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i' VOLUME XVII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 23, 1905. NUMBER 38. I I I ED.: MANASSE LADIES' SHIRTWAISTS & Style, Quality, W orkmanship Each one. a tailored, creation. To see them is to verify our state- ( U.u. . O UUk IJUUbD Jlco UUI IUU WJU UUU BO IBf UB qUttillJ - in concerned they are all right. JUST IN-A sample lot of 8HIRT WAIST SUITS at FIRST COST. Come and make your selection. t ED. MANASSE Agent for Butterick's Patterns. THE HARDWARE STORE THAT "DOES THINGS" V ? ' it inland''' Lawn Mowers SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET. ATHENA, OREGON FNTRIES are made j The entries are by no means uuu flued to 'Athena and vicinity, but come from the county over. In ad dition to the young colts that will be entered for competition 'in the two classes, Saturday will be a day for showing horses generally. Owners of flue stallions and brood mares will take advantage of the opportunity and give the publio a . chance to see the wonderful progress that has been made in this branch of the stock in dustry. . .... , . ,: . ;; . ... .. , Prizes to be awarded the winning colts are on display at Mr. Norris' harness shop. They consist of one set of single harness, a fine robe, a cath edral clock, a leather suit case and a high grade buggy whip.' Competent judges will be on hand to Judge the colts. EEBUILD FORT WALLA, WALLA Work will Commence Immediately on Building to Cotia 1,000. The rebuilding of Fort Walla Walla is now an assured fact and work on the new buildings will resume in the near future. The United States Fi delity & Guaranty company will file the contract of the Goldie Brothers, who went into voluntary bankruptcy about the time the work on the foun dation was stopped by Captain Creag er, in ( charge of the government's supervision of the building on account of the character of the foundation. ; Positive information that work on tli new buildings would be resumed was received yesterday by Dice & Jackson, local agents for the bonding company. It came in the form of a letter from Charles F. Wood, chief engineer for the company, who was recently in Walla Walla and w-ent direct from there to Washington city to take up the matter with war deparfl ment offioials.r . .., , , . f P ., ' "The letter was posted at Baltic si. INCORPORATED. uvuu U " MilLia ivy y u KILL rJASO tr m Are Light Running, Strong and Durable Hardware Stock is Complete. & roceries, Crockery, I 1 u i ! ents 1.1 msjiiiiffs THEDELii BMTIEES South Side Main Street, Athena, Oregon under date of May 13," said Mr. Jack son last night, "and therein Mr. Wood stated' that he had returned ' from Washington, D. C, on the day preced ng the dictation of his correspondence tnd that the matter of the foundation (or the work at the fort had been defi nitely determined, and was satisfac tory to the authorities there." Mr. Jackspn continued: "This means that the larger part of $121,000 Is to be spent in the Garden City dur ing the course of the present summer, tn other words, Mr. Wood advises that !ve are to handle the contracts for abor and material here, and, very laturally, we shall give every prefer ence to Walla Walla business inter jsts. ' "The original appropriation," Mr. Tackson explained, "was $95,000 but sxtras subsequently allowed by the government increased the amount to ;he snm mentioned. " . fc LAWS0N'8 STORY. ' time and some $600,000 of my money to get my message to the American people, and I would ask if, because of this fact and the further one that I seek nothing in return for my work (for I have nothing to sell and no office or other thing to ask of the American people), you cannot see it in the light of a publio duty to do all in your power to get the June chapter of my story to the people of your community. If so, I leave to your good judgment the way and the moans to do so. THOMAS W. LAWSON. DECORATION DAY. Will That UUtory of How the American Pen- pie Were Bobbed of 36,000,000. Twelve months ago I made to the American people in the "Foreword" of my story, "Frenzied Finanoe," a promise to expose the operations of the most nefarious and destructive band of brigands this or any other country has been oppressed with. The "System" met my promises with ridicule, and their hirelings from one end of the land to the other cho rused, "He will never dare tell." - In the June number of Everybody's Magazine, published on the 20th of May, I tell the first great crime of Amalgamated in a double chapter of 24,000 worda I give in a brick-and-mortar style the details of this act by which the American people were robbed of $36,000,000 through the agency of tha biggest national bank in America, the National City ("Stand ard Oil") bank of New York. I feeland I think you will agree with me when you have read what I tell that it is of vital importance to the whole American people that they every man, woman and child know the facts I expose. : So far I have given a year of my Be Appropriately Observed Gettysburg rout, O. A. K. By 'er&y On air will Decoration Dny, May 80, will be appropriately observed in Athena by the members of Gettysburg Post No. 33, G. A. B., old soldiers and cit izens. The old soldiers will form in line on Main street at 10 o'clock m. and march to the cemetery, where special services will be held and the graves decorated with ' flowers., returning from the cemetery go to the Christian church where the program of the day will be concluded. The dining room in the church will be turned over to the publio and all who care to may bring their basket dinner. The G. A. R. men request that all who can, bring flowers for decorative purposes, that no grave in the cem etery will be without flowers on that day. . The program follows : Song - . - - - - Choir. Prayer -- - - - Eev. Ellis. Song - - i ... Choir. Reading Lincoln's Gettysburg Speech. Oration - G. B. Marquis. Solo - , Arlie Pennick. Address - - - Rev. Baker. Address - Rev. Ellis. Song - - Choir. Address - - - Rev. Jenkins, Song - - - Choir. Commercial Association Meeting. Tonight is regulra meeting night of the Athena Commercial Association, and all members are requested to at tend for the reason that there will be business of importance to transact. A TO STANDS Permanent Injunction Against Med- With Stubblefield Estate. dling Walla Wajla, May 22. A decision perpetually enjoining Mrs. ' CasBann Stubblefield, her attorneys or any of her agents from bringing or institut ing any suit against the trustees of the Stubblefield estate, looking to ward a division of the Stubblefield estate, was rendered by Judge Brents last night. The decision so far as Mrs. Stubblefield is concerned ends all hope of the estate being put to any other use than provided for by Mr, Stubble field. In March of last year Mrs. Stubblefield petitioned the county court of Umatilla county to enter the will of Mr. 'Stubblefield for probate, basing the petition on the grounds that most of the property left by her husband was located in Umatilla county. The trustees of the estate immediately began suit to enjoin Mrs. Stubblefield from serving the citation. A temporary injunction was granted some time ago and yesterday the caso. wsa settled by Judge Brents, making the injunction permanent MARTIN SHOT HIM 0. N. PRESTON OF FREEWATER THE DEAD VICTIM. Father Was Endeavoring to Force Martin to Marry His Daughter , Was the Canse- The Big Battle Now On London May 22. A Tokio dispatch states that a ' report from the front says that the Russians attacked several Japanese posts in the neighborhood of the Liao river on May 20. An attack on Tangshed was repulsed with loss to the Russians of 300. . . Advices received from General Lin ievitch, at St. Petersburg, state that a general engagement is in progress all along the line of the Russian left flank, and that two divisions are en gaged with the Japanese. So far the Russians have held their own and re pulsed the Japanese attacks. Accord ing to reports Oyama is moving against the entire Russian line, although up to the present fighting has been cou fined to the left Tokio reports attacks made by the Russians upon Chientzu and Ching Yang Pao, but both were repulsed. There have been several collisions at Changtu, but no material change in the situation. The Russians are re ported concentrating their cavalry strength at Kungchuliang. High Price Paid For Wool Pendleton, May, 22. From 18, to 22 cents per pound was paid for wool in the great sale held here today, and approximately 500,000 pounds were dis posed of. The prices paid are several centa above the figures brought by most of the clips that were already sold, and are away above the prices given at the beginning of the season, when consid erable wool was bought for prices rang ing from 11 to 16 cents. Douglass Belts president of the association, said: "The prices brought today are the best that have been paid in Eastern Oregon for 25 years. We who have held for the sales day have gotten from one to five cents per pound more than did those who sold before the sale." Descendants of Sacajawea After two years of tireless search the East Oregouian has discovered the descendants of Touinsant Charboneau and his wife, Sacajawea, who guided Lewis and Qlark across the Rocky mountains to the Pacific coast, and who after returning to Ft Mandan with the Lewis and Clark expedition, dropped out of history and until this discovery have not been known. Per haps half a hundred letters have been written by the editor of tbo East Ore- gonian, says'that paper, in the effort to locate some descendant, of Sacaja wea, and a letter from Coyle, Ok la., cleais up the historical mystery andre veals the descendants of this wonderful Shoshone Indian guide. John T. Char boneau, now a resident of Coyle, Okla homa, is one of eleven surviving child ren of Louis Charboneau, the sou born to the Bird Woman at Ft Mandan in February 1805, before the Lewis and Clark expedition left the winter quar ters for the Pacific ocean. Thursday evening Grover Martin, a dentist assistant of Milton, - shot and killed O. N. Preston, a Freewater farmer. The tragedy originated, according to reports, over family troubles, Martin having kept company with Prestons' daughter. Last Tuesday Preston went to the dontists office where Martin was em ployed and demanded that he (Martin) marry his daughter, he being her , seducer, so it is saidJi - On the evening of the tragedy Mar tin was at the home of David Clark, , and Preston requested him to call Martin out Soon after the two men engaged in an altercation. Martin was on top of Preston when Clark went to separate them. Clark gives the following story to the East . Ore-gonian: My daughter has been working at Mr. Kirk's. Thursday night she 'phoned to us and said that she and Grover Martin would drive down and come to supper. They got here about 6 o'clock. I was oat on the lawn do ing some irrigating when my neigh bor, Mr. Preston, called across, I wish you would tell Grover Martin to come out a moment, I want to talk to him. ' I called Grover out "A moment later I saw the two men fighting in the road and I heard some of the women folks scream. I ran out to the road. Grover had Pros ton down and was striking him some heavy blows in the face. Preston was very bloody and he said to me, 'Take him off; take him off.' I said'to Grover, 'He's 1 had enough, i He's "squawked." Let him up.' Grover said, 'Wait a moment But I inter rupted him aud said, 'Let him alone, he has had enough,' and then I pulled Grover off. Preston lay there, so I took hold of his arm to help him up. As he sat up he picked up a stone, and I said, 'None of that, Preston,' and 1 slipped my hand down his arm and took him by the hand. He drop ped the stone. I helped him up. Just hs he got on his feet I heard the report of the pistol and Preston dropped. I said, 'Oh Grover I' Grover said, 'Mr. Clark.I had to.' Mr. West., my P neighbor, came running out and I and Mr. West and Mrs. Preston carried him into hf.a home. ' Mr. Preston was talking low when we carried him in so I did not hear what he said. " W. S. Banks, who helped dress the uoad man, says that his nose is badly broken and his chest very badly bruised. There are marks of Ave heavy blows. Rev. H. C. Cleveland, who visited the scone early this morn ing, picked up a loaded slingshot It is supposed that Mr. Preston's nose was broken and the other bruises made with the slingshot Mr. Preston lived about two hours. Friday the coroner empanneled a jury composed of Earl A. Williams, A. M. Elam, J. V. Davis, J. F. Crad ick, J. D. Bennett and N. T. Manela and ffhey gave the following verdict: "We, the jury, respectfully find that O. N. Preston died about 9:30 p. m., May is, 11)05, at his residence one mile north of Freewater, as the result of a pistol shot wound on the right side of the chest close to the nipple, which was fired by Grover Martin about 7 :30 p. m. , May 18, 1005 near the home o David Clark. "We find that O. N. Preston has been the aggressor in this affair and also find that the shooting was not committed entirely in self defense.' Saturday morning the preliminary examination was held before Justice of the Peace Miller, and Martin was bound over to await the action of the circuit court, without bail, on the charge of murder. The law firm of Peterson & Peterson appeared for defendant and Hailey & Lowell conducted the prosecution, with the aid of Judge Kirkland of Milton, in the alwence of District At torney Phelps. Murder in Second Degree Enterprise, May 22. After being out nearly 24 hours, the jury in the case wherein James IL McBain was accused of shooting without cause the Trost brothers who jumped his claim, returned the following verdict: "We, the trial jury in the above entitled action, bold the defendant guilty of murder in the second degree. "Polk Mays, Foreman." It is reported that the first ballot taken stood 10 to 2 in favor of murder in the first degree, and stood so until this morning, when they agreed upon the above. When Sheriff Blakely took him back to bis cell be remarked that he would rather hang than be sentenced for life.