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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.
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