The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, October 25, 1895, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textr" 1 A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY NOT ONE DAY CVN BE FOUND t In the wpek but that you do not need stationery of some sort orother t I Now wc rurnixb nent, clean printing at Ibe very lowest rates. Mod- J T era presses, modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. ' t It would b big Job to tell one himdred people day anything that T would Interest -them In your goods, but Us dead eauy if done the right J ' way. Thin paper will tell several thousand at once at nominal cost. I VOLUME 8. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 25, 1S95. NUMBER 43. HLENA Thomas F. ttmrj Payaet U. C. JilOIFiG R U ::: N S PULLMAN ELEGANT, TOURIST SLEEPING CARS DINING OARS SLEEPING CARS St Paul Mlaneapeu Italutb Farg tiraad Forks 4 rovkstou Winnipeg llelrmt and Italic, 1 THROUGH TICKETS. TO f!Iileng' . Washington fhlladelphla New lork ' ' Kostoa A ad All folate East and oth TIME SCHEDULE. Trains arrive every Wednesday at 11 a. m., and depart at 11:16 a. in. For time cards, cards, maps and tickest, call on or write J. A. Mueirhead, Agent, Athena, Oregon. Or A. 1). Charlton, Assistant Ueneral Passenger Agent, 255 Morrison St. Oor. Third, Portland, Or mio E. MoNEILL, Receiver. TO THE EAST ; f Gives the choice of TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTES GREAT UNION NORTHERN RY.PAGIFIG RY VIA- . . VIA . SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS DENVER OMAHA J: s AND AND ST. PAUL KANSAS CITY Low Rates to all Eastern ' j V Cities. , i ' : Ocean Steamers leave Portland ; every 5 days for -; -; SAN FRANCISCO For fall details call on 0. R. & N. Agent, Athena. Or address: W. H. HUBLBUT, Gen. Pass Agt-Portland.' Oregon. Furniture : "Diet ' ..... ; . ' You Say? Furniture Is , Just What . JOHN S. BAKER, The 2nd Man of ' Court Street, ; Pendleton, Sells so Cheap. t Tiir irurui DrcTillDlUT IliL. milkim HLuinwiiniu MRS. HARDIN, Proprietress. : : : H. P. MILLEN, Manager; ; !tr : v Can be recommended to the public as being first-clam in every particular. ; nr : We .' Emnloy White help only. X MEALS AT ALL HOURS Dr. Pake's Cream Baking Powder LOR B1KGCTORT A i F. & A. M. NO. 80 MEETS THE 1.. First and Third Saturday F.veniugs jf each month. Visiting bretheren cor iially invited to visit the lodge. 10. a F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY , Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows n good standing always welcome. , O'MJ. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE Second and Fourth Saturdays of month. Fred Rozenswieg, Recorder.'' A THENA CAMP, NO. 171, Woodmen of the jach month. Visiting Choppers always wel come. . O. C. OSBURN, Clerk, PYTHIAN, NO. 29, MEETS EVERY Thursday Night. P 8, SHARP, Physician and Surgeon. Calls promptly answered. Office on Third Btreet, Athena, Oregon. D1 R. I. N. RICHARDSON, OI'ERATIVE FKOSTIIKTIC WKXTIST. VTHENA, - - OREGON. E.DePeatt. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Athena, Ore. Painter Jul C. W. Chapman . Of Thirty Years Experience, is Desireous of Locating in Athena. - -. - - - Sign and Buggy painting. Charges to suit the hard times. .A.. J". PAEKEB, Proprietor of c ,TT1.Tir, , THE ELECTRIC BARBER SHOP. ILAIRCUTTING r . SHAMPOOING, HAIRSINGING, In Latest Styles. - I: HOT OR COLD WATER BATHS, 25 CENTS. FIRST ;NM0Ek BENE. 0F1THENH, Pays L. D. W. P. LEACH, -- -SUCCESSOR TO . -N. A. MILLER, THE ,' LEADING FURNITURE DEALER I ig' mm public HAMIUTON & ROURKE OO. 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, SIM MOM 3 REGULATOR J Keader, did you over take Simhons Liveb Regulator, the "Kino of LrvEit Medicines?" Everybody needs take a liver remedy. It is a 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 better than Pills. It does not gripe, nor weaken, but greatly refreshes and strengthens. ' Every package has the Red Z stamp on the wrapper. J. H. Zeiliu & Co., Philadelphia. All Jobs . . . . t Entrusted to him will be J 1 At uone nouesiiy and in best of Style . . . . Satisfaction is guaranteed in all his Work. Plain and decorative paper hanging, house '11-,' .l-M ( f n ' q-1 5 v' South side Main Street. CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, - $ 50000 $21,000 Interest on time deposits. Proper attention given to collections. Deals in foreign and domestic exchange. Lively. Cashier, Athena, Oregon YOU BUY SACKS OR SELL CRASH. - Athena, Oregon. FROM SOUTH AFRICA. An Interesting Letter From an Oregon Man Who Went There. In a letter to E. II. Pagnello, Lakeview, Mr. Mark E. Cary says of South Africa: "I am sorry that I cannot offer you any encourage ment to come to Africa. While it may be very bad in the United States, at the same time it would probably be worse for you here un less you had money, then' you would be all O. IC There . is no questidn but Africa is at . present the best place in the world after once getting a start, but to come here without money I do think you would miss it. There are already here hundreds of men walking the streets out of employment and money, men who could go behind a bank counter and hold any posi tion but the supply is greater than the demand. ' f ; t "The country is a gfanef couutry and one that is steadily making itself famous for its wonderful re sources. Last month the output of gold from the Watwatesra'nd was larger than ever before, i2UU,y41 ozs., and the mines in nearly every case are improving as they go down. They now have in the course ot er ectionthe largest stamp mill in the wprld, and when they begin work ing on deep levels there will be a demand for double the number of men employed. A good miner or millright, carpenter, stone mason, brick-mason or mechanic in that line can demind good wages, but for clerks, bookkeepers or that sort there is absolutely nothing. Not. withstanding that I would like very much to see you and my friends, I would never in the world advise you to come unless you had at least $500 when you reach here, then you could bide your time and watch your chances. Living is very high. It costs me $75 per month aside from laundry and sun dry expenses, and I can't say that I live in an extravagant way in the least, but you can see from that unless you have money or fort unate enough to drop into some thing it soon eats a hole in a few hundred dollars. .'I may be com pelled to go to America next year to buy goods in case I do I will go to Altura?. r$ ' Regarding" fare and Voute, the best route would be from New Yoi k to London, $40, from London to Cape Town $131.50, from Cape Town here $36.50, then you can add about one-third for sundry or Incidental expenses, It is a beau tiful trip and one you would enjoy very much." THE POTLATCH COUNTRY, A Young Farmer Tel Is of Its Resources and Advantages. " Henry James, a young Umatilla county farmer, passed through Ath ena Tuesday on his return from the Potlatch country, Idaho, where he has decided to locate. Mr. James goes back to the Potlatch in about three weeks. His account of this comparatively new and undevelop ed region may interest some of our readers, and is therefore given in the Peess. "I have been located in the neighborhood of Pierce City, a small but lively town. There they have had spienid crops this season, principally of flax and wheat, the flax proving very . profitably. Of this product twenty to thirty bush els per acre were raised, and the price has ranged from $1 to $1.25 per bushel. The wheat crop was bigj but the low price of course lessened the profit to farmers. "I think the soil in the Potlatch is richer than any other I have seen in this western country." Farmers are in better circumstan ces, too, for they -raise a diversity of products. Fruits and vegetab les are grown with great success. Climate and conditions are much different than in the grain raising regions hereabouts. The falls are very wet, but farmers are enabled to harvest their crops by building sheds over the stacked grain. Im mediately after harvesting plowing commences, and it is now in active progress. A good opportunity ia offered home-seekers, as the coun try is not thickly settled as yet. while nearly all the best agricultu ral land has been taken, a large amount of good grazing and timber land is yet vacant. . "There are promising mining re sources, also. Mines in the Pierce City and Clearwater districts are being actively developed, and when the season opens in the spring I think there will be a good demand for men, many of whom are em ployed. Supplies are freighted to i Pierce City from Julietta, the near est railroad station, a distance of forty-five miles. For about two months, during high water, the river is navigable." Will Close Down. The Grande Ronde Lumber Co., which has extensive yards at Perry and. aho own a large mill there, will suspend operations sometime during the coming week by-closing down their mill. This is only done for the winter as they have an enor mous stock of lumber on hand to fill all orders and they will turn their attention to getting in logs for next summer's run. This com pany has a mill with all modern equippments. They own and oper ate an electric light plant which furnishes lipht for the town of Per ry as well as the company's mill and yards. The mill is equipped with the latest machinery and is capable of turning out thousands oT feet ot lumber in a day. ' NEW RACING CIRCUIT, Will Take In Pendleton and Several Other Good Towns. During the state fair at Salem, the horseman held a meeting to discuss the racing outlook for an other season. Many prominent horsemen were present and took a lively interest in the proceedings, It was finally decided that a cir cuit, comprising Oregon, Washing ton and Idaho should be organized and to be called the North Pacific Racing Association, and a commit tee of five was elected as central committee, with headquarters at Portland. Those elected were Van B. DeLashmutt, M. D. Wisdom, Charles Woods, A. G. Ryan and bam Jones, lhis committee will meet shortly and will formulate a set of rules under which the dif ferent race meetings will work. The place spoken of as most like ly to give meetings are The Dalles, Pendleton, La Grande, Baker City, Walla Walla, Dayton, Colfax, Lew iston, Moscow, Spokane, Yakima. Tacoma and Victoria for the upper country, and Hillsboro, McMinn ville, Independence Albany, Eu gene, Salem, Portland and Van couver for the lower and southern circuit. A committeeman will be appoint ed at eash of these places by the central committee, whose duty it will be to organize local clubs in their respective towns, who will then place themselves in communi cation with headquarters. ; , Uncle Sam Rich in Land There are some people who be lieve that the United States, once the greatest land dealer and land owner in the world, is gradually retiring from business. This is a mistake. Uncle Sam still owns of land, surveyed and unsurveyed, nearly 60,000,000 acres, and in'dis p03ing of this will no doubt be do ing business at the old stand for a great many years to come. The transaction of general land offices have, perhaps, fallen off during the past few years, but there is still enough public land not taken up to require the attention of a depart ment of the government for a long time to come. A Peculiar Proof. Mrs. Emily A. Beard of Elgin made final proof in support of the claim of her late husband. Mr. Francis Beard gave notice some time ago that he intended to make final proof, but about October 1st he died. Now comes the widow and is completing the title to the land. This is the first case of this kind that has ever come before the local land office. Of course she will have no difficulty in getting a patent, yet a certificate of the death ot her husband, and proof that she is the wife, are absolutely neces sary. - Fruit Going East. The fruit that was on exhibition at the Spokane fruit fair, and which is in condition to ship, will be tak en charge of by the Northern Pa cific, Great Northern, and 0. R. & N. railway companies. . They will take the fruit' east and exhibit it at different places. - ,- The Northern Pacific is equipp ing a traveling exhibit car with Walla Walla and Potlatch fruits, a large quantity of which will be un der glass. " Editor J. L. Montgomery, of Mar shall, III. Democrat, states that for many years, he suffered untold ag ony from ; Dyspepsia. t last he began to take Ayer's Sarsaparilla, and by the time he had used six bottles, he was as well as ever. Cures others, will euro you. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report mm DOILaiEH.rJ PUCE PERHAPS SHE PERISHED. It is Now Thought the Mil ler Child was Not Abducted. All the people of Eaf tern Oregon will remember how Mr. Miller, liv ing then at Summerville, made such diligant search to find his little daughter, Alma Gladys Miller, who disappeared three years ago. At the time of the child's disap pearance hundreds of people turned out and scoured the mountain fast ness, but no clue, however Bniall or insignificant was brought to light. The father, who at the time had a goodly portion of the world's goods, has spent a fortune in searching for his lost child, and the mother, it is said, 6howsthe marks of sorrow and grief, in the lines ou her face and her hair has turned to whiteness since that evening three long years ago, when her daughter left her, never to return again. The Miller family have held to the belief that the child was abduct ed by a band of gypsies, who were camped in the neighborhood of their home about the time the little girl disappeared. In consequence of this belief, officers all ever the coun try have kept an eye on every band of gypsies who have appeared, but little Alma Gladys Miller has never been found in their company, though on two occasions the father has made long journeys and had his hopes blasted by false reports. It is now thought, and in all probabilty it is so, that the little child became lost and perished in the mountains surrounding her home. Lately, a skull and some bones were found at the baso of Mt. Em ily, four miles from where the little girl disappeared three years ago. The place where the skull was found is about four miles from where the child dissappeared, and the condition of the bones and all other circumstance sems to give color to the theory that the child was not stolen, bat wandered from home and perisned. A. further investigation is to be made in the vicinity whore the skull was found to seo if some other evidence can be discovered that will throw furth er light upon the mystery. HE WAS "FLY.' A Walla Walla Paper Talks of John P. Pickerel. Pickerel, mention of whom was mado in the Pkess last week, as be ing hld to appear before the U. S. grand jury, for taking a draft from another person's letter, seems to be rather a foxy fellow, generally. It seems that he had a gay time in Walla Walla on the money which he is now held to answer for, and that he has other scrapes to hia record" in the past. The Walla Walla Statesman says of him: "Pickerel, who is an ex-convict, having served, it is said, two terms in the penitentiary, has recently been having a big time on other people's money. Early last week he came to Walla Walla in com pany with a young lady, whom he evidently met on the train and had made himself very agreeable, leav ing the impression upon the young lady that he was a very nice man. A few days ater a brother of the young lady in question came to tho city and applied to. tho police for help to locate his sister, stating that she was in company with this man Pickerel, whoso reputation he stat ed was anything but the best. Sub sequently, however, Marshal Ames had been notified to" look out' for Pickerel, although at tho time the charge of forgery had not been filed against him. The officers and the brother soon located the fair maid en and her relative took her in charge. This man Pickerel, it was found, had so far gained the confi dence of the girl that he had secur ed all the money she had, which amounted to quite a few dollars. "Next day after the brother and sister left for their home, a small town in Oregon,Marshal Bentley ar rived in the city, having a warrant for the arrest of Pickerel on a charge of forgery. Pickerel could not be found and it was evident that he had left for other quarters. It was found that he had gone to Lew iston and thither the United States ft Marshal proceeded, successfully capturing Pickerel,", x 1 Old Time Prices. The Delamar Nugget has been presented with a bill for gooda sold in Silver City in 1866. It is inter esting because the items charged show the prices then prevailing, and several of the persons running accounts at the store are well re membered and some of them Btill residing in the county. Here are some of the items charg ed: ' ' To 2 brooms.'. ... ... . ... . .$ 5 00 To 1 bar soap 1 00 To 1 lb tea..! 2 00 To 9 lb sledge hammer. . . . . 9 90 To 1 boxsoap., 16 00 To 3 lb nails......... 1 50 To 105 lbs sugar.. 52 50 Tol sack salt..... 1 00 To 1 sack flour 16 00 To lean lard 7 50 To doz. glass jellies. ... . . 9 00 Thus we can see when the miners in 1866 indulged in such luxuries as soap and sugar they had to pay well for them. THE JENNING ESTATE. Particulars of the Vast Property Ore- 1 gon Heirs Are Expecting. Items continue to appear from time to time concerning a vast es tate belonging to an English fam ily of the name of Jennings, heirs to which are in Oregon and Wash ington. The most direct and au thentically established succession in this part of the country is said to be that of tho late Berryman Jennings, of Jennings landing, on the Willamette river between Port- land and Oregon City, says the Ore- gonian. I he estate is supposed to be worth something like $80,000, 000. Two of the heirs, through Berryman Jennings, are his daugh ters, Mra. John W. Miller, of Port land, and Mrs. Major Frank Hodg kin, Salem. Thin Riihior.t h.ia nrfiatorl miiph sensation and inquiry on both sides of the Atlantic for more than half a century. Many conventions have been held and committees appoint ed that have led to an extensive correspondence. . ' ' The case has lately been investi gated by several leading English barristers, who have brought facts to light that will clear up tho pedi grees of the American families, and recent developments brought fourth by several suits now pending in England, between two noble fami lies, for the right of administration to the vast estate, which has reach ed in value the enormous sum of $80,000,000, hag proved beyond all doubt that the heirs are not to be found in England, and that the de cendants of John Jennings, who came to Fredericksburg, Va., from Whiteheaven, in 1754; Thomas Jennings who died in Louisa coun ty, Virginia; a John Jennings, born in England in 1723, and whose heirs are in America, and John Jennings, who is supposed to have immigrated from England with William Penn, are the true heirs, and to whom this estate will final ly bp distributed. 4 ' - . . A Boy Bear Hunter. 'Arthur Evers, an 18-year-old hunter, brought to Walla Walla lately tho choise3t meat from ft big, brown bear, thought to weigh in tho neighborhood of 400 pounds. Arthur had gone to tho Salmon river mountains, about forty miles from Walla Walla, with two other young hunters, Miles Kyger and Fay LcGrow, but the glory of kill ing a bear happened to fall to him self alone. No people suffer so much from physcial disabilities as those whose business requires little or no mus cular exertion. The lack of exer tion causes the liver to. become sluggish and the result is constant Constipation, Indigestion, Bilious ness and Sick Headache. To pre vent this take SimmoiiB Liver Reg ulator; it keeps the- liver active and make one's condition as com fortable as those who have much exercise. When your watch needs cleaning or repairing take it to Hill, the jeweler.