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? tl s , FOR THE : : : : ; ) Prlco of one($1.501n advance) fou out t ' t get the Press and the Pacific Farm. ? I Benefit of our Republican readers and Ji. H. xL otbere, t others, the Pbess and Oregonlan for S2. NUMBER 33. VOLUME S. ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY JIORNING, AUGUST 30, 1895. ITfor the z ENA I LODCR BIKECTOKT AF.tA. M. NO. 80 MEETS THE ., First and Third Saturday Evenings tf each month. VisitinR bretheren cor iially invited to visit the lodge. 10. 0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY , Friday night 'Visiting Odd Fellows n flood standing always welcome. A 0. U.W. NO. 104, MEETS THE Second and Fourth Saturdays of month. Fred Rozenswieg, .Recorder. A THEN A CAMP, NO. 171, Woodmen of the World, meets 1st and 8rd Wednesdays of 3ach month. Visiting Choppers always wel come. O. C. Osbubn, Clerk. PYTHIAN, NO. 29, MEETS EVERY Thursday Night . P S, SHARP, ' Physlctatt attl Sitrseon. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Street, Athena, Oregon. D R.I.N. RICHARDSON, 4THENA, .OREGON. E.DePeatt, ATTORNEY.AT.LAW. Athena, Ore. TUC ATUril k 0C0TAIID AUT lIlL HlilLllM IlLUIHUIlHll I MRS. HARDIN, Proprietress. ,; : : : H. P. MILLEN, Manager. Can be recommended to the public as , being flrst-class in every ' particular. w We '. Emcfov White help only. . . i T n L rr ATT TTAITIIO . TtTTT COr.irlERCIAL ... Iff LIVERY FEED ' and SALE STABLE The Best Turnouts in Umatilla County Stock boarded by the day, week or month. . n FR0OIE BROS,. Proprietors, I Main Street, : Athena. Furniture Did You . Say? ' - Furniture Is Just What JOHN S. BAKER, The 2ndST -. ' Man of Court Street, Pendleton, Sells so Cheap. t p iDO YOU KBOW You can buy the best 3-ply Carpet for 80c; good Brussells for 50c Rugs, Lace and Silk. Curtains and House Furnishing Goods con siderably cheaper than any place in the State of Oregon, of Jessee Failing at Fen dleton? : : : : : : Sewing Machines Warrented 10 Years For $23. Jess'j Failing, Pendleton. Or V. A r' t' y ter G. W. sfYL - n. m and in best of onapman, . . . style . . . Of Thirty Years Experience, is Desireous of Locating in Athena. - - Sign and Buggy painting. Charges to suit the hard times. DON'T STOP TOB AGCQ will be sent by mall upon receipt of price. Send Box. Booklets and proofs free. Eureka : ; HAMIUTON & CRAIN AND : COMMISSION MERCHANTS i , Dealers In ; " Grair, Grain-bags and do a general Warehouse and Commis sion Businees; pay the highest prices tor all kinds of grain. Handle grain on either road . at the same price. BE SURE YOU SEE THEM BEFOjlE YOU BUY SACKS OR SELL GRAIN. DAVID TAYLOR, AGENT, - Athena, Oregon. FIRST: SETiOSSL BERK " ofhthem: Fays , h. D. .A.. O". IPJEVSZEl, E:,-co'p3?o"box' o THE EUECTBIC BARBER SHOP, SliAVlJNG, HAIRCUTTING, SHAMPOOING, HAIRSINGING, In Latest Styles. gjST HOT OR COLD WATER Read These Prices. 11 cans Axle grease...". .. 1 00 5 gal can Machine oil 1 75 Binding twine per lb ; ct Draper 12-foot Hodge Header .......... 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He represents the following first-class fire insurance companies: Phoenix, Home, Royal, "Ger man. Caledonian and Northwest. He writes his own policies and and at the lowest rates at ' paniea will take risks, kquitafcle Life Ins All Jobs.., . Entrusted to him will be done honestly Satisfaction is guaranteed in all his Work. Plain and decorative paper hanging, house Its Injurious to stop Suddenly and Jon't be imposed upon by buying a remedy thut re quires you to do so, as it Is nothing more than a sub stitute. In the sudden stoppage of tobacco you must have some stimulant, and In most all oases, the effect of the stimulant, be opium, morphine, or other opi ates, leavesa far worse habit contracted. Ask your drusglst about BAeO-eU'RO. It is purely vege tab.e. You do not have to stop using tobacco with BAO-etHftO- it will notify you when to stop and your desli-e fof tobacco will cease. Your system Win DC as I ree irom nicuune an ineuay before you took yotlf flint chew or smoke. An iron-clad written guar antee to absolutely cure the tolBtcco habit in all its forms, or money refund ed. Price J1.00 per box or 8 boss (80 days treatment and guaranteed curej MM. t or sale y an aruggisi or win six two-cent stamps for Sample Chemical & M Tg Co., La t,rosse, win. . ROURKE CO. South side Main Street. CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, - $ 50000 $21,000 interest on time deposits. Proper attention given to collections. Deals In foreign and domestic exchaoga. Lively. Cashier, Athena, Oregon Suaii BATHS, 25 CENTS. 0 ,. rrt . v, f,. IX,,.. f '., an A .( i .. i! i Pnur.i not on hand at shortest possible time and at guarantees correctness, which responsible coro e has the agency for the . t t a . m ace kJO., ine tit-si ci an v REGULATOR Reader, did you ever take SimmOns Liver kexitjlator, the "Kino of Liver Mediceses?" Everybody needs take a liver remedy It is ft sluggish or diseased liver that Impairs digestion and causes constipation, when the waste that should be carried off remains in the body and poisons the whole system. That dull, heavy feeling is due to a torpid liver. Biliousness, Headache, Malaria and Indigestion are all liver diseases. Keep the liver active by an occasional dose of Simmons Liver Reg ulator and you'll get rid of these trou bles, and give tone to the whole sys tem. For a laxative Simmons Liver Regulator is betteh: than Pnxs. ' It loe3 not gripe, nor weaken, but greatly refreshes and strengthens., i ; ' F.vM-v nockasre has the Red. Z stumn.-on the wrapper.. J. II. Scilin & Co., riiUadelphia. IN A TIGHT PLACE. Ten Minutes of Terror TJnaer Stam- . peded Cattle. Tha. PrOTldentUl Escape of Four ttan Irom. Welng Trampled-to Death ' by m Madly KushlDg Herd. "YeBe we Have an adventure now and then out in our country,": said Judge Thompson, of Wyoming. ; "If you'll come out and' see us I'll refer you to five or six men whose hairbreadth es would fill a book. , As for me, I haven't had but one close call worth "That's the very one I'm after," said the Detroit Free Press interviewer. "Well, it didn't amount to much as an adventure, I'm afraid, though I'm fn ia sjiv I was never more frightened f.ir ton mirmtes. Between what is called the Granite ridges and Bad Wa ter creek, in central Wyoming, is a fine cattle ranire. I was out witli a small party last summer prospecting for cer tain minerals, and had to cross this val ley at about the center. There were four of us on horseback, with our outfit packed on the three lead mules, and at about two o'clock in the afternoon we fiitrhted Knmethincr ' to make the hair lift rair hats rio-ht off Our heads." ' "Indians or-grizzly bears?" queried the scribe a ' ..,' "Pish! Tha Indians were all right' and crizzlv bears vdon't wander down Into the vallevs bv davliffht. What we e Kifrhted was a herd of about four tllOU' sand cattle coming our , way, ami they were ooming as if every critter was carrying one huudrea pounds oi sienm. Two or three herds got mixed, and in trvincr to separate theru the boys had started a treneral stampede. In the old days the buffaloes used to be some on the mad rush, but let me tell you that the wild cattle of the west can run a third faster, and when they once get started they will charge a flaming mountain. The front of the herd wasn't over a mile away when wo siirhted it. and it was no use to run be f oro it. turn back, or ride ahead. Our horses were scrub stock and had no Boeed." ; "And there was no convenient grove or rock to shelter you?" , "Not a tree nor a rock for five miles around, but just where we pulled up was a natural ditch about fifty feet long cut out bv the rains. It wasn't over two feet wide bv twenty inches deep, but it was our only hope. We slipped oflf our horses, cave them a slap, and piled into that ditch face down." "And the herd passed over you?" , "Exactly. I hadn't drawn three long breaths when the front of the herd was at hand. Let me just tell you that I was never so scared in all mv born davs. Every critter was bellowing, horns clashing, hoofs dig' ping up the soil, and as each one jumped the ditch he caved the dirt in on me. I felt fifty different hoofs scuff mv back, and every instant CX' neeted to be stepped on. It took the herd only about ten minutes to pass, but the time seemed hours lonsr to me. When the last one had come and gon I was regularly covered In and had to be dug out. Two of the party were stepped on and badly hurt.' "And your horses and mules?" "Picked up on the horas of the cattle and tossed about and stepped on till they were reduced to pulp. Juw cleaned uh out as slick as a whistle. ' If we'd been in our saddles nobody would haw recouized us us having once been hu man beings." ; ' "Seemed like the band of providence, didn't it?" "Of course. That's what we look for Mid depend viixm out in our country. Come out sonw time and wee how the old thing worUfi when we are going to have an avalanche three miles long ly a few thousand feet wide. WATER COOLED WITHOUT ICE. Poeblo Indiana Baeor tha ! Irad itaaolt . , fey JI wm at Enporatioa. . Of course, everyone likes ice v iter. It is an American habit, and, p,v. . otic ally speaking, all American ha); . are good. But if people only knew It. -ays tha Washington Post, there are , .iter ways of keeping water cool then put ting Ice in it And the water tit Is eoo ' Vrot b '"fro'' 1 twi'-u t x.1- of ins vri !,i; s!c . several times as good for the stomach into which it is put. One of the simplest ways of cooling water is by evaporation. , The Pueblo Indian of our southwest,- with his untutored mind, discovered this fact hundreds of years ago, and has been using the dis covery in his quiet, 'unobtrusive way ever since, while we of the higher civ ilization have been buying ice, deplet ing our pockets and spoiling our diges 1 ion at the same time. The Pueblo In dians never discovered the art of glaz ing pottery, and the result is that all their . earthenware is more ' or . less porous, and when filled with water ab sorbs it sponge -like, keeping the out side always nioist. This moisture evaporating coals the .vessel and the water it contains, just as one can feel the coolness that comes from a breeze on the body when wet- with perspira tion. In the dry air of the southwest, where tha Pueblo Indian finds his home, this evaporation is very great, and the result is that the pottery ollas are used by whites, Indians, and Mexi cans alike to hold cool drinking water. Anyone who has traveled through the southwest cannot fail to recollect the old brownish buff-eolored olla with its curious Indian decorations, in con ventionalized pictures of birds, beasts and fish that were sure to be found in the fork of a dry cotton wood branch standing just inside the door with a yellow calabash, or if, in a very modern house, a tin cup hanging from a nail ' on the door jamb. And water from it after a long, dusty ride in the boiling sun tasted many times better than the coldest ice cream soda he ever paid ten cents for in the states. - It may have been what Col. Tom Ochiltree terms the large, elegant thirst that added to the supposed virtues of the olja as. a water cooler, but the scientists of the National Museum will tell you that the cooling qualities of ,-the porous pottery are quite as roal as imaginary. In the better class of Mexican houses the chipped and battered olla in its pictur esque rustic support will usually be re-' placed by a more daintily ornamented earthen one shaped like an army can-! teen, suspended by a gray Mexican scarf in the dritught of a window, or a highly ornate lowl of a couple Of gal lons' capacity, .swung in the same way in a netting of twisted yucca fibers. But the cooling principle is always the same. i . "'"- -' ' ' Tha Witty Kepty of an Irish Hofpltal -.. Patient. A doctor should be a master of push and parry, if he would get the better of an Irish patient, intent upon conceal ing more than he reveals as to the cause of his sickness. Dr. Boose 7elt, in an article, "The Hospital," published in Scribner's, tells how he was once worsted in a professional interview at the Roosevelt hospital with an lrisn laborer. ! The doctor writes! I was struck by the humorous look in his face, but even more by the unmis takable evidences of hard drinking which he presented. After asking some other questions, I suddenly said: You have been drinking pretty nara, have you not?" - He looked at me witn tne most en gaging of Irish smiles, and gravely in formed me that he bad not done so to any extent, adding: "Well, you know, I'm a longshoreman, and av coorse we've been on a strike, and that manes that ivery wan had several drinks i dav. so perhaps I did take a little." After awhile 1 told mm nrst to noia out his hands, which were shaky. Then I asked him to put out his tongue. This was very tremulous, and I said, rather sharply: "What makes your tongue snake so much if you have not been drinking?" Looking at me in the most humble manner, he answered wimous nesiwr 1 111 ...i AA iuc: "Well. I don't know, sir, unless it s the modesty of that organ at oein thrust into prominence in the sight of such a foine gintleman." I changed the subject. j TRADE IN HUMAN HAIR. Tha Custom of Banting the nau Whola Familial by tha Taar. - There are wholesale firms in Paris which send around agents in the spring to various Breton and other villages. These gentlemen, says All the Year Bound, are provided with ribbons, silk laces, haberdashery and cheap jewelry of various kinds, paying for the maidens' tresses in these goods or in ready money. So tar as personal beauty is concerned, tnese xireton laces do not lose much in losing their hair, for It is the fashion in thatpart of France for maidens to wear a close cap, which entirely prevents any part Of their hair being seen. , Some years ago the light uerman hair was held In such esteem By tne hair merchants that they gladly paid as much as eight shillings aa ounce tor small quantities of it-nearly double the price of silver. Light nair is col lected from Germany by agents of a Dutch company, who make yearly visits to various parts of the Germania states. The black hair importea comes mostly from Brittany and the south of France, and is, as a rule, very fine and silken. Whithitt the present century the heads of hair of whole families in Devonshire were let out by the year. An Exeter periwig maker went around periodically, cut the locks, and oiled the ground thus left in stubbla to stimulate a fresh crop. ' With the turning of the leaves it is supposed the flowers disappear, but In northern New England, and over the line in Canada, the - asters are never more gorgeous, the daisies big- g or tha chamomile more abundant tl.a- fust on the eve of frost time. .In to . vo cr three hundred miles north oi . v .v. , crst tni-.snort Dut warm sum- m' m y havw its fruitage after the q ,! s nd the parks and gardens in tlte. -ivns oro brilliant with msrl ebl&K, zinriins, asters, eosna, and tven freet pa, long gdne by in tbes lutl-i jh.":e. Melons aru in their prui Mikiae when thoy!"-'! )- oa t Highest of all ia Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Li irsOT a n&O.HU7I38Y PUCE DOWN IN" A CEATER. Wonders Witnessed by tain Explorer. a Mouzi- Indian Legend of m Famous Extinct Vol asno la tha Wert Strange Ani mals Found In tha Snbter , ranean Cavcrna. Crater mountain is one of the Uma tilla Indians' great spook depots from ancient time, says the Baker City Dem ocrat Bucks that are now white with the hoary frosts of many winters rec ollect hanging in tho trees tightly strapped to their nursing boards, while their mothers roamed the forests in search of game for the lords of crea tion or wood for the tepee, and from infancy love to relate how the great spirit spoke to them with the awful voice of terrific thunder in the bowels , of the earth. Many are the stories and legends of Indian lore told of Crater mountain. One of the favorite ones is told of a great war between tho Shoshones and Umatillas. When the Umatillas had conquered their foes they proceeded to slaughter old and young, regardless of sex. One beauti ful Shoshone maiden, seeinp; that death was inevitable from her pursu-t ing foes, plunged headlong into the burning orater, and instantly the vol canlo eruption ceased, much to the consternation of her pursuers, who on the following day found, on looking down the chasm of inky darkness, a resplendent light with the form of the Shoshone maiden In the midst of the apparition. Thoy told it to their dusky warriors and to this day Crater moun tain is looked upon with reverence from an Indian point oi view. ! The following is from-the diary of J. A. Wright: "Crater mountian is located some eleven miles from the Camp of Cornucopia, on the south side of the ranire whose caps are tipped with eternal snow. Many chasms and fls sures have in the misty past cleft the mountains and left them in. the most fantastic shapes. Vegetation ceases to grow after a certain height is reached, and close under the base of one of the trreat peaks is the famous extinct vol cano. Ashes and lava are found in great profusion and in such Indescrib able masses that it makes the ascent one of peril and great difllcultyi How ever, once at the top, a peek down into the blank, fathomless abyss supplies the most morbid minds with all the sensa tionalism necessary for a lifetime. A favorite amusement was to throw rocks down and listen to the sounds as they struck on the projecting sides of the dark chimney until the sounds died away, leaving nothing but for the mvstified explorer Kb guess it had reached the bottom." - Many have been the stories circu lated of tho wonderful cavern that ex tended from the sides of the great chimney. A stout cable was provided and a basket swung from a pulley Hon. Joseph, with camera and note book, was carefully lowered some three hundred and seventy-eight feet, when he noticed an aperture in the aide of the chimney, and. by signals agreed upcti, a halt was called in his downward career, and he crawled through a cleft in the great chimney, and the work of exploration began.! The first sight that met his astonished gaze was a most, stupendous chamber, from whose mighty dome hung stalac tites of great beauty, which were en hanced by the light of the pandle, and fairly struck terror to his heart, as the flickering candle seemed to possess the power of some unseen hand that made millions of the brilliant stalactites dance in resplendent beauty. -A great snowy owl blinked at the astonished Joseph. . . - , , , Tho explorer groped his way to the far end of the chamber, where he thought he heard tho sounds of falling water nor was he, mistaken, for squeezing himself through an opening he found himself in another, cnamoer of rreat beautv. with a5 stream of hot sulphur water running into the earth. The incrustation from , tne suipnur water had transformed the cavern Into a coral-like substance and, left, it in such fantastic shapes. lie found in the water some lively little lizards and some frogs that change color on the slightest provocation and two large rata, who eved the explorer with a cu riosity that seemed to bode no good and he longed for his little gun. THE SPARROW AND THE CLOCK. A Strange Story Told at a Paris Faly 1 technic Hchaol. " A French paper tells the following stranire storv of a sparrow and the clock at the Polytechnic school of Vm.rl: ' "" - in I8i the Swedish scientist, Bcr- selius, during his stay in Paris, went to the school to make some experi ments in physics and chemistry before thi pupils. ; To show the necessity of alvin the- respiration of animals plaeed a sparrow under the receiver of the air tsuiap and created a vacuum. ' At th. -moment when the bird was about to die for want of oxygen, the crv of "Mercy! McrcyH echoed Irom all aide if the amphitheater.; Bersellus aeqttjeaed in, -l'l decision of his hu mane Midienr which flew n Aft- released the Ja"' out of the half t fttraitffc turn penei a happening 3h uoday, attha ml ci l lie i ten, Wjl HE mm and the astonished doorkeeper noticed; that this last minute had an inconceiv able length. , The fact was noted again and again, and a watch was set to discover the cause. 'Then it was ascertained that the happy delay was caused by a spar row which, at the precise second, had lighted on tho hand of the clock. Of course it was Berzelius' sparrow! Now comes the sad and unnecessary part of the story. The doorkeeper one day covered the hands with some sticky substance, caught the grateful bird and put it to death. ' The school gave it a superb funeral and it was buried in a corner of the great court. That day the clock, which had evident-" ly been a party to the conspiracy, re ceived the name of Berzelius. f THEY ENJOYED THE JOKE. Tha Elephant Appreciated a Uood Thing When Ihej Saw It ' A number of years ago, in a book which was called "Leaves from the Life of a Special Correspondent," Mr.O'Shea, the author of the book, gave the follow ing description ot an adventure he had with a herd of elephants. Said he: "A young friend asked mo once to. show him some elephants, and I took him along with mo, having first borrowed an apron and filled it with oranges. This he was to carry whilst accompany ing me in the stable, but the moment we reached the door the herd set up such a trumpeting they had scented the fruit that he dropped the apron and its contents, and scuttled off like a scared rabbit. There were eight ele phants, and when I picked up the oranges I found I had twenty-five. I walked deliberately along the line giv ing one to each. - When I got to the extremity of the narrow stable I turned, and was about to begin the distribution . again, when I suddenly reflected that' if elephant No. 7 in the Vow saw me give two oranges in succession to No. 8 ho might imagine ho was being cheated, and give me a smack with his trunk that is where tho elephant falls short of the human being-so I went to the door and began at tho beginning us' before. Thrice I went aloug tho line, and then I was in ax. 1 hud one orange left, and I had to get buck lothe door. Every elepliBiit in the herd had his greedy gnze f ocussed on that orange. It was as much as my lifo was worth to give it to any oue of them. What was I to clo? I held It up conspicuously, coolly peeled It, cud nto It myself. It was most amusing to lm'J.ec the way those i'lephunts nudged cn' ii other and shook their ponderous sides. They thoroughly entered into tlu humor of the thing." ONLY A QUESTION OF TIME. How n liii-ii'cunliiu, Vhii.! l!urtook ft ! Pl-llt "That' lit tl bill?" said the debtor, pleasantly. "Oh, yes, -of c iurte. Well, you need nut worry abO'.'.t inut any more. I'v.i go: things down to a sys tem now." You've been a long ti nio doing it," suggested the creditor. "I reuliM it," returned tho debtor, but it's oil right now. Yon see, thir ty dollar h more than I cun afford to let go of ul any one time, but now I can get it together without missing it. You see, a man never misses his small change, so I've bought a little bank that I can drop it into every night. You've no idea how fast it accumu lates." -. 'I've heard of the plan before," said tho creditor. "If a man lives up to It and doesn't hold out on the baak it mounts up rapidly." 'Oh, I live up to it," protested th debtor. "I put every cent of small change into It every night, and it's all for you," "I may hope then" "My dear sir, you may more than hope. The system makes the paymen In full an absolute certainty, if. fy comes all obstacles and it's only a qu tlon of time" ' "How much time?" "Well, that's rather difficult to You see, the amount of small eh' find in my pockets varies, and "What do you call small c "Pennies. I what's the' sue if you want to. That' geta for trying to do th CHANGED What Aftceted t Ihl "Some perso detective, "sr man we kr because h had a fi opposec" talk a pursul4 rightr bla' whe on 1 wato lean intT he 3 If . -J J J Itcad the Fui.