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Entered as second-class matter, March 1,
1901, at the postofflce at Athena, Oregon,
under an Actot Congress of March 8, 1879.
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i PRESS Athena, Oregon
ATHENA, MARCH. ... .13, 1906
Athena offers a bid of $800 aud
tbe material for constructing the mile
of experimental macadamized road to
be bnilt in Eastern Oregon this year
by the government. With this offer
is included the best location for prac
tical road making to be found any
where in Umatilla county, or, for that
matter, in any county in tbe whole of
Eastern Oregon. In the one mile of
road which Athena offers the govern
ment for practical test in road mak
ing, thore is embraced all tbe known
character and elements in soil form
ation that is encountered east of the
Cascade mountains. Here, within
the distance of one mile, tbe prac
ticability of macadamized road mak
ing oau be put to a thorough, econo
mical test over a roadbed including
formations of voloanio ash, hard pan,
clay, alkali, sand, gravel and heavy,
black gumbo soil of the creek bottom.
IP THE HIGHEST BID SECURES
THE LOCATION FOR THE EX
PERIMENTAL ROAD Athena may
stand the chance of losing tbe road.
But if the BEST INTERESTS OF
PRACTICAL ROAD MAKING ARE
TO BE PUT TO THE MOST RIGID
TEST POSSIBLE WITHIN THE
DISTANCE PRESCRIBED BY THE
GOVERNMENT, AND AT ECONO
MICAL EXPENSE, then Athena's
offer, after fair and impartial investi
gation, will surely be accepted.
- Socialism is a dream that will not
stand the test of real life. But social
ism is a force which asserts itself in
evor wideniug ciroles of publio opin
ion. Its itioroase in votes, its growth
in popular sentiment are signs of the
tim os. Our politicians will do well
to look for tho cause. Tbe Evening
Bulletin of Walla Walla, in disouss
iug the growth of socialism, says:
"Tbe most apparent reason for this
phenomenal development of social
istic ideals is the disregard of the law
by our corporations and moneyed men.
For them there seems to be no au
thority. II. H. Rogers rofuses to
answer pertinent questions. He re
fuses defiantly. The Chicago packers
do the same thing. Our insurance
robbers go to Paris. The railroads
disc iminato agaiust tbe smaller man
ufacturer, thus forcing bim to the
wall. All of this would not make so
Fellow Bee Keepers
We are doiug an excellent business ou Bee Supplies, but we are not
satisfied. We do not thiuk that all of our friends know that we carry
boo supplies. We want to get better acquainted with you. Tbe manu
facturer of Bee-keeper's Supplies is reduced to such a soienoe that the
large manufacturer can furnish goods of superior quality and workausbip
a a price that leaves little or no opportunity to make anything at at
home and save by it. Hives aud wooden material of all kinds are cut
out in large quantities ou special maohinery, at low cost This material
is then shipped at a low rate of freight "knocked down." By buying in
large quantities, as we do, we are able to secure a reductiou which en
ables us to offer the most of these goods at manufacturers prices. If yon
have not been a customer heretofore, a trial order will convince you that
it will be to your interest to become our regular customer. Do not wait
until you neod the goods befor you advise us about what you expect to
ueed, but lot us know your probable needs now so that we will bo sure to
have the goods ou hand wheu you need them.
When goods ordered amount to $10.00 or more we pay the freight
Use
Our
Rest
Rooms
THE DAVIS-KASER CO.
Everything to Furnish the
Home.
12 14-16-18 20-22 Alder Street,
WALLA WALLA, WASH.
much difference if publio opinion
were not suspicions of the legislative
bodies. There is a widespread impres
sion that the senate is owned by the
railroads, that a large number of its
members have such close relation
with the large corporations that they
cannot act independently. " This may
be all wrong, but tbe fact remains
that tbe publio opinion is suspicious.
Tbe football "methods of tbe senate re
lative to the Hepburn rate bill have
not helped to eradicate this suspicion.
This measure so strongly endorsed by
Roosevelt looks like common sense.
The breaks should be turned on when
the big corporations endeavor to
tyrranize the country. Publio service
utilities should not be made graft
machines for tbe few at tbe expense of
the many. And yet the senate dis
cusses the problem at such length
that it looks very much as if the
Hepburn bill will die of too much
gab. If these matters will keep up
the present tempo, the country will
soon be a prey to 'plutocrats. But be
fore the Amerioan people will toler
ate suoh usurpation in the land of the
free, they will quietly step in and
take possession of their own."
The daily press is through with
Alice and Nick and is now printing
donble column halftone outs of Henry
Yates Satterlee, the Episcopalian
bishop who married them.
WHEN WIIL IT END?
Portland Oregonian.
Seattle has declared it will not per
mit entrance of railroads into that
city to be obstructed and defeated by
its intrenched and arrogant railroad
monopoly. The oity election Tuesday
demonstrated clearly that Seattle pro
poses to take the municipal machinery
from the hands of tbe railroads and
to plaoe its own independent and ac
credited representatives in control.
Seattle has done much for the rail
roads, and the railroads have done
much for Seattle. It has given much
everything to tbe railroads, be
cause its commercial greatness de
pended largely, if not wholly, on rail
road competition. Therefore it de
livered itself over to them that is to
say, to the Great Northern railroad
body, boots and breeohes.
The Great Northern was the savior
of Seattle. It became the owner.
Seattle did not know that the trans
formation had occurred tiutil Mr. Hill
inspired his city government to in
terpose every sort of obstacle in the
way of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Paul railroad. Then the town woke
up. It defeated the Hill candidate
for mayor in face of a normal repub
lican majority of 5000 or more. It
all but defeated the oouncilmen-at-large
who, more than any other, had
been instrumental in carrying out the
Hill policy. It upset the entire Hill
soheme of municipal government and
brought the city council to a realiz
ing sense of the force and power of
outraged publio sentiment. So the
council got together and at once ar
ranged to give tbe St. Paul railroad
its franchise.
The Oregonian thinks the Seattle
episode is of profound significance and
value to the people of Portland.
Here we have the reigning powers
trying to keep out the North-Bank
Railroad. Tbe people welcome Mr.
Hill not as a politician or as tbe
owner of the town, but as the builder
of a great railroad system and the
ohief developing influence of mauy
states. We oan have no fear, under
conditions here.that he will ever essay
to control our political, social and
commercial affairs as he does in Seat
tle. Our only concern is that tbe
efforts of an . inspired and unjustifi
able opposition will not succeed in
keeping him ont of Portland. Every
body knows what the North-Bank rail
road means to Portlaud. Everybody
Make
Your
appointments
Here
knows that the war on the Swan
Island bridge is not made in good
faith, nor through any real desire to
protect tbe interests of tbe port
Everybody knows that Mr. Hill him
self, if he shall establish a terminal
here, will have an interest in building
up a great port at or near Portland
that will require him to -join in any
proper plan to increase its importance
by maintaining an unobstructed chan
nel to the sea. . Everybody knows
that twenty citizens of -Portland are
for the Swan Island bridge where one
is opposed, and tbe twenty voioe tbe
sentiment practically of Portland's
entire commercial community. Every
body knows that, if tbe people at
large, including nearly all our busi
ness men, had an opportunity to ex
press in an election their will in this
most vital matter, tbe obstructive
majority or is it minority ? -in the
Port of Portland Commission would
be wiped out of existence. The an
noying and inexcusable delays by tbe
Port of Portland Commission, and tbe
unreasonable and unfounded objec
tions it has made to the Swan Island
bridge, are in the line with the his
tories of tbe reigning powers here,
which want everything themselves
and nothing for anybody else.
It is tbe greedy game of grab, for
ever played by our local plutooracy,
through another of its vehicles, the
Port of Portland Commission. - When,
oh Lord, will it end?
THE KAISEH AT A GLANCE.
New York World.
. Born January 27, 1859.
Attended common publio schools
with his brother, Prince Henry, 1874.
Student at tbe University of Boon,
1877-1879. . '
Married the German Princess
Augusta Victoria of Schleswig Hol
stein, February 27, 1881.
His family consists of six sons and
one daughter.
Succeeded to the tbron upone the
death of his father, Frederick III,
Jnne 15, 1888.
Is 47 years old; has been married 25
years, and will celebrate the eighteen
th year of bis reign next June.
Is tbe ninth monarch ot tbe house
of Hohenzollern to rule over tbe king
dom of Prussia and the third over tbe
empire of united Germany.
His empire comprises four kingdoms
Prussia, Bavaria,' Saxony and
Wurtemburg six grand duohies, five
duchies, seven principalities, tbe
"free towns" of Hamburg, Bremen
and Lubeck, and tbe province of
Alsace-Lorraine.
A high admiral of a war fleet of 1.18
vessels, with 95 others building, and
commands an army with a peace
footing of 605,975.
His salary comes wholly from the
hereditary kingdom of Prussia, and
amounts to $3,852,770 a year.
Also has an immense private for
tune of money and landed estates from
which he derives a large income for
the support of the royal family and
the expenses of the court
THE SILVER LINING.
Thank you, little girl, you have given
me a knock
I That will last me for many a day:
It's just the sort of blow, in fact, the
very kind of shook, .
That a man oan remember alway.
Long ago I learned that a woman
can't play fair;
She doesn't know the ethics of the
game;
But you you seemed so different, you
seemed to have an air
Above tbe usual halt and lame.
You brought to mind a woman
strange vision of my past
Who never had an untruth on her
name,
The only thing in petticoats, of all the
slow or fast
lever saw, who deemed a lie a
shame.
I took your word ; I clean forgot the
experience of years,
That women do not know the Gold
en Rule;
I actually believed your vow I Aud
. now theso few last tears I
Did anyone ever see a bigger fool?
'Tis not so uiuob tho loss I cnold
bear that stolidly.
Love, if wholly lost, is still divine;
What hurts is that it's you who calm
ly lied to me, ,
Aud plaoed no' value on your word
or mine.
Turn back, old man, to safer paths.
Bank up heart fires tight;
A girl oan uever keep her promise
whole.
The world is full of women, and other
toys, and light;
Take it as it is. Lock up your soul.
Still it is true that if, perchauco,
she'd come to me and say
She did not know tbe wound her
aots iuour,
I'd bless her, and forgive her, and
ever after pray
That promise ne'er be broken unto
her.
A. H. Ballard.
Public Notice
Notice Is hereby given that we will apply to
the mayor and comraou council of the City ot
Athena, Oregon, at a meeting thereof to be
held on the th day oi March, for a license
to soli spirituous, malt and vinous liquors in
leg quantities than one quart, said liquors to
be sold only in a entitling situated on lot 7,
la block No. 5, of said city.
Mrs. J. II. Stahl A Co.
Pate J, Feb. 18. 1W. Applicants.
To far VuiMitpatlon rorwver. '
Take Oasi-arets dimly Cathartic lOcorESt
liCCC tiul to cure, druuti rutuuil luonejh
Foley's Honey and Tar
for chtlJren.sate.sure, No opiates.
Can She
Save
ThemT
Manv a noor
mother who feels
that those the
holds most nre-
" clous are gradu
ally supping away irom nor
over the terrible precipice
of disease, would be thank
ful to know what Doctor
Pierce's wonderful "Golden
Medical Discovery" has
done to restore thousands
of weak and wasted chil
dren to complete rounded, rosy, healthy,
activity and inc..
"Five years ago this last fall I was taken
down with a fever and was very bad for
several months," writes Mrs. Henrietta Bell,
of Diamond. Ohio. She continues: "Finally
recovered from the fever, then my lunes
became very bad. The doctor said I had
consumption, and that he had done all he
could for me. and he did not think that I
could get well. My case was a very danger
ous one. Became very woak. had niirht
sweats, also a very bad cough, night and day.
At times would spit blood. I felt as though
my time on earth would be short Requested
my husband to get me a bottle of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery, and perhaps it
would help ma Before I bad taken one
"bottle my couehwas almost gone. The next
to disappear were the night-sweats. 1 am
almost sure that if it had not been for your
medicine I would not have been here to-day."
If mothers will only write to Dr. Pierce
concerning the ailments of thelrfamily ho
will send them sound and valuable advice
In a plain sealed envelope, and without
anv charge whatever. Ills remarkably
wine experience has qualified him to deal
with diseases which baffle the local prac
titioner. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buf
falo, N. Y.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure con
stipation. One little "Pellet" Is a gentle
laxative, and two a mild cathartic
L. M'LACIILAN
PLASTERING AND CEMENT
WORK, CISTERN BUILDER
Leave orders at Gillis' Lumber Yard.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Boston Dental Parlors
DOES ALL KINDS
OP GOLD WORK.
Walla Walla, Washington.
THE PALACE
DRUG STORE
WM. M'BRIUE, Proprietor.
South Side Main Street, Athena, Ore.
You know your doctor is all right, but
how about the rilling of prescriptions?
Our Prescriptions
are precisely as the doctor ordered
nothing more, nothing less and
always exactly right.
THE WRICHT LIVERY
AND FEED STABLE
C00O HORSES AND KM REASONABLE' PRICES
CuiVEn fuRmicO WHEN CESIREO-
Horses boarded l.y the day, week or month
Stables ou 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 Real 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
adveitisiug? I will not only sell it,
sometime, but be able to sell it quick
ly, lama specialist in quick sales.
If you want to buy any kind of a farm,
borne or business iu any part of tbe
country, tell me your requirements.
I guarantee to fill them promptly and
satisfactorily.
Audy T. Cope, Walla Walla.
i l tar
I,
I
Cut flowers
and Floral Decorations
RUSH ORDERS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT AT
. TENTION.
James Wait,
Walla Walla Washington
No. 9 South 2nd St. Phone, 321.
BLACKSMITH AND
REPAIRING SHOP
A. II. LUNA, Proprietor.,
Shop- West of King's Barn, Athena.
COMMERCIAL
LIVERY, FEED
and SALE STABLE.
Best Turnouts
In Eastern Oregon
Stock Boarded
by the Day, Week
or Month
KING BROTHERS Prrp
-Feebler & Chamberlain
Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co.
Agricultural Implements
WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES,
MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC.
ATHENA.
. ...-C r"
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
r
THE
1ST. NICHOLS HOTEL I
I J. E. FKOOME, pki p. J
Only First-class Hotel in
the City. .
THE ST. NICHOLS J
Is tbe only one that can accommodate
commercial travelers. T
Can beieoomended for 1U rlean and
well ventilated rooms.
a Cor. Maw aud 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 band
led. Phone 13 for Express and Baggage.
HENRY KEEN'S
.Barber Shop.
Shaving, Haircuttiog,
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. Fish and oysters in
season. Give us a trial.
OREGON,
PARKER
& LANE'S
"ry
Everything Hr.l
Cli4 Mnl r ii
and Vp-tu l m I r
SOUTH SIDE MAIN
STREET - ATHENA.
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LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME.