The Athena press., May 30, 1905, Image 2

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ATHENA, MAY 30. 1905
County seat papers giveJE. H. And
erson credit for teaching the Athena
8th grade class, when the credit
Hhould be given George Marquis, principal-elect
of the Athena school. Mr.
Marquis has been the tutor of the 8th
grade pupils here for two years. Dur
ing that time 41 of his pupils have
taken the 8th grade examination and
89 have passed. He has the honor also
of seeing two of his pupils capture the
highest average of any school in the
county in this grade. Last year Miss
Minnie Naylor of the Athena publio
school led the county, and this year
Cecile Boyd led the class and county
in highest average. Frankly speak
ing the Press believes that the Athena
publio school ranks among the best in
the state, but that under Mr. Marquis'
supervision it is destined to bo still
better. Experience has demonstrated
that Willamette valley principals do
not thrive well in Eastern Oregon
schools. Whether it is the scenery
that blights their energy, or whether
change of atmosphere promotes the
species of lethargio desuetude with
which those who have been anchored
here have been afflicted, we will not
attempt to say, but of one thing we
are morally certain, and that is the
Umatilla county ' product has done
more for Athena's school than has
ever been accomplished by the past
masters from "the valley" that have
been employed here. This, without
exception, and the work accomplished
in the sohool will verifythe state
ment. It is auuounced that, beginning on
the first of June, passenger rates on
all railroads in Washington will be 8
cunts a mile; that the 10 cents extra
charged passengers on the trains who
do not buy tickets, will be abolished
and penuios used in makiug exact
change. Heretofore passengers have
been charged one or more cents too
much or too little, that is to say if a
mau traveled nine miles he paid 30
cents and if he traveled 1 1 miles he
paid 80 cent Heronftor the same
man will pay 27 cents aud 83 cents
respectively. We are getting to the
eastern habit of exact change and out
of the westorn style of reudy reckon
ing. The nimble cent is tuking the
place of the slow nickle.
As is usual with anything that
Athena takes hold of, the colt show
was a success in every particular.
Colts from different parts of the coun
ty wore on exhibition and entored in
the different classes. Competent judg
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es awarded the prizes and universal
satisfaction prevailed among horse-
owners. Public exhibition of colts in
competition works wonders in the
stimulation of propagating higher
class horses, and Athena's annual
colt shows will be looked on with
much favor by all horsemen.
An exchange tells of a farmer who
is abusing himself because he gave his
daughter a pair of chickens two years
ago aud promised to feed the increase
for four years if she would take care
of them. He says that she has $64
in the bank and also two hundred
chickens that he had to feed all win
ter. He also says that at the end of
four years she will own the farm and
will be charging him rent for living
on it
The 83rd annual reunion of the
Oregon Pioneer Association will be
held in Portland Thursday, June 15.
All persons coming to or born in the
original territory of Oregon up to
1859, inclusive, without regard to
where they now live, are eligible to
membership.
TUB KVSII TO OKKaON.
(Colonist In "Maverick.")
The announcement is given out from
its Portland office that a certain big
railroad has brought not less than 11,
000 colonists and homeseekers to Ore
gon this season. Where did they go?
How many stopped off at Baker City?
Or at Pendleton?
Two years ago there was a big rush
of easterners into the northwest to take
up homesteads and timber lands. Be
cause of the fact that the former form
of realty has become scarce and the
latter a decidedly dangerous sort of
proposition to monkey with, many are
deterred from making entries on pub
lic lands in Oregon.
What, then, did those 11,000 colo
nists whom the aforementioned rail
road dumped into Oregon this season
do with themselves? Did they all set
tle in Portland? Did they invest in
rose gardens in the exposition city or
purchase salmon farms on the Colum
bia river? Figures do not lie, but
liars will figure. The statement that
one railroad brougnt 11,000 colonists
to Oregon this season, with 5,000 more
to follow before May 15, is believed
to be a new sort of advertising dope.
It is probably true that number of low
rate excursion tickets from eastern
points to the Portland terminus have
been sold, but it is a safe proposition
to bet on that 80 per oent of the pur
chasers of these tickets were headed
for Washington, Northern California,
British Columbia aud Alberta.
"Because of the large interest in
irrigation in this state of late years,
more settlers are establishing them
selves in the districts of Eastern Ore
gon given up to irrigation, thus lessen
ing the number settling in the Wil
lamette Valley," says the Portland
dope artist.
Rats!
Will the figure juggler kindly point
out where in Eastern Oregon there are
large irrigation interests attractive to
16,000 colonists in one season? It is
true that Uncle Sam has been four
flushing pretty promiscuously iu the
sagebrush belt of this Eastern Oregon
region for the past two years, but up
to date not a olod of dirt has been
moved by the government hereabouts,
and with oue or two exceptions, no
definite site for a governmental "ir
rigation interests" has been selected.
It is likewise true that last year a big
rush of settlers was attracted to the
Echo oountry, where, the dope artists
aunonuced, the government was en
gaged in reclaiming a couple of hun
dred thousand acres of arid lands.
Hundreds of homeseekers swarmed
out into the sagebrush and filed on
section after section of worthless des
ert. When Uncle Sam announced
that after elaborate investigation and
detailed estimates the Echo project
$10.00 or more we pay the freight.
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wag found unfeasible and abandoned
it, a howl went up from the duped set
tlers, but what could Ibey do?
An entei prising government irriga
tion expert reported favorably on a
project down in Malheur county, and
acting on that report, the interior
department withdrew from entry a big
tract of land for irrigation purposes.
Immediately there was a rush of set
tlers to the borders of the reserved
tract, and they are there yet, waiting
for Uncle Sam to make good. It's
about time for the avuncular gentle
man to announce the unfeasibility of
the Malheur scheme.
The nearest approach to a govern
mental irrigation enterprise in Oregon
is at Ontario, where the government
board of engineers and the Malheur
Water Users' association have been
endeavoring for the past eighteen
months to jew each other down. Not
long ago terms were finally agreed on
and thousands of acres of private land
were signed up at $30 per acre to help
defray the cost of a reservoir, lateral
ditches and maintenance for ten years.
And now the whole scheme is up in
the air again, because the govern
ment has raised the price to $40 per
acre, with no explanation of the boost
ed estimate. Therefore, another period
of bickering must follow before the
water is made to run.
It's all well enough to haul 16,000
colonists from the effete east into Ore
gon, but why is it necessary to dump
them off at lonely water tanks on the
sagebrush desert with directions to
chase some irrigation will o'-the-wisp
over the horizon ; or bundle them into
the already over-crowded hop gardens
and apple orchards of the Willamette
vauey, wnere nop raiser ana appie
grower has resided until his toes are
webbed and he wouldn't sell forty
acres for a paid up insurance in para
dise?
Why not push a couple of thousand
colonists off at the depot in Baker City
with advice to hit the trail to the
gold ribbed Blue mountains, or to the
beautiful valleys in. the Panhandle
more fertile than the fabled Nile?
Or why not bundle a bunch of home
and fortune seekers off at Pendleton
and let them wander over the Uma
tilla table lands where wheat is king
and where eaoh quarter section is a
gold mine?
Oregon is a great big, broad and tall
state bigger than a dozen Delewares
or a score of Connecticuts. There is
room here for a hundred times 16,000
colonists before hanging out the S. R.
O. sign. So what, if you please, is
the use of bundling the very first com
ers into back seats? Why not give
them the best in the house? Pnt 'em
up near the orchestra and maybe
they'll send out and tell their friends
to come in and see the show.
THIS AKMY CANTEEN.
(Madame Magazine.)
"The Armv Canteen" is the object
of unceasing wartare by a large body
of good and well-meaning women in
America. They have succeeded in
having the Canteen done away with
by the government officials, but un
happily the favorable results of the
action so fondly anticipated do not
appear to have materalized. General
Grant recently took occasion, in one
of his reports, to inveigh against the
abolition of the Canteen, and the
weight of opinion among army officers
generally is that the morals aud dis
cipline of army life are best subserved
by the continuance of the Canteen.
An official report was recently made
which affirmed that one out of ten of
the enlisted privates in the service
desert, and that the chief reason
which the men give for this action
is that privileges which were freely
accorded them in civil life are uu
necessarily cut off by army regula
tions, and their manly pride induces
them to desert rather than be subject
ed to such indignities. Madame is not
concerned as to the merits of the plea
made to justify the crime of desertion
from a sworn duty, but there seems
little doubt that the abolition of the
Canteen has proven a failure in the
endeavor to improve the morals of the
army. It seems only necessary to
point to the old axiom "An ounce of
prevention is worth a pound of
cure." As we cannot legislate morals,
we also caunot check the outporing of
a stream by damming it , up. A re
form, to be effective, should begin at
the source of the evil, and the co-rela
tion of cause aud effect must be recog
nized. There is a strong tendency iu
this country to attempt moral reforms
by means of force and deprivation.
Men are not led to conquer evil appe
tites in this manner. The very oppo
site effect is usually the outcome. The
object of the opponents of tho army
Canteen is to stop the use of strong
drink iu the army the reports of
army officials indicate that desertiou
and various other evils are the result.
Are the morals of the army improved
by the new order of things? Zeal m
a good cause is always commendable,
but eal should be tempered with pru-
donce and thought, and armed with
the sword of justice, that she may
best serve her ends.
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Notice to Creditors
la the Matter of the Estate of Elijah
Iogle, Deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all persons
concerned that the undersigned haB
been duly appointed executor of the last
will and testament of said Elijah Ingle,
deceased, by the County Court of Uma
tilla County, State of Oregon. All per
sons haviDg claims against said estate
of Elijah Ingle, deceased, are hereby re
quired to present the same with the
proper vouchers as by law required
within six months from the date hereof,
to the underssigned at the law office of
Hailey A Lowell, in Pendleton, Oregon,
or at the residence of the undersigned
in Oorvallis, Oregon.
Dated this 18th day of April, 1905.
John W. Ingle,
Executor of the last will and testament
of Elijah Ingle, Deceased.
PETERSON & PETERSON,
Attorneys-at-Law
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