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G-003D JOB VOEK AT TEET IiO"W" PEIOES. ATHENA t A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND I it imiM ha hlir Inb to tell one hundred DPODlea dav snvthlnvthut t T In the wrek but that you do not need stationery of somesortornther ; f would Interest them lnyourgooas. dui mueaaetifty u wav. This naner will tell several thousand at once at nominal cost. I ...... " v ........... ........ ......a piiuuug . rijr mtv.-nv nu T rn presses, modern types, modem work, prompt delivery now we mrnixn neai,ciean printing at the very lowest mien. Mod u:.. i J VOLUME IX. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 15, 1896. NUMBER 20. ttlMMOHttA XREGULATOR : Reader, did yon ever teke Simmons Liver Regulator, the "King of Liveb 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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THE- innnncDniAi I UUt'lUl LI1UH1L t tff LIVERY FEED . and SALE STABLE The Pest Tarnonts In Umatilla County Stock boarded by the day, week or month. I FR0Q1E BROS., Proprietors. Main Street, Athena. 2 ' A Tf H, M I ! 'Jatt THE COUNTY HEWS The "East End" as Reflected By Our Exchanges. SCARLET FEVER RACING Two More Deaths at Milton C KJ ;, LaSt -Week. From the weston Leader. Barney Prine intends taking an other trip this epring to the Idaho mines. Giandma Van Winkle has heen il from la grippe for the past few day 8. The old Baling brick on Water street is being fitted up by Mr. Saling as a hall and opera house. I he Congregationalists of Dry Hollow are planning to build a church next month. ; Willis Marsh has been ' engaged to teach a term of school in the Saling district on Wild Horse mountain. ( 1 v. 1 Frank Blair took such an inter est in the football game Wednes day that he became overheated, and has since been in bed - in con sequence. l.Y f Joe Morgan has opened a saloon at Adams. Ilia family will remain at Weston and have removed to the Kcenan residence." The Ridenour lodge hall used by the Knights and Woodmen is" un dergoing improvements, among which is a needed rearrangement of the pharaphernalia rooms. Several young boys of Weston were in a sad state, of inebriation lately. No one knows where they obtained the liquor but the marshal is now watchful to prevent a re currence of their spree. Frank Wormington, of "Milton, visited Weston yesterday, and after ward went to Athena to negotiate for band instruments. It is the in tention to have a good band at Milton, connected with the Knights of Pythias lodge. Robert Hudspeth, of Wild Horse has been arrested at the instance of James King under a charge of assault and battery. It is alleged that Robert hit James with a wire stretcher, cutting a large gash in the latter's leg. : The "pupils of the sixth "and seventh grades of the training de partment have certainly learned self-reliance at an early age, for the program which was given on Fri day, the last day of school, was gotten up Jlnd arranged almost en tirely, by themselves. ,, ; ; Now that the danger line has been crossed, the fruit crop out look can be safely discussed, and from reliable parties living in the fruit belt of the valley we learn there will be an abundant crop of every variety and kind of -fruit except peaches and apricots and there will be nearly enough of the former for home demand. j ; JFrora the Milton Eagle. t ' " Tom Thompson claims to have been assaulted and sand-bagged by couple of sportive young men last night who made an attempt to rifle his pockets. According to Tom's btory he caught one of the youths but subsequently liberated him upon his promising to sin no more. " ' Milton will celebrate the Fourth of July.' This much has been definitely decided, and the celebra tion will be under the auspices of Hercules Lodge .No. 51, K. ofr. Committees will be appointed in a few days to take charge of the dif ferent features of the . occasion and it is expected that Milton's cele bration will be a grand success. Two more children of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Williams have succu ru ed to the deadly scarlet fever since our last issue and the fathei and mother are nearly heart-broken over toe aiui ravages made in their family. Alta, aeed 7 years, beautiful little tot, died last Saturday morning, and Paul, a bright lad of 9 years of age, died this, Friday, morning at 11 o'clock. Two Other children.Carl, aeon aged 14, and Jessie, a daughter aged 16 are down with the disease, but the physicians, Drs. Thomas and Hill, do not consider their condition dangerous. The other patients in town are all doing well and give promise of an early recovery. Those who have been attacked by the fever since our last issue are: Mrs. George Litju, Ruby Kennedy and Elmer Hull. These latter cases are all in a mild form. Oregon Notes. Umatilla county has $14,809 in its treasury. Astoria Scandinavians will cele brate on May 16 the 82d anniver sary of the union of Norway and Sweden. .l A map of Jackson county has just been completed and published. Baker City wants the next meet ing of the State Press Association. ' Subscriptions are being asked in the upper Rogue river valley for helping to improve the road from the summit of the Cascades to Cra ter lake. Citizens of Cottage Grove have begun active work on the Bohemia wagon road. The contract has been let for the erection of Presbyterian church at Brownsville. ' Walter Denny, an Ashland boy, expects to be a fireman on the new battle-ship Oregon, Mrs. D. H. McClure died at Le banon Thursday. She was 71 years old, and well knewn throughout the Willamette valley. Rev. William Steel, of Quincy, Mass., who has accepted the call of the First Presbyterian church, of Salem, will be at his new post May 24. ' Klamath Falls is setting a good example to more ambitious towns of Oregon by forbidding bicycle riders to ride on sidewalks, under penalty of fine. Lane county warrants are now in demand. Local capitalist are paying 1 per cent, premium for them. This has happened occa sionally for'the past three years. The trapdoor in an Astoria street.car . was carelessly left open one day last week, and Mrs. J. P swensen, carrying a little child jn her arms,' boarded the car." She stepped into tne opening, injuring herself severely. F. M. Barnum, of Gale, reports to the Klamath Falls Express the new flume of the Klamath Water Ditb Company is progressing rapid ly. The ditch is being raised to run around the foothills, and 125,- 000 feet of lumber has been sawed at Carr's mill, to be used in the fluuie, if which 28,000 feet is al ready on the ground. . , John Stewart will ship a train ioaa ot cattle irora Eugene some time between the first and the mid die of June. There are 1000 of the cattle, and they will be shipped to Joseph Koach. at JNorthfield, Minn They are 1, 2 and 3-year-old steers, and the' prices paid for them by Mr. Stewart were f 8, $13 and f 17 per head. The cattle will probably be used in supplying an Indian reservation. Your Physical Condition Needs attention at this time. If you are tired, weak and nervous, it is clear that your blood is impure, and without doubt there has been too much over-work or strain , on brain and body. The course ot treatment for such a, condition is plain and simple. The blood must first be purified so that the nervous system, and in fact all the organs will bo fed upon pure blood. In telligent people without number have testified that the best - blood piirifier and nerve tonic is Hood's Sarsaparilla. Fraudulent School Warrant. The school board of 'Union is greatly exercised over the discovery that school warrants to the amount of about $450 have been forged and placed in circulation. The discov ery was made by Clerk C. E. Coch ran, while checking up warrants that had been canceled. The Scout says that investigation indicates that one Charles N.:Wiley, a young man; Mr. Cochran had in his em ploy is the guilty man. He had the confidence of Mr. Cochran and, duringjthe absence ofjhis employer, it seems, put in his time writing out and forging the name of the clerk to the warrants. He sold the entire amount of his fraudulent warrants to Levy Bros., of Union, who bought and sold them again in entire good faith. The loss will tall upon themi '? , Large Cattle Transaction. The Corvallis Times reports a $10,000 cattle deal in the south end of Benton county the first of last week. The purchaser is,, a . , .Mr. Cornelius, who is a heavy stock dealer of Montana; the sellers are George A. Houck and Sara Fergu son, who have been gathering up cattle in Benton, Lane, and Linn for several months past. The deal includes between 800 and 900 bead of yearlings and 2-year-olds, and they are to be shipped on a special train at Junction this week. Mr. Cornelius is in Webfoot buying cattle, because he says Oregon cat tle turn off better on the Montana ranges than do the Arizona, Texas and other cattle. 1 In buying these cattle, the maximum price paid by Houck and Ferguson to farmerB was $13.50 for 2-year-olds, and $8.50 for yearlings. The cattle sold to Mr. Cornelius were all steers. Messrs. Houck and Ferguson have left on hand a large lot of cows, calve?, heifers, and 3 and 4-year-old steers. A MINING HISTORY operations on Almas liar on Snake River.' . .( THE SQUIRRELS DYING x-rom conragious uisease in Wqitman County. 1 In early mining days in Idaho and Eastern Oregon, when the gold yield of Bannock Bar made South em Idaho famous, the foundation was laid for many wild and reck less investments in mining enter prises, with the hope of finding a deposit equal to the celebrated bar on Moores creek:, that produced such a fabulous amount in such a short time. The tine gold along the bar of the Snake river has attracted some attention, but generally the old time miners has nothing but con tempt for fine gold, and it was not until 1876, that two miners located at Midas Bar and attracted the at tention of eome one who had a pul on English and New York capital ana tne result was tnat a company was organized in New .York with ample capital for the purpose o building ai ditch, purchasing the bar and fitting it with mining ap aratus to save the fine gold. iwenty thousand dollars was paid for the bar, and a ditch seven ty" miles in length, capable of carry ing five thousand inches of water from Boise river, was construct ed. Atone time it is said that 20-. men were employed, the company's agents paying good wages, and the bottles and fruit cans that strew the ground around the site ot the old headquarters at the bar an J along the line of the ditch, readily accounts for . what as done with some of the company's monev. The ditch is said to have cost not less than $250,000, and 1,000, 000 feet of lumber was used. in floorning, but the straightest part of this story, although strictly true, is tnat when the ditch was com pleted and ready to carrv water to Midas, then called New York bar, not one inch of water could be had: it was an needed to irrigate tne suffering crops in Boise valley, and every inch of water was claimed and recorded. It takes a large amount of water to "puddle" a new ditch through such loose soil as that in which this ditch i was . constructed, but notwithstanding all these obstacles the company's money in New York still held out and the superintend ent in charge was not disposed to be discouraged so long as he could draw his salary.' A small head of water was got to the bar finally, but the constant breaking of the ditch required the employment of a standing army day and night, and in those days the service of amalgumated plates, grizzlies, un der currents and burlaped sluices was not known, and while a gentle man who worked Ihere says thev saved what was estimated to be 15 cents per cubic yard,, -that would not pay and so the whole thing was abandoned and the bar was deserted until last serine. This bar is located about seven miles above the mouth of Boise river on the north or Idaho side of Snake river, but it so happened that the Oregon state line crosses Snake river near old Fort Boise and runs up the north side of the river some twelve miles, taking in a strip of land from ; one half mile to one mile wide, and on this is located Midas Bar. It was generally supposed that the New York company had patent ed this ground, but as it was in Oregon and it was a long distance to the county seat, nobody inves tigated the matter until last epring when Mr. John B. Irwin, one of the oldest and best informed Snake river miners, made investigations and found that the entire bar was unclaimed. He at once secured the aid of Messrs. Morton and Emison and staked and recorded thirteen claims in strict conform ity with the mining laws and a sale is being negotiated of the en tire property in the east and a pumping plant will be put in motion at the earliest possible moment. The bar lays about thirty feet above low water and about ten feet of gravel can be washed into the channel by ground sluicing and the gravel prospects are re markably rich. It is our opinion that Midas Bar, when equipped with a 500-incb centrifugal pumpjand a gold-fating machine of suuicient capacity, will j be the best paying mine, for the money invested, in the Northwest, and our reasons for believing are based entirely on the prospects we have taken from the gravel and on the facilities for moving it. E. S. McComas, in La Grande Chron icle. ; THE SQUIRREL PEST. -i Little Animals Dying from a Conta gious Disease in Whitman. Gakfield. Washington, May 7. Twentyfive per cent of the squirrels in tne uat creeK country are dead, and many more are dying daily. 1 hey are alllicted with a contamoua disease, and hundreds can be seen lying around in positions that in dicate that death overtook them while in the act of feeding. Ritzviixe, Wash., May 7.-The Northern Pacific Railroad Com pany is purchasing squirrel poison for free distribution among those farmers who are unable to purchase it tor themselves. Showers of Blood. In the '"Annals of Remarkable Happenings in Rome" mention is made of 14 different showers of blood or blood and other eubstan ces mixed, which occurred between the years 319 A. D. and 1170. In "1222 we find record of shower of blood and dust which covered the hrger part of Itly. In 1226 a "snow" fell in Syria, "which presently turned into large brooks and pools of blood." A monk who wrote in the year 1251. and whose manuscript is now preserved in the British museum, tells of a three daysV shower of blood "all over southern Europe." Burgundy had a blood shower in 1361. and Ded- fordshire, England, witnessed similar unenomenon in the vear 1 . .. 1450. In 1686 hailstones fell in Wurtemburg which contained cav ities filled with blood, or blood-red liquid. The last "blood shower" on record occured in Siam in the year 1802. Women Question in the Church. The fieht over the admission nf women delegates to the Methodist conierence at Cleveland. Ohio, is growing bitter. The German dele gates, it is said, are leading the op position, some ot them have said that if the four women who have been elected delegates are admitted, all the German lav members of the church will secede. The Ger mans have issued a etrono- nmt.PHt, against tne admission ot the women and some of the prominent minis ters recoenize the fact that the"on- . r position threatens the unitv of 'the cnurcn. Bishop Fowler, of Minneapolis, says: . The Germans are verv dater. mined in what they undertake, and meir opposition in this matter is very stiong. For that reason I think the women will be denied admission." . Rev. G. W. Gue, of Portland, O., bays: This women question is beinff agitated by a lot of women who want to wear bloomers and not by the sensible and intellectual women of the church." A Drunkard's Luck. While the east-bound nassencer train was running along at a lively rate, about two miles west of Cus- cade Locks. Wednesday nizht. the engineer was horrified to see a man Vinsr with hia head on one of the rails, apparently asleep, says The Dalles Times-Mountaineer. . To stop the engine before it reached the sleeping figure was impossible, but the train was brought to a sudden a standstill as possible, and the engineer and h rem an climbed out of the cab, expecting to find the mangled form of a man under neath the cars, In this they were disappointed, for when they got back to where the man was. he was scrambling up the side of the track protesting against having been so ruaeiy awakened, though, for . a wonder, he was not injured in the least. He had been to the Cas cades the day before, where he had imbibed loo lreely, and laid down to sleep off the effects of his spree, with his head restinr on a bundle of clothes which he had placed on one of the rails. How the cow catcher knocked him away without killing him is a mystery, and can only be explained by the fact that be was drunk, and a drunken man can't be killed. For every quarter in a man s pocket there are a dozen uses; and to use each one in such a way as to derive the greatest benefit U a question every one must solve for himself. We believe, however, that no better use uld be made of one of these Quarters than to ex change it or a bottle of Chamber- am s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, a medicine that every family should be provided with. Vox sale by Osburn. Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder World' I Fair rijgtt Modal aod Diploma. ' : Highest of all in Leavening 1 1 v vw- w I u 'Ann rrrj IX ' ttSSfa"'"U. AZZSiOVUVESZ PURE VALUABLE PROPERTY A Sensational Discovery in a Coal Mine. SILVER OF FINE QUALITY Ore Assaying 600 Ounces to ' the Ton. A sensational mining discovery has been made in the Black Jack mine in Oneida county, not fur from Preston, Idaho. In a coal mine it was found there were rich deposits of silver, and, according to the Preston Standard, the dis covery has created the greatest ex citement, and the country for miles around has been located. The Preston Standard tells the story as follows: "The mine is between four and five miles from Preston and is owned by Franklin and Richmond parties. The mine was first locat ed as a coal prospect and wns first thought to be a good one. It has been worked off and on. 'as time would permit, for several years, until a shaft has been sunk to the depth of several hundred feet. Monday last one of the owners noticed some rather fine ore on the dump and he gathered up a small 6ack and sent it to Logan to be as sayed, merely as an experiment. The next day the report en me back that the ore assayed 600 ounces to the ton, silver. The owners of the mine were greatly excited at this and thought that surely a mistake had been made, so another sack was shipped off to Salt Lake City. A certificate came back from there announcing the same result and as soon as the report got out the coun try went wild with excitement. "A number of old miners have examined the mine and express the utmost confidence in it. They say that all the indications are most favorable and believe that the ore is practically unlimited and that the vein will increase in size and richneps with depth. ' "The ledge on which the mine is located is traceable for fifteen or twenty miles and the croppings throughout are similar. It is there, fore confidently believed that the whole region is rich In mineral, "It is rumored that .$30,000 had been refused for a half interest and there is no occasion to doubt- the truth of the rumor." Unearthed a Coffin. A fsw days ago while a workman in the employ of M. A. Caris was excavating for the Stahl building at Main and Fifth street, 8ays the Union, he found a coffin badly de composed and containing human bones The grave was located un der the Alheit building and as the foundation of the new building will be lower than that of the adjoining structure, the coffin was exposed to vie? when the excavator got below the foundation of the Alheit build ing. , Ihe collin was about four feet ong and had fancy handles. The body when interred had been pack ed in sawdust. A piece of blanket was the only vestige of clothing re maining, Ihe location of the grave was about twelve feet below the natural surface of the ground and from the condition of the coflin it is probable that it had been there for a quarter of a century. A Puzzling Proposition. ' The directors of the Walla Walla school district have sprung a per plexing question upon the county commissioners. In a letter ad dressed to that body, they raise the point that the penalty and inter est on delinquent taxes since the admission of the state have been paid into the general county fund, while some of this penalty and in terest was due to specific districts by reason of special taxes, other portions should have been turned nto the general fund, and a por tion-should have been distributed in the county. They hold that it s the business of thecommissioners to emuloy some person to segre gate these various portions of the penalty and internet on fchool Power. Latest U.S. Gov't Report funds for the h st seven years, and pay over to the school districts the amounts improperly withheld. A Lost Boy. ' Jo McDonough, a 13-year-old boy, left Winchester, Illinois, Jan. 6, 1896, to visit his grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Chapman, of 25 West Granite street, Butte City, Montana, and has not been heard of since. The boy had but $10, and intended to make the journey on foot. He has light hair and blue eyes, and is quite a well built and intelligent lad for his age. Serious fears are being felt as to his safety, and any information concerning him will be gladly re ceived by Mr. W. W. Chapman, of 25 West Granite street, Butte, Montana. Other newspapers please copy. i. Mr. D. P. Davis, a prominent liveryman and merchant of Goshen, Va.j has this to say on the subject of rheumatism: "I take pleasure in recommending Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism, as I know from personal experience that it will do all that is claimed for it. A year ago this spring my brother was laid up in bed with inflammatory rheumatism and suffered intensely. The first go- plication of Chamberlain's Pain Balm eased the pain and the use of one bottle completely cured him." or sale by Usburn. " -' hough Wedding Journey. Billy Adams, foreman of the Flk Horn cow ranch of McDonnald Bros., of Wallowa county, was mar ried a few days ago and started for home with his wife. There was no wagon road and they had to use pack horses to carry their house hold goods. When they came to the Grand Ronde. they found their boat missing. They decided to swim the stream, and all the horses reached the other side safely except one, which drowned, carrvine to bottom of the river all of the bride's clothing Bave what she had on. A Cure for Muscular Rheumatism. Mrs. R. L. Lamson, of Fairmount, Illinois, says:. "My sister used Chamberlain's Pain Balm for muscular rheumatism and it effect ed a complete cure. I keen it in i the house at all times and have always found it beneficial for aches and pains. It ia the quickest cure for rheumatism, muecular pains and lameness I have ever seen." For sale by Osburn. ' Sheriff's Fees Enjoined. i Charles Brownfield has brought suit,' in the circuit court, against Zoeth Houser, sheriff; William Martin, county judge; John F. Adams and T. P, Gilliland, county commissioners, and Benjamin S. Burroughs, county clerk of Umatil la county, to enjoin the county court from allowing, and the clerk from paying, any money or scrip to the sheriff for fees. Every man' having a beard should keep it an even and natural color, and if it ia not so already, use Buckingham's Dye and appear tidy. . "Ten people out of a dozen are invalids, says a recent medical authority. At least eight out of these ten, it is snfe to allow, are suffering from some form of blood diBcase which it persistent use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla would bo sure to cure. Then don't be an invalid. One of the best evidences that Ayer's Hair Vigor is an article of exceptional merit is the fact that the demand i t it is constantly in creasing. No one who uses this incomparabl" dressing thinks of trying any other preparation for the hair. Press Association. The Baker City- Commercial Club has decided to extend an in vitation to the Oregon Press Asso ciation for their forthcoming an nual meeting. The last meeting of the press association wa held at Yaquina Bay. Drive out the impurities from your blood and build up your sys tem by creating an appetite and toning the system with Hood's Sarsaparilla, if you would keep yourself well. Hood.B Pills are dinner pill; assist headache. 25cts. the best after digestion, cure