The Athena press., January 30, 1903, Image 1

VOLUME XV.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING. JANUARY 0, 1903.
NUMBER 5
. A. BARRETT '& -COLvTY'l
sou OLIVER &AM
Walking Plows, j
MONITOR DEILLS -BotH Disc anbl Hoer-American :
i Hog and Field Fencing and General Hardware.
CITY DRUG STORE
Adams, Oregon
The best is always cheap
est. Our Drugs, Medicines,
Stationary and Sundries
are only the very bestir ; '
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A. B. STONE, Proprietor.
Adams, .- - - - Oregon
Crocerle, Crocker
OniGe: 'sbomhi a itlme
AMD NOT SO VERY LONG AGO
people were unable to obtain differant grades of Canned Goods;
but times have changed, and with this the quality of , many
kinds of vegetables, fruits, oysters and bottle goods. " We are
the first real grocery establishment in Athena to carry in stock
a complete line of Preferred Stock Canned Goods. These goods
are the perfection of canned goods. Send us a trial order for
some one of the prefered variety and let us convince you of
their superiority over all other canned goods.
From field and Orchard to Can the
Wot by liancfci that more Walkover
Shoes are sold each successive year. ,The idea of making every
purchaser a permanent customer governs. Select successful
goods and seehow prosperity will lean your way. : . j ;
Snow Drift Flour is always
the best. We are sole agents
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FIRST RSTIOESL BMK-OF: ETHEHi
H. 0. Adams, President.
T. J Kirk, Vice-President.
;j CAPITAL STOCK,
.. , SURPLUS,
Proper attention given to collections. Deals in foreign
- ' - and domestic exchanged
F. 8. Lb Grow, Cashier,
8
G. A. Barrett.
P. K. Colburn, Directors
$ 60,000
5,000
I. M. Kemp, Assistant Cashier
Same Day
ahead of
FOR FORTY DAYS
AND FORTYNICHTS
SENATORIAL CONTEST . WILL
LAST THAT LONG-
Pierce's Eloquence Gained the Ex-
perimental Station Appropria- f :
tion. for Union , ";
Salem, January 28 (Special Corres
pondent.) While perhaps not doing
anything of goneral importance, the
legislative assembly is disposing o a
great amount of routine work this week.
Many bills have gone through first and
second readings, quite a number through
the third reading and have been' put on
final passage, most of them passibg
without much opposition and a few be
ing voted down. ., f
The senate at tbe morning session to
day disposed of all the work on the
table and took a recess from 11 :10 to
11 :55, calling to order for the purpose. of
going into the joint session at' noon.
The members from Umatilla county,
with the exception of Phelps, belong to
the minority and are taking active part
in the deliberations of the legislature.
Mr. Blakely has introduced house bills
44 and 48, the former a bill for an act
to protect stock growers, the latter
a bill for an act to tax inheritance. Ho
also introduced the Adams charter bill
which passed. Following are the most
important bills introduced by Senator
0. J. Smith: S. B. 19, relating- to rail
road property smbject to liens; S. B. 65,
relating to care of insane people; S. B.
80, providing for manner of securing
license to sell liquor; S, B. 89, providing
for state grain" commission and grain in
spector; S. Bv 95, compelling placing
road brand on cattle driven through
other counties than that in which brand
is recorded.
Senator Walter M. Pierce has intro
duced the following: S. B. 4, making
the school tax levy amount to $8 per
capita for all children of school age in
stead of the present 5-mill levy; S. B.
17 and 18, abolishing the office of reord
er for Union and Umatilla connties re
spectively; S. B. 72, making taxes pay
able any time before December 81st , of
the year in which they are levied; S. B.
81, appropriating $20,000 for Eastern
Oregon Experiment Station; S. B. 115,
declaring the Associated Press , (ind
similar associations common carriers. ,.
Senator Pierce is earning quite a repu
tation for eloquence. Yesterday after
a vigorous speech he succeeded in liav
ingS. B. 81 , carrying $20,000 for the
Eastern Oregon Experiment Station,
pass the senate. Several senators testi
fied that .their votes were changed by
his argument. '
Charters or amendments to same have
been introduced or prepared for Pen
dleton, Freewater, Weston and Adams.
Copies of any of the above bills except,
some of. the charters which are not
printed, -will be cheerf uly furnished free
of charge upon application to members
of legislature or secretary of state. 1
The monotony of the purely perfunc
tory proceedings of the joint session was
varied a little today. After the roll call
Senator Squire Farrar, of Marion, a
Geer supporter, arose and in a short
speech conceding the hopelessness of
his candidate's cause and declaring it to
be the duty of the republican majority
to elect a United States senator, changed
his vote to Chas W. Fulton. This pre
cipitated a storm of applause and cheers.
Everyone looked anxiously for other
similar changes, but they did not come.
Mulnomah, as usual, scattered. Rep
resentative J. K. Gil) (Eep.) voted; for
Wood. Two votes were casl for W,
W. Cotton, attorney for the Union aci
fic, who appeared before the committee
on railroads and transportation a few
nights ago and aigued against the
socalled fellow servant bill. No one
can be found here who will attempt to
foretell the puteome of the senatorial
contest. " Nearly every one expects a
contest of 40 days and 40 nights. - 1 -
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r WILL SUIN WHEAT LAND.
Bain In Walla Walla Foothills Washing
' : Great Kut lo the Soil. .
If the heavy rains of the past few
days continue for any leDgth of time
the ground will ; be washed so that it
will be almost impossible to farm some
of the billy land in the Walla Walla
foothills where late plowing was done,
says the Union. This is, the opinion of
almost every farmer who has land in the
foothills east or south of the city.
Three years ago there was so much
heavy rain during the latter part of Ihe
winter and early part of the spring that
ditches to the depth of three feet and
sometimes half a mile in length were
washed in the fields. This is the con
dition tbe farmers fear their sum
mer fallow fields will be left in this
spring, as small gutters have been form
ed already If such is the case a large
number of grangers will have to plow
the entire field again or plow in the
ditches, which makes the ground so un
even that it is very disagreeable to
farm. '- , ' ' j
Not only does the heavy rain wash
the ground so as to make it very incon
venient for farming, but after great
ditches have been washed in a piece of
ground several years in succession the
soil is of a much inferior quality. At the
same time what ground is not washed
away is packed so hard that the life is
taken from it for another year. Thus
the wheat raiser not only farms his
ground with great difficulty, but parti
ally loses two years' crop. ;
Died of HI Injuries. '
Albert Lake,' who was injured by a
cavein at the Oregon Monarch mine
Wednesday eight of last week, when
Frank Marsh was killed, died Monday
afternoon at Sninpter. Death resulted
from complications cf disorders aggra
vated by the accident. -
Death of Mr. Kern.
Mrs. Rhoda Roan Kern died at her
home in Helix at 9 o'clock Tuesday
morning as a result of complications of
diseases with old age. She was born in
1833 and came to Umatilla county in
1878. er husband is W. C. Kern, ex
treasurer of Umatilla county. Mrs J.
Vaughn of this city is a daughter. . C.
A. Sias conducted the funeral Wednes
day at Helix.
City Limits to be Extended. .
A bill will soon be presented to the
legislature by Senator W. M. . Pierce to
so change the city boundaries of Wes
ton that Killgore's addition now dotted
with many new residences and known as
Normal Heights will be included, says
the Weston Leader. At the same t me
any other debired extension of bound
aries will be included in the bill,; and
neighboring - land . owners - who de
sire to plat additions can take advant
age of the opportunity by notifying W.
M. Pierce at once.
Kd Mill! In Jail.
Ed Mills is in the Walla Walla city
jail charged with petit larceny, says the
Union. He is alleged to have taken a
violin from a young man with whom he
had been rooming and boarding at the
Central Hotel, and sold it at one of the
pawnshops for $2. Mills was a mem
ber of the Walla Walla base ball nine
of last season. He had been engaged to
work for a farmer on Eureka Flat and
was at the W. & C. R depot when he
was found by a member of the police
force.
Contest in Team Work.
About the first week in March the
Knights of -Pythias of Umatilla, Baker
and Union counties will meet for a con
test in team work that will probably be
something fine, judging from the pre
dictions of the local Knights. The con
vention will meet in La Grande. -The
district convention preparatory to the
event has already been held in this
county.- The Union county convention
will be held January 29 and the Baker
county convention Jan. SO.
X
School Tax 15 Mills.
Saturday the voters of school district
No. 29 met at the school house and
voted a school tax of 15 mills. The
amount of taxable property in the dis
trict as given on the tax rolls for 1902
amounts to $207,458.50 A 15-mill tax
levy on this amount will give to the
district a surplus over and above ex
penditures for maintaining the school,
which will be used in payment of inter
est on bonded indebtedness. . .
Sheriff Arrested Two.
y sheriff Taylor came up from Pendle
ton Monday and .witn nis Drotner, w.
R.. Taylor, went out to the Vaughn
place and arrested, two men who at the
county jail gave their names as G. L.
Smith and G. S. Grant. Their tr e
names are said to be Weston and Her
rin. They . are. charged with horse
stealirg.- ,' ... j ;
BEST HAT IN TOWN
AWARDED TO DR. DELL
Band Concert Was Appreciated by a
. - Large Audience. '
"The Athena Band never gave but one
concert!" "
These words came to the reporter
from one of the many enthusiastic per
sons who comprised the large and ap
preciative audience that turned out to
hear the band concert and to witness
the old fiddlers' contest. The stormy
night did not deter people from going,
to the extent that the opera house was
comfortably filled, otherwise ' there
would not have been standing room.
The numbers by the Athena band and
orchestra were well rendered and the
quartette responded to encore. Mrs. J.
). Hawes was popular in a beautiful
vocal solo, and Prof. Walker, assisted
by Guy McDowell, was Well received in
his musical specialties. His "muga
phone" brought down the house. Then
came the old Fiddlers' contest, the
feature of the evening. .
Will M. Peterson, in a few prelimin
ary remarks, introduced each contestant
as he came before the audience. There
were five contestants, Mr. Peterson,
Dr. Dell, A. L. Jones, A. Luna and W.
J. King. All were ear fiddlers, and
Prof. J. S. Henry officiated as judge in
the contest. .
Each was given an opportunity of
playing two numbers, and from first to
last close attention was given the fiddle
players who took their seats amid a
thunder of applause. "Leather Breech
es" and the "Arkansaw Traveler" were
rendered with artistic execution, and
when Dr. Dell was. awarded the prize,
consisting of the best hat in town, some
one was heard to remark that he won by
"playing a tune in the fifth position."
The band boys afforded an excellent
entertainment and are pleased with the
support accorded them.
A FRIGHTFUL WEECK.
Knglne in Bfeacham Creek Engineer
and Fireman Killed.
A frightful wreck occurred to an east
bound passenger train on the O. R. &
N. Sunday morning on Meachatn creek,
just east of Bingham Springs station:
Engineer Patty and fireman Milligan
were dashed to death, and William
Maxwell is fatally injured.
The wreck occurred on a fill, which
had been walled up with rock to pre
vent the stretm which makes a turn at
that place, from undermining tbe track.
On rounding a curve the engine plunged
headlong into the roaring torrent of Mea
cham creek, running eight feet deep,
swollen by melting snow and rains.
The engine stands upright, in eight
feet of water, the cab and machinery
stripped from the boiler and the tank
lies bottom side up in the stream. The
baggage car is a total wreck and the
mail car and amoker are badly dam
aged. 1 ' '' ' 'v
the body of engineer Patty was found
in tne suatierea csd ox me engine,
crushed and horribly scalded. The
baggage car had plunged against the
engine when it dropped into the wash
out and caught the engineer at bin pout,
killing him instantly, at the same time
breaking the steam pipes and fittings in
the cab, allowing the escaping steam
and water to cook the flesh of the un
fortunate man, it is thought after the
first crach had killed him.
The reverse lever on the wrecked en
gine was in the backward motion, the
brake valve set in the emergency posi
tion and the throttle was open, showing
that the dutiful servant had used his
utmost energy to stop the plunging en
gine at the first quiver that warned him
of danger.
It is impossible to say whether the
fireman was thrown into the stream by
the shock, or whether he caught a
glimpse of the danger as he stood in the
gangway of the cab and jumped to save
himself, being drowned in the torrent
in his effort to escape. His body was
found Monday morning on a riffle in the
Umatilla river, far below where the
wreck occurred. William Maxwell ia
the name of the passenger injured. - His
mother and sister reside in Baker City.
w Tledeman Got License.
'The city council Monday evening
granted P. H. Tiedeman a license to
sell liquor in less quantities than one
gallon for the period of one year. A
remonstrance was presented by Mrs. A.
M. Gillie, but not having a sufficient
number of signers, the council could not 1
uu uiuerwise man grant me license
Attorney Peterson was called in and
gave, by request, his opinion on a couple
of technicalities which the council was
not conversant with. Mr. Tiedeman
was present and was somewhat relieved
when the bond was accepted and the
license granted by a vote of four "ayes"
and one "no." ' -: . . '
Want a Saloon at Alba
About 50 taxpayers of Alba precinct
have signed a petition to be presented to
the county commissioners at the March
meeting asking a saloon license for
Frank B. Brown to extend from May to
the end of November. This is the period
when most of the heavy freighting is
done through Alba from the John Day
to Pendleton, and saloon keeping ia a
rather profitable business along the
feeding places, x 'J: ' " , . j
I u(vi aoiu uuii
XJ. W. Gates has Bold his cigar store
in this city to J. D. Sheets x Son, of
Milton. The new firm has taken pos
session and Mr. and Mrs Gates leave to
night for Bourne in the Sumpter min
ing district With Wm. Mosley. of this
city Mr. Gates will conduct a hotel in
the thriving mining camp to which he is
going.
Mayor In Quarantine.
Milton is comparatively free from dis
ease now, only the home of Mayor S. A.
Miller being under quarantine for
smallpox, while scarlet fever has virtual
ly died out. Mayor Miller's house will
soon be free.
; rieroe Wants News.
Senator Pierce has introduced a bill
to compel the Associated Press, a cor
poration, to serve all newspapers ap
plying for it, the news service of that
corporation .
SEVEN THOUSAND IN
- SIGHT FOR HEW CHURCH
The Sum ot $4025 Reported on
Sunday Night.
The fund for the building of the new
Methodist Episcopal church in Athena
is well under way. , At the service Sun
day evening it was announced that
$4000 had been subscribed, but a mis
take in the addition of the subscrip
tions at the time, brought the amount
$25 below what it really was.
; Since Sunday $800 has been added to
the list and the sum now amounts to
$4,800. This is indeed' a good begin
ning, and Pastor Armtleld informs the
Press that he has $7000 in Bight for the
new building and that he is going to
use his best endeavor to get that
amount. The sum of $500 in the above
mentioned $4,800 iB to come from the
Church Extension Board of Philadel
phia. ' -
Everyone seems anxious to assist in
the moBt substantial manner in the
building of this new church and the
pastor and members are meeting with
success, to say the least. Evidently tbe
Eublic as well as the church people will
e pleased to see a new structure of
stone and brick in place of the wooden
building now standing.
Teller lle-Klected.
At 5 o'clock Saturday afternoon the
democratic members of the senate and
house of the Fourteenth Assembly of
Colorado, cast their ballots, 51 in num
ber, for Henry M. Teller to succeed
himself as United States senator, and he
was declared elected by PreHident W.
II. Adams, who presided. The result
was reached after a week of untiring
effort on the part of the democratic
leaders, during which many rumors of
treachery had been circulated, and many
delays had occurred by reason uf the ab
sence from roll call of different mem
bers of the assembly.
A Peculiar Measure.
Among the peculiar measures intro
duced in tbe Oregon legislature may by
classed a bill to compel the state printer
to use the label of the Allied i rinting
Trades' Council or the label of the In
ternational Typographical Union on all
letterheads, blanks, reports, pamphlets,
books, certificates of election, etc.,
printed by the state. , No officer or other
person in the employ of the state shall
accept any printed matter that dues not
bear tbe label under penalty of a fine of
not less than $100 or not more than
$500 or imprisonment of from 30 to 90
days' or both. It was introduced by
Representative Bailey of Multnomah.
Marlindale Convalescing.
President Martindale, of the Eastern
Oregon State Normal, is said to be re
covering from his severe sickness. For
several months Mr. Martindaie has been
very low and his life was despaired of.
While he is not entirely out of danger
he is now able to be.out ot the house
and has walked down town once or
twice. . . . . ,
Built a Dyke.
: Labor volunteereed by the farmers
below Milton, have built something over
300 feet of dyke along tbe . east side of
the Tumalutn below to prevent further
depredations by the river upon the
farming land. The high water about
tbe first ot the month is said to have
cut out land to the value ot 1500.
FEDERAL AID
IN IRRIGATION
EASTESN PEOPLE REALIZE THE
VAST POSSIBILITIES.
The Actual Work of Surveying:,
Locating and Construction "Will
Be By Geological Survey.
Washington, D. C, Jan. 30. Special
to the Press The acceptance by cong
ress of the principle of federal aid in the
construction of irrigation works in the
western states has given a great impetus
to every industry in that section of the
country. The people of the eastern
states are just beginning to realize the
opportunities offered in the territory to
be opened up. As tne proposition de
velopes, a tide of irrigation will inevit
ably set in and this region will become
one of the most ' populous and prosper
ous in the countrv. , With large areas of
ot reclaimable land and plenty of
water, Oregon especially will be bene
fitted by the measure.
The actual work of surveying, locat
ing and constructing reservoirs and
other irrigation works will be done by
geological survey. In order to obtain a
better understanding of the present ex
tent of irrigation, the location of the
areas irrigated, and to gain other in
formation useful in this work, the fifty
seventh congress authorized the director
of the census to bring down to date the
irrigation statistics obtained in 1900 by
that office. Letters of inquiry and
schedules are now being sent out to
secure the necessary information. All
interested in irrigation should answer as
fully and as promptly as possible any
inquiries they may receive so that the
merits of the various sections of the
country may become known. Irriga
tors who do not receive blanks within a
reasonable time should notifiy the cen
sus officer at Washington and they will
be supplied.
It is interesting to note in this con
nection how much it will mean to the
country at large to have the arid lands
of the west reclaimed.
According to the census of 1900 the
total improved farm area of the United
States was 414,800,000 acres. It is con
servately estimated that the reclaimable
area is not less than 50,000,000 acres. Its
reclamation, therefore, will add nearly
one-eighth to the actual crop producing
area of the country and will exceed by a
liberal margin the tillable land of all
the states, excepting New York, on the
Atlantic Coast from Maine to Florida.
Allowing 40 acres, the average size of
irrigated farms, this area will make
l,250,0i)0 farms, or a little less than one
fourth the number in the United States
in l'JOO. The occupants ot these farms
will add directly to the population 6,
250,000, and indirectly, in the accom
panying mercantile, professional, manu
facturing and industrial classes at least
3,125,000 more, a total increase in the
population of the United States ot 9,
375,000, or nearly 12 and one-half per
cent,
The number of irrigating ditches and
canals in operation in the United States
exceeds 20,000, and their combined
length is not less than 50,000 miles. If
joined end to end they would reach
twice around the world. Formed into
one they would constitute a navigable
canal, such as the Erie, thirty feet wide
and five feet deep, extending from San
Francisco to New York, a distance of
nver 3,000 miles. . ,
After the government has performed"
its part there will be no delay by the
farmers in carrying on the work.- While
the iqitial expense is enormous, it is not
comparable with the value of the crops
which will be grown on the lands re
claimed. The total cost of all the ir
rigation works in the countiy is only
three-fourths the value of the crops
produced each year on irrigated lands.
A PIONEER OF 1863.
Death of Mrs. Martha Morgan In Weston
Last Friday.
Weston Leader: Mrs. Martha Mor-
fan, a pioneer woman of Weston, died
'riday morning at 8 o'clock at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Sarah McDougal, in
Weston at the age of 70 years, after a
short illness with pneumonia.
Mrs. Morgan was born in Missouri
January 9, 1833, and was married to her
first husband, James M. Lieuallen,
November 6, 1851, in the same Btate.
They crossed the plains in the same
immigrant train with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew J. Killgore, and lo
cated near Weston in 18G3 on the place
now occupied by C. F. Bultlnch, being
among the first settlers in this neigh
hood. Mr. Lieuallen died in 1888, and
bis widow was re-married November 16,
1890, to J. 8. Morgan, who also proceed
ed her to the grave.
"Aunt Martha," as she was known
among her relatives and friends, was a
lifelong member of the Baptist church.
She performed life's duties with fidelity
and honor, and passed to her eternal
rest with the love and esteem of those
near and dear to her.
Her surviving children are Mrs. Matt
Shaw, Mrs. John Shaw, Mrs. Ben Shaw.
She also left two brothers, Lewis and
William Kilgore, and two sisters, Mrs.
Sarah McDougal and Mrs. Minerva
Barnes.
It was the dying request of the de
parted that her remains be conveyed to
Moscow Idaho, for interment beside the
grave of her first husband.
McKay rostofflce Burned.
Sunday morning the postoffice at Mo
Kay, south of Pendleton, was burned.
Joseph Hubbard, the postmaster, also
lost his stock ot general merchandise
and household goods. : -The loss on
building and contents amounts to $2500.
Threatened to Kill.
Mrs. J. Frank Day, wife of a nun who
has figured more or less in the Pendle
ton police courts, has instituted suit for
a divorce The complaint alleges that
on different occasions the utisband
threatened the life of the defendant.
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