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All our best quality new Patterns, this sea
son's Flannelettes, bfest ever sold for
IS l-2c per yard,
Now 8 1-3
Wool Eiderdowns, all colors, same goods
; ' sold for 45c
How 25c per yd.
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An odd lot heavy weight, all wool Ladies'
Jackets, easily ; worth from $3.50
to $5.00 each,
Tamoshanter's in a great variety of colors
now going at
15c each
Special Remnant Day, for Saturday only,
and all Remnants to be sold on
' this 'day at
At Half Price
Our entire stock of Furs, Boas and Collar
ettes going at
At Half Price
Annual Clearance
Sale
ATIEM C AITEE C01PMI
Annual Clearance
Sale
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ATHENA PRESS
F. B. Boyd, Pcbmsheb.
Entered at Athena postoffloe as second-class
nail matter.
Subscription 'Ratss:
Pr year, In advanot , , M.60
Single eoplei kn wrappers, 5c,
Advertising Kt:
Loral reading notices, 0 rat Insertion, lOo per
ane. Eaeb subsequent Insertion, 60.
A ll communications should be addressed' to
1 he PRESS Athena, Oregon
ATHENA, JANUARY 23, 190!
MISF.llY'S TKSTI1WONV.
There muy come a time when the ago
nios of tho freezing thousands in the
East will he testimony of reward for fu
ture generations. When the time comes
a fow multi-millionaire anarchists will
be dispossesed of the power to control
the fuel product of the United States.
The signs of the times may be read in
the action of the Treasury Department
placing coal on the free list, and last but
not least, a Chicago grand jury has in
dicted 40 of these robbers who take un
due advantage of the people made help
less through conditions and circumstan
ces forced on thetu by these same men,
for the sole and only purpose of greedily
exacting more millions. The tribute
paying masses have been coerced and
floeced until patience has becouia ex
hausted to that extent when even men
who have helped frame laws that make
those conditions possible, halt and trem
ble at the spectacle before them the
spectacle of grim misery, want and suf
fering; pause long enough to place coal
on the free list in the hope that by so do
ing, misery and want to some extent will
be alleviated. With what eagerness
the eyes of millions must have gloated
over the press announcement made the
other day which read: "Blithe, Eng
landFour steamers sailed from here
this morning laden with coal for Amer
ica." And this in these great United
States, which have become the money
center of the world because of its nation
al resources and unbounded produc
tions. Coal on the free list! Importa
vion of a commodity that the country is
better supplied with than all else and of
which it is possible of exporting untold
billions of tons. Coal on the free list!
'Lest we forget" let us add that the
Treasury Department has decided that
coal is now upon the free list, and that
therefore there need bo no payment of
the 5(5 cents duty with a rebate after
wards given back, and to use the words
of a co-temporary: "Now thatthocon
gress has made a good start, why not
carry the anti-trust program to its logi
cal conclusion, and make the legislative
record appear more consistent?" Can
you expect it? Can you reasonably ask
so much of a policy-driven body? Yes.
Qaunt horrifying misery and suffering tor
warmth will even turn the Dingley tariff
Bcale until it becomes in favor of the
needy, and becomes of itself a defender
against the robber barons striking it
self with its own fangs, as it were.
Baker county had the tax levy for the
past ten years been 50 mills, and kept
the county out of debt, than that a
lower milluge be levied and the property
owners of today be compelled to pay 84
per cent on past debts. It is the worst
kind of financiering for county courts,
in order to make themselves popular
with the people of the present to levy a
tax that does not meet current expenses,
and thus heap unjust burdens upon the
property of the future. .
sable coat had been stolen. Well and
good. Any one the possessor of a $10,000
garment of wearing apparel, should have
it stolen. This in view of the fact that
thousands are shivering with cold in the
East, with scarcely garments enough to
cover their bodies.
Everything
I'OOR FINANCIERING.
The question of changing the name of
the state reform school to training school
is being somewhat agitated throughout
the state. The idea of the change is
well, concieved. "Reform school"
sounds something like a "penitentiary"
and has a tendency of reflecting discredit
upon the inmates. The youths confined
in the reformatory should be given every
advantage possible, even a change of the
name of the institution if it will do good,
for it is the purpose of the state to make
good men out of the boys committed
thereto. Though they are wayward
they should bo given a chance.
Baker county's treasurer is advertis
ing that he will pay all warrants of the
county registered prior to July 11, 1892,
and in the call for warrants he states
that he has $15,060.86 to apply on their
redemption. Of this amount $8156.86
will be applied on the principal and
86003.98 on interest.
This statement of the treasurer would
indicate that there has been some bad
management on the part of Baker county
officials, observes The Dallea Times
Mountaiueer. Either the county court
has been unduly extravagant or it has
failed to levy a sufficient tax to meet its
running expenses, whichever the fault,
it is inexcusable. No county in Oregon,
much less the one that boasts of Doing
the most prosperous, should be ton and
one-halt years lchind in paying its
bills. It is an injustice to the taxpayers
to call upon them to pay $6903.98 in
interest on a debt of $8156.86 that has
been increased to pay the expenses of
running the county ten years ago. This
injustice is heaped upon them through
the mismanagement, of past county
courts who have failed to levy a suffi
cient tax to meet current expenses. It
would have been better for the peoplo of
W. D. Fenton, chairman of the ways
and means committee of the Lewis and
Clark exposition, has submitted a report
estimating the probable levy that will be
required to meet tho $500,000 appropri
ation asked for by the association.
Provided the sum is created by two
assessments .levied upon the taxable
property of the state as shown by the
1902 tax rolls. Mr. Fenton estimates
that it will require a levy of $1.66 on
the thousand for 1904-5, or $3.32 per
thousand for two years.
For the benefit of those reading ac
counts of the senatorial contest now on
at Salem, the Tress will say that II. L.
Pittock,.who is receiving votes daily, is
a partner of Harvey W. Scott, in the
publication of the Portland Oregonian.
Mr. Pittock's senatorial star has from
three to five points, and gleams with
lustre accordingly. At least, that is the
number of votes he receives from day to
day in the legislature.
The dispatches tell us that when the
administrators who are to settle the es
tate of Mr. and Mrs. Cttas. Fair, opened
the box of personal effects sent home
from Paris, it was found that a $10,000
L. J. McAtee,
Painting, Paper Hanging and
....Graining.,.. '
For
House Keeping
Purposes
A Specialty of Inside Finish
that is good at all times is what
the Customer wants
pet it at the
C1IY11W
ROBERT WATT
Proprietor
Platzoeder & Miuger's old stand
See our stock before you buy.
Baker & folsom
The Complete House Furnishers, Main
St., next to Postoffice, Pendleton.
Foley's Honey and Tar
for chUdrea,safe,sure. No opiates.
- Hasal
CATARRH
In all its stages.
Ely's Cream Balm
cleanses, soothes and heals
the diseased membrane.
It cures catarrh and drircs
away a cold in the bead
aulcklv.
Cream Balm 1 placed Into the nostrils, spreads
over the membrane and is absorbed. Belief is im
mediate and a core follows. It la not drying does
not produce sneering. Large SUe, 60 cents at Drug
gists or by mall; Trial Size, 10 cents.
ELY BROTHERS, 66 Warren Street, New York
CITY BAKERY
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1 Rock Springs & Cumberland !
GOAL
1mm
Special Rates on Car Lotsr
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It costs no more to raise a mule "
than it does to raise a horse,
and the mule is worth more.
'"BLACKSNAKE"
Mark Pat ton's famous Kentucky
Jack, will make the season in
Athena. He is a sure foal get
ter, showing over 80 per cent of
of colts last season. Will call
at farm for sis or more mares.
Terms, $15.00 to Insert fcsl
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FRESH BREAD, ROLLS
PIES, CAKES, ETC
DAILY ''
ALHEIT B "STRESS PRSPRIETOSS
tW NORTH SICE KIAIX STREET -
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CITY BAKERY
Going to Build?
SaT Money ann Time by Hav
ing C. E. TROUTMAN, Archi
tect, make your Plans and S Deifications.
KOOM i, ASSOCIATION Bril-DIXG,
PENDLETON, . ORE.
: A. M GILLJS,
Athena, Oregon. 5
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is the place you augnt to go for a drink of High-Grade Whiskeys-so many kind.
? Bar is always shinning, neat and clean, and a Marble-top
. Bartender there can be seen.
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
North Side Main Street, P, n. TIEDEMAN, Proprietor
...ATHENA LUMBER COMPANY ...
H. H.CURTIS, Manager.
We respectfully solicit a liberal share of your patronage. We
will give you entire Satisfaction.
YE KEEP ON HAND A LARGE STOCK OF ROSLYN COAL
OFFICE AND YARD, MAIOTREET, WEST GF RAILROAD. CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTFULLY S0L1CITF
UP-TO-DATE DRUGGISTS
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Deadly IN"ao?col3ios
j Beginning in the Dark Ages Mercury and Narcotic poisons (opium, beUadona
or deadly mghtf&ade, hyoscyamua and later cocaine) were and cow are used in all
(except ERUS) pile medicines, but in the light of tha Twentieth Century any in
to hgent physician or druggist will admit that narcotics or mercury do net cure
piles. It amply fgves momentaryreliei and perpetuates the trouble or piles, f 5,3
S!Sr2 Y1178 PILE CUEE contains roercorr or narcotics. & raward if
VLRUb fails to cure any case of piles. UP-TO-DATE DRUGGISTS ONT,Y
SELL VERUS, vis: . G. a OSBCKN, The Pioneer Drug Store