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VOLUME IX.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGONFRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1896.
NUMBER U.
HEN A
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BUSY POLITICAL DAY.
Ticket and Platform of the
Populists of Oregon.
WHEAT TRADE REPORT
From Portland, San Francisco
; and Eastern Markets.,
The nominations made by the
populists, and the delegates to their
national convention, am as follows:
For supreme judge Joseph Gas
ten, of Multnomnh. Congressman,
tirst district W. S. Vanderburg,
Coos. Delegates-at-large to na
tional convention J. C. Luce, L. A.
Ward, J. S. McCain and Nathan
Pierce. - Delegates from the judicial
districts Second, R. P. Caldwell;
third, Harry Watkins; fourth, S. B.
Riggen. Delegates from the second
congressional district A. P. Nel
son and J, J. Sturgill. Judge of
the fourth district F. D. Jordon,
District attorney -Newton McCoy.
District attorney of the Becond
district J. M. Upton, Coos; of the
third, ,C. H. Dalryraple, Linn.
Board of equalization, second dis
trict F. Ward, of Douglas.
Presidential electors W. D.
Hare, Harry Watkins; W. H.
Spaugh, M. L. Olmstead. ; Member
of congress, second district Martin
Quinn.
First judicial district Prosecu
ting attorney, J. A. Jeffreys; na
tional delegate, A. Axtel. Fourth
district Board of equalization,
D. W. Butler. Fifth Prosecuting
attorney, 1. B. Smith; national
delegate, Ira Say lor. Sixth Dis
trict attorney, Wm. Parsons; board
of equalization, G. V. Peebler; na
tional delegate. Wm. Parsons.
Seventh National delegate, A. B.
Craft. Eighth Judge, R. J. Slater;
attorney, H. E. Courtney; board of
equalization, Odell; national dele
gate, J. F. Johnson. " Ninth Board
of equalization, G. W. Pierce; na
tional delegate, D. L. Grace.
Joint senators Coos, Curry and
Josephine, W. C.Edwards, Grant's
Pass; Umatilla and Union, O. Teel;
Washington, Tillamook and Col
umbia, John Hansen. Joint repre
sentatives Coos and Curry, W.
Nosier; Grant and Harney, C. S.
Dustin; Lincoln and Benton, A. L.
McFadden; Yamhill and Tillamook,
John Gill. . ; '
Chairman state central commit
tee J. C. Young,, of Baker county.
The state conventiou adopted the
following platform:
"We reaffirm the fundamental
principles of the Omaha platform,
and instruct our delegates to the
national convention to readjust
any details, if possible, in such
form that all reform elements can
unite on one- platform and one na
tional ticket.
''We favor changing our national
constitution so as to provide some
form of direV legislation, and the
early submission of important na
tional questions to the people. '
"We recommend that our nar
tional convention devise some plan
for the effective protection of
American labor from the ruinous
competition of Asiatic and Euro
pean cheap labor, including rigid
restriction, and the exclusion, if
necessary, of foreign immigration.
"We donounce the republican
party for its entire failure to per
form any promise it made to the
people of Oregon in the year 1894,
and hold it wholly responsible for
the reckless and extravagant waste
of the taxpayers' money by the
legislative assembly last year.
"We pledge our candidates for
the legislature to vote for the abol
ition of all uselees commissions
and boards; for a salary system of
paying public officers; for state
appropriation bills providing only
for constitutional salaries and the
economical support neces '
state institutions, and aga
appropriations for sectaru
tutions.
"We demand a reduc
official salaries to correspc
tbe reduction of the wages
and the prices of the pro
labor
We renew our demand for the
speedy abolition of all fish traps
and fish wheels, and a stringent
regulation of seine and gill-net
fishing.
"We demand there-enactment of
the mortgage-tax law.
"We favor an amendment to our
state constitution providing for the
initiative and referendum."
The following refolutiona wer
adopted later:
"We protest against the policy
of tbe government in patenting to
railroad corporations lands along
their lines, of which, in many in
stances, mineral lands are patented
to said corporations, to the great
injury of the miners of the state.
'Wherefore we demand that atl
mineral lands in this etate be ex
empted from the grasp of Buch
corporations and reserved for the
ut-e and benefit of the miners and
the best interest of the state."
The other resolutions adopted
were:.
"To make bank stockholders
liable to depositors for the amount
of their paid and unpaid stock;
answering the request of the
Woman's Christian ; Temperance
Union that their desires could best
be secured by the adoption of the
initiative and referendum; calling
for the election of United States
senators, president and vice-president
by a direct vote of the people;
the enactment of such laws as will
make stockholders of all banking
companies individually responsible
to creditors for all liabilities."
The convention organized with
M. L. 01m8tead, of Baker county,
as permanent chairman; Ralph
Harper, of Multnomah, secretary.
A plan of organization was
adopted upon the following basis:
That the plan be that of party
clubs; that one or more clubs be
organized to each ward. When a
precinct or ward is organized, the
members of the clubs thereof, shall
meet in joint convention at a date
and place named by the county
chairman or the appointed organ
izer, for the purpose of electing
precinct committeemen and four
others who, with the committee
men as 'chairman, shall constitute
the precinct executive committee.
There is then detailed an elaborate
machinery of county and district
clubs and the manner of conduct
ing them. .
The following resolution was
adopted in place of the first plank
of the platform:
"We demand the free and un
limited coinage of gold and silver
at the ratio of 16 to 1, without
waiting for the consent of any
other nation." .
A clause was inserted in the
organization plan that four mem
bers and the chairman of the state
central committee constitute a body
empowered to fill all vacancies. -
Forty-seven ofjthe delegates were
veteran soldiers. i "
THE WHEAT TRADE.
Heports From Portland, the East and
San: Francisco.
8AN FRANCISCO MARKETS.
The condition , of the markets
here shows no change over the pre
ceding two weeks. , The situation
has a depressed tone and values
lack stability. Receipts have been
light and the volume of transac
tions is decidedly small. Wheat
in San Franciso is at a standstill
as far as spot trading is concerned.
Lower prices in the eastern markets,
coupled with a weakening tend
ency to values in England, has
caused a reduction in local quota
tions. There is no business on the
basis of present rates, however, for
holders prefer to keep their grain,
rather than accept the prices now
ruling.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
There was a fair speculative
trade in wheat during the past
week, the prices ranging .between
61c and 64c, with the close show
ing an advance over Monday's
opening of ic per bushel. Many
weak holders have been shaken out,
and there is every reason to believe
their holdings have gone into
stronger hands. Exports for the
week were light at 1 ,596.000 bush
els, but nobody can be so unreason
able as to expect the exports to
keep up when supplies at the
seaboard have been reduced to
such an extent that they will all
be needed for home consumption.
In explanation of the increased
receipts in the Northwest, it is
said, the wheat is being sent to
market because of the fact that
assessments for taxation are made
April 1, and a good many farmers
wish to get rid of their grain before
that date.
-EASTERX MARKETS.
interest
eastern
e past
ks some-
i ruled
Is who
In over-
months
have paid the penalty, as prices
have declined 6c from the top of
the bulge of two weeks previous.
They were so elated at the 12c
bulge that they induced themselves
to believe that there was no limit
to tbe upward tendency, and that
there was but one side to the
market. They brought the market
to a standstill, and tbe break of
the past two weeks has resulted in
most of the large holders getting
out with moderate profits on the
wheat taken on at COc. but their
average profits were small, owing
to the losses on their high-priced
holdings.
PERSISTENT EFFORT
Attempts to Poison a Lane
County Family.
LEFT ttOTES OF WARNING
Grand Ronde to Experiment
With Sugar Beets.
The following from the Eugene
Guard, will be of inteiest to many
Umatilla county people, who re
sided in Lane ond adjoining coun
ties before coming to Eastern Ore
gon, and who knew the family re
fered to; The Guard says:
Another attempt was made last
Tuesday by some one, who is evi
dently crazed or a fiend, to poison
Mrs. ilitam Smith and her family,
who live near Coburg, in Lane
county.' Some unknown person
visited the house during the day
and left some kind of powder on
the tops ot jars of milk. Mrs. Smith
does not know what the powder
was, but thinks it was some kind
of poison that is used to destroy
rats and squirrels. On this visit
the person . left two notes." They
read as follows:
"Done by an unknown friend. I
intend to kill you all. My name I
will hot; May hell punish your
g d you. You all, 1 will
kill you all. M. A. E. S. F. S. V. S.
C. S. L.S." .
"Done by an envious friend, and
will come, again. Have been five
times already; g d - vou
folks." . ?' :
On the afternoon of the next day
the unknown person again visited
the premises, and put another kind
of powder in the cream in the pan?
try. This powder was of a whitish
color, looked like soda and tasted
like concentrated lye. On this vis
it two more notices were left as fol
lows: i ; ...
r "The ones we want to kill is Hir
am Smith, L. Smith, Mary Smith,
Clara Smith." -.-v
"I am coming again; this is done
by one you will never know. God
is building the fire for you now;
g- r d you." J
On the days that the abovB no
tices and the supposed poison : was
left, Mrs. Smith and the two little
girls were alone at the farm, the
young men Leet and Hiram be
ing absent on business. Judging
from the way note No. 3 reads, it
would seem that the unknown only
desired to take the' lives of the
four orphan children who live with
Mrs. Smith.
Thursday, the family persecutor
again gained admittance to the
premises, unseen by any one, and
scattered poison about the well and
in water troughs and in the grain
bin. Thwarted thus far in his ef
forts to take the lives of the mem
bars of the family, this mysterious
individual now seems determined
to poison the stock on the ranch.
The family now live in constant
terror, not knowing what minute
their stock may be destroyed or
their lives taken by this unseen
enemy. , The matter has been plac
ed in the hands of the officers.
Mrs. Smith is the widow of the
late Hiriim SmithTa man who was
quite wealthy and prominent in
social and political life. lie own
ed large tracts of land below Co
burg, and at one time was a candi
date for; congress. He has been
dead for a number of years. Mrs.
Smith is. now aged 73 years, and
lives on a farm about four m.Mes
below Coburg. She never had any
children of her own, but has four
adopted children. She has resid
ing with her the four orphan chil
dren of one of her adopved
who is dead.
Tbe first attempt to poison
sons
Mrs,
Smith was made about ten
ago- !
years
SUGAR BEET SEED.
A Quantity for Experimental Purposes
Received By the Commercial Club.
Wm. Miller, secretary of the Com
mercial; Club, has recieved forty
half pound packages of sugar beet
from the state agricultural college
at Corvallis. The seeds have been
secured through application of the
club and they are to be used for
experimental purposes.
The seeds will be distributed a
halfpouhd each to farmers who will
agree to cultivate them according
to directions and who will also
agree to submit samples of the beets
grown for analysis in the fall.
A half a pound of seed i con
sidered 6uGicient for tbe seeding of
one-tenth of an acre of ground, an
amount which is amply sufficient
for the purpose of making a tett.
It is hoped that farmers and othera
who may be interested in the mat
ter will avail themselves of this op
portunity to give sugar bet culture
a thorough test, as it is believed
that it can be shown beyond any
doubt that this section of country is
eminently adopted to the pro
duction of sugar beets,- and great
possibilities may result from these
experiments. LaGrande Chronicle
Tough Negro Tramp.
A negro tramp attempted to
steal a ride on the east bound 0.
R. &. .N. train Sunday morning
when the train was pulling out of
The Dalles. The train men put
htm off several times and the last
time he stood in the center of the
track behind the train and threw a
stone into a Great Northern sleeper.
Luckily no one was hit. The
authorities at The Dalles were
notified but it is not known whether
they cought the rascal.
To Commute the Sentence.
A petition has been in circula
tion the past week asking the gov
ernor to commute the death sent
ence of Kelsey Porter to imprison
ment for life, says the Union Re
publican. It will be remembered
that Porter was sentenced to be
hanged on April 10 for the murder
ofBen Mache. Many people are of
the opinion that there was . some
justification for Porter's, terrible
deed and do not think he ought to
hang, while others are opposed to
capital punishment. The petition
is being numerously signed.
Wheat Climbing Up.
"The price of wheat has been
steadily on the increase this year,"
says a railroad man of the sound,
"which fact justifies the farmers in
planting every available acre to
wheat. This, in connection with
the fact that thousands of acres of
wheat land have been fallowed, and
only need to be planted to produce
a rich harvest, makes it altogether
natural that tho acreage should be
very large this season. And in
view of the large acreage of summer-fallowed
land, and fall-planted
grain, it is very probable that
the Palouse country will produce
more wheat in 1896 than during
the preceeding year."
shadow Photography.
The principle of shadow photog
raphy by the cathode rayB is an
easy and familiar one, though the
application is rather startling. It
has been known for a long time
that the dark part of the spectrum
beyond the violet emitted rays sep
arated from the rest by refraction
which convey neither light nor
heat, but high medical energy.
These are believed to bo the rays
which influence s6 powerfully the
chemestry of plant growth and
they are those which serve the pur
poses of photography by their act
ion upon certain salts used in pre
paring the sensitive Aim. All there
is in the new discovery is that
these rays will penetrate certain
substances, like human flesh, im
pervious to light, while they are
intercepted by other subttanceH,
like the internal skeleton or an
imbedded bullet.
The Golden Days.
The days of '49 are being re
produced again in Alaeka. Every
steamer that leaves for Juneau,
Sitka or Cooks Inlet' is crowded
with passengers and loaded with
freight, till, as in case of the one
which sailed Saturday, the craft
wasunktelow the guards. The
times and spirit of California forty
five years ago will be felt again
and the hopes that filled the hearts
of fortune-seekers then remain to
bolster the courage of the gold
hunters now.
Alaska has long been looked
upon as the last country to be ex
plored. Civilization has reached
the shore of the Pacific, and the
pioneer is pushed northward,
where the conditions of life are
harder. The old scenes will be re
enacted. The hopes, disappoint
ments, the successes and failures
will come again. The fortunate
will rejoice and the luckless curse
their fate and search on, hoping
against hop that a lucky find may
some time be theirs.
The rush to Alaska is the last
act in the drama that began with
Marshall's discovery of gold in
1849. When this lingering scene
is over the pioneer, who through all
the play, has been an interesting
figure, will take his place in
history. .
An Affidavit.
This is to certify that on May
Uth, I walked to Melick's drug
store on a pair of crutches and
bought a bottle of Chamberlain's
Pain Balm for inflammatory
rheumatism which had crippled
me up. After using three bottles I
am completely cured. I can cheer
fully recommend it. Charles II.
Wetzel, Sunbury, Pa.
Sworn and subscribed to before
me on August 10r 1894. Walter
Shipman, J. P. For sale at 50
cents per bottle by Osburn.
FACES FOR EASTER
Some Novel Decorations for
Easter Eggs.
LITTLE ONES AMUSED AT
Funny Drawings in
Fancy Colors:
Many
If you want to get up some really
novel Easter eggs, and some , that
will send your boy or girl friends
wild with delight, try the following
plan: x . .
Divide your eggs into three
portions; color some of the dark
brown (seal), some yellow and
leave others' white, merely boiling
them hard.
:Take$aint8 and brushes (water
colors are best, because they dry
at once, and if plenty of megilp is
used they will not tub) and outline
faces on them.
Take a dark-brown ege, outline
nose and eyes on it in black, touch
in ihe nostrils and corners of the
eyes in red, and paint a very thick
lipped African mouth in the same
color. Put the whites of the eyes
in with Chinese white, and the iris
and pupil with black, then out
line a pair of heavy rimmed
glasses over the eyes with your
Chinese white.
One-third of these brown eggs
may have white, woolly side
whiskers put on with cotton. Just
dab on a bit of glue, press your
cotton against it, and trim off any
that seems too long or ragged,
The hair is arranged ir the same
way, and it looks funnier to leave
the whole top of the head bald, and
put only a fringing of it at the
base. . :-'
On .'the - others'' of your: brown
eggs put a gay little turban of plaid
China silk, and gum big bead
earrings at the side.
The rest, on which no spectacles
should be painted, may be fixed
up as smart young men and girls,
using a flamboyant hat made of
pasteboard and trimmed with paper
ribbon for the young women.
A baby, too, is apt to please.
Make its eyes rounder, draw its
mouth wide open, filling in the
open portion with black.
Theee eggs are all to be mounted
on little circles or squares of heavy
cardboard, being attached to them
with thick glue.
The ; men's heads are finished
with tall shirtcollars, cut from stiff
white paper, and neckties of narrow
red ribbon, the old aunties with a
crossed kerchief like her turban,
the young woman's with a white
ruche, and the baby's with a wide
white ruffle.
The yellow eggs are for China
men, there features are put on jiidl
as the negroes' are, only that the
eyes must slant, the mouth must
be small and red, and a tinge of
color rubbed into the cheek is an
addition.
Queues may be braided of black
silk or linen thread and added, and
wide hats made of thin yellow
cardboard or heavy paper, cut in a
circle considerably larger than the
cardboard case, slit up tho center
and passed a little to make it slant
down.
A Chinese or Japanese lady is
effective, if one has the skill to
manage the elaborate hair dressing
necessary. If jute or mohair, such
as imitation hair switches are made
of, eun be had, the little coiffure is
quite easily put together and gum
med on. The Chinese baby is the
funniest of all. Make him looking
out of the corners of his absurd
slant eyes, and give him a little
fringe of black hair arranged as you
see it on the heads of Japanese
dolls.
Of the eggs left uncolored make
young women with rosy cheeks, or
children with curly bangs, if you
can get a bit of flax for these latter;
but the most effective will be the
baby heads. Draw them laughing
and crying, with bluo eyes and
brown, leave tho funny egg heads
bald, and put big white ruffles
around their necks for finish.
A bunch of the heads of Blue
beard's wives can be made of these
too. Draw the eyes shut, put little
beard earrings on, and gum on
Highest of all in Leavening
hair, bringing it up to the top of
the head and braiding it in a braid
about two inches long. These are
not mounted on the cardboard
circles, but are put in threes and
hung by the braids which should
be tied together by a bit of bright
ribbon.
Take a small'china doll's head,
gum it to the top of one of the eggs
which is already fiinily li.ieJ upon
its cardboard base, enverthe joining
with a broad white ruffle, paintthe
egg a graudy plaid, cut. n pair of
hands and feet fron stiff cardboard,
make little puff like sleeves con
cealing the upper end under the
neck ruffle, and putting the card
board on at the other end, setting
the arms comically akimbo on the
balloon-like body; put the feet at
the base, hiding their joining with
the egg by a tiny white frill; paint
a couple of red triangles on the
cheeks, put a pointed capon the
head, and you have a very ridiculous-looking
clown for the babies
to laugh at.
In this work your glue must be
thick and strong, and your painting
must be given time to dry, or you
will find your eggs toppling to
pieces and smeared before they are
completed.
These eggs makes pretty . favors
for an Easter party or tea..
Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy.,
This is the best medicine in the
world for bowel complaints. It
acts quickly and can always be de
pended upon. When reduced with
water it is pleasant to take. Try
it, and like many others you will
recommend it .to your friefids. For
sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle
bv Osburn.
Hard Place for Tramps.
The dark cell in the city jail at
Phoenix, Ariz., seems to be an un
usally unpleasant sort of place. A
lazy tramp prisoner was placed in
it tho other day, and the fait was
noted in the local paper that he
would not get the chance to loaf he
might expect because of the spikes
driven upward through the floor,
which preclude a prisoner from
sitting down. There is room for
tho occupant to stand up between
the spikes with some degree of
comfort. ' i
Drive out the impurities from
your blood and build up your
system by creiting an appetite and
toning the stomach with Hood's
Sarsaparilla, if you would keep
yourself well.
Hood's Pills are the best after
dinner pill; assist digestion, cure
headache. 25 cents.
The Table at Appomattox.
The will of Brigadier General
John Gibbon, U. S. A., who died in
Baltimore recently, has just been
probated. He bequeaths a number
of war relics to his son, John Gib
bon. Jr., including the table, upon
which ihe agreement of surrender
between Gen. Leo and Gen. Grant
was drawn at Appomattox. Gen.
Gibbon was appointed by Gen.
Grant as the representative of
the union to draft the articles
of surrender. Col. Chas. Marsh'
all, of Baltimore, represented
tho confederate side. The partic
ipants in the surrender divided
am,ong themselves the most im
portant implements used in that
historic act, Gen. Gibbon Inking
th 3 table and Col. Marshall the
inkstand. Mr John Gibbon, Jr.,
the table's now owner, is now in
Seattle, Wn.
During tho winter of 1893, F. M.
Martin, of Long Beach, West Va.,
contracted a severe cold which left
him with a cough. In speaking of
how he cured it he s iys: "I used
several kinds of couh syrup but
found no relief until I bought a
bottle of Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy, which relieved me almost
instantly, and in a short time
brought about a complete cure."
When troubled with a cough or
cold use this remedy and you will
not find it necessary to try several
kinds before you get relief. It hns
been in the market for over twenty
years and constantly grown in
favor and popularity. For sale at
25 and 50 cents per bottle by Os
burn. Notice.
All accounts due P. M. Kirkland,
are now at the First National
Bank for collection, and all are re
quested to come forward and settle
at once. P. M. Kirkland.
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