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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1903)
VOLUME XV. ATHENA, U31ATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 26. 1903. NUMBER 26 as EM MB .VII Mm I a M COMPANY THE UMATILLA i ' -: This spring we purchnsed a larger and better stock of summer fabrics than ever before. Owing to the backward season we find ourselves with large quantities of New, Desirable, This Season's goods on hand. We shall not wait until the season is over, and nobody has any use for them, but right now at the time when they are most needed, shall reduce prices on all Wash Dress Goods to such a low figure that none can fail to appreciate the values we are offering. ! Two h Special Lots ; of 'j It " a' It Would not pay you to put 25c and 85c laces on 10c and 20c dress goods. But we sell you lace that has the 25 and 85c look about it and is north 10 and 12 cents per yard. , 10 cent Basket at 5c per yard. , I24c Basket at 6 cents per yard. ,. , , . . 8a and 10c Embroideries in odd lengths and great variety of patterns, '5c per yd. -V"'"'' White Braids, in all widths and pat terns, fr,om - ,.. ' lc Upward - V New Shipment; of fancy f lace striped Hose just received. ; rr - t f ; Only 25c per pair." ; Wash Dress Goods Clearance Sale ; i vC0MNCES ON SATURDAY, JUNE 20th 6 Antrim Lawns, fast colors, Reduced to iv 8c Organdy Lawns, all colors, Reduced to. ., .... ......... 6Jc 15c Fine Batistes and Dimities, Reduced to .". , . ...... .'. . . .7 . . . . . , 10c 20c Fancy Jacquard Mulls, tan grounds, Reduced to..'., I6J3C 25c Etamines and Canvas Cloth, Reduced to."... ; ',. , 19c 25c Imported Irish Dimities, evening shades, Reduced to... 19c 30c Imported Mulls, all colors, lace and figure effects, Reduced to ' 25c 10c Seersucker and Chambra Ginghams Reduced to .... . . . . . . T. . . 60 WIIISE GOODS INCLUDED IN THIS SALE , - ' ' :'" l ' - v ''- ' ' 7Kc White India Linens Reduced to.. ,,. .... ... . .... 5c 10c White India Linens Reduced to.. ;...'. .if 8JjV 12c White India Linen Reduced to.. .... 10c 15c White India Linens Reduced to. V... .... .... .... . 12fc 20c India Linen Reduced to.... ........ .... ....... , Ke . Swisses, Mulls, Nainsooks and all fancy white goods reduced in the Barae proportion during this clearance sale. ' . ; ! i Ladies Shoes All the new shipments have arrived. All the latest novelties in Patent Leather or Kid. i No trouble, to Bhow you the latest styles. We have them from. $1.75 per pair Upward Men's Shoes All the latest and most reliable makes, from a good work shoe at $1.40 per ' pair, to fide, Vici Kid, : Box Calf or Patent Enameled at ' $3.50 to $5.00 Special Notice .. If you want a Shirtwaist for every-day wear, we have about 100 carried over from last ceason, some of them badly soiled, worth 50c, 75c and $1 each, your, choice while this lot lasts for - 19 cents Each. As the harvest season approaches you naturally look around to find where you can buy your supplies to the best advantage. We have a very large stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries, also Granite Iron, Tinware, Crockery and Glass ware. Yet our estimates are your bills. We will save you money on your groceries. Give us a call. 3835 Tun n t.. The Swellest and Most Complete Lot of n ri to be found in Athena is now on display at our store. Prices from WELL THOUGHT OF HEPPNER APPRECIATED ATHE , NA'S KIND ACTION. Was the First Town in the State to Call Celebration Off and Send :. Funds for Belief. . ; was! lover noes are Growing More Popular Each day. We have a Large Stock to Select from Remember we are Headquarters for Let us Save you- Money on them :'mf Sera , , Athena's generous action ; toward Heppner is greatly appreciated by that grief-stricken town. , Athena was the first town in the state to declare her .... M celebration off out of sympathy for Heppner's sorrow-crushed people. Her fund, which was among the first to ar rive in the hands of the Heppner com mittee, speaks remarkably well for her promptness when it is considered that only a few hours elapsed between the time the mass meeting was held and Mayor Taylor departed for Heppner with the money, . , : Athena has not stopped with her first donation. In addition to strong and willing hands of several Athena men who bravely performed gruesome tasks' in recovering the dead, the fund has teen substantially added to during the past week as follows: . Dolph Lodge A. P. & A. M $100,00 Christian Church 40 00 M. E. Church:............... 13 09 Mayor Taylor returned from Heppner Saturday evening and was much aston ished to find that his telegram, which was posted on the bulletin board, and later published in the Pit ess, had been wrongly worded by the operator at Heppner. The sentence in question as received here read: "They have got all the money and men they need." What the mayor wrote on the message and what the operator should have sent was: i "They have got all they need except I men and money." 1 Mr. Taylor attributes the mistake not to the operator, but rather to his over worked condition. Hundreds of tele grams of a private nature were being sent and received, in addition to page after page of press matter, with the result that operators became bewildered in their nerve-racking labor, nowever, the mis take in no way deterred or interfered with subsequent additions to the fund. Scores of men and teams are still at work in Heppner and along Willow creek, clearing away the debris and re covering bodies. The town is being put in a fairly good sanitary condition, but it will take a large amount of money yet to relieve her pressing need. The total number of bodies recovered up to last night is 177. A notable feature of the donations made is the fact that far-away Philadel phia eent $1000 and New York 82500, and other places in the east have, re sponded nobly. In marked contrast is the state of California, a Pacific Coast state. In all the lint of cities pub lished as sending funda, but one dona tion is rjoticed from the state of the ! golden gate one of the most wealthy in PENDLETON, ATHENA, HELIX. CANTON, and - ; DUTCHMAN Gangs, Sulky and jf - . , . . . i car u ' KtP:' VTv - SUPERIOR DRILLS, BAIN and FISH WAGONS, BARB and WOVEN WIRE FENCING. Ve have just feceived a car of Barb and Woven Wire Fencing. Get our prices before buying The U matiSla lmplemen'S: Qo the union. It was from the First National Bank of San Francisco, the amount being 8100. . TURNED WOMAN LOOSE, i Woman Who Admit Killing llutbnnd ;' with Axe in Acquitted. "Not Guilty" was the verdict render ed by the jury in the Da Lartigue mur der case Wednesday afternoon after be ing out 21 hours. No demonstration whatever was manifested when the verdict was read. The defendant show no sign of emotion. , J j To the people the verdict is more than a surpriseit is incomprehensible as public sentiment was strong in the be lief of guilt. " ' The jury stood all night six for ac quital, one for murder in. the first de gree and 5 for manslaughter. , Henry De Lartigue was killed Sept ember 23, 1902, by his wife Amanda De Lartigue, who said she was forced to do it in self defense. She claimed he attacked her with a gun and that she bit him with an axe. ' f . ; i ' x ? , The murder trial was one of the most sensational that ever occurred in south Washington, . Trial Wan Commenced. The preliminary examination of II. M. St. Cyr, the former Pendleton man who is charged with the murder of Archie Emmonds, at Laido, Idaho, has been completed for the time being. After the evidence in the prosecution had been taken the hearing was postponed until July 20 to give the defense an oppor tunity to make any showing it may de sire. It is believed, however, the de fence will not introduce any evidence, and the opinion is quite general that the case is closed so far as the prelimin ary hearing is concerned the formal finding of the committing magistrate being the only action necessary to close it. There is no doubt St. Cyr will be held for trial. . An efl'ort will be made to get him admitted to bail, j lirlde and Groom Side by Side. The funeral of Mr. and Mis. L. B. Banks, wha were killed in Heppner, took place Sunday morning at 10:30 o'clock from the opera house in Milton1. The building was filled. Interment took place at 3 o'clock in the" afternoon in the city cemetery at Walla Walla under the auspices of the Eagles, of which Mr. Banks was a member. Oaly one grave was made and the . dead couple was laid side by side. Mr. and Mrs, Banks had been married but two weeks. . " --: : the precedent for granting of back pay to all survivors of the early Indian wars who can prove service by rolls that are now on file in the department.' The de partment' finds that there are several rolls in Oregon, which, were prepared by captains as souvenirs and for other purposes.. Persons whose, names are on these 'rolls cannot 'be. paid until the original rolls are filed with the auditor in Washington. ' "' 1 v. The action on the Lawley case makes the claimant a qualified applicant for pension. Lawley filed application for pension some months ago, and his claim was disallowed, because he could not show pay. Now that his pay has been authorized, and his services are recog nized by the government, his pension claim will go through. This decision is of great importance in that it establishes a way by which Indian war veterans can only recover back pay when they failed to" draw allowances heretofore', and also places them in a pensionable status. . A great many veterans are unable to prove satisfactory- service, and where that proof is not obtainable, record of pay by the United states is necessary. Therefore the importance to many of securing back pay, Once this is ob tained practically the essential evidence is av hand. ' BUILDING HAS BEGUN C0NTBACTLET FOR CONSTRCTJT INQ HEW CHURCH. ' Athenn Cro. GET BACK PAY. Indian War Veteran Can Now Krjoice at Action of Department, , ' The auditor for the war department haa approved the first claim for back pay filed by a veteran of the early In dian wars of the Northwest, and direct ed that Lewis Lawley, of The Dalle, who served as a private in the Second Washington Territory Mounted Volun teers, be paid $131, for services render ed from March 17 to September 1, 1856. This amount will be paid out of the first appropriation made at the next session of congress. The Lawley case is one that was urged for many months by ex-Representative Moody, and tho adjustment establishes ' The weather of the past week - has been decidedly , favorable for growing crops. : Light Bhowers and cool, cloudy days with bursts of suushine has done much to make wheat. There will not be a very large amount of straw, but the heads appear to be of good size and every, present indication is that, they will be well filled. The first crop of alfalfa is being cut, and some sales at $5 per ton in the shock have been reported. Corn is booming along with a luxuriant growth. . i . Indluns Will Celebrate. The Indians on the reservation , will observe the 4th of July in a manner en tirely in keeping with the occasion. As has beon customtry for many years past the members of the several tribes gather on the old camping grounds east of the agency school buildings and hold their celebrations of the Declaration of Independence by the' White Fathers. - i . , v ,,. , , Heppner fund Uroivn., - . By the abandoning of the Portland Fourth of July celebration, the fund for the relief of Heppner sufferers will be increased by over $2,600. this amount to bo turned over to those in charge, of the relief work. Having planned to hold one of the biggest celebrations ever held in this state, the business men of Port land subscribed liberally toward the ex penses of the affair, The expenses in curred amount to $250, but the remain der of the 4th of July fund, which will amount to over $2,000, is to be turned over to the relief committee. , ; Cook & Barrett, of Pendleton, Com plete it for $10,592.75 -Work ' 1 on Miller'i Building. " J'endleton'a I I'lanl, , ' Pendleton cow has one of the largest ice and cold storage plants in the state. There are nine refrigerator rooms and 11 tons of ice will be turned out daily. This amount can be doubled if necessity required an extra output. Foley9 s Honey and Tar for chUaren,ssie,Murc iso opiates. Saturday the building committee of the M. E. church let the contract for the construction of the new church building on Third street to Cook fc Barrett, contra?tori of Pendleton, for $10,592.75. Other bids were received but the Fendleton men succeeded in securing the contract. . . This includes the completion through out of the church edifice with the ex ception of the furniture aad furnishings. The cost of building the church will be close to $12,000, as the rock now on the site for building the basement and the excavation is in addition to contract price of $10,592.75, and has already been paid for. The church ia to be erected wholly from brick and stone material, and will be according to plans and specifications as furnished by Architect Troutman. The building will in no way be altered from the plans first submitted to the committee, although there was some talk of a change in order to cut down the cost. The committee later decided, after consultation with the membership of the church, to go ahead with the building on the lines as was- first in tended. L, Miller's New Brick. N, A. killer ' has let the contract for the construction of his new brick build ing on Main Street. Dan May, who got the contract f.r the brick work, already has men at work, and the walls will soon be looming up. J. W. Adams was given the contract for the wood work, which, when completed, will make a nice home for Mr. Miller's furniture store. In this store room will be carried one of the largest stocks of furniture to be found anywhere in the Inland Empire. No More of Bryan. The Iowa state democratic convention by a vote of 493 9-10 to 854 1-10 refused to adopt the minority report, signed by four members of the committee on reso lutions and adding to the platform re ported by seven members who consti tuted a majority of the committee, a plank reaffirming the democratic plat form of luOO; and by a vote of 623 1 2 to 199 1-2 rejected another minority report adding to the plank a clause demanding government control of railway charges, providing that in ' case such control could not prove effective, the national government should acquire ownership of railroads. All nominations . were made by acclamation. J. B. Sullivan, nominee for governor, has been affiliated with the Bryan wing of the party but was acceptable to the gold democrat.