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SHORT WHEAT CROP WASHINGTON REPORTS TO THE STATE OEAIN COMMISSIONER Fall Grain Will Not Exceed 75 per , Cent of the Area Planted a Year Ago. The office of the Washington state grain commissioner has been corres ponding with the wheat men east of the mountains trying to secure data on which to base a report of the crop of wheat to be raised in that state the coming year, says the Tacoma Ledger, To date not all pointf have been heard from and the office of the state grain commissioner is unable to make a re liable' estimate of the amount of fall wheat planted, nor, of course, : the amount of spring wheat which will yet be planted before the advent of sum mer. But the conditions shown by the miswers received make it very desirable the state should have a fair, long spring, or the yield of wheat for 1903 is going to fall alarmingly short of former years not because of any particular blight on crops, but simply because the wheat is not beinir planted. From the letters re ceived from all over. Washington it is pretty safe to estimate the amount ot fall wheat planted in no case or locally to exceed 75 per cent of the area planted a year ago, white in some localities not to exceed 10 per cent of the acreage of 1902 has been sown to fall wheat. Still more serious is the backward condition of the spring, for with a favor able spring it was the intention of most fanners to plant heavily to spring wheat and in this way compensate for what shortage was occasioned by the peculiar conditions of last fall. Wilbur, in the Big Bend, reports as low as 10 per cent of former winter wheat acreage, while the best report comes from Farmingtion, in the Palouse, where the ground plant ed is about 76 per cent of former area Said S. S. King, chief inspector of the office of the state grain commissioner: "The conditions last full were decided ly adverse to extensive planting. It . was the decided intention on every hand to plant heavily to fall wheat, but the weather continued extraordinarily dry too late in the fall, and when it com menced raining, it never let up suffici ently to permit of getting in tbe full crop The remedy was, of course, the planting heavily of spring wheat, for with a favorable season the spring .wheat in this state does exceedingly well. Now the reports are that the spring is backward Just when a favor able spring is needed to recoup the losses of area. However, I have known wheat planted in this state as late as the end of May or the first of June to turn out very well, so that there is yet ample time under , favorable conditions for Washington to get in as much wheat as a year ego, even if it will be mostly spring grain. Under all the circuui stances, it is particularly desirable that the fine, warm weather of tbe past few days should continue. Advices are that the farmers are taking energetic ad vantage of it, and wherever the frost has left the ground the plow is to be seen hard at work. It all depends upon the cessation of cold weather, Last sum tnoi, in anticipation of heavy fall plant ing, there was an unusual area ot sum mor fallow land, and, as the reports will show, there was a disposition in some localities to plow and plant not with standing the drouth, with the result that some of the land will have to be re sown, xue long, dry lull ot last year was simply ideal for threshing, no doubt abetting materially the excellence ot the crop. It is not certain today but we could have afforded some inconvenience then from rain, ot which we would have reaped the benefit this year. WESTON NEWS. Leader: The public school has add ed 40 elegant volumes to its library. This was accomplished by selling certifi cates entitling the purchaser to privi leges according to the number ot shares he purchased. Not content with their independent telephone line, the enterprising residents ot Weston mountain will continue to progress in other directions. Their next step will be toward securing free rural mail delivery. George Taylor, brother of Mose Tay ' lor, has arrived with his family from Cullingwood, Canada. He intends to locate permanently in the "Richest Tart of the Rich Empire Where Wheal is King," in which his brother is an ex tensive and successful farmer. After preaching a sermon last Sunday aJeewKt"vMorgaQ Gallaher, former ly of Weston, was seized during the night with an acute attack of appendicitis. He was conveyed at once to the hospiul at Walla Walla where an operation was performed Monday evening. The pa tient is now resting easily and his con dition is considered encouraging, Mr. and Mrs. Geo, W. Maybee have returned from the Belinko school dis trict, near Freewater, where Mr. Maybee has just finished seven months ot school room work. lie had the largest countty school taught by one teacher in the county, the enrollment being 0G pupil, with eight grades represented. He ui t with gratifying success and finiahoa Lit. work with the endorsement of tbe dirvc- tors. . - Mabel, the eight-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Rine, was severely burned Monday evening while ploying near a bonfire. Her dress caught fire and before they could be subdued the flames had inflicted painful wounds, principally on the child's right shoulder. Malel was saved from much worse in jury, and perhaps death, by her brave little sister, Eva, who displayed remark able presence of mind for a girl under teu years of age. She prevented . the young girl from running, and securing a blanket, wrapped it around her, thus smothering the flames. One of Eva's hands was badly burned in this effort. ' MILTON NOTES. Robert Brown, an old and well known resident of this county, died at his home on Dry creek last Friday of pneumonia, and was buried in the city cemetery at this place Sunday. An old geutleman by the name of Freeman, who lives about eight miles east of town on the Walla Walla river, died Friday and was buried in the Bowlus cemetery Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Michael of Wes ton are in the city visiting relatives. Their infant child Ethelwin represents the youngest generation of a family croup which reaches up to Great-Great Grandmother Hummison. At the council meeting Monday eve ning a committee was appointed to lo cate a site for a pumping plant and reservoir for the city waterworks sys tem. The proposition to make tbe im provements is meeting with popular favor and if found practicable will doubtless be done during the summer. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Elam and Miss Bertie Elam returned Sunday evening from an extended tour through the southern and eastern states. They re port an enjoyable time and are most en thusiastic over the wonderful things witnessed on the trip. . The Walla Walla Produce Co.'s pack icg house at the depot was discovered to be on fire about 4 o'clock Wednesday evening. An alarm was turned in and a bucket brigade formed which quickly subdued the flames, but had it not been for the prompt assistance of the volunteer firemen the building would evidently have been consumed, together with several dwellings, as a strong wind was blowing at the time. LADY'S QUARTET COMING. Will be t the ClirintiHii Church Friday Evening-, April 10. One of the really nice things touring went to the coast this season is the Philharmonic Lady Quartet of Chicago, We have noticed nothing but the most flattering press comment of them through the western exchanges. Musical critics cite their program hs the strongest ever given by any similar organization in this country. We understand arrangements have been completed to bring them here for one night, to be heard in concert in the Christian church Friday, April 10. The Philharmonic company includes Fanny Ferguson, prima donna soprano; Harriet Gean Eddy, mezzo soprano and accom panist; Ethel ; Cavanagh March, first alto, Elizabeth Ferguson, prima donna contralto, and Daisy A, Torrey, imper sonator. The company while new to western audiences have successfully toured tbe eastern and middle western states for the past eight years and come here guaranteed to the committee under whose . auspices they appear ns the strongest 'lady, quartet now before the public in this country. Efforts will be made to make the advent of these ac complished artists one of the social as well as musical events of the season. special roduction will be made in the price ot seats. THE SURE WAY to prevent pneumonia and consumption is to cure your cold when it first up pears. Ackers English remedy will stop the cough in a night, and drive the cold out of your system, Always a quick and sure cure for asthma, bronchitis and all throat and lung troubles. If it dofs not satisfy the druggist will refund your money. Write to us for free sample, W;.H. Hooker Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by McBride A Co., druggists. A Vry t'losa Call "I stuck to my engine although every joint ached and every nerve was racked with pain," writes C. W. Bellemy. a lo comotive fireman of Burlington, Iowa. "I was weak and pale, without any ap petite and all run down. As I was about to give up I got a bottle ot Electrio Bit ters, and after taking it, I felt as well as I ever did in my life." Weak, sickly, run down people always gain new life, strength and vigor from their use. Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed by G. C. Osburn. Price 50c. Sick headache absolutely and per manently cured by using Moki Tea. A pleasant herb drink. Cures constipa tion and indigestion and makes you eat, sleep, work and happy. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. 25c and 50c. Write to W, 11. Hooker & Co., Buffalo, N. V., for a tree sample. For sale by McBrida Jb Co., druggists. " A. B. STONE, Mj.D. '''Mkon Adams, .Oregon. OiHc at City Drug Store. Calls au H.mred day or night., - Kuildlnff LuU fur Kale. Dr. L. Dell has some choice building lots loft which he offers for sale at rea sonable prices. THE REASONS FOR IT WHY ATHENA CAN PAY : HIGH- EE PRICES FOR HOGS. Hogs Bring: all the Waj Prom Half a Cent to a Cent Kore in Athena . 'Than in Pendleton. "Why is it that Athena buyers will pay all the way from a half a cent to a cent more per pound for hogs than can be obtained in Pendleton?" asked a Birch creek farmer. The situation is just about as he ex pressed it, says the Pendleton Tribune. Today the highest price offered in Pen dleton is 6 cents and but few are offering that, the greater majority offering only 5.75, while in Athena they are paying 6.75 cents per pound. Not only that but buyers for the Pendleton market are forcing the farmer to sell his hogs for less than he can obtain in other markets and then charging him higher prices for the meat. A buyer from Seattle has been id Pendleton tor the it week endeavoring to purchase a carload of hogs. He offers G.75 and will return in a couple of weeks when it is altogether probable that to make out the full car he will pay 7 cents for the pork. Still the local market is at 6 cents. In Athena today there will be two carloads of hogs shipped for the Sound cities and they have been purchased from farmers in that vicinity at a price averaging about three-quarters of a cent mqre than the Pendleton markets pro vide. The reasons given for the low prices offered in Pendleton is that the farmer who has hogs to sell has ' always far less than carload lots and conse quently cannot dispose of them to out of town buyers at the proper time. It takes about 75 hogs to fill a car and the average farmer has about six or a dozen to oiler for sale. He cannot ship them, neither can he secure enough to make out a car and consequently he is com pelled to accept a smaller price for the hogs than he would could he get : them to a larger market. The buyer from Seattle found only two big bunches of hogs in that com munity ready for market and they were not sufficient to make out the car. He took an option on the porkers and se cured the promise of another dozen in about two weeks, and left the city for fields more prolific in the pork line. Still the farmer asks why pork is cheap er in Pendleton than elsewhere. It is suggested that if he would only raise two carloads and have them ready for market at one time he could get a higher price for them. Notice of Pinal Account, the County Court of 'the State of In Oregon for Umatilla County In the matter of the estate of S. S. i Groves, deceased. ' Notice is hereby given that the under signed as executor of the last will of S. 8. Groves, deceased, has this day filed in this Court his final account and re port, and said Court has fixed 11 o'clock in the forenoon of Friday, May J, 1903, as the time, and the County Court room in the Court House of Umatilla County, Oregon, as the place, when and where all objections and exceptions to - said ac count and report shall be heard and the same settled. Dated this 2G day of March, 1903. Ad. Pinkerton, Executor. Administrator's Notice. In the County Court of the State of Orcffon. County of Umatilla. In the matter of the ( Notice of adminis estate of Enos P. -j trator to Creditors Tucker, Deceased ( Notice is hereby given that I have been duly appointed and qualified ad ministrator of the estate of Enos P. Tucker, deceased; that letters ot admin istration were issued to me on March 17, 1903. All persons having claims against the estate ill present tbem to me at the law office of Will M. Peterson, in Athe na, Umatilla County, Oregon, within six months from March 20, 1903, date of first publication of this notice. Will M. Peterson, Robt. J. Boddy, Atty. for Estate. Administrator Administrator's Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that William Mc Bride has been appointed adminis trator of the estate of Mary E. Rainville, deceased, by tbe County Court ot Uma tilla Countv. State of Oresron. on the 13th day of December, 1902, and all persons having claims against the said estate are hereby notified and required to present the same to me at my place of Dusmesa at Aiuena, uregon, wuuiu s months from this date. Feb. 27, 1903. W. McBride, Administrator. Bowman Photo Studio Carrier Millinery R. J. BODDY'S ATIIEHA MARKET WITH THE'-CHURCHES . DAPTl CHURCH, C. R, Lamar, Pu-lor-KundHy .School 10 a. m. . Preaching every 2nd Mild Ji:. Sunday at 11 a. ni. t CHURCH :r CHRIST, Corner of 2nd and Adama-C. A. Bias, Pastor-Bible Wchool 10 a. ra. Preaching and Communion. Service 11 a. ra. CbrUtluu Endeavor Prayermeeting 6:30 p.m. Preaching service 7:30 p. m. ; Mid Week Meeting. Prayermeetlng," Wednesday 7:30 p. ra. Ladles Aid, Thursday p. m. Christian Woman's Board , of Missions, each second Sutuday In the month 2:30 p. m. Church Officer' Meeting, each flint Saturday In tbe month 2 p. m. A cordial Invitation to our services Is extended to all. . M. K. CHURCH, Corner 3rd and Adams W. E. Armneld, Pastor-Sunday School 10 a. m. Preaching 11 a. m. Class Meeting 12 m. Junior League p. m. . F.pworlh League ttJOp. m. Preaching 7:30 p. m. Teachers Meet ing Wednesday 71,50. Prayer Meeting Thurs day evening 7:30. Cows for Sale. D. A. Pinkerton has two fresh milk cows for sale. j Foley's Honey and Tar cures colds prevents pneumonia. Reduced Rates From tbe East. Commencing February 15 and con tinuing until April 30 there will be low rates in effect from the east via the Illinois Central R. R. to all Washing ton, Oregon and Idaho points. If any of your friends or relatives in the east are coming west while these rates are in effect, give us their name and address and we will make it our business to see that they are given the best possible service. We operate through person ally conducted excursion cars, and, in fact give you the- benefit -of the latest conveniences known to modern railroad ing. We have 15 different routes be tween the east and the West, and are in position to give you the benefit of the best combinations. Write us and we will give you full particulars. B. H. Trumbull, Com'l. Agent 111. Cent. R. K, 142 Third St., Portland, Ore. B A NNER 8 A LVE the. most healing salve in the world. Going to Build? Save Money anh Time by Hav ing C. E. TROUTMAN, Archi tect, make your Plans and Spci fications, - ROOM 15, ASSOCIATION BUILDING, PENDLETON. - - ORE. It costs no more to raise a mule ' than it does to raise a horse, and' the mule is worth more. BlIACKSPfAKE" Mark Patton's famous Kentucky Jack, will make the season in Athena. ' lie is & 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 Insure foal that is good at all times is what the Customer wants Get it at the CITY MEAT MARKET G H, SHERMAN Proprietor Platzoeder & Minger's old stand Main Street, near bridge. Work. PENDLETON, ORE. mum Largest Stock of Millinery in Umatilla Co. Next to People's Ware House, PENDLETON Wholesale and Retail BUTCHER Shop opposite Fair Store corner, , SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET ! CITY DRUG STORE Adams Of ego. The best is always cheap est Our Drugs,' Medicines, Stationary and Sundries are only the very best. . - A. B. Adams, STONE, Proprietor. - Oregon PARKER & KEEN'S BARBERSHOP SHAVIHC HAIR CUTTING SHAMPOOING AND BATHS CAREFUL WORKMEN, SATISFACTION CUARAKTEED, EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS' SOUTH SIDE MAIN' STREET MAKING HIM LOOK PLEASANT is easy enough, for when he opens his package of laundry work, after being Bent to the Domestic laundry, the man who loves faultless linen and up-to-date laundrying always wreathes his face in smiles. During warm weather our methods of laundrying linen and color ed shirts, white vests, etc., shows itself in the length of time they keep fresh and clean. Domestic Laundry Pendleton. A. J. Parker, Agt. 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THREE SIZES 20c, GOo end $1.00 The 50 cent size contains 2, times as much as the small size, and the $1.00 size almost 6 times as much. OEFUSE SUBSTITUTES IIcBRIOE &; DO, THE Colds o Neglected often lead to Pneumonia. Weeks' Tablets will prevent all serious results For Sale only by McBRIDE & COMPANY Leading Druggists . Take the .. WASHINGTON & COLUMBIA RIVER RAILWAY In Connection with the Paoifio TIME TABLE. No. 11Mondays, Wednesdays Fridays arrive 8:50 a. m. No. 12 Mondays, Wednesdays Fridays depart 9:05 a. m. and and For further information apply to. FRED KERSHAW, "Agent, Athena, Oregon Or to S. B. CALDERHEAD. G. F. & P. Agt., Walla Walla, Wash. LOWEST RATES. Thousands ara Trying It. In order to prove the great merit of Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective cure tor Uatarrn ana uoia in nam, wo m nared a eonerous trial size for 10 cents. Get it of your druggist or send 10 cents to i ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City. I suffered from catarrh of the worst kind ever Bince n boy, and I never hoped for cure, but Ely's Cream Balm seems to do ven that Many aciuainuinces have used it with excellent results. Oscar Ostruni, 45 Warren Ave., Chicago, 111. Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no cocaine, mercury nor nny injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. ' At druggists or by mriL Ilf-fl-lD frTi 7Tn n TO TPjJFiPY PALACh DRUG STORE. SOUTti SlUt TiiAltl STREET WILL M. PETERSON Attorney-at-Law, Notary Public Athena, Oregon Deeds, Wills, Leases, Mortgages and Contracts carefully drawn; Collections promptly made. L. J. McAtee, Painting, Paper Hanging and ....Graining.... A Specialty of Inside Finish S. F. Sharp, A. W. Botkin. Sharp & Botkin, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Special attention given to Female Diseases. Calls promptly answered. Office on Tblrd Street, Athena, Oregor Oregon hokt Line m Union Pacific TWO TRAINS EAST DAIY Through Pullman standard and sleeping cars dally to Omaha, I 'hlcago; tourist sleeping car daily to Kansas City; through Pullman tourist sleeping cars, personally constructed, weekly to Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis and Memphis; reclining ehalrcars, scats free, to the east daily from Pendleton. - DEPART Daily. TIMB SCHEDULES ARRIVE Dally. ATHENA, ORE, Fast Mail for Pen Baker City, ana au points eit via Hun tington, Ore., Also 5:10 p m. for UmatilljkHepp ner, The Dalles, Portland, Astoria, 8:6o a. n. Willamette vaticy Points. California Tacoma, Seat! le, all wound fount". Walla Walla. Day ton, Pomcroy, Lew- 8:50 a. m. lston. tjoiiax. -u it- man. Moscow, the 5:lo p. in. Couer d'Alcne dis trict. Spokane and an points norm. Mixed train walla 7:10 p. m. walla and lnterme diate points. 7:lo p. m. Mixed, for Pendle ton and intermedi 11:30 a.m. 11:50a- in. ate points. 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