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ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1895.
NUMBER 42.
VOLUME 8.
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and depart at 11:15 a. m. For time cards,
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Agt. P ortland. Oregon.
Furniture
Did
Say?
Furniture
Just
What
JOHN S. BAKER,
The 2ndS7
Man of
Court Street,
Pendleton,
Sells so Cheap.
THE ATHENA RESTAURANT t
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MRS. HARDIN, Proprietress.
: : : H. P. MILLEN, Manager.
Can be recommended to the public a
being flrsit-class in every
particular. .
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White help only.
t MEALS AT ALL HOURS t
Dr. Price's Cream Eaklns Powder
World's Fair Kig&est Awtr.
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LODUK BIKEITOKY
AF. k A. M.'NO. 80 MEETS THE
. First .Hid Third Saturday Evenings
( each month. Visiting bretheren cor
iially invited to visit the lodge.
f 0. 0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY
JL, Friday nixht. Visiting Odd Fellow
u good standing always welcome.
0. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE
Second and Foartli Saturdays of
month. Fred Bozenswieg,
Recorder.
A THENA CAM P, NO. 171, Woodmen of the
w Worid, meets 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of
3aeh month. Visiting Choppers always wel
come. O. C. Osburn, Clerk,
)YTHIAN, NO. 29, MEETS EVERY
. Thursday Night.
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BROME GRASS.
A New Forage Plant Grown in the Pal
ouse Country. '
One of the interesting exhibits at
the Spokane fair, from Latah coun
ty, Idaho, was brome grass, or Rus
sian forage grass, which is being
extensively cultivated, in4,hat sec
firm u'it.h Kmpnrhd rPKiills ' T h
with splendid
Latin name for the grass isBrouius i
mer musar, and tue nrst seed sown
in Latah county was imported di
rect from Russia. The Latah coun
ty farmers soon abbreviated the
name to ''Brome," and it is, there
fore, sometimes improperly called
"broom grass" by persons unfam
iliar with it.
John P. Mix, one of the gentle
men in charge of the Latah county
exhibit, says the introduction of
Brome grass has solved the ques
tion of pasturage in the Palouse
country, a question which has long
confronted the farmers of that
country. : , '
"This grass has found its true
home in the Palouse country," says
Mr. Mix to a Spokane-Review re
porter, "and it is the finest pasture
grass that grows. Tho grass was
introduced into Latah county six
years neo, by J. C. Reumens, who
sent to Russia for the seed, lie
sowed it with alfalfa, which it
crowded out. Brome grass grows
as high as timothy and has more
foliage, and it forms a sod like Ken
tucky blue grass. It is as green in
August as in June. It has been
tested for producing milk, and
found to yield more milk than
orchard grass or alfalfa. It requires
about 15 pounds of seed per
acre to produce good pasture the
first year it is sown. It is claimed
that it will1 pasture five head of
cattle to the acre, and it is the best
hog pasture in the world. M. J.
Shields, of Moscow, sowed SO acres
of it, and says the seed is worth' $1 a
pound to any farmer who wants a
good pasture. The grass is spread
ing all over our section of the coun
try, and the seed can now be pur
chased as low as 25 cents a. pound.
Orders for seed have been received
from as far away as North Dakota
and Nevada. Farmers who would
like to try it can procure seed from
either Mr. Shields or F. C. McLini,
of Moscow, both ; of whom are now
growing it extensively; In my
opinion brome grass is the coming
paBturage of this country."
Officers Elected.
The grand lodge Knights of
Pythias, elected the following of
ficers: r
Supreme representative, J. A.
Waddle, of Portland, vice George
H. Hochstedler. term expired;
grand .chancellor, Dr. Greary, of
Medford; grand vice chancellor,
Turner Olliver; grand prelate, 0.
Patterson, Heppner : grand keeper
of records and seal, George F. Mc
Connell, Ashland; grand master of
exchequer, E. M. Sargent, Portland;
grand master at arms, J. K. Oreer,
Hillsboro; grand inner guard,
Harry Schoop, -Portland; grand
outer guard, Charles Fellows, Port
land; colonel commanding, L, F.
Cook, Pendleton; adjutant, Frank
Motter, Portland; Dr. J. R. Hill,
trustee, vice F. A. Golden, terra ex
pired.
An Epidemic of Damage Suits,
It is reported that the Walla
Walla Water Co. is to be sued for
$1C,000 damp.ges. It appears that,
after taking a drink of water dur
ing the dog days the man thought
he had swallowed a frog. It is con
fessed the frog had no existence but
all the same the company is re
sponsible because it was their water
he drank. ' ' .
CONGRESSMAN ELLIS.
He Visits Walla Walla and Submits to
a Short Interview.
Hon. W. R. Ellis, one of Oregon's
congressmen, was registered at the
State hotel last Sunday, says the
Walla Walla Gazette. While Mr.
Ellis was known as the best look
ing man in congress and deserved
the reputation, and while he is in
perfect health otherwise, he yet
suffers from the effect of an accident
three years ago, when his leg was
badly broken. The injured memb
er occassional bothers him a great
deal, and he was lately undergoing
treatment at the Good Samaritan
hospital in Portland. After hav
ing left the hospital hi went to
Pendleton, where Mrs. Ellis was
stopping, and they concluded to
visit old friend3 in Walla Walla
before returning to Heppner.
Mr. Ellis was seen by a Gazette
representative and in reply to
question as to what he thought of
probable legislation at the next
session of congress which convenes
the first Monday in December, re
marked: X"I think there will be very little
law-making, as things are so badly
mixed, politically. The house is
republican by over 100, the popu
lists hold the balance of power iti
the. senate, and the executive is
democratic. Under the circum-
stances there is not much oppor
tunity to pass any law, as it must
suit all parties."
"How about financial legisla
tion?" "There will be very little, if any,
in my opinion."
"What do you think of the res
pective chances of republican as
pirants for the presidential nomina
tion?"
"I have no means of forming an
idea, except from the talk I hear
and the things I read. I should
judge that they stand in the. order
rof McKinley, Reed and Allison.
Reed is undoubtedly one of the
brightest men in this or any other
country, but the question is wheth
er he is not located too far east to be
the most available and successful
candidate."
Mr. and Mrs. Ellis left for home
on Sunday evenings train, after re
ceiving calls irom a numoer or.
Walla Walla friends at the State
hotel.
Fight With a Bear.
P. H. Roberts, of Scoggins valley,
had an experience last Monday,
which he is apt to remember for
some time. His brother had shot
at a bear and broken its forearm,
but the animal got away. Mr.
Roberts heard about it and took up
the chase, overt auling the bear af
ter a fourteen-mile chase. Fifteen
times the bear turned on him, and
once he struck it in the back with
an ax, but did not disable it.
When they reached Sain creek, man
and bear clinched, rolling over
at the water's edge, the man on top
bear set his teeth through one arm
and disabled it, and the man was
just fainting from a powerful blow
on the side ot the head, but he
rallied for one more cut at the bear
and the animal decided to call it a
draw, and retreated. Nothing has
been seen of the bear, but the blood
and imprints in the soft earth of
the creek bank showed the hun
ters what tho struggle was.
A Romantic Marriage.
The . Elgin Recorder tolls of a
rather romantic marriage which
occurred at Union Wednesday,
when Mr. Walter Watson, a promi
nent young man of Wallowa
county, and Miss E. Wagness, late
of England were joined in the holy
bonds of wedlock. Tho bride ar
rived at La Grande Monday even
ing, direct from England, and had
never seen her. intended husband,
the courting having been clono by
letter. Mr. Watson went up to La
Grande and both parties being sat
isfied with each other's appearance
they proceeded to Union Wednes
day and were married. The new
ly wedied couple returned on their
way to their Wallowa county home.
Patent Right Interest Sold.
Mr. Jacob Gearhart, the inven
tor of a three-horse double-tree cal
culated to equalize tha draft, has
sold one-half interest in his patent
to Wallace & O'Toole, the price
being $5,000. The device is re
ceiving universal indorsement and
orders are largely in excess of the
supply, although the patent has so
far been introduced to only a few
of the farmers of this valley.
Everybody who has used the
double-tree says it fills the object
tor which it was intended, and the
purchasers share the faith of the
inventor that it will become a
rapid seller. La Grande Chronicle.
Lumber and Logs.
The Grande Ronde Lumber Co.
have over $100,000 worth of lumber
and logs on hand and it is estima
ted that they have timber enough
tributary to their mills to last them
fifty years. .
Wonderful are the cures accom
plished by Hood's Sarsaparilla and
yet it is only because Hood's ' Sar
saparilla, the one true blood puri
fier, makes pure, rich, healty blood.
Hood's Pills for tho liver and
bowels, act easy, yet promptly and
efficiently.
Buckingham's Dye for the whis
kers is the best, handiest, softest,
surest, cleanest, most economical
and satisfactory dye ever invented.
It is the gentlemen's favorite.
Crawford, in Pendleton, is sell
ing harness and saddles at bedrock
prices. 4t.
Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
A WANING INSTITUTION.
Should the State Longer Tax the Peo
ple for the State Fair?
To an observing person, Rays the
Oregon City Enterprise, it cannot
but be seen that the Oregon state
fair is in its decline. Each yeai,
in spite of the best efforts of the
management, the exhibit and at
tendance become smaller until it is
no longer an industrial or financial
success. The era for fairs all over
the United States seems to be past.
The world's fair was the culmina
tion of the spirit of rivalry and
pride that goes to sustain fairs, and
since the close of that greatest of
all efforts the interest in the small
local fairs has steadily decreased.
From the best information obtain
able there has not been a fair in
the United States this year that has
been the success and equalled the
interest that such fairs in former
years maintained.
The American people are a quick,
emotional people, and they soon
tiro of a diversion and want some
thing new. Baseball and several
other fads have had their day, and
the farm and factory exhibits hav
ing ceased to be a drawing card,
horse racing was made to be a lead
ing feature of the modern fair; yet
that now is ceasing to draw. The
racing feature has dwindled into a
gambling device, in which the fast
est horse seldom wins, and the evil
efforts of the poolroom and its at
tendant crowd of disreputable and
dishonest toughs ha3 driven decent
people away from the races.
With the failure of the state fair
to accomplish the object for which
it was established, the $5000 given
to it by the state each year is wast
ed. This, with the amount given
to the district fairs, making a total
of $10,000 a year that the taxpay
ers have to dig up, and the return
they receive for this hard-earned
money is very small indeed. It
would bo far better and be of more
advantage to the agricultural and
manufacturing interests of the state
if this $10,000 was expended on the
highways each year.
' Marriage Annulled.
The marriage of Ethel Pitts and
Henry Pitts was Saturday annul
led by Judge Parker, at Tacoma.
Mrs. Pitts is a young American
girl about 17 years old, and her
husband is a negro, aged 40. , Pitts
was cooking in a restaurant in As
toria during the summer of 1894,
and was a frequent visitor and a
Iriend of Mrs. Pitts father. Mrs.
Pitts alleges that one evening,
about a year ago, Pitta met her,
and, with threats forced her to go
aboard the steamer and journey to
Kalama,. where he frightened her
into marrying him before a justice
of the peace. He then brought her
to Tacoma, and kept her confined
in a room on D street, bringing her
meals to her. During his absence,
a short time afterwards, she escap
ed. Pitts went to British Colum
bia. DIVERSIFIED FARMING,
The Farmers of the Famous Grande
Ronde Taking up Modern Ideas.
; The farmers over in tho Grande
Ronde have quit trusting to luck
and wheat for a livelihood, and
propose to diversify the production
of their farms. They are now on
tho right road.
If there is one thing. more than
another that makes a country pros
perous it is diversified farming
says the Chronicle. Tho Grande
Ronde valley has been sadly neg
lected in that particular, and the
farmers have just begun to realize
the fact. Those who stick to wheat
alone are no better off today than
they were when they located hero,
while the very few, who have tried
a diversity of products, aro nicely
on their feet, so to speak, and the
future promises very bright for
them. However, the year 1895
has been of great and lasting ben
efit to the farmers of this valley as
H has thoroughly convinced them
that one-product farms do not pay
as handsomely as do tho farms up
on which a diversity of products
aro grown. One can look for a rev
olution in tho farming industry of
the valley. - Already numerous
farmers are communicating with
IT) Ba
Li VwnU
nurserymen, and improved live
stock breeders, with a view of plant
ing an orchard, and adding good
stock to their bands. Many who
have raised wheat, alone, are pre
paring to plant an orchard, buy
some good cattle and hogs and
raise enough vegetables to carry
them through the following year.
The Grande Ronde valley is far
famed for its fine etock and fertile
lands. It is also forging to the
front as a fruit-raising center, and
tho people who realize the import
ance of offering inducements to in
tending settlers, are becoming plen
tiful. There is no other country in
Oregon that can offer superior in
ducements for those who desire
diversified farming. ' .
A Dead Beat.
The editor of the Walla Walla
Statesman mournetb thusly:
"A well known attorney recently
introduced us to, as a good news
paper man, a fellow whose appear
ance indicated hard times, in fact
he was "down at the heel like a
Whitechapel bird catcher." . Wo
gave him a job at $45 per month on
the strength of his introduction,
took him to a restaurant and told
the proprietor to give him . all he
could eat, gave him an order for a
complete outfit from shoes to hat
and he appeared respectable. Ab
we had to leave home for a couple
of days we gave him instructions to
do the best ho could in newspaper
work. On our return we found
him getting over a lager beer booze,
not having done a thing since we
left. He was advised to get and
be mighty quick about it. and he
got, but not before he had stolen a ';
pistol belonging to his friend who
had introduced him. He went
over to Vansycle and climbing on a
wagon the pistol went off and shot
him through the hand. It is " a""
pity it did not kill him for he is a .
hobo and nothing else. Has papers ,
from military men", says he was
private secretary to General Sheri
dan, but he is a dead beat. He is now
in Eastern Oregon." V
One of the First Repeaters.
Commissary General Dunne, on
his recent tour of inspection of the
Oregon National Guard, secured in
Eastern Oregon an old rifle which
he considers tho father of the pres
ent repeating rifles. The rifle bears
the name of Porter, of New York
city, as the patentee, and 1851 as'
the year of its manufacture. It has
a revolving cylinder, like that of
the present revolver, with nine
chambers. It was made for pow
der and ball, and there was a place
at the side for a percussion cap,
which was struck by the hammer
when the trigger was pulled. After
a shot was fired the next chamber
was turned by touching a lever.
Sentences Passed by Judge Eakin.
In the Union court Saturday
Judge Eakin passed sentence upon
the following: John Williams and
E. J. Ross, each two years in tho
penitentiary for the larceny of a
gun; John Jackson and James
Whitney, each one year for tho
same offense; William Bennett one
year for cattle stealing; John Striek
er, fined $100 for larceny in a
dwelling. William Cuthbert was
found guilty of larceny of cattle,
and will be sentenced Monday.
PC
For Better Water.
Pendleton's city council and
major went gunning for a supply of
better water for the county Beat.
If reports are true, and no doubt
they are, Pendleton 5s seriously in
need of better water. Thorn Hol
low was visited by the council and '
they found there a sufficient sup
ply, so they think, for a gravity sys
tem. The water at that point flows
from springs, and of courso is pure.
The burden of labor is constant
ly being lightened by new inven
tions, but nothing has yet been
discovered to brighten the hours of
labor, and make life worth living
like Simmons Liver Regulator does.
It's tho King of Liver medicines.
A sluggish liver depresses one's
spirits and causes languor, besides
upsetting the whole system. But
Simmons Liver Regulator tones up
and strengthens the body.