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VOLUME XVII. ATHENA, UMATILLA 'CX)UNTY.V OREGON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 7, 1905. NUMBER 8. m ED. MANASSE Athena's Leading Dry Goods This is your opportunity must make room for spring ED. MANASSE , . Agent for Butterick's Patterns. . .... Cox&llcEwen - : Hardware Dealers SOUTH SIDE; MAIN STREET. ATHENA. OREGON I it xi ' 11 i ii YA f4&ij& Hardware Groceries, Crockery, V Gents' Furnishings T HE BELL South Side Main and Clothing Emporium for BARGAINS. We fabrics soon to arrive. INCORPORATED. tattdatfd Plum bincp Bupp I ies We do Plumbing at the Proper Prices Standard Material and Workmanship Stock is . Complete. BROTHERS Street, THE TICKET NAMED LARGE NUMBER OF CITIZENS ATTEND THS MEETING. Taylor For Mayor Four Councilmen Nominated for Eeelection to Office. Tho meeting held at the city hall Saturday evening was attended by a large number of representative citizens. The result of the meeting was the nomi nation of a ticket without any apparent friction. Mayor Taylor was made chairman of the meeting and . Bruce vWallace secre--tary. David Taylor was placed in nomina tion for mayor7 and the name of George Gross was presented. , Mr, Gross 'de clined and Mr. Taylor was declared to be the unanimous choice of the conven tion. V '. For councilmen nine names were voted on as follows, with the number of votes each received, the. six receiving the highest number of votes' being de clared nominated for the office of coun cilman: . C. A. Barrett, 38; T. J. Kirk, 66; D. B. Jarman, 44; Wm. Tompkins, 28; A., Mi Gillia, 54; George Gross, 48; Wm; McBride 83 C. XX, Henry, 56jt4. B.' Stone, 27.' - For treasurer, David Williams, pres ent incumbent, was unanimously nomi nated for re-election. O. G. Chamber lain and G. W. Bradley were placed be fore the convention for recorder, Mr. Chamberlain receiving 45 votes and Mr. Bradley 28. . In the nomination of the ' ticket, with the exception of D. B. Jarman and .G. 0. Henry, the officials are the same that are. now serving the city. At the coming election six councilmen are to be voted for the three receiving the highest number of votes wj.ll serve for a term of two years and the three receiv ing the lowest number of votes will serve for the term of two years, f The city election takes place Tuesday, March 7th. . , There's a pretty girl in tin Alpine hat, A sweeter girl with a sailor brim, But the handsomest girl you'll ever see Is the senuible girl who uses Rocky Mountain Tea. Pioneer drug store ' 1 w Athena, Oregon. i ' V . . i KUROPATKIN HAS HAD ENOUGH OF IT Grippenberg Resigns In a Pout-Mutiny . Reported In the Black Sea Fleet. St. Petersburg, Feb. G.-r-Genoral Kur opatkin has tenderd to the Czar his res ignation of the command of the f orces in the Far East. General Grippenberg has been removed from the command of of the Second' Manchurian army at his own request, having declared that he had been dishonored by Kuropatkin's orders to . retreat: at the battle of the Hun river. ' . Berlin, Feb. 5-3erman military ex perts, familias with the inner - conditions of the Russian army declare" that the autocracy cannot depend on the loyalty of any of the troops outside of the few regiments Berving as bodyguards to the Czar and the Grand Dukes. Military men here in the light of history and tra dition, therefore, regard the recent mu tiny of soldiers and marines at Sevasto pol as immeasurably the most danger ous event of all the recent turmoil in Russia. They proclaim their belief that Has an Epidemic of Fraud .Pendleton, Feb. 6. A virtual epi demic of fraud seems to have broken out in this city. Following quickly after the case of Frank Hamilton who was arrested Saturday night for passing bogus checks on several unwary mer chants, came the story -this morning of another and a more successful operator. Th fraudulent checks were issued by Tom Moss, who has been employed for some time as a banker by Hohbach Dead In a Pile of Rocks errand' Jobbery had been committed. In the coat pockets of the dead man was found citizenship papers issued at Clear Creek, Col.; in the name of Enoch D. Jenkins. The dead man was apparently between 35 and 40 years of age, and well dressed.: 1 he , left ear and both arms were eaten away, apparently by wild an imals, . Portland's Baseball Team ' Portland, Ore., Feb. 6. The Portland Baseball team has been completed and the list of players has been made public. With the exception of . one or two, the players.ae all new men in, this city. As announced by Manager McCreedle, the following will be the lineup:. Garvin, French, Essick, Jones, St. Vrain, Gates, Irrigation District Trouble , . Pendleton, Feb. 6.-The Little Walla Walla Irrigation .district is again in the throes Of discord and trouble. Ever since the district was organized appar ently there has been some sort of mis understanding between owners of land in the district and the promoters of the Portland Trolly Wreck - Portland, Feb. .6. One. was killed and thirty-ope cereons injured, some of them ..... - fatally, by the wrecking of a car on the ftioistavillg street car line, at the '.corner of East Twenty-eighth and East Glisan streets today. The accident occurred at La Grande J. M. Church, the pioneer banker of La Grande, died in St. Vincent's hos pital at Portland, Saturday night, from injuries received the day before, while attempting to board a train for Salem. He slipped and fell on the ends of the it is the forerunner of widespread in subordination, fraught with far-reaching consequences. On Verge of Mutisy. London, Feb. 5. The crews of the Black Sea fleet are on the verge of mu tiny. Revolutionary literature in great quantities has been found on the ships. The men are in a dangerous frame of mind, and an outbreak is feared at any time. The intense feeling of revolution is strengthened by the fact that 38 of their comrades are being sentenced to death as ringleaders in the first outbreak. Situation Unchanged. Tokio, Feb. 6. The situation on the Shakheand Hun rivers is unchanged. A small force of Russians attacked San chiatzu last Saturday, but were repulsed The Russians shelled various portions of the Japanese center Sunday. Bros. Five of them were issued each for $6, and all bearing the same date and number, the latter being 74. They were drawn on the First National Bank and were all copies of a check given Moss on Saturday evening by Hohbach Bros.. By having them all of the same amount the clever swindler ., evidently meant to prevent detection should any one of the parties' cashing the checks have called the attention of Bohbach Bros, to the matter. ! , Ogden, Utah, Feb. 6. Buried beneath a pile pf rocks in a secluded, spot near Little Mountain, 14 miles west of here, with the back of his head crushed and otherwise mutilated, the body of a man supposed to be Enoch D. Jenkins, was found by a hunting party today. : The pockets of the dead man's trousers were turned inside out, indicating that mur- Gilpatrick, pitchers; McLean, Thiery, Stcelman, catchers; Doyle, first base; Schaffley, second base; Atz, shortstop; Runkle, third base; Van Buren, left field; Householder, center field; Mc Creedle, right field, and Gleason, utility man. The players have all been re quested to report in Bakersneld for spring practice on March 12. enterprise. The first litigation was over the amount of water to which the users should be entitled for irrigation, and the matter was finally adjusted with seem ing satisfaction to all concerned. Now nearly all the owners of land in the dis trict are again up in arms. a sharp curve at the base of a steep in cline. The momentum of the car was so great it was unable to make the curve and overturned. Sixty six passengers were on the car at the time of the acci dent. Rudolph Janson, an employe of a box factory, was killed outright. Banker Dead ties, breaking his jaw bone and other wise injuring him. He was a prominent republican and was a man of the highest integrity and honor, and was a leader in business, charity and politics in Union county. SUICIDE AT BINGHAM MADE DELIBERATE PREPARA TIONS FOB DESTRUCTION. Revolver Tied to Fence Post and Hole Two Inches in Diameter Made Through His Body. Pendleton, Feb. 6. Vincent Konasek. a laborer aged 47 years, shot and killed himself at Bingham Springs at 8:30 this morning. He tied a 45 calibre revolver to a fen e post, and placing the muzzle against his breast, pulled the trigger, the large ball passing entirely through niB body, carrying away cart of his heart ahd plowing a hole two inches in diameter through the back where the bullet passed out. Death was instan taneous. Operator Swayne at the O. R. AN. office at Bingham Sprintrs. heard the re port of the revolver and caught sight of the man as he fell forward on his face. When Swayne reached him a few min utes later Konasek was dead. Des pondency is said to have been the cause of the suicide. It is said that he at tempted suicide once before by shooting himself in the mouth, the injury causing an impediment in his speech, Konasek was a single man. 47 years of age and came from Willamette valley to Umatilla county in 1881, Coroner T. M. Henderson and M. A. Raderleft for Bingham Springs on a freight train this afternoon where an in vestigation will be conducted. It is known to be a plain case of suicide, however, as the preparations for the deed were well made and the operator was an eye witness to the shootictr. al though he did not have the least intima tion that Konasek had suicidal inten tions before he heard the report of the pistol. The suicide took place in Dlain sight of the depot and station buildings. CIGARETTES AND PNEUMONIA. Death of Joieph William, Keeper of ' Meuntaln Home The Pilot Rock Record reports the death of Joe Williams, well known to the traveling public as the keeper of Mountain Home, for several years past, died in Pilot Rock Sunday evening after a Bhort illness and was buried Tuesday at 10 o'clock. The deceased was a middle-aged man, and leaves a wife, two sons and a daughter to mourn his loss. Pneumonia was the direct cause of his death. He was addicted to the use of cigarettes, and it is a well known fact that there is scarcely an exception of a man recover ing from an attack of pneumonia under such circumstance. TEST OF GOOD WHISKY. A Kentucky Representative Telia an Ohio Representative How to Do It. "Now, there are plenty of kinds of whisky," said Representative Ollie James of Kentucky, "but the people of our state contend that our Bourbon is the best in the world. We sell to out siders all that does not pass our test." " What is the test?" asked Representa tive Biedler of Ohio. "Why," said Mr. James, "we inject one drop of it into the veins of a rabbit, and if after that the rabbit will not fight a bulldog, the whisky is no good." Nearly Lost an Eye. Some boys in this city were playing a few days ago with a bow and arrows and undertook to do the William Tell trick, very nearly causing the loss of an eye to Harrison, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baker. The arrow struck the upper part of the eye near the outer corner with force enough to cause an abrasion on the ball though the lid was not cut. While the little fellow suffer ed considerable pain for several days, he is now nearly recovered and it is not thought any permanent injury will re sult although it was a close call. Adams Advance. Bock Crasher for Weston. Leader: At a special meeting of the city council yesterday afternoon the street committee was authorized to pur chase a second-hand rock crushing out fit, which is offered for sale at 81250. The outfit is complete and consists of a crusher and engine now at Walla Walla, Councilmen H. A. Brandt and P. T. Harbour left for that city this morning, empowered to purchase the machinery if found to be as represented. Dave Lavender, city marshal, accompanied them to inspect the engine. . t , , ... ; , ... - I