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AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER.
Twicb-a-Wek Tuesday akd Friday
P. B. Boyd, Pcblishbr.
Entered necond.class matter, March 1,
1901, at the poitofflce at Athena, Oregon,
tinder an Actot Congress of March 8, 1879.
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.. ."HK'js Athena, Oregon
ATHENA, APRIL 20 1906
It la bard to realize that only a
few hundred miles from Athena, at
San Francinco, Wednesday there oc
curred tbe ruont disastrous earthquake
the world has known, resultiug in the
denth of hundred) of people and mill
ions of dollars in property.
This is the greatest seismic dis
turbance in the history of tbe west
ern hemisphere, exceeding by far in
loss of lives and property the earth
quake results at Charleston, South
Carolina, in 1886. It is not the first
serious earthquake wbioh has reached
Sou Francisco, for iu 1865 a shock
brought about considerable damage,
and on Ootober, 1868, an earthquake
was disastrous iu the way of property
loss. On this ocoasion tbe motion
was east and west, and several build
ing on Pine, Battery and Sausome
streets were thrown down, and a
considerable number badly damaged.
In this earthquake tbe principal dam
age was oonQned to tbe lower portion
of tbe city, below Montgomery street,
though tbe shook was very severe in
Oakland. At one placo iu the lower
part of San Francisco, the ground
opened several inohes wide and about
fifty feet long; and iu other places the
ground opened and water forced itself
above the surface.
Jonathan Bourno has a portion of
the state press subsidized with tbe ob
jeot of purchasing the highest office
within the gift of tho people of Ore
gou that of Uuitod States sountor.
Nothing should bo permitted to a turn!
iu tbe way of keeping dishonorable
men out of office. Every citizen's
plain duty is to, as far as possible,
investigate the history of every can
didate asking favors, or political
honors of tho people. A mere promise
is nothing unless backed by a clean
and bonoruble record. Tbe more im
portant tbe office tbe greater tbe de
maud for an able and a trustworthy
person to fill it.
Today tho polls are opou to voters
in tho first primary uomiuatiug elec
tion held iu the state of Oregon.
E very provision of tho new primary
law is being strictly enforced, and it
remains to be seeu whether or no it is
satisfactory and an improvement over
the old method of making nomina
tions. The state of Iowa found pri
mary elections unsatisfactory and at
the recent session of tho legislature,
the primary law was anuuled.
There L a flout tight ou iu Athena,
uud while uot disposed to "butt iu,"
We Make It Pay You to
Trade With Us
Pay iu dollars and cents. Pay iu satisfaotiou with tbe goods them
selves. If you aro not satisfied with anything you have bought here after
you have taken it home, we want you to bring or send it back aud wo
will make it satisfactory with yon. We aim to please and our suooess
so fur shows that we are doing it This year we have put forth special
effort to make it a pleasure for you to trade with ns. This year our stocks
are largor aud comprisod of better assortments thuu were cverv before
carried by any merchant iu this vicinity. We buy in carload loats, get
quantity prices, save freight by sbippiug iu carload lots, our reut is low
compared with rent paid by smaller firms carrying small socks and doiug
a small business, and mark our goods with a small profit so as to make it
pay you to trade here. We know you would rather buy where you have
the largost line to choose from and get tho best possible prices, so we want
you to give us a obauce to show you our ability to please. Whether it be
a maohiue needle or a complete outfit, your orders will receive our prompt
aud careful atteutiou.
Wheu goods ordered amount to $10 or moro we pay the freight .
Use
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TIIEDAVIS-KASERCO.
Everything to Furnish the
Home.
12 1416-18-20-22 Alder Street,
WALLA WALLA, WASH.
tbe Press advocates tbe principle of
patronizing home industry. Tbe
Preston-Parton Milling Co. makes flour
tbat is second to none, is a home in
stitution spends a vast amount of
money for labor hire, ij interested iu
tbe growth and prosperity of Athena.
Therefore it merits your patronage in
preference to any outside concern.
'HADE IN OREGON.1
Portland Oregonian.
Tbe "Made in Oregon" movement,
fostered and promoted by tbe Portland
Admen's League and the Manufac
turers' Association, is of great value
to every industry iu this state. The
importance of Oregon as a ' manufac
turing state is not generally under
stood and the projected exhibit of Ore
gon made goods will serve to show the
people what is actually, being done
iu tbe way of home manufactures.
Every dollar paid out for goods of
Oregon manufacture remains in the
state and is a portion of our perman
ent assets, to be used iu either tbe ex
ploiting of some other branch of in
dustry or for general circulation at
home. Every dollar paid out for a
manufactured article, which is
brought iuto the state from the east,
goes to aid in the upbuilding of a
manufacturing center thousands of
miles away, where we have no pos
sibility of participating in any of the
resultant benefits.
Tbe man who is asked to buy Oregon
goods iu preference to those brought
fiom other parts of tbe country is not
making a sacrifice in granting tbe
request; for Oregon manufactured
goods, like tbe raw material produced
in this state, can rest striotly on their
merits. Our lumber manufacturers
have built up an enormous trade and
Portlaud is now pretty well known
as tbe greatest lumber port on earth.
In spite of this advantage of raw ma
teria in unlimited quantities, there
are still a great many carloads of
wooden ware brought into Portland
from tbe eastern factories. Quality
considered, there is no advantage in
price in favor of any of the eastern
products, and, iu many cases, the
price advantage is in favor of the
Oregon manufacture. That there
should be any demand at all foi east
ern manufactured products, which are
brought into Oregon to compete with
those of home manufacture, is due
almost exclusively to the indifforence
of tbe buyer, aud it is for the purpose
of properly presenting the subject to
suoh buyers tbat tbe Admen and the
Manufacturers' Association are pre
paring the forthcoming exhibit.
Oregon wheat has captured first
prize in all of the big fairs of the
oountry, and Oregon mills manufac
ture this wheat into every conceivable
form of cereal food, and yet tho
"Made In Oregon" sentiment is not
sufficiently strong to prevent large
sums of money being sent east for
cereal foods which to a considerable
extent are manufactured from Oregon
wheat The oousumer of this eastern
cereal food accordingly pays freight
both ways across the continent, and
also a profit to the manufacturer who
is building up a city thousands of ,
ii m n ii j r '
mjuBB uwHy iium luruuuu. viguu
wool also has a world wido reputa
tion, and Oregon made blankets,
robes, and weariug apparel are unex
celled ; but there is a lamentable in
difference on the part of purchasers
as to whether their money is paid out
for tbe Orogon goods, and is thus kept
in circulation at home, or is sent east
to euhance tbe prosperity of some
other community.
COKE OK A SQUARE DKAI,.
Portland Journal.
The idea judicially expressed iu
Judge Humphrey's deoision, that
while a corporation may by fined the
men composiug or comprising the
corporation cannot be touched, may
be good bench philosophy aud may
have been a uecessary conclusion from
j tbe statutes; but it is a sure and
even startling piece of cvidouce tbat
Make
Your
appointments
Here
the people are not yet getting tbe
promised "square deaL"
Tbe people must somehow get other
and different laws, and law makers,
and judges for courts as well as
legislators make laws, and it often
happens that a judge will decide tbat
the law is so and so chiefly because
son e other judge has decided that it
was so, and not with respect to either
the merits or tbe philosophy of tbe
matter at alL
Here is a gang of proven criminals;
they are so not because they have
made a lot of money in business, for
to do this is legitimate, but because
in doing so tbey have been persistent,
defiant and insolvent violators of a
law passed specifically to protect the
people against just suoh men and
operations. They plundered the peo
ple of millions, the government at
great labor and expense prosecutes
them, and a court holds tbat while
the corporation may be subject to a
flue the men who did this are person
ally and individually immune.
And this is the flower of law in the
twentieth century ; this is tbe aome of
judicial wisdom. But there is one
thiug tbat it is not, and that is "a
square deal."
No wonder people are not hurrah
ing as lustily as formerly for any
"grand old party," or for "princi
ples;" what they are thinking about
more and more is men who will give
them "a square deal," and tbey want
it not. in prefervid presidential preach
ing, but iu performance; in congress,
in legislatures, on the bench, aud in
the White House.
If Unole Sam the people cannot
convict tbe members of tbe beef
trust, if he cannot restrict tbe raven
ing of the Standard Oil trust, then he
is not getting a "square deal." How
is he going to help himself?
"A square deal" is a phrase; it
sounds well ; but tbe beef thieves and
tbe sugar scoundrels and the oil rob
bers are out of jail, while the man
who stole an ax or a salmon is wear
ing stripes!
The people are perceiving tbat this
is not a "square deal. "
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Representative.
To the republicans of Umatilla
county: I hereby announce tbat I
will be a candidate before the republi
can primaries for nomination as mem
ber of tbe legislature from Umatilla
county, and I respectfully ask tbe
support of all members of the party.
Athena, Ore., March 14, 1906.
C. A. Barrett.
Candidate for Treasurer.
To the voters of Umatilla county: I
hereby announce myself as a republi
can candidate for the office of County
Treasurer, subject to decision of the
primary election. Respectfully,
i. W. Bradley,
Athena, Oregon.
For Representative
I hereby annouoe myself a candi
date for tbe republican nomination
for the offloe of representative from
this county, at the primary eleotion
to be held April 20th, subject to tbe
will of the party. C. W. Steen, Mil
ton, Ore.
For Sheriff.
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the democratic nomination for
sheriff of Umatilla county subject to
tbe will of the" voters ta the direct
primary eleotion April 20.
T. D. Taylor.
For State Senator.
I hereby announoe'my candidacy
for tbe state senate, subject to tbe
votes of republicans under tbe direct
primary law. T. J. Kiik.
W AT G H E S
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A good servciable case, whether of
silver or solid gold, only protects
your watch movement from injury.
The time you got from your watch
depeuds entirely upon tbe kind of
"works" youhave. We have a
number of different makes in stock.
When you want a good time piece,
please remember we can fit you out
with any grade up to aud includiug
23 jewel movements.
A FEW SPECIALS FOR
10 DAYS ONLY.
Gents gold filled watch, 20 year
case, fitted with Elgin aud Walt
ham movement, only $10.
Ladies' Watch, 20 year ease, fill
ed, with either of above movements,
only 112.50.
A good 8 day clock with alarm,
a.23. Alarm Clocks, ?5c.
f, ii C00UDGE, Jeweler
Athena, Orvgou.
Eminent Doctors Praiss i!s Ingredients.
We refer to that boon to weak, nervous,
suffering women known as Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription.
Dr. John Fyfe one of tho Editorial Staff
of The Kclkctic Medical Rkview says
of Unicorn rcxit (ttcbmltts UMm) which
is one of tho chief ingredients of the "Fa
vorite Prescription" :
"A remody which Invariably acts as a uter
ine inviirorator makes for normal ac
tivity of the entire reproductive system."
He continues "in lielonlasw e have a medica
ment which more fully answers the above
purposes than any other druq vfffc which I am
atqua tntai. in the treatment 01 diseases pe
culiar to women it is seldom that a case Is
seen which does not proseut some Indication
for this remedial agent. " Dr. Fyfe further
says: "The following are among the leading
Indications for Helonias (Unicorn root). I'ain
or aching In tbe back, with leucorrhepa;
atonic (weak) conditions of tho reproductive
organs of women, mental depression and ir
ritability, associated with chronic diseases of
the reproductive organs of women, constant
sensation of heat In the region of the kid
neys; menorrhagia (flooding), due to a weak
ened condition of the reproductive system;
amenorrha-a (suppressed or absent monthly
periods), arising from or accompanying an
abnormal condition of the digestive organs
and anmmic (thin blood) habit; dragging
sensations In the extreme lower part of the
abdomen."
If more or less of the above symptoms
are present, no invalid woman can do
better than take Dr. Pierce's Favorlto
Prescription, one of tho leading ingredi
ents of which fs Unicorn root, or Helonias,
and the medical properties of which ii
most faithfully represents.
Of Golden Seal root, another prominent
Ingredient of "Favorite Prescription,"
Prof. Finley Ellingwood, M. D., of Ben
nett Medical College, Chicago, says:
"It Is an Important remedy in disorders of
the womb. In all catarrhal conditions
and general enfeeblement, it Is useful.''
Prof. John M. Scudder, M. D., late of
Cincinnati, says of Golden Seal root :
"In relation to its general effects on the
system, there to no medicine in use atmit whirh
there in such general unanimity of opinion. It
is untvtrmVy regarded as the tonic useful la
all debilitated states."
Prof. Bartholow, M. D.. of Jefferson
Medical College, says of Golden Seal :
"Valuable In uterine hemorrhage, menor
rhagia (flooding) and congestive dysmenor
rhea (painful menstruation).''
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription faith
fully represents all the above named in
gredients and cures tho diseases for which
they aro recommended.
L. M'LACHLAN
PLASTERING AND CEMENT
WORK, CISTERN BUILDER
Leave orders at Gillis' Lumber Yard.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Boston Dental Parlors
DOES ALL KINDS
OF GOLD WORK
Walla Walla, Washington.
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 WRIGHT LIVERY
AKD FEED STABLE
GOOD HORSES AND R!JS. REASONABLE PRICES
- DRIVER FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED-.
Horses boarded by the day, week or month
Stables on 2nd street, South of Main street
J. 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 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 in any part of the
country, tell me your requirements.
I guarantee to fill them promptly and
satisfactorily.
Andy T. Cope, Walla Walla.
LIST YOUR PROPERTY WITH ME.
Cut flowers
and Floral Decorations
RUSH ORDERS WILL RE
CEIVE PROMPT AT
TENTION. James Wait,
Walla Walla Washington
No. 9 South 2nd St. Phone, 327.
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 Pr. p
I Peebler &
Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co.
Agricultural Implements
WAGONS, CARRIAGES, ENGINES,
MACHINERY, THRESHERS ETC.
ATHENA.
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Saving at the Spigot
Wasting at the Bung"
It covers more surface,' spreads easier, and lasts
longer than any other prepared paint, or hand-rnixed
lead and oil.
CALL
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1ST. NICHOLS HOTEL:
i. E. FROOME, prop.
Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
iff :
THE ST. NICHOLS
U the only one that can accommodate
eoramercial travelers.
s- m :
Can btiieoomeuded for 11k clean and
well ventilated room.
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L'OB. MAIM ANDTHIKD, ATHKKA.Or.
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PETERSON & PETERSON,
Attorneys-at-Law
A1HENA,
OREGON
Foley's Kidney Cure
makes kidneys and bladder right
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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. H. Sherman Prop.
Nothing too good for our pat
rons. We cut the best rneat money
can buy. Fish and oysters in
season. Give us a trial.
1
Chamberlain
OREGON.
PARKER
& LANE'S
Everything Fimt
Clam - Ho dern
and Up-tn -date
SOUTH' SIDE MAIN
STREET ATHENA.
That's what buying poor paint
means. Paint may be low
priced by the gallon and be
extravagant to use owing to
to it's poor covering power
and wearing quality. . After
the paint is applied it's too late
to save. Start right and use
The Sherwin-Wiluams Paint
MADE TO PAINT BUILDINGS
WITH, OUTSIDE AND INSIDE.
FOR
CARDS I
Umatilla Lumber Yard