The Athena press., August 23, 1904, Image 1

SEMI--WBBEZL1T
VOLUME XVI.
ED. MANASSE
CORNER MAIN AND THIRD STS.
REIMTS
IN ALL DEPARTMENTS
A liberal discount on all Seasonable goods such
as Clothing for men and boys, Summer Dre6s
Goods for ladies and children. We must make
room for Fall goods soon to arrive
ED. MANASSE
Agent for Butterick's Patterns.
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--A. A
COX & M'EWEN,
SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET, ATHENA, OREGON.
BARRETT
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Hardware
Groceries, Crockery,
(rents' Furnishings
TIE DELL BROTHERS
South Side Main
ATHENA,
AT REDUCED PRICES
SENTENCED
To be Hung
WHO?
Your barn doors with the "Big 4"
Hangers and Rails.' The evidence
is all in at
INCORPORATED.
Fairbanks-liorsi
asoline Engines
ALL KINDS OF MACHINE
EXTRAS NOW ON HAND
Stock: is
Street,
UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23,
MORMON QUESTION
NOMINEE FOR CONGRESS GETS
COLD FEET.
Dubois Is Hopeful, Says Anti-Mormon
Tight Is Eight and .
Will Win.
, Boise, Idaho, Aug. 22. P. H. Holtz
heimer, nominated by the state demo
cratic convention for representative in
congress, has got cold feet and has ad
dressed a letter to C. H. Jackson, chair
man of the state committee, declining to
run for the place. Notwithstanding this
Senator Dubois is hopeful of winning
out in the anti-Mormon fight. He
says:
"It is too early to make predictions on
the result of the election in Idaho. Re
gardless of the result, however, the fight
aifinst Mormon interference in politics
is eternally right, and sooner or later it
will prevail. We have endured ecclesias
tical dictation until patience has ceased
to be a virtue. -The democratic party
merely emphasized feeling in the state
when it declared that present intolerable
conditions should cease.
"I think we shall win," continued
Senator Dubois. "I spent two days in
Lewiston after our convention, and I
found that the eyes of the general pub
lic there bad been opened by the fair
and frank discussoin of the Mormon
question in the convention.
"I believe that when the issue is pre
sented to the voters of the state as we
presented it at Lewiston, the result will
be greatly in our favor. As I say, how
ever, the issue is right, and I am content
to fight it out, either in this campaign or
in every campaign for the next ten
years."
Disgruntled Homesteader.
Chris Elliot is a disappointed home
steader who filed some months ago on
land near Butter creek, induced to do
so by the specious representations of
land agents. He says he is not disap
pointed in the land he selected, provided
the irrigation scheme ever materialized.
He is pessimistic and says an ordinary
lifetime is too short in which to realize
anything on half the schemes projected
within the past two or three years, and
that someone else is welcome to the
land. He is on his way back to Iowa.
East Oregonian.
Complete.
Athena, Oregon.
CORflP'Y
RUSSIAN CRUISER
SUM WITH CREW
Novik and 334 Men
By Two Japanese Warships.
Chee Foo, Aug. 22. The Japanese
cruisers Clritose and Akitsushima met
the pride of the Russian fleet, the cruis
er Novik, outside of Port Arthur yester
day and in less than 40 minutes riddled
her with shells, sinking her with all on
board. Neither of the Japanese vessels
were struck by the Russian. According
to advices a severe storm came up after
the sinking of the Russian cruiser,
preventing the Japanese from rescuing
any of the crew of the Novik, which
numbered 331 men.
Japanese Heavily Reinforced.
Chee Foo, Aug. 22. According to re
liable information from Port Arthur, the
Japanese received 30,000 reinforcements
T0MAD0 AT ST. PAUL
Lives and Property
Storm of Saturday Night.
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 22. Five are re-
ported to be dead and two-score injured
and property loss, it is estimated, will
reach $2,009,000 as the result of a torna
do that swooped down on this city short
ly after 9 o'clock Saturday night.)
The Tivoli theatre was demolished
and razed to the ground.
The High bridge, an immense struc
ture crossing the Mississippi at the
height of 200 feet, is almost totally de
stroyed, and 200 buildings are more or
less damaged.
The storm was local in character, the
damage being confined to a small area,
principally in the business districts.
The terrific rain which accompanied
the tornado did immeasurable damage
LOTS OF WHEAT SOLD
Sales in Athena Saturday Run Up to
245,000 Bushels
Saturday in Athena was essentially
wheat day. The price touched 70 and
70' cents per bushel and the day's sales
amounted to over 245,000 bushelaThis
is the amount reported to head offices
by Atnena buyers, including 80,000
bushels purchased by the Preston-Par-ton
Milling Co. The grain sold is all of
first class quality and included in the
big bulk, some bluestem, grown on the
light soil farms north of town.
The big sales were not altogether
made by Tanners who store wheat in
Athena warehouses, but is the aggregate
and over which Athena buyers have con
trol. The total embraces wheat pur
chased in other warehouses along the O.
Lavender Misrepresented.
It appears that the papers of the
county, the Leader alone excepted, have
unintentionally misrepresented an offici
al act of City Marshal Lavender of Wes
ton. Mr. Lavender writes the East
Oregonian relative to the following al
legations which appeared in the papers:
"It is alleged that when Constable D.
F. Lavender, of that town (Weston) at
tempted to serve the summons, Geb
hardt, with the aid of a pack of growl
ing dogs and an ugly looking rifle, pre
vented the officer from entering his
premises. - Lavender returned to Wes
ton without serving the papers and the
1904.
Sent to the Bottom
from the north this morning. The force
now beseiging Port Arthur amounts to
80,000 men and 420 guns. The steamer
Victoria arrived this evening from Niu
Chwang. She reports heavy firing in
Louisia and Pigeon bays between 10
last night and 1 o'clock this morning.
She saw search lights playing freely and
skyrockets signalling.
Javanese Lose 2500
Rome, Aug. 22. A telegram today
from Chee Foo states the Japanese
losses in the last assault on Port Arthur
are 2500, including 63 officers. It is an
nounced today that the Italian squad
ron in the Far East has been ordered to
co-operate with the American to main
tain the neutrality of China.
Lost in the Terrible
to stocks of goods in both St. Paul and
Minneapolis. Windows were broken in,
houses unroofed, churches dismantled
of tall steeples and streets and alleys
were filled with debris.
' The principal damage was done to the
large department houses with huge glass
fronts. Into these a terrific wind, rain
and hail storm beat with fury, wrecking
stocks, shelving and fixtures in a fright
ful manner. One wholesale furrier lost
$250,000 in high priced furs and other
goods carried in stock.
It will require months to repair the
innumerable wrecks left by the tornado
The Mississippi river steel bridge will
probably have to be taken down, the
steel girders straightened and new con
crete piers built.
at 70 and 70 l-2c.
R. & N. and W. & C. R. railways. An
exception may be noted, however, in the
purchases of David Taylor, who operates
an independent warehouse. Mr. Taylor
bought wheat tributary to Athena only,
the total amount being 80,000 bushels.
fy(The number of bushels sgents report
buying follows: David Taylor, 30,000
bushels; Pacific Coast Elevator Co.,
David Williams agent, 65,000 bushels;
Preston-Parton Milling Co., D. H. Pres
ton manager, 80,000; Puget Sound Ware
hous Co., O. W. Bradley agent, 70,000
bushels.
The Local Market.
Athena, Aug. 23. Wheat is quoted in
Athena today at 67 cents per bushel.
sheriffs office was appealed to."
This is wholly wrong, and I am curi
ous to know where your reporter could
have picked up such a singular
bit of information. I am not constable
of Weston, but city marshal, and was
appointed special constable to serve the
attachment papers in this case. I did
so successfully without heed to the ob
jections of Gebhardt, his pack of dogs
or the rifle he threatened to get.
Deputy Sheriff Blakley came up about
two weeks afterward to serve the execu
tion after judgment had been entered.
D. F. Lavender.
NUMBER 61
TO CHECK FRAUD
PUBLIC LAND STATES DIVIDED
INTO DISTRICTS.
Oregon a Separate District With a
Minnesota Man as Special
Agent.
A special to the Oregonian says: To
render the inspection of the service of
the general land office more effective,
the acting secretary of the interior di
vided the public land states into nine in
spection districts, placing a special
agent in charge of each. This special
agent ' will have supervision over all
other special agents assigned to his dis
trict and will have charge of all inspect
ions carried on in that district, being in
turn directly responsible to the general
land office.
Oregon has been made a separate dis
trict with Special Agent Thos. B. Neu-
hausen, of Minnesota, in charge. Wash
ington is another separate district with
Edward W. Dixon of Oregon, in charge,
while Idaho and Montana combine to
make another district under Harry II.
Schwartz, f South Dakota. These
special agents were selected from the
list of five land offices because of their
proficiency and adaptability for the serv
ice and will receive $1500 instead of
$1200 as heretofore, with an allowance
of $3 per day for subsistence.
Nicholas J. O'Brien will be in charge
of the Idaho-Montana district.
Oregon and Washington are the only
states that constitute separate districts.
The experience of the past two years has
demonstrated that with all special agents
reporting direct to tne general lana of
fice at Washington it has been almost
impossible to keep check on those who
f;o wrong. Numerous discharges have
ately been made, because special agents
have been found participating in fraudu
lant land operations, locating settlers on
desirable lands, furnishing speculators
with valuable inside information, etc.
It was this discovery that led Land
Commissioner Richards to work out the
new system which was approved.
Special agents in charge of the dis
tricts will have headquarters at local
land offices to be selected by them.
Each will have a civil service clerk,
whose salary will be $1000 per annum.
His Second Crop.
A few weeks ago a report was made of
the attempt of some parties to raise
strawberries in this vicinity, says the
Adams Advance, Saturday tne sequel
came to hand in the shape of a nice
bunch of strawberries from a crop that
has matured since the runners began.
John Pierce is the possessor of this
unique strawberry patch, which does
not seem to know when the season's
work is done. While this crop1 will
amount to nothing in the way of financi
al returns, it shows that the plants have
not suffered any for moisture, although
not having had a drop of water except
rain or snow since being set out last
winter. Mr. Pierce considers that two
crops of berries the first year after set
ting out the plants a pretty fair showing
for a dry country.
Determined to Die.
The Mitchell News reports a man
named J. Stewart Kaye having commit
ted suicide while traveling from Mitch
ell to Fossil last week. lie came from
Dayville to Mitchell and attempted to
end his life with an overdose of mor
phine, but the doctors saved him. His
next move was to start for Fossil by
stage, and while on the road took suf
ficient morphine to kill him, and died
a few miles from Fossil. The stage
driver took the body into Fossil,
Goes to the Valley.
G. A. R. McGrew and 'family will
leave within a few weeks for Corvallis,
with the hope that - Mrs, McGrew's
health may be benefitted by the change
of climate. They will remain at Cor-,
vallis for the wintei, and Fred McGrew
will matriculate at the state agricultural
college. Mr. McGrew will retain his
property interests at Weston, which will
be the family's permanent home. lie
will take a rest for a while before ar
ranging definitely any business plans.
Leader.
It Wasn't Wood-
She was a sweet young thing and they
had a co;y corner behind the, scenes at
the opera during the last dance. As his
arm stole around her mousseline de soie
waste she murmured: "Am I the first
girl you ever hugged?" lie was a news
paper man and tbetefore could not tell
a lie, so be replied: "No, sweetheart,
you are the third edition I have put to
press tonight." Western Publisher.