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GhOOID JOB "WTOIUg: YEET LCW PEIOBS. r r A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND j It wouM be ahlirlnb to tell one hundred peoplca day anything lht woubl Interest Hum In mr fttxHtu, but Us dsd if done thermit In I he week but Umt you do not need stationery of nomeimrt or other t Now we furnish neat, clean printing at Ihe very lowest rales. Mod- J em presses, nuxlrrn types, modern work, prompt delivery. J T way.. Tikln uuiwt win tell tuousanu m uuct b uuuui vv. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 7, 1S96. NUMBER 6. VOLUME IX. SIMMONS .REGULATOR Reader, did you ever take Simmons Lives Regulator, the "Kino ob LiyEB 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. 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Parker Makes Sugges tions on the Subject. LETTER FROM SCOTLAND Concerning Planting and liar vesting of Flax. Frank J. Parker, editor of the Walla Walla Statesman, furnished the Sunday Oregonian with follow ing article on llax culture, which may be of interest to our farmer friends; '. v . V ; Walla : Walla, Jan- 30. To the Editor. In view of the inter est now being taken, in Hax culture for fiber, as well an seed, I incloee you an article I received some years ago, which is more pertinent than ever. On teveral occasions I have gone to the expense of importing flaxseed for fiber from California and distributed it among the farm ers east of the Cascades, but with the exception of one man who in formed me it made firstrate poul tices that was all the returns made me. The honorable exception from Puget Sound was the late George Shannon, of Olympia, who consis tently raised all I sent him in 1888 I exhibited it in his name at the Portland exhibition that year, and he received a Bilver medal, I sent samples of this flax, fully four feet high, to Belfast and Dundee for ex amination. They replied there was a market there for '.. hundreds of thousands of acres of such flax, for "it was superior to that raised in the best French and German dis tricts." My idea on the subject is that while the average farmer will raise anything he can get a price for, he cannot be expected, and will not take the trouble to prepare it for a market because he has not had the experience, .ihe alternative, there fore is a small company wrth the machinery mentioned in the article to whom the small farmer or ex perimenter can send his flax after "rippling," for then he can save the bolls for bis own use for stock, etc. It should be understood that the flax as commonly grown for peed alone is not the best; but seed for fiber is easily obtained in Cali fornia at about the" price of the common varielv. As I ha ve known scores of prom ising enterprises m this country fail for want of proper manage ment, let me impress upon every one who would like to take a hand in creating an industry that will bring comfort to thousands event ually, not to allow any trio to un dertake the management, but io employ a man who has bad the necessary experience. Also, when it is started, pay the producer such prices that will encourage him and his neighbors to keep going ahead and 'raise more every succeeding year. Frank J.- Parker. The article refeired to by Col. Parker is as follows. -It is in the form of a letter from Dundee. Scotland, and is signed "David II. Saunders:" Dundee, Scotland, Sept. 2, 1887. Dear Sir. You ask me about flax culture. I am now engaged in conducting an experime-t from .Messrs. Carmichael & Dalghigh They are the largest tiaxspinners in Britain. In days gone by every small farmer in Scotland grew a little flax. When wheat rose to 70s a quarter and our farmers here displaced, the most of our flax was imported from Russia. The very great prosperity of tha jute tiade here also led the naxspmners to develop that industry. But now, when owing to the very low price of silver, a rupee is purchaoed for Is 5d, instead of 2s or 23 Id, India gives us wheat at prices hich has forced down the prices to 28s to 30s a uuarter for wheat, it raav be in teresting to your farmers to show exactly how this operates. man wishes to buy wheat in India. First of all he buys silver. Now if 17 pen;e gold can buy a silver ru pee while before it took 24d to buy as much silver, and if this silver rupee still buys as much wheat as ever in India, it follows that from this one cause there is a vast fall in the price of wheat in London. Add to this the fact that the trans port has been made very easy and that day by day India is opening up. it' follows that the American farmers has no to compete against the Indian grower. The British consumer gains, for he can now buv twice as much wheat for the same money as he gave before. Nor is it the quantity that come from India which is so important. ' It is the fact that it is offered which compels the American producer to lower his price. He has now, there fore, to sell his products at the price which the Indian grower will sell, and to buy all he needs in the dearest market in the world. When all clothing, tools and furn ishings are absurdly raised in price for thenjiirichment of small classes, and this at the cost of the fanners, who are shut out from baying in the cheap markets, in which, how ever, they are compelled to sell their wheat. For these and other reasons it would seem of the utmost impor tance to the Scotch farmer, us well as to the American, that new trades should be encouraged, against which India cannot so readily com pete. Flax ia precisely suited to your country. It grows it now. only the most valuable part of the crop is wasted. I will as shortly as I can show , the whole process, and it is so simple that, like sun shine, it is realy difficult to de scribe: "In Scotland, then, we choose clean land in good health. Peas, oats, then flax does best. We keep the land as free from weeds as pos sible, as the weeding of flax is cost ly. Land in river bottoms, land moist and dampish, land which grows gocd, long grass is best for flax. The land should be fine mold, and, after being ploughed and harrowed, should be rolled flat to obliterate all trace of the drills. The flax should be sown in April, just a little after oats. The seed should be carefully tested, 100 should be counted, sown upon a wet, moist rag, and if 75 per cent germinate 2-J bushels will be re quired for an acre; if 85 per cent the two bushels or a little more is sufficient. The flax should be sown broadcast on the rolled field, then slightly harrowed. It will show thick on the ground, and in Scotland," we weed it. : But good farmers are able to have their land in such condition that they do not require to spend much on weeding. When flax is ripe it will show yel low half way up the stalk. It should not be allowed to be dead ripe. Note well that the flax should not be in drills, but should stand close together, so. that the stems may be tall like a rod, with the flow ers in a clusture on the top. The flax should not branch out -liko, a tree in a park; but rather like tall trees in a forest, free from branch till they reach the top. The flax may be either pulled or: cut, If cut it would be diffiult to handle, as the bolls interlace, and then a good many valuable inches are lost. The flax should be pulled and tied m up in small sheaves with its own strand, and set up in stooks. lnen it must be rippled. Lt-t the farm er get an iron comb, only of iron wire, the prongs 14 inches long ana f ot an men apart: nt this in a frame on a log; let two men set astride, face to face as on horse back, the comb sitting between them. Ihe flax is now lifted m handful and drawn through the comb; the bolls will start off and should be allowed to fall on a big sheet or on the warm floor. Now, the bolls are. of great value. Note well, the husk or pod is of much value, as the seed, for feeding and the seed should not be used with out the hu6k. The husk has many valuable properties. It insures the complete digestion of the oily seeds it compels cattle to chew the cud; and it gives a tonic, bitter, astrin gent quality to the food. The bolls must, therefore, not be flung away as chaff. The best methods of prep aration is to dry them with care, and use them in cooked food with a little salt, say seven pounds of bariey to one pound of bolls. 1 hey go splendidly, crushed with Indian corn, in the same proportion. The farmer will find that poultry, milch cows, horses and cattle, all grow glossv and beautiful when fed with a mixture of, sav, one pound of bolls to five or seven pouns of corn Or the bolls can be crushed or ground and then heated, and press ed in bags. The oil sprinkled on dry hay is a great boon to cattle, where there is no turnips. Always have salt, however, and plenty of hure water or C3tlle The remains of the crushed seeds are "oil cake," which today sells at as much per pound as wheat, bo highly do Scottish farmers value "oil cake." ; In a country where cattle are raised, flax should be grown on every farm, -at least a few acres. So much for the bolls. Then as to the straw. The mo ment the balls are off, the straw should be again tied np in smal bundles, square and neat at the root end. If possible, the farmer should have a pond or ditch full of water which is soft and which had the rays of sun pouring into it for some week. Into this pond pack the tlax. end downward, like her rings in a box. Cover with oh! planks and stones. Let it Uv ten days. Take a few of the stalks and if it ia ready, the heart will break over as if rotten, and the fibers slide off the stalk. Spread the flax now all out on a stubble field. There let it be very dry and tie in big bundles. Here the farm er's care should end. Indeed, -in our opinion, a small company should be formed to take the stre et a price per ton, from the farmer, the moment it is rippled, and to save him the labor of steeping the flax. Now, when the flax is dry, it is taken to the scutching mill. This is a simple affair, and can, for 100 to 120 be bought complete. It consists of fluted rollers. The flax is passed through these, and so the woody stem is broken into little lengths and , the case split to let them dry out. There is now a shaft revolving quickly; on it are fixed wooden swords; these strike the wax, quickly. The operative holds the strike of flax firmly over a rest and the swords begin at the point, -and, by quick strokes, beat out the wood, and a glossy, beautiful bunch, called a strike of flax, remains. , This flax is in great demand in America and Europe. The flax you can grow is fit for the finest linen, sewing twines, and the like. 1 value a good crop as better than wheat at present prices, and very useful indeed to the' farmers. An acre should give you quite two tons of straw and 15 cwt. pt bolls. The straw I value at 4, 8; 15 cwt. bolls.. 10, 7.10; total 15.10. I would expect you to have from the two tons of straw 5 cwt. of flax at 40s, 10; cost, 8; for labor and steeping, 2. But the flax might be worth bu, but even at 40, it would pay you. I assume the crop to be like the flax I saw , from Oregon, as Russian flax is not worth as much, 1 dare say, the bolls are not worth as muchto you as to us, tor beet here is ous to oos for 112 pounds. We import 7,000, 000 pounds worth of seed for feed; mg. Ihis shows the value British farmers put on "oil cake," for the eede are mostly used in this farm. ought to say water in which the flax is steeped is liquid manure, and is of great value, and should, if possible, be madeto run over waste and and so enrich it. Counected with .prison life, Iee the greatest possible advantage in putting the prisoners to work the flax after it is rippled. In the open air they would work at it. It is a healthy occupation and .would suit, tr. em exactly. Besides, in the scutching, they might be made to turn a wheel, to ' drive the scutcher. lopeful work, with joy and human ntercourse, is the remedy for the moral disease of the criminal, espe cially work which will fix him for honest labor afterwards. The flax industry will grow with the growth of civilization. Every good housewife likes a kistof linen. America, almost; everywhere, can grow flax. The manure from cattle fed with a proportion of flax bolls enriches the soil. A Ghastly Picture. The Spokane Chronicle gives out the following warning to the miner and prospector of the northwest: ' 1 wenty-four dead iten lying on slabs in the morgue at Cripple Creek, victims of hunger, exposure, pneumonia and suicide eighteen of them buried unidentified!" An attractive picture, isn't it calcu lated to make one want to join the army of men who are rushing with the distant idea of making a for tune somehow, someway, out of nothing. Cripple Creek is all right no doubt, and will turn out lots of gold this year; but there are plen ty of men there now. 1 he man who runs away from the mining districts of the northwest just at this stage of the game to join the Colorado stampede will come, to grief. Threw Away His Cane. Mr. D. Wilev, ex-postmaster, Black Creek, N. Y.,: was so badly afflicted with rheumatism that he was only able to hobble around with cane, and everi then it caused him great pain, After using Cham berlain s rain Jialm he was so much improved that he threw away his cane. He says this liniment did him more good than all other medicine and treatment put to- gather. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by Osburn. . . , Again Pilot Rock. Again the Pilot Rock poetoflice has been broken into, although, this time, nothing of value was taken, and all that the robbers ac complished was to place themselves on the list of ehgibles for the United Stales penitentiary at De troit, Mich. But there appears to be small danger of the robbers being caught, as no cluesare known of and the trozen ground left no tracks to be followed in trailing them. s To restore gray hair to its natu ral color as in youth, causes it to grow abundant and strong, there is no better preparation than Hall' Hair Renewer. COURT AT UNION. Important Case to Be Tried " Before Lowell. , SENTIMENT IS CHANGING Keeley Cure is Eclipsed By the Potato Remedy. The term of circuit court con veil ing at Union will bo a very long and important ono. Judge Lowell of this district, will preside, Eakin being occupied at present on the bench at -! Pendleton. The , term will probably continue for three weeks.' : .'. f y. ' ; The most important case to be heard is that of Kelsay Porter, who is charged with the murder, of the three members of tho Mache family in Pine valley, on New Year's clay. For the purpose of throwing light on the tragedy, the bodies of the victims were exhumed last i week and an examination was made. According to the evidence gathered by the deputy district attorney, who is to prosecute the case, it ap pears that Porter expected the coming of tho Maches by the road passing near a shed. Armed with a Winchester rifle with magazine loaded full, he got on the shed and awaited their approach. When nearby he opened fire on young Mache, who was riding a horse," a bullet hitting him and causing him, to fall from the horse dead a short distance away. Porter then follow ed the old people, who were in a sleigh, and shot at them, firing 16 shots at the mother and son pre vious to killing the father. The post mortem on the body of the elder Mache showed that his skull was fractured, and it is thought that after firing all the shells in the magazine, Porter hit him with the gun and then reloaded, it and tired two or three shots into the body. The Union Republican says the officials are determined to investi gate this last killing in the "pan handle" of the county and make the perpetrator suffer if the circum stances justify punishment. Dur ing tho past murders have been committed in the locality where the last tragedy occurred, and the perpetrators allowed to go scot free on perjured testimony or otherwise. This state of things has come to the point where the better class of citizens deem it their duty to take a hand fur the sake of the good name of the community. Such a crime as Porter's calls for rigid in vestigation. Porter continues to keep silent so far as making any statement for the benefit of the public is con cerned. The caj8 against him seems te grow stronger as the time ot his trial approaches, and while there is much sympathy for him in the east end of the county, tho sentiment in other sections is very strong and even bitter against him. A public meeting was held in Pine valley last week by the friends of Porter, to raise money to assist n tho defense. J, M. Carroll and Charles E. Cochran have been re tained as his attorneys, and every effort will be made to create a reasonable doubt in the minds ' of of the iurora to prevent a verdict of murder in t he first degree. The state will be represented by the prosecuting attorney, ass'.sted by T. II. Crawford of Union. Rev, G. Ll Marvin, a well-to-do M. E minister of Montana, arrived at Union Thursday night. lie is a nephew of Mrs. Macbe, the mur dered worhan, and will endeavor to see that the murderer of his aunt is properly prosecuted. x A NEW DISCOVERY. The Keeley Cure is Eclipsed By the Potato Treatment. According to the Buffalo Courier the Dr. Kedey cure is eclipsed by a "potato cure," and etates that are now discussing the passage of laws compelling drunkards to tako the Keeley cure at a cost in each case to the state of $100, miy save that amount by compelling drunkards to take the potato cure, about which there is no secret, as all there is needed, "is a bowl of wter and a raw potato peeled, dipping the potato into the ice By ice- water and sucking it whenever the deaire for drink becomes uncon trollable, a perfect cure is said to be affected. Potatoes are cheap and plentiful, ice-water can be easily obtained, and a combi nation of the two is destined to do away with all need of temperance organizations. To encourage its trial the Courier relates the following experience of a prominent citizen of Dunkirk: "One day, two months after I had signed the temperance pledge, I had a craving for a drink of liq uor so strong that I could see noth ing else but drinks about me and I felt as if I must have at least one drink. I told a friend of my state of mind. He said, 'ou need not drink. I can tell you of a substi tute that will stop your discomfort Get a bowl of ice-water and a raw potato, peel it and cut down one end of it to a size convenient to take in the mouth. Dip the potato in the ice-water and suck it every time you think you must have the whiskey.' " "I did as he advised. I took the bow! of ice-water and the potato and placed on o table at the head of my bed and would dip tho pota to in the ice-water and place it be tween my lips every few minutes till I went to sleep. I awoke free from any desire to drink whiskey, and have been free from it ever since. That one treatment eradi cated my craving for whiskey for all the time that has since elapsed." ' BEN IhJAGEN ARRESTED. Charged With Larceny of Money From . an Indian. Ben Hagen, a young man well knovn to many" Athena ' people, was arrested in Pendleton Monday, on a charge of larceny of $21.50 from Sekeween, an Indian, says tho Tribune. The crime is alleged to have ber.n committed on Saturday night. Sekeween was drinking in the Last Chance saloon, and drew out a $20 piece to pay the bartend er. ' liagen, in is claimed, took tho coin from him and refused to re turn it. Subsequently, Hagen and the Indian met at the depot, and the .latter demanded the money, The defendant agreed to give it to him on condition - that he receive $1.50. The Indian handed him the amount asked, and he pocketed that also. . . Hagen had an examination be fore Justice Bishop. . His attorney was A, i). htillman and District at torney Lawrev represented the stale. Hasten asserted he had sold a watch chain to the Indian for $20 and he took the coin in payment for tho jewelry, Mr.- Stillman claimed that an act committed so openly and " notoriously was not arceny within the meaning of the aw, but tho justice nevertheless ro- manded the defendant to the grand jury with bonds fixed at $500, i Hngen promptly furnished the bonds. The little daughter of Mr. Fred Webber, Holland, Mass., had a very bad cold and cough which he had not been able to cure with any thing. I gave him a 25 cent bot tle of Chamberlain's Cough Rem edy; says W; P. Holden, merchant and postmaster at West Bnmfield, i and the next time I saw him he said it worked like a charm. This remedy is intended .especially for acute throat and lung diseases such as colds, croupand whooping cough, and it is famous for its cures. There is no clanger in giving it to children for it contains nothing in jurious. For sale by Osburn. Inman Held to Answer. 'Justice Parks rendered a decis ion Monday morning in the case againBt Dr. L. F. Inman, holding the defendant to answer before tho grand jury and fixing his bonds at $1500. Inman was released, M ax Baer and Dr. R. B. Bentio remain ing on his bond. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral is known by its works. Tho experience of half a century proves that no other preparation of the kin 1 stops cough ing and allays irritation of tho throat and bronchial tubes so promptly and effectually as this. Dissotution of Partnershio. John M. Bentley and M. A, Ferg uson, who have been engaged in the insurance business undor the firm name of Bentley fe Ferguson, at Pendleton, have dissolved partner ship. , Mr. Ferguson retires from the busines to take charge of Teal Springs. Mr. Bentley continues. The Farmer's Institute. The Farmer's Institute which was held in Milton last week, un der the auspices of the state agri cultural college, was a very injoy able and instructive affair, reports tho Eagle. Those present from abroad were Prof. Cordley, presi dent of the college, Prof. French, chemist, Prof. Shaw, entamologist. Highest of all ia Leavening Aw&tgvmYemmr ,- nil Prof. O. M. Irwin, state superin tendent of public instruction was also present and delivered an ad dress on education. The meeting was organized Wed nesday evening by electing Hon. G. A. Hobbs chairman, and S. A. Miller, secretary. Mayor Richey delivered an address welcoming the visitors to the city and this was responded to in ntWr"- v "nncrby Prof. French on beli.iir c t n fac ulty of the col le abroad. .! .'Mi from , a. u A Note of "milton Mr. Tom Mellor r 9 m .1 1 390. eitizons oi tnia town are u U'uokto. at me way you are treating your family with it anv'. and win not put up longer, and wtil not atiow you to ', fif.au in 'flm. ii fw- l.rt ftoi-'. tVvavi " ?. hours, if you do you will have to put up with you too long allreadv. CimK-vs.'f- The above note of warning was recently received by Thos. Mellor, a citizen of Milton, but who is now confined in the county jail, where he was taken in default of $200 hail to appear before the circuit court on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. Mellor is of the opinion that P. B. Mc Alexander, of Milton, had some thing to do with the above note. The other day the men met and had words, with the result that Mellor drew a gun. The bottom of the trouble seems to be family jars over religious and other matters in the Mellor family. Our people are growing moreand more in the habit of looking to the Pioneer Drug Store for tho latest and best of everything in the drug lino. They sell Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, famous for its curoH of bad colds, croup and whooping cough. When in need of such a medicine give this remedy a trial and you will be more than pleased with, tho result. Two Are Gone. In Pendleton two husbands are mourning the loss of run away wives. They are L. Greenwald and Frank Day, The latter's better half was tho mother of three small children, and was a membe of the salvation army. Mrs. Greenwald, so her husband asserts, allowed her affections to flow out in unre strained quantities, to C. J. Fraker, an ex-deputy sheriff. The best regulator to regulate a people, in Simmons Liver Regula tor, It regulates the liver and the liver regulates the person. If tho liver is regular then health is good, but if sluggish or diseased then there is constant biliousness, indi gestion, headache and all the dis orders of the stomach that no one hears of. Try Simmons Liver Reg ulator and prove this. Simon S. Hartman, of Tunnel ton, West Va., has been subject to attacks of colic about once a year, and would have to cull a doctor and then suffer for about twelve hours as much as some do when, thev die. He was taken recently just the same as at other times, and concluded to try Chamberlain s Colic. Cholera and Diorrhoea Rem edy. He says: of it and it gave "I took one dose me relief in live minutes. That is more than any thing else has ever dono for me." For sale by Osburn. - FREE, : The Northern Pacific Farmer, Published at Portland Oregon, now in its twenty-first year, is the best and in fact the only truly weekly agricultural paper published m tho Northwest. It is edited by Frank Lee, the granger editor, aswsted by scores of correspondents, and con tains from 16 to Hi! pages weekly, of agricultural, 1 orticultural, stock, poultry, Western market reports, childrens, household, and other t.pms nf interpKt. that no nno who has any interest in the farm or t ho Northwest can afford to bo with out. .At $1 csh in advance per year for this hrge weekly makes it tho best and cheapest paper in tho United Statcf . To all new sub scribers who will pay ono years subcription to Tub Pkkss in ad. vanco. and all old subscribers who will pay their back subscription and one years subscription in ad vance to Thk Phess will receive this great Northwest journal freo for one year. No ono can afford to bo without it. Power. Latest U.S. Gov't Report G v..