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j i SEMI-WEEKLY VOLUME XVII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. JANUARY 20, 1905. NUMBER 5. ED. MANASSE Athena's Leading Dry Goods This is your opportunity must make room for spring ED. MANASSE Agent for Butterick's Patterns. Cox & hardware SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET. ATHENA, OREGON C-.-'A. .'BARRETT Hardware Groceries, Crockery, (rents' PurnisMiiffs THE DELL BEOTHERS South Side Main and Clothing Emporium for BARGAINS. We fabrics soon to arrive. McEwcn Dealers INCORPORATED. "Standard' umbing Supplies PI We do Plumbing at the Proper Prices Standard Material and Workmanship Stock is Street, PRICE SUITS THEM WISCONSIN MEN MAY INVEST IN FARM LANDS. Pleased With Land Conditions Hero Where Farms are held at High Value- William McKinzie and H. A. Dowd recent arrivals on the Pacific slope from Wisconsin, were in Athena this week seeking investments. in farm land.- The gentlemen have- traveled exten sively through, the Northwest, and ex pressed themselves as being more pleas ed with farming conditions here than any where they had been. The high price of land and the fact that few farms in this locality were offered for sale, ap pealed to them as being the section they desired to locate in. A farm at $60 per acre was the lowest price offered them, while in one or more instances $100 per acre was the price asked. Apparently the price did not scare them. Mr. McKinzie desires to purchase a half section of land and Mr. Dowd will purchase a farm of 160 acres. The gen tlemen left yesterday morning for Seattle, where they are temporarily lo cated, with the intention of returning soon to Athena, for the purpose of fur ther investigation. SPECIAL MESSAGE. -. Governor Protests Against Nullifying the Referendum. " The governor has sent a message call ing attention to the too frequent inser tion of the emergency clause, thereby exempting the bill from referendum. He said he would veto all bills to which the cause is unwarrantably attached. The republican senators regard this as a threat, and in caucus have agreed to vote as a unit to override any veto based on this reason. Thirty-one clerks are recommended by the joint committee of the senate and house to serve on the committees of in vestigation of the state institutions. A hot fight is expected over the amendments to the local option law proposed by the liquor interests. They propose a purely precinct option law with 10 per cent of the registered voters necessary to call an election. In in corporated cities and towns only the residence precincts will . be subject to the operation of the law. Complete. Athena, Oregon. IS UNDER A CLOUD SENATOR MITCHELL APPEARS IN THE SENATE. Makes a Speech Full ot Dramatio Fervor, Declaring There Is No Evidence to Support Charges A Washington dispatch says the un usual spectacle of a United States sena tor explaining on the floor ot the chxm ber charges made against himself ly a court of law in' his own state was wit nessed in the senate when Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, spoke of the in dictment recently returned against him by an Oregon grand jury. The senator has not previously appeared in the sen ate siDce the indictment was returned and was received by his fellow senators with many evidences of good will. He was much affected, his emotion at times being such that he read his statement with great difficulty. At the outset the senator declared that the charges made against him, if true, unfitted him to occupy a seat in the senate. He then detailed the charg es and said: "I assert in the most positive and un qualified manner that each and every one of those charges, in so far as they relate to or involve me, are absolutely, unqualifiedly and atrociously false and I here and now indignantly and definitely denounce their authors, each and every one of tbem, and brand them publicly as malicious and atrocious liars." Mitchell attacked Francis J. Heney, the attorney for the government in the prosecution of the land frauds, accusing him of unprofessional conduct. He charges that Heney had offered clem ency to Puter, Emma L. Watson' and others if they would make statements involving himself (Mitchell) and Con gressman Hermann and others. More than half the senators who greeted Senator Mitchell today urged him to remain in the senate and con tinue to participate in its proceedings. He, however, will not follow this advice, but will remain away as long as the in dictment is pending. ' Estes-James. John Estes and Mrs. Kate James were united in marriage at Walla Walla, Wed nesday. Pedndleton Tribune. Bill Relating Salem, Jan. 20. Senator Miller has introduced into the Oregon senate a bill requiring teachers in the public schools of the state to give thirty days notice upon resigning their positions. The penalty for a violation of this law is that the state superintendent shall re voke the certificate of the offending teacher, and he or she shall be dis qualified from teaching for the remain No Clue Left Pendlelon, Jan. 20. The chief of po lice has received from Mrs. M. E. La throp of Sidney, Neb., an inquiry con cerning the present whereabouts of her brother, Ray Kirby, who was last heard from in August, 1903, when he wrote a card to his mother from Athena. He had also written six weeks before, dating Girl Again Pendleton, Jan. 20. Delia Estes, alias Delia Childs, alias Delia Guilders, is again in trouble in Portland. The young woman has been placed under arrest on the charge of larceny, the com plaining witness being W. D. Mathews, proprietor of the lodging house where she had been staying. Mrs. Childs is 1 Fair Bill Passes the Senate Pendleton, Jan. 20. Senator Smith's bill creating the Third Eastern Oregon District Fair Association, comprised of Umatilla and Morrow counties, passed the senate this morning with but two dissenting vote. The irrigation LOCAL OPTION UP PROPOSED AMENDMENT BEFORE OREGON LEGISLATURE. Gambling Law Introduced State Measure of Two Years Ago Has Been Resurrected. Representative Janes of Wasco has introduced the long expected bill amend ing the local option law. Many im portant amendments are offered, the chief being a provision that an election on the prohibition issue may be called in any precinct only on petition of 40 per cent of the registered voters. It al so provides that the law shall not be applicable to precincts in incorporated towns except residence precincts and shall not apply to the sale of liquor by wholesalers. ; Under the provision of the bill 10 per cent of the voters in any county which adopted prohibition last November may demand the resubmis sion question in June, 1906. Emergency is declared so as to prevent the sub mission of the bill to popular vote under referendum. The bill eliminates county prohibition and provides only for pre cinct prohibition. Gambling Law Introduced. The anti-gambling bill, introduced at the special session a year ago and mis teriously stolen, after it had passed the house, has again made its appearance, and it is expected that the gambling in terests will make a vigorous fight to prevent its passage. The new bill was introduced in the house by Qray of Douglas. The precautions adopted by both the senate and house made it reasonably certain that a bill cannot be stolen while being carried from one chamber to another. The fight must therefore be in the open, and unless the bill be buried in committee it is likely to pass. Witness Murdered. The coroner's jury at Roseburg, in the case of Jack Rogers, the timber cruiser found shot through the head Monday, returned a verdict of murder by unknown parties. Rogers was one of the government's most important witnesses in the land frauds, and it is thought was murdered by implicated parties. to Teachers der ot the school year in any Oregon public school. It is provided that sick ness or other unavoidable circumstances which prevent the teacher from teaching one month shall be sufficient reason for the termination of the contract without the notice herein required by the teach er. It is also provided that the board may release a teacher from a contract by mutual agreement. to Trace Him his letter from Pendleton. His postal card, written at Athena, stated tHat he was working in the harvest fields and that the rig he was with was moving about so that his mail arrangements were uncertain. This was the final word the family has received and all clue to his location or fate has been lost. Under Arrest well known in this city and about a year ago figured in a sensational affair which is said to be the cause ot her undoing. Portland officers say that she is one of the cleverest women with whom they have had to deal for many months, and they credit her with many successful crimes. . bills are being considered today. House bill No. 51, offered by Represen tative Cole of Umatilla county, and known as the irrigaticn commission's bill, is being amended, and will proba bly pass. TO PORTECT GIRLS ASSOCIATION FORMED TO WORK DURING THE FAIR. A Central Committee Modeled After the One That Served Well Dur ing St. Louis Fair. To protect innocent and inexperienc ed girls from the dangers and tempta tions of city life during the Lewis and Clark fair is the object of a central com mittee provided for by a meeting held recently in the assembly room of the Y. M. C. A., at Portland, says the Journal. The central committee is to be modeled after that which was called the exposi tion travelers' aid committee, which during the St. Louis exposition prevent ed a recurrence of the tragic loss of more than 600 girls, who going to Chica go, never again were heard from. On this central committee will be one member from each of the woman's or ganizations of this city: The Y. W. C. A., the W. O. T. U.. the Woman's Club. the City Federation of Women's Clubs, Portland Women s Union. Enworth League, Y. P. S. C. E., Baptist Young People s Union, and other societies en- gaged in religious and philanthropic work. The committee will have a presi dent, three vice-presidents, recording and corresponding secretaries, treasurer and, probably, a woman who will devote all or most Of her time tn Minnr vision of the committee's operations Com mittees will be appointed on these branches of the work. Finance, travel ers' aid, to meet trains and steamers, to distribute literature warning girls be fore the exposition opens, housing of girls without employment and securing work for those who are found without means, a press committee to provide one lodging house wherein girls may be cared for until disposed of permanently. TO TEST LIQUOR LAW. Freewater Saloon Hen to Appear in Circuit Court. A test case of the local option law is to be made by Taylor & Ireland, Free water saloon men, says the East Ore gonian. Freewater was declared "dry" as a result of the vote on prohibition at the November election and all saloons in that precinct were supposed to have closed their doors before January 1. But it is alleged that Taylor & Ireland kept open and sold liquor after the first of the year and the district attorney has tiled complaint against them. It is understood the defendants in the action, backed by other saloon men in the county, are anxious for the case to come to trial in order to base an action whereby the constitutionality of the local option law may be determined. A similar case is now pending in Wasco county. George Ireland was arraigned in the state circuit court on a charge of con ducting a saloon at Freewater after his license had expired, and entered a plea of not guilty. Exhibit Needs $250. County School Superintendent F. K. Welles has informed the county court that about $250 will be required for the purpose of making an educational ex hibit at the Lewis and Clark exposition. At the close of the fair the cabinets and the exhibits displayed will be retained as a permanent exhibit at the oflbe of the county superintendent. The court will not make a direct appropriation for the exhibit, but has signified its willing to allow reasonable bills incurred in its collection and display. Jury and Land Cases. D. M. Walton and O. D. Bills, wit nesses before the federal grand jury in vestigating the land frauds, testified in regard to the Butt Greek Land and Livestock company and in the Gilman French company, who together are ac cused of having enclosed over 100,000 acres of public domain in Cedar county. The investigation is supposed to have a bearing on Congressman Williamson. Gallows Moved to Poor Farm. The gallows erected for the hanging of Frederick Tom, wife murderer, and which for years has been in the base ment of the court bouse at Pendleton, has been moved to the poor farm, where the timbers will be utilized in the construction cf a hen house. The law requiring executions to take place in the penitentiary now makes gallows in coun ty jails unnecessary. f