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VOLUME XVI.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1904.
NUMBER 46
ED. MANASSE
- CORNER MAIN AND THIRD STS.
BIC PACKING PLANT
HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO BE
1 RPUWT TW Pn-RTT.AWn.
for the 4th of July Celebration
Lawns and Summer Dress Goods
at Reduced Prices,
ED. MANASSE
Agent for Butterick's Patterns.
ASK FOR
Will pay for itself in the fruit it will save.
Self Sealing. Easy to open. No Cutting or
burning of fingers or no spoiling of fruit.
Fruit preserving a pleasure and not a drudg
ery as it is with other JaVs. For sale by
COX & M'EWEN,
SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET, ATHENA, OREGON.
Will Figure in Campaign Independ
ent Packers are Making Against
the Beef Trust ''
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Denver, June 27. Portland, Oregon,
is to have half a million dollar packing
plant in connection with the campaign
of the independent packing company
against the beef trust. This definite an
nouncement was made in Denver today
by officers of the National Livestock
association, who will journey to Port
land for the meeting in July, when the
preliminary arrangements will be com
pleted. .
The business men of Portland and the
stockgrowers of Id a no, Oregon Rnd
Washington are to subscribe a fund of
$250,000 to insure the immediate build
ing of the plant. The favoritism shown
members of the beef trust by the rail
ways in the matter of rates is the cause
of a plant being projected at Portland.
The fattened cattle raised in the states
of Oregon, Idaho and Washington are
to be used entirely for local and export
consumption. Swift, Armor and other
firms, having a monopoly in the East,
with their rate of $1.50 a hundred
pounds from the Missouri river, are an
effectual bar to a Western beef invasion
of the east. The Independent Packing
company also announces that the old
plant acquired at Kansas City will be
occupied and in operation by the end of
the year.
Eight Hundred Cattle.
Echo, June 27. Eight hundred head
of fat cattle were shipped Thursday by
Butter creek stockmen east, the con
signment being the largest shipment out
of here for years and making a train-,
load. Whether they are sold at Omaha
or Chicago will depend on the condition
of the market. Accompanying the ship
ment were half a dozen Echo and Butter
creek stockmen, ''. including Asa B.
Thompson, Matt Gillet and R. N. Stan
field. Echo 'steers have gone princip
ally to the coast for several years, but
the low price of beef in Portland and
Seattle has induced the feeders of west
ern Umatilla to make the venture east,
and if they make a profit more consign
ments will follow in that direction.
THE TAYLOR CASE
IN CIRCUIT JCOURT
Many Witnesses In a Most Sensational
Divorce Case at Pendleton.
Pendleton, June S8 The Taylor di
vorce case, which comes from Atbona,
and is being tried before Judge Ellis,
is proving to be the most sensational
heard here for years. Much of the evi
dence is of a character precluding publi
cation. Much interest attaches to the
case because of the large acquaintance
the Taylors have in the county. Many
witnesses are here from Atbenaand Wes
ton vicinities and both sides are bitterly
contesting for every available bit of van
tage ground. Largo property interests
and the custody of several minor child
ren are stakes involved. Will M. Peter
son and Carter & Raley are counsel for
Mose Taylor, while Judgo Fee looks
after the interests of Mrs. Taylor.
Le Grow Sells His Sheep
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ALL KINDS OF MACHINE
EXTRAS NOW ON, HAND
Hardware Stock is Com plete.
Groceries,
Crockery,
Gents' Eurnislmigs
TIE DELL BROTHERS
South Side Main Street,
Athena, Oregon.
F. S. Le Grow, in company with W.
H. Vessey, of North Yakima, returned
last night from the Le Grow sheep range
on Black mountain. Mr. Vessey pur
chased the Le Grow sheep which cleans
up their holdings. Three thousand head
will be shipped from Athena Saturday to
Chicago. , Mr. Vessey has made a for
tune out of the sheep business. Twenty
five years ago he was a partner of Asa
Le Grow in the stock business and is
known to old timers throughout the
northweBtj He no longer runs sheep on
the range, but for several years has been
buying and shipping large bands to the
eastern markets. ' " f
reme Court Decisions
Sub
Salem, June 27. The decision of the
lower court in awarding damages to
Louis Anderson in bis suit against the
O. R. &. N. Co. was affirmed by Justice
Wolverton today. A quantity of wheat
owned by Anderson in a warehouse at
Cayuse, in Umatilla county, was de
stroyed by fire caused by sparks from a
locomotive on the O. B. & N. company's
track. The court decided that the en
gine was overlorded and proper pre
caution had not been taken to prevent
the spread of sparks and cinders.
Hailey & Lowell were the attorneys for
Mr. Anderson,
Hattie Jones was refused a divorce
from William Jones, of Pendleton, by
Chief Justice Moore and the lower court
was affirmed. The testimony showed
that both were equally to blame for
their quarrels and evenly matched encounters.
PIONEER HERDER
LOSES fflS MOT
James Corley of Pilot Rock Said to Be
In the Hills Violently Insane.
Pendleton, June 27. James Corley,
an old settler of Umatilla county in the
Pilot Rock district, who has been herd
ing sheep for a number of years, is re
ported to have become insane and is now
in hiding in the country somewhere in
the vicinity of Pilot Rock.
He has been herding sheep for Doug
las Belts, and last Thursday came on
foot to Mr. Belts' home on Birch creek
and told him a story of the loss of the
entire band of sheep, which he had been
herding. He said that half of the band
bad disappeared, and while searching
for the first half of the band which had
escaped from him, the remainder bad
also, disappeared, and that he was left
without a sheep to herd and had come to
the ranch for assistance.
Search was at once made for the miss
ing sheep, and the entire band was
found together, where Carley had evi
dently left them when he became insane
and went away imagining that he was
in search of them.
STATE OVER 24.000
REPUBLICANS CARRIED HEAD
OF OREGON TICKET.
Official Canvass la Hade Local Op
: tion Shows a Majority of
3118 Votes.
Salem, June 27. The official canvass
of the returns of, the recent election
shows the republican plurality - in Ore
gon to be more than 24,000. For su
preme judge Frank A. Moore received
52,946, giving the republican cShdidnte
a plurality of exactly 24,217. The total
vote of Oregon for 1904 was 99,315, as
compared with 92,920 for 1902, or an in
crease of 6294, or about 6 per cent.
The local option law carried by a vote
of 43,316 to 40,198, or a majority of
3118. .. ,, ,.
. The direct primary law carried by a
majority of 39,851. the vote being, 5fi!Ki6,'
for and 16,354 against. '
The office of state printer amendment
failed to carry, the affirmative receiving
45,334 votes, Willie 49,658 were necessary
to make a required majority of all votes
sast at the election.
Representative Hermann was re
elected by a plurality of 6813 and Wil
liamson by a plurality of 14,353.
J. W. Bailey was elected dairy and
food commissioner over his democratic
opponent by a plurality of 84,283, or 66
more than the plurality for supreme
judge.
The last of the returns from the sever
al counties were received this morning,
and Governor Chamberlain and Secre
tary of State Dunbar immediately can
vassed them and certified the results.
Secretary of State Dunbar has issued
certificates of election to each of the
successful candidates for state and dis
trict offices.
Nearly every county shows an in
crease in the total number of votes cast,
the only decreases being in Clackamas,
Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Lake, Lincoln,
Marion, Tillamook and Umatilla counties.
A Portland Society Leader
M. C. Cheal Fails to Return From Ca
noe Trip on the River.
Portland, June 27. -Mounted police
and headquarters detectives are today
scouring the woods on Ross island in
the Willamette river and following up
every passible clue in an endeavor to
unravel the deep mystery surrounding
the disappearance of Maurice C, Cheal,
a well known young man of this city
who went out canoeing last night at
7:30 and whose canoe was found with
three inches of water in its bottom this
morning. In it were found the coat and
hat of the missing man. At 150 this
afternoon a paddlu was found near Hog
island. Searching parties will scour
Ross and Hog islauds for the missing
man.
The police have three theories. The
first is that Cheal, being hard pressed
financially, committed suicide; the sec
ond that he improvised the ruse to lead
his friends to think he either drowned
or committed suicide, but is in reality
alivo and in flight. The third is that he
was accidentally drowned.
Cheal was accused of shortage in his
accounts in the office of Prank C.
Wooluoy, shipping merchant.
Drowned in the Columbia
Wilbur, Wash., June 27. Postmaster"
C. A. Phillips, who returned from his
Douglas couuty farm Thursday morning
brought in a report of the drowning in
the Columbia river, fourteen miles above
Bridgeport, of a man named Ross. De
tails of the affair are meager. Ross and
bis wife were drifting down stream in a
skiff and before approaching a rapids
she landed, intending to walk around.
Her. husband started to ride over the
perilous waters and was seen by his wife
riding on the bottom of the overturned
craft. He was soon out of her sight and
the skiff was picked up further down
stream but Ross was missing.
Held Up the Stage.
Ueppner, June 27. Word was re
ceived here this afternoon that the Hep-pner-Canyon
City stage was held up
yesterday evening by three masked men.
The stage was carrying the mail and
three passengers when three highway
men emerged from the timber on the
mountain, between Monument and Can
yon City. They demanded the United
States mail, and told the occupant of
the stage to hand oyer their valuables.
Just how much money was taken is not
known. The robbers took three mail
sacks, mounted their horses and now
are at large with hardly a clew to their
identity..
Passed Century Mark.
The mother of W. M. Parish, of Cold
Springs, died last Saturday evening of
old age, at the family home five miles
from the Columbia river, aged 104 years
and 4 days. Mrs. Parish was born in
Southern Indiana, and had lived on the ,
coast for over 30 years, and in Umatilla
county about 25 years. The funeral
took place Sunday forenoon at 10 o'clock
and the interment was made in the Cold
Springs cemetery.
Hilton Farm Sold.
Moliie Rogers and husband yesterday
sold to George B. Dexter the south half
of the southeast quarter of section 25
in township six, north of range 35, for
$3,500.
Wild Horse Road. .
Pl'he Wild Horse road petition will
come up for consideration before the
nest session of county court, which
meets on the first Monday in July.
Japanese Advancing.
The Japanese have advanced for two
days and a battle is expected Tnear the
Mao Tien Ling pass, where the Rus
sians aro entrenched.