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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Twi0-A-WEK TOBSDAY AND FbIDAT F. B. BOTD, PUBLI8HKB. Entered m necODd-claai matter, March 1, 1WM, at the poitofflce at Atbeoa, Oregon, under an Actot CongreM of March 8, 1879. Subscription 'Rates: Per year, In advanct 12.00 Blngleeoplei In wrappe'a.Sc. Advertising ftatea : Local reading notice, Drat insertion, 10c per ni. Hicta subsequent lnertlon,.rx All commanlcatloni ihonld be addreaaed to h PKK88 Athena, Oregon ATHENA, OCTOBER 13, 1905 It seems impossible for the Ameri can public to arouse itself to the point of taking a reasonable and whole some interest in its own great affairs. It is only in local and sporadic cases, like the uprising in Philadelphia, t bat one can see even a bint or suggestion of the presenoe of a sentiment and purpose whose existence in the nation at large is as needful as it is in any locality. It would not be difficult to present a long list of pertinent illus trations of national indifference con cerning great national affairs, but one will suffloe. The land frauds recent ly exposed are greater in the aggre gate many times greater than all other frauds on this nation since the government was created. That is a simple fact, but it is a fact of enor mous magnitude. And yet the Ameri can people seem to take it as a mut ter of oourse, an item In the general order of business. New light on the efficiency of the American law for the restriction of immigration was shed by the-debate on the aliens bill in the British House of Commons the other day. The pre mier, in defending the bill, said that Great Britain had been a sort of sievo through which immigrants entered America. The fit got through and the uuflt remained in the British Isles. This applies, of course, only to those who sail from British ports. When Great Britain joins with the United States lu prohibiting the eu trauoe of undesirable immigrants it will not be so easy for tho countries of continental Europe to dump thoir iucompotents beyond their own boundaries. John D. Rockefeller reooutly do nated $10,000,000 of his tainted money to a national educational fund, and will recoup himself by putting up the price of oil. Thus docs he give away other people's money, for which he will get no credit from men or angels. What he may give away with one baud he tukes from the people with the other, if it be true that he adds to the price of oil eveiy time he makes a donation. Hungary is after a divorce from AuHtria, nud should have one, but "the villuin still pursues her. " It was an unholy marriage in tho first plaoo uud one forced .on Hungary, lleuoa people hopo to see her freed from her relations with her artful oppressor. The leaven of liberty is working in many parts of this dis turbed world. Tbe light ia breaking in upon many dark places. Let her break. A wise contemporary baa suggested that tbe best method local merchants can adopt to fight the mail order houses is to advertise their goods and their prices in the home newspapers. The mail order firms flood tbe rural mail routes with advertisements. If the local dealers can save themselves from destruction by using printers' ink it is a reasonably cheap salvation. . It has been suggested that the 40. 000 local merchants in Iowa get to gether to fight tbe mail order bouses by raising a fund sufficiently large to establish an immense wholesale house in Chicago to do the buying and shipping for local houses in the com bination. This mail order business threatens the ruin of business houses in all small towns of Iowa and is a matter for serious consideration. - Castro has gotten Venezuela into more trouble. France is making a naval demonstration to bring him and her to terms. Our navy may do like wise. Monroe's doctrine is no remedy for the Castro malady. Uncle Sam never attempts to protect the state or nation guilty of wrong doing. Tbe international cheat and trouble maker must reform or be punished. Tom Lawson doubtless wonders sometimes what this humbugged and bamboozled old world will do for a friend and adviser when he is taken away from it. Professor William James, of Har-va-d, says education doesn't stop crime. He can't deny, however, that it helps tbe business of tbe school book trust. Experts say life insurance premiums are too high. They will not have to furnish figures in order to get tbe policy holders to believe it. Edison says radium will be as cheap as coal some day. Yet this may only mean that coal will be as expensive as radium some day. Radium, according to an English scientist, contains the secret of life. But the spunky thing refuses to di vulge the secret. CHKAPER INSURANCE. (Oregonlan.) No possible exposure of graft in the life insurauoe business could sur prise anybody now; still, the revela tions as Mr. Hughes extracts them from the reluctant witnesses are piquant and instructive. The latest concern the piokiugs of the family of Riobard H. McCurdy, president of tbe New York Mutual Life, and certain tidbits which went to tbe friends and relatives of Vioe-President Granniss. The sou and son-in-law of President McCurdy, for example, have received from the company since 1908 in com missions the handsome sum of $2,600, 000 or more, to say nothing of geu erous salaries besides. Upon this faot a periodical like Dr. Limau Ab bott's outlook may make the sloppy comment that such things bavo been so common that they can, scarcely be called immoral ; but to loss enlight ened minds these transactions seem not only immoral, but to partake of that very low sort of depravity which is culled swindling. It will be for tunate if tho business of life insur ance iu tho United States does not suffer permanent injury from the mis deeds of the men who have controlled it during the last decade. It will be A Fortunate Purchase By buying an extra large stock of Clothes Baskets this fall we were able to get them at an exceedingly low price. But as we were obliged to buy more than was required for our fall trade, we will have to reduce our surplus by having a Clothes Basket Sale For Two Weeks, Beginning Oetober 9th. These Baskets are all made of clean round willow (not split willow) and are all very well made and a good bargain at regular prices. No. 1 Basket, size 19x28, 12 in. high, regular $1.00, Bale price.. $ 67 No. 2 " " 20x29, 13 " " $1.10, " " 73 No.3 " " Ux3:,13" " " 81.25, " 83 No, 4 " 22x32, 14 V " " $1.60, " 1.00 Remember we pay the freight where bill of goods amounts to $10.00 THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 12 14-16-18 30-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, : WASH. Mail Orders a Specialty Mail Orders a Specialty unfortunate if the revelations of the misdeeds and extravagance of these men do not bring about some effec tive reforms. The fraternal orders which offer life insurance to their members have long been contending that the charges of tbe old-line companies were exorb itant. It has been their doctrine that insurance equally safe could be furn ished for a fraction of the premiums charged by companies like tbe Equit able and New York Life, and tbe whole trend of tbe evidence taken be fore the investigating committee is to sustain them. Tbe same conclusion follows from a comparison between the expense of managing the life in surance companies in America and foreign countries. Here tbe expenses of management devour about 18 per cent of the total income of tbe com pany upon the average, while in Engl laud they amount only to 9 per cent and in Germany to 6 per cent There is no good reason why there should be this difference, except that in America wealthy corporations are allowed to do as they please with their own prop erty and other people's also, whereas abroad they are kept under strict in spection and control ot tbe law. Ger man paternalism may be annoying, but it is not without advantages; tbe German government saw through two of our great iusnrance companies and forbade, them to do business there long before we had begun to suspect that anything was tbe matter. There is no such thing thought of as economy in the conduot of an American life insurance company, generally speaking. Ways are sought to spend and waste money, but never to save it The reason for this lies in the enormous surplus which most companies have on hand, rightfully belonging to the policy-holders, but at the mercy of the officials to graft up on without limit or restraint IKT THJS UOOD WORK GO ON." (New York Sun.) It is less than three years since a quarrel among thieves threw into the hands of Secretary Hitohoock the clew to tbe land frauds on the Pacific Coast ' From that day until now he has shown "neither variableness nor shadow of turning. " Quietly, but unceasingly, the clew has been followed. Whether the pub lio knew or cared about it all has been, apparently, a matter of total indifference to Secretary Hitobcock. Fraud, almost unparalleled in its scope and in its boldness, had been and was being carried on. The people of the United States were being robbed and swindled out of millions upon millions of dollars. The qniet man who runs our interior department set the wheels of the law in motion and has kept them busy. ' : The local work in the case has been carried on by Mr. Francis J. Heney, tbe federal district attorney. Much credit is due bim for the intelligence and fidelity which be has displayed. Six months ago it was reported that up to that time there had been 68 in dictments and six convictions in the. land fraud matter. Since then a United States senator, John H. Mitch ell, has been added to tho convicted list Last Wednesday the jury of tbe United States district court returned a, verdict which read as follows : In the case of the United States against John N. Williamson, Van Gessner and Marion R. Biggs, we, the jury, k find the defendants guilty as charged. Jobn N. Williamson is a member of tbe United States house of representa tives. In two earlier trials of the case the jury disagreed. But there was nothiug in such an experience to dismay such a man as Attorney Heney. He believed he was right, and the secretary supported him. Result three more convictions.. Mr. Hitchcock, commenting on the out come says that Mr. Heney deserves special commendation, and makes two significant statements: "There is more of this business to come." "We iutend to push this thing to a finish." We make our obeisance and present our compliments and congratulations to the man who has "made good" Ethau Allen Hitobcock. Let the good work go on. Like Finding Money. Finding health is like finding money so think those who are sick. When you have a cough, cold, sore throat, or chest irritation, better act prompt ly like W. C. Barber, of Sandy Level, Va. He says: "I had a terrible chest trouble, caused by smoke and coal dust on my lungs; but, after flnd iug no relief in other remedies, I was cured by Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, coughs and colds." Greatest sale of any cough or luug medicine iu the world. At McBride's drugstore; 60o and $1; guaranteed. Trial bottle free. Are You Knguf ed? Engaged people should remember that, after marriage, many quarrels, can be avoided, by keeping their di gestioua in good order with Electric Bitters. S. A. Brown, of Bennetts ville, S. (1, says: "For years my wife suffered intensely from dispepsia, complicated with a torpid liver, until she lost her strength and vigor, and became a mere wreck of her former self. Then she tried Electric Bitters, which helped her at onoe, and finally made her entirely well. She is now strong and healthy." McBride, drug gist, sells and guarantees them, at 60c a bottle. There is but one laundry in Pendle ton kuowu as the "Pendleton Steam Laundry," and Charles Gay is its exclusive AUieua ageut My Staple Lines of Jewelry are BROOCHES SCARF PINS CUFF LINKS NECK CHAINS GUARD CHAINS VEST CHAINS LOCKETS RINGS ' FOBS I have many pretty things arriv ing to make up my fall stock. Watch my window displays. . ROYAL M. SAWTELL Jeweler : Athena PETERSON & PETERSON, Attorneys-at-Law A1HENA, OREGON. J. D. PLAMONDON PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office in Barrett Building, - Athene, Oregon Dr. A. B. Stone. PHYSICIAN & SURGEON Calls answered promptly day or night J Office in Post Building, Athena, Oregon I S. F. Sharp PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to Female" Diseases. Calls promptly aimwered. Office on Third Street, Athena. Oregor JOHN T. WOOD, M. D, Graduate Detroit Col . lege of Medicine : : : Office Opposite McBride's Drug Store. THE PALACE DRUGSTORE VM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor. South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. You know your doctor is all right, but how about tbe tilling of prescriptions? Our Prescriptions are precisely as tbe doctor ordered nothing more, nothing less and always exactly right. Troy Laundry Walla Walla, Wash. Elmer Lnne, Agent in Athena Work Guaranteed Washings are calif, t for each Tues day and are retun, d Friday morning BLACKSMITH AND REPAIRING SHOP A. II, LUNA, Proprietor. Shop West of King's Barn, Athena. t ' THE j I Each looming I When you dress think about tbe Pendleton Steam Laundry: Ask your self if your linen. work is as it should be. A man who wears good clothes cannot afford to wear "fairly good" laundry work. If you find your collars are poorly turned, if you find they bave saw edges, if you find them specked, remember that these faults have been overcome at the PENDLETON STEAM LAUNDYB, and that only high grade work is allowed to leave our laundry. Every day brings new custome rs who are highly pleased with our work. May we expect a trial pack age from you? Pendleton Steam Laundry The Up-to-Date LAUNDRY FISHMAN & PETERS, Proprietors CHARLES GAY, ; ' ATHENA AGENT CONTRACTING AND BUILDING 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. . ; j " .. A. M. CiLLIS, PROPRIETOR, ' THE CILLIS LUMBER YARD Peebler & Chamberlain Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co. Agricultural Implements WAGONS) CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC. ATHENA. OREGON. PARKER & LANE'S HIP! Kierythlng Firvl Clan - Mo (tf rn and ITp-tu -data SOUTH SID MAIN STREET ATHENA. CHA.RLES GAY ...Dealer in... Candies, Nuts, Fruits, Tobaccos, Cigars KRESH BREAD, PIES, CAKE9, ETC. ST. NICHOLS HOTEL! J. E. FROOME, prop. Only First-class Hotel in j the City. ! 1 1 t THE ST. NICHOLS J X it tbe only ODethftteanacoeinBiodBM ' commercial traveler. T Cm beieeomended for IU clean and well ventilated rooma. L cob. Maiw asdThied, ATBxwA.or. Umatilla Lumber Yard Ed Barrett, Manager Building Material Lumberk 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
