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III SEMI-WEEKLY VOLUME XVI. ATHENA, iMATILLA COUNT!?, OREGON, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER ,9, 1904. NUMBER 66. ED. MANASSE CORNER MAIN AND THIRD STS. FALL 190. NO DIVORCE FOR HER NEW ARRIVALS EVERY DAY Our Selections in DRY GOODS. CLOTHING and SHOES are the Cream of the Market. Prices are the Lowest aud the Quality the very Best ED. MANASSE Agent fop-Butterick's Patterns. ALWAYS REMEMBER COX & UTEWEN Sell Bake the A written Guarantee with every Stove and Range Bread and roast the Meat that make the man Everything in Hardware and Plumbing Supplies. Sam pson Wind Mills, Hays Pumps, Tents, Crockery, etc. SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET, ATHENA, OREGON JEWEL FINDLEY HAS NO BOOM FOR A COMPLAINT. Case Was Thrown Out of Court By Judge' Ellis For Want of Sufficient Evidence. Tuesday.in the circuit court the old case of Jewell E. Findley vs. Joseph Fiodley, action for divorce, was thrown out of court on the grounds that the plaintiff was not entitled to a divorce from her husband, she being unable to show sufficient cause why .the divorce should be granted, reports the Tribune. In fact, according to the opinion ot the court, the case was one where the wife simply got tired of her husband and wanted to be freed from him. They were married iu Florida, and he is un educated. He sent her to Oregon about a year or so ago and later followed her here. After she had been here for some time she decided that she wanted a di vorce, and so brought action against him. He put in a defense and cross bill, and after giving the case, careful consider ation Judge. Ellis , has decided that neither party is entitled to a decree, so the suit has been thrown out of court and they will have to remain husband and wife so far the court is concerned. Will M. Peterson and John McCourt were attorneys for the plaintiff, while J. A. Fee appeared for the defendant. Mrs. Findley and two children for a time made their home with the Zerba family. Nothing here is known ot her husband. Bight of Way Granted. Yesterday five deeds for right of way in favor of the Washington & Oregon Power company were filed ia the office of County Recorder Folsom. The deeds entitle the company to the right to install poles and wire on the property of the following: George Stagga, L. T. McBride, Jackson Nelson and Chuit Hellberg. . School ot Commerce The Modern School of . Commerce opened Monday morning in - its rooms in the Pendleton academy building, Pen dleton. The school begins the year with a good attendance and the pros pects for a most successful year are very flattering. - ""T" c. A. bArrett coswy INCORPORATED. a i r ba n ks- rJ!l o rse asoline Engines ALL KINDS OF MACHINE EXTRAS NOW ON HAND . Hardware Stock is Complete. PORTAGE HELD UP BY DEPARTMENT Secretary Taft Refuses to Discuss Port age Road Urxtil Canal Right of Way Has Been Secured. Portland, Sept. 9. According to h special from Washington to the Oregon Daily Journal, Secretary Taft, of the war department, says the government desires a deed to the canal right of way, before making any statement as to the feasibility of the portage road being built upon the canal right of way. Un til the government is formally presented with the right Of way for the canal, the secretary will decline to discuss the features of the portage at all. Thii statement from Secretary Taft is a result of correspondence with Major Langfitt, of the Port of Portland, who has made known the wishes of the state portage commission to the government. Major Langfitt, at the request of the commission, asked the war department if there would be any objection to the portage road being, built partly on the ship canal right of way, and Taft made the reply that the government had noth ing to say until formally presented with the right of way. So this reply from the war department leaves the state portage commission in the dark, as to the probable action of the government with reference to the portage. If the commission proceeds with the portage on the right of way now being secured for the ship canal, it may prevent the government from acceptinit the canal right of way, encumbered with the port age tracks. Until the entire right of way for the ship canal is secured and presented to the government, and a formal reply is received from the war department, as to allowing the portage on this right of way, the people of Oregon do not know whether the government will permit the construction of the portage where the state commission intends to build it. While the right of way is amply suffici ent to accommodate both the portage and the canal, the government may not accept a right of way for the canal if the portage is built there before the govern ment accepts it. ARMFIELD GOES TO DAYTON PASTORATE Grroceries, Crockery, dents' Jimnshinffs TUT? TIWT "RU fflTCTTiT Q Rev. Edward Baker, of Union, Comes to Athena Methodist Church. Rev. W. E. Arm field returned yester day morning from Portland, to which city he went after the Columbia Kiver Conference had adjourned at The Dalles. Mr. Armfield was given the Dayton, Washington, appointment which in con sidered next in line of ministerial pro motion over Athena, and Rev. Edward Baker, late pastor at Union, Oregon, was appointed to till the Athena pastor ate of the Methodist Episcopal church in Athena. While it was the wish of the majority of the members of Mr. Armfield's church and the people of Athena generally that he be returned here for another year's work, the church is assured that in Rev. Baker it will have a capable pastor, one who is prominent in the ministry and a roan who is said to have great influence in church work generally. Rev. Arm field, the retiring pastor, during his two years work here leaves behind him as a monument to faithful and untiring labor one of the finest church buildings in the state, a thoroughly united and growing congregation, and the esteem, respect and friendship of Athena peo ple in every walk of life. S) MITCHELL & FULTON THEY WANT KUYKENDALL FOR PRESIDENT OF STATE SENATE It Ii Also Known the Two Senators Want to Name Speaker of the Lower House. Rev. W. E. Armfield, Methodist Episco pal Pastor, who goes to Dayton. Rev. Armfield will preach in his Day ton pulpit Sunday, and next week his family will remove to the Washington town. Rev. Baker, wife and two child ren will arrive in Athena shortly. ECHO NEWS ITEMS. South Side Main Street, Athena, Oregon. Frult'l excellent Proipeet for holding an Industrial Fair. Echo, Sept. 8 The fruit season is on in full blast. Peaches grown by Joe Leasure, near Echo, weigh 15 ounces and measure 13 inches in circumference. Pears equally large have been grown by the Johnson brothers, about a mile be low Echo, with but little irrigation. The third crop of alfalfa is now being cut and the many large stacks of bay on the meadows indicate a large bay crop. Threshing in this vicinity will con tinue until about Oct. 1. Many new settlers are now coming in to this vicinity, locating upon the ir rigated lands which are now being put upon the market in small tracts and long time payments. The Citizens' association of Echo and vicinity, at a meeting held Saturday hut, decided to Join the development league at Portland. There is a move ment on foot to hold an industrial fair at Echo this fall. PENDLETON WHEAT SOLD. Seventy CenU Wa the Price Paid for 300,000 Boheli. Pendleton, Sept. 9. Wheat sold for 70 cents in Pendleton yesterday. Balfour-Guthrie company, through A. L. Knight, local agent, purchased 200,000 bushels of Umatilla county wheat at that figure for the Chicago market. This is the biggest sale at that top notch figure of the season. Three weeks ago when on a Saturday wheat touched 70 cents, the sales were not so large as yes terday. This wheat pui chased is for immediate delivery and will at once be shipped to the Chicago market. The wheat market was exceptionally strong yesterday and numerous sales were made, but the majority were for small amounts, lbe market opened rather brisk and later in the day became stronger. . Local Wheat Market. Athena, Sept. 9 Wheat in Athena today is quoted at 69c per bushttl. Portland, Sept. 8. Dictatorship is al ways fraught with peril for those who attempt it and the efforts of Oregon's United States senators to control the organization ot the next legislature are already arousing murmurs of strong dis content. Senator Mitchell and Senator Fulton have shown their intention of making Dr. Kuykendall of Lane the president of the state senate, and many politicians are of the opinion that they will endeavor to name the speaker as well. The anti-Mitchell wing of the republi can party in this state, though crushed, is not extinct. Its representation in tne legislature is small but it is capable ot combination with other elements which may make it formidable. There is a small body of legislator who are .strong adherents of ex-Congressman Malcolm' Moody, and they have already made it plain that they do not take kindly to the cut and dried program, arranged by Mitchell and Fulton. The state sena tors from Eastern Oregon make no secret of their opposition to Kuykendall for president of the senate and they stand ready to throw their votes to al most anyone else who can develop enough strength to make him a possible winner. The personal ambitions of sev eral members of the state senate are also a factor in the situation, and it is by no moans impossible that some of them may get together in a combination that would be exceedingly troublesome to Mitchell and Fglton, especially if the speakership is to be included in the program. At the present time Kuykendall is well in the lead for the presidency of tho senate, yet he annot be regarded as a sure winner. 0- R. & N. Tax Case The O. R. & N. tax case will be ar-. gued on its merits before Judge Ellis of of tho circuit court next Tuesday, says a Pendleton paper. Last Tuesday was the day ret for the decisions in the previous motion filed, to which briefs bad been submitted, but Judge Ellis informed the attorneys that he reserved the decision on these two questions and ordered the defense to make answer, setting next Tuesday as the day on which the argu ments should be made anl the entire case put before him for a decision. Against Higher Grades. A meeting ot the taxpayers of Milton was called for tbe purpose of voting an addition of higher grades to the public school, but the measure was voted down on account ot the district being already in debt. The fact that Columbia, col lege is located in that community was brought out at the meeting, and figured largely in the decision. There was con siderable feeling over the matter, how ever, and the meeting was well attended. Races at Walla Walla According to all ad vice the races .and fancy livestock show 1 1 Walla Walla October 10 to 15 inclusive, will far ex ceed in every way tbe really excellent meeting given last year. The Walla Walla County Fair association has one of the best if not the very best, tracks on the Pacific Northwest circuit. Several records were made there last fall, and this year after a great deal of expense and work has been put on it there is every reason to believe it will be even faster than ever. The "New Idea." In connection with what is perhaps tbe largest line of dress goods ever be fore carried on the shelves of any store in Athena, we wish to announce to tho ladies of this vicinity that we have re cently been appointed exclusive agents in Athena for the world famous "New Idea" patterns. The "New Idea" pat tern system is recognized in tbe fashion centers of tbe world as being without equal, and we consider that we are in deed fortunate in securing the agency here. It will pay the ladies of this part of the county to visit our store and in spect our exclusive line of new dress goods, waistings, etc. All textures and weights are carried in stock. Our swell new line of jackets will interest you. Tiik Faiu.