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VOLUME XVII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1905.
NUMBER 47.
ED. MANASSE
Shirt Waists Must Go
TO CLOSE
FOR ALL $1.25, $1.50,
REMNANTS OF VVASHGOODS
At Greatly Reduced prices. A liberal discount on
all men's, youth's and boys' Clothing.
ED. MANASSE
Agent for Butterick's Patterns.
The '";
"GARLAND" Trade
Mark
represents thn acme of .
Quality, Finish, Dura
bility, Convenience
COX & M'EWEN
SOUTH SIDE MAIN STREET. ATHENA. OREGON
C. A." BARRETT &: CoiIP'Y
fad
Mowers, Rakes,'Binders. Deering Binding
Twine; Machine Extras of all kinds. . . ,
Hard wtxre
THEEE
- When all that is good in Groceries and Staple Provisions fail to appeal
to you- as ; appetizers. THAT TIME IS IIERE, tor the season of
is at its zenith. Our
FROM THE HANOI
DELL BROTHERS
THEM OUT.
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$1.75 and $2.00 VALUES
Call and See Our
Lawn Mowers
Garden Hose
Screen Doors
Hardware
and
Plumbing
Supplies
INCORPORATED.
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Fruits And Vegetables
FRUITS AND VEGETABLES COME DIRECT
and therefore are. fresh and palatable.
CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN
, GOOD THING3 TO EAT
MARTIN TEN YEARS
NOTICE 0? APPEAL HAS BEEN
RECENTLY PILED.
Judge Delivered a Touching Lecture
Pointing Out the Gravity of the
Crime Before Passing Sentence
Ten years in the penitentiary is the
sentence passed on Qrover Martin
Wednesday morning by Judge W. R.
Mas, says the East Oregoniau, and
nnlss a new trial be ordered by the
supreme court that term will be Mar
tin's penalty for having killed O. N,
Preston.
Immediately after the convening of
court notice was given by Col. Raley,
Martin's attorney, that no new trail
would be asked and time for sentence
was waived. ' No notice of appeal has
yet been filed, nor was any statement
made by the defense regarding an ap
peal.
However, 30 days was allowed at
the close of the . recent trial for the
filing of exceptions to instructions
and notices of appeal. Consequently
it is possible that an appeal may be
made by the defense later on, in
which case it is said the court will be
asked to release the prisoner on bail,
Before this can be done, however, it
will be necessary for the defense to
secure a certificate of probable cause
setting forth the basis upon which the
appeal is to be made.
bhould this not be done nor a stay
or execution secured. Martin will
have to be committed to the peniten
tiary pending the appeal.
Young Martin was accompanid to
the court room by Deputy Blakeloy
ana snowed no great feeling on re
ceiving sentence, but afterward indi-
cated.that he was considerably disap
pointed- at the term given him. v 4 "
'.Before passing sentence Judge Ellis
loetured the youthful criminal in re
gard to the case telling him that he
had been found guilty of taking a
human life by a jury of his peers, and
tnat after full and careful consider
ation of the case he believed the sen
tence imposed to be just.
. The Case Appealed.
Pendleton, June 2!). This afternoon
notice of an appeal was made in be
half of Grover Martin by his attorney,
Col. Raley, the ground being that the
court had erred in giving of instruc
tioustothe jury. Also, Judge Ellis
was asked to issue a certificate of pro
bable cause, so as to permit of Mar
tins retention here instead of at the
penitentiary. , However, this request
was denied by the judge.
Complete.
TUBS
Athena, Oregon.
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THROES OF
Mutiny of Russia's
-Flame Sweep
. London, June 29. The captain and
most of the officers of the battleship
Kniaz Potentine, Russia's most power
ful battleship in the Black Sea, have
been murdered and thrown overboard
in open sea, and the ship is completely
in possession of the crew and a few
officers who have cast their lot with
the mutineers. The guns of the Kniaz
Potentine are trained on the city, and
in the streets masses of striking work
men who fled before the volleys of the
troops are now luflamed by the soec-!
tacle of open revolt on board an im
perial warship, and are making a bold
front against the military. All day
long nnng nas been Heard in many
quarters of the city. A number of
barricades have been erected and tu -
uiiut auu disorder reign. j.ne report
1 A. - J J mi .
of the mutiny which occurred while
the battleship was at sea, is difficult
to obtain, as the ' mutineers refuse to
allow any communication with the
shore, but it has been ascertained that
it arose from the shooting of a sailor
who was presenting on behalf of the
crew, a complaint against the bad
food. According to one version this
sailor objected to the quality of the
Birchtch" or soup, aud was imme
diately shot down by a mess officer.
The crew then rose and seized ship
and officers, eight of .whom, were
spared on condition that they join the
mutineers, the others were killed aud
Eastern Oregon After It
Pendioton, June 29. Politicians of
Eastern Oregon are anxiously await
ing the result of the Mitchell trial iu
Portland, for. on the verdict of the
jury rests the possibilities of Eastern
Oregon having the senator for the next
term. .Eastern Oregon demands one
of the three things, either the nom
ination for. governor, a congressman
or the senatorship. The governorship
nomination coming again east of the
Cascades is out of the question, as
when W. J. Furnish was defeated the
chances for a governor from Eastern
Oregon were made small iuded, east
ern Oregon having defeated him. For
Bennett Pleads Eloquently
Portland, June 29 Judge Bennett's
argument in behalf of Senator Mitch
ell consumed all of today's session of
court Bennett contended that the
theory which the firm of Mithell &
Tanner worked upon was that Tanner
had the right to prosecute land mat
ters in office of the laud department
and that the pay received therofrom
was to be divided between the part
ners. JBennett alleged that the testi
mony of Tanner is untrustworthy be
cause it was given under pressure ap
nine
Athens, Ga., June 29. At the town
of Watkinsville, seven miles from here
a mob. broke into the jail early this
morning aud lynched a white man and
seven negroes for the recent shocking
double murder of an aged white cou
ple, and also one other negro for an
attempted criminal assault
Ten men were taken to the jail, but
Joe Patterson, a negro, escaped death
by falling to the ground when shots
were fired, and feigning death. The
mob formed just after midnight and
marched iu order to the jail where the
Lynched
To Store Grain In Tanks
Dayton, June 29 W. H. Richard
son, one of the largest farmers of this
section, has a new method of handling
grain. On his Touchet farm of 1000
acres he is building storage tanks
holding from 1850 to 2750 bushels.
The grain will be carried into these
tanks directly from the thresher by
means of a pneumatic elevator, to be
stored until ready for shipment, when
it Will be hauled iu bulk to an ele
vator having a wagon dump. Here,
REVOLUTION
SailorsBlood and
Over Odessa.
the bodies thrown overboard.
After a period of vacilation the
Kniaz Potentine headed for Odessa
and arrived here last night accompan
eid by two torpedo boats.
The Russian government, although
almost paralyzed by the terrible events
at Odessa and the news that the sail
ors at Libau have mutinied,' are mak
ing desperate and even frantio efforts
to meet tho situation and stamp out
the flames of revolution before they
spread to the army, which is now the
last bulwark of autocracy. With
Poland red with the spirit' of revolt,
Caucasus alroady almost in a state of
civil war, the Aganan disorders
spreading rapidly, the wholo country
1 profoundly stirred aud the intalliimnt.
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classes arrayed ni?iiiHt. tha
govern
ment, all conditions seem ripe for the
long contemplated revolution.
What effect the news of the happeu
iugs in Odessa will have on the troops
aud the public in general, is problem
atic and is puzzling the emperor. The
precautions taken by the authorities
to keep the news from the public have
been invalid, and the revolutionaries
and liberals everywhere are spreading
it by word of mouth, aud within 24
hours it will be known to the uttermost
confines of European Russia. When
the news reaches the armies in Man
churia it is bound to create a deep im
pression. a congressman to take the place of J.
N. Williamson should he lose his seat
in congress through the investigations
to be made is also out of the question,
as there are plenty of men in Portland
who want the place and ore iu a posi
tion to get it. To Eastern Oregon re
mains the possibility of getting the
senatorship should Senator Mitchell
be found guilty and forced to resign.
It is likely that in case he loses his
seat in the senate his resignation will
be postponed until time for the Oregon
legislature to convoue again, instead
of piacing the appointment iu the
hands of a democratic governor.
plied by United States District Attor
ney Heney. Bennett contended that
the testimony of Mitchell's private
secretary, Robertson, is false and that
undue importance is attached to the
letters, passing between the two part
ners, which have been introduced by
the prosecution. Judge Bennett-was
so affected during his argument that
at numerous times tears sprang to bis
eyes and so feeling were his remarks
at times that there was hardly a dry
eye in the court room.
in Geo
koys were demanded of the jailor, who
saw resistance was useless, as the mob
was heavily armed. The mob then
opened the cells aud lined the victims
up, tying tbem with ropes, and
marched them to a corner lot within
200 yards of the jail, and bound them
to a fence with their hands behind
them. At the command of the leader
the mob stepped back, took deliberate
aim and fired a volley from rifles,
pistols and shotguns. Every man fell,
and the mob quietly dispersed. Joe
Patterson was found lying on the
ground only slightly injured.
after passing through a cleaner and
being weighed, it will be loaded into
cars in bulk by means of a machine.
If necessary, the grain will be sacked
in the cars. If the new method shall
prove to be practical aud successful, it
will effect a great saving of money
and labor. . No mauual labor unless it
be to sack tho grain in the cars, will
le required in handling the grain
after it shall peas into the self feeder
of the thresher.
THRE8HERSC0MBINE
ASSOCIATION FORMED BY LINN
COUNTY FARMERS.
Name a Scale of Wage for laborers
During Harvest and Price
for Threshing.
Following the example set by the
threshers of Walla Walla county to
fix prices of labor during harvest sea
son, the wheatgrowcrs of Linu county
have set about to regulate the wage
scale. A dispatch from Albany savs:
During all the time there has been
so niucn talk of combinations in
restraint of trade to control the price
of commodities, work, etc, iu the
cities, there has been a bucolic combi
nation in course of formation in Linn
county. Printed notices have been
issued that the threshermeu of Linn
county have adopted otrtain rates of
charges for their work during the
coming threshing season, and also that
they have adopted a scale of wages for
the workers with the machines during
the season and hours of work to be ob
served by said workmen. All the
operators of threshing machines in
the county have entered the combina
tion, aud there will be no competition
between them. Farmers needn't look
around to uncertain the prices charg
ed by the various operators of ma
chines for separating grain from
straw. There is a set price which
prevails with every machine man.
The same may be said of the day la
borers who are looking for high wages
during the harvest season.
Prices for threshing and wages have
beeu returned to what they were prior
to the hard times of 1893. The whistle
for commencing work will blow "at
6:45 o clock in the morning, and a
light blast will indicate that the day's
work is over at 7 :80 o'clock in tho
evening, lor working these hours a
laborer will reoeive 11.60 per day for
himself, aud $2. 50 per day for the use
of team and wagon in addition to his
own services. The prices of threshing
were fixed at 12 cents per sack for
wheat, 10 cents per sack for oats, 10
cents per sack for cheat, 11 cents per
sack for barley, 25 cents por sack for
veatch when bound, and 50 oonts per
saok when mowed. ,
Sensation in Miller Case.
Attorney Johns sprung a sensation
in the Roy II. Miller bunk -wrecking
case Wednesday morning at Baker
City. Miller was to have been sen
tenced, but Johns asked that the mat
tor be deferred until Friduy when he
would prepare a motion for a new
trial. He stuted that the jury had
founded its verdict on books not offer
ed iu evidence. The jury first went
to a hall to deliberate. It complained
that there was no room there and was
transferred to the court room. Before
returning to the court room it stood
six to six in favor of acquittal. Upon
returuiug to the court room the jury
found all of the bank's books, which
had been left there by attorneys, aud
after going through these from begin
ing to end, decided that there had been
more money taken in than was ac
counted for, and convicted Miller.
FOR BETTER EXHIBIT.
Umatilla County Should Bank First In
Display of Grain.
Charles A. Barrett has returned
from Portland where he visited the -Lewis
and Clark exposition. Like
other residents of the county, Mr.
Barrett is more than dissatisfied with
Umatilla county's exhibit at the fair.
"Someone," said Mr. Barrott, "hus
been negligent iu the mutter, uud un
less local interest is manifested Uma
tilla county seems to be doomed to be
relegated to the rear; Multiply tho
county exhibit by 10, and even Wal
lowa county's display would lead by
long odds."
This is in keeping with the general
verdict of those who have visited the
fair. The verdict should be just the
reverse, and so far as this part of the
county is concerned it will be reversed.
Athenu and Westou contributes more
to the 5,000,000 bushel yield of the
county than any other portion of it,
and it is proposed that the wheat ex-;
hibit, at least, will not much longer .
be found playing second to any county
in the state. Athena will take hold
of the matter aud see to it that a dis
play of grain goes from here that will
boost the county's exhibit a notch or
two. .
No Secret About It.
It is no secret, that for cuts, burns,
ulcers, fever sores, sore eyes, boils,
etc. , nothing is so effective as Buck-,
len's Arnica Salve. "It didn't take
long to cure a bad sore I had and it
is all O .K. for sore eyes," writes D.
L. Gregory, Hope, Tex. 25c at Mc
Brido's drug store.
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