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TWICE-A-tVEEK TWICE-A-WEEK a PUBLISHED TUESDAY AHD FRIDAY SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 PER YEAR VOLUME XVI. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY. MAY 10, 1904. NUMBER 32 E D. MAN AS S E CORNER MAIN AND TIIIRD STS. ; & rag Suit Is what you want. They are Stylish, Nobby and up-to-date. Prices too,' are within reach of all. FORj, THE LADIES A shipment of Shirtwaists just arrived. Each one a revelation. You cannot help but admire them. Be first in line and make your selectiort. E D. M AN ASS E Agent for Butterick's Patterns. MILBURN HEADER GEAR with Sarven Pat. Wheels FULLY WARRANTED YOUNG RAGLAN, No 9626 and BLACK JACK PLATTER, No 628 Will make the season of 1904 at tbeir stables in Weston, (Sundays excepted.) Terras, $12 to insure; 88 for the season; $5 fnr single service. Parties disposing of their mares before foaling time will be held for insurance. A. PHILLIPS, Weston, Oregon. white's third run ABANDONED IN THE RACE FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY WITH LEROY I0MAX. Baker County Democrat Has the Ad vantage in Being Acquainted . With Voters oi District. Baker City, May 6. The leading po litical parties placed tbeir candidates in the field about a month ago, yet there has been no move to open the campaign until this week. The democrats will fire (heir first gun at Sumpter Saturday evening, on which occasion Hon: W. F. Butcher and ex-Senator William Smith will speak. , The principal contest will, be for the office of district attorney for the eighth judicial "district between Hon.- Sam White, of Baker county, the democratic candidate, and Hon. Leroy Lomax, of Union county, the republican nominee. Both men are confident. White has been elected twice and is now out for the third term, which is being urged against him. - The district is rather uncertain po litically. Judge Eakin, the district judge, who is a republican, has been elected twice, so there is nothing on which to base an estimate as to the prob able result. . The big fight for this office will be waged in this city and county, where White has considerable opposition, even in his own party. A most determined effort was made against him - for the nomination and he only won by two majority after a bitter contest. Lomax, the republican candidate, is not known in this county a defect which the re publican county chairman says will be remedied before the campaign closes; Locally the greatest contest will be for the office of sheriff. The democrats covet this office above all others because it is the best office in the county. For the past six years the office of sheriff has been filled by a republican, while the county judge and commissioners have been democrats. The present county court is democratic, and will remain so for the next two years at least, hence a determined effort on the part of democ racy to outset Mr. Brown, the present republican sheriff, who has served one term, end elect a democrat in his stead. DARKNESS OF NIGHT Russians-Desert the Important Position They Held at Niu Chwang. Chee Foo, May 10. Passengers ar riving today from Niu Chwang say the Russian force probably evacuated that flace during last night. Many had al ready departed yesterday, and those re maining made no secret of their inten tion to leave. There is no activity what ever at forts where there are still guns in position. Three thousand bandits are camped outside the walls of Niu Chwang, ready to begin looting at the moment the Russians leave the city. There are many foreign camp followers with the bandits, who are giving the Russians much trortble along the rail roads between Nui Chwang and Muk den. Last week they destroyed a cul vert and delayed traffic four days. The Japanese fleet was in force off Port Arthur Monday, but did not make any hostile demonstration. Japanese Take Fort Dalny. London, May 9. The Daily Tele graph's Tokio correspondent says: "The Japanese have requested the United States government to inquire into the fate of the 40 men missing after blockading Port Arthur. It is believed that several of them were captured. It is reiterated that the' Jap anese have occupied Dainy. I learn from a trustworthy source that the Russians in the battle of the Yalu took 40 guns, enormous quantities of war material, horses, carts, ammunjtion and equipment." Vladivostok Fleet at Sea. London, May 10. The Daily Tele graph's Seoul correspondent says: It is believed a portion of the Rus sian Vladivostok fleet has been success fully shut out and is now in the Sea of Japan trying to evade the Japanese. A General Retreat Ordered Faris, May 10. The St. Petersburg Correspondent of the Echo de , Paris says: ; --. ?.. .- . General Kuropatkin has ordered a general retreat, and no doubt intends to avoid a battle until he has sufficient forces. He actually has at his disposal not more than 150,000 men, not inclu sive of the garrison at Port Arthur, which contains 30,000, and a garrison at Niu Chwang of 15,000. A general who knows the secrets of mobilization, tells me that the last 10,000 men, making the required 500,000, will leave Kasan July 21. White Girls, Black Soldier THE DELL BROTHERS Groceries, Crockery, Gents' Furnishings All of which we will be pleased to show you TIE DELL BROTHERS ... South Side Main Street, Athena, Oregon. Walla Walla, Wash., May1 9.-7-Associ-ation oi negro soldiers from the Ninth cavalry at Fort Walla Walla with white girls from 16 years of age up is rousing considerable comment in the west end of the city,' and may be taken- cogniz ance of by. some organization. Colored troops and white; girls arc said to be in company in questionable out of the way places near the garrison almost nightly. So far no one has interfered. Criticism of the parents twh6 permit such a con dition is being made. The' number of girls involved is said to be between 15 and 20. This includes, however, three or four notorious white women, who for nearly a year have made the haunts of negro cavalrydfen their resort. BANK WILL CASH CITY WARRANTS Temporary Arrangement Until Collec tions Are Made By the City. At a special meeting of tbs council last night action was taken regarding payment of city warrants now being issued for street improvement. Ar rangeraents will be perfected whereby the First National Bank of Athena will cash city warrants until such time as payment is made the city by property owners on the streets that are now un der proceas of improvement. It was ordered that payment of 80 per cent of amount due W. J. Wilkinson, who has the contract for crushing the rock, be made each week. The council decided not to grant a petition presented by Main street business men asking that a tax be levied against Main street proper ty owners for the payment of street sprinkling, on the ground tnat there is only a certain time that tax can be levied, and further that the city has not the power to levy a tax over and above a certain amount. The Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias lodges were granted permission to move a building 20 feet east on property recently purchased on Main street. The New Lodge Building With the permission granted the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias lodges last night by the council to move a building 20 feet to the east, on property recently purchased by the lodges jointly, on Main street, comes the assurance that work on the fine new lodge ball will doon begin. One frame building will be disposed of and removed from the lots. The other, a two-room store building, will remain on Main street east of the lodge hall. The new build ing will be constrocted of stone and brick, two stories, with a 10-foot front age. The lower floor will be leased for mercantile purposes and the upper will be the new home of the lodges. The structure will be modern in every particular. THE CASE SETTLED HEPPJJEE FLOOD DISASTER IS REVIVED BY SUITS. Heirs of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hanby ' Come to Agreement on - - Division of Money. The famous Hanby case from Hep pner has been settled out of court ac cording to the following story from Port land: The question whether Emma Hanby or her husband, Harry Hanby. who were both drowned on June 14, 1903, in the Heppner flood, died first has been dis- jjudcu ui irom a legal standpoint, and $3,000 insurance left by Hanby will go to his heirs, instead of her heirs. Hanby was insured in the Modern Woodmen of America, and Ogelsby Young, attorney for the heirs of Mrs. Hanby, thought he could prove by evi dence that she died last, thereby becom ing entitled to the insurance before her death, and after her death, there being -no children, the money should go to her heirs. The claim of' the heirs of Harry Hanby also had to be considered, and to determine the controversy as to who was ' entitled to receive the $3,000, a suit was filed in the state circuit court, and' the society, which had no interest in the case one way or the other, paid the money into court, subject to its decree. In the county court yesterday Ogels by Young filed a petition in the inter est of Ernest Voose, administrator of the estate of Mrs. Hanby, stating that no'proof could be secured to overcome the presumption that Hanby survived his wife, and that the other side had offered 8125 in settlement, which the administrator was satisfied to accept. The suit in the state circuit court will be dismissed, and the heirs of Harry Hanby will get the remainder of the money. There is a presumption of law where a man and a woman are drowned or accidentlv killed toeether. where there is no proof of the exact time of the death of either, that the man being the Btronar- er physically, su rvived the longest. This question was raised in the case of Charles Li. b air and wife, who were killed in an automobile accident in France, and years ago the same question was argued in the courts of Ban Francisco in the case of Jennie Mandeville, a well known actress, who with her husband, was drowned on the steamer Pacific. Improves the Road. The county court has ordered im provements, to the extent of 81,500, to be made on the county road on the south fork of the Walla Walla rier, from the forks to the works of the Washington and Oregon Electric Power Co., the company and the county to each bear one-half of the expenditure. The ma chinery which the company will install is of the heaviest character, and could not be freighted with the road, in its present condition. The improvements in the road will also benefit all those living upon or doing business over the South Fork road. Milton Eagle. Eagles Incorporate. The Eagles of Pendleton yesterday filed articles of incorporation with the county clerk. It is understood that this action is taken to give the order the legal right to acquire a site and erect a building thereon which they propose to do this coming winter, having selected the site of the present Wheeler building on Court street. The incorporators named in the paper? filed Jyesterday ar e A. O. Koeppen, O. W. Gibson and E. S. Wells. Pendleton Tribune. Death oi Homer Campbell. U.O.Campbell died at 630 o'clock Saturday morning at his home at Echo after a long illness of consumption. lie was 58 years old and had lived in Uma tilla county almost all his life. For many years be engaged in farming, and last year removed to Echo where he started in the livery business. Walla Walla County Donates. The county court of Walla. Walla county has donated 8250 and the city council $500 toward the Fourth of July celebration in that city.. The Com mercial Association expects to raise 82,500 for the celebration, Against Sunday Games. The Ministerial Association of Day ton has passed strong resolutions again ft Sunday sports of all kinds, and will try to enlist the city authorities in enforcing Sunday observance. Eilurnta Your HoweU With Catcirefn. Candy Cathartic, curs constipation forever, fcc 2&c II C. C. O. lull, drufgUta rotund monej.