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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.
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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
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Special attention given to Female
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Oallg promptly answered. Office on Tblrd
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Stationery, , Toilet articles,
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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
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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
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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
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