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VOLUME XV. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 18, 1903. NUMBER 37 Gtkim Immense quantities of new goods are arriving daily. On Monday September 21, we sh all be prepared to show in every Deparlment, the greatest variety of up-to-date fashionable goods ever shown under one roof in Umatilla county. .'?- New Silks, New Dress Goods, New Cloaks', New Gloves, Laces, Ribbons and No tions, New Overcoats, New Suits, New Underwear, New Shirts, and New Shoes in ; all the best makes, such as Buckingham fy.Hecht, Selz and Douglass Shoes. , . ;, We have been appointed agents for the celebrated Utz $ Dunn Ladies' Shoes i and are now showing a full line in all sizes and widths. " Your early inspection will be appreciated. We are out for the trade and guar antee our prices to be the lowest, consistant with first-class merchandise. IE Just 5 In any line we can suit you. ( Prices at the lowest ebb. We are after your trade and will get it if fair treatment and LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES will serve as an inducement to get it " Once Got lou, IN STAPLE GROCERIES pur goods are Standard Brands. By this we mean that they are the kind recognized and sold in the best stores in the country. IN FANCY GROCERIES we are caterers to the most fastidious wants and can supply you with most anything. Gents Furnishing; Goods Our stock of SHOES, IIATS GLOVES, OVERALLS, JUMPERS, ; SOCKS, etc., is very complete. A glance through our GENTS , ' FURNISHING DEPARTMENT will prove it. - : o!c Anents for I TiUHiiilllll II il IIINIII'I'illllli'lMlilMIWIIInr "'111 About i ' e'veAfeays Got Em the Gelcbrated "Snov Drift" lour MO u rm roeenes lou i n n - (J Jjilf!)uX . ' , A; TRUST Salem Per Wants to I. T- 1 . 'f Hold the Crop. The Salem Journal has taken a (stand against the Portland warehouse trust, which virtually controls tue wheat mar ket o! Oregon . It advises the farmers to combine-and hold 'their wheat for bigher prices; -it .takes the ground that the wheat sold early by farmers is" used as a club to keep prices down. It has the following to say upon the subject: "The Salem Journal has asked all the graih furmersho Ire ittf readers to con eider the situation as to the market price for grain. "Many have already begun to haul to the warehouses and take whatever It offered, when they should unite and hold their grain. "Grain, cotton manufactured goods and other staples are all going up, and it is a notorious fact that Oregon farm ers get less for their wheat and other grain than in any Western state. "In Kansas and other states the farm ers are uniting to get a dollar -a bushel for their wheat, and they can get that in Oregon if they stand firm, or if even half f them stand firm, 'and refuse to deliver grain. "" "The wheat that goes into the ware house for market and speculative pur noses has passed out of the farmers' control, and is used as a club to beat down the prices. "If farmers will begin this year to holding the whiprow of the warehouse trust.tbey can break the blight of mo nopoly that has crushed the grain grow- I en lur iucoo uiuvj ca;o. i "The Journal is just one small paper, ; but it can see this wrong so clearly and can see what is going on in other states, that it volunteers to make this fight for fair play for the grain farmer. 'By mere spreading of the facts that Witting gathered; the grain farmers can form an organization and can all be pat in jtouch with each other and with the situation. - Will you da it and help break the curse of the Portland elevator and warehouse trust, whose leaden band is crushing agriculture and robbing it of millions?" WITH ESIOET PR0S?CT8. , The Xuttrn Oregon SUU Vorsul School Opens. The Eastern Oregon State Normal school opened Wednesday with an equipment second to none in the normal schools of the state and equalled by few on this coast. Everything indicates good attendance, say the Leader. President Trench has spent much of his vacation in institute work and has met a large number of teachers who are be coming interested in the work of the J cf the State Normal school at Weston, r-TmRra nnn a n era " 'r. PM' HE We have just received Get A. Yfao Umatilla JmplGni&fit and whose personal influence is already bearing fruit. Nearly all the rooms in both dormitories are now. engaged, and many new students are expected to ar rive in a few days. Extensive repairs and improvements have been in progress at the school buildings during the summer. These include the remodeling of the building vacated by the school, tor the purposes of young men's dormitpry, aloyd, gym nasium and domestic .' science; book cases' and cabinets at the new building; new furniture and equipment; the fitting up bt kindergarten, domestic science and sloyd rooms, and other means to ward making the school plant at Weston a modern and model one. Tbe first floor of the remodeled build ing will be occupied by a gymnasium which is connected with bath rooms supplied with hot and cold water. The front room of the lower floor is occupied by 'the sloyd department. Professor Bruce, who is a skilled carpenter and has had special preparation for the work of manual training in Indianapolis and the University of Chicago, will have charge of this work. On tbe second floor are the students' rooms and rooms for three teachers. This floor is also provided with a bath and toilet rooms. A. large and attractive study hall, with a recreation room adjoining, will occupy the upper story of the ell. In the "normal school, education means a preparation for complete living; for this reason the department of science finds its legitimate place as one of the regular departments of the school. The rooms for this work are being fitted up with all tbe ' appliances of a modern kitchen. Both the children of the training school and the students of tbe normal school will have work in this department. Domestic science has been for several years a valued feature of the work in leading state 'normal schools. Two members of the faculty, Mrs. French and Miss Ferguson, have been actively engaged in this line of school work, and bring to their duties at Weston tbe knowledge born of fruitful experience FRUIT PACKING. Largest Amount of Shipments in His tory of Milton. The fruit packing industry at Milton is rapidly assuming mammotn propor tions. This season the three packing houses at the O. R. It N. depot have packed and shipped double the amount of pears, prunes, and peaches ever be' fore handled in tbe same length c! time This has been accomplished, too,' in fRlllT -SHIPMENT Of A CAR LOAD LOT The first shipment of apples from Athena in carload lot, went out over tbe O. R. &N. Wednesday night, consigned to a Grand Forks, South Dakota commission house. The fruit was of first class quality, being firm and free from worms or other insects. These apples came from tbe Wildhorse orchards of J. S. Roh, J. S. Harris, J. R. King, Wo, Brace and S. A. Carlisle. The shipment consisted ot 474 boxes weighing 40 pounds each, the price paid beiDg 35 cents per, box on the tree A big refrigerator car was used for transportation of the fruit, which bad been carefully packed to insure good condition. Tbe Blalock Fruit C. purchased the fruit and will endeavor to secure the winter crop of Wildhorse apples, which irill Brahabl amount to five or six carloads. The shipment was in charee ot 3 . A. floss and II. Jj. Briggs, of the Blalock bib f nr nrn rmi I 1HM P S N PENDLETON, ATHENA, HELIX. CANTON and DUTCHMAN -rtt.tK8lOii a car of Barb and Woven Wire Fencing. our prices before buying spite of the fact that for a time a suffi cient number of packers could not be secure i to prepare the fruit for shipment as rapidly as it was offered for sale. As a result, says the Eagle, a large percent age of the peach crop was allowed to rot in the orchards. During .the past 30 days about 60 cars of fruit have been shipped from the Milton depot and an average of two cars a day are being sent out at the present time. Besides this a large proportion of the fruit purchased by the Walla Walla Produce company is sent loose to Wallu Walla and there packed and shipped. A considerable amount is also sent out in small lota by express by individual growers. The Fruit Growers Union is probably the heaviest shipper from this point and is sending out a car a day mostly prunes and pears. E'eminders of Flood Since the disastrous Willow creek flood laid ruin and death in its path at Heppner, many thing have occurred which recall the calamity. A recent in cident is the action of the board of edu cation in releasing, two ot the teiching Btaffof the public schools which opened Monday. This had to be done on ac count ot the large number of children drowned. Probably one story of the flood which has never been given to the public has just been told by one of the survivors. Several days after the flood, he says, he was walking along the bank ot the creek when .he observed one of the public school books lying 'on the bank. He stooped over to see what it was and the heading of the article at which the .book was opened read, "The Story of the Tsmpest." HEAR THE 0THES SIDE. Strain Desires Publicity of 0- R & N. Co-'s Contentions. The following letter relative to the bearing of the O. H. Jb N. Co.'s assess ment in this county, which is to cotue up for hearing on September 23, is self explanatory : Pendleton, Sept. 15. To the Editor: The 23d day of this month is set for bearing the claims of the O. P.. & N. Co. for a reduction of their assessment. The people have neer heard the company's side ot it. ' They are entitled to a fair hearing and just treatment. I think I am right. Tbey contend taut I am wrong. Come to Pendleton that day and hear tbem. Kindly give this matter publicity by publishing this letter, or otherwise. Yours truly, C. P. Strain, County Assessor. Fruit Co. lI.ZlTlT Ii iiiiisjinaiiu iwiii ill i twijlhrr ""5"" nrafR " h PI Gangs, Sulky and Walking Plows SUPERIOR DRILLS, BAIN and FISH WAGONS, BARB and WOVEN WIRE FENCING. An Extra Session Would Cost $15,000. Pendleton, Sept. 20. "An extra ses sion of the legislature would cost the state of Oregon $15,000," says Senator C.J. Smith. "But it this tax law is invalid the calling of the extra session will be inevitable as the state must have the money. With the heavy appiopria tions made by the last legislature, a year without any taxes woujd practically bankrupt the treasury, and Oregon now prides herself on being out of debt." Dr. Smith's opinion in regard to the tax law was that it would be taken be fore the supreme court on a test case before the call for tbe extra session was issued. Ilia private opinion is tha ; the supreme court would give the lawe most liberal construction and, if p6t ible, hold that it was valid, thereby buv ig a great expenaeto the state, A hi ring before the supreme court could bi had at almost any time in Salem, and a do decision handed down without deluy. If the attorney generul docides that . there is an oversight in the law as spread upon the records, then the test case will in all probability be started and rushed through to the supreme court. To provide for the contingency which is now confronting tbe state through this error the extra session of the legis lature would have to be called for the latter part of October at the latest, as any laws which it might pass would be subject to the 90 days provided for the referendum, it tue taxes are to dp c i looted and an assessment mude in o' ctirdance with the intention of tho new Liw for th year 1003, the extra Bf-shum must pass the act 90 days before Feb ruary, 1904. . ' ; Counterfeit Money- . There seems to b in -u - I.iti.m in this part of the county, silver cuius that are hard to detect from the genuine. Austin Fuss is in possession. of a 25-cent piece that is a counterfeit and can only be detected by a dull ring when thrown on the counter. It has evidently been cast over a center piece of lead. Spur ious dollars are said to be in Milton and Milton people are warned to be on the lookout tor them, reports the Eagle. Cashier Davis of the bank ot Milton de tected two of them in one day this w eck. The coins are made of silver and die nearly full weight, but have been just instead of being cut with a din. ; New Health Ordinance. The state board of health i a preparing a health ordinance for all i corp atod towns in the state of O egon. The board will meet in Portland n St, tim ber 2d and 30, at which time the ordi nance wiUbe presented for approval. Co.l WOULD BE EXPENSIVE ii :;4