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Newspaper Page Text.A J 4V ..Jfce.s r t" ATHENA PRESS Published Cvery Prlday Morning By J; W. SMITH, Peopeietob. P. B. Boyd, Editor. Kntred at Athena poBtoffloe u second-class mail matter. Subscription Kates: Per year, In advance, .... 11.50 Blngle copies. In wrapper, 6c Advertising Testes: Local reading notices, first Insertion, 10c per line. Each subsequent Insertion, Sc. All communications should be addressed to he PRESS, Athena, Oregon. ATHENA, JULY 2G . 1895. No nation ever undertook a braver course than did the United States in deliberately beginning the reduction of that enormous war debt, sayg Profeajsor , Andrews in Scribner'n. The will to reduce it opens, the way, and the payment went on by leaps and bounds. The policy was ' to call in high rate bonds ae Boon as callable, and re place them by others bearing lower rates. So immense was the gov ernment's income that to have set bo late a date as 1891, for the time when the four-and-a-halfa could be cancelled proved unfortunate. To fix for the maturity of the fours so remote a. date as 1907 was worse still. The three-per cents. of 1882, which supplanted the earl ier issues, were wisely made pay able at the government's , option. For the twenty-three years begin ning with August, 1865, the reduc- tion'proceeded at an average rate of aj little under $63,000,000, yearly, which would be $5,250,000 each month $175,000 each day, $7,291 each hour, and $111 each minute. Judge Hewitt, at Salem, has -re affirmed his former decision in the asylum case, holding that the law providing for a branch asylum in Eastern Oregon is unconstitutional. The case will now go to the supreme court, whose final decision will be awaited with interest. If Judge Hewitt is correct, any taxpayer can by suit in equity, stop all ap- propriations for the Soldier's Home, near Roseburg, he Agricultural College at Corvallis, the State Uni versity at Eugene, and Normal Schools at Weston, Drain and Monmouth. All these are "State' institutions; they are supported by appropriations made by the legis lature; and none of those are lo cated "at the seat of government," as the constitution requires. , The supreme court will very likely take this fact into consideration before affirming Judge Hewitt's decision Portland Sun. The Tokio correspondent of the New ork Herald furnishes the official figure of the Japan losses in the recent war with China. The total of the Japanese forces was 00,979 and the casualties wore as follows: Killed in battle 734: died .ofwounds, 231: died from dinease, 3,148. Total deaths 4,110. There were 2,869 coses of cholera among the troops." That total cost of the war is now placed at 15O,O0O,OQ0 yon, and as Japan will receive an indemnity of twice that amount in addition to the Island of Formosa and all the spoils of wai, .it must be regarded as one of the most profitable wars that ever occurred. But the subjugation of a"n empire of 400,000,000 people by another nation with a loss of only 734 men killed in battle is the most remark able event rocorded in history. v . The farmers of the region of Minnesota and North Dakota, com prising the 10 counties on the Bed river valley, are gloomy over the prospects. A week ago the wheat promised the greatest yield known in this section, some placing it as high as 40 bushels to the acre, but it has rained four days the last week and the weathor has been cloudy and hot. Smut and rust have developed to an alarming dogree. It "is now feared that thousands of acres of wheat are utterly ruined. , That Oregon aherift who per mitted himself to be relieved of his piBtol and badge of offico on board of the train that was held up near Roseburg no doubt considered dis cretion the better part of valor. but he has evidently failed to com prehend the duties of his official position. He permitted a single robber to go through that car and even take his own weapon. The people who elected him should ask him to resign. t When a man as sumes an office of that kind he places himself in a position where he cannot show the white feather without demonstrating that he is unfit for the place. It is the duty of a peace officer to run risk in de fending' peoplf from, robbers. And if he is not ready to do it he should take a place of private citizensrjip.Idaho Statesman. The Weston Leader, in comment ing on Oregon's antiquated consti tition, says: "f he Salen hog utili zes it to obtain exclusive use of the trough of public patronage for its filthy and rapacious snout. , The deeds of the stale and the rights of eastern Oregon Will n6ver be re cognized so long as we have such a constitution with such inlreperters. Let's all work, then to change the constitution, and incidentally to change the seat of government from Salem to Portland. Both changes would satisfy the people of Eastern Oregon immensely. ,Ve are tired of the eternal constitution chest nut; we are tired of the infernal Salemhog." The press of Eastern Oregon is scorning Salem and Salem news papers for being instrumental in the defeat of the branch asylum propo sitiori. They seem to lose sight of the fact that Portland "is as deep in the mud as Salem is in the mire." Portland and the Oregon- ian worked hard against the branch asylum. Eastern and Western Oregon will never pull together and the sooner the state is divided the better. A new state composed of parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho will be in order at the next congress. Pilot Rock Record. The Elgin Recorder has occa sion to find fault because false re ports aro being circulated wnicb tend to injure -the town. Every once in a while some one Btarts the story that diphtheria has broken out or something else which gives the town a black eye. Such false reports do an injustio to Elgin, but she can console herself by the good things that havobeenjsaid about her abilty to take care of the G. A. R reunion. The Medford Monitor is inform ed, upon reliable authority, that the leading citizens and capitalists of Klamath and Lake counties have signed an agreement to raise $800,000 subsidy for any company that will built a railroad through that section. Irving McQoauy, in, his Silver Hammer says the wheat crop o Umatilla county this year will not exceed 1,000,000 bushels. Irving is either "talking through his hat or has been misinformed. TORN TO SHkEDS BY A BEAR A Prospector's Fatal "Encounter Near Earner's Bay. .The steamer City Topoka. from Alaska Sunday afternoon, brought news ot a prospector's fatal en counter with a bear near Berner's Bay last week. Mike McDonald, a miner, and two Indian boys were cruising alongsido of a mountain in Bearch of ore, when the former accidentally stumbled and fell in to a bear's nest containing two young cubs. The little animals set up a howl, which soon brought the mother to the rescue. Before McDonald could extricate himself from his perilous position the mad dened beast was upon him with all her fury. The man was unarmed, save a pocket knife. Before he could bring the weapon into use, the bear, with one powerful blow, dis abled him. The two Indian boys nearly frightened to death, started down the hill, plunged into the bay and swam across to the opposite shore, where they could view the unequal conflict in safety. The old bear fairly tore the flesh of the unfortunate minor into shreds, and his cries and struggles were fearful to behold. As often as he attemp ted to raise himself from the ground she would leap on his prostrate form and tear great mouthfuls of flesh from his bones. The battle lasted nearly half an hour, and then the animal took to .the woods with the cubs. Later the boys returned and found the life less corpse in an almost unrecogni sable condition, hardly a bone be ing unbroken, and the body being frightfully mutilated. ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE. An Experiment no Longer, But a Real ity. The electric locomotive is no longer an experiment. The large specimen owned and operated by the .Baltimore & Ohio iiailroad Company was put into regular ser vice at Baltimore Monday last. The Sun of that city thus describes tbe event: "Here is what it pulled; A con solidation steam locomotive, weigh ing eighty ton, twenty-four freight cars, loaded with coal and 1 amber, yard engine, No. 50 weighing fifty tons, and an empty caboose. The electrio locomotive took them all in one pull, and took them easily, too. There wasn't anything slow about it. This was one of the regular heavy freight trains of the Baltimore & Ohio Company. It reached the electric power-house, south of Camden station, at 1:50 in the afternoon. The electric loco motive was coupled to the -train, and in live minutes and twenty seconds uncoupled at North avenue, having made the run through the tunnel, pulling steam locomotives, freight cars, coal and lumber a dis tance of 7350 feet, or about one and two-fifths miles. The steam locomotive then resumed business and took the train to Philadelphia, A stop of three minutes was made by the electric locomotive, and then it was started back to the power station. The round trip was made in less than fifteen minutes, llav ing demonstrated that it is entitled to confidence in its abilities, the electric giant will be tried with similar trains every day. The number of trains pulled will be gradually increased until the elec trio locomotive assumes the pull ing oi all trains in the tunnel." The absence of smoke within city limits, and especially in the long' tunnel through . which the Baltimore & Ohio is operated, may be counted as a positive gain for the road and its patrons. Connect! 'cut is experimenting and quite successively with electric IocomO' tives on surburban line, while Chicago has taken up the subject in good earnest and promises results within the next 90 days. THE BANNOCK WAR. The Work of Making Good Indians Goes Merrily On. Market Lake, Idaho, July 23. On July 13th, 30 men left Jackson's Hole to arrest all the Indians breaking the game laws of Wyom ing. In Heback canyon they sur prised a camp of 17 Indians' and took them all prisoners ana start ed with them for Jackson's Hole. In the canyon they tried to escape and all the Indians were killed ex cept one papoose, who was brought into Jackson's Hole. There were 133 fresh elk skins in this camp. Johnnie Carnes, a squaw man and the oldest settler in Jackson's Hole, has come over into Idaho and says that every settlef in Jackson will be butchered. There were 300 Bannock warriors on Hoback river when Carned was there, and he says all the squaws have been sent away and the bucks are daily join ing the main band. Jackson's Hole settlers are now intrenched and awaiting the attack. Unless the cavalry gets there quick, every settler between Jackson's Hole and this railway station is in danger of massacre. . FOUR MORE GOOD INDIANS. Pocatello, Idaho, July 23. From present indications the con flict between the settlers of Jacksons Hole country, southeastern Idaho and northwestern Wyoming, and thelndians is not ended. Today the wanderers arrived on the reser vation, but are far from a peaceful frame of mind, for in the wagon they brought the bodies of four dead bucks. It has been given out all along that only one Indian was killed. One of the bucks said they were only coming to the reserva tion to get more ammunition and were going back to kill the white men. Agent Tetors will request the Seventh infantry from Fort Russell, at Cheyenne, or the Eighth cavalry from Boise, to be at once sent to this point, unless the In dians return quietly to their homes. J. C. Houtz, a ranchman of Soda Springs, says the police told him thelndians had killed a white man, his wife and child, and the' settlers rallied and killed six Indians. When in Pendleton etop at the Golden Rule Hotel. The best of rooms and elegant fare. Free bus to and from all trains. A HORRIBLE CONFESSION- W. F. Barrett Says He It the Emanuel Church Murderer. .'. Santa Crvi, Calif., July 24. W. F. Barrett surrendered himself to the sheriff this morning and ac knowleged that he as the murder er of Blanche Lamont and Minnie Williams. He tells a straight story. Barrett went to the sheriff's office and said he did not want to see Durrant hanged for crimes of which he is innocent. He says he knew he would be found out soon er or later, so he resolved to sur render himself. District Attorney Lindsay was summoned, and to him Barrett told a straight story. He s&id he was working in a restaurant at Folsom's near Fourth street in San Francisco, when he saw Min nie Williams, Blanche Lamont and Durrant on a street car. Barrett says he immediately took a fancy to the girls and tried to make their acquaintance. He board ed tbe car, and says ' that when Durrant and the girls alighted he followed them. Durrant and Miss Lamont entered the church, but Miss Williams remained outside. Barrett entered the church unseen and hid behind a pew. To stop the escaping gas Durrant went to the roof to stop a leak. Miss La mont walked to the rear of the church. Barrett says he seized and attempted to assault her. To prevent her screaming he ..choked her, when she dropped limp and lifeless to the floor. Fearing Miss Williams -would be a witness against him, Barrett says he crept up behind her and stabbed her with a knife he bad taken from the res taurant. He savs Durrant -had been overcome by the gas, and was dazed". .Barrett says to hide the crime he Carried both bodies to the belfry. : ' . The district attorney says that Barrett is- insane and the confes sion is inconsistent with all the clue to the murder. Oregon. A meeting of horjerowers is called - i u to meet in Silverton July 27. The residence of Mr. Burtges, of Albany was burgalized one night last week and a number of articles of clothing stolen. John Longman brought into Baker City last Friday $10,000 in gold bullion, the first clean up of the E. & E. mine under the new management. D. Andrews, of Lebanon, closed a deal Wednesday for the Lebanon warehouse, and has already taken charge. Mr. Andrews traded his brick for it. it A residence near Hood River be longing to Hon. T. R. Coon, in which his stepfather, Mr. Price, lived, burned last" Thursday. Most of the furniture was saved. The town council of Vale has or dered poles and wire for a telephone line to connect with the railroad at Ontario, a distance of 16 miles. The cost will be about $600.. Citizens of Albany think the publio schools, need more advanced grades and an agitation for such an, extension is being urged upon the school board. i Stakes have been driven all along the proposed rout to i Pendleton- Canyon' City tel phone line, and the poles have been distributed most of thei ..distance. , The' ; Island City Milling & Manufacturing Company case, ex pected to come up at La Grande be fore Judge Fee last week, was post poned to. Thursday of this week. The Virtue mine management has again commenced the work c f get ting greater depth and the shaft is to be sunk 200 feet deeper. 1 his will give a depth of 700 feet. Captain S. L. Moorhead , the edit or of the Junction City Times, and one of the best members of the last house of represntatives, has return ed from a' visit with his family in Missouri'.' ' Last Thursday a complaint was sworn out' in Baker City by Mrs. J. D. Woumer, against Martin Hill, a Burnt 1 River farmer, charging turn with incest with his daughter, a young woman about 18 years of age. - The case of the state against Uoldsworthy, charged with murder in the first degree and whose trial has been - continued until the fall term, has cost the taxpayers of Baker county thus far .$1500, $500 in the justice court and fiwu in the circuit court. Thedri virig of beef cattle from Klamath county to oujtsich mark ets is now fairly under way. Arth ur Jackson of Steel's swamp, drove 300 head of beeves to Shasta valley last week and Louis Gerber left Frank Adams' ranch repently with 400 head'Trom Horsefly en rout to Montague.', ' . A few weeks ago a Lebanon lady, upon going away for a short visit, hid her jewelry in a heating stove. During her absence a young lady who was left in charge of the house bujlt a fire in the stove, and all the jewelry worth about $100 was ruin ed. " una your DON'T STOP . TOBACCO win oe sent ny mall usc.s receipt of price. 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W.lloasiCK. Furniture . Did ' You Say? Furniture . Is Just What JOIIN S. BAKER, The 2nd27 Man of Court Street, Pendleton, Sells so Cheap. Hollis sells a 5 gallon keg of Rock Candy Drips tor flUo, or a 4 gallon keg of syrup for 1140. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World' Pair Highest MMal aad Dlplema. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local application!, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of tbe ear There li only one way to cure Deafness, and that Is by con stitutional remedies. Deafness la caused by an inflamed condition of the ir.ucoUB lining of the Fustachlan Tube. When tbe tube gets In. Humeri vou have a rambling sound or im perfect hearing, and when It is entirely clos ed Deafness is the result, and unless tbe In flammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of tan are caused from catarrh, which is nothing but an tnHamen condition of the mucous, surface. We will give One Hundred dollars Reward for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. ttena for circulars, tree. r . j. Cheney ft Co., xoieao, u. Bold by druggists, 75c. Notice of Settlement of Final Account. In the County Court of the State or Oregon' for umatuia county, In the Matter of the Estate of 3 James M. Isle . Deceased, f OTICE is hereby given that the undersign ed, as administrator of the estate of James M. Isley, deceased, has rendered and presented for settlement and filed in the above entitled Court his final account ot his administration of the said estate, and that Monday, the 2nd the said day, tbe same being a day of the term of said Court subsequent to said filing of said final account, to-wltt; of the September term A. D. 1895 thereof, has been duly appointed by said Court for the bearing of objections to said aav oiHeDtemoer. isao. at iuo'ciock a. in., or final account and for the settlement of the same. Dated at Umatilla County, State of uregon, mis una aay oi J uiy, E. DePkatt, Madison P. Isley. . Attorney. Administrator. Public Notice. Notice Is hereby given that I will apply to the Mayor and common council of the city of held on tbe 20 day of July. 1895. for a license to Atnena. uregon. at a meeting inereor to be sen spirituous, man ana vinous liquors in less quantities than one quart, said liquor to be soia oniy in tne oia ceniervuie tiotei ouua Ing on the east half of lot 8, in block 5, of said (.. Tdui rn At -i A ... r Dated June 21, 1895. Applicant. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION. Land Office at La Grande, Oregon, UUI1D ... AOChJ. Notice is hereby given that the following- namea settler nas niea notice oi ms intention to make final proof in support of his claim. and that said proof will be made before the county juageoi umatuia county, at renaie- ion, ure., on j uiy z, iswa, vis. A T wvtv u Llm . nr. . niM fld No. 4593. for the N E V sec 7. tD 4 N R 35 E W M, He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultiva tion of, said land, viz: J. w. Stamper,' Willis Bush, Cass Cam.on and T. M. Bush, all of Ath ena, Oregon. Any person who desires to protest against the allowance of such proof, or who knows of any substantial reason, under the law and the regulations oi me interior Department, wny such proof should not be allowed, will be glv- ed an opnortunity at the above mentioned time ana place to cross-examine the witnesses of said claimant, and to offer evidence in re buttal of that submitted by claimant. B. F. Wilson, Register. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OP THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA No. 4516. AT Athena;, in the State of Oregon, at the Close of Business July 11, 1895 RESOURCES. Loans and discounts t 99 45S 71 Overdrafts secured and unsecured i 031 07 U S bonds to secure circulation 12 500 00 Premiums on U S bonds 1 5CO 00 Banking-house furniture fixtures 1 9B7 92 Due from National Banks (not re serve agents) 602 08 Due from State banks and bankers 2 two 15 Due from aprv'd reserve agents, 8 681 32 Checks and other cash Items ' 37 18 Specie 6 UB 50 Red'm'n fund with V a Treasurer (6 per cent of circulation) 562 50 Total t 130 059 33 . - LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 1 60000 00 Surplus fund 20 807 89 I Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 48 18 National bank notes outstanding 11 250 00 Due to state Banks and bankers Due to other National Banks 4 888 14 Individual deposits subject to check 18 421 40 Demand certificates of deposit 10 3 CO Time certificates of deposit 17 313 72 Total f 130058 S3 State of Oregon,- i Oountv of Umatilla I M I, L, D. 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