VOLUME XVIII.
ATIIENA. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 13. 1906.
NUMBER 43.
tD. MANASSE
REDUCTIONS IN ALL
DEPARTMENTS
' A if A JP y
Summer Goods Mast Go
A Few Sliirt Waists Left
Prices Cut In Two.
. A A & & iff &
Come Early And Get Your Size
ED. MANASSE
Agent for Butterfck's Patterns.
frvlationa
of Athena
CAPITAL STOCK
SURPLUS,.. ....
We do Strictly a Commercial Business. We Solicit
the Accounts ot Individuals, Firms
and Corporations.
. OFFICERS.,, v
H. C. ADAMS, President,
T. J. KIRK, Vice President, "
F. S. Lo GROW, Cashier,
I. M. KEMP. Ass't. Cashier.
Good Groceries, Coffee
In this trinity should the grocer build his business temple The
difficulty is not great but it is exceedingly difficult to build well
Without these 3 things. We have highest grade goods in every line
Each Article the Acme of Perfection
Our entire stock is selected with thi same care and discretion.
REMEMBER Our prices are always consistent with qualitv.
DELL BROTHERS
First 1
Bank !
$50,000
..... ... 17,500
- DIRECTORS -
H. C. ADAMS, T. J. KIRK, F. 8.
Le GROW, D. H. PRESTON, P. E.
COLBERN.
CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN
GOOD TniNG3 TO EAT
MITCHELNOT GUILTY
Jury, Finds For Slayer of
"Holy Roller" Crestfield.
AUDIENCE CHEERS AT VERDIO
Prisoner Thanks the Jurors and Says
He Has Ho Regrets For
His Actions
It took the Seattle jury in the trial
of George Mitchell just au hour and
25 minutes to determine that tbo
youth was not guilty of murder in
killiug "Holy Roller" Crestfleld in
Seattle on May 7.
The verdict was read at a quarter
to nve Tuesday afternoon and was
greeted with round of applause . from
too exoued audience.
- Ecery face assumed a harmv nxnrna.
biou ana many, women were bysteroal
ly weeping tnrougn their smiles when
the verdiot was read. ; ,;;
A few minutes later the prisoner
was aisciiargea from oustodv. Ha
shook hands with the jurors and then
was treated to a general ovation. Men
and women crowded up- close to the
rail to shake hand with the youth who
was clearly the hero of the hour.
As he went down the stairs to the jail
to gatner up a lew of his effects, and
as ne told farewell to the jailors and
a few of his fellow prisoners of the
past few weeks, his way was blocked
by people eagerly crowding nvnr th
banisters to oatoh a glimpse of the
acquitted yontb. , - 5
When asked as to his feelings with
regard to the killing and as to the
ordeal which has thus suddenly term
inated, the young man renlied that
when he killed Crestfleld ho hnrdlv
knew what he was doing so worked up
ue naa oecome by tne wrongs he and
his sisters had suffered. He stated that
he could not resret he had removed
the man from possibility of ' harming
nis ranmy. , ., ,
Mltohell Will leave tomorrow flip
Portland where he will piolmhlv m.
sume his position in the mill which
ne held previous to thn killi
Crestflold.
ECLIPSE OF MOON.
Athena People May See Phenomenon By
. , Rising Early August 4.
Atbonaites will have a chance to sen
the beginning of a total eclipse of the
moon next month, provided they are
awake about 3 o'clook iu the morning
or august 4. According to the World
Peering Giant
Alfalfa Mowers
LIGHT DRAFT
- .EASY RUNNING
AND NEVER CHOKES
C A. BARRETT
& C0 Atfl
and Tea
Athena, Oregon.
almanac, there will be a total eclipse
or tue moon on August , "invisible
in the eastern portion of North Ameri
ca, but the beginning is visible on the
western coast of tne United States, the
moon setting with the eolipse on it
The almanac gives 8 :01 a. m. as the
time for the eolipse to begin at San
Francisco and 8:59 a. m. as the time
for. the total eolipse to commence.
Athena has tbo same time, na finn
Francisco, but the sun time which the
almanac gives, is to be changed to
stanaara time, enould auyone wish to
know just when to look for the begin
ning of the shadow of the earth on the
moon. ......
A partial eclipse of the sun is to
ooour on August 19, visible only in
the northwestern portion of North
America.
.. . A Heppner Hero.
"Dug" Ball, that elongated, hand
some young man you obseived bob
bing in and out of Athena business
houses Wednesday afternoon was one
of the heroes of the Heppner flood.
"Dug" who is something less than
9teettall, heads the list of Blake-
McFall Co.s paper salesmen" and
makes Athena every 80 days. He was
selling paper in Heppner when the
disastrous flood wrecked the town and
carried away so many lives. In the
roar, of the seething ice and wator
Ball rescued several persons from
drowning at the risk of his life. When
ne goes to Heppner these days there
is nothing tor good for the tall fellow,
and a 11 the bovs alone? the linn hold
their orders for him.
ANKENY ; MAM IS DEFEATED
Wins Over Gilbert Hunt, Present In
cumbent. Ey 350 Votes. r
George H. Kelloueh was elected
Mayor of Walla Walla over Mavor
Gilbert Hunt by a majority of 856.
Alvin Brown, Chief of Police, was re
elected over Jacob Kauffman bv a ma
jority of 809. J. B. Wilson reoeived a
majority of 148 for City Surveyor over
L. W. Leohr. Bert Thom an wim re
elected" Health Oflfber by a majority
ot i over J. C. Mack and. A. E. Braden.
There were no other contests for oitv
offices except for the Counoil.
Tne other officers eloeted are as fol
lows: Conncilmen First Ward, J. G.
Bridges ; Second Ward, W.-. P. Mc
Kean; Third Ward, J. A. Dunham;
Fourth Ward, Eugene Tausiok. City
Treasurer. Robert G.5 Parks: Justice
of the Peace, James K. Huffman;
Street Commissioner, H. H. Cramp
ton: City Attornev.i Henrv S.Bland.
ford; City Clerk, T. D. S. Hart; City
Assessor, Walter L. Cadmau; City
Sexton, Pardon Bently. r
There were no political tickets, caoh
man announcing himself as an inrln-
pendent candidate, and no party lines
were drawn nor political - names
giveu to any tickets, but the "Box-
ers" take much comfort in the defeat
of Hunt, who is an Ankeuy man, as
is also Kauffman. , . i .
Kellough had tho support of the
church , element, Nevertheless, his
election was followed by a carousal
in celebration of viotory in down-town
saloons.
Berries Take a Fall. '
There was a fall in berries at Elv
& Scott's Krooorv store Wednesday
afternoon. The fall did not affect the
prioe, however. Ely: while doino- a
juggling stunt with a box of luscious
raspberries, let the orate drop, which
broke, scattering the hjrries over the
ground. Wnile in a way, the accident
may have Berved as an ad, momentari
ly, it was also a good drawing card
for flies.
Walla Walla Is Growing
The school census comnloted shwoa
8636 school children and 1690 chil
dren under 21 in Walla Walla. On a
baai.s'of one to four and a half g ives
Walla Walla a , population of 21,.
105. a substantial inoreaso over lasj
year.
' RAISE PORTLAND LICENSES.
Plans to Place Saloon Licenses at $1200
Per Year.
If the nlatis Tironofled hv t he Initiu.
tive One Hundred are carrietTont rad
ical reforms in the liquor traffic in
this city will be mado in the near
future, says the Protland Telegram.
at tue meeting last nigbt, of that
body Francis I. McKenna tiroHented
a resolution providing for submitting
to the people at the next election the
proposition to increase the liquor li
cense to 11200 a vear. clotiinir all sa
loons on Sunday and from midnight to
5:iu a. m. every night, and prohibiting
the gale or delivery of Honors in any
other rooms excepting the barroom.
Seats will also be excluded from
places where liquors are dispensed.
Licenses on merchandise slot ma
chines will bo levied at the rate of
t25 a quarter, payable in advance.
This is said to be the opening of a
crusade for reforms in the liqnor
traffic caused by the refusal of the
city council to increase the liquor li-
ueuse irom SDUU to 1000 n venr na
proposed in an ordinance by Council
man Wills, and indefinitely postponed.
It is said that the citizens demand
some obange, and that the plan of the
Initiative One Hundred will meet with
popular favor, and especially with
people residing in the residence dis
tricts who do not like saloons lo
cated in their neighborhood.
TO REMOVE FORT.
Report Comes From Washington But It
: la Probably False.
Again cfmes the rumor that Walla
Walla's army post, Fort Walla Walla,
niay be in danger. A Washington D.
C, speoial to the Oregouiau, dated
last Tuesday, states:
"Secretary Taft today declared it to
be the intention of the general staff of
the army ultimately to buy the Ameri
can lake camp near Tacoma, when
they can procure the ueoessary appro
priation, and establish a brigade post
at that Point. Army nfflners nnniiiiW
this an ideal location for a permanent
post of this size. Nothing can be dnn.
however, until congress appropriates
the money to buy the grouuds, which
may be in the remoto future.
Iho establishment ot a briendn
post at American lake will not aifect
Vancouver Barracks in any way, but
may lead to the abandonment of Fort
Wright and Walla Walla. However,
the whole matter is yet in advance
stage, nothiug defluito having yet
been decided upon."
,L STABLE SOLD
McBridefc Stamper of Weston, Fur-
cnaseot Jung Bros.
The negotiations for the purchase
of the Commercial Livery Stahln.
wbioh have been in progress for some
time, ended WednnHrinv. in Hi a aula
of the property to McBride & Stamnor.
of Weston. '
The new firm will take tiosHRSHinn
Saturday night. The business will
be conducted by Harry McBride,
personally. His pnituer, ;. Houry
Stamper, will have charge of the
Weston Livory stable. Mr. McBride
is known to be one of the most suc
cessful wen in the livery business in
this locality. New eoquipment
tnrouKnout. ol a Manor standard than
has been given the publio at the Com
mercial will be put in for the accom
modation and convenience of the pa
trons of the stable.
John and William Kinir have con
ducted the Commercial Livery Stable
in Athena for four years, during
which time tbev muuo muuv friends
by their upright, honest and courteous
busiuoss methods. They will eiiGrntrn
iu farming, having leased wheat land
on the Umatilla Indian rosorvationn.
SWALLOWED A PIN.
Girl
Horse Thiei at Penitentiary Can
Hardly Take Food.
Myrtle Tipton, a conviot. is soilons-
ly ill at the prison on account of a pin
being lodged in her aespohagus, and
wbioh will probaoly necessitate a ser
ious operation to be removed, savs
the Bulletin. ' i. ,. .
The girl has been in the habit of
carrying a number of pins in her
mouth, in spite of admonitions that it
was dangerous, while engaged in sew
ing at the prison, Sunday afternoon,
she accidentally swallowed one nf
them. It lodged in her throat, and so
far down 'hat the pbvsiciun has ho fur
been uuablo to remove it, although he
iius made several attempts. .
She can hardly swallow food or
water on account of the pin.
Dr. Lane, the prison physician,
states that unless the pin can be re
moved today an operation will have
to be porformed. . '
Myrtle Tipton is the girl who creat
ed so much notoriety last Fall by
stealing a team iu the Palouso count
ry, and after stealing it, spending her
ill-gotten gains in finery. She was
sentenced to a two-year torrn iu pris
on. Strong efforts were made to
have the girl paroled until it was dis
covered that she had not been in tbo
penitentiary one year, the required
leugtb of time.
Prostrated By Heat. '
A few days ago. Frank Holdman
who farms across the river from Thorn
Hallow, was overcome by heat while
working in tho field. He was taken
to Pendleton for medical aid and soon
recovered.
Will Farm Again.
W. Planting who has for the past
two years been engaged ia business at
Spokane, has again returned to Uma
tilla county, where be iuteuds to settle
once more on a ranch near Helix.
Bradley Is Treasurer. " 5 ,
Tuesday, the bond of Geo. W. Brad
ley arrived and was filed. With this
act Mr. Sommerville steps out of the
office of county treasurer, and Mr.
Bradley takes control of the financial
sido of the couutv.-Penillttloii Trili.
uue.
AN HISTORIC RELIG
Tree From Which Lewis
Clarke Made Canoe-
FOUND BY LEWISTON MAN
Indian Guided Him Tjp the Clearwater
. Where Boat Was Made 101
Years Ago.
Mrs. IL H. Hill
Lewiston Sunday, after a visit of sev
eral weens duration with relatives in
the Idaho town. Mr. Frnnt Purkv..
brother-in-law of Mrs. Hill, recently
made a trip to the Clearwntfip ri vep
and floatod down on a raft the tree
from which Lewis & Clnrk'a man
hewed a cauoe. wbioh Was nsnil hv
the party in descending that etreaiu
to the Snake and Columbia rivers.
Mr. Parkyn is au old time friend of
the members: of the Nez Porces
tribe of Indians, and for years has
held the confidence of the head men
of the tribe.
It will be remembered by thoso fa
miliar with the Lewis & Clark diary
kept by the two pathfinders, of their
hazardous journey to and from tho
Pacific ooean, mention is mado of
leaving their horses with a member of
the Pierced Nose tribe Nez Peroes
at a point on Clarks Fork of the Lewis
river. Years ago, Mr. Parkyn formed
the acquaintance, of the grandson of
the warrior in whose ohargo the horses
were left i
From time to timo stories of the ex-
istence of this tree have been repeat
ed, and with tho inauguration and
successful torminutlon ot the Lewis
& Clark fair at Portland, growing in
terest in these stories has resulted.
In the Lewiston region the existence
of the historic tree was never doubt
ed, but until Mr. Parkyn took the
matter up no one could induce tho In
dians to divulge the soctet of its loca
tion. He finally obtainod the consent
of his Indian friend to pilot him to
the place. The tree, a huge and stately
fir was found where it had beon felled
by the ax strokes of the Lewis & Clark
party. Out of its capaoious dimeu
sions there had . been hewn a canoe
time and elomonts having failed to
destroy with decay the cavity mado
by the workmen of 101 years ago.
Mr. Parkyn now has the historic
and valuable relio at Lewiston.
TO HAVE 'SURVEY
Want to Be On Line of Walla Walla
& Columbia Traction Co.
Following the
of the promiuont business men of Mil
ton, neaaod by A. M. Elam, a banker
of that place, tho directors of the Wal
la Walla & Columbia Traction Com
pany have decided to run a prelim
inary survey to connect Milton with
the main line. The line at present
runs four miles from that place. Tho
Milton people have offered terminal
grouuds and a right of WI1V in t ha in.
teruban line, and if the route is feasi
ble, it is probable the city will be con
nected with tho line. Th
loft today for Milton to run the pre
liminary line.
Work on the main linn ha
completed between Duy ton and Wal-
luia, ana tho onginocrs have a prelim
inary line that will sorve the mntm
stretch of country with tbo loast ex-
pouse and on an easy grade. Tho
work of nmkiuc out the
profllea of tbo line will bogin immedi
ately upon tha completion of tho Mil
ton brunch survey. i
The Milton dolegation stutod that '
the city wanted au outlet to tho Col
umbia River in order to sharo tho
benefits of tho reduced rates which
would te a certainty, upon the comple
tion of the eiectrio line.
A New Saloon.
Another stock of wet goods for tho
thirsty is to bo added to the threo
stocks already in Atbeua. Jouaa &
Coston advertise that they will mako
application for a license to sell liquor.
Their place of business will bo in tho
building where Sam Booher conduct
ed the Star saloon.
Columbia River Conference.
Tbo annual conference of tbo Col
umbia river district of tbo M. E.
Church will convene at North Yaki
ma, Wash.. September 5. Rev. K VlkllU.
pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church of this city, will atteud.
The Pendleton Commercial Associ
ation will endeavor to have tho Umatilla-Morrow
County district fair,
for which $1500 wus appropriated at
the last sewiiou of tho legislature,
hold iu Pendleton this fall.