The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, April 22, 1904, Image 1

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    TWIGE-A-WEEK
TWICE-A-WEEK
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PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND FRIDAY
VOLUME XVI.
ED. MAN ASS E
CORNER MAIN AND THIRD STS.
A' Spring: Suit
Is what you want. They are
Stylish, Nobby and up-to-date.
Prices too, are within reach of all.
FORj, THE LADIES x
A shipment of Shirtwaists just arrived. Each one
a revelation. You cannot help but admire them.
Be first in line and make your selection.
'
E D. MAN AS S E
Agent for Butterick's Patterns.
IMLBURN HEADER GEAR with Sarven Pat. Wheels
: FULLY WARRANTED
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Groceries, Crockery,
Gents' Furnishings
THE DELL BROTHERS
South Side Main
ATHENA,
YOUNG RAGLAN, No 9626 and BLACK
JACK PLATTER, No 628
Will make the season of 1904 at their stables in Weston,
(Sundays excepted.) Terms, $12 to insure; $8 for the
season ; $5 for single service. Parties disposing of their
mares before foaling time will be held for insurance.
A. PHILLIPS, Weston, Oregon.
BROTHERS
All of which we will be pleased to show you
Street,
UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. APRIL 22,
MOTHER AND SON
BOTH TAKEN TO INSANE ASYL
UM FEOM PENDLETON.
Margaret Fahl, Widow of Tim Pahlf
, . Suicide, Demented T h rough.
Worrying. . ,
Pendleton, April 20. Margaret Pahl
was - yesterday afternoon adjudged in
sane and ordered committed to the
asylum at Salem. Also her 8-year-old
son who has been an idiot and perfectly
helpless since birth, waa ordered to be
taken to the asylum for the insane upon
advice of County Physician W. G. Cole.
The case of Mrs. Pahl is a sorrowful
one. Two years ago her, husband, Tim
Pahl, committed suicide by hanging,
and ever since that time the wife had
brooded and worried over the matter
until she has become deranged. The
nature of her hallucination is that she
believes some enemy had killed her hus
band and afterwards hung him to make
sure of death. She also fears that the
same men who killed her husband now
want to marry her. During the "past
month she has refused to eat scarcely
anything and has been troubled with in
somnia. ;
Mrs. Pahl, during all her afflictions,
has worked hard to support her young
children, five in number, but the strain
and worry over the death of her hus
band have proven too much, and dur
ing the past day or two has been seri
ously deranged. The county has been
giving her pact support for the past
year. The four remaining children will
doubtless be cared for by the Boys and
Girls' Aid Society.
In the absence of County Judge Hart
man the examination was made before
Judge Thomas Fitzgerald. Mrs. Pahl
and son were taken to Salem this morn
ing by Sheriff Taylor and two assistants.
C W. Zeigler Dead.
Charles W. Zeigler, the baseball play
er who played with Pendleton two years
ago, died a few days ago at his home at
Canton, O., after a long illness of ty
phoid fever. He was a member of the
Pendleton lodge of Elks.
Athena, Oregon
EUSSIANS DR0W
IN RIVER YALU
Hundreds Go Down in Capsized Boats
, While in Hurried Retreat
London, April 21. The correspond
ent of the Times, cabling from Niu
Chang, says that a messenger has ar
rived there from the Yalu river with
the information that the Russians are
fleeing north across the river in over
crowded boats and are losing hundreds
by drowning.
Shoot Japanese Splei. '
Hirbin, Manchuria, April 21. The
two officers of the Japanese general staff,
arrested by a railroad guard 18 miles
from this place on April 16, were found
guilty by courtmartial and sentenced to
Doherty Now
Pendleton, April 22.-Dr. W, G. Cole
spent the greater part of yesterday and
all last night at the Doherty ranch near
Vinson, where Pat Doherty lies very ill
as a result of being shot through both
lungs last Saturday. His condition yes
terday was more serious and it was nec
essary for the physician to remain at his
bedside all night.
The officers say they will do nothing
W. & C. R;
WENT
President Joseph McCabe and Engineer
' William Godfrey Were Hurt.
Walla Walla, April 20. Engineer
William Godfrey,' Fireman William
Grayson, Conductor Martin Fletcher
and one or two others were slightly in
jured in a wreck of the Washington &
Columbia River Pasco train at mid
night last night, while Vice-President
and General Manager Joseph McCabe,
who chanced to be on the train, was cut
about the knees and had his back strain
ed. The trouble was caused by a wash
out at Mud creek near the Kirkman
ranch, and probably would have result
ed very disastrously had not the train
been running slowly and taking un
usual precautions.
The locomotive struck the bad place
Lester Beale
r
""""tester Beale, the eldest son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Beale, died yesterday
morning at the family home in Milton.
The boy had been in poor health for
years, and lately had grown much
worse. All that medical skill and good
nursing could accomplish could not
save the boy's life and he passed away
after much intense suffering.
' Lester spent a number of years in this
The New Organ Installed
The new organ with its auxilliary
pipes and patent qualifying tubes, was
installed yesterday morning in the M.
E. church by Mr. Herrick, of the Dwel-ley-Herrick
Music Co., of Walla Walla.
The instrument, which was purchased
at a cost of 450, is one of the finest in
the state and is second only to the genu
ine pipe organ that is used in cathe
1901.
be hanged.
The officers asked that their lives be
spared. General Kuropatkin confirmed
the findings of the court, but taking jn
to consideration that the accused were
soldiers, ordered that they be shot.
Hand! off Americans.
St. Petersburg, April 21. Foreign
Minister Lamsdorff has been notified
that the United States reserves the
rights it may have under international
law in the event of American citizens
being affected by Russia's decision in
the case of war correspondents using
wireless telegraphy.
Failing East
whatever with Morton, the man who
shot Doherty, until Doherty has recov
ered. It he gets well then Morton will
be prosecuted on the charges of assault
with a dangerous weapon and with in
tent to kill. This charge will be suffi
cient to land him in the penitentiary for
a number of years. If Mr. ' Doherty
should succumb to the wound then Mor
ton will be prosecuted on the charge of
murder. -
TSlIN
IN A DITCH
with a suddenness that prevented stop
ping, though Mr. McCabe was in the
act of pulling the signal cord when the
accident happened. It ran off into the
creek and turned on its side with the ex
press car slantwise across the washout.
The baggage car, passenger coach and
sleeper did not leave the rails. The
engineer and fireman were hastily as
sisted from a perilous position in the
mud and water, and taken into the
coaches where they were wrapped up.
The freight train following was stopped
and the engine used in conveying the
three undamaged coaches back to the
city.
Godfrey and Grayson are in the hos
pital. Died at Milton
city, where his father conducted the
city meat market. lie was a pupil of
the Athena public school and was a
particularly bright and promising stu
dent. Soon after leaving Athena the
boy's health began to fail.
The funeral will be conducted to-(
morrow, Saturday, at 2 p. m. at the
M. E. church in this city, the friends
driving over from Milton.
drals and the big city churches. It has
great volume of tone and is so construct
ed that the organist may get almost the
same effects that can be obtained from
the pipe organ. A choir under the di
rection of Prof. J. 8. Henry, is rehears
ing each evening, preparatory to the
dedication exercises. Miss Elsa Rosenz
weig it the organist.
SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAR
N NUMBER 24
THE PICTURE MAN
GOT "HIS" OUT AT CHARLEY
BROTHERTON'S RANCH
Endeavored to Force Pictures on Mr.
Brotherton That Were Order- '
ed by Other Parties.
There is a foxy vendor of enforced
pictures going around with an enlarged
head. The enlargement of the said
vendor's head is due to the hard milling
fist of Charles Brotherton, the big,
husky farmer up the flat. If reports are
true the foxy picture man "reached and
got his." It is said that this particular
individual is not only obnoxious to an
aggravating degree, but has a patroniz
ing way about him that is particularly
annoying, especially to women.
This is not, his first visit here, and
there is one lady in town who had an ex
perience with him last fall that , if he
should attempt again his head will not
only be enlarged, but broken as well.
The incident in question was that the
fellow virtually pushed his way. into the
room after being told that no pictures
were wanted. The lady finally asked to
be excused as she had house work to
perform, whereupon the fellow insolent
ly replied, "Oh! certainly, I'll excuse
you," and departed. .
Out at Brotherton's two of these' pic
ture fiends called Monday evening to
leave some work that had been ordered
by Ed. Brotherton of Vansycle. Mrs.
Charles Brotherton would not receive
the pictures for the reason that the men
wanted payment, until Ed. Brotherton
had inspected them. They finally re
turned to town but not until they had
worried Mrs. Brotherton considerably
over the matter. Tuesday Charley
found it convenient to plow the garden
and was at home when the men again
showe4 UP- The foxy one got busy and
intimated that Charles had promised to
receive and pay for the pictures, regard
less of inspection by Ed. Brotherton.
Well it wasn't long before there was
something working against the fellow's
face with the force of a cyclone. And
when Charles got 'through with him no
was willing to say that he had a Dlenty
and the pictures went with him when he
left.
TJpton-Dobson..
Wednesday, the 20th, at 2 o'clock, the
wedding of Miss Aimee C. Dobson. of
this city, and Rev. Alma Upton, of
Hoquiam, Wash., was solemnized, Rev.
J. W. Jenkins officiating. The cere
mony took place at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Dobson with only a few in
vited friends present. The parlor was
artistically decorated with geraniums.
The bride was beautifully attired in a,
handsome costume of champagne pongee
trimmed in silk point lace of the same
shade, and wore blossoms of the Martha
Washington geranium. The eroom was
attired in the usual black. The bride
is a popular teacher of this vicinity, and
wui be greatly missed by her many
friends here.
Rev. Upton, with his wife, left on the
5 o'clock train by the way of Portland,
for his home in Hoquiam. Wash., where
he has a pastorate. Many congratula
tions and good wishes go with the young
couple.
BOY DROWNED.
Fall Froui Foot-Log Into Wlldhorao
Creek.
iVmel . Backman. he 7-year-old son
of John Backman, was drowned in Wild-,
horse creek Monday evening while at
tempting to cross the stream on a foot
log. The young boy accidentally fell
off the log into the raging stream and
was carried a distance of 200 feet down
the creek where he lodged in a cluster
of willowsV
The bo, in company with bis young
brother, had gone to the pasture to drive
the cows home. On their way back
Amel stopped to play along the river
while his brother went on home. The
boy had often crossed the footlog, and
although being a cripple, had never
found any difficulty in reaching the
other side. This time, however, he lost
his balance and fell into the stream, and
being unable to swim was immediately
drowned.
An Electric Storm
Tuesday evening Eastern Oregon was
visited by an electric storm which was
somewhat disastrous to telephone and
telegraph lines. In Pendleton consider
able damage is reported. Here in
Athena no particular note was taken of
the storm as it was slight. Telephone
fuses were burned out but aside from
this there is no mention to be made.