VOLUME XV.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 18, 1903.
NUMBER 37
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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.
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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. - :
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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
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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,
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We have just received
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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
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PENDLETON, ATHENA, HELIX.
CANTON and
DUTCHMAN
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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.
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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.
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