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ATHENA, SEPTEMBER 13 1895.
The Hook and Ladder company
undertook to have a meeting Mon
day night. It was their regular
meeting night, and we understand,
by hard work a quorom was drum
med up, and businesB transacted.
There seems to be a tendency on the
part of the members to drag. The
city has gone to great expense in
purchasing fire apparatus, and now
have a first class equipment. A
floating or transient population can
not be depended on as members of
the fire department. The only way
a city of Athena's size can have an
efficient department is for the busi
ness men to come to the front and
; take an active part. By that way
nnlv can Atliflna have a denart-
t.
ment that can be relied on at all
times and under all circumstances.
''Get out of debt and stay out,"
is what an Eastern Oregon editor
has been preaching to the readers
of his paper for some time. With
wheat at the present low price, the
Umatilla county farmer would
vote this editor a golden crown and
a free pass to heaven, if he would
furnish the ky to the problem of
now to get out of debt. The farm
er once out of debt will stay out.
The dearly acquired experience of
the past has more than the lesson
'stay out of debt." A person ad
vocating a theory, an argument or
a subject for the advancement of
mankind, is naturally supposed to
be in a manner conversant with
the question he is handling and,
consequently, is looked to for his
solution of the problem which he
has unravelled. The average farm
er, when once out of debt, will stay
out. But to get out "aye there's
the rub!"
Those little, whito, feathery balls
that you have observed flying
through the air the past two weeks,
are the seed or thistle, they are
allowed to grow along the railroads,
highways, and vacant lots and out-of-way
places, and if it is not
checked, it's only a matter of a
short time until the wheat fields of
Umatilla county will be literally
covered with this obnoxious, soil
absorbing weed. It is a rank in.
justice to allow these thistles, or, for
that mntter, any weed that is detri
mental to crops to grow and ma
ture, whon in all probability your
neighbor is doing all in his power
to keep a clean field. There is
trouble, and lots of it, too, in store
for the Umatilla county farmer if
steps aro not taken to destroy the
grovth of this thistle and the Chi
nese lettuce.
Farmers, to a great extent, as
eist in holding down the price of
wheat. This is done by placing
the grain in the warehouse of the
grain buyer before sale has been
made. A few rough boards and a
little work and the result would be
a warehouse at home. Then tho
buyer would not have the cinch he
now has on your wheat by having
it in his possession. ; "
States like Nebraska and Kan
sas, says the Oregonian, where ir
rigation is only an adjunct to or
dinary farming process, have to go
to wholly arid regions to learn the
value of it. Their farmers have
never realized that there is money
in intensive farming, with plenty
and certain water supply, and have
regarded irrigation as a resort for
necessity. People are making a
better living on a five or ten-acre
tract in Utah, irrigated, than others
do in Kansas or Nebraska on a
quarter section, dry years with wet.
The windmill will furnish the wat
er where streams are not avni!nble.
Vixcent, among other t' :!,:;in
his talk here yesterday : id,
"Prices are controlled t.- the
amount of money in circulation"
We are aware of that. Free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to 1 is the remedy.
Vincent, the Populist lecturer,
got off some very good jokes dur
ing his talk here. He was a very
fluent talker, was a good illustrator,
handled his subjects with some in
telligence, but
W. W. Brannin'8 paper, the Ore
gon Reporter, is on onr exchange
table. The Reporter is the official
paper ol the A. 0. U. W., of this
jurisdiction, and is very ably edi
ted.
Many of the leading papers in
both parties are clamoring for what
they term a "short campaign."
Even the political machines econ
omize in times that are hard.
Brown Bros., are again issuing
the Miltonian. The first number
is a hummer, and if they keep up
the lick, will make a Buccess of the
venture.
These are times that try man s
heart. Wheat in Chicago yester
day was quoted 55$ cents, cash.
THE POWER ROAD WAGON.
A Thing of Slow Evolution, Its Future
Is Great.
New York Evening Bun.
The power road wagon has been
a thing of slow evolution. It has
developed, it is true, in less time
than the bicycle did, still, the pow
er road wagon has already a prac
ticable form in France five years
ago. Since that date gradual im
provements have been in progress,
until now all can recognize that we
have with us a vehicle that has
come to Btay Last year a Paris
newspaper offered a large sum in
prizes for a competitive road wag
on trial from Paris to Marseilles,
and now we learn that an English
technical journal bas made a
- .
ilar offer for an English trial of the J
si m
same kind
The power road wagon as it now
exists appears in special way to fav
or Americna inventive genius. The
foreign models are much too heavy,
that is to say, are much heavier
than need be. It is entirely safe
to make the prediction that within
three years from the initial manu
facture of the new vehicle in the
United States, one-quarter at least
of its weight will have been dispen
sed with. .This is no more than a
repetition of the history of the
manufacture of every variety of
road vehicle. The American bicy
cle of '95 is from seven to nine
pounds lighter than its European
counterpart. When American
travelers landed with their wheels
in England this season, the bicycle
papers there undertook to deride
the flimsy structures.
One leading authority said that
it would like to seo the 'same wheels
after they had done a eeason'a work
over English roads. Well, during
the coming month of September,
the paper in question will have the
opportunity it yearned for, as the
wheelmen take their return steam
ships. It will then be in position
to allow that the British factories
have still to learn how to build a
wheel. Doubtless, the American
'95 wheel is lighter than is best for
general road purposes, but, doubt
less, too, an addition not exceed
ing three pounds in weight will
give it all the additional 6trencth
called for by durability. Assum
ing mat the Uo wheel will exhibit
this change, it will 6till be one-
sixth lighter than the foreign mod
els. All of this micht have been safe
ly predicted, since it was no more
than a duplication of the American
precedent with every other form of
road and racing vehicle. Hence
there seems no sort of risk in ore-
dieting an identical result with the
vehicle of the future, the power
road wagon. The English techni
cal newspaper which now offers the
very handsome premiums above
referred to, explains that it does
not foresee a great manufacture
destined to come into existence in
this field, as has already been wit
nessed in the case of the bicycle.
Its motive in offering the prizes is
to promote and hasten the develop
ment of this industry, in itself
an additional source of natural
wealth.
Considering how many times
larger the United States are than
the '.'nited Kingdom, with double
the population, the prospects for
the eame industry within the Uni
ted S'ates can be measured. Trans
port ion is measured in ton-miles,
not ii: volume alone. The volume
muh: !e multiplied into the dis
tanc . Thus viewed, it is not too
muc!'. 'o say that the call within
the V ated States for the power
road wagon is some scores of times
as great as it can be in the United
Kingdom or France. This general
truth has been amply illustrated
by the bicycle and the trolley. The
power road wagon comes only to
add a fresh instance to the other
two.
There is no difficulty in foresee
ing the rise of power wagon factor
ies rivaling some of the great car
shops or the factories for trolley
equipment, or oi bicycles. JNor is
this result far in the distance. So
much for the economical aspect of
the invention, but this aspect is far
trom disposing or it. As a means
and source of pleasure the power
road wagon is of limitless possibili
ties. It is needless to expatiate on
this feature of the bicycle, or, for
that matter, of the rural and semi'
rural trolley. They are combining
to change the habit of the people
But the road wagon promises, and
in France is already beginning to
realize scarcely less. It has been
well said that one no longer trav
els; one departs and arrives. The
interval is a period of imprison
ment in a moving jail: it is not
traveling.
The power road wagon contrib
utes to change this. It cannot dis
place the horse as an adjunct to
the pleasure of the open air any
more than the wheel can displace
him from the use of those who are
in position to taste the joys of the
saddle. But, just as the wheel now
takes its tens or hundreds into the
open air from one who went before,
so the power road wagon will take
its ten or its hundreds for one who
t'akea the air in similar fashion
now. Just as the wheel has prov
ed eminently the democratic road'
ster, bo is tne power road wagon
destined to show that it is eminent
ly the democratic vehicle. Not
that a machine of this sort will be
owned by persons of small ' means,
but that it will be put on the road
for the patronage of the masses.
The railways were unable at the
outset to believe that the trollev
could interfere with their virtual
monopoly; the railroads know more
now than thev did. Probably the
trolley and other modes of Burface
VJUUVJ I H 1.1 U11(1 IlllllO Ul ouiiavjo
transportation would scout the no-
tion that the power road wagon can
ever come to interfere with their
function. They are destined to
learn as well as to live. Transfer
ence from point to point is not all
of travel; the mode has something
to do with it. The wheel is the
pioneei ofgood roads. It "touches
the button." so to speak, the Dower
road .wagon is destined to do the
rest. Give it time
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there Is at feast one dreaded disease
mat science nag Deen able to cure in all Its
stages and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Cattarrh
Cure Is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity, cattarrh beiDg a con
stitutional disease requires constitutional
treatment. Hall's Cattarrh oure is taken in
ternally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby des
troying the foundation of the disease and
giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing Its
work. The proprietors have so much faith
in Its curative powers, that they offer One
Hundred Dollars tor any case that it foils to
cure. Bend for Testimonials.
Address, F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, 0
3- Bold by ail Druggist, 75o.
Taken Up.
One bay horse branded A M on left shoulder,
right hind foot white.
One bald-faced mare, about ton years old,
branded F E on right shoulder and 3 on right
stifle, with bay cotl, glass, eye, branded Son
right stifle.
One bay yearling Ally, star in forehead, no
brand.
One spotted yerling Cayuse, with glass
eyes no brand.
One yearling sorrel horse colt, no brand.
One sorrel horse, about four years old, brand
ed N U on left stifle.
One buy horse, about four years old, branded
N O on left stifle.
One sorrel mare, about five years old, brand
ed N Con left stifle.
One sorrel mare, about five years old, bias
ed face, and white hind foot, branded N C on
left stifle, with sucking colt no brand.
One bay mare, about four years old, blazed
face, one white hind foot, branded ic V on left
stifle.
One bay horse, about seven year old, with
Raddle and hobble marks, branded N C on
left stifle.
The above described animals will be sold by
me at public auction, to the highest bidder for
cash In band. In Athena Oreunn. on 1 urxdav.
Sept, 17, lyf.til 2 o'clock p. ni., unless redeem-
".ruwurr. a. M. UM.IIS,
Dated September 12th 1805, City Marshal.
Assignee's Notice.
In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon,
for Umatilla county. .
In the matter of Andrew Schneebele, .
an insolvent debtor. f
Notice is hereby given that the undersign
ed, Lake France, has been appointed assig
nee of the estate of the above named lnsoi.
vent debtor, and has duly qualified as such
assignee herein, All persons bavins; claims
agatuat said Insolvent debtor are hereby re
quired and notified to present the same duly
verified to the undersigned at Athena, Oregon
Within three months from the date hereof.
Dated at Athena, Oregon, this llth day of
September, 1S96. Lav Franck,
Assignee.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder
World', Fair Highest Award.
Dr. Price's Cream Baking: Powder
WorM'a Fair Highest Medal and Diptes.
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C. W. HOLLIS, Athena, Oregon.
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Farmers,
THE PRODUCERS' WAREHOUSE COMPANY'S HOUSES are now open and
ready to receive wheat along the line of the Washington & Columbia River
railway, which gives you a market at Tacoma, Seattle or Portland These
house are open to all wheat buyers at all times. Each lot will be piled separate and
loaded out as taken In. We think too expensive to farmers to send men out to drum
uo and solicit your buglness, as all such expense ia charged to you In some way or
other. Cumtux?
PRODUCERS' WAREHOUSE CO.
J L. KILLIAN, MANAGER.
Clark Walter, - - - - - Agent at Athena.
IF YOU WISH TO borrow money on real estate,
Sell or buy farm or city property; have your life in
sured; have your property insured against fire in
the best companies in the world; invest money at
good interest and have it wen secured; have Deeds,
Mortgages, Contracts, Leases, etc., drawn correctly, call on V. T.
GILM AN, Athena, Ore. He represents the following first-class
fire insurance companies: Phoenix, Home, Royal, Ger
man, iaieaoman and jxortnwest. Jtie writes ,
his own policies and guarantees correctness, -and
at the lowest rates at which responsible com
panies will take risks. He has the agency for the
Equitable Life Insurance Co., the best of any
Read These Prices.
11 cans Axle grease
5 gal can Machine oil
Binding twine per lb. . .........
Draper 12-foot Hodge Header. .'
Spout draper ;
All Kinds of extras for the following nmnlilnos.
Pitta, Case and Woodbury. Headers Pitts, case, Randolph, C raver, Piano, Oregon Haines
Mowing machine extras for Champion any style, Whitely, Empire, Woods, Buckeye- Binders
Whltely, Buckeye, Deerlng and Piano. Draper and draper-sticks forany kind of ma
chines. We can furnish repairs forany machine if not on hand at shortest possible time and at
lowest possible cost- If you do not see what you want you must ask for it we are sure to havelt.
THE C. -A BAEEETT CO.
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ATHENA, OREGON,
THE
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Meat Market
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The place to get your fresh ' All kinds of smoked meats.
....Beef, Veal, Pork and "JfU Hams lard and Bacon...
Mutton. Fish in season. t
J. BREHM, Proprietor, Athena, Oregon.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office at La Grande, Orfgon.
August 17, 1895.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has tiled notice of his intention
to commute and make final proof in support
of his claim, and that said proof will be made
before County Clerk of Umatilla Co. at Pen
dleton, Oregon on September 28th, 1865, vis:
JAMES H. GALLAHER.
wHd5(H8,rorthNEKSec.23Tp4N B83.E
He names the following witnesses to prove
his continuous residence upon and cultivation
of. said land, viz:
J K Bott of Helix William Reeder, of Athena
Archie McKinnonof Adams, Clinton Hun
ford of Pendleton. (
Any person who desires to protest aga nst
the allowance of such proof, or who knows of
any substantial reason, under the law and re
gulations of the Interior Department, why
such proof Bhould not be allowed will have an
opportunity at the above mentioned time and
place to cross-examine the witnesses of said
claimant, and to offer evidence In rebuttal of
that submitted by claimant.
B F Wilson,
- Keglster
Summons.
; In the circuit court of the state or Oregon
for Umatilla county,
Ross Scott, Plaintiff
vs.
J A Johnson, J B Stewart and f
J J Johnson, Defendants )
To J A Johnson, J B Stewart and J J John-
son the above named defendents.
In t he name of the State of Oregon.
You are hereby required to appear and ans
wer the complaint filed against you in the
above entitled action within ten days from
the date of the service of this summons upon
you, if served in Umatilla County, or If served
in any other county In the State of Oregon,
then within twenty days from the date of
such service upon you, or if served upon you
outside of the State of Oregon or by the pub
lication thereof then by the first day of the
next regular term of said Court next follow
ing such publication, to-wit: the 14th day of
October. 1895.
DEFENDANTS will take notice that if they
fall to appear and answer or plead to the
plaintiffs said complaint within said time,
the plaintiff for want thereof, will take lude
ment against them for the sum of H457.U3.
with interest thereon at the rate of 8 per cent
per annum from the 6th day of May 18(15, until
paid together with the costs and disburse
ments of this action. E. iePkatt.
' ,. Attorney for Plaintiff,
This summons is published by order of Hon
J. A Fee Judge of said court, made at cham
bers in Pendleton Oregon, on the 21st, day of
August 1895. E. DkPeatt,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Summons.
In the circuit court of the state of
Oregon for Umatilla county,
C. C. Frazier, Plaintiff, .
vs !
Robert Ferris, Alexander Ferris f
and B. F. Stone, Defendants. '
To Robert Ferris, Alexander Ferris and B. F.
Stone, the above named defendents,
In the name of the State of Oregon.
You are hereby required to appear and ans
wer the complaint filed against yon in the
above entitled Court within ten days from the
date of the service of this summons upon you,
if served In Umatilla Co.; or If served in any
other Couity in the state of Oregon, then"
within twenty days from the date of such ser
vice upon you, or if served outside the state v
of Oregon or by the publication thereof
then by the first day of next regular term of
said court next following such publication,
to wit: theMth day of October, 1885. - ,
Defendants will take notice that if they
fail to appear and answer or plead within
said time, the .plaintiff for want thereof, will
take Judgment against them for the recovery
of the possession of the following described
lands and premises situated in Umatilla
county State of Oregon, towit: The Southwest
quarter of Section 25 In Township 6 North of
Range 84 East of the Willamette Meridian and
for tre sum of Eight Hundred Dollars dam.
age for with-holding the possession of the
same from the plaintiff, and for plaintiff's
costs and disbursements of this action. -C.
H. Finn and E. DePeatt.
-' Attorney's for Plaintiff.
The above summons Is published by order of
Hon. James A. Fee, made at chambers at
Pendleton Oregon, on the 31 day of July, 1895,
c. II, Fiun and E. DkPeatt,
Attorney's for Plaintiff.
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