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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 22, 1905)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Twiok-a-Week Tuesday akd Friday f. b. botd, pcblishbh. Entered an oecon d-claiw matter, March I, luui, ai the postofflce at Athena, Oregon, uuderan Actot Uongreaa of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rtti! rer year. In advanot I2.U0 Single ooples In wrappers, 6c. i i " t ' r ' ' ' ' Advertising Hotoo! lx)oal reading notices, flrat Insertion, 10c per l i. Kioh subsequent Insertion, 5. All commnnlcatlona should be addressed to te PKK8B Athena, Oregon -"" ATHENA, AUGUST ... . .22, 1905 Governor Gooding hag issued a quarantine proclamation against horses cattle and sheep from the states of Utah, Nevada, , Montana, , Wyoming and Oregon. The governor soya in his proclamation that the state veterinary surgeon has informed him of the ex istence of mange and scabbies among tho livestock of those states, and that on this account animals being driven or coming into the state in any man ner should bo subject to an inspection by either a federal or state inspector. Tho government allows of a limit of two miles inside the state boundary for all livestock, except when they have been subjocted to the dipping process, which excludes them from the quarantine order. Horses or cattle under hnruess or yoke are also except ed.. V. ", The Baker City Democrat is doubt ful whether Eastern Oregon counties nre receiving any benefit from the Lewis and Clurk fair. It says: So far as people being attraoted hore seeking a location and others to make monetary investments we know not of them only in ; isolated instances. Other yours have been . more pro nounced in this regard. - That benefit will accrue eventually it is reasonable to suppose. . The great advertising the state will reoeive by the fair can not but have its influence fait and that thousands of people will be at tracted to Oregon seeking homes is a certainty. Eustern Oregon, of course, will roceivo tt per cent of these. But will that per cent be greater than other years? It remains to be seen. As yet thore are no visible benefits. Hponking of Freewater's prospects, tho Times says: In looking into the future for this sootiou it needs no 16 cuudlo powor clectrioul display to luuke it show up brightly. Every thing points to the construction of .the oloctrio cur line, the bridge across tho Tuin-a-lum is an assured thing and we now have a chance for an irri gation scheme that will do away with water controversies and reclaim hun dreds of acres of desert, laud: thut can uo niudo to blossom liko tho rose and produce wealth enough to supply a large oity somothing which we are bound to have. Tho Puoillo Monthly for August is tin exceptionally good number. As the leading nmguzino of the West it is doing much to build up tho Western country. The August number is de e at You ouu always safely say this when yon come to town, and wish to make shopping appointments with a friend. We've got a sort of comfort roooin for your convenience, and you have a standing invitation to use it wheuever you liko. It's a good pluce to clean up, if you have had a long ride. It's a good place to rent, if you feel like resting. It's ' a good plnoo to wait, if you nre waiting. Thore is general ly somothiug to lend, if you feel like reading. Good place to leave you buudles, too, if you don't feel like carrying them around with you. Our store has beeu enlarged and our stocks are larger and better than ever before and we waut you to come and look around whether buying or uot Port of muko the Btoro your headquarters, for you are Hurely welcome when you come. Mail Orders V J Specialty THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12 14-1G-18 20-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, : WASH. voted principally to Seattle. With the short stories and other features, including the fine half tone illustra tions makes the Pacific Monthly one of the popular ' magazines of the country. An Iowa minister complains that the Chatauqua meetings have become too much marked by levity and giddy conduct, having departed materially from the good old standrads of moral and mental improvemuet Perhaps the preacher's vision is merely stra-j bismic Secretary of the treasury, Leslie M. Shaw, has let it be known that he will retire from the cabinet during the coming winter in order that he may not be embarrassed in his candi dacy for the presidency in 1008. " VAVTS ABOPI OBKGQX, . (World's Work.) The old "Oregon Country" includes Washington, Oregon, Idaho and a portion of Montana and Wyoming. The state of Washington alone is larger than the New England states, together with the state of Delaware and the District of Columbia. Oregon is larger than New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey to gether. ( The "Oregon Country" is equal in extent to the thirteen original states of the Union, which now support a population of more than 80,000,000 inhabitants. : The New England states, together with New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Deleware, had a Jopula tion of 21,231,450 in 1900, while Washington and Oregon together had but 931,630. The combined ntea of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Denmark, Holland and Belgium is 400 sqnare miles less than the area of Washing ton and Oregon, and these countries have a population of more than 50, 000,000. France and Germany have each an area just about two-thirds as great as the old "Oregon Country," and they support populations of 40, 000,000 and 50,000,000 respectively. WHAT WILL THE PKIMABY DO? (Oregonian. ) . We find several things in the letter of ex-Governor Geer, printed - today, that merit particular attention. He has strong belief in party regularity. He didn't especially like the nomina tion of Mr. Ellis for congress in 1896, but Ellis "was the nominee of the convention and entitled to support." No matter what his views on the great questions of the day-questions vital to the very existence of the re public he was the republioan nomi nee, and Mr. Geer sallied valiantly forth and broke a lance or two with the sound money champions who were trying to persuade the people of the second Oregon district that ' free silver was all wrong and ; the gold standard all right. This was in 1896, when Mr. Geer had opulent dreams of ease and comfort in the office of col lector of customs for the distriot of the Willamette. In 1897, he de clined to be a "miscellaneous candi date" and in 1898 a grateful and de lighted constituency, finding voice in a state convention, nominated him for governor. Thus we see that virtue is its own reward if yon happen to be around when payday comes. We are gratified to observe, too, that the ex-Governor dispels the haze of doubt that has enveloped one other important incident in the ' history of state poiltics. "Speaking as one citizen of Oregon," he says, "who through a voting experience of thirty years, has never yet exercised the privilege, so often enjoyed by probably better men, of scratching a name from a republican tioket, I de sire to express my perfect willing ness to permit the direct primary law Davis-Kasers Mail Orders a Specialty to proceed along its way' etc. This will ' likewise be gratifying. Intelli gence to Mr. Furnish, who has here tofore been a trifle dubious about the strenuous regularity of Mr. . Geer'a party affiliations. But let that pass. The ex-Goveruor is on the band wagon and has always" been there, though perhaps not always on the front seat He has simply sought a little occasion al diversion by slippiing down i under neath it , . ,..,.,.,: ...,., The point Mr. Geer makes, then, as we understand it, is that the bolter will always bolt under any system; and that he himself is no bolter. The direct primary is here to stay, at least for the present, and we shall have to get along with it as beet we can. The party boss don't like it, but so far as anybody has observed, there is no great occasion for them to get excited. It wag tried onoe in Oregon, and strange thin gs happened. One swallow (of whisky) doesn't make a summer, bnt it may : be con sidered sometimes a very satisfactory sign of approaching summer weather. Neither' the professional politicians, who have the offices and want to keep them, nor the professional tribunes of the people, who have had the offices and want them again, know what the next direct primary will do to or for them. We shall all have to wait and see. ' GRAFTING AND PUBLICITY. (New York Financier, ) In view of the developments of the year to date, the average clean-minded American has some reason for his belief that the body politic is satur ated with a spirit of grafting, which word is a mere modern interpretation of the plalu English word stealing. Yet we cannot see that there isoo cason for the foreboding that appears to prevail In most gatherings where the subject is discussed. The United States is cot going to the dogs be. cause a few thieves ' have been dls covered in high places. On the con trary, the revelation and accompany ing execration of wrongdoing that are a part and parcel of our recent his tory afford the strongest evidence that to the national spirit the thief is still as obnoxious and repugnant as at any time in our career as a nation. If public conscience had been hardened to a toleration or cynical indifference of knavery, and betrayal of trust, there might be reason for despair, bnt who among those who read the papers can say that the position of the ex posed or confessed wrongdoers is com fortable? The denunciation and con tempt which such men have encount ered, irrespective of their standing in society, make It plain that' the aver age citizen is honest, that he still hates knavery, and when occasion or opportunity offers will crash it out as he would a physical pestilence that threatened his , , or his neighbor's home.- . Corruption, financial and ' political is not a new disease. History does not record a nation that escaped it entirely, but it doe? rpyeaj that those who fought it survived longest, And the United States today - is fighting corrnption in high places as no nation has ever done. To the extremist the difficulty of branding the evildoer with the mark of conviction and sub sequent punishment may afford ground for despair, but court convic tion is uot always the heaviest penalty. Publicity is quite as effective in bring ing home to the evildoer the conse quence of any infraction of the law given on Mount Sinai. No escape is offered to him who presumes to trav erse the old, old Mosalo statutes, and the brand which is put upon him by an honest society of freemen is a bar sinister that will endure not only in his own lifetime, but will linger to curse his posterity as physical dis ease smites the innocent after genera tions. The men who have lately lived in the unenviable limelight of notoriety are beginning to realize this keenly. What are the few Ill gained dollars they may have acquir ed compared to the tarnished reputa tion they will carry through life? There is a lesson In this "grafting" business, sordid and unclean as it may seem, that the young man only entering business life will do well to study thoroughly. The aroused conscience of a nation cannot be paci fied by pecuniary restitution, volun tary or forced. The crime back of the action is not forgotten or forgiven. The United States is houest, as offend ers against moral principals are' be ginning to appreciate now as never before, nud it is going to remain honest, even though it has to go into high places to rid Itself of those who have violated the trust given into their hands. Notict of Final Account Iu the County Court of the State of ' Oregon for Umatilla County. . . In the matter of the ( Notice of Final estate of Sara Foun- Account tain, Deceased. ' All persons whom it ' may concern are hereby notified that the under signed executor of the estate of Sarah Fountain, deceased, has filed his final account and report in the above entitled Court and that the County Judge thereof has fixed and appoint ed Saturday, the 26th day of August, A. D. 1905, as the time, and Jthe County Court house in the City of Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon, as the place where any and all objec tions to the said final aeoouut will be heard and the settlement thereof made. Done by order of the Connty Judge duly made ou the 21st day of July, A. D, 1905. Peterson & Fetersou, J. S. Harris, Attorney for Estate. Exectuor. 1 Repairing ; I want to call your attention M to the fact that I do all kinds of Watch, Clock and "Jewelry , repairing. I do accurate work, t ' get it out quick and guaraq-, , tee every job sent out. - - WatchesandJewelry I carry a line of cheap and medium price watches that , - will stand rough use and are dust proof; also a line of jew-. elry, novelties and silverware. ROYAL M. SAWTELL Jeweler : . Athena PETERSON & PETERSON, Attorneys-at-Law AlHENA, OREGON. J.. D. PLAMONDON PHYSICIAN 1 AND SURGEON, Office in Barrett Building, - - Athena, Oregon Dr. A. B. Stone, PUVSICIAN Jk SURGEON Calls answered promptly day or night Office in Post Building, Athens, Oregon S. F. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Female , Diseases. Calls promptly answered. Office onTblrd Street. Athena, Oregor VM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor. South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. Dealer in Paints, Oils, DrugB and Toilet articles Lubricating and Compoun OILS Drugs and Drug Sundries, Prescripfions Carefully Compounded. :f reasonable R. J. BODDY'S ' EAT MARKET Fresh Meats. Only the Best is Good. Fresh . Urea When we say Fresh Bread we mean Freah Bread, Strictly. Pies, Cakes and Pastries Baked to Order. Try our FAMOUS WASHINGTON PIE. The Best Ever. PRENDERG AST BAKERY SOUTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET. ": ATHENA, OREGON. THE PRESS, OflLY $2 PER YEAR. First ational of CAPITAL STOCK,. ..$50,000 SURPLUS, : 12,500 Propel attention given to collections. Deals in foreign and domestic ex , change. Fire and burglar-proof vaults and safes no charge v for keeping your valuable papers. H. C Adams, President. T.J Kirk, Vice-President. F. S. Obow, Cashier, BlRltllKll II m .... .: , ... .. i CONTRACTING 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. - - 5 A. M. CILLIS, PROPRIETOR, i THE ; GILLIS LUMBER YARD Peebler & Chamberlain Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co. Agricultural Implements WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC, ATHENA, Umatilla Lumber Yard Ed Barrett, Manager Building Material : vi- !' "'"",V .V - --""-."-"-- 1 f ; Lumber, Shingles, Sash,. Doors, Paints, Oils, Glass, Wall Paper Building Paper, Brick, etc. Special inducements ou 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 - I PARKER i i ."1 Everything- First '",-;"''"' ,. ' Class Mod am "J " Er and 17 p-to-date fObC J, " SOUTH SID MAIN gaKSgg STREET ATHENA. d Dally "1 Bank Athena C. A uarrett. 1 V. E. Oolbnrn, Directors V. H. lieOrow, I I, M. Kt.nr, Assistant Cashier AND 3BUILDING i iiititiin OREGON. Everything For House Keeping Purposes See our stock before you buy. IMer fi Foiscni The Complete House Furnishers. 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