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GOOD CTOiB "WOKK VBET LOW PEICES. Athena Press. r A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND It would be a biz Job to tell one hundred people a day anything that t . would Interest them in vonr oroodR. but its deud eimv If done the lieht 7 T In the week but that you do not need stationery of some sort or other ' Now wo furnish neat, clean printing at the very lowest rates. Mod- J I em presses, modern types, modem work, prompt delivery. I ' way. This paper will tell several thousand at once at nominal cost. I VOLUME IX. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1896. NUMBER 36. REGULATOR? Reader, did you ever take Simmons Liver Regulator, the "Kraai of Liveb Medicines?" Everybody needs take a liver remedy. It 1b 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. - That dull, heavy feeling is due to a torpid liver. 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F jr- ill F) Pr E. Notice -'to S))Q)S)Q))!)!) You can purchase our Drapers and Extras for all Headers Threshers and Horse-powers from Will Mosgrove, Athena, Oregon. GILBERT HUNT & COMPANY, Painting ... . In all Branches . Neatly done by Chapman. HOUSE PAINTING AND DECORATING. J. W. CHAPMAN, Athena. J W SMITH, ATHENA, OREGON, ' lSIT CSS PS AERM0T0R COMPANY. In recent times Chlewtil Sah rru. Who sells low to tm. tel.: rt Worth. and have therefore ' BUI Antonio, T0E. LtD' since '8a. reduced i du wvh, - i: wuesi to actu v7. - JLi -nn 01 ait , . lower, I ."1.1.?.'! HALF I inn. .T.1JL1. n Wji, in low prices, L Blilwaukeo. Wit.: uhmu "iui iuu 7 ootn.N.b. tKtnui .4K?av Throush gratitude, and because we are price makers, and arel l rooria,iu.;Dctro,w ' "oe cynnaers, lower man iron ones a z 10 men at , Bofrolo.NY, We prepay . Mow York City; is noa.eiao.; Beuimorci ppears dui our taicsi pump or liim.t utitir W. P. LEACH, -N. THE LEADING FURNITURE DEALER 11 Carpet Store 1 Largest Stock ever brought to Pendleton. Better Goods and cheaper Prices. "Agent for the Standard and White Sewing Machines. Carpets and machines at about half former prices. Come and be convinced. JESSE FAILING, Pendleton, Oregon. I I THE ATHENA MARKET FRANK BEAL, proprietor. AFRESH MEAT ALWAYS ON HAND Highest Cash Price paid f for Butcher's Stock. YOU GET THE VERY BEST AND LOTS OF if, WHEN YOU SPEND MONEY WITH BEALE Main Street, FIRST SSTIOKEL BMK ' OF ATHENS. Pays lit 1 E, L. HAMILITOH-ROURKE WAREHOUSE SYSTEM GRAIN AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS Dealers in Grain, Grain-bags and do a general Warehouse and Commission busi ness; pay the highest prices for all kinds of grain. Handle grain on either road at the same price. BE SURE YOU SEE THEM BEFORE YOU BUY SACKS OR SELL GRAIN. DAVID TAYLOR, Agent, Farmers' Walla Walla, Wash. NOTARY PUBLIC by the only concern that e volnntarilv redoced Drices. Of originated a new idea in Windmill and Water Supply Goods. Everrthlnz the fanner sells Is low. him ? ' we have reoaatedlv refused to join. defeated windmill combination, and have. the cost of wind newer to I what it wan. 1 wilu, aoa Devause we are uie soie origiaaiorn v tnat gooa in tne modern steel winamiu and I THa WORLD M1SQIVEN US MORI THAN ITS WINDMILL BUSINESS. We Oelleve i high trades and large sales. We make short J iiuwq iuuiq iiuuiuo, wtui irao. ocMiuicra i freieht to 20 branch honsea. Send no for . Deantirully illustrated catalogiie of up-to-date ideas, as once, uur imtiaiora may nos nave in , pians. no one Knows un Den . Price until no knows ours. hSSMw SUCCESSOR TO A. MILLER, III hi in We buy for Cash and sell foi Cash strictly Athena, Oregon South side Main Street. III CAPITAL STOCK, SURPLUS, $60000 $21,000 interest on time deposits. Proper attention given to collections. Deals In foreign and domestic exchange. Bahsett Cashier, Afhena, Oregon Athena, Oregon. INDIANS POW-WOW They Want a Life for a Tribe- man Lynched. " . CITIZENS ARE ALARMED. Two Thousand in Camp Near Enterprise. La Grande, Sept 1. The citizens of Enterprise and vicinity are alarmed by reports that Indians are gathering in Wallowa with the intention of massacring the inhabitants, to avenge the death of the Indian recently lynched at Asotin for outraging' a young lady of Enterprise. MiBS Olive Richardson, the young lady who was outraged, has returned home. It is rumored that the Indians now en camped in that vicinity are seeking her life, and threaten to shoot her on sight. It is estimated that over 2000 Indians from the Nez Perce and Umatilla reser vations are now encamped in the Wal lowa valley. Today the Indians had a barbecue and ipowwo at their camp at the mouth of Trout creek, this being the time for celebrating the death of the In dian recently lynched. A number of prominent Indians were present, besides the family and relatives of the dead man. The settlers have taken neceeeary pre cautions and warned everybody to stay away from the meeting, as they might thoughtlessly cause trouble, as the In dians will no doubt be worked up to a great frenzy, and, with the assistance of whisky, some of them might rusort to violence. Wallowa Lake. S. E. Meek, U. S. fish commissioner, from Washington, D. C, and A. G. Mad dern, of the Stanford University, of Cali fornia, who spent about a week in the vicinity of Wallowa Lake gathering facts concerning the finny tribe, have left for other points, says the Silver Lake Herald It is understood their trip there was prin cipally to obtain a specimen of the fish known as "yanks," which make their appearance annually at the head of the lake. From what source they come, it is not known, but that they are there is a The Gold. Standard One of the favorite arguments of the gold people is that all of the more advanced progressive nations have adopted the gold standard while the more'backward onts have clung to silver, This is re garded as proving the superiority of gold as a medium of exchange and standard for the payment of debts. , - - It the highly civilized nations had placed themselves upon the gold standard by the combined and educated judgment of their peo ple, the argument would have muchforee. If, further, the people of those countries were now united substantially in believing that gold monometallism is a go)d thing for the great body of the people argument would be almost conclusive. But neither of these things is true. In the adoption of the gold standard the "people" of these "highly civilized" nations had literally no voice; not only this, but in every country now upon that standard, it is conceded that busi ness conditions are bad, and a very large proportion of the people ascribe those conditions to the demonetization of silver. In Eng land, in Germany, in France, in Austria, Italy, and in every lead ing European country the feeling against the gold' standard is in tense, and in every country on earth the best economic thought of the age is opposed to it. In the United States there can De no question that nine-tenths of the people are opposed to the gold standard. Almost everybody is or claims to be in favor of bimetal ism, which is itself equivalent to declaring that the gold standard is not a true or desirable one. Whether this country shall proceed to act alone or await the co-operation of others is about the only point of difference, and this question is the one great and overshad owing issue in the campaign now before us. Briefly stated, the is sue is this: Both parties admit that the gold standard is an4njury to the country, and that bimetallism should be restored. The one says, "Let us restore it." The other says, "No, we must wait for international co-operation." In view of this fact alone, which is indisputable, the talk about gold being the money of civilization, etc., is the veriest drivel. To this it may not be out of place to add that from 181G to 1854 England was the only country in the world on the exclusive, gold standard. In the latter year Portugal also adopted that standard, and these two countries stood alone until 1873. So, according to this "higher civilization" idea, England must have been at the head of civilized nations from 1816 to 1873, while from 1854 to 1873 Portugal was tlje second highest. Could anything more complete ly expose the preposterous character of the claim? Bimetallism fact. They failed in their efforts, howev er, to Sad any of them, as they have not yet appeared this season. The proper materials were left with a gentleman, to preserve and ship tbtrfn as boon as they can be found. The parties left a number of interest ing facts concerning the lake, of which the following are a few: Depth at the deepeet Bounding taken, 260 feet; tem perature of the surface, 65 degrees ; of the bottom, 40 degrees, of the eprings.-44 degrees; of the river, 62 degrees. The temperature of the streams given are taken where they enter tbo lake. Probably Killed end Robbed. Alexander Smith, a prominent sheep man of the Palouse ennntry, has disap peared with $1150, nnder circumstances which point almost unmistakably to font play. Smith and bis partner, Sam Bruner, who have been together for thrte years and who own a large band of sheep, went to 8pokan Wednesday. They sold a bunch of sheep for $1300, receiving the cash. Of this amount, Smith took care of $1150. , Brucer having the balance. 8mith is a man nho never drinks or parable. while brotier. is inclined to be gay at times. In roaming about Wed uesday night, the partner caroe to the Stockholm ealroc. Smith refused to go up to the dance hall, eaing he would re turn to the Arlington stables. Later Bruner was arrested for . being drunk. When sober, he was released on bond, and can find no trace of his partner. He thinkB, and the police agree with him, that in all probability Smith has been murdered for his money. Chinamen Badly Handled. Wallace & Cochran are owners of some placer ground on Vincent creek, about three miles below Austin, in Grant coun ty. This they had leased to a gang of five or six Chinamen, who had worked on it all summer, and were about ready to clean np, when three white men, heavily armed, came to Uie claim, and at the point of the pistol, held the Chinamen at bay and proceeded to clean up the works, says the Canyon City News. The names of the men are given as Miles Harper, Frank Crandey and James Mark ham. One of the Chinamen, who ventur ed to resist, had his head laid open by a blow from a pistol in the hands of the last named person. The owner of the ground tried to get the men to desist, but they refused to do so. Finding them deaf to reason and persuasion, the injur ed parties came over to Canyon and swore out warrants for the arrest of the jump ers. The Chinamen claim they had about $1000 in boxes. . Dragged to Death. Frank Fell, the 14 year-old son of Howard Fell, living near Prescott, was dragged to death by a horse Thursday. The night before he left the house, leading a horse to pasture. He did not return, and his father went out to look for bim. Ha was found 300 yards from the house in a wheat field dead. The body was badly mangled, while the horao was grazing near by, -still held by the rope twisted about the boy's right wrist. Young Fell's necx was broken, both arms fractured, and every part of his body torn and bleeding. . Investigation showed that the horee had dragged the boy through three "bdrb wire fences and over 200 yards of stubble field. Encouraging Wheat Reports. Flattering accounts of the good yield of wheat over in Cottonwood come to the Milton F0gl.' The fanners there are careful and palus-Uklng, are hleesed with fertile soil and ru..ke the beat of their op portunities. W. P. Reeser's large field of grain averaged 50 bushels to the acre ; Frank Shelton's went 46 bushels. The Quality is all first class in this section. Those who have threshed in that vicin ity report as follows : Joe Wept. 25 bush eh, quality rather inferior by reason of being burnt; J. B. Frazier, 25 bushels, fair quality; J. S. Richey, 18 bushels, and Civilization badly burnt; A. M. Elam, 19 bushels, same. D. T. Phelps cut and threshed 60 acres which averaged 1250 bushels of fair quality wheat. County Commissioner Henry Frazier has a large body of wheat near town which will averagn 25 buthels to the acre. The samples show that it is of fair quality. Volunteer Wheat Yield. A.M. Isaac this year had 300 acres of volunteer wheat which averaged him 25 bushels and the grain is No. 1 grade. He cut bay from some of the land, securing three tons per acre. The land on which this fine volunteer yield was grown is npon McKay creek in the mountains. lie will market it at Mission station. The wheat weighed 130 pounds per eack and will test over 58 pounds per measured bushel. Dr. Price's Cream Baking: Powder Wor'd's Fair Highest Award. Highest of all in Leavening Power-Latest U. S. Gov't Report PALMER & BUGKNER Gold Standard Democrats in Convention. THIRD TICKET NAMED. Millionaires Palmer and Buck ner the Victims. Indianapolis, Sept. 3- The convention was called to order at 11 :48. A roll call of the states was ordered for the first ballot, and Palmer was nominat ed. The vote wos: Palmer 757, Bragg, 124; ; necessary to a choice, 653. A motion by Bragg that Palmer be nominated by acclamation was unani mously carried. The states grouped their guidons and marched around Palmer, while the audi ence and delegates cheered and the band played -The Red, White and Blue." A roll of the states wos then ordered for vico-president. Kentuckey named Buckner and he was nominated by ao clamation.; The audience and delegates sang America, and the convenlion ad journed eine die. FROM THE LAND OFFICE. Receiver Wilson Makes a Statement Concerning Cutting Government Timber. , The East Oregonian is in receipt of the following communication which will bear on the timber cutting controversy : : "To the Editor :In reference to the advice given by this office relative to the cutting of timber on tirobarod lands en tered as homestead, I desire to state that the rule of this office has been and is, to advise persons that timber may be cut upon a homestead for the purpose of clearing tbo land for cultivation and the timber disposed of or sold, or that timber may be cut for necessary building or tencing material. Under no other con anions is it lawttu to cut timber unon lands taken as bomeatead, and so this office has unifonnely advised. Instruc tions are alno printed upon the margin of the duplicate receipt issued in every ccse, so that it would seem that it would beimpoeible for any one to honestly go wrong in the matter, if he would take the trouble to rcau these instructions. Poor men are frequently imposed on and made the dupes of others and thereby made to bear tne brunt or violations of law, when me reauy guilty are permitted to escape, .Respectfully, B. F. Wilson, Register United States Land Office. La Grnde, Ore., August 8, 1890. Death of Captain Crawford. Seattle, Sept. l.News reached this city today of the accidental death at the Blewett gold mines noar Blowett, Kittitas county, Friday evening, of Caploin Jack Crawford, who claimed to he the original poet scout. An accident took place in what in commonly called the hydraulic claims, located a short distance below Negro creek. Crawford had been piping against a bank and had Stepped upon a small elevation to see what effect the water wai having, fie bank striking him on ttio breast. Ho was thrown back ward and fell down a hill eight or ten feet, striking on the back of his head among the rocks. He died instantly. Whether the claim of Crawford to the title of the "poet scout" was founded on or was claimed on accountof resemblance real or funded, of the famous rover, re mains to be seen. It is said that Craw ford served in the United States arm and was one of Custer's scouts. This probably explains his claim to being the originalJack Crawford. Gray Hair Made Bark. I saw in your paper a statement that ZulaVulier would restore any head of hair to natural color in three weeks. As I was very gray I sent for a sample pack age, and in less than three weeks my hair was perfectly restored to natural color. My wife's hair was a light red, and by using Zulu Vulic-r, her hair is now a beautiful auburn. Any one cu get a sample package ot Zulu Vulier by sending 21 two-cent stamps to Wilson & Co., New Concord, Ohio, and if it does not restore the hair to natural color in three weeks they will return your stamps ; it not only rewtores the hair to natural coldr, but will stop the hair falling out immediately and it one of the beet hair tonics mada, and you take no risk, and if it does uot satisfy you perfectly they will return your stamps. A Reader. PREFER TO LOAF. Harvest Hands in the Palouse Coun try on a Strike. A strike is oo among the harvest hands around Pullman in the I'nlouso country. A large number have quit work and de mand a raiae in wapes. The ranchers and machine men have been paying from 1 1.25 to 93 pet day and board, according to the work. The men now domund that the lower wages bo f 1.50 per clay and board, for men pitching in the field, driving bundle wagons, and the lighter j ihs. There are large numbers of men lying around the rtreets looking for positions at 1.50 a day, and the farmers are in every day ready to pay fl. 25. It is said to be al most impoKsible to get men to go out far H 25. The farmers ila'm that $1 25 is the best they can afford to ray lor the lighter work, considerir g the low price of grain. The men, however, are persistent. Many of them have not dollar in their pockets, and could get from 20 .to 30 days' steady work, with the cash when work is done, if they would condescend to ge out for $1.25. As it is, they lay around perhaps halt the time, and go out for (1.50 and do not make as much as if they were ready to take what came along. The ruling element among these men seems to be the "hobo class." that do not care whether they work or not. They camp in the brush below town near where the largest warehouses are .located, and go from house to house for something to eat in the daytime. There are, in all probability, 50 transient men in Pullman who could go out any time and work if they would., . ..' telephone' line sold. Sheriff Disposes of the Blue Moun tain Property Under Execution. Two o'clock Saturday afternoon was the time set for the sale under execution of the property of the Blue Mountain Tele- pnone & telegraph Uompany, at Pend leton. The sale resulted from an action begun against the company in Justice Parkea' court, and in which judgement was rendered in favor of G. T. Roork. afterwards assigned to Mrs. Eliza Leezer. The amount due from, the company is $980.68. Everything pertaining to the line in Umatilla county comes under the judgement and costs. There is 15 miles of wire and poles between Pendleton and Charles Cunningham's ranch in Ukiah, ana mere are strung poles from ukiah to Long Creek and on to Canyon City. These poles are in no way connected with the sale which was advertised for Satur day. Deputy Sheriff Faxon offered the pro perty as advertised, and asked for bid ders. Chas. Carter bid $150, and M. A. Butler raised it to $100. Mr. Carter raised him $175, and Mr. Butler went $200, at which figure it was sold to Mrs. Eliza Leezer, for whom Mr. Butler was bidding. It was therefore bid in and the property remains Frantically in the same status it was in before the sale. Any further plans in connection with the tele phone lino are not yet given to the pub lic. It is the general hops that it will be completed and put in operation before long. The best regulator to regulate a people, is Simmons Liver Regulator. It regulates the liver and the liver regulates the per son. If tthe liver is regular then the health is good, but if sluggish or diseas ed then there is constant Biliousness, In digestion, Headache and all the disorder of the stomach that one hears of. To Simmons Liver regulator and prove this. ' Oregon Notes. . J.N.Watson, expocts to start about September, 15, from Sican, Lake county, for Reno, Nev., with 4000 bead of sheep. Miss Ida Dixon suffered a broken arn by a fall from a galloping horse at Klaro atb Falls, Wednesday, caused by the breaking of a cinch. Klamath county's huckleberry patel is a large one, covering an area of 6 square miles. The berries are largo an always plentiful, The date of the Columbia river cod ference of the Methodist Episcopal churcl. has bean postponed ono week. It con venes at North Yakima, Wash., Septem ber, 2. Union, Wallowa and Grant coun ties have been added to that conference Claud, the 7-year-old boy of Dani ' Giles, of Myrtle Point, was run over by hack driven by George Stewart, last Sa' arday. The front wheel ran across bi abdomen, and for a while it was fears i that the injury was fatal. He is recovt; -ing, however. Isaac Ruddock, one of tho five prisoi era who escaped from jail at Pendleto last week, was reported to have bee seen and conversed with by an Ee Oregonion reporter, on the eastbound T R. & N. train at Pendleton, Friday nigb He seemed to be in no fear of arrest. The counties of Grant, Harney ai ' Malheur being largoly stock-raising dii tricts, have many borsfg which are fki runners, and the meet uf the Burns Joel ey Club, which is to commence at Bun on September 1, with purses aggregotir . $1000, is sure to attract horsemen froi. far and near. - For over two rears the relatives f ' Philip Webber, ho resides in Corvalli . have been woDdeiiog where he was. A i they knew was that he was somewhe:. in California. A few days ago a trave ing man arrived in Corvallis and inforn ed them that I'bil'p was employed in h large clothing establishment in Alaraed: Cat. Asa Roberts ? as taken into custody r La Grande last week on a charge of rap preferred I7 U s. Mary Felton. Atu -listening to the testimony of several wit nesses, Ju.; Van Buren, before whor the examina'1 :i took place, took the car under advise uient, and the next mornici discharged Roberts, the evidence bein. insufficient to hold liioi. Mr. William Johnson, who has bee: doing some work of exploration on tbi coal vein discovery by him and others last year on the John Day river, in Gran: county, reports that the development s far has been of a very encouraging charac ter, and that the quality of the coal ie improving as depth is attained. They have sunk their drill to a depth of 140 feet and find the vein improvic g. Julius H. L. Ruhborg, after examina ton at The Dalles Saturday, was declared insane and committed to the asylum. Friday Willia Howard found Ruhberg at the free bridge on the Deschutes devoid of clothing, and laboring under the im pression that some one was seeking -to take bis lire. Ho had jumped into the river in a frantic .Attempt to escape his pursuers, and only by the aid of bystand ers was rescued from drowning.