AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Twice-a-Wbek Tuesday akd Friday
F .B. Bovn, Poblisiipb.
Entered as necond-clan matter, March 1,
1IXM, at the postofflce at Athena, Oregon
Under an Actot Congress of March S, 1879
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ATHENA, JULY 3. ....... 1906
' Oregon was the Brat statu ia the
Union to make it posnible for the peo
ple to elect United States Senutors.
This wus doue by pledges of legislative
candidates to Statement No. 1. Now
Iowa, the "standpatter" state, is in
teresting the governors of otber states
to send dolcgates to a convention to
be bold iu Des Moines on Scp'.ember
ilftb, for the purpose of providing
for a general constitutional conven
tion to amend tbo United States con
stitution so aa to elect senators by di
rect vote of the people. Iowa has
taken the lead in the movement, and
it is to be hoped that the sanction of
' two-thirds of tbo states in the Uniou
will be secured at the Des Moines cou
vention. Governor Chamberlain
has named Ave delegates to represent
Oregon at Des Moines, one of them
being Bert Huffman, editor of the
East Oreuouiau. In the seleotion of
Mr. Huffman, Umatilla county is giv
en the honor of furnishing a man who
will loud force, dignity and character
in his untiring efforts on behalf of
Eastern Oregon, to obtain for her peo
ple the right to choose representatives
in the nutiouul congress by popular
vote.
If evor the Milton Eagle was on the
right sido of topic, question or issue,
the soutinient was edited in Chicago
and ruu in boiler plate matter among
ads where oue had a little chance of
reudiug it. Years ago the paper, un
der the old regimo, scrapped year in
and yoar out for tbo lost cause divi
sion of the county, with Milton cut
mid dried for a county seat. The
Eaglo, from too first flap of its wings
hits boeu a "kicker." There was
never a county convention held but
what Milton "got the worst of it" -no
matter which purty the Eiiglo expect
ed to -"support" iu the campaign.
The Lee streot bridge "robbery" rilled
its pagos for mouths but the county
paid for the bridge. After this, pro
hibition uud Normal Schools; Normal
Sohools iu prtioulur occupied its at
tention. It swung onto the coat-tails
of tho piohibitiouists until the cam
paign oamo ou then it did its little
best in tho general crmade against
Pierce, the probi's strong ally. Ou
tbo Normal' questiou it is about as
normal iu sanity m n Zulu buck would
be iu (he administration of the pres
idency pf Harvard College. It frothed
before tho votdwaa taken on tho geu
cral appropriation bill. Now, after
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the election results, and the Normal
School at Weston, the only state in
stitution east of the Cascades, among
otber state institutions, has a lease on
life, the Eagle is still croaking and
the only information it elacidates is
that appropriations for Nor mat schools
went on the general appropriation bill
as a "rider."
The Dowie nuisance has broken
out afresh in the Chicago papers.
"Dr. Elijah" Dowie said Judge Dow
ie wasn't his father, but he Elijah
was the illegitimate son of a royal
ist, ibis made Judge Dowie angry,
and he went to the city to prove that
he was Elijah's real papa. He pro
poses to prove his dadship by letters.
The Judge lives in Iowa.
The intimation comes from Wash
ington that President Roosevelt's
preference for republican presidential
nomination for 1 008 is Secretary Taft.
He also thinks Bryan will be the dem
ocratic nominee.
Henri Watterson is everlastingly
opposed to sectionalism and bis belov
ed Dowie is everlastingly practicing it.
That "tide in the affairs of men,
wbioL, taken at its flood, lead ou to
fortune," seldom runs through a coun
try printing office.
Ex-President Cleveland hasn't as
yet joined in the work of booming
Bryan for President.
THE IOWA SITUATION.
The Detroit News, (Ind.) thus pre
sents the facts as to the very interest
ing campaign iu Iowa: "The issue
which gave rise to the Kepublicau
factional fight in Iowa, which brought
Secretary Shaw into such unfavorable
notoriety and won him a well-deserved
rebuke from the White House, seems
likely to be lost sight of in indignation
at the methods that the machine has
introduced into the contest. Before
the battle between Governor Cummins
and the organization is finished in
Iowa, republicanism seems likely to
be wholly absorbed with an effort to
solve the problem of providing means
by which party opinions and desires
may be surely and accurately recorded.
At the outset the contest was a simple
and direct one between the governor's
tariff revision ideas, on the one side,
and the Shaw-Allison stand-pat doc
trine on the other. Finding them
solves being properly whipped in the
rogular county contests, the machine
managers operating the stand-pat
cumpaign despaired of winning by get
ting the majority of the popular vote,
and begun to plau to control the con
vention through the favor of the
permanent organization by having the
latter seat contesting delegates and
representatives of rump conventions.
"The utter failure of Secretary
Shaw's remarkable Scott county
speech, whioh he went to Iowa to de-1
liver after conference wun tne pres
ident whioh iutiniatiou was promptly
repudiated by the White House utter
ly failed of its purpose. After listen
ing to bis oppeul, the Scott county
delegates by more thou four to oue
indorsed the governor. Then the
Shawites simply declined to abide by
their overwhelming defout, and 29 of
thorn, out ot a oouveutiou of more
tbau 150 members, proceeded to name
a lull delegation to tbo state conven
tion, depending upou their pull with
the state committee to, obtain recog
nition for it. This is a fair sample of
the tactics that have been followed
throughout the latter days of the cam
paign The maohiue could hardly
have made a more convicting coufos
siou that the suppression, rather than
the expression, of the will of the
voters is what they seek, and the
Cummins forces could hardly have
asked for a more foroible demonstra
tion of the immediate and urgeut need
Department
Make
Your
appointments
Here
of the direct nominations'whicb tbey
advocate, and which advocacy is one
of the grievances of the machine
against the governor and bis followers."
Hit. CKAIG'S DEPARTURE.
Portland Journal.
Just as Oregon is beginning to reap
the rich harvest that followed the
far-seeing policy of advertising and
development begun by A. L. Craig,
that gentlemen has been called to a
wider field of effort Not always does
proper appreciation follow closely on
well directed ' endeavor, but Mr.
Craig's abilities were so marked, his
peculiar fitness for his place was so
clearly defined by the successes a
chieved, that recognition was almost
instantaneous, and his services were
sought for the upbuilding of railroad
business in another quarter.
The leading spirits in the financial
and commercial world of Portland
will meet with Mr. Craig tonight,
and after drinking to his health and
continued prosperity, will speak the
regret that is felt at his departure, and
we doubt that even nnder the influ
ences that will necessarily mark this
last meeting with Mr. Craig the ex
pressions of grief will outtell the feel
ings of the orators. It will be a
pleasure to bear Mr. Craig reiterate
the splendid confidence he has iu Port
land, for which he has done so much,
and for Oregon, which is well in his
debt ; and for that wider territory, the
Oregon country, whose waste places
have become gardens because of snob
work as bis. In changing hisplaceof
residence, Mr. Craig will not ohauge
his feelings toward Oregon, and in
his new position with a great road
that seeks our trade and from which
we expect much, he will be in a posi
tion to carry into greater exeoution
larger plans for Portland's welfare.
And that and the knowledge that
Mr. Craig is goiug higher up the
ladder reooncile the commercial and
financial friendships and personal, as
well, to his leaving Portland.
Strayed or Stolen.
From my place 5 miles south of
Athena, three work horses. Descrip
tion as follows: One black horse,
Indian brand on left shoulder and
Indian brand on right jaw. One
black and one sorrel horse, Indian
brand on right jaw. Any person see.
ing these horses will retain them and
notify me, and I will pay charges.
Eat-uo-meat, Indian, care of C. A.
Barrett, Athena, Oregon.
An Alarming Situation.
frequently results from neglect of clog
ged bowels and torpid liver, until
consumption beoomes chronic. ' This
condition is unknown to those who use
Dr. King's New Life Pills; the best
and gentlest regulator of Stomach and
bowels. Guaranteed by Win. Mc-
Bride, druggist. Price 25c.
Beward Offered.
Bert Warren will pay a reward of
$ 15 for information leading to the re
covery of two 8-year-old and one
3-year-old colt All three colts are
branded B W on the right shoulder.
Address Bert Warren, Athena.
Public Notice.
Notice Is hereby given that we will apply to
t he Mayor and common council of tliet'lly ot
Athoiiiv. Oregon, lit a meeting thereof to he
held on the 2-1 th day or. July, 100(1 for a
lliTiiso to Hell nplrRuous, malt and vinous
liquor.; in ltwH quuntttlps Mian one quart, wild
liciiiors lo he Hold onlv In a htiildinir stl.iiutpd
on the cast one-hulf of lot Nn.H, In block No'
5, ol said city. II. K. Cok'oii,
U. AI. Jonas,
l)hted,.TuneHI, 1!WB. Applicants.
C. A. Barrett & Co. has just re
ceived a carload of bindors, mowers
and rakes that were delayed by the
flood and are now iu shape to fill
the orders they have ou hand.
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chair cars, seats free, to the east daily iroiu
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dients entering into the medicine. Ask
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" Favorite Proscription." too, is the only
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of which have the unnualilied endorse
ment of the leading medical writers of the
several schools of practice, recommend
ing them for the euro of the diseases for
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Write to Dr. R. V. Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y.,
for a free booklet, and read the numer
ous extracts from standard medical au
thorities pralsiii? the several ingredients
of which Dr. Pierce's medicines are made,
and don't forget that no other medicines
put up for safe through druggists for do
mestic nse can show any such nrofetslonnl
endorsement. This, of Itself, is of far
more weight and importance than any
amount of so-called "testimonials'' so
conspicuously flaunted before the public,
in favor of the alcoiiolic compounds.
Tho "Favorite Prescription" cures all
woman's peculiar weaknesses and de
rangements.thus banishing the periodical
headaches, backaches, bearing-down dis
tress, tenderness and druging-down sen
sations in lower abdomen, accompanied
by weakening and disagreeable catarrhal,
pelvic drains and kindred symptoms.
Dr. Pierce and his staff of skilled spe
cialists may be consulted free by address
ing as above. All . correspondence Is
treats as sacredly confidential. By con
sulting in this way the disagreeable
questionings and personal "examinations"
are avoided.
Tho People's Common Sense Medical
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and valuable chapters on the diseases
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thousand pages. It is sent post paid, on
receipt of suflicient in-one-cent stamps to
pay cost of mailing only, or 21 cents for
a copy in flexible paper covers, or 31 cents
for a cloth-bound copy. Address Dr. R.V.
Pierce as above.
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a laxative, two or three cathartic.
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