The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, June 13, 1905, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextAN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Twick-a-Wbek Tuesday akd Fbidat f. b. bots, publish!. EDtered m necond.clau matter, March 1, 1801, at tba poitofflce at Atbena, Oregon, under an Actot Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription Tlataa: ; I'er year, in advance 12.00 Slngleooples In wrappers, 6c. Advertising latest I. vt reading notices, Bmt Insertion, 10c per tt. Rach subsequent Insertion, 6c. a II communications should be addressed to hp PKKH8 Atbena, Oregon ATHENA, JUNE 13, 1905 E. B. Cwle, special agent of the goneral laud office, has made a de maud upon the Barber Lumber com pany of Boise City for $12,000 for 1,700,000 foet of logs cut The claim will be contested. A very interesting point is involved in the controversy arising from a recent decision of the United States circuit court of appeals affirming a deoision rendered by Judge Beatty construing the meaning of the law, which authorizes the cutting of timber from mineral lands for domes tic purposes. .That decision was in effect that mineral lands were only lands such as are in the neighborhood of land known to contain mineral. The Barber company cut these logs on ground which is in the general neigh borhood of mineral lands and rents en tirely upon this decision for its de fense. As no definite limits have been set by the courts the decision admits of great latitude and timber companies may use their own discre tion according to the claim now made in settling the point. The names of five great men stand before all others in the government under which we now live: George Washington, for his service in win ning the independence for the United States and the weight of wisdom with which he Bet the new government in operation ; James Madison, for taking the principal part iu the framing of the constitution ; Alexaudor Hamilton, for persuading the people to adopt the constitution and for his bold measures which gave shape and strength to the federalist party; Thomas Jefferson, for illustrating the true principles of democracy, and for the sagacity with which he ooudncted the first groat change of party suprem acy in 1801; John Marshall, for his work as chiof justice of the United Slates from 1800 to 1835, iu interpret ing its elasticity and strength by K his profound judicial decisions. Those Ave men, more than any others, have shaped the whole future of American history. A wail, long, loud and plaintive is going up from Htiiley, Idaho. The cause is that out of Reven teachers there last year, five have resigned to got married. The epideinio is also said to have sproad to the Hailey girls teaching at distant points and the cit izens are greatly excited over the mat ter. So discouraged are tho directors hat there are serious hiuts that they iutend asking to bo relieved of their arduous positions or will demand a large salary, as the work 'of keeping Hailey in school ma'ams is too hard to be undertaken without pay. To write the first draft on a slate, that erasures might easily be made, to copy in pencil on eoft paper, and make more changes, and finally after many days and alterations to arrive at a neat and flawless manuscript this was the painstaking method of the late Gen. Lew Wallace. But "Ben Hur" was worth the trouble. The Weston Leader tells of Weston money being lost on a foot race be tween McQueen of Milton and one Cox of Athena. From the lesson given Weston sports by "Scotty," one would suppose they had a superfluous suffi ciency in the foot race game. "In the streets of St Petersburg every third porson wears crepe," says the Associated Press correspondent And all because of their ruler's desire for more of a frozen land Ton the other side of the world. The vermiform appendix has been found to be useful. But the discovery comes too late for the appendixed generation. GOSSIP FROM RABBIT VIXLB. (Irrigon Irrigator). A lady went into the City drug store the other evening and asked for ten cents' worth of powder. The clerk said, "Face, gun or bug?" smart like. The lady said, "Neither; for trash like you lice." Some of these clerks get awful fresh but that one is not as fresh as he was. It is rumored that old man Bunco has brought a lawsuit against the town for $16,000. He says he was bruug here under false pretenses. We ain't in it, but we heard a lawyer say that Bunco had buncoed the town worse than the town had buncoed Bunco, and that he won't get a mil lionth part of a cent in a million years. The City drug store is now offering a splendid assortment of ladies' hose, of the same pattern as those worn on Fifth avenue, New York, by the high est society ladies. The prices average three pairs for two bits, but some are as dear as 18 cents the pair. A donation party lit at the parson age last Wednesday night. After eating up all the grub found iu the dominie's larder they deposited their gifts and departed, leaving the dom inie rich by a dozen eggs, a mess of greens, 18 rabbits, a can of tomatoes, six boxes of matches, two dozen paper napkins, a bale of hay and a tooth brush. From a financial standpoint it was a success for the visitors. Another affair of the kind would send the dominie and his family to the poor farm. The Ady's Laid society met at Dea con Hardup's last Friday p. m. We were passing the house while the meet ing was in session and stopped at the gate long enough to hear what was going on inside. We would not like to say the females were scrapping, but they were using language which we will not circulate until we have it fumigated. As we left, the half of a brick was hurled through the window and took off tho top of the gatepost we had been leaning against We think it was thrown by Miss Violet Apploblossom, but we bear Voilet no malice. It would not be safo to bear anything against a maiden who could heave a brick with the force of a pile driver. Mary Jane Babcock bought a new pnir of them long, fancy Fifth avenue hose at the City drug store last week. After she got into them she sauntered down Main street, and when she got in front of the barber shop a gust of wind struck her abaft Well, there wore never bofore seen euoh a pair of barber poles as Mary Jane showed the boys that day. Saunter often when Expansion NOW IN FULL BLAST This sale, tho biggest effort we have over put forth iu the line of special sales, is proving one of tho niost successful we hvae ever held. We want none of our patrons from out of town to miss it they're welcome to the bargain that are to be had. REMEMBER During this sale which is to continue for a few weokg longer, reduced prices will pervail in practically all of our departments. Write, call or telephone us. When goods ordered amount to $10.00 or more w pay the freight. Mail Orders a Specialty THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 13 14-16-18 20 22 Alder Street. WALLA WALLA, -:- WASH. Mail Orders a Specialty the wind blows, Mary Jane. The city barber got mad because we ciiticised bis tonsorial methods and professional ability and undertook to assault us on the street last Satur day. We were in a hurry at the time and he followed us into the Bunco hou e and out through the yard. We bcgdti to climb over the back fence, sort of luring him on. Somehow we got fastened between him and the fence, then I nearly wore out the toe of his boot on the seat of my pants. If three or four busybodies hadn't come out and took us off of him we'll bet we'd used him up pretty bad. He's no good and we'll never swallow another drop of this lather if we get whiskers down to our fetlocks. He said we dasn't put it in the paper, but we ain't no coward. If the assistant bartender we mean the prescription clerk at the City drug store would put on a clean collar the customers would appreciate it Hardy Hardiron, our blacksmith, has invented a poetry machine. It is built something like a mechanical typesetter. There is boxes for verbs, nouns, adjectives and all the parts of speech, and a lot of s topes to regulate the feet, meter, etc. Yon load it with words and then turn on the power. Here he had to run it with a mule and it didn't work very smooth. So Hardy sent it down to the Oregonian, and Mr.' Love is using it, but so far not very successfully. The inventor thinks they do not oil it properly or use power enough, or perhaps sprained it with French words wihch makes the out put rough and lumpy. Hardy is going to Portland to give them some instruc tions. So we expect to see the Ore gonian turn out a lot of classics this summer. Peter Peterson was baptized again last Sunday. He was baptized about a month ago but it didn't take. There is a new kid out at the Si Butterbottom residence. Deacon Hard -up stopped in and said to Si: "It looks a heap like you, SL" Si's wife heard it and came out and gave the deacon the frosty eye. And the hired girl, who is the mother of the little shaver, didn't look pretty much pleas ed either. Deacons sometimes butt in where angels would have cold feet The City drug store has received an elegant stock of ladies' , corsets, at prices ranging all the way from 15 to 85 cents per corset Major Fairplay is sporting a new silk hat He must be on the mash again. THIS OPEN KIVKB. (Lewiston Tribune.) The visiting statesmen at the cen tennial commemoration of the old Oregon country in Portland yesterday dwelt much upon the splendid career now opening for the Pacific coast through the markets recently coming within the American sphere from Hawaii, the Philippines, the orient, Alaska and the Panama canal. Con sidering the place, the occasion and the circumstances it is fair to assume that special reference was intended to the cities of Portland, Tacoma, Seat tle and San Francisco as the chief beneficiaries of this new and prospec tive commerce. A broader view of the material events now being ac claimed would seem, however, to point to the opening of the inland water highway as having a more com manding influence on the opulence and welfare of the people and on com mercial relations with the teeming orient than the ethical ceremonies held yesterday, or than the seaboard cities of the coast could otherwise bring inot realization. They at most are mere transfer stations for com merce and the commerce itself must come from the country drained into the inland waterways. We need not minimize the moral and artistic ele ments at work in Portland in order at the same time to give full effect to the even greater relation of the interior country to the shaping of the destin ies extolled in the commemorative ex ercises. Here is where the foundation rests. These waving wheat fields, that shame the Dakota in compari son ; the vineyards and orchards, that muchsung California can never equal; these forests, whose rich products find markets as far distant as Europe; these pastures, whose qualities of fat herds stand at the top; even the mouutains, bursting with mineral wealth, the whole containing all the potentialities that enter into the hap piuess and contentment of mankind here is where the teal strength of the "Old Oregou" territory lies aud where the siuews must come from, if at all, that are to draw the orient to the Oc cident The appropriate, the material cele bration of tho day, therefore, lies in the pioneer expedition sent forth to day that marks the possession of an iudependeut route from the field of the raw material of the country to a connection with the white-winged messengers of commerce that take it to exchange for other values. We do not know but that we are in this modest beginning even now working a revolution, peaceful, quiet aud slow, perhaps, but as far-reaching and im portant in its results as any revolu tion of arms in the century just com pleted. It is well to rejoice with Portland in the splendid edifice it has erected to the progress and achieve ment of the century that has so fitting a culmination, but it seems even bet ter to make known aud exalt the con temporary fact that commerce has been liberated, that industry's success has been made more certain, that toiling humauity has something to hope for from the way beiug made open from the very fields themselves to their customers iu all the marts of the world. Watch Repairing I want to call your attention to the fact that I do all kinds of Watch, Clock and Jewelry repairing. I do accurate work, get it out quick and guaran tee every job sent out. Watches and Jewelry I carry a line of cheap and medium price watches that will stand rough use and are dust proof; also a line ot jew ' elry, novelties and silverware. ROYAL M. SAVVTELL Jeweler : Athena PETERSON & PETERSON. Attorney s-at- La w A1HENA, OREGON. J. D. PLAMONDON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office in Barrett Building, - Athena, Oregon Dr. A. B. Stone. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Calls answered promptly day or night Office in Post Building, Athena, Oregon s 'First National "1 of Athena aim CAPITAL STOCK... $50,000 v f SURPLUS, .. ...... ... . 12,500 . . . "v Propel attention given to collections. Deals in foreign and domestic ex change. Fire and burglar-proof vaults and safes no charge for keeping your valuable papers. s H. C Adams, President. T.J Klrlt, Vlca-Prealdenl. 5 C. A oarrelt,) P. E. Colburn, Director. K.B. LeUrow.l F. 8. L Grow. Casbier. 1. H. Kkmp, Assistant Cnsbler I CONTRACTING AND BUILDING S. F. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Female Diseases. Oallg promptly answered. Office on Tblrd Street, Athena. Oregor Foley's Kidney Cure makes kidneys end bladder right. ft,,!,.... ..in i ir m- "" ' 1 -Wl Carries Pure, Fresh Drugs, up-to-date Stationery, , Toilet articles, Paints, Oils, Glass; in fact every thing found in a first class drug store P 81 Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. seasonable reasonable R. J. BQDDY'S MEAT MARKET Hereafter I will engage in Contracting and building in all its branches. I am in a position to carry on this line of business in a thorough and satisfactory manner, in connection with my Lumber Yard. I will employ the best workmen money can secure, and before you let your contract it will pay you to get my figures. - - - A. M. CILLIS, PROPRIETOR, THE CILLIS LUMBER YARD Feebler & Chamberlain Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co. Agricultural ImpleiM nts WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC. ' ATHENA. OREGON. Umatilla Lumber Yard Ed Barrett, Manager Building Material Lumber. Shingles, Sash, Doors, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Paper, Building Paper. Brick, etc. Special inducements on orders for carload lots. Fence posts in quantities to suit. : : : : : Roslyn Coal, Puget Sound Wood CONTRACTING. ESTIMATES FURNISED ON ALL KINDS OF BUILDING ON SHORT NOTIFICATION Fresh Meats. Only the Best is Good. PARKER & LAHE'S BARBER SHOP Everything Firnt Clans . Ho d em and Up-to-date SOUTH SID MA! STREET ATHHJL ' ' TB3 HOWS 07 VHT0L To our Customers We are anxious to have you all know that Vinol is a new form of a very old ; and valuable remedy. It is a Cod Liver Oil preparation, because it contains all the medicinal elements actually taken f roa fresh Cods Livers. By a new process we are able to make it without oil or grease and give you a real Cod Liver Oil preparation as delicious to the taste as a fresh orange. Respectfully, PIONEER DRUG STORE Everything For House Keeping Purposes See our stock before you buy. Baker & folsom The Complete House Furriahera, MaiD St.. next to Poetoffice. Pendleton. Foley's Money mm Tar cures colds, prevents pneumonia.