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G-003D JOB WOEK AT .VEET LO'W.PEIOES. Spring Stock OF CLOTHING , " ' 1 lias , Commenced to arrive at the Square Store ! Pendleton, Oregon. J'-001 Sult ": I $6.50 and end at 18.00 The World-Renowned Feich heimer, Fishel & Co. P J lit HAS ARRIVED Best Lining Best Trimming , Best Fitting : Best Made Men's Clothing ever brought to Pendleton, The Square Store. Local News. - Democratic Bpeaking At school hoiiBe, tonight. Go to Barrett for paints and oils. i i-' - . Barrett is headquarters for lawn mowers; - "Rud" Reed was in town from Westpn, Monday. Bmlthrepreeents." only good in surance companies. ' ' Highest price paid for produce at Max Lewin's. , J. ,W. Smith solicits your insur ance..' Call and see hira. i MUa' Woodruff is proposed for superintendent of Pendleton's schools. - .Those carpet sweepers sold by Hollis are just the article you are looking after. . ; v T" ? Max Lewin - is agent for the Royal Manufacturing Company. All goods warranted, y.-y,"". Mr-Tate, special agent for the Caledonia Insurance Co,, was in own Tuesday, on business. ' Harnass and saddles cheaper at Crawford's, in Pendleton, than any where else. . Call and get prices. " Jf you wish to have your house or barn insured, be sure to see J. W. Smith before taking out a policy. People get their money's worth and the best of fresh famil v groceries at Hansell & Majoney's. They keep the best, " When in Pendleton stop at the Golden Rule Hotel. The best of rooms and elegant fare. Free bus to and from all rains. . " ... X The populists were out in force ' Wednesday, to hear an address by Quinn, the populist nominee for congress of this district. Henry Frazier and wife were in town . Tuesday from their Milton home. After June 1st it will be County Commissioner Frazier. 0. A. Barrett has been appointed sole agent for the Buffalo Pitts , threshers and extras for all terri tory between Walla Walla and Pendleton. The largest line, the best assort ment of fishing tackle ever brought to Eastern Oregon, at right prices, at the Post Office store, Hansell & Maloney, props. A copy of the Trail Creek, B. C. News is at hand, and is a very live sheet.' It is published by Thomp son' & Blackmer. Mr. Thompson is a brother-in-law of Mr. Harvey Caton. . , Y Frank Wormington and Claude feteen were in town Tuesday, from Milton. Mr. Wormington pur chased three instruments fiom the Athena band, to be used in; the Milton organisation. . Walker Wilson was arrested Saturday by Deputy United States Marshal Bentley, charged with re turning to the reservation'after be ing ordered to stay away by the agent, G. W. Harper. Go to Pendleton for big bargains in shoes cost prices on shoe dur ing the sale at the Boston Store, This is no lie. If you see the dis play you will be convinced. Big line bought cheap, before the riee. See Smith about insurance. Grand band concert at' Weston, May 28. French Criglar, of Milton, as in town this week. Owen Rusie and John Froome were in Pendleton, Monday. Clark Wood and Wm. Bernard same over from Weston Monday. If you want a good cup of tea ask for Pride of Japan at Max Lewin's. Weather was cool this week. Came near being a frost Monday night. Just received another barrel of German Dill pickles at Max Le win's. . The largest 6tock of Btraw hats in the county, are at J. S. Haye's, Pendleton. XR E. Crow and Chas. Thompson left Monday for the mountains to cut cord wood. . Another carload of sugar and groceries just arrived at the Post Office store. Your case is hopeless if you can't be made handsome at the Umatilla Art Gallery. To save money and get value received, go to Max Lewin's as he is the leader of low prices. R. A. Carden has been confined to his room with illness, the past week. " He is getting better. JCW. E. Young and W. J. Wilkin son will leave Monday evening to attend the Grand Lodge, I. 0. 0. F. Only good insurance companies are ' represented by Smithv . Re member this when taking out a policy. : . Miss Lottie Stone, has returned from San Francisco, and is on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Frank Devine. Have you seen those new style photos at the Umatilla Art Gallery, Athena, Oregon. .They are only $1.50 per dozen. J. B. Say lor, democratic nominee for representative, was up from his Butter creek farm Monday. , Hay ing will soon commence in his neighborhood, and there is plenty of it to put up. t Memorial services were held in Pendleton Sunday night in . honor of ; the late Sam P. bturgis, under the auspices of the Commercial association. Judge Stephpn A. Lowell delivered the address. . -Tribune: ,C. P. Davis expects that his son, Paul Davis, will soon have the use of his crippled hand. He was taken to Portland where, under chloroform, his fingers and wrist are gradually being straight ened out. The other day Wm. Leach was bitten bv a large dog on the upper end of Fifth street. There are one or two dogs in Athena that should not be allowed to roam the streets. A small chunk of lead would be a good remedy, . :' On next Sunday a new time table will go into effect on the O. K. & N. Train No. 1, west bound, will depart from Athena at 9:32 p. id.. instead of 9:40, and train No. 2, east, bound, will depart at 6:01 in stead of 5:53 a. m. Alex McRae, is agent , for the great Oxydoner "Victory" theinl valuable remedy which cures al form of diseases without medicine or electricity. Price only $15 Lasts a lifetime, Address, Alex McRae, Milton, Oregon. The Union county Pioneer Asso ciation meets it La Grande, June 25. A basket dinner will be given E. P. McDaniels, Mrs. J. B. Eaton, Jas. Russell, H. P. Weer and Mrs. Jas. Bloom are a committee on general arrangements. Henry Grasty, ' of Umatilla county, was restored to citizenship upon petition of a large number of citizens of the county, who repre sent that Grasty has been conduct ing himself in an upright and law abiding manner since his release, about one and a halt years ago. i James M. Bryson; Sam Bryson and J. W. Bellew were arraigned before United States Commissioner Butler vesterday morning, charged with removiug a quantity of coid wood from Meacham to Pendleton after the same had be seized by United States officials. . Kamela, whose title to fame has chiefly rested on its low thermome ter and high snow drifts, has an astrologer whose fame has gone . i t a out inrougn an me country rouna about. His name is Professor C. T. Tavlnr. and his nower of divina tion have already .located a lost span of work horses, and are now at work on a stolen bicycle. THa Kail ramA hntween Weston and Walla Walla, at Weston, Sat urday, resulted in a victory for the Walla Walla team bv a score 18 to 10. It is alleged that Walla Walla rung in players from the ganison. The Weston boys went to pieces in the first inning and let Walla Walla train 7 Mttreo. After that the Weston team played a winning cramA Vint tVift vinitfr were so far ahead that it was impossible to eaten up. Police Officor Hultz, of Pendle ton, may lose his left eve as the result of a street fight with Jack Thornton, a restaurant - man. Thornton, who was drinking, ac cused the officer of watching him. The officer denied this, whereupon Thornton viciously attacked Hultz, and in the scrimmage which fol lowed, the policeman's eye was clawed from the socket and Thorn ton's face and head were terribly beaten. Hultz finally landed bis man behind the bars. The controversy over the' road supervisorship of Juniper district ended by the county court refusing to retain M. Huson. He was the supervisor and was removed. It was alleged that Mr. Huson is not a legal resident of Juniper precinct and therefore not qualified to serve as supervisor of that district. Pe titions on each side were received and the court decided against Mr. Huson. ' i ,' The members of the Junior Lea- j gue ol the M. Hi. church wilj give an entertainment at the church on the evening of May 21. A '" short program will be rendered, the principal feature being a scarf drill and march. Icecream and cake will be served. . Admission 15c. The Columbia rive, is rising very rapidly and bids fair soon to, be come a very respectable stream. The Willamette is already raging with high water. . -Indications are that the Columbia will hot repeat the heavy floods which paused so mush damage two years ago. , The 0. R. & N. will fill in at bridges Nos. 21 and 22 on the Wild Horse at John F. Adams ranch near Adams, and have purchased enough land (from Mr. Adams to allow this to be done. The chan nel of the creek will be changed by this work. -' ' VThe Athena and Weston bands will give a grand concert jointly at the opera house, Weston, on the night of May 28th. Both bands will be in attendance and furnish music for the Pioneer's picnic- on that date. . A foot ball has been purchased and the boys will organize a team. Look out for blood and bruises in the future. .. . Twentv-eight aspirants for school teacher's certificates, are attending quarterly examination at Pendle ton. - ..' , McGough, the Weston miller, was observed on the streets, lues day. iK Wm. Bernard visited Athena Monday with his phonograph. Dr. Stiles and wife were in town from Weston, Monday. Uncle John Ridenour visited Athena this week, ; Job work at the Press office. in Tent Meeting. At Weston, commencing next Sunday at 11 a. m., under the auspices of the Christian church of Athena, a series of meetings . will be conducted. Elder J. B. Daisley of Milton, will deliver the first three sermons, after which Elder Bunnell of Dallas, will do the preaching. Everybody should at tend and hear Elder Bonnell. He is one of the ablest and most elo- auent ministers in the state of Oregon. Elder Rushing will have charge of the meeting. Everybody come. Seats free." ', Attention Woodmen. -1 The regular election of officers of Athena Camp No. 171 Woodmen of the World, will be held at the next regular meeting on -Wednes dav. Mav 20, 1896. Every neighbor is requested to be present. G. C. Osbcrs, Clerk. ! 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. I . M. Kirkland. He "I may be poor now, but there was a time in my life when I rode in my carriage." She "Yes, and your mother pushed it, too." The Wheat Market. Portland,May 13. Wheat, Walla Walla, 56 to 57: Valley, 58 to-59c, Chicago, May 13. Wheat, cash, 628; July 63. San Francisco, May 13. Wheat, cash, $1,074. ! Awarded I Highest Honors World's Fair, ' 'DEL' a CREAE2 QMS MOST PERFECT MADE. A pure Grape Cream of Tartar Powder. Free Crorn Ammonia, Alum or any otrr aauiieraw. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD. 7 M LAND OF COTTON. in Georgia s Related By An, Oregonian. E. L. Barnett, cashier of the First National Bank, has received a letter from D. A. Gibb, of Washing ton, Georgia, who was at one time engaged in farming near Athena, and is welt known to many of our readers. Mr. Gibb writes on the climate of the South, farm produc tions, hired help, etc., in a manner which will, we are confident, be of much interest to Press readers. Among others interesting things, Mr. Gibb writes: "We are having very fine crow ing weather, plenty of rain and lots of 'hot' 94 in the shade for April, isn't bad. I am running a one horse farm. They do not measure land 'down here by the acre, its by the horse. A 4 one horse farm' means from 25 to 35 acres. I haven't anv idea iust how many acres I am working. I have two mules, and work them turn about. Have in oats, corn, cotton and potatoes, besides garden truck. Oats are vrry short, as I didn't get them sown until late (l eb. 25) but corn and cotton loos well. I am just planting sweet potatoes, while Irish potatoes ate in blossom. . - "t ruit is dropping off badly, be cause pf the excessive hot weather, Cthink. I am of the opinion that this 'is -not a eood fruit climate, for following the extreme heat, we had cold wind, and ! it nearly frosted oh two different nights, and from what I can learn they average about three crops in five years. - "As to what the poor "white trash' do well, most of them get a living by cheating the nigger. Once in a while you see one work, but very seldom. Wages here - ranee from f5 to $8 .per month, and 'feed;' or by the day, 35 to 50 cents. The 'feed' consists of three pounds of bacon and a peck of corn meal per week. They do . their own cooking and furnish anything elee they need. When they hire by the month, they pet a cabin to live in. How some of them exist is more than I know; you will see a man, his wife and three or four children, from two to four dogs and a pig or two, all living on that three pounds of meat and peck 'of meal and what they steal.. ,; . , "1 hey put in .a, sood, long day here; go to work at, 8un-up, and work till sun-down); with an hour and a half off at noon. "Recently the road overseer was around to work the road. They don't give you any notise here they can . make you unhitch from yourworir arid,: go"' any 'time. I asked him how many hours he al lowed for a day, and he replied, 'about 13 now.' 'I asked how much a day ho collected instead of work 33$ cents was the amount, so I paid. Two cents and a half an hour is too little, even for me. ' A little money here goes a long way, so they have but very little, and that is the reason the South Btood the panic so well. They make it meet all their wants, and if they run a little Bhort, they pinch the nigger a little more-to make it up; give him less wages or charge him-a little more for sup plies, although' lt makes but little difference what they charge him. for they will have him in debt at the end of the year any way. I expect that's the way I will be, but thank heaven it will be but one year in that case, while the darkie and some white men have nothing else to look forward too for all their lives. "If ever you take a notion to see the South, don't stop. Keep moving. It lookej very fine when you just see the outside, but don't try to dig in. About the first thing that struck me. was the con ceit of the people here. 'No country can compare with Georgia,' and 'We 'uns raise the nest horses,' 'the best cattle,' 'the best people,' etc., while half the people who tell you this, have never been out of the state, in some cases have never been ten miles from where they were born, and as for the stock, its the poorest scrub stuff I have ever seen anywhere. It may be that they can raise good stock, but they certainly don't. I don't think there was half a dozen colts raised in this county last year, and as for crops, I would rather go to North ern Missouri and raise them on HO land, than to raise them here on $5 land. Corn and oats the same way, and in fact, everything but water-melons, and I don't eat them." v Pioneer Re-Union. 1 The fourth annual re-union of the Umatilla County Pioneer Asso ciation will ba held in Weston, Oregon, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday the 27th, 28th and 20th of May, ,1898. All pioneers and their friends are invited. The last day, Friday, will be devoted to politics. All candidates for office will be expected to meet the people on that day. A. R. Price, President. Held to the Grand Jury. Walker Wilson, who was arrest ed for returning to the Indian reservation after be had received official notification from , Agent Harper that he must remain away under penalty of 11000 fine as pro vided by the United States statutes, was examined before United States THE Farming Commissioner M. A. Butler and held to the grand jury in the sum of $250. The fact that he returned contrary to Agent Harper's orders is not disputed, and the question is whether he had right so to do. X.The1 Terror of Imnaha Gone. famous crrizzlv known on the Imnaha as ''Old Clubfoot' has at last fallen a victim to the "march of civilization" and Camp's rifle. Bears are quite numerous in the eastern pait of Wallowa county, and this particular specimen has preyed on the settlers' cattle for years past. Wonderful stories are told of his size and strength, it being claimed that he could drag off a 1200-pound beef steer with ap- Earent ease He has several tims een lured into a trap, and has as often broken the trap and escaped. Various bullets havo been lodged in his anatomy, which, thus far, had failed to diminish his appetite for beef. Like all transgressors of the law, his career has ended and his long account with the stock men has, in the end, been balanced. It was found when killed to have one crooked foot and a broken jaw. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION. It Meets at Weston Next Week Tues- day and Wednesday. ' . The annual meeting of the Uma tilla county Sunday School Associ ation is to be held at , Weston Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of next week, May 19 and 20. On the opening day, Rev. G. Rushing, of Athena, will conduct devotional services, and Rev. Homer Gallaher, of Weston, will welcome the dele gates, visitors responding. Organ ization will follow, committees being appointed and schools will report. Rev. Perry Chandler, of Pendleton, will deliver an address, "The Object of the Sunday School." Prof. R. 0. Hawks, of Athena, is to speak on "What Makes, a Good Superintendent," and Rev. I. N. Richardson, ot Pendleton, on "The Perils Threatening the Youth of Today." Rev. G. A. McKinlay, of Pendleton, will follow with an ad dress on "How to Teach so as to Reach the Understanding, Memory and Heart," and Rev. Mr. Parsons, of Milton, will conduct the question drawer. In the evening, Rev. A. R Olds, of Weston, will conduct devotional exercises, , and A. B. Stanley, of Echo, will address the convention on "How to Win Parents to Take a Deep Interest in Sundav School Work,", Rev. W. E. Pot wine will also speak on the subject, "How can the Sunday School Scholar Be Induced to Study More Faithfully at Home." . On Wednesday, Rev. Mr. War ren, of Echo, will open the exercises, and Rev. J. B. Daisley, of Miltou, will speak on, "The Use and 4.buse of Sunday School." Other addres es will be: 'The Home Depart ment School," Rev. W, I. Hughes, Presbyterian Sunday school mis sionary; "Graded Lessons in the Sunday School, are Thev Practic able?" Mrs. M. J. Lane, of Pendle ton; "Discouragements and Their Cure," Mrs. C. C. Van Orsdall, of Pendleton; "How May Primary Teachers be Helped and Encour aged in Their Work?" Mrs. Wm, McBnde, of Pendleton. HOPE. FOR EXTERMINATION. Virus Promises to be the Means for Ridding of the Squirrel Pest. Frank B. Clopton has received additional information from Har old Sorby, at Chicago, who says: . "1 have concluded my experi ments. They have terminated most satisfactorily. The stronger virus begins to act in two days and the disease spreads, at prodigious rate. I calculate that, in a week's time, an acre of squirrels could be exterminated. The weaker virus which is cheaper, is also effective, but is not so rapid in its action, in the first instance, though it works successfully, once it gets started. There is no doubt about the virus succeeding as well in the field as in the laboratory. The question presents itself to me as to whether we should supply this virus to in dividuals, or whether concerted action among the landowners in a given section would not be more desirable." Mr. Clopton hopes to make the movement a general one, and upon pushing investigation a little fur ther, will take steps to interest others in the attempt to extermin ate the ground squirrels. From the experiments made by Dr. C. J. Smith, of this city, and Mr. Sorhy, of Chicago, it looks like the squir rels can be successfully combatted E.O. y Woodmen Picnic. Xfhere is some talk of the differ- enC' Woodmen Camps in the county holding a grand picnic at Athena in the near future. There is a very pleasant place to hold the pic nic in the grove on the creek, and should the Woodmen decide to hold it, the hospitality of the city will be extended them. Wanted. ' A reliable lady or gentleman to distribute samples and make a house-to-house canvass for our Vegetable Toilet Soaps and Pure Flavoring Extracts. 140 to $75 a month easily made. Address, Crofts & Reed, Chicago, III, Dr. Price's Cream Baking: Powder Awarded GoM M',(f M4wQtf Fir, ita Frwltco. WOMEN ARE INELIGIBLE. Supreme Court Decides the Stevens Case on Constitutional Grounds. Mond&y evening, the supreme court' handed down a decision in the case of the State of Oregon ex rel J. L. Carter, resp., V6. Nellie M. Stevens, applt., an appeal from the Umatilla county circuit court. Judge Stephen A. Lowell,' presid ing. The judgment of the circuit court is affirmed. This declares women ineligible to hold . the office of school superintendent. It is understood there are fifteen women running for that office in Oregon. In Morrow county all three candi dates are women. In this county, Miss Woodruff, present incumbent, is a candidate tor re-election. The decision is as follows. It is alter ed in language from the original draft as made Monday: "Per Uurium: This is an action commenced in the name of the state by the district attorney of the Sixth judicial district, upon a re lation of J, L. Carter, to oust the defendant from the office of county superintendent of common schools for Union county and to reinstate the relator therein, r ' -i "The necessity for an immediate decision renders it, impossible fox us to do anything more than indi cate very briefly our conclusions. "Ihe complaint avers in sub stance, that at the' regular state and county election, in June 1894, the defendant was a candidate for the office of county superintendent of common schools for Union county and received a plurality of all the votes cast therefor and thereafter duly received her certifi cate of election, that at . the time of her election she was, and still is, ineligible to hold and occupy such office for the reason that she is not a male citizen of the United Slates or this state, but a woman, and, by reason thereoi, is disqualified to hold the office, that on November 21, 1894, she usurped and intruded into the office ana thereafter held and still unlawfully holds thesame contrary to law; that at the regular election in ly, the relator was duly elected to said office and in July following entered upon the discharge of the duties thereof and thereby became, and was entitled to hold and occupy the same, until a successor should be duly appoint ed or elected in the manner pro- lii.i a , . . . 1 viaen oy law, out mat in JNovemoer 1892, he .was compelled, by judg ment in a mandamus proceeding, to surrender the possession of the books, papers and indicia of the office to the defendant and she thereafter unlawfully usurped and intruded into such office and now unlawfully holds the same. A Thing M Serious Imp 1 1 Science has proved that many microbes of disease lurk in dust. These microbes find their way into the home in many ways. Sometimes by pet dogs and cats, eometimes from the sick-room, sometimes by dust tracked into the house from tho street, etc. A broom stirs up there germs of disease wherever they are, and they fasten themselves quickly to women of delicate health and to tmall children. Many of tho mysterious causes of sickness could be traced to this source. Dust is unhealthy very unhealthy, ei. J nothing has yet been invented that can prevent it,equr' to a "Bisscll" Sweeper. We will sell you one for only Two Dollars. C. Hollis, Athena. "To this complaint a demurrer was filed on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction of the subject matter and it did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action, which being over ruled the defendant refused to plead further, whereupon the court rendered judgment as prayed for in the complaint and the defendant appeals." After discussing the case at length, the court clo3es the decision with the use of the following lan guage? . 'It therefore follows that what ever views we may entertain as to the propriety of the constitutional provision prohibiting women from holding county offices we have no alternative but to declare that un der the provisions of that instru ment as it now exists they are in eligible to the office in question and that the act of 1893, so far as it conflicts with the constitution, is void. The, judgment of the court below is here affirmed. Fear Floods. f The Columbia river has not risen appreciably during the past twenty-four hours and people liv ing 'along its banks are more and more apprehensive that the warm weather, so long delayed, will come suddenly and melt the snow in the mountains all at once, causing the water to come in floods. The ' rise in the Columbia usually begins about May 10, and gradually pro ceeds until June 1, when the maximum-is reached and subsidence commences. When the rise is un duly delayed the sudden coming of warm weather causes disastrous floods, almost invariably. It is claimed, also, that when the cold weather holds on so late, the warm er days usually come with greater intensity. Consequently, the Col umbia river residents are alarmed and fear a repetition of the experi ences of 1894. Democratic Dates. Potts, Thursday, May 21, at 8 p. m., at school house. Ukiah, Friday, May 22, at 8 p. m. -' Alba, Saturday, May 23, at 8 p. m. Juniper, Monday, May 25, at 1 p. m., at polling place. ' Union, Monday, May 25,-at 7:30 p. m., at polling place! Mourtain, Tuesday, May 26, at 7:30 p. m., at Union church. Meacham, Thursday, May 28, at 8 p. m. ' Pendleton, Saturday, May 30, at 8 p. m. Friday, May 29, candidates will attend Pioneers re-union at Weston. ortance