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O-OOID JOB WOEK .T ",;"EH"5T LOW PEICES. . 'Press. r HEN A r 1 A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY V NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND i It would be a big Job to tH one hundred people day anything that J would interest tbem In your roods, but ltdeadiy ifdonetbe right t In the week but that yon do not need stationery of some sort or other 1 Now we furnish neat, clean printing at i he very lowest rates. .Mod- J I em presses, modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. t j way. Tjiln paper will tell nevernl ibousanaal once at nominal cool. VOLUME IX. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGONFRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1896. NUMBER 17. 4 1 K H SIMMOMSS REGULATOR Reader, did you ever take Simmons trvEB Regulator, the "Kino op Lives Medicines ?" Everybody needs take a liver remedy. It 1b a sluggish or diseased liver that impairs digestion ; and causes constipation, when the waste i that should De earned on remains in the body and poisons the whole system. That dull, heavy feeling is due to a I torpid liver. Biliousness, Headache, I Malaria and Indigestion are all liver diseases. Keep the liver active by an ; occasional dose of Simmons Liver Reg I ulator and you'll get rid of these trou- bles, and give tone to the whole sys f tern. For a laxative Simmons Liver Regulator is bettek than Pells. It I does not gripe, nor weaken, but greatly refreshes and strengthens. Every package has the Red Z stamp on the wrapper. J. H. 5&ciliu& Co., Philadelphia. ' CAVBITS. TRADS MARKS. DESIGN PATENT8, COP I RIGHTS, toJ For Information and free Handbook write to MUNN CO., 861 Broadway. Hew York. fttfleHt hurAiui frir Mntirtnff nntcnta in America. Every patent taken out by us is brmiRht before tbe public by a uotloe given free ot charge, lot tho Iiarmst elnmlatton of any aclentlfte paper fn the world. Splendidly illustrated. i tutellltreiit ! nan Uliould 1 without IV Weekly, Jf:i.H)a year; SUO six months, Addpms, HUNf JO PySLtsgRns, 891 Sroadway. Pew York. City, u-j - -i - i . -. -1 m - - - - TUC ATUrMA RESTAURANT Ilk milklin HLWinviiniii w MRS. HARDIN, Proprietress. : : : H. P. M I LLEN, Manager. Can be recommended to the public as being first-class in every particulur. We ' - - - Employ - X - . - White help only. . MEALS AT ALL HOURS E. MCNEILL, Receiver. ; TO THE EAST Gives the choice of : : TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTES J iCREAIi! UfllOill ' NORTHERN RY.PACIFIC RY VIA SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS AND ' ST. PAUL DENVER OMAHA AND KANSAS CITY Low Rates to al Eastern Ooean Steamers leave Portland every 5 days for - San 'Prancisco For full details call oh" O. R." & N. Agent, Athena. " Or address: W. H. HURLBUT. Gen. Pass Agl. Portland. Oregon. No.2, Fast Mail, EivrtlKHind, fiq. 1, '! '!' Westbound, Ho. 42. Mixed, Eostbound. No. 41, ' Westbound ; f 5:53 a. m. 9:40 p, m 2:Zi p. m 10 a. m, "4 i -THE- I COMMERCIAL I 1 1 I 4 LIVERY s FEED and SAtE STABLE TUe Best Tumouts in Umatilla County Stock boarded by the day, week or month. "U I FROQIE BEOS., Proprietors, k Main Street, Athena. If 4 Sdentlflo American i "tip JzJoiJ Uo uMo HELD FOR MURDER Evidence that Ilinkle and Bear Dealt Foully WITH THE BOOK AGENT. Oregon Pioneers Will Miet ;! in Portland. ' Win. Rudio. of Long Creek, who recently returned from a business trip to Crook county, gives an ac count of the discovery in that sec tion, of the charred remains of a book peddler in the ruins of a cabin owned 'by Joe Kerns, which had been burned with the evident in tention of concealing a crime, says the Eagle.' The cabin is situated on the border line between Grant and Crook counties near the head of Beaver creek and is a very sparsely settled country, i The victim U -remembered in Canyon , City , as having passed through there last fall with the in tention of returning before winter. he last seen or heard of him as near as can be ascertained, was at the farm of Mrs. Ilinkle where he topped and. made inquiries " abdut the route; to Breman's place. It so happened that a daughter and son-in-law ot Mrs. mnKie were about to start for the same locality, nd informed the wayfarer that if tie would follow their tracts ne would reach r the place all right. With that understanding they started out, but upon reaching Swamp creek, it has since trans. pired, the peddler must have lost the tfaok, for nothing 'more was seen of him.vv After wandering aimlessly about he accidently stumbled onto or was inveigled into the deserted cabin, where it is supposed he was murdered for his money, it is said- that he had between $200, and $3o0 in cash when he left Canvon City. It is learped frorn James Manion, commercial drummer, who ar rived In Long Creek yesterday from Canyon City, that two young men Hinkle and Bear were arrested by Sheriff Combs and Deputy Dis trict. Attorney Cozad, and are now being held with a charge of murder against them. Bear will W re- rflewbered by persons who attended the races in Long Creek last fall, as Die owner of the. "Buckskin" pony. THE OREGON PIONEERS. Semi-Centennial . Celebration Portland on Tuesday, June x6. George H. Htmes, secretary in 'of the Oregon pioneers, write?; ? "Remember, this is the oUth year since Oregon cut off Great Britain's am-on string. We are to have a jubilee June 16. Want to hear from everybody who came Deiore June 16, 1846." The efforts of the secretary to A .A secure a list ot ail wnp corqe o or were born in 0reeon-the original Oregon prior to June 16, 1846, is meeting with a gratifying response. It is important, in a historic cense, that this list be made as full as possible, and that the detailed in formation, as shown by the head ings, shall be accurately filled out; also that a photograph ot each per son, if possible, shall be sent to the secretary for permanent preserva tion. lx order W 8epu,re further information he will mail a blank to each Individual, which may oe filled out and teturned to him, con taining additional historic data. Not only is this requested from all who came to Oregon prior to June 16, 1846, but from all others who arrived in the state prior to rep- ruary 14, J85Q, who, .have pot yet had thefr names enrolled on the Pioneer Association s records. As there is a laree number of Oregon pioneers in this county, t can be safely relied upon that it will be represented at this ceieora. tion. 7 THE PORTER CASE. Governor Lord Declines to Commute the Sentence at This Time. The petition to the governor ask ing him to commute the sentence of Porter to imprisonment for life was presented to bis excellency last Monday by Attorneys varrM anq Cochran, wbQ were accompanied bv Hon, J. A. Wright, of bparta who desired to do what he could for Porter. The governor after at tentively listening to the plea, and examining the petition, declined to do anything in the matter until tbe defense had exhausted every resource before the supreme court. He did not in any way commit himself, and it can only be conjec tured what he will do in case the supreme court sustains the action ot the lower court eustaina the action of the lower court and re fuses a new trial. The attorneys left the petition on file with the governor and will leave nothing undone on behalf of their client. Nothing further can be done until a hearing is had in the supreme court which will be several months yet. THE NEW BALLOT LAW. Voters Should Make a Note of lhis and Vote Correctly. It is some time before the June election, but it not too eariy to call the attention of the voters to an amendment in the manner of vot ing. - The, last legislature made a change in the method of making ballots. The voter does not now strike out the names which he does not want to ballot for. A simple cross made at the left of the candidate denotes his choice. The following is the provision of the law in question: "On the receipt of the white ballot as aforesaid the elector shall forthwith, and with out, leaving the enclosed 6pace, retire, alone to one of the com partments provided, and shall there prepare his ballots by making im mediately to the left of the name of the candidate of his choice for each office to be filled, or by writing in the name -ofv the" person he wishes to vote for. ENGLISH VIEWS OF WHEAT. The Market Will Be Largely Governed - by the Weather.. - A 8ubflcribeTerboirrfl- List (London),"writing upon -what "he calls the abnormal dullness in the wheat trade, says he believes it is due as much to the disappointing movements of stocks in America as to reduced consumption. He points to the fact that, notwith standing the early reports of a great falling on in the production ofgwheatin America this season, the visible supply, a? shown by Brad8treet's returns, is practically as large as it was in the two years previous, Vi east' of ; the Rocky mountains, and he expresses an opinion that an upward movement, in order to be strong, ought to be initiated in America." To a great extent Beerbohm agrees, "for there is no doubt that the predisposition to weakness in the American mar kets has been a great obstacle to any improvement. On the other haiid, the reports of the rapid re duction' in the stocks in Russian ports come partly as a surprise to the tradej to many it may be news to find that the actual stocks are less than they have been 1 for some time pa&t. On December 13 the official returns gave the stocks in the fifteen ports at 3,260,000 quar ters; the teturns for March 13. just to hand, show that the stock is re duced to 1,80C,000 quarters." The returns do not betoken "abundant supplies ' from Russia in the near future, whatever the future may have in store. The markets gener ally, however, will, it is very like ly, be almost entirely governed by the weather during the next two months. A Kansas Novel. An Atchison, Kansas, woman ia writing a love story in which the cathode ray plays a prominent part. The heroine turns the cath ode ray on a young man's pocket book and finds it full and his heart empty. She at once makes ad vances, and the young man follows her lead. He . takes trick after trick by ' bis skillful plays in the game, and is about to ask for her band, when a friend suggests that the girl has another lover pn the string. He turns the cathode ray on her'heart, and finds that he oc cupies a . very small space in it. Discouraged, he commits suicide, and the girl wbo has learned to love him for himself too late spends the rest of her life in taking solitary ramblefTo the cemetery, where she daily turns the cathode rayon his grave, in order to gaze again and again upon""his features. and see bow he is getting on. It is expeoted that the story will make a great hit. He Was Still a Friend. -Jimmy Moogan, who had just been appointed on the police force, was coming down the street in all glory of his new uniform, when he caught sight of his old crony, Mike O'Brien, who had a most glorious jag on, and proceeded to run him in. Mike resitted and was clubbed "Ah, Jimmy, Jimmyl and is this the way you trate an old friend?''. It's hot because I hate you that I bate you," said Jimmy swelling up, "but because I have the author r-ity !" "Haifa span of angry steel'' wil produce no more fatal results than a neglected cold or cough. For al throat and lung diseases. AVer's Cherry Pectoral is the test remedy. It is invaluable in cases of croup, whooping cough, bronchitis, and Ja grippe, REPEATED FAILURE. Why Western Democrats Did Not Secure Nominations PRESIDENTIAL HONORS. The Queer Dream of a Walla Walla Man. For more than 30 years, in fact, since the nomination . in I860 of Stephen A. Douglas, who was a native of Vermont, but a resident of Illinois, all the presidential standard-bearers of the democratic party have been residents of Ncjv York, or its vicinity, says the ievv York Sun. Governor Seymow, in 1868, Horace Greeley, in -.1872, Governor Tilden, in 1876, afnd Mr. Cleveland in 1884,18884yd 1892, were resident New Yorkers when nominated. Gener&r McClellan, when nominated in .164, was actu ally a resident'tof New York; Ceneral Hancock,-when nominated in 1880, was j stationed on Govern ment, .island, within New York's official boundaries. This preference for New Yorkers on the democratic side has usually been attributed to the importance of New York's electoral vote, com monly decisive of the result. But there is still another reason which helps to account for it the inabil ity of Western democrats to , unite successfully upon a candidate who would receive the support of enough of them to outweigh the preponder ance of New York and its vicinity' Western candidates for the presi dential nomination of the demo cratic convention have never been lacking, but the trouble has usually been that one stood in the way of the other, and, by. antagonizing each other, made easy the success of the advocates of an Eastern candidate. In the presidential congress of 1868, the first and only one in recent years held in the city of New York by either political party, Y George ; H. Pendleton, ; of Ohio, was the leading candidate of the West for the presidential nom- nation, , But Senator Hendricks, of Indi ana, the adjoining state, was a candidate, too, and the interest of Mr. Hendrick s friends was to pre vent the Domination of Mr. Pendle ton in order to open clearly the way to Mr. Hendricks, and, when that result had been accomplished and Hendricks had become the leading candidate, the friends of endleton turned about to defeat mm, and these maneuvers pro vented the nomination of either, complicated as they were by the advocacy of some Ohio democrats of Salmon B. Chase for president. n the presidential convention of 1876) at St. Louis, the Ohio demo crats, who supported William Allen, and the Indiana democrats, who supported Governors Hend ricks, clashed with each other, and, though Mr. Hendricks led at .first, the supporters of Governor Allen proved more tenacious. In 1880 the democratic nomination would unquestionably have gone to the W est bad there not been a conflict in the delegation ot Ohio, the largest of the Western staten, ' be tween the friends of feenator Payne and the friends of Senator Thur- man. Illinois went for Morrison, and Indiana for Hendricks, and the vote of the Western democrats was thus so split up that a rally on either candidate would have been impossible. In tbe 1884 con vention, Ihurman was the favorite of Ohio and Joseph D. McDonald that of Indiana, lhe vote of the Western states was distributed among them and some other candi dates. Prior to the 1SD2 conven tion, the Western candidates were Horace Boies, of Iowa; John M Palmer and William R, Morrison, of Illinois; Isaac P. Gray, of Indi ana, and James E. Campbell of Ohio. When, the voting was reached, however, all , the candi dates with the one exception of Mr. Boies, had withdrawn in favor of eastern candidates, so that the Iowa governor, without substantia Western support, polled only e portion of the vote of that section WHERE WOMEN REIGN. Queer Dream of a Walla Walla Man as Told by Himself. A Walla Walla man went to sleep the other night and dreamed he was in a city entirely governed by women says the Statesman. It was scrupulously clean, and while wandering around he saw three men arrested for spitting on the pavements. A garbage box at tbe rear end of each loi was hand painted and tied with a blue rib bon. Mail boxes were decorated with drawn work throws, and fire plugs had cushioned seats on top of them. ' Sweet peas were climb ing over electric light poles and a hand-painted cuspidor occupied a prominent place on every corner. Thete was no business, not a team being allowed to pass up and down the main streets for fear of making a dust. The town was deserted save for the police-woman who marched up and down to see that no one with dusty shoes stepped into the town. Basques and Coats. --Tt.ere ..are a goodly number of basques worn that are really round waists fitted to the bottom of the waist-line, or slightly pointed, and a ripple or nearly circular basque piece added. With these are worn a ribbon or belting band, or soft folds of silk or velvet fastening with a buckle or two large buttons in front, or with a button at either side. The ripple piece is nearly plain in front, fuller on the hips and in godet effect at the back, needing a stiff interlining. This piece is five inches deep and must be prettily lined as the under part shows. The basque omits the cen tre back seam only, and the fronts may be like an Eton jacket over a full vest, or the plastron and vest effects are applied outside of 'the basque. The only double-breasted designs seen are the tailor-made gowns, worn with a chemisette and having a rolling collar and revers. The fashionable coat waists have the full basque effect, but this is cut in one with the remainder of the garment, and the skirit part of Louis XVI coat is from tour to seven inches deep. Ihese open straight down over an elaborate vest, and may be cut with an Eton front and long back; they have full or flat hips, always a full back, and the skirt part, may begin at the centre front Vr ' at the ; hips. This part is cut according to the wearer, bo careful fitting is1 required. Very large pointed or square revers are . worn on the coats, immense sleeves, crush collars, sometimes turn-back gauntlet cuffs- and a arge cravat bow or jabot. Such a coat will be correct for wear with a wool skirt, or of figured colored silk with a black Bilk or wool skirt. They are worn by ladles of all ages and of every form. Emma M. ilooper in April Ladies' Homo Journal. -. ' Camphor. The camphor laurel, from which the greater part of the camphor of commerce is produced, is a native of China, Japan, Formosa, and Cochin China. . It is a hardy long- ived tree and sometimes grows to i great size. It has evergreen oaves, yellowish-white nowers in panicles, and is a very ornamental tree, the trunk running up to a leight of twenty or thirty feet be fore branching. The fruit is very much like the black current. In the extraction of camphor the wood is first cut into small chips, and the chips aro put into water in a still and steamed. The head of the still is filled with straw, and pb the steam carries off the camphor n vapor it is deposited in little grains around the straw. lhe crude camphor is then heated in a vessel, from which the steam is allowed to escape through small aperture, lhe camphor sublimes in a semi-transparentcake. In tho manufacture of camphor the tree is necessarily destroyed, but by a rigid law of . the lands in which the tree grows another is planted in the place of everyone that is cut down. The wood is highly valued for carpenter work. Camphor was unknown to the "Greeks and Romans, and was first brought to Europe by the Arabs. .,' A Boy Wins a Suit. ' In Massachusetts a boy brought suit for damages because he had been expelled from a public school and . his teacher and the Bchool committee refusedlto admit him un less he would apologize for being disrespectful and promise not to do so again. He secured damages, and tbe dependents appealed . on the ground that he had no right to bring such a suit, but the supreme court of the state has decided that he can bring it, apd gave it as its opinion that ordinarily the toachers word is law, but that he , may not declare finally whether an act on the part of a' pupil is or is not disrespectful. The smfi.ll boy, in Massachusetts, seems as if he pro posed to be more aggressive-tWn the new woman.' 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. WThen reduced with water it is pleasant to take. Try it, and like many others you will recommend it to your friends. Fnr sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle bv Osburn. Highest of all in Leavening Power.- Latest U. S. Gov't Report n v i t lit) r 11 V V j-. THIS IS DIFFERENT One of the Smith Family is Implicated in SCATTERING THE POISON A Little Free Advice From Peck's Sun. " . At the preliminary exa"ihination of Oral Poindexter, accused of try ing to poison members of tho Widow Smith's family near Coburg.the boy proved a complete alibi at the time the last , supposed attempts at poisoning were committed, says the Eugene Guard. ' About eight; wit nesses were examined on each side, and there were some conflicting testimony. One of the little girls, astep.granddaughter of MrsiSmith, testified that she saw the boy enter the premises at the time some of the supposed poison - and the last threatening notes were left, at the house, but her testimony was not accepted. " There was nnjtv.idence introduced to show tbasVthere had reallv been unjf,f$oa placed about the house, excepting at one time, when some vitriol was found in the pump. The other stuff scattered about the premises, ' which' Mrs. Smith thought was poison, was only an imitation substance, placed there with an evident intention of fright ening her. In fact, the. exam ination tended to show that' there was no intention to kill any mem ber of the Smith family; but, instead, an effort was being made to frighten Mrs. Smith bo that she would leave the . ranch. This ex plains very clearly why the family persecutor did not succeed in poisoning any members of the fam ily, as was at first supposed he was trying to do. j Potter & Condon who prosecuted the case, joined in with Dorris & Stevens, who had charge of the de fense, in the effort to ferret the matter out, and find out who the guilty party is, and they , are con fident they now know to whom to attach the blame for the whole affair-1 namely, a member of the persecuted family.. However, it is believed that the trouble has come to an end, aqd if such shall prove to be the case, tho suspected party will doubtless be allowed to go without-being prosecuted ' The result of the examination shows that the boy, Oral Poin dexter, a bright young lad, . had nothing whatever to do with the crime. . ' ! MANAGING A DAUGHTER. ; A Little Free Advice on the Subject From Peck's Sun. Yon can't do it; the man ' who can must be more than mortal. Give her her own way; it will save her the trouble of taking it. Pay for her dresses if you can afford it. Her dressmaker will she if you don't. ' . If she takes a fancy to any man you don't want her to marry, tell her your heart is set on marrying him and swear she shall never marry any other. You can then give her a free nanu and sue wouldn't have him if he was the only man left. If there is any man you want her to marry kick him out of your house, forbid the servants to admit him, distribute mantraps, spring guns and bulldogs all around your grounds, lock her jn her room and vow if she marries him you wot A leave her a penny. You will not have to wait long after that for the elopement. If she has no voice encourage her to sinz whenever you give a party It will attract attention to her and give your guests an excuse for comnlimentind her. Never mind the neighbors. If you are a poor man teach your daughter to dance and play the piano. ' She can learn cooking and dressmaking and tho?e things when she is married. Range of Big Guns. The longest distance that a sho has been tired is a lew yards over P"4l ft mk M i w fifteen miles, which, says the New York Sun, was the range of Krupp's well-known ''monster" 130-ton steel gun, firing a shot weighing 2,600 pounds. The 111-ton Arm strong gun has an extreme range of fourtee miles, firing a shot weigh ing 1,800 pounds, and requiring 960 pounds of powder. These guns, however, proved too expensive, be ing unable to stand firing 100 times, and their manufacture has practically been abandoned. The 22-ton Armstrong gun hurls a solid shot for a distance of twelve miles, and the discharge of the gun can be heard at the place where the ball strikes. From twelve to thir teen miles is the computed range 4 of the most 1 powerful guns now made, and to obtain that range an , elevation ofefiearly forty-five de grees Is , found to be necessary. Quick-firing guns are more de pended upon at tho present day than -the extreme length of range, and in this respect what is con sidered tho most wonderful of guns perhaps, is one of. the Maxims, which can fire as many as 600 shots a ininute, yet is so light that a soldier can carry it strapped to his . back Financially regarded, the immense sum of $195,000 was expended in constructing the mon ster Krupp gun. and each projectile cost -154,750. : , ' : I 1 1 ' - ! , : , During the winter of l893, F. M. Martin, of Long Beach, West ,Va., contracted a severe cold which left him with a cough. In speaking of how ho cured it he says: "I used several kinds of cough 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 neoessary to try several kinds before you get relief. It has 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. - ' .To Burn Lime. The Long Creek 'Eagle says: "There are many ledges of crystal- . ized " lime' within the bounds of Grant county, but very few people have ever thought the industry of enough importance to burn a pit tor the market. Heretofore what ime that has been ' used in this part of the' country has been ship ped in from outside railroad points. Such need not be the , case in the future. Dan Butler, n resident .pf Marysville, about three miles abovo John Day, informs the Eagle that le has jUBt completed the burning of a pit, and has as fine a quality of lime as can be gotten anywhere n the market. Mr. Butler is an enterprising gentleman and with out doubt the future growth of tbe county will reward his efforts. ' Spring Time ; ' Is when nearly everyone feels the need of ; some blood purifying, strength invigorating and health producing medicine. lhe real merit of Ilood'e SarnparUla is the reason of its widespread popularity. Its unequalled success is its best recommendation. The whole sys tem is susceptible to the most good from a medicine like Hood's Sar Rapaiilla taken at this time, and we would lay special stress upon tho time and remedy, for history has it recorded that delays are dangerous. Refu::S a Parole. James Johr 'on, a life-time con vict 'n tho Ip,"iana state prison at Jeffersonvillt aas refused a parole from the governor, saying he is not guilty of murder, the crime charged, and will accept nothing less than an unconditional pardon. Ho was sentenced in 1893 for killing Leslie Bell, but claims it was done in self defense. -It is the only case on record where a parole was- refused by any prisoner, as it is practically the same as a pardon. Those who are troubled with rheumatism should try a few ap plications of Chamberlain Pain Balm- rubbing the parts vigorously at each application. If that does not bring relief dampen a peicce of flannel with Pain Balm and bind it on over the seat of pain and prompt relief will surely follow. For sale by Osburn.