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ATHENA, MARCH G, 190G
There is a movement backed by sev
eral leading attorneys to locate set
tlers on the Harney Valley Improve
ment company's land. The company
has held the land for three years
without making any effort to reclaim
it, claiming they cannot get a contract
from the government. The members
of the company are principally stock
men and ate holding the land expect
ing sometime to buy it with scrip.
The tract contains 60,000 acres of the
bust agricultural land in Harney val
ley and was withdtawn from eutry
under the homestead luw to be re
claimed under the Carey aot by the
improvement company. The way the
land is now held it is doing no one any
good aud is doing Harney county
harm, for if this land was open to
homestead entry a large number of
sottlers could find homes there. There
is not a hotter tract of land in the
state for growing grain, aud last year
proved that there is not much dosert
laud in Harney valley, for the best
crops were produced on sagebrush
land when brought under good culti
vation, without irrigation
The immense tide of travel which
flowed iuto Portland and the Paciflo
Northwest last summer and fall was
largely made up of people who came
west to soe the country, the exposition
being in a seuso a side issue. The
extraordinary low rate made was a
powerful factor iu bringing these
orowds, and our mighty forests aud
rivors, farms and fields, were of more
iuterest to them than was the exposi
tion. Nearly all of those in attendance
returned with a good impression of
the country, and their effective mis
sionary woik is uov reflected in very
heavy tourist travol headed this way.
We still have, with the , exception of
the exposition, all of tho attractions
that wo had lust summer, and the
railroads have made the same rate
that was iu effect during the Fair.
For those reasons the year 1906 prom
ises to break ull records in the increas
ing population of the state.
O. E. Gray, formerly with the
Promoter, of Pendleton, was in tho
oity yesterday iu the interests of the
Banker's Reserve Insurance Co. In a
burst of confidence he said that he
found newspaper grafting too small a
game and took up this present ocou
patiou as offering a widor field. Ad
ams Advance.
We do not call to mind the
uewspupor Gray was connected with,
but if ho was huntiug for groft of
course be would find it a suiull game
The Out of Town
Department
Is working over time those days. Aud this, by the way, is a good sign;
for they say the store that gets the big out of town trade generally de
servos it. News of good values and of good treatment by a store travlels
fast in tho smaller communities that's why we pay such particular at
tention to our out of town trade. We've worked hard to get it, and we
are not goiug to lose it, either not if the best goods at the fairest prices,
and a propro appreciation of the trade, willh old it for us. We would like
a chance to make a friend of you can't we have it?
Use
Our
Rest
Rooms
THE DAVIS-KASER CO.
Everything to Furnish the
Home.
12 11-16-18 20-22 Alder Stmt,
WALLA WALLA, -: WASH.
in newspaper work. However, much
would depend upon Mr. Gray's ability
as a grafter, "considering, of course,
the character of the paper be war
employed on. .- - ""
Widespread comment hag- been
occasioned by the extraordinary ease
with wbioh S. A. D. Pnter and
Horace G. McKinley, whose Napoleon
ic operations form the most spectacu
lar characters in the Oregon land
frauds, have made their escape from
the jurisdiction of the United States.
Few believe that they could have es
caped from San Francisco if the feder
al officials stationed there had been
vigilant in the effort to apprehend
them.
The Lewistou, Idaho, Tribune makes
this pertinent comment upon an un
wise statement recently put into print:
"The Western Federation boasts that
it has a million dollars with wbioh to
acquit its leaders of their alleged
crimes, but the federation will find
bow small this sum really is if the
state government has in its possession
the evidence it is believed to have."
Death is a mistake, according to a
young female lecturer in New York.
So many of us make it, too.
OHKOON IS ON THE HAP.
Wall Street Summary.
From Manitoba comes an announce
ment that there are at present in the
Canadian Northwest not less than
200,000 Americans, or about one third
of its entire population. This is the
section of which reference has been
made as the "wheat belt," and whole
tracts are now exclusively settled by
residents of the United States. In
1886 only 50 homesteads were allotted
to Americans; iu 1897, 1000 were ap
propriated ; in 1899, 26,000; in 1900,
85,000, and last year more than 50,000
took up their habitation' under the
Dominion government. This year 80,
000 Amerioans are expeoted.
This tide of immigration from the
United States is a matter of vital in
terest, because it tends to depopulate
our own agricultural sections, and,
moreover, the transfer to Canada of
much wealth and farming experience.
The majority of our citizens who
cross the border are skiled in farming
pursuits, and are said to bring with
them, on an averages $1000 each man.
If this be correct we have lost by
this movement money running far in
to millions.
The cause of this exodus is attribut
ed to the speculator. In 1900 it was
noticed that the homesteads in our
various western states were practically
exhausted, and that the tracts in
Minnesota and the Dakotas, whiob
had formerly been sold to farmers by
the Northern Pacific, had, likewise,
come to an end. To supply the new
fields for American conquest, specu
lators came to Canada, looked over
tho ground, purchased millions of
aores for a mere song, aud are now
living in clover on the profits of their
enterprise.
This, while highly beneficial to
Canada, is an irreparable injury to
the United States, particularly to the
ruilrouds. Heretofore iuigrant triaftlo
bus been worth about $1,000,000 a
year to the railroads, and on the
authority of President James J. Hill,
of the Great Northern, every new
family settling along its lines is
worth $100 a year in freight profits.
On this basis the diversion of 50,000
inhabitants, averaging five to a fami
ly, means the loss to the railroads of
$1,000,000 annually, and the conse
quent gaiu of that sum by Canadian
railroads. . Aud as this movement is
likely to continue, a still greater loss
may have to be eucouutered as time
passes.
That this tide cannot be turued
Dixieward is a condition to be greatly
Make
Your
appointments
Here
deplored; and more particularly in
view of the recent conference at Chat
tanooga, when ways and means were
discussed by the governors and repre
sentatives of 13 southern states to in
duce immigration southward. The op
portunities for agricultural and in
dustrial development of a most di
versified character below the old lino
of Mason and Dixon are equal, if not
superior, to those of Canada or our
own northwest, and this would have
been more greatly understood if the
channels of publicity had been earlier
invoked. As it is, much vailiant serv
ice is now being done by the press of
the south and as, it is true, one of its
prominent exponents preaches that
"the development of the south is the
enrichment of the nation," before it
wonld be too late we would'take steps
to save to our own country its citiz
ens, Jwith their experience andwealth,
by a counter transfer movement south
ward. . '
KKJJECTION OF PKIMABY LAW.
Spokesman-Review.
The defeat of the primary election
bill in the Iowa legislature is a vic
tory for the machine politicians.
Similar measures have been enaoted
into law in other states, and results
satisfactory to the people, though not
to the politicians, have occurred. In
Wisconsin and Minnesota several
elections have been held under the
new system, and the most vigorous
efforts of the maohine workers, who
have been shorn over , mucn oi weir
power, to demonstrate to the people
that tbey ought to go bacfe to the old
convention Dlan of nominating party
candidates have ended in failure.
Experience has, of course, shown
some defeots in the primary laws of
both Wisconsin and Minnesota, but
even with these defects the change
was felt to be so .beneficial that mere
has been a stromr ! disinclination to
attempt any amending legislation lest
an opening of some sort be anoraea to
the opponents of the system to manip
ulate a catch vote which wonld repeal
the law, or so mutilate it that its
repeal would be easy of accomplish
ment at another session of the legis
lature. It has been considered wise to
give the laws a thorough trial of sever
al years and avoid making any mis
take by hasty aotion.
InJIowathe hand of the maohine
politician has been cunningly at work
knifinarthe bill to death. For two
years longer the candidates for public
offices will be the nominees oi certain
cliques or interests and not the free
choice of all the people. ' It is not to
the credit of Secretary Shaw that he
should have prominently identified
himself with those fighting the pro
posed change. Were Mr. Sbaw not
known to be strongly allied with
maohine politics and subservient to
railroad interests in Iowa there would
be something humorous in his state
ment that he feared a primary election
law would"permit the railroad inter
ests to dictate the polioy of the state."
Snch a sentiment is so contrary to the
aim of a primary law and to the re
sults where the law has been tried
that one can not imagine Secretary
Shaw really meant that be should be
taken seriously.
BETTINa AS A CAUSK OF CRIME '
St Louis Chronicle.
"I may say to you in a general
way," said the superintendent of
the NatioualSnrety company of New
York, "that from my observation,
coveriug several years, a very large
number of defalcations are either di
rectly or indirectly attributed to race
track gambling. We are compelled
to decline many applications for bonds
for the reason that our investigation
develops the fact that the employe is
addicted to bet tine on the races. In
a very large number of cases the in
vestigation made subsequent to ' a de
falcation develops the fact that the
employe has been following the races
to a greater or less extent. You are
undoubtedly aware that several large
conoerns here in New York recently
found that so many of theiremployes
were gambling on the races that
orders were issued that immediate dis
missal would result in every case
where this fact was proven. All
surety companies agree, I am sure,
that race track gambling is the prolific
cause for much wrong doing; not
ouly the direct cause of defalcation,
but the indirect cause of many kind
red vices which ultimately result iu
defalcation. Many of the cases
which come to our attention show
that an employe, after receiving a
'sure tip will borrow the funds from
his employer with which to gamble
on the referred to, and.'in many oases,
not winning out ou bis 'sure tip, he
again borrows from his employer,
this time in the full confidence that
he will win enough to more than re
pay both of the loans. It is, in my
judgment, most unfortunate that race
track gambling is not looked upon
with greater disfavor; it is greatly to
be regretted that many look upon the
laying of a wager on a horserace in
the samo light as many look upon a
politioal bet, but when we are con
fronted with almost the daily evidence
of great wrongdoing and crime direct
ly traceable to the modest beginning
of a trivial bet on a horseraoe, we, of
necessity, feel that the practice of
race track gambling should be in
every consistent and legal way frown
ed upon aud discouraged."
Public Njtice
Notice Is hereby given that we will apply to
the mayor and common counctl of the City ot
Athena. Oreiton. at a meettn thereof to be
held ou the iiitn day ot March. lsni, for a license
to eli spirituous, malt and vinous liquors In
lewi qunntilimthun one quart. Bald liquors to
be sold only In a building situated ou lot T,
In block No. &, of said -lty.
Mrs. J. U. StJthl ACo.
nltd, r'eb. 16, law. Applicants.
" What a difference
the suffering at
time
of childbirth
when Dr. R. V. Pierce's medicine are used."
riivt Mrs. E'lrnon Jacolis. of Uanr'r?.ville,
J ,lm ou Co.. 1 iU. "1 bad not heard of l)r.
I'lercu's moitiriues three years atfo when I
was con (I. nil, so had to suffer almost death.
U 'foro baby was bora 1 could not be on
my foot without two persons holding- me.
Tho baby was a
gC boy. welfrlilnc
vi pounds and
lor Mime weeks
after his birth I
m? , r$ pain. Last fall.
inn following the ad
vice of a nelith
bor. my husband
Ixnight mn Dr.
Pierce's Favor
ite Prescript am,
which I took
during the win
ter, and In
March. I gave
birth to a baby
boy, weighing
10 lbs. I was
only In labor two
hours and was
on my feet with
out help until
'The Kltfce of a mtghbor.' thirty minutes
before baby was
born. lie Is now three mon ths old and weighs
IU lbs. I know It was Dr. Pierce's medicine
that saved me from suffering-. I advise all
women to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescrip
tion, also his ' Pleasant Pellets.' If necessary."
"Following the advice of a neighbor."
What a weight of confirmatory evidence
thero Is In those six words. The neighbor
had tried t' "Favorite Proscription "and
recommoii.. I it. Mrs. Jacobs has also
tried It and proved Its wondorful proper
ties and now sho recommends It. Beside
such testimony as this its maker's words
are unimportant. Mrs. Jacobs' experi
ence is a fact. Her neighbor's experience
Is a fact. Tho written experiences of 500,
000 other women are. facts. There Is no
theory about it. There can be no ques
tion about It. In every neighborhood In
this broad land there are women who
have been cured by tho "Favorite Pre
scription." It has cured more cases of
female complaint than all other medicines
for women combined. It Is tho only med
icine of Its kind invented by a skilled
specialist In medicine a regularly gradu
ated physician of more than forty years'
actual experience.
Do Yonr Eyes Need Attention ?
Do It Now! Don't Delayl
I shall be pleased to have you call
and consult me in legard to your eyes
or ' glasses. I absolutely guarantee
satisfaction. Eyes tested free. Cbil
drens work a specialty.
EL. HITEMAN,
Graduate and Btate Licensed Optician. Of
fice, next door to St. Nichols Sample Rooms.
THE PALACE
DRUGSTORE
VM. M'BRIDE, Proprietor.
South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore.
You know your doctor is all right, but
how about the rilling of prescriptions?
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Our Prescriptions
are precisely as the doctor ordered
nothing more, nothing less and
always exactly right.
THE WRIGHT LIVERY
AND FEED STABLE
COOD HORSES AHO Ri:3. REASONABLE PRICES
DRIVER RJRNICiiED WHEN DESIRED-
Horses boarded by the day, week or month
Btabk'S on 2nd street, South of Main street
JT. F. Wright, . - Proprietor
If You
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 and the facilities to sell your
property. That is why I have the
largest Heal Estate business in Walla
Walla t?day. 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 afatm,
home or business in 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.
II
Cut flowers
and Floral Decorations
RUSH ORDERS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT AT
TENTION. James Wait,
Walla WallailVashington
No. 9 South 2nd St. Phone, 827.
BLACKSMITH AND
REPAIRING SHOP
A. II. LUNA, Proprietor.
Shop West of King's Barn, Athena.
rasBassaaas,fi
The- rjl
SGOMMERGIAL
LIVERY, FEED
and SALE STABLE.
Best Turnouts
In Eastern Oregon
Stock Boarded
by the Day, Week
or Month
KING BROTHERS Prep
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
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
t THE
ST. NICHOLS HOTEL S
j. E. FKOOME, pki.p. I
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Only First-class Hotel in
H,o Pitr
111V X&tJ
THE ST. NICHOLS
is the only one that can accommodate
commercial travelers.
Can beieoomended for Us rlean and
well ventilated rooms. -
Cob. Maim and Third, Athena, Or.
PETERSON & PETERSON.
Attorneys-at-Law -
A1HENA,
OREGON
A. L. JONES
WANTS ALL KINDS OF HAULING
Goods taken best care of and carefully hand
led. Phone 13 for Express and Baggage.
HENRY KEEN'S
.Barber Shop.
Shaving, Haircutting,
Shampooing, Massage
for Face and Scalp.
HOT BATHS.
Shop North Side Main
Street, Athena, Ore.
CITY MEAT MARKET
C. II. Sherman Prop. .
Nothing too good for our pat
rons. We cut the best meat money
can buy. Fifh and oysters In
season. Give ug a trial.
OREGON.
PARKER
& LANE'S
Kverythiiig KirM
Class - Ho l r rn
and Up-to- da t
SOUTH - SIDE MAIN
STREET ATHENA.
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