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. A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY 1 It would bo big job to tell one hundred peoples day anything ttint t woulit interest them In yonr goods, but Its dettd easy it done the right J way. Thin paper will tell several thousand at once at nominal cost. I HENA V : NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND J In the week but that you do not need tt lonery of some sort or ol hpr t I Kow we furnish newt, clean printing at the very lowest rates. Mod- ! ern presses, modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. j - , f VOLUME 8. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON,' FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1895. NUMBER 48. AT If- J Thomas F, Wakes, Henry,', I'nyae, 11. . . j as, Receiver. . jWOIlTlIEiiJi;: PULLMAN ELEGANT TOURIST SLEEPING CARS DINING CARS SLEEPING CARS (at Paal Mtiiarnpolls . ltulHim . Fargo t tirand Forks roukalou Wlitniyeg Helena and . Bultc, s, . . .' f To THROUGH TICKETS. Cbleag riiilntletiibia Kew lark HuMob And All ' " Koiuu Eitl and Mtoth TIME SCHEDULE. .. , s Trains arrive every Wednesday at 11 a.' m.; and depart ut H:lo a. m. . For time cards, cards, maps and tickest, call on 6r write J. A. Mueirhead, Agent, Athena, Oregon. Or A. i. Charlton, Assistant Uenerul Passenger Ageul, 'HA Morrisou St. Cor. Third, Portland, Or ; E. MoNEILL, Receiver, , TO THE EAST Gives the choice of , ; TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTES GREAT . UHIOH HORTHERSI RY.PAGIFIG RY VIA , SPOKANE Minneapolis i AND ST. PAUL VIA ." DENVER OMAHA AND , KANSAS CITY Low Rates to all Eastern Cities. ' Ocean Steamers leave Portland , ' every 5 davs for . : ; SAN FRANCISCO : For full details call on 0. R.' fc N.-Agent, Athena. " f Or address: W. H. HURLBUT, Gen. Pass Agt. Portland. Oregon. , , . Furniture , i Did . You. Say?.--. Furniture - Just What JOHN S. BAKER, Tlic 2ndT Mfin of """"'"'Court Street, Pendleton, ' Sells so Cheap. .. ; THE ATHENA RESTAURANT J X !?? t MR3. HARLIN, Proprietress H. P. MILLEN. Manager. J fan be lecommended to the public as being first-class In every , particular. , We Employ ; s . , White help only, t . 3IE.VLS AT ALL HOURS I Mr. t rics a vream i.jj rewuti ' ' WotU' Fair tlifkwt Mdal uai DipiMM. OiJlio -l-.G LODtSK BIKECTWKT ' 4 1 F. ft A. M. NO. 80 MEETS THE TV. First and Tliird Saturday F.venings each month. Visiting bretheren cor iinlly invited to visit the lodge. 1 0. 0. F. NO. 73, MEETS EVERY Friday night. Visiting Odd Fellows n good standing always welcome. ' A 0. U. W. NO. 104, MEETS THE . Second and Fourth Saturdays of month,1 . Fred Rozenswieg, . Recorder, A THEN A CAMP, NO. 171, Woodmen of the World, meets 1st and 8rd Wednesdays of sach month. Visiting Choppers always wel come. ' G. C. Osburh, Clerli, , PYTHIAN, NO. 29, MEETS EVERY Thursday Night. , ' p 8, SHARP, t - i .' i j " Physician and Surgeon- 1 Calls promptly answered. Offlce on Third Btreet, Athena, Oregon. , : JjR. I. N. RICHARDSON, WrCKATlVK PROSTHETIC DENTIST. VTHENA, OREGON. E. DePeatt, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. ' , ' Athena, Ore. fendleton's..:. .i.. Advantage THE BOSTON STORE Co ) .0 Gets,the largest business because we keep the big ; : " gest an- best assortment, ' , 7 o 9 C) " - The readers of this paper-are respeotfully re. quested to Bpeak of this . f ! -I"- m. ad when in the Boston Store, to let us know how much good it does. o o o 9 CO 9 j 35C Will buy Table Linnen, worth ; Cflp (Special value to close) UU 12ic for all colors in 16 27C for a Ladies' Jacket ' m or, if you wi: ! you 9 9 9 35c China Silk, all colors 35c, 12ic Plaid goods, (dark colors) children's dresses 12i 25c 2 spools knitting silk 25c 25c Children's underwear, any siae per suit, 50c 35c Ladies' Underwear, any size per suit, 70c COLORED PLUSnES FOR FANCY WORK, EM BROIDERY SILK, STAMPED LINENS. .9 O) 9 (9 th BOSTON STORE THE FARMER'S Meat Market - . . . The place to get your fresh !, jl All kinds of smoked meats. ....Beef, Veal, Pork and Jt Hams lard and Bacon... Mutton. Fish in season. V f The very best of Sausages J. BREHM, Proprietor, Atriena; Oregon. or regulator7 Reader, did you ever take Simmons IdVEB Regulator, the "Kino of Liver Medicines?" Everybody needs take a liver remedy. It is a Bluggieh 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 Pells. It does not gripe, nor weaken, but greatly refreshes and strengthens. Every package lias the Red Z stamp on the wrapper. J, H. Zeilin & Co. , Philadelphia. The following items are of iter erest: It is not our de sire to offer inferior goods . . at rediculously low. prices, but the goods you want at LOWEST CASH PRICES We sell at 25o per yard, Dress Goods in all colors, that last year sold for 35c. We sell at64o Henrietta that in 18lMt sold at $1. or 22 size Ribbon 12 Jc :n, 23.50 wish a Sealskin, fi b fl taA HE KILLED M'KERCHER. That Much Young Montgomery Has . - Confessed to.-; " All doubt of the guilt of Lloyd Montgomeroyj accused, of committ ing the triple murder near Browns ville, was' removed Sunday after noon, when he made a partial con fession to Sheriff McFeron. The prisoner was sharply questioned by the sheriff, ' when , the officer , told him he might as well tell the truth' about the matter, the prisoner be gan crying, and said: ' ' , "Come inside and I will' tell you all about it." ' . : " ' : - The sheriff went into the cell, and young Montgomery told a brief disconnected story, broken with fits of weeping. He said:. : "Wbeu , Gilkey, the hopbuyer, drove away from the house, father and McKercher were standing by the picket fence,' in front of the house, talking about ; some money which father ; owed McKercher. This was only afew dollars. Direet ly after Gilkey left, McKercher asked for a drink of water. I took him around to the ; back porch where the well is and got it for him. He then went through the house, aa I suppose where father was. While I was taking a drink of wat er I heard a rifle shot. I , ran into the house and ; met; mother. She cried: " ' '' ; "McKercher has shot pa, and is shooting at mej'run for, your life. ' "I ran to get the gun, but found it gone. I then ran but of the back door and started around to the front yard, where McKercher was shooting He saw me comingand shot once at me,' but didn't hit me, and I grabbed the gun and shot him in the head as he turned around. He had killed father and mother and I' had to do it.', I then ran from the house, into the field. My first thought was to get away. I was afraid ueoDle , would ; think : I had done all the killing. Just then the school children came along, and I went to the house with them. The rest is just as I told it before. ' I got on : to McKercher's horse and went and notified the neighbors." "' Young Montgomery further said that he left the rifle on McKercher's body to create the impression that he had killed Montgomery and his wife and then committed suicide, Officers place no credence in his story, beyond the admission of his own guilt They claim there is abundance of evidence to show con clusively that the prisoner killed both his father and mother and McKercher, which this confession only strengthens. Tuesday young Montgomery made another confession. "If I only had it to do over again ; 1 don't know why I did it," he said weeping bitterly. "Father and I were quarreling, He was going after me for staying away from home and McKercher sided in with him in abusing me, Father had always treated me mean and I worked hard all my life. He asked me where I, had been and I told him I had been hunting; then he elaped me and told me to go out and put some wood. 1 was so angered that I rushed into the house and got the rifle and came out at the kitchen door and began shooting at father and McKercher. I shot father first, and then at Mc Kercher, but missed him. I ran around toward the frout door and shot him as he entered the house. Mother was running away from me through the house. After I got to shooting I just kept on and shot them all." DON'T WANT THE EARTH, A Walla Walla Man who Simply Would Like a Portion of It. J. McCraith, who lives at Walla Walla, Wash., has written a sensa tional letter to attorney "A. II. Ricketts, of San Francisco. He writes Ricketts asking him to be come his lawyer in some land liti gation, he has in view. His, pros pective client claims all the land in Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho, and disputes with the English government the ownership of British Columbia. At y great length Mr. 'McCraith asserts that all the mineral and agricultural lands of the Northwest, together with all rivers and harbors, are his by deeds direct from the Indians. Years ago he claims that his uncle, McCraith by name, paid the In dians $25,000,000 for the North west country, and got a title as large as a blanket when he paid over the money. ' The uncle, he says, died several years ago, leaving him all the prop erty, , He insists that the will whs probated in the San Francisco courts five or sixyears ago. Among i ins needs and documents he finds some that he thinks give hiui a good claim for all the land in Brit ish Columbia. He therefore wants Ricketts to at once begin . proceed ings in the courts to 6et aside Eng land's title, and have her claims properly set forth. . Should , the United States object to his title in the Northwest, he wants Ricketts to legally knock out its pretentions. Mr. Ricketts has informed Mc-, Craith that in his humble way he is sure he could not handle" the case in a manner which would mee his rosy expectations about the' great properties. V ' :' An Old Timer. 1 K' A:: Linn, the pioneer of Wal lula, greeted his old Walla Walla friends the othor day, pays the Statesman. Mr. Linn was one of the first settlers 1 of old Wallula. and can entertain listeners by the hoar in reciting reminiscences of early pioneer life in the days when steamboats landed at Wallula and freight was hauled fiora that point for hundreds of miles. Mr. Linn hap a rare collection of Indian rel ics, such aa Indian arrows, spear heads, beads, pipes, mallets, toma hawks, Indian ornaments, i etc. Many of these curios1 were washed by highwater from the old Indian graveyard on the bank of the Co lumbia near the mouth of the Wal la Walla, i ' f ,; y - It is a rare treat for the tender foot to be present at the meeting of oldtimers, like Mr. Linn and Chas. Painter, -' for instance,' and hear them account their experiences in the early days when the streets of Walla Walla were i Indian trails and cow-paths, and the yell of the coyote and the war hoop of the savage often disturbed the slum bers of the inhabitants. ' ; ' The early history of the Walla Walla valley would make a book of thrilling interest, and some one should be found to writo it while the old landmarks are still with us. Horrible If True. A strange story comes ' from Huntsville, naar Ogden.. It is that two little children . went to the chicken coop. One reached into a darkened nest for the eggB. The child drew back with a cry of pain, something sharp , aa a needle had struck it on t,he finger. The other child then reached its chubby hand into the same place, it. too, fell back with a shriek of pain. The mother, hearing their cries, put down her babe and run to the res- cue. i While she was away the babe L foil ints thfl iitaII nrA .li.Aii.Hnrl 1 'V iuiv viid iTca uuu nuo uiuvriigy( The two children also !died. They had been bitten by . a rattle snake that lay coiled upon the warm eggs in the nest. , ' - ' Where is Andy Prown, Andrew Brown, well known in the Granite cref-k country, says the La Grmde Chronicle, has not been heard from for some time and his many friends have some fear for hia safety. When he left Granite he did not intimate leaving the country, and the fact that ho own ed mining property in that section, precludes the possibility , of hia leaving without telling his inten tion to do 60.- Where he is or why he left la an enigma. His friends fear that he has met with foul play. When he left Granite he had some money and grave feara are now en tertained for his safety. , Just Sol -In court room a lawyer may call a witness a liar, tcoundrel, villianjor a thief, and no one make complaint when the court adjourns, says the Bradford Record. If a newspaper print3 . Btich a reflection on a man's character there is a libel suit or perhaps a dead editor.- This is owing to the fact that the people believe what the editor says; what the lawyer says cuts no figured Absolutely True. ! It is currently whispered that Mrs. white cleaning house, asked her husband to nail up gome : he refused; she looked at him: told him that his conduct was with out a , then beat him with herffiT" until be saw . He now lies in a,tose state, and may soon be a fit subject for hisdisg. , A man must be an his life in that way and put a . to his existence. The lift of Women. Constipation, causes more than half of thejlte of women. : Karl's Clover Root Tea ia a pleasant cure for Constipation. Highest of all in Leavening W C7 SYMES FOUND GUILTY. Convicted of Murder in the First De ' gree." ' The jury in the case of Alfred J. Symes at Ritzville, charged with the murder of Constable Coulee, brought in a: verdict Saturday at midnight of murder in the first de gree. The counsel for the defendant moved for an' arrest of judgment. The prisoner took the verdict quiet ly, making absolutely no demons tration, but his : face was deathly pale. - . ' ... ',. , ,. , i " (June 27, 1895, Constable L.' A. Conlee, was taking Alfred J. Symes to Ritzville, . Wash., Jo answer a charge of stealing hogs. ; When within three miles of the town, bymes pulled out a revolver, which he had concealed in his chaps, and, telling Conlee that his time had come, began, as Symes said, "pump ing! led, into him." He kept on "pumping" until all the shots were fired from ' hia revolver. Symes then made hia way out of Wash ington, and , across Idaho, into Montana.'- There he was given em ployment '.on a. ' ranch , tending sheep. , The owner of the ranch saw a description of Symes in a newspaper. - One day he caught Symes when off his guard and knocked him down with a billet of wood, securely tied him up and afterwards turned hiui over to the authorities, who brought him back to Ritzville. i At the time of Symes capture, a fairy tale was toll how a lynching party was formed to string him up, but were prevailed upon by the murderer's sweetheart to give him a chance in court.) : Oregon Annual Gold Output. : The Oregon Mining Journal, a new venture in Southern Oregon, has the following mining news: No accurate data can be had with which to solve the question as to the annual gold output f the etate of Oregon. From the best data ob tainable, however it approximates $2,000,000. -,Tho difficulty in reach ing a conclusion' -arises from the fact that the gold is shipped out to difi'erentiparts of the country, and by dtS'erent channels. Much of it goes by 'express and some by mail. Nordata is to be had from which to 8certain the amount , shipped through the postoflice. Again, much of the gold product of the state goes to the Shelby Smelting company, at San Francisco, where it ultimately reaches the mint and ia credited , to California. About $1,000,000 ia annually produced in Southern Oregon. About $1G0,000 ia annually sold to the bank and merchants at Grant's Pass. , : A Human Goose. An Oregon sportsman ia getting ready to exterminate the wild geese of this country. , He ia having a rubber suit manufactured with a head piece that will be an exact imitation of a goose, and magnify ing glasses for his eyes. Thi& man will float along, with his entire body concealed and only , the goose in sight. When he gets among a flock of wild geese ho will sidle along up catch hold of the feet of the geese and pull them under and drown them. He thinks in this way he will bo able to catch every goose he goes foi trade. and supply , the retail A Promising Young Life Cut Off. Word has been received by Mrs. 0. W, Brunton of this city that her brother, Stanley -Egbert of South Bend was drowned while fishing in Oysterville Bay on November 14. Stanley Egbert; was the Bon of Marion D. Egbert, for several years one of the proprietors of the Walla Walla Journal. It appears that he started in a small boat on a fish ing excursion on Wednesday, of last week, and has not been heard from since. Walla Walla States man. . .-, Locked in Vault. A few days ago a couple went to the city cemetery, sayB the Walla Walla Statesman, and in courso of wandering about came to Mr. Stur gis' vault. They went in and for the "fun of the thing" closed the door. Now this door has a com bination lock and it was not long Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report no 1 v" before the lady and gentleman found that they were locked in the vault. The lady began to cry and yell, while the young man gave his attention to the combination of the door. ,He soon found that the lock would not give way to his entrea ties, ajid aa the air was not any too plentiful he, too, became frightened and gave vent to yells not calculat ed to be in harmony with a vault. Hearing a faint sound proceeding from the vicinity of the vault as he chanced to pass that way, the sex ton liberated the couple, who were about half choked for the want of air. "They won't go there any more." Genino Pardoned. On Saturday Gov. McGraw granted a pardon toEremino Geni no, an Italian, who was under a life sentence for a murder commit ted in Skamania county about 14 years ago. The impression has long prevailed that Genino was an innocent man, the victim of per jured testimony. At the time of his trial he Could not speak a word of English, and was at a great disad vantage in defending, himself against the crime charged against him. ' It seems that the body of a man riddled with bullets was found hidden under a pile of brush and leaves in the woods. Several wit nesses conspired to fasten the crime on the helpless Genino, who made no effort to escape. The prisoner has now served thirteon years and three months. , , : Fell 68 Feet. A fatal accident happened at the Cascade Locks Friday evening about 7:30 o'clock.. Charlea Mor rill, a laborer upon the works, had been drilling a hole in the rock, making ready for a blast ,tobe set off -He began to walk away from where he had been working,-rid . had gone a. distance of about fifty feel," when he stepped into a vaive shaft, and fell a distance of fifty-six feet.. He vva3 instantly killed. The valve shaft is a small aperture in the mason work extending from the top of the wall to the bottom of the canal. Mr. Morrill was aged about 40 years, and leaves a family to mourn hia sudden death. All Recommend It. 4 Ask your physician, your drug gist and your frienda about Shiloh'a Cure for "Consumption. They will recommend it. Took Away His Tipple. Many whiskey-to-Indian cases were held in Walla Walla last week, at which some astonishingly queer evidence was adduced. The trial of one Louia Watson was brief, Watson took the stand testified that on his way to North Yakima one day two Indiana had over powered him and robbed him of a bottle of whiskey. Hia story was evidently not believed by the jury for they were only a few minnte8 in finding a verdict of guilty. ' Hasklns Arraigned. Hank Haskins, who was arrest by Constable Heuipel at La Grande last Saturday, was arraigned yester day in Justice Staffen'8 . court in Baker City, charged with the seri ous crime of assault and robbery, being ' armed with a dangerous weapon. The young man is charg ed with holding up a Chinamen near that city about two weeks ago. The Mongolian was relieved of up wards of $100. : .A Eact Worth Knowing. Constipation, LaGrippe, Pneu monia, and all Throat and Lung Diseases are cured by Shiloh'a Cure. - . The Miscreant Caught. The miscreant who has been burning hay in the vicinity of Mitchell and antelope has been caught in the act. Hia namo ia Tom Lewis, and is held in $500 bonda to appear before the grand jury- - -, it Saves Lives Every Day. Thousand of cases or Consump tion. Aa bad Cougha, Colds and Croup are cured every day by Shil ho's Cure. f J ', fe t J SI