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VOLUME XVII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1905.
NUMBER 12.
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Athena's Leading Dry Goods
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ARRIVING DAILY
ALL THE LATEST WEAVES ARE NOW ON EXHIBITION
LEWIS & CLARK NECKTIES
FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THE GENUINE ARTICLE
ED. MANASSE
Agent for Butterick's Patterns.
Cox &
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SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET. ATHENA, OREGON
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GANG PLOWS
Flying Dutchman, Oliver,
Cast & Steel Bradley Gangs
H&rdwtire
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South Side Main
Grroceries,
THE DELL
and Clothing Emporium
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VEHICLES
Henney Buggies, Hacks and
Carriages, The" very Best.
Stock is
Crockery,
Grents' Purnishinffs
BEOTHEES
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Street,
1. 0. 0. F. RECEPTION
PUBLIC WILL INSPECT NEW
HALL THURSDAY EVENING.
Exceptionally Fine Musical and Liter
ary Program Address By
Hon. T. G. Hailey.
The local Odd Fellow's lodge will
entertain the public Thursday evening.
The occasion will be in the nature of a
general public reception at which time
the people of Athena and vicinity will be
given the opportunity to inspect the new
lodge hall.
The committees having the reception
in charge have been successful in get
ting up a splendid musical and literary
program. Hon. Thos. G. Hailey, of
Pendleton, will deliver the address of the
evening. A basket supper will be a
feature, and amusements for all will . be
provided. The program follows: ,
March "Russo-Japanese,"
Johnson'd Orchestra.
Address, T. Q. Hailey, of Pendleton.
Overture, "Silver Bell,"
Johnson's Orchestra.
'Spooks and Spirits," Class of Girls
Piano Solo,. ."Ben Hur Chariot Race,"
Lula Tharp.
Vocal Solo, "Hannah Won't You Open
That Door,",..,....;...
Lela Stamper. .
Piano Solo, March Grotesque
Mrs. J. D. Plamondon.
Recitation "The Inventor's Wife,"
Cecils Boyd.
"Ramona" Waltzes, ..by Anthony Bros.
Johnson's Orchestra.
Vocal Solo,. . . . . ."In the Days of Old,"
. Joseph N. Scott.
Recitation, "The School Marm's Cour-
tin."..........
Lela Stamper.
March,... "Lucy Anna,"
. Johnson's Orchestra.
Basket Supper, etc.
Whitman Won Debate
In one of the most hotly contested
debates ever held in Walla Walla,
Whitman won the Northwest intercol
legiate debcte last night, over the Paci
fic University team, of Cottage Grove,
Ore. The question debated was, "Re
solved, that the United States should
adopt the ' Canadian banking laws,"
Whitman beiog on the affirmative side.
Fairbanks-Morse engines are the best.
C. A. Barrett & Co.
Complete.
ROYAL FAMILY
PALACE PRISONERS
Strikes Spread to Extent of Tying up the
Russian Supplies of War.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 20. The czir
and his immediate family for the time
being are prisouers in their own pnl r-es,
dread of awful death by hand of an as
sassin holding them close to their official
homes. Even General Trepoff, who
was selected to rule St. Petersburg with
iron hand fears to venture into the
streets. It has now been definitely de
cided that the remains of Grand Duke
Sergius will not be brought to St.
Petersburg.
Even Governor General Trepoff has
recognized the fact that no precautions
can furnish an absolute guarantee of
immunity against an act of terror at a
great state funeral, where ancient cus
torn requires that the emperor and all of
the Romanoff family assemble and fol
low the coffin on foot, and aBingle
bomb might wipe out the dynasty. Re
gard for the personal safety of the sover
eign also has led to the decision that the
emperor shall not go to Moscow to. at
tend the funeral. It is possible that no
members of the imperial family will be
present except those who are now with
in the walls of the Kremlin.
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lies up war ouppues. j
Tlie closing of the Franco-Russo and
the Putiloff wortss is a serious embar
rassment to the government as the
former is engaged exclusively on navy
work and the latter in manufacturing
guns and munitions of war for the army.
May Open Colville Reserve
Washington, Feb. 20. The Indian
appropriation bill as agreed on by the
committee on Indian affairs was adopted
and amendment was offered by Bard of
California, as follows:
"No portion of the funds or principal
or interest of any Indian trust or tribal
Handed Him
Portland, Feb. 20. Lying at the
point of death at his home, twenty-five
miles south of this city, is a man 75 years
old, who Friday last was victimized for
$10,000 by two confidence men who
used the antiquated "gold brick" trick.
When the old man became aware that
he had been swindled be had an attack
Aged Woman
Ptndleton, Feb. 21. Mrs. Thomas
Baker, one of the oldest pioneer women
of Umatilla county, dropped dead yes
terday afternoon about 2 o'clock from
an attack of heart disease. Mrs. Baker
left home shortly after noon to do some
shopping and was apparently in the best
of health. She was returning by way of
Two Days in the Mountains
Baker City, Feb 20. Ezra Clarke, the
miner who was supposed to be lost in
the mountains above Granite during the
severe storm the first of the week, came
into camp all right, except for a few
frost bites, after being out two days and
Money For a
Pendleton, Feb. 20. On Saturday
evening $1,000 more was secured from
citizens of Pendleton for the district fair
funds. Last week $5,650 was subscritied
in a few hours time and with the
Over 25,000,000 projectiles and shrapnel
are being prepared at the Putloff works,
and the government has been com
pelled within the last 10 days to place
orders in France and Germany for
$125,000,000 worth of munitions. At
the government owned Nevsky works
the minister of finance has been able to
hold the men only by conceding every
thing they have demanded, including
the eight hour day.
The employers, in a letter to the
finance minister, squarely disclaim all
responsibility for settling the labor
troubles, declaring that the strike is not
of economic origin, and that the nature
of the men's grievances can only be ad
justed by political reforms. They claim
that the condition of industry in Russia
renders yielding to the demands of the
men utterly impossible.
Reports of Uprisings-
, The most alarming reports have
reached here from. distant country dis
tricts. One of them stated that the
peasants of the "Black Earth" districts
in the south of Russia are in open revolt
and bands of them are burning and
pillaging.
There must be truth in this informa
tion, for it is positively known that
some of the largest land owners of the
district, who always spend the winter in
the capital, have already left St. Peters
burg to look after their property.
funds, held by the United States for the
benefit of any Indian tribe, shall be
available nor expended for the support
of any sectarian or denominational
school." Among the other amendments
was one appropriating $1,500,000 for the
opening of the Colville reservation in
Washington.
a Gold Brick
of heart disease. Relatives who report
ed the matter to the police refused to
make known the man's name, as they
say publicity would kill him. The con
fidence men after scheming several
weeks, managed to sell the man a "gold
mine," the first installment being $10,
000. Drops Dead
Webb street and was walking near the
doorway of the Masonic lodge room
when the attack came. Bystanders
carried the prostrate woman to the office
of the Hotel Eastern and telephoned for
her son, John S. Baker, of Baker & Fol
som, and .a physician, but before aid
could reach her she had expired.
nights. After the second night he
reachod a miner's cabin and rested be
fore he took the trail for camp. He
built a fire under the pines and remained
during the worst of the storm. The
thermometer fell to about 30 degrees
below zero during the time he was out.
District Fair
amount secured on Saturday evening,
the association now has $7,050 or nearly
half of the amount necessary to pro
ceed with the work of purchasing the
Armstrong property, erecting buildings
and building the race course.
J. J. BALLERAY DEAD
THE GREAT LAWYER DIES
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS.
Was Highly Educated, An Active
Politician, Bat Held Office
Only Once-
Friday evening at 6 o'clock Judge J.
J. Balleray, Pendleton's eminent and
gifted lawyer, died in that city after an
illnees of two days. Death was caused
by a complication of diseases, brought
on by alcoholism.
Mr. Balleray was well known in
Athena, where he had for years a large
clientage.
He was a native of Paterson, N. J.,
and at his death was 54 years of age.
His early life was spent in that city, and
his education partly secured from the
schools there. Later he attended the
college of St. Laurent at Montreal,
Canada, for several years, and in 1874
he graduated from the law course of
Columbia University of New York.
As a lawyer Judge Balleray was rec
ognized all over the state as a man of
exceptional ability, and he participated
in many hard-fought legal battles before
the supreme court as well as in the cir
cuit court. During his long practice he
acquired an extensive library.
In 1882 Judge Balleray was appointed
circuit judge for this district as then
composed. This position he held dru
ing one term of four years. He was ac
tive in politics, being identified with the
republican party, but never held but
the one office.
The remains were taken to New York
for burial where the deceased has a
brother and a sister. .
BAKER COUNTY NEXT.
Federal Offlolnli Bra Looking Into Fos
iilble Litnd Frauds
That there is reason to believe that
Baker county entries under the timber
and stone act are passing through a
microscopic investigation at the hands
of certain federal officials has been made
manifest to a number of people in these
parts, but they are not shouting their
knowledge from the house tops or mix
ing it with beverages, say the Baker
City Herald.
Two months ago County Clerk Combs
was requested by officials at Washing
ton to furnish them with a verified and
certified list of all the entries made and
filed in this couuty during the year 1903.
The list was furnished as requested and
found to contain 167 names.
Beyond this request he was asked to
do nothing but since then several men
known to be connected with the several
departments involved in land fraud in
vestigations have put in appearances
here, gone out to Sumpter and out into
the John Day country, thence to La
Grande and then to Portland. Precau
tion to avoid publicity of their move
ments is something in which these spec
ials are adept and there is little in their
wake to tell of their work.
Gold In Freewater Gravel.
Is there anything to hinder Freewater
from becoming an Eldorado? A Walla
Walla special gives it out on the author
ity of mining experts that the river peb
bles being hauled from the Freewater
flats to that city for paving purposes,
contain heavy traces of free gold. At
least 300 carloads of this stone will be
used in Walla Walla this summer in
constructing the three miles of model
road between the city and the Blalock
fruit farm. To what extent the rock
contains gold, is not known. Samples
will be crushed and tested by experts,
and if the quantity of gold is sufficient
to warrant, the remainder of the rock
will be smelted.
Jayne Bill Rilled.
The last day of the legislative session
was filled with exciting clashes on many
bills, resulting in the death of the
Jaynes bill, amending the local option
law. Prior to the bill receiving its
quietus incidents crowded upon one
another with a rapidity creating the ut
most nervous tension. The finale was
marked by dramatic effect. For tho
first time during the legislative session
the senate chamber rang with applause
during a debate. Evidence of the ap
probation of the auditors crowding the
chamber came at the conclusion of the
speech of Pierce against the bill.
Beautiful eyes and handsome face are
eloquent commendations. Bright eyes
are windows to a woman's heart. Hoi
lister's liocky Mountain Tea makes
bright eyes. Pioneer drug store.