The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, October 31, 1905, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XVII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 81. 1905. NUMBER 75. ED. MANASSE Our store has been Completely nn oil B La SUITS AND OVERCOATS FOR MEN AND FOR BOYS NOVELTIES ED. MANASSE Agent for Butterick's-Patterns. HEATERS and RANGES W3 cox & MTV. SOUTH SIDE : MAIN; STREET. ATI! FN A, OREGON Shoes) ELY & SCOTT I Shoes Wanted-Every man and boy to examine our Shoes before buying elsewhere IHIIII IIMMIMIIIBIIIlllll HlllrT'M ,,. iiiMiiraigMMMreMMlfmini Siiosl ELY & SCOTT Shoes' THERE When all that is good in Groceries and Staple Provisions fail to appeal to you as appetizers. THAT TIME IS II ERE, tor the season of . Fruits And Vegetables is at its zenith. Our FRUITS AND VEGETABLES COME DIRECT FROM THE RANCn and therefore are fresh and palatable. f VJZLMi - .ii - 73 IN ALL THE DEPARTMENTS All styles and sizes for all kinds of fuel CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD TH1NG3 TO EAT i 1 3 1 mJ3 L. ARE HIGH LAND VALUES 8HEBAD FAYS $105 FEB ACRE FOB WHEAT LAND- Four Tears Ago the Same Quarter Bection Sold for $40 per Acre. ' The nrinn nf wheat, land in iliia vioiaity is soaring gaily, with a stiff upward teudancy. An increase of $65 per acre in four years in the purchase price of land that at that time sold for $40 per aoreisgoiug some," at least) Forty dollars per acre is""thepTioe paid four years ago by John MoKiu non for the Knox place north of town. Saturday he sold the quarter section to Joseph Sberad for $105 per acre, amountiug to $16,800, an increase of $65 per acre over the price be paid for it In the four years Mr. McKin uon owned the place he harvested two summer fallow crops) " TlieTarnl basiuTtmprovements save a good fence, and is in stubble at the present time. j?It is located between two quarter' sections owned by Mr. Sherad, who purchased it to connect in one body land owned by him. The deal was made through the real estate firm of Cragbead & Hays and the final papers were made out yesterday. Mr. McKinnou will take bis $16,800 to Alberta where h" -nil invest it in cheaper land. .Yj KEES ON TRIAL. Governor Mead Slake, up wi' tint of Complaint. It is announced that an investiga tion of the official acts of A. F. Kees, superintendent of the penitentiary at Walla Walla, is now being conducted by the members, of the Washington state board of control, now iu session at Walla Walla. The charges .in substance are as follows: j First That on a date preceding a municipal election in the city of Wal la Walla. July 10, 1905, A. F. Kees, superintendent of the state penitenti ary, by coercion and intimidation re quired certain employes of the institu tion who are not residents of the city of Walla Walla, unlawfully to place their names upon the voting lists of said city to enable them to vote at said election. . ' Second That because A. F. Kees, superintendent of the state peniten tiary, refused to follow the advice of Y. C. Elalock, penitentiary physician, in relation to making certain repairs, improvements in the sewer system and water supply 'of the institution, the Athena, Oregon. TIIES) sanitary condition of the penitentiary became such that an epidemio of typhoid fever resulted among the con victs confined therein. Third That the legal execution of one Bradshaw, a prisoner under sen tence of death by the superior court of Franklin county, by negligence on the part of the penitentiary subordi nates, was delayed an unusual period and bad not yet taken plaoo. Fourth that those directly or indi rectly connected with the management of the state penitentiary failed to com ply with the law of 1905 in relation to inspection of factories in so far as it concerned the inspection of the peni tentiary jute mill. Fifth That the -superintendent of the penitentiary, by retaining iu the position of chief turnkey one Phillip Berry, well knowing the moral unfit ness of said Berry to hold that posit ion, acted in a manner prejudical to the best interests of the public service of the state of Washington. I further': request that in addition to the forogoing charges that you in vestigate any and all matters connect ed with the management of the peni tentiary that you may judge to be for the general betterment of tho institu tion. - ' . ' Governor Mead submitted the above charges by letter. Hn makes the state ment that as governor, he had investi gated the charges so far as possible without securing sworn testimony, and found nothing to shake his confidence in the integrity and ability of Super intendent Kees. FOB CUTOFF TO PORTLAND. A Sum Aggregating- 910,000.000 li the Price Stipulated. . , At Vancouver, Wash. , Sioms & Shields, general contractors for con struction of the Portland & Seattle railway (Northern Paoiflo aud Great Northern) between Kennowiok, Wash., and Portland, via Vancouver, awarded subcontracts to 10 different bidders for section of tho line from Cape Horn for most of the distance to Keuewiok, comprising about 190 of the 230 miles. . .. It is ascertained that the price stipu lated with the general contractors is, in round numbers, $10,000,000, al though Peter Sienis refused to confirm this, Buying it is a matter for the ohief engineer to tell. It is also learn ed on good authority that the date for completion is November 1, 1900. This expenditure is understood to be aside from the bridges over the Columbia and Willamette, estimated to cost more than $2,000,000, 40 con tractors having been bidding for por tions of the work, but the slices of the construction fund have so far been parceled to only a little more than u dozen. Sevoral contracts have been award ed for work westward from Cape Horn, but uot announced because no at tempt will probably be made to prose cute work at the cud until the eastern aud larger portion is finished ' or prac tically so. There is a great deal of dirt work below Cape Horn that can not be economically, done during the winter months. SHE STEALS HORSES. Cat Off Her Hair anil Put on Duy'a Clothe. ., Myrtle Typtou, a 16 year old girl, was lodged iu the Walla Walla county jail Saturday evening on a charge of horsestealing. She stole three horses, a hack and harness from an Indian family on the Coeur d'Alene reserva tion and sold them in the town of St. John, Whitman county, for $225. Deputy Sheriff Nessley, 6f Whitman county, arrested her Friday afternoon at the Harkness ranch, eight miles east of Prescott, aud brought her to Walla Walla. Myrtle admits stealing the outfit and disposing of it, aud related her escapade as follows: "I caught the horses iu a field one night, about October 10, bitched two of them to the hack aud struck out. I reached St. John tho next day and readily sold the outfit to a livery stable for $225. With tho money I purchased a suit of boy's clothes, bad my hair cut aud went out aud had a good time until quite late. I then CZAR St Petersburg, Oct 80. Tonight the autocracy of the Romanoffs, the old order of things, ceases to exist in Russia. Witte has telephoned from Peter boff, where be spent the day with the emperor before bis departure for this city, that the emperor has surrendered and affixed his signature to an im perial mandate comprising a condition upon which Witte promised to accept the office. . Witte now comes into power a prime minuter, enabled to convert the farcical national assembly into a real legislative body, purely represen tative, which will confer upon the people their fundamental civil liber ties. " SAS scoured a bed at the hotel, where I remained until the train started for Prescott the next morning. "I was acquainted with the Hark ness family and have been visiting there since. I don't care if I am sent to the penitentiary, I have a curiosity to see how they run such an institu tion. I would rather go there than be sent to a reform school. "My father has beeu farming some Indian land on the reservation for two or three years and has made me go out into the fields to plow aud do other kinds of work, and would never Five me any money. I came down to Walla Walla to stay with him this fall after harvest and wanted him to give me money enough to go and visit my mother at North Yakima, but he would not do it, so I weut back up to the reservation ou horseback, and after staying with friends a short time, concluded that I would raise some money, and that is why I took the horses and outfit "I am ready to go back and plead guilty and take my medicine. " Little is known of the family ex cept that they have lived for several years in the neighborhood of Walla Walla and that one of the boys 'was convicted last week at Pendletou ou a charge of forgery -and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary, but was paroled by the circuit judge. The family has been farming land rented from the Indians on the Coeur d'Alene reservation, spending a ' por tion of the year up there and the rest of the time near Walla Walla. Some two mouths ago the father aud mother separated and . the mother, with . one daughter, is liviug in North Yaki ma. ;:,., i ; PIGWEED FATAL TO CATTLE. SpineK on the 8aed Pod Fierce the In testinal Wall. ' It is announced at the agricul tural college that pigweed, or redroot, a weed very common throughout the Willamette valley, is under certain conditions fatal to livestock, particu larly cattle. The discovery was made by Professor Pernot in the bacterio logical department during the past few days. ' '.., . ' For several years it has beeu com mon for the department to receive a great many pathological specimens from cattle that die in the late sum mer or late fall before the first rains come. Always in the past the investi gation of these specimens has failed to result in detection of the trouble. . The discovery came from investi gation of pathological specimens sent by the '" stock inspector of Marion county from a furm near Gervais, where 14 cattlo died within a com paratively short period, A long study of the samples failed to reveal the trouble, aud tho case was about to be given up when the microsccope re vealed a highly inflamed condition in a section ot an intestine. Attention was then directed to fecal matter cou tents aud a myriad of small seeds were found, the fecal matter being literally studded with them. Professor Luke and Professor' Coote both identified the seeds as amaran thus eetroplexus (pigweed). In a mature state, a pod inolosea the seed, and on this pod there are spines or stickers. , These spines are very sharp and very minute, , generally, and are mainly composed of silica which ren ders them insoluble in the gastric juices of the stomach and even pre vents them from being softened by their passage through the various organs. ; . Further study of the intestine fin ally revealed thousands of these minute and flinty spines iu the mucous membrane of the intestiue, many of them having pierced the intestinal wall. A high state of inflammation is the consequence, aud the animal dies of acute gastritis. Cattle will not eat the weed until it is matured, and not then if there is other forage. ' "' l' Local Wheat Market. Wheat is quoted today by Athena buyers at 64 cents. Always "good luck" with it Cleveland's Baking Powder. ABDICATED - Fifty students aud instructors of the school of Technology have set up a provisional government. Troops have surrounded tlie building in which it is established. A correspondent wires that the casualties at Odessa Sunday were 25 civilians killed and 287 wounded ; two Cossacks killed aud two wounded. Business is at a standstill. The popu lace seems cowed. - At Warsaw, the crowds were more riotous ,aud appear to be getting be yond control of the military. Shops were pillaged and wealthy citizen's houses were destroyed, one of the ruined residences beiug the governor general's. The troops fired into the air, aud uo blood was shed. FREE SCHOLARSHIP FBESS HAS ONE IN THE PEN DLETON ACADEMY. Will Be Given to Some Worthy Boy or Oirl Seeking Advantage of Education. Through the generosity of the board of trustees of the Pendeton Academy, the Press is iu a position to offer a free scholarship in the popular and worthy educational institution to some ' bright and deserving boy or girl of this locality.- , ... - . " The only conditions that the Press will attach to this free scholarship is that the one it appoints be a worthy young person, who has completed at least the seventh grade iu the Oregon course of study, . and will graduate from the academy. The Pendleton. Academy rauks among the leading schools of the state, among its gradu ates being some of the leading men and bright women of the Puciflo Coast. In eveut the graduate desires to continue iu his pursuit of educa tion and knowledge, '.after going through the academy course, be will find himself within five years of graduation from the classical course of Harvard University, without fur thor entrance examinations. This can be said of no other sobool iu Orogou, east of Portlaud. . Term begins Jan uary 2, 1008. The board in giving the scholarship to the Press, writes: "The dominance of the so called bread and butter scienOos is rapidly passing. The next deoade will de mand a cultured mind instead of a superficial mechanical training to carry forward the world's work. We desire therefore to attract to Peudleton Academy some of Oregon's best and brightest youug people, with a view to inspiring them with a timto for high er learning aud to iudnce thorn as far as possible to complete a college course. - ' -' - -. .,; "Since it is the cultured mind in stead of the mechanical training the man instead of the machine that is henceforth to lead tho world's ac tivities whether professional, com mercial or political, and believing that our mission toward the youug people of our respective communities is the same, namely: to aid them in making the most of their God-given powers, we make the foregoing propo sition." , - " Big Barley Fool. The success of the Columbia county barley pool iu securiiug 00 cents a cental for its grain has resulted iu u determination for a permanent organ ization of the Dayton, Wash., barley growers. Plans have been formulated for. a joiut Btock company, to bo known as the Columbia County Bar ley Growers' association. It will be attempted to get every grower iu the county to become a stock holder and to pledge himself to sell his barley only through the association. A capit al stock ie to be subscribed largo enough, with what money can be bor rowed, to buy the crops of any mem ber who desires to sell at a lower price than that fixed by the association. United Artisans Meet. Athena Assembly No. 39, United Artisans, met Friday evening in Masonic Hall and iuitiated a good class of eight new members. Dr. Gt C. Esbelman, supreme instructor aud medical examiner, assisted by John A. Daron and wife, assistant grand masters, were present and gave instructive work. At tho close of the session lunoh was served and all expressed themsolves as well pleased with the order and its future pros pects. ' ' For Sale. O. G. Chamberlain, the real estate dealer, offers for sale: One dwelling and three lots, $1100. One bouse, barn and three lot, $800. A good cottage, outbuildings and one lot. $1000. One dwelling, burn aud three lots and other choice city and farm prop erty. ; A mountain farm of 160 acres, orchard and good buildings. Several good pieces of alfalfa luud near Pendleton. , Attacked Bjr a Mob. and beaten in a labor riot until cover ed with gores, a Chicago street car conductor applied Buckleu's Arnica Salve and was soon sound and well. "I use it in my family," writes G. J. Welch, of Mich., "a"hd find it per fect" Simply great for cuts and burns. Only 25o at McBride'a drug fltore.5"- ' - . . Our selection of overcoats is now complete. It in marvelous how a finished coat of the quality we show can be produced and sold for tho price. Atbeua Mercantile Co.