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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. TWICE-A-WBEK TtJESDAT AND FRIDAY F. B. BOYD, P0BLI8HB. Entered as second-class matter, March 1, 1D01, at the postofflce at Athena, Oregon, under an Actot Congress of March 8, 1879. Subscription ftata: I'er year, In advanct 12.00 Siiiglecopies In wrappers, 6c. Advertising 'Rata: Local reading notices, first insertion, 10c per ne. Each subsequent Insertion, 6c. All communications should be addressed to i PRK8S Athena, Oregon ATHENA, JANUARY 16, 1906 Two-thirds of the United States senators will come up for re-election withiu the next three years and of this total 84 are republicans. This fact is likely to have considerable in fluence upon the ultimate stand taken this winter by the senate on measures advocated by the president and en dorsed by the people. It does not necessarily meiin that the senate will fall in liue and follow the lead of the president, but it points to such action, aud the wise observers, after study ing the situation, think they can see the seuato supporting the president on the large issue now up for considera tion. Duriug the first week of the session it looked very much as if the Senate would take issue with the president on many important quest ions of legislation. There wore un pleasant words regarding the Panama canal; there were murmuriogs about the president's course regarding Santa Domingo ; aud behind it all consider able private qommeut upon the presi dent's railroad rate polioy as outlined iu his message. Many senators have reached the conclusion that the presi dent is rooklessly usurping the powers of oongress to some extent, aud they have displayed evidenoe of ugliness on that account. For a time it looked ns though there would be revolt. But will there be? Rather, will not the sonnte fall iu liue and follow tho lead of the president? It is a serious thins for the party iu power to break with its president, and such a move is more apt to injure those souators aud representatives of the insurgent class than it is to injure the president. What is more, the party iu power must suffer from any such revolt. These things are being carefully weighed, and there are those who now predict that there will be no break between congress and the presideut, uuless it be on the railroad rate issue, aud even on that issue a compromise is more likely than an open rupture. There has never beou any danger of u break between the house and the presideut. Members of the houso of representatives are chosen for only two years at a time, and they are accountable direotly to tho people. In answer to tho objection that un der the direot primary nomination law, dumooruti may ba soratchiug to help to uoiuinate a weak republican, nnd republicans soratchiug ttioir own tiokot to aid in uomiuating a weak democrat, the Oregoniau prints the following from a correspondent : The Greatest of all Clearance Sales The reductions iu nil departments this year is selfevident that we have made this sale the banner salo and it has been taken by the publio in the spirit in which we intended it The extraordinary cut in prices on our stock has never bofore been equaled iu this part of the couutry and our many customers are saving money by bnynig this mouth for future needs. With very few exceptions everything iu our immense store has been re duced from 10 to GO per cent. Ou all shipments amounting to f 10 we prepay the freight. Write for prices and ieductious on any thiug you might need. , Mail Orders a . Specialty THE DAVIS-KASER CO. Everything to Furnish the Home. 13 14-1(5-18 20-22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, :- WASH. "The tally -sheets are separate. Sup pose Mr. Blank is the weak republi can and some democrats scratoh Gov ernor Chamberlain and write Mr. Blank on their ballots. Then suppose Mr. Blank has 1030 vc'.is oa republi can ballots and 100 are written for him intsead of for Governor Cham berlain on the democratic ballots. The 100 votes for Mr. Blank on the democratic) ballots will be counted for him on the democratio tally-sheet and can no more be added to his 1000 votes on the republicna tally sheet than that 100 votes can be added to bis 100 on the democratio tally sheet. A republican can be nomi nated only by votes marked for him on republican ballots." Baseball is the only one of the four promineut American sports which is played year after year without being molested in any way or pronounced either brutal or demoralizing by the public. Football, horse racing and boxing have received black eyes from which it will take them long to re cover. The present agitation for changes in the rules of the gridiron sport have hurt the game and caused it to lose mttay admirers. Columbia university, formerly one of the col leges which made football the leading sport, has dropped the game alto gether. Several western colleges of lesser note have taken the same action. The Echo Register, one of the neat est little papers in all the Inland Em pire, is before us. Brown & Stratton, the publishers, show. evidence of abil ity as newspaper men, and by the gunge they have set, apparently do not intend to overreach themselves on tbe start; but have in view the sound and practical purpose of advancing as Echo advances. The Register is all right in every praticular and iu every department, and forever more may it record the progress of the thriving community in which it is published. Senator DePew refuses to vacate de pew in de senate. Phew 1 How he is stuck on his joo. Such is poli tics. Tho New York legislature will ask him to resign. Pasco is referred to as the city of bursted booms. Better to have boomed aud lost than not to have boomed at all. DISCOVKKKR OF CHEAT SALT LAKE Uuting Magazine. Jim Bridger stands forth as the most couspiouons figure in the brief but glorious region of the trapper and trailmaker in the Far West. The greatest fur hunter and the greatest pathfluder of them all, and possessing the most intimate knowledge of the Indian nature ever vouchsafed a white man, Bridger will grow in stature as time goes ou and accurate history is writteu. No part of the great Rocky moun tain country held a secret from Jim Bridger. He was the first white man after John Colter, to view the won ders of Yellowstone park, and the first to look ou Great Salt Lake. Seeming, ly bearing a charmed life, he wander ed through the lands of many Indian tribes, some times fighting the red men, but more often living their life and finding the solace of true brother hood at the log Ure. Every inonutaiu Jim Bridger climbed, every stream he crossed, and every game trail he fol lowed, was writteu down iu the most niatvelous memory ever granted a plainsman. As a result, years later, when the white men, bold but blun dering, sought the easiest paths over the mouutaius, Jim Bridger showed Mail Orders a Specialty them the test trails for their wagons; and, when the chief engineer of the Union Pacific bad well nigh given up hope of getting his rails across the divide, it was Jim Bridger who show ed an available pass which he had travorsed years before in his trapping days, and the existence of which no other white man knew. A few months ago, this chief en gineer. General Grenville M. Dodge, showed his gratitude by rescuing Jim Bridzer's bodv from a neclncted cravn 1 and interring it at Kansas City, under I an ATmrrmrintA nmnnmanf-ninlintilv j rz x i'- i the first act of gratitude ever per formed lor tbe man who had put the whole empire of the West iu his debt. A MAGAZINE AND A STAN. Walla Walla Union. At last the Northwest has a maga zine that is worthy. For several years tbe Pacific Monthly has been published at Portland. Its publisher managed by the hardest work to issue it every month and place it on the market, but it was read by a very limited clientele and in no sense pros pered. It failed utterly to fulfil its mission, and was creditable neither to its owners, nor the section in which it stood as the sole magazine publication. About six months ago a change in its editorial department was made and in the brief space of time which has elapsed it has made a wonderful advance and now stands as the lead ing magazine of tbe Pacific Coast. New blood is responsible for the re generation of the Pacific Monthly; in telligent, industrious blood. Its new editor, the man who is mak ing it one of the representative pub lications, is Arno Dosch, a young newspaper writer with no previous magazine experience. He belongs to oue of Portland's old families and gained by inheritance the best gifts of mind and character. A graduate of Harvard, class of '04, he returned to Portland and became a member of tbe Oregonian staff. His work at tracted attention and last summer he was offered the by no means alluring task of making a real magazine out of the Pacific. He has already suc ceeded to an amazing degree. His work has just fairly begun. He is smart enough to appreciate his op portunity. He is able to accomplish his task. Both Arno Dosch and his magazine are worth watching. They are growing like the proverbial green bay tree. SENATK TO CURB ROOSEVELT. (Portland Journal. ) There has been no more important political step in recent years in Wasb ington'than that decided upon by lead ing members of the senate, without regard to party, with reference to the propensity of Presideut Roosevelt to act on his own responsibility without reference to congress. It was definite ly decided that Roosevelt will be curb ed effectually. Whether this will be a peaceful prooess will rest eutirley with the president. The senate is going to investigate every act of the president that is con sidered unconstitutional or as invad ing its prerogatives, and as the first step proposes to inquire at great length and with much formality into the action of Secretary Taft, under instructions of the president, making the now famous agreement to main tain the parity of the silver coinage of the republio of Panama with the money of the United States. The first sign of this rebellion of the senate was shown when Senator Kitteridge told President Roosevelt three weeks ago that he had better prepare for the fullest sort of investi gation of his acts iu connection with the Panama canal. The next sign came when the sen ate, without a dissenting vote, adopted a resolution introduced by Senator Bailey of Texas, directing tbe finance committee to iuquire into the circum stances of the agreement for tbe maintenance of the parity of silver money iu Panama. The senators claim that the presideut has prac tically made au illegal treaty. FCNSTON'S FEATS DISCREDITED. St- Louis Republican. The revised Kansas School History contains no reference to the daring swimming feats popularly attributed to General Frederick Funston while in the Philippines. The history, which was writteu by the late Noble L. Prentis, bus been revised quite reoently by Mrs. Prentis, and she has eliminated from the chapter on the Philippine war all refereuoe to the statemeut as widely printed iu the newspapers that Funs ton was promoted for his bravery iu swimming tbe Bagbag aud the Rio Grande rivers. This has been the subject of con siderable discussion and dissension ever since tbe war. Mrs. Prentis accepted as final authority iu the matter the records of the war depart ment, which show that Funston and his men were towed across the Rio Grande by two privates, who alone swam the river. Tbe reoords also show that the Funston detachment crossed the Bagbag ou a bridge. A year ago, when D. O. McCray, a member of the State Textbook Com mission, declared that Funston's swimming feats were the invention of an euterprisiug press agent in the Philippines. McCray was bitterly denounced by thousands of Funston's admirers iu Kansas. Lieutenaut-Col-ouel Little, of the Tweutieth Kansas, also aroused a storm of iudiguatiou by declaring that Funston conld not swim a stroke. Persuade ax obstinatk case rather than lash it into action If von want to sec good progress mado. This Is as true when it is a faulty human system as w licit it Is a baulky mule. Alcoholic stimulants and alcoholic med icines whip tho digestive functions into quick action butdo not prevent the weak ening reaction which follmci so closely. In cases of impaired appetite and diges tion mal-nntritlon and wasting away, a safe and reliable) tonic is needed and Is tho only thing that can be relied upon. Dr. l'lerco discovered, forty years ago, that Nature had provided freely for these needs of her children and that in her la boratory were the remedies. 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It is a splendid remedy for stomach trouble; cures colds in a few days, and is the only sure cure I know of for 'La Grippe.'" Dr. Plorce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send II ono-cent stamps for the paper-covered book, or 31- stamps for tho cloth-hound. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. J. E. Clam's Bank WALLA WALLA, WASH. CAPITAL STOCK - $100,000 J. E. ELAM, President Wm. 8TEKN, Vice President H. H. MARSHALL, Cashier 3 per cent interest paid on De mand Certificates of Deposit. M per cent interest paid on Time A-l Herf ificntes of Denosit THE PALACE DRUG STORE WM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor. South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore. You know your doctor is all right, but how about the tilling of prescriptions? Our Prescriptions are precisely as the doctor ordered nothing more, nothing less and always exactly right. THE WRICHT LIVERY AND FEED STABLE COQD HORSES ANQ RH3. REASONABLE PRICES DRIVER FURNIS iED WHEH DESIRED. ' Horses boarded by the day, week or month Stables on 2nd street, South of Main street J. F. Wright, ... Proprietor If . WANT CASH For Your REAL ESTATE YOU CAN GET IT. No matter where your property is located or what it is, I have the ability aud the facilities to sell your property. That is why I have the largest Keal Estate business in Walla Walla today. Why not put your property among the number that will be listed and sold as a result of my advertising? I will not only sell it, sometime, but be able to sell it quick ly. I am a specialist in quick sales. If you want to buy any kind of a farm, home or business iu any part of the country, tell me your requirements. I guarantee to fill them promptly and satisfactorily. Audy T. Cope, Walla Walla. LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME. mmmmm BLACKSMITH AND REPAIRING SHOP A. II. LUNA, Proprietor. Shop West of King's Barn, Athena. Foley's Kidney Cure makes kidneys and bladder right The-. COMMERCIAL LIVERY, FEED and SALE STABLE. Best Turnouts In Eastern Oregon Stock Boarded by the Day, Week or Month KING BROTHERS 1'r.p 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. - - - A. M. CILLIS, THE CILLIS Peebler & Chamberlain Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co. Agricultural Implements WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES, MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC. ATHENA. ' 4 PARKER iSly y , & LANE'S " jSSTM ' j THE STANDARD PENS EVERYWHERE. 150 Styles Broad pShUta?'' works, Camden, h. i. E3TEBBBQ0K Umatilla Lumber Yard Ed Barrett, Manager Building Material 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 Troy Laundry Walla Walla, Wash. Elmer Lane, Agent in Athena Work Guarauteed Washings are called for each Tues day and are returned Friday morning X THE 1ST. NICHOLS HOTEL i J. E. FROOME, pkop. I 1!? Umy tirsi-ciasa noici in the City. Iff." THE Si. NIUHULS Is the only one that can accomniiiasie commercial traveler. Can be tecomended for its clean and well ventilated rooms. i COH. MATH AND THIRD AT1IBNA, t'r. 4 AND BUILDING 1 PROPRIETOR, LUMBER YARD; OREGON. Everything Flrt Clan - Mud ern and Up-to- date SOUTH SID MAIN STREET ATHENA. STEEL PENS STEEL PEM CQrV,Z:Z. raff ml
