VOLUME XVII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1905.
NUMBER 50.
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In all
Departinents
to Make Room for Fall Goods.
ED. MANASSE
Agent for Butterick's Patterns.
The
"GARLAND" Trade
Mark
represents the acme of
Quality, Finish, Dura.
bility, Convenience
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Mowers, Rakes, Binders. Deering Binding
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When all that is good in Groceries and Staple Provisions fail to appeal
to you as appetizers. THAT TIME IS HERE, tor the season of
Fruits Md Vegetables
is at its zenith. Our FRUITS AND VEGETABLES COME DIRECT
FROM THE RANCH and thtrefore are fresh and palatable.
DELL BROTHERS
pop
9 Call and See Our f
Lawn Mowers
Garden Hose
Screen Doors
Hardware
f and
Plumbing
Supplies V
INCORPORATED.
Stock is
CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN
GOOD THINGS TO EAT
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WAS KILLED BY GAS
EANCHEELO WEKED INTO WELL
HEAE MILTON. ' '
J. Lower Is Asphyxiated By Fumes
While He Was Kinty Feet '
Below the Surface. r
J. Lower, a rancher who lived about
twelve miles northeast of Milton, was
killed by gases from a well shortly be
fore noon Saturday.
JLOwer, who was a mtin about 65
years of age, was watching well dig
gers who were at work upon the home
stead of George S. Stephens. The men
had dug about ninety feet and when
they came up to go to dinner the old
man wanted them to lot him go down
into the well. The well diggers re
moustrated with him . but when ho
insisted they allowed him to descend;
After staying at the bottom of the
well for a short time Lower called to
the men to pull him up. This the
men started to do and raised him
about six feet from the bottom of the
well, when suddenly without a cry
he dropped from the bucket, and when
brought to the top by one of the ' men
who went down after him was found
to be dead.
" It is supposed that he was overcome
by gases in the well and was unable
to hold on to the rope by which the
bucket was suspended. "
Coroner Henderson was notified by
telephone shortly after noon, but when
the facts in tbe'ease were explained to
him he decided that it would be un
necessary to hold an inquest. -Lower
leaves a wife and several
grown children, most of whom are re
siding on the ranoh northeast of Mil
ton. Little is known of him there, as
he had lived in that vicinity but a
short time.
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and fear appendicitis. Safety lies in
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tor all bowel and stomach diseases,
such as headache, biliousness, costive-
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drug store, only 25c. Try them.
Mo Secret About It.
It is no secret, that for cuts, burns,
ulcers, fever sores, sore eyes, boils,
etc, nothing is so effective as Buck
lea's Arnica Salve, "ft didn't tnk
long to cure a bad sore I had and it
is au u iJ&.: lor sore eyes, ' writes JJ.
L. Gregory, Hope, Tex. 25c at Mc
Bride's drug store
Complete.
TIIES
Athena, Oregon.
NORMAL mB'SSfm
In Accordance With Order to Be Issued
By Board of Regents Tonight.
' Pendleton, July 18. At a meeting
of the regents of Weston Normal
school which will be held in this city
tomorrow night, an. order will be
issued to close the school and a cus
todian will then be appointed to have
charge of the property. This has boeu
decided upon in advance of the meet
ing by the members of the board of re
gents as it became evident that the
people who have given notes for the
support of the school did so under a
misuudertanding, and it will be im
possible for the regents to secure funds
with which to keep, the sohool open.
The notes given were signed as a
mere matter of collateral or backing
for the regents, in securing funds,
with the understanding that they were
RATES OF THE PORTAGE
Commission is Soon to Meet to Adjust
and Fix Freight Charges.
Salem, July 17. Since the harvest
of the fall grain is on in Eastern Or
egon and Idaho it will soon be neces
sary for the state portage board to
hold a meeting and decide upon a
schedule' of freight rates to be iu
effect upon the road affecting the va
rious points along the line from Lew
iston to Portlnad. ' y1
Hitherto . it has been1 unnecessary
to establish a schedule, because, no
freight was moved or was likely to
move for several weeks, but now the
time is approaching when the grain
will begin to move and the board will
find it encumbent to take action in
the matter. ;
It is questionable if a meeting will
be held until Governor Chamberlain
returns from the east, which will : not
be until the 23rd of this month. The
O. R. & N. Company's tariff rate now
in effect between Lewiston and Port
land is 19 1-2 cents per 100 pounds,
Smith May Be the Deputy
C. P. Davis, chief deputy iu the
sheriff's office has been remove d by
Sheriff Taylor. Sheriff Taylor was
in Athena yesterday. He refused to
make any statement further than that
Davis had been removed and that the
experts would not be prepared to
report for some days yet It is an ad
mitted fact that Davis has retained
The Senator
Washington, July 17. The inquiry
of Mr. Richards, commissioner of the
general land office, sent out recently to
Mormon church authorities in Utah as
to what they meant by advertising that
through "land office connections,"
they would be in a position to greatly
assist their brethren in securing choice
selections of land in the Uintah reser
Peebles Elected at Salem
Salem, July 17. At the meeting pf
the school board last night, Prof. G.
A. Peebles of tbe Weston Normal
School, was elected principal of the
North school, Mr. Goode having re
signed to accept a school at Mt Tabor.
Prof. Peebles years ago taught the
North school and was afterward city
Bluejackets
Tacoma, July 17. A spacial dis
patch to the Ledger from Port An
geles says : " " . '
At 10:30 tonight, word was received
here that United States Lightship No.
67 is being towed up tbe straits in a
helpless condition with several scald
never to be paid. It now becomes
necessary for the regents to place th ese
notes in the bank,,, and draw upon
them immediately; thus making them
payable to the banks, should the refer
endum vote eut out the appropriation
for the normals and a number of the
signers of the notes have objected to
this, so the only thing to do is to close
the sohool according to the regents'
best judgment ,
' It is to be regretted that the school
is to be closed as it is now at the be
ginning of the most promising year,
A class of over 30 would have been
graduated next year and applications
from students iu every county in east
ern Oregon -have been received by
President French, who is working very
zealously for the school.
practically $4 per ton. It has been
estimated that, if the portage road
should establish a rate of $3 per tou
upon freight between these two points
there would be a considerable amount
of profit in it and would still be
much more reasonable rate for the
farmers, and shippers of grain.
On the other hand there is a likeli
hood of the O. R.& N. Co. readjusting
its present schedule to compete with
the portage road aud a further cut by
the latter, it is thought, might oper
ate to precipitate a rate war between
the competing lines for the busiueas.
The two members of the board here,
Secretary of State Dunbar and State
Treasurer Moore, are undecided as to
when the rate schedule mooting will
be held, but quite probably the latter
part of the mouth. If the $3 per : tou
rate is established, ' a proportionate
rate will be arranged for tho other
stations along the route , . ,,;
attorneys to defend him in case action
is brought against him. J. W. Smith
of this city will probably succeed to
the office of chief deputy. Mr. Smith
is competent iu every way for the
positiou, and it is known that his
appointment by Sheriff Taylor would
be eminently satisfactory to that
official's boudsmeu. i i .. '
Called Down
vation opening, was answered iu a let
ter received today, signed jointly by
Senator Smoot and Senator Suther
land pf Utah. The letter is dated Salt
Lake City, July 8. The Senators had
noticed the advertisement and hasten
ed to assure tbe land office that no
attempt would be made by anyone to
gain advantage iu the distribution of
the lapds.
superintendent of schools. He has
also been county superintendent of
schools and was at one time city su
perintendent of schools at McMinn
ville. During the last five years ho
has been with the Eastern Oregon
State Normal, occupying the chair of
mathematics for two years and of
English'literature for three years.
Are Mangled
ed men aboard as the result of a boiler
explosion.
" She was taken from anchorage off
Flattery Rocksawhere she was turned
over to the tng'Pioneer, which is now
coming up the straits with the dis-
abled vessel as fast as steam can
bring her. ;
LIGHT IS TURNED ON
DISTBICT ATT0BNEY BENE Y
MAKES REVELATIONS-
Evidence Excluded From Present
, Trial, Tends To Foreshadow
Bine Mountain Fraud-
Like a flash of a searchlight came
developments in the trial of William
son and his co-defendants in the,
federal cdhrt, which indicate the ex-
tent of the laud frauds iu Oregon and
the intimate connection between the
revelations already made and those
whioh are to come, says the Portland
Journal. . Cross examination of the
defendants iu the pending trial by the
prosecuting attorney, ' F. J. Honey,
gave unmistakable suggestion that the
government is in possession of evidence
indicating that the Crook county tim
ber deals of Congressman Williamson
iwd his partner Dr. Van Gesner, were
but a small part of their land opera
tions and that both of them were inter
ested itttbe sohool laud speculations,
within the Blue mountain reserve.
The first definite knowledge of the
definite scope of the frauds by whioh
timber and land speculators have
stolen immense areas of public land
in Oregon was afforded by the inves
tigation of the federal grand juries
which have held sessions in Portland
w.Uhin the past year. This know
ledge was supplemented by the grand
jury of Marion county whioh conclud
ed its work about two mouths ago and
whioh brought in several indictments
of frauds iu connection with the state
school lands.
From the evidence that has been
made public it appears that in 1902,
while Binger Hermann was commis
sioner of tho general land offloe, a
number of land speculators gained
advance information in regard to the
withdrawal of lands embraced within
tbe proposed Blue mountain reserve.
This information was supposed to be a
rigidly guarded secret of the land
department. The news that the re
serve was to be created was not made
public until July 28, 1902, but a day
or two before that date many thous
ands of acres of school lands lying
within the boundaries of the proposed
reserve were suddenly taken up by
speculators 4. under circumstances
strongly suggesting that they hud re
ceived a secret tip as to the withdraw
al of the land. -
Evidenoe has been secured i by the
Marion county grand jury , that a law
yer named Boggs, who was in the
offloe of United Statos Commissioner
Bfags at Prineville, was instrumental
in making many of these purchases of
school lauds within tbe reserve and it
is the theory of the government offic
ials thut he was the socret agent of
Williamson and Gesner.
; Questions asked of Dr. Van Gesner
and Marion R. Biggs, co-defendants
with Congressman Williamson iu tho
pending trial iu the federal court,
showed plainly that it is tho belief of
the prosecution that Boggs was the
agent of Williamson and Gesner in se
curing school lands. ' Mr. Heney, the
prosecuting attorney, was anxious to
make inquiries along this line but ob
jections by the defense were sustained
by the court. Gesner was asked
whother Boggs was not taking up
sohool lands for the firm of William
sou & Gesner, but he denied that such
was the case. He admitted, however,
that Boggs was interested in school
laud operations in the summer of 1902.
..The information which is being
gathered by the government as tho
land fraud prosooutions progress is
likely to be of great importance when
other defendants are placed on trial.
To Aid Investigation, '
Pendleton, July 18. J. J. McKoin,
superintendent of the Indian agoncy,
last evening stated that the investi
gation, being couducted on the reser
vation by the government officials,
would not be completed for several
days and Until that time nothing 'de
finite would be ready for publication.
The charges against C M. Robinson
are suid to be far reaching and until
the matter is finally acted upon by the
government officials, Rouinson will be
out of office as clerk at the agency.
A. Tinker has joined Inspector Val
entine in the work of cloariug up the
situation. Mr. Tinker was seut here
by Secretary of the interior Hitchcock
aud has been gathering information
with Mr. Valentine for tbe past three
days or more.
Hew Warehouse '
The Preston-Parton Milling Co. is
niakiug preparations to build a large
wheat warehouse. The old ware
house is being moved to uiuke room
for the new oue. ,
fto-To-Ua for 'Iftjr Cents.
Ouarauul tbaet-o bulilt eure. make wp
ueii MUuur ""'ooU pure. toe. ii. All UruKSitu.
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