes n-a several miles to a favorite locality They are hunted for their pelts, which may Dnng irom one dollar to one dol lar and fifty cents in tho market, and for the rare sport that it affords at this season of tho year. Not infrequently on thet expeditions the dog blunders on to one of those odorous animals that have large, bushy, black tails, and a white stripe running down tho back. Sometimes the acquaintance so sudden ly formed is of a lasting nature. In this event tho faithful companion of man in an exciting chase la forced to.abandon his favorite rug by tho fire that he has been wont to lie and dream upon, and finds himself securely fastened to a large airy shed at a satisfactory dis tance from the house. If ho is sensi tive and refined the dog takes the os tracism to which he has been subjected' and the pronounced coldness on the part of the family circle to heart, and ianot again known to "bark up the wrong tree " There are two distinctive species of the North American raccoon. The California or Texas animals differ from those found cast of tho Miaiis Sippi river in that they have black feet. The fur of the prairie coon of the west is of lighter color titan that of his 5 Power'. Latest U. S. Gov't Report v n Sf ... eastern brother. This Hi-cWimteoff or by the. fact that .all foMjeM-ihg ani mals iave "datker xoats'in the more thickly timbered regions.' ... THE Qy-l.MO ENEMY. Great Destruction In the CeUwsre Bay 1 Beds by the "Borer." ' , . The 'borer,": a pest about the size of a small strawberry, is working; great havoc among the oyster beds in Dela ware bay and tributary streams, says the Philadelphia Ledger. , C&pt. Closes "- Veale, of ; the oyster schooner White Lily, says that the de structive powers of the "borer" have beei - known to oystermen only a few years. He had followed oyster digging for nearly thirty-five years, and the first "borer" he saw . was" about t ten years ago, but their ravages in the oys ter beds were comparatively unnoticed until; last yaar. i Capt. V,ale said that "last year tho number r f dead oysters with holes made by bOre.'s hv the shell became so great that '.ystermen were alarmed.' This year the work of the borers has become a yrave matter,' and if ' it continues p.any bays will be depopulated of oys ters, r From one bed we dredged on this trip we got twelve hundred baskets of oysters, but out of these only two hun dred were good, the dead oysters hav ing been killed by borers. A peculiar thing about the ravagesof the 'borers' is their apparent selection of the host oyster beds. We have found this to be true several times this season. We have found a bed of smaU oysters al most entirely free from 'borers.' This bed will be separated from another bed of 'arger oysters by two hundred feet, but this latter bed will be so badly affected by the creatures that it will hardly pay to work it. " ,,' . ' "From what I can learn from oyster men the destruction wrought by borers is much more severe in Delaware bay than in other places. ' , "The work of the borer this-' year makes a double misfortune, for tho oyster beds were badly damaged by the big storm in August and September. Very few people who are not in the, oyster, dredging business know any thing of the methods of the. borer. When I first "took" notice of its work I secured several oysters just after the -borer had fastened itself to the sholk When the borer finteiis itself it holds" on like a leech, and it is with difficulty that it can be removed with the fingers. " : y . ''; - - -. "Sometimes the borer fastens itself to the oyster shell near the edge and then tho oyster is not killed. When the hole of the borer is made near the center of the Bhell the oyster is at tacked in its vital parts and dies in three or four days after the hole! is first made." - 1 . ' .. Boina of the bed-owners near Maurice . t river have, lost large sums of money this year on account of the borer. All oystermen say there can be no way of taking away the borer without de stroying the oyster beds. FUTURE OF ALUMINUM. Hoofs for Houses and Hull to Sure to Bo Made of It. Vessel Aluminum, which itself possesses a high degree of .specific heat, does not really absorb heat itself, and thus is not liablo to the chief objection to iron buildings m not countries, liut apart from light decorative purposes, says the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, such as balconies, cupolas, finlals and veran das, it is as a roofing material that aluminum should be most welcome to tho builder. In plates or Beales, two thirds lighter than copper, uncorroded by air and undimmod even by the sul phur of London smoke, it should make o roof fit for a palace of romance. - . The humbler elements of health and comfort in the house hardly less Im portant than its external defenses against the weather pipes,, cisterns, taps and gutters, now made of iron which rusts, or lead which poisons would be more enduring and fa? more healthy if made of this light and clean ly metal, which might also take the place of all water-holding vessels now made of heavy, brittle earthenware or painted tin. An aluminum bath is among the probable luxuries of tho next century. But it is not as a mere accessory to comfort and convenience that real . development of the new metal should lie. It is for use at sea that its most marked quality of light ness obviously fits it. The marine engineer and the naval architect, who are already looking in this direction for a reduction of the weight which is inseparable from' loss of efficacy, whether in speed or cargo, cannot neglect the possibilities of a metal, which, when mixed in the pro portion of one to fifty, gives to aluminum-bronze a hardness and tough ness which makes it almost as reliable as steel, and which, if tho proportions could be reversed anil the strength pre served, would reduce the weight of ships and machinery alike by two thirds. That is a problem which awaits the metallurgist for solution. The reduction in cost, judging by an alogy, can only be a question of time and research. - " ' The best steel now costs little more than one-half penny per pound, while aluminum is fifty times that ' price. But aluminum exists in far greater quantities than iron, is more widely distributed, and neither tho limits of time nor the history of metallurgy for bid us to conjecture that, as the world has seen its age of stone, its ago of bronze and its age of iron, so it may before long have embarked on a new and even more prosperous age of aluminum. NUMBER no- emu us u r V r. V' t . , -i f- v . . - t 4 j .? j ''X ' ". , y Vyyy m r 1 y I- 1 ; y I f J P; ' 1 4,.. i , ? '-' 7 ' l-y I f ' ... )