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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1895)
DON'T FORGET But Drop in And examine My Machine Oils I have the Largest and Best Stock in town and will pot be undersold. DRUGS AND MEDICINES A specialty. Quality guaranteed and prices reasonable. P, M. KIRKLAND, Prop'r PIONEER DRUG STORE. UNIQUE INVITATIONS. Sent Out by the Christain Endeavor Society. "The Jr., C. E., of the Christain church, most cordially invite you to attend a reception given in honor of your own birthday, at the Christain church, Athena, Tuesday evening July 23, 1895, at 7 o'clock." Accompanying the invitation was a souvenir sack, of beautiful de sign, in which you were expected to place a penny for each year that that had ripened your age, and the following verse: This birthday reception is all your own, Nothing Just like it waa ever known. The children will give you something to eat, And entertain you with a musical treat. With this we enclose a little sack; -We hope you will send or bring it back, With cents as many as you're old Om'l be alarmed t'wlll not be told, Best wishes and greeting to you we extend, Vrtiir htrthHav rAivnt.lnn wa hnrm vnn'll attend. Those who attended the enter tainment are loud in their praise of the proficiency of those who took part. Instrumental and vo cal music, recitations, etc., together with a bounteous supper, were given by the Endeavor, and a most enjoyable evening was passed. The Nez Perce Money. The Nez Perce matters are now reaching that happy stage when we can go to counting the days and when we are now willing to main tain, it is perfectly Bafe to begin to get ready, Hon. J. W. Reid re ceived Monday the following tele gram of date July 15: "Everything going smooth. Extra force draw ing warrants and recording patents. ioney should arrive by the first of August, and proclamation issued shortly after. I can see no possi ble chance for delay. , Fred T. Dubois." In less than three weeks $626,222 in cash will be put into circulation here. In not more than six weeks the great Nez Perces reservation, the ''promised land" of Idaho, should be open for settlement. Lewiston Tribuue. . Delivering Horses. Judge Switzler commenced last week delivering the big band of horses he has sold to the Portland horse meat canning company. He has sold his entire band, and the number will run from 5000 to.6000. Mr. Switzler, says the E. 0. does not know just how .many horses he has lost. There may be 5000 and there may be 7000, but he thinks there are be tween 5000 and 6000. Last week, 3000 were swam a cross the river for loading on the HAMIL1T0N & ROURKE CO. GRAIN AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS , Dealers In Grain, Grain-bags and do a general Warehouse and Commis sion Businees; pay the highest prices for all kinds of grain. Handle grain on either road .at the same price. BE SURE YOU SEE THEM BEFORE DAVID TAYLOR, AGENT, OXFORDS New-Styles New Prices Best Looking Best Wearing Oxfords and Shoes in new Styles, new Goods, at prices below what old stock is being sold for all over the county. We ask your atten tion and a call. : : : : : : : You Will. . Never Regret It. CLEAVER BHDS., Dissolution of Partnership Sale ! HAVING PURCHASED THE INTEREST OF MR. ZEEBUYTH IN THE FIRM OF HAYE & ZEEBUYTH. WE MUST HAVE SOME MONEY and we will sell these goods AT LESS THAN THE COST OF Men's Suits Sold in AT $8.00 12.00 15.00 18.00 20.00: NOW 6.50 9.50 11.00 UM Strictly First-Qass Goods. Boys' and Children's Suit AH Go the Same Way. v Ladies Shoes Sold in the Eegular Wa.y AT $3.00 $4.50 to $6.00 now eeriAo ALL A 1 GOODS. Successor J. S. HAYE, train on this side. He will bring over a bunch every few days until all have been delivered. The average price he received for the entire band is about $3 per head. The horses are in very . fair con dition, and will doubtless cut up juicj steaks. It is alleged that al ready restaurant keepers in Port land are serving horse steaks, though not one can be found who will admit that he has done so or ever will do so. The McFerran Case. The case of Lauran McFerran vs. Umatilla County has not been end ed yet, though the plaintiff won the case appealed to the supreme court from the circuit court on the con struction of statues. The point re viewed by the supreme court was as to the amount of damages obtaina ble from a county under the statute governing such actions, and the up per court decided that a justice court has jurisdiction up to $1000, the circuit court has jurisdiction in a case for any amount of damages asked. Mrs. McFerran asks $10, 000 and value of the vehicle, on ac count of being thrown from a de fective bridgeuearHelix. What a Whopper. L. E. Armstrong, corner of Rail road and Lilleth streets, boasts of the champion rhubarb or pie-plant. A single leaf was measured yes terday and found to be 16 feet 8 inches in ciicumference; the stalk was 19 inches long to the leaf, and 5 inches in circumference: the leaf and stalk weighed 2 pounds. These measurements were made by Rev. J. C. Douglas in the presence of three witnesses and must necessarily be correct. Pendleton Tribune. A Broken Leg. Robert Means, Wick Frazer, Robert Kates and Ed Dolsen ex perienced a different ending to their camping trip on Camai prairie from what . they had expected. Sunday Ed Dolsen went to feed the horses some chop, when one of them, tied to a small log, in some manner became frightened and in the struggle to escape dragged the log over Dolson's legs,badly break ing one of them below - the knee. The others brought Dolsen to Pen dleton yesterday. Tribune, For Sale. One of the best residences in town. Will sell cheap or trade for cattle. For particulars apply at this office. X YOU BUY SACKS OR SELL GRAIN. Athena, Oregon. SHOES Practical Boot and Shoe ... Men .... PENDLETON, OREGON. Jbceguiar way 22.00 23.00 24.00 Hoo" 12.00 1.98 to 2.75 Satisfaction Guaranteed. to BTaye A Zeebuyth, '' Next door south of Pdstoffice. WHEAT FREIGHTS. ' No Reduction Probable for the Crop of 1895. It is not probable that there will this season be a reduction of freight rates for wheat over , the 0. R. &N. road from Umatilla county to Port land, though from points between Heppnerandthe Dalles to Portland a reduction of' from 10 to 11 per cent has been made. The railroad commissioners have for several months been trying to effect a re duction in rates from points east. Umatilla county is the district in which the largest quantity of grain is grown says the Tribune. Their efforts sofar have been unsuccessful, the company being reluctant to re duce their receipts by the amount which would thus be cut off. - Last year the company's revenues were diminished by $75,000 on account of the reduction in rates from points east of Umatilla, and the present reduction in- rate from points west of Umatilla will cause a decrease of $38,000 in receipts, The principal reason given by the company against the reduction ask ed for Umatilla county is the effect it would have upon adjacent points in Washington. If the lower rates were made for this county the people in Walla Walla and Colum bia counties would at once demand reductions. As these points are about the same distance from Port land as Umatilla county it would belifficult to refuse lower rates for them also. That is the way the matter rests at the present, though it is not possible to asy what will happen before time to move the wheat. A Pretty Tough Fate. Persons returning from the Okanogan country confirm the re port that an Indian child had been eaten by hogs a few days ago, says the Wilber Register. It seems that a squaw residing just below the Indian school, on the Okanogan river, had left her papoose, tied to a board in the customary manner; eaning against a tree while she went to the river to do some wash ing, when she returned Bhe found several head of hogs righting over the remains of her child. The hots had devoured the child, all except its head, and it only resembled a ball of dirt. A more horrible scene could scarcely be imagined. Dispute of Ownership. Some time ago John Gagen, of Pendleton, purchased the Black Butte mine. - It now appears that others claim ownership to an ex tension of the ledge which Mr, Ga gen supposed belonged to him. The parties who claim ownership are WmRudio and W. L. Burnham. Both gentlemen are residents of Long Creek. They claim that the boundary stakes nave been tam pered with and propose to bring the matter to court. Forest Fir. Reports to the effect that a forest fire of vast proportion is raging in the Blue Mountain along Meacham creek have reached here. A late dispatch from Meacham says the fire is not in the immediate vicinity of Meacham, but nearer Gibbon. No one has suffered serious loss, so far as heard, and if the wind dies out, it is hoped, the extent over which the flames range will not be so very large. Shot in a Quarrel. James Circey shot and instantly killed a man named Brown, and seriously wounded Joseph Meyer thollen, Sunday at the White mine, 12 miles from Baker City. Circey escaped to the mountains. The shooting is the result of a dispute over the mine. Six years ago S. J. Fore shot and killed Henry Dell over this same claim. Cholera at Tucoma. Tacoma, Wash., July 25. A .special to the News from Port Townsend says: "The British steamer Antwerp, City of Kobe Japan, for Tacoma, arrived this morning with cholera on board. She was placed in quarantine. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder Awvfad Gobi Hnial Midwinttf Fair, S FrMKbca. a Local News. Clean out your well. Hollis receives new goods every day. Peaches- are becoming plentiful In the market. H. Key, the Weston distillery man, was in the city Monday. - "Pap" Stroud, Masonic grand lecturer for Oregon, is in the city, A Spokane base ball team wants to Til ft v hall in Pendleton in Atir- t We understand the Wild Horse road to Pendleton is now in tip-top condition. J. Bloch his a first -class second hand Wood Binder which he sell very cheap. Wheat on the Ralston place, west of Adams went 30 bushels and barley made 50. . 4 Rev. F A. La Violets was engag ea weanesaay in repairing me oea at the M. E. church. The 0. R: & N. Co.; this week Hiut :n a pair of scales and pipes or water at their stock yards. Remember that the Boston Store carries a full line of Waverly shoes for girls, boys or ladies. J. II. McArthur is making improve ments on his main street property by erecting a high fence in the rear thereof. Several Japs have been noticed 'ot taw among the transient la boring men who have come here to work in the harvest fields. It is said that water was rather low in the tank Sunday. In case of fire this would bean inconven ience that might . cost somebody dear. ' Mr. G. L. Strong, of Mitchell Crook county, was in the city yes terday. He is a newspaper man, and of course called at the Press office. Louis Estes has fitted up a bar ber shop in the Morris building and is now ready : to . furnish a clean shave or a neat hair cut. on short notice. ' t Each year flies -seem . to get worse on the Pacific coast. It is only a matter of a short time until horses will be provided with nets, for protection. f, G. F. Powell, advertising agent for Loyd's Mammoth. Pavilion Uncle Tom's Cabin, was in the city Mon day. The PfiEss acknowledges a pleasant call. " ' A girl baby waa born at Kokomo, Ind., the other day who is the fourteenth daughter ot a fourteenth daughter of a fourteenth daughter, a record thought to be unprecenden ted. . State Evangelist, R. E. Dunlap, began a series of meetings at the Christain church, in this city last evening, i nese meetings win end with Sunday evening's sermon. All are cordially invited to attend.. Uncle Tom's Cabin will be played in Athena on Monday evening next. While the play is old yet it is always new when produced by a good company, and Loyd's is said to be the best in the world. Attention aix. Be sure and buy your harvest supplies in tho line of groceries, at . Max Lewins Cash Grocery, as he sells cheaper than any one else in Athena. Call and get prices before purchasing sewhere. -. iberty, the Indian, came to town Monday, and proceeded . at oncl to taxe on a comtortaoie "jag." Deputy Marshal Gholson escorted the dusky denizen of the forest to hid cay use, with orders to vamoose from town. The people at Echo, numbering about 50, who were .poisoned on poison oak at a picnic recently, are slowly recovering, says tneH. u. There has been lots of work for the physicians, scarcely a family in the town escaping. ; The receipts of the Umatilla county toll road on the1 North Fork of the John Day was as louows: May, $120.75: June, $115. This makes a total for the two months of $235.75, or $135.75 to the county after all expenses of the road are paid. : ' A tramp insulted a number of women in Milton a day or two ago, and when the men came home and learned of it, they armed themselves with all kinds of fire arms. A hot persuit was begun, but the search ended in failure, luckily, for the tramp. People who came through Milton learned of the attair by Bee ing a number ot armed men at the depot says the JUst uregonian. The East Columbia conference of the Methodist Episcopal church south, will convene at Milton on August 15. It is an annnal confer ence at which all pastors are ex pected to be present; make -port of their year's work, and th. n re ceive an appointment from the pre siding bishop. Jiach pastor i. ap pointed for one year,- and even though he may return for another year, he must be again appointed just as though he were going to move. Frank Frazier's" Jap" won at Sacramento in three straight heats, the time being 2:18 2:15 and 2:18. The fastest mile in this race lowers Jap's record about 10 seconds from that with which he. classes this season. The event was the 2:15 pace. Geo. Mullen, an employe on the Page ranch came to town yester day on his way to the hospjtal at Walla Walla. Some days ago he undertook to remove a wart from his hand, and now. suffers from blood poisoning. The one price cash system of the Boston Store has been the means of making that institution of Pend leton the most advantageous trad ing point in. Pendleton. Summer clearance sale now on. J A thermomenter was placed on west side of Bloch's store Tues day afternoon and the mercury ran up in a short time to 109. In the Press editorial room it stood 91 for over three hours. There are people and people, and it takes all kind of people to make a world, but ail the people, the whole people read the advertise ments in the Press. Miss Harriet Woodruff, school superintendent of Umatilla county, and Miss Agnes Lane, of Meacham, were on the summit of Pike's Peak Wednesday. Matt Isley was in the city yes terday. ' He is engaged in running.! a saw mill on Wild Horse moun tain, and came down after machin ery repairs. County Judge Martin made or der for a final settlement in the matter of the estate of John Walker, Hugh Walker administrator, on August 25. i Karl's Clover Root, the great Blood purifier gives freshness and clearness to the Complexion and cures Constipation, 25 cts., 50 cts., $1.00. Irs. Gillis and son Ralph are at owning station, where Mr. Unas has charge of the men who are building Pacific coast warehouses. Go to Osburns' Palace Drug store and get a bottle of LIVER INE for Kidney and Liver troub les, headache and constipation. A shearing crew of eight men in Harney county recently made a re cord of 1026 sheep in ons day. One man made a tally of 210. . Sam Purdy purchased the Mol strom engine Wednesday. Mose Taylor also bought the old Thomp son engine of Tharp Bros. At Osborn's place, four miles northwest of Warren, the wheat is being threshed and is turning out 25 bushels to the acre. We understand that Robt. Tharp intends to remove to Western Ore gon before long. He will engage in the stock business. Geo. Hewitt and Jas. Stamper are engaged this week in cleaning up the traction engine recently pur chased by Sam Purdy. Prof. M. G. Royal, President of the Eastern Oregon Normal school, returned to Weston, from the Sound, Wednesday. Kirk's header crew finished work yesterday noon at the home place east of town, and went down to the reservation place. In Recorder Hendley's office were filed Wednesday, notices of location on 20 acres of placer ground on Meadow creek. Miss Clara L Condon, of Eugene, Or,, has been engaged to teach kindergarten in the academy at Pendleton. Miss Leola Young writes home that she is having a splendid time at Tacoma. She is now enjoying an outing. Please don't forget that a compe tent and experienced druggist nils the prescriptions at Osburn's Drug store, j Manv of the men who have been about town for two weeks past, have found places in the harvest field. We understand that Jack Mor rison and family, of Adams, have removed to British Columbia. Beautiful lawns are made only with plenty of water. You can se cure it from the city system. N. E. Mathewg, of Kenniwck, is in this city. He has' accepted a position with T. P. Page. Chas. Barrett had the misfortune to step on a pin the other morning. He is now a cripple. There has not been as much ma chinery sold in 4thena this year as formerly. Doc Mansfield is suffering from a severely sprained ankle. Dr. I. N. Richardson is in the city from Pendleton. Hollis' wood pile is rapidly di minishing in size. ir '".sa came over from Wes toi ' :- morning. , E '. vV'ood, of Weston, was in the city Monday. Lee Iliteman is home from the mountains. Why lot Buy YOUR HARVEST SUPPLIES LOOK AT THESE PRICES!- ? Dry Granulated Sugar, 18 lbs. for $1 00 Yosemite Coffee, 1 lb package 22 Formosa Coffee, 1 lb package 15 Axle Grease, 10 cans for 1 00 No. 1 Costa Rica Coffee, 4 J lbs for 1 00 Rice 17 lbs for 1 00 Rolled Oats, 27 lbs for ; 100 50 lb sack Dairy Salt for..... GO White Beans, 25 lbs for 1 00 Pink Beans, 30 lbs for . .. ....... 100 Raisins 20 lbs for ... . . . . . 1 OC Machine Oil, 5 gal can for 2 00 Rock Candy Drips, 5 gal can for ... 1 95 Good Chewing Tobacco, per plug.. v. ; 25 16 oz. Climax, Horse Shoe, Star, Spur tobaccos. . ... 4C 32 oz. Saw Log tobbacco per plug . 80 All Kinds of Dry Goods AT EQUALLY LOW PRICES, C. W. HOL,L,IS, Athena, Oregon, John Fobs is harvesting. Mrs. Shaw was in Pendleton Wednesday. Dr. W. McFaul drove up from Adams Wednesday. J. S. Richmond was in the city Wednesday with his family. Clyde Thompson after a long ab sence from Athena is a go in here. The road to ftnd around the Far mer's Warehouse has been strawe'd. Clover Leaf 'Lodge, D. of H. met in regular session Wednesday even ing. Geo. Froome and son were in the city from Pendleton Wednes day. ...,. Isham Davis was in town yester day from his Snake river stock ranch. Grandpa Froome was ill the fore part of the present week, but is all right now. James Lieua'llen. the Adams merchant was an Athena visitor Wednesday. . Mrs. Osborn visited in the coun try Monday, the guest of Senator Price and family. , PenoSt Dennis, the boy who was accidentally shot some time ago was on the street Wednesday. Boston Durr, a Weston citizen, who is prominent and well known, traded with Athena . merchants Wednesday. II. II. Hill, the jeweller, who has had 18 years experience at the trade and one year in the horologi cal. school in Cincinatti, will do work cheaper this year, than ever before. All work guaranteed Crops. Weather conditions have been fayorabje to all crops in Wasco and Sherman counties, while in other Sections the weather remain ing dry (though not so dry as the previous week), could not be said to be favorable, though it was an im provement. Reports from Wasco and Sher man counties continue favorable regarding all crops; wheat, oats, barley and potatoes are doing es pecially well. Owing to the low prices for last year's crop, the acre age of the present grain crop was materially reduced. The quality of grain in Wasco and Sherman counties will be A 1; and the yield per aero will approach, near to the average." Harvest has commenced in earn est throughout the Columbia val ley. South and east of the Blue mountains and including the counties of Umatilla and Morrow, the yields of all kinds of grain wil fall short of the average, and the quality will be inferior. This sec tion has suffered greatly from the drouth. In some sections of the above-described territory the spring sown grain will scarcely pay the cost of harvesting it, and a field of grain which promises anything near an average yield is rare. There are some good fields of barely in 0 LOT II i i Union county. There is a good prospect for fruit in all sections, and the potato crop has withstood the dry weather surprisingly well. Fruit is making a rapid growth, and the early varieties of apples are ripe. Blackberries are ripe and plentiful in the market. Hood river peaches -are also ripe. In Klamath and Harney counties the fruit will be of good quality, though not plentiful, owing to the work of the early frosts. Haying continues, and alfalfa is still being cut. The drouth has materially lessened tho yield of hay. and but for the fact that the Beason of 1894 produced more than was required for con sumption, consequently leaving much of last year's crop on hand, farmers would be at a loss for feed 1 for their stock, which, unfortunate ly, is the case in many sections. Trouble is expected at Baker City over the cutting of the Baldock iirigating dam in the Powder river, Friday night. The owners will . ikelv take the law in tneir own hands if the offender is located. The Oregon remedy, LIVERINE, is proving a great success and is , sold by Kirkland. . The district teachers' instituto, to be held at Canyon City, early next month, will be attended by State Superintendent Irwin, and othor educators of state reputation. A royal welcome is promised those who attend. Last June Dick Crawford brought his twelvc-months-old child, suffer ing from infantile diarrhoea, to me. It had been weaned at four months old and had always been sickly. gave it the usual treatment in such cases but without benefit. The child kept growing thiner un- till it weighed but little more than when born, or perhaps ten pounds. then started the father to giving Chamberlain's Cholic, Cholera and Diarrhaea Remedy. Before one 25 cent size bottle had been used a remarkable improvement was seen and its continued use cured the child. Its weakness and puny con stitution disappeared and its father and myself believed the child's life was saved by this remedy. J. T. Marlow, M. D., Tamaro, 111. For sale by Osburn. J Awarded Highest Honors-World Fair, MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powdtr. Fre from Ammonia, Alum or any otK-r adulterant, 40 YEARS THE STANDARD.,