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1 - PRKS8 Athena. Oregon
ATHENA, JANUARY 23, 1906
There was never a better name for
the Standard Oil company than "The
System," for system it certainly is in
the fall extent of the word. The in
vestigation into its methods by agents
of the United States government has
developed a aeries of extraordinary
complications iu its bnsiuess manage
ment When the report of Commis
sioner Garfield is made public it will
disclose the existence of a bewilde'ing
number of corporation societies, and
associations, all of them organized in
the interest of the Standard Oil com
pany, bat many cf them masquerad
ing under curious local titles. The
government investigation has shown
that Rockefeller, Rogers, and other
masters of the Standard Oil seldom
appear personally tin any transaction.
They have created a network of com
panies one dopeudent upon the other,
bat all working toward a common
end, which is the euriohment of the
already rioh oil magnates.
The ingenuity of the Japanese is a
constant source of surprise to those
whom he is gradually edging out of
business wherever be is given a foot
hold, eays an exchange. The latest
line of endeavor to attract the atten
tion of the Yankees of the East is
making counterfeit money. Three of
the brown men have been arrested
iu Seattle, and the f 5 pieces wbiob
they have been tnrning out so closely
approach iu appearance and value
the real thing that their detection is
very difficult If half the stories we
hear about the '"cheapness" of Jap
anese labor are true, the counterfeit
ers could afford to make a better $5
piece thau that tamed oat by the
American government end still have
a shade of profit on the transaction.
The railroad rate bill introduced by
Senator Elkius cauuot surely have
been iutepded for serious considera
tions. It contains the objectionable
feature of making the interstate com
merce commission merely a complain
ing party iu proceedings in court for
the adjustment ot rates. It does not
even say that the commission shall
do anything, but uses the permissive
form all the way through. It per
mits of delay that would be iujurious
to the interests of shippers affected by
unjust rates. Iu many other rejects
it is clearly not the measure which
the country is demanding.
John Alexauder Dow it) has been
permanently removed from flnauical
control of the Ziou City industries,
according to assurances given the big
creditors by the financial ageuts of
The Greatest of all
Clearance Sates
The reductions in all departments this year ia solfevident that we have
made this sale the banner sale aud it has been takeu by the publio in the
spirit iu which we intended it The extraordinary cut iu prices ou our
stock has uever before been equnled iu this part of the country and our
many customers are saving money by buying this month for future needs.
With very few exceptions everything iu our immense store has beeu re
duced from 10 to 50 per ceut On all shipments amounting to f 10 we
prepay the freight Write for prices aud rednctious on any thing you
might need.
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WALLA WALLA, WASH.
the community. The appointment of
the triumvirate, with great ostenta
tion, it is now declared, merely cloak
ed Dowie's accession to the demands
of Zion City aud its creditors that
all business arrangemeuls be taken
from bis bands, leaving him religions
leader only. The awakening of the
people of Zion has come at last
Evidently Canada, too, ia afflicted.
This is from an exchange up there :
"The Standard Oil company has paid
40 per cent dividends on its $ 98,000,
000 capital this year. Reports say
the company will increase its capital
stock by several hundred millions. If
the Standard Oil company does not
lose heart it will soon be as big a
menace to personal liberty as the
Canadian Pacific Railway company."
The Union Republican Bays C. W.
York dropped into Haines with a four
horse load of wood last week and put
on return freight iu the shape of a six
horse load of "booze." On the way to
his raucb, ten miles out, the wagon
ran off a bridge, the horses got away
and York wandered around and died
of exposure. York was "blooded,"
and has paid the penalty.
Another fool professor has suggested
that certain unfortunate people be
killed. We suggest that all persons
making such 'murderous propositions
be tarred and feathered and run out
of the country. They are euggesters
of murder, and therefore dangerous
oitizens.
Uncle Andy sat between Schwab
aud Corey, at the Carnegie dinner. If
they entertained him with anecdotes
of their experiences he must have had
an interesting time.
Speaking of the way the govern
ment's policy has been conducted,
Witt says that "to err is human."
This looks a good deal like a kuock at
"divine right."
This country needs a more elastic
currency, sure enough; a currency
that will readily stretch around to
the country newspaper offices.
France may use force to compel
Venezuela to settle, and she may
thereby get into trouble. Her bill is
mostly graft.
Missouri loves company, but not the
Standard Oil company. It'a too
smoothe for Miss Missou.
Machine Shops for La Grande.
Owing to the fact that the O. R. &
N. Co. is now extending its line into
Wallowa county, aud not only that,
but the bold rumor that the company
will build down the Grand Ronde
river to Lewiston, promiueut railway
offloials announce that $250,000 will
be expended during the year 1906 for
a large new roundhouse aud machine
shop at La Grande. La Grande is
situated between two large mountain
divides, aud is the terminus of the
Elgin branch.
UPS AND DOWNS OF LAWSON.
Bert Huffman.
Thomas William Lawson, bom 45
years ago iu Charlestown, Mass., the
sou of a .Nova Scotiau carpenter of
splendid means, is a strikingly hand
some man, of clear out features aud
the figure of an athlete, standing over
six feet iu height, splendidly propor
tioned. Vitriolic of peu, dramatio of
speech, startling of deed, a bitter
imter, a furious worker, a pheuomen
al money maker, a liberal spender, of
treiueudous energy and wouderfnl re
sourcefulness, Lnwsou has had a
stormier career thau that of any
financier iu modem annals. Thrice
i he has "gone broke," only to dupli
cate tho fabled Phoenix by risiug
from the nsbes of defeat to richer
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heights.
Starting big career by running
away from school at 12 years of age to
become au errand boy in a broker's
office, Lawson at 16 made a small
fortune in a pool with other office
boys, only to drop it in a squeeze in
stocks a few days later. This break
cost bim $59,841 out of $60,000. He
spent all but $4.80 of the balance in
giving a dinner to bia friends, and he
gave the $4.30 to a waiter as a tip.
"I decided to make a clean sweep,"
he said.
He married at 21 and is the father
of six children. Once he bought a
new carnation for $30,000 and named
it for his wife and at another time,
because his wife liked the site, be
bought some barren, rocky land near
Scituate, Mass., and spent $2,000,000
transforming it into a stock farm;
naming it "Dream wood," and mak
ing it famous for its magnificent
blooded horses and cattle.
It has been 't Lawson 's way and lot
to make and lose millions of dollars
in a single day with unconcernedness
of the laborer who cleans up $1 cut
ting grass or shoveling snow. He
first made a name in the financial dis
trict, 17 years ago, in a fight against
a store service company, being in
terested in a rival patent on the cash
carriers used. He won, smashed the
company and reorganized it with him
self on the inside.
In 1893 in a stock campaign of the
Westinghouse Electrio Co. against the
General Electrio Co., be stuffed $2,
634,000 in 58 days for himself and his
backers. Then he "plunged" in
sugar and "went broke" for the sec
ond time in bis career.
Next he promoted a "boom town"
In Kentucky and lost heavily for
himself and those backing him.
Becoming interested in Butte & Bos
ton Copper Mining company's shares,
be bought at 75 cents and "bulled"
it to $75. Then be did about the
same thing with the stock of the Bos
ton and Montana company. The year
1900 found him the possessor of $30,
000,000 and about to step into the
fight which has led to his present
straits.
Lawson interested Henry H. Rogers
and other Standard Oil men in the
organization of the Amalgamated
Copper company, fell out with them
in 1901 and dropped about $10,000,
000 in the great crash which hit so
many Detroit speculators, among
them being Frank C. Andrews. Law
son vowed vengeance ou Rogers and
all his friends and began bis famous
"Frenzied Finance" stories in a
New York magazine as part of his
campaign 'of exposure and revenge.
Incidentally be sought to strike his
enemies occasionally in the stock
market.
Articles and speculations have
alike cost bim dear. His vitriolic
language aroused bis opponents and
made new ones.' While he stung the
Standard Oil and insurance company
speculators be failed to bring them to
their knees. For abuse they re
turned. When he called them thieyes
and constructive murderers, heartless,
soulless worshipers of money, they
called him a maniac and called in
expert testimony to show that his
brain was awry. Now, by their
machinations iu the stock market they
have hit him a body blow that will
take all his energy and resourcefulness
to sustain.
"COAL Oil, JOHNNY."
Harper's Weekly.
Just as the year went out the papers
reported that "Coal Oil Johnny" was
dying on a farm in Pennsylvania, in
possession of the necessaries of life,
but no more, and with his faithful
wife at his bedside as his only com
panion. Everybody knows about
"Coal Oil Johnny." He had the.
misfortune to grow up in the Pennsyl
vania oil region before persons of
superior discernment had protected
the folks of that locality from the
hazard of sudden subjection to the
trials of fortuitous wealth. Johnny
was never taught so much as to read
and write. At 21, iu 1862, he came
iu, most uuexpeotedly, to a petroleum
fortune of about $3,000,000. How he
spent it all in seven mouths is part of
the recorded . history of the American
people. His last 40 years, the papers
say, have been spent in regret because
of his earlier folly. Poor Johnny I
He knew no better. Worse men than
he, since his day, have spent more
money in worse way. And he had still,
at last news, the companionship of a
faithful wifel That could hard
ly have happened to him, exoept by a
miracle, unless he had got rid of
those millions. Poverty is a severe
strain ou the matrimonial prosperity
of persons Dot used to poverty, and
sudden riches are very apt to upset
the domestic equilibrium of persons
who are not used to money. Whatever
turns one's babits of life upside down
strains all established relations.
Strong characters will keep staunch
through all vicissitudes, and discip
lined and . resourceful folk will adapt
themselves to changes bettor than
people of less training. But as far
as concerns domestio happiuess the
most fortunate adjustment seems to be
a moderate and steady progress as
years increase towards easier pecuni
ary conditions. It is probably pleas
ant to have money to spend ia one's
old age. In youth there are many
other available forms of entertain
ment Public Notice.
Notice Is hereby given that I will apply to
the Mayor and common council of Hie cliy ol
Athena, Oregon, ul a meeting; tupreof to be
held on the 27lh dy or Feb. 1SWH, for a
llceiwe to su spirituous, malt and vinous
liquors in less qm.ntuii-s Ibmi one quart, mid
liquors to lie sold only In a building situated
on the west oue-ualf of lot No. 8, in block 5, ol
aiWflly. ltert CarUno,
Dated Jan. is, lUUi. A. pplicaut.
PKRWAnK ax oBSTtXATK carb rather
thaii lash it Into actiou if you wantto see
good progress made. Hi is Is as true
when it is a faulty human system as
when it is a baulky mule.
Alcoholic stimulants and alcoholic med
icines whip the digestive functions into
quick action but do not prevent the weak
ening reaction which follows so closely.
In cases of impaired appetite and diges
tion mal-ntitrition and wasting away, a
safe and reliable- tonic is necdod and Is
the onlv thing that can be rolled upon.
Dr. Pierce discovered, forty years ago,
that Nature had provided freely for these
needs of her children and that in her la
boraUrry were tho remedies. Glyceric
extracts of Golden Seal root, Queen's root,
Stone root. Black Cherrybark, Uloodroot
and Mandrake root, as prepared, com
bined and presorved without alcohol, in
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
constitute the most effective and certain
tonic, alterative and tissue rebuilding
remedy ever offered to the public.
A prominent merchant. Mr. J. Alfred
Arcand, of (W9 Saint Lawrence Street, Mon
treal. Canada, writes: "I have used Doctor
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery off and
on for nine years. When I have It In the
house I need no doctor or other medicine.
Nine years ago I was troubled with rheu
matism. Your 'Golden Medical Discovery
eliminated the uric acid from the system.
Since that time I have never been wlthaut
It In the house. There Is no other medicine
I think so much of, nor none I think Its
euual. Every one to whom I recommended
It Is pleased with the results, and all thank
me for advising its use. It Is a splendid
remedy for stomach trouble) cures colds la
a few days, and is the only sure cure I know
of for ' La Grippe." "
Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser Is sent free on receipt of stamps
to pay expense of mailing only. Send
11. one-certt stamps for the paper-covered
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Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
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ONE YEAR OJUsUU
We pay three per cent interest on
certificates of Deposits for amounts of
$5 and upwards, and the money may
be withdrawn any time. This is a
state bank, incorporated under the
laws of the State of Washington,
with a capital of $100,000. The stock
holders are also liable for $100,000
additonal, making $200,000 standing
between oar depositors and any pos
sible loss. Wrtie or call and see us. .
ELAM'S BANK,
WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON.
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DRUGSTORE
W'M, 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 WRIGHT LIVERY
AND FEED STABLE
COOD HORSES AND RCS. REASONABLE PRICES
DRIVER FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED-
Horses boarded by the day, week or month
Stables on 2nd street, South of Main street
J. IT. Wright, - - Proprietor-
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 Real Estate bnsiuess 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,
borne or business in any part of the
country, tell me year requirements.
I guarantee to fill them promptly and
satisfactorily.
AudyT.Cope, Walla Walla.
LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME.
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A. II. LUNA, Proprietor.
Shop West of KiDg's Barn, Athena.
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CONTRACTING
Hereafter I will engage in Contractiug 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, PROPRIETOR,
THE CILLIS LUMBER YARD
Peebler & Chamberlain
Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co.
Agricultural Implements
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Lumber, Shingles, Sash, Doors, Paints, Oils,
Glass, Wall Paper, Building Paper. Brick, etc.
Special inducements on orders for carload lots.
Fence posts in quantities to suit. : : : : :
Roslyn Coal, Puget Sound Wood''
CONTRACTING. ESTIMATES FURNISFD ON ALT.
KINDS OF BUILDING ON
Troy Laundry
Walla Walla, Wash.
Elmer Lane, Agent in Athena
Work Guaranteed
Washings are called for each Tues
day and are returned Friday morning
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1ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
I J. E. FROOME, prop.
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Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
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THE ST. NICHOLS :
Is the only one that can accommodate
commercial travelers. t
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Can bxieeomended for Its clean and
well ventilated rooms.
Con. Main andThihd, Athena, or.
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