The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, May 27, 1904, Image 2

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    ATHENA PRESS
Twick-a-Week Tuesday and Feidat
f. b. boyd, publishes.
Entered as second-class matter, March 1,
MXH, at the poitofflc at Athena, Oregon,
under the Act ot Congress of March 8, 1879.
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I he rRKHS Athena, Oregon
ATHENA, MAY 27, 1904
WHY MOT BE FAIR?
Why not be fair? In a political cam
paign there is the same just cause for
fairness in the review of the candidate's
capabilities and fitness for office that
there is in the everyday editorial review
of general topic, comment and discus
sion. However, some newspapers when
they come under the ban of a political
campaign, seem to exercise what evi
dently appeals to them as "political
thunder," but which in reality is noth
ing short of willful misrepresentation,
malice and mud-slinging. As an in
stance of this practice, we have an ex
ample in Umatilla county. The Pen
dleton Tribune recently attacked F. B,
Ilolbrook, the democratic candidate for
joint representative, and after he is first
charged with being a transient, living
on wages, the paper now charges him
with being a land hog and a water hog,
and seeking to own all the north end of
Morrow county and as much of the
Echo country as he can reach, and in
sinuates that Mr. Ilolbrook is now
trembling under the frown of President
Roosevelt and Mr. Newell.
The facts' concerning the irrigation
enterprise are known to almost every
one. In 1890 D. V. Bailey and others
commenced the construction of the
"Bailey Ditch," taking the water from
the Umatilla river, a short distance from
.where it. etopOon Into the Columbia, and
below any other irrigation enterprise on
that stream. Mr. Bailey, having spent
his fortune upon it, faild and went out
of business and the enterprise languish
ed. The Bailey ditch was to cover
about COOO acres of sand dunes and
sage brush west of Umatilla. The pro
ject was practically abandoned, when it
was taken up by the late lamented 0. B.
Wade and others, but nothing substan
tial was done until about four years ago
when Mr. F. B. Ilolbrook became in
terested in the enterprise, organized a
company to complete the reclamation of
these lands, and has so far succeeded
that a city has been built at Irrigon,
containing a thrifty and home-building
population, a blacksmith shop, a news
paper, stores, church and one of the
best schoolhouses in Morrow county.
More than 808 tracts ot land have been
purchased from the company by actual
settlers who are devoting their time to
the careful cultivation of these small
tracts. Of the 2108 tracts only one con
tains more than 50 acres, and of the re
minder, 153 are of 5 acres or less.
Mr. Ilolbrook has been and is a suc
cessful man, and has done in the desert
what few men have done on better land.
During the last fourteen years and since
the Bailey ditch was taken out of the
Umatilla, the Allen Ditch company's
ditch and a dozen other large ditches
have been taken from the Umatilla,
enough to occupy all the water in the
river; but in seepage and other ways it
finds its way back to the river before it
is required by Mr." Ilolbrook. No one
using water above interferes with him,
and he encourages everyone to take out
water above him, because their pros
perity is his prosperity. Why not be
fail? . .
In his address during commencement
exercises Tuesday evening, Will M,
Peterson paid a glowing tribute to the
Athena public school, to its pupils, its
principal and its efficient teachers. That
today Athena has one of the best graded
schools, not only in the county, but in
the state, rests entirely with the effici
ency and thoroughness of method on the
part of the instructors employed in the
different departments the past year. To
this united effort on the part of the
teachers due credit being here given to
an able and conscientious school board
was this result attained. With prac
tically nothing to start on, and the
school in a chaotic condition, it has been
raised in one year to a par with the
leading schools of the state. Further
in the course of bis remarks Mr. Peter
son touched on the subject of teachers'
salaries. He reiterated a fact well
known, and one which is being faced by
all school boards, not ODly of Oregon,
but in other Pacific Coast states as well
the question of a raise in teachers'
salaries. In way of illuctration he
named amounts for salaries, to which
some criticism is heard. Mr. Peterson,
in drawing his comparisons, did not in
timate in the least that the amounts
named were to be taken in the literal
sense, but figuratively. The question of
higher salary in the school room is one
that will have to be met point blank in
Athena, as elsewhere. To have a good
school requires good talent, and talent
demands a salary commensurate with its
ability. Mr. Peterson merely advanced
facts that are potent to all who are con
versant with the situation.
Speaking of William Lloyd, democrat
ic candidate for commissioner, the Mil
ton Eagle says:
"William Lloyd has lived in Umatilla
county for more than thirty years. He
is a pioneer of pioneers. His life has
been temperate, wholesome and up
right. He has the confidence and es
teem of every man who knows him, and
he is known to a very large circle in
Umatilla county. His business attain
ments and ability are at least equal to
Horace Walker, and in the opinion of
most men are superior. Those who be
lieve in temperance for the sake of tem
perance should remember that on the
question of liquor licenses outside of the
incorporated cities the question as to
whether the license is granted or refused
is determined by the county court ot
which William Lloyd is a member, and
while he is not a member of the prohi
bition party, he is temperate. He never
drinks liquor in any form at any time
and has never tasted tobacco.
"Of particular interest to the people
in the east end of the county is the fact
that, with the exception of school sup
erintendent, William Lloyd is the only
nominee on either ticket whose resi
dence is east of Pine creek. One-third
of Umatilla county, and the richest por
tion of it, is included within this sec
tion. This section bai more miles of
road per inhabitant than any other sec
tion of the county, with the exception of
the city of Pendleton, and it does seem
that the loyalty of the people in this
section, all other things being equal,
should see to it that this section gives
William Lloyd for commissioner a prac
tically unanimous vote."
In answer to the criticism ot Judge
Hartman and the county commissioners
for buying the poor farm the Echo News
delves into the following facts:
"Until this purchase was made, for
which the Tribune condemns Hartman,
the county poor were kept at the poor
house in the city of Pendleton, where
there was a comfortable building, beau
tiful trees, an attractive lawn and plenty
of shade, but where the in mates, whether
they desired healthy and profitable ex
orcise or not, were wholly barred from
doing anything useful. Their keep un
der these circumstances amounted to
several thousand dollars a year, which
under these circumscances could not be
avoided. The poor farm as a real estate
investment worth all that it cost, and
it affords the inmates not orly an oppor
tunity for a healthy out door life and
plenty of exercise, but an opportunity as
well to in some measure support them
selves, and this they are doing, and are
saving to the Umatilla county taxpayers
almost the cost of the farm each year."
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KING BROTHERS Prep
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
.State.
Supreme Judge Thomas O'Day.
Dairy and Food Commissioner S. M.
Douglas.
Presidential Electors John A. Jef
frey, T. H. Crawford, W. B. Diller and
J.H.Smith.
District.
Congress, Second District J. E. Sim
mons. ."
District Attorney, Umatilla and Mor
row J. H. Raley.
Joint Representative, Morrow and
Umatilla F. B. Holbrook.
County.
Judge G. A. Hartman.
Sheriff T. D. Taylor.
Clerk J. E. Cherry.
Recorder W. H. Fowler.
Assessor C. P. Strain.
Commissioner William Lloyd.
Representatives W, D. Chamberlain
and Wm. Blakely.
School Superintendent W. S. May
berry. Surveyor O. C. Berkeley.
Treasurer S. G. Lightfoot.
Coroner Dr. T. M. Henderson.
Precinct.
Justice of the Peace O. G. Chamber
Iain. Constable George Tittsworth.
REPUBLICAN TICKET-
Presidential Electors W. V. Hamp
ton, J. N. Hart, W. H. Gore, James A.
Fee.
' Supreme Judge F. A. Moore.
Food and Dairy Commissioner J. W.
Bailey.
Prosecuting Attorney G. W. Phelps.
Joint Representative Dr. W. G.
Cole.
Congressman in Second District J.
N. Williamson.
Representatives John J. Balleray and
Henry Adams.
County Judge Henry J. Bean.
County Clerk Frank Sating.
Sheriff O. A. Barrett.
Treasurer E. J. Sommerville.
Recorder W. H. Folsom.
Assessor W. T. Rigby.
Commissioner Horace Walker.
School Superintendent Frank K.
Wells.
Coroner Dr. A. W. Botkin.
Surveyor J. W. Kimbrell.
The Press, published twice-a-week.
gives you the local news. $2 per year,
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The Henry F. Miller, Boston's oldest
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The Steger, musically equal to the
best, and the popular Singer.
Whitman College
purchasd pianos of us last year valued at
$4,000, and all were of the above makes
The College buys only the highest grade
pianos. We buy direct from factory and
can save you money. ' Pianos delivered
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