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VOLUME XVI.
ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 190.
NUMBER 54
ED. MANASE
CORNER MAIN AND THIRD STS.
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IN ALL DEPARTMENTS AT REDUCED PRICES
A libera discount on all Seasonable goods such
as Clothing for men and boys, Summer Dress
Goods for ladies and children. WemuH make
room for Fall goods soon to arrive
E D; i MAN AS S E
Agent for Butterick's Patterns. -
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SENTENCED
To be Hung
WHO?
Your barn doors with the "Big 4"
Hangers and Rails. The evidence
is all in at -
COX & M'EWEN,
SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET, ATHENA, OREGON.
SOLD RANGE STOCK
W.. E- TAYLOR DISPOSES OF HIS
. BANGS BOSSES. , ' :
Eastern Man Makes the Purchase and
Shipped a Portion of Band
to Illinois. ;;
y". R. Taylor has returned trom bis
stock ranch in the John Day country.
While on this trip to' bis ranch Mr,
Taylor practically sold out his band of
range horses, retaining only a few head
for breeding-' purposes and work ani-
lie sold between 125 and 150 head to
an eastern man, who, with Mr. Taylor,
drove 70 head to Heppner from which
point they were, shipped to Southern
Illinois. The stock is like all the Tay
lor stock, well bred and of good salable
size. . The balance of the band will be
rounded up at a later date and will also
be shipped East , . - - .
This sale practically puts Mr. Taylor
out of the horse raising business bo far
as concerns range stock. He has a
herd of cattle running on the John Day
range'which he expects to bring out this
fall and wiqter in this neighborhood.
DEWEY GETS PRIZE " MONEY.
Justice Gould Signs Order Confirming
Payment. ..' - ;
Washington, July 28. After a legal
battle of several years, Admiral, Dewey
and bis men, who fought the buttle of J
Manila bay, are to receive the prize
money on account of the capture of Don
Juan de Austria and the other Spanish
property. Justice Gould today signed
an order confirming the report ,of the
auditor in the case. ,
The amount .of the property captured
finally was placed at $l,675,3b5. One
half of the amount will be paid, to the
captors,, while the remainder as pro
vided by law, was placed to the credit of
the navy pension fund. V - - ' - ;
Salem Girl Goes to China. ,
Salem, July 28. Miss Nellie Clark,
of Salem, a daughter of "Alexander
Clark, has been appointed as a mission
ary to China by the Christian church
of which she is a member. She is now
in Salem, but expects to leave for San
Francisco in time to sail for China on
September 21.
HE DEALT DEATH
TO JEW OPPRESSOR
Assassin Came Out of Restaurant and
Threw Bomb at Minister Plehve.
St. Petersburg, July , 28. Baron
Plehve, minister of war and interior,
was assassinated in the street at 10
o'clock last night by an unknown Jew,
who threw 'a bomb under the coach in
which the minister was driving. The
body of the minister was horribly muti
lated, his coachman killed and the team,
and coach blown into atoms. jJThe Jew
refuses to give his name. '. .'"
. - Details of the Assassination.
London, July 28.-Accounts of ihe
assassination of Plehve vary. Reuter's
correspondent at St. Petersburg says
the minister's carriage was passing in
front of the Hotel Devarsovic, near the
terminus of the Warsaw railway, when
a man suddenly rushed out of the res
taurant and hurled a bomb, the minister
and coachman being instantly - killed,
the carriage and horses were shattered
to" atoms. -.Plehve was terribly muti
lated. ' ' v '. ' " . '
The ' bomb-thrower, despite the con
fusion,, was surrounded and arrested.
. Another report has it that two persons
were arretted and that Plehve was ap
proaching (he station in a carriage when
a motor car dashed up with two persons.
One was an official with the uniform of
the ministers of ways and communica
tions, the other wore a morning dress,
As.tbe motor passed the carriage, one
of the occupants threw a bomb in front
of the horses. The minister and coach
man were' so mutilated that fragments
of their bodies had to be collected and
earned to the minister's residence, in a
cashmere net. Several bystanders were
injured but none were killed. The iden
tity of the arrested occupant of the
motor is not made known. "
Meets . Death By Accident
' Pendleton. Julv 2ft.- ThmiinrW what !
appears to have been the accidental dis
charge of a revolver, Arthur Hainey, a
liveryman at Lehman Springs, is dead.
The accident took place at about 8
o'clock last night and Hainey died six
hours later , before a physician could
reach him.
- Dr. T. M. Henderson, county coroner,
is this afternoon conducting an inquest
at the scene of the' tragedy. The re
mains of the dead man are expected to
arrive in Pendleton late this evening.
From the statements made by two
Hilgard men, William. Johnson and
George Hoversont who "were with Hain
ey at the time of the shooting, the acci
dent was occasioned by the dropping of
a large revolver, Johnson and Hover
son went to the stable kept by Hainey
to see about their, team. One of the
men carried a revolver in a holster. In
stooping over the weapon fell to the
floor and was discharged. The bullet
struck Hainey in the abdomen, ranging
upward. :
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RUSSIAN BOATS F0EED
Fire of Japanese Carries Destruction at
Entrance to Port Arthur Harbor. -
Chefoo, July 28. A report has reach
ed here that the Japanese succeeded in
torpedoing and destroying three torpedo
boat destroyers of the type of the Lieu
tenant Burukoff near the entrance to
Port Arthur harbor Monday night.
The report was brought here by Rus
sian refugees, who escaped from the be
leagured fortress in a juuk. According
to their story, the Russians had planned
a sally in an effort to sink the -armored
cruisers which constitute the Japanese
guard fleet at night. The three destroy
ers repaired to the open sea ooly to be
picked up by the search lights of the
Japanese fleet. The fleet then opened
fire on the Russian destroyers, which re
treated toward the harbor, but before
they could reach it they were struck by
Japanese torpedoes, which so badly
damaged them they had to be' beached.
The fate of their crews is declared to be
a mystery, '' .. .
Root of the Spotted Fever
Portland, July 28. The wood-tick
that lives upon the body of a gopher is
said to carry the microbe of a disease
known as "spotted fever" into the hu
man body, and as 90 per cent of the
"spotted fever" cases prove fatal to the
human family there has been a deter
mined effort on the part of medical men
to classify the disease and find an anti
dote for it. The investigation has been
carried to an advanced stage by the
Oregon state board of health, and Dr.
Matson, the bacteriologist, has satisfied
himself that the disease is actually
transmitted to man through the bite of
the gopher tick. The investigation first
started in Idaho, where the bite of the
tick is particularly fatal. Its victims
i were chiefly sheep herders and pros
pectors. The disease attacked man in
much the same manner as spinal menin
gitis, and an eruption under the skin
followed its course. It was for a long
time thougtit to be caused by drinking
snow water, but now is attributed to
one of the animal microbes. The fever
made an annual visitation to Harney
county, and the Baker City country and
usually prevails during June, July and
August. It is not usually fatal here, as
it is about Bitter Hoot valley, Idaho,
although in both places the gopher is
very plentiful and his blood is found to
be swarming with the microbes, pr.
Woods -ilutchinron, secretary of the
state board of health, had a guinea pig
inoculated with blood from an afflicted
man at Hood River, and the little ani
mal died within 44 hours. The doctors
are now seeking an anti-toxin that will
destroy the effects of the tick bite. .
PURCHASE ISIfJVALID
DECISION REVERSED IN AN IN ,
; DIAN LAND CASE.
Interior Department Says L. Nelson
Cannot Hold Reservation Land
1 'Bought in Second Sales.
Judge Lowell has received advices
from the interior department informing
him of a decision by the secretary of the
interior in a land case brought by
parties interested in the lands Bold from
th Umatilla reservation under the sup
plementary act of July 1, 1002, says the
East Oregonian.
The decision affects the interests of
quite a number of litigants, and has
such a direct bearing upon other cases
now pending as to be virtually a decis
ion in tl'ose cases, or at least presaging
the determination of , those other cases.
In this instance L. Nelson bought in
1891 land to which he has since held an
undisputed title, because he in every
respect complied with the la. After
the supplementary act was passed in
1902 Mr. Nelson bought under its pro
visions' more land. The La Grande
land office accepted his tender for the
land, but his right to buy was disputed
by Del Davis, who filed a contest,
claiming the right to purchase the land
because, as he held, Nelson was not en
titled to two purchases. His contest
was filed by Judge Lowell, who has
since represented Mr. Davis at every
stage of the controversy.
The La Grande land office, of course,
adhered to its decision, but the commis
sioner of the general land office reversed
the local land office, holding that Nel
son expended his rights in the first pur
chase he made. In detail the decision
of the commissioner was to the efftct
that no person is entitled to more than
160 acres of non-timbered and 40 acres
of timbered land.. Nelson then ap
pealed to the secretary of the interior,
whose opinion sustaining the contest is
referred to above. Col. Raley repre
sents the contestee.
Another case, exactly similar in the
conditions, is said to be that of Chas. E.
Hoover, contestant, vs. Geo. W. Jones,
contestee, and still others will be affect
ed by the decision. In the Hoover vs.
Jones case the attorneys are the same
as in the case in which the decision has
been rendered.
Sritish Noto To Russians
London, July 28. The London Daily
Express states that it has excellent res
sons for stating that the latest note sent
by Great Britain to Russia is not couched
in the usual diplomatic language, but is,
instead, a peremptory demand for im
mediate reparation for all slights placed
upon the British flag by Russia. It is
also stated that Russia is warned that a
repetition of the Knight Commander
affair will be followed by immediate re
prisal on the part of Great Britain.
DASHED TO DEATH.
Telephone Lineman at Baker City Meet
Horrible Death.
Baker City, July 27. About 4 o'clock
yesterday afternoon Robert M. Sherman
the foreman of the Pacific States Tele
phone linemen crew, fell from the top
platform on the cable pole, and died
within an hour after the accident. The
cause of the accident seems to be in
doubt, but the general prevailing opin
ion seems to be that it was the result of
the body coming in contact with a live
electric wire directly or indirectly.
;;.'' Sues for Divorce.
" Alma Calvert, a 17 year old wife,
wedded to Lyle Calvert of Weston, in
Pendleton May 17 of the present year,
has sued her 20-year-old spouse for a
divorce together with $100 cost, 8300
attorney fees, 850 per month alimony
during the pending of the suit and one
third of the property valued at 810,000.
Will M. Peterson is attorney for plain
tiff. : .
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. : "Protests Against Seizure.
Portland, July 27. Senator Mitchell,
of Oregon, as attorney for the Portlaod
Flour and Milling Company, today filed
a formal protest" with the state depart
ment against the recent seizure by tho
Russian squadron . of the steamship
Arabia on the ground that the vessel
carried a cargo of ' 100,000 pounds of
flour consigned . by the company, not
destined for Japan and not contraband.
Davenport Flops.
Homer Davenport, America's fore-,
most cartoonist, and a product of Marion
county, has again taken up his pencil,
and will be busy during the campaign,
but this year in the republican cause.
' - Eire at Echo.
Echo, July 27. A barn belonging to
J. H. Koontz was burned at o'clock
this afternoon; loss about $500. The
Koontz residence was saved by prompt
work of the citizens.
Oregon Pioneer Dead
La Grande, July 27. Daniel Shock,
ao Oregon Pioneer sged 73, died sud
denly yesterday evening.