ANINDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER T wiob-a-Wkbk Tuesday and Feidat . F.B.Boyd, Publihiifb. Entered an econd-cluM matter, March 1, 1901, at tbe poitofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actot ftongreaa of March 3, 1879 Subscription Hataa! r r vnar, in advanet 2.00 Hingle copies In wrappers 5c, Advertising ftataal '.ih-aj reading notices, Drat Insertion ,10cper n. Kebsabequent Insertion, 6c. til communications f honld be addressed to t .' PKKHH AthenaUregon ATHENA, ORE., AUGUST.... 10, 1906 Here in Eastern Oregon where wheat is king, a stream of yellow graiu is flowing from the fields to tbe mill and warehouse, and in torn a stream of golden dollars is flowing to the credit side of the farmer's bank account- What the frait sousoo is to Hood River and tho bop season to Yakima and tbe Willumette valley, so is the grain Harvest of the Umatilla wheat belt to Athena, "the granery of tbe Inlaud Empire;" A forty to fifty bnshel crop with the price at 58 to CO cents per bushel means that nionoy will be plentiful here this fall fi'jd winter, and trade in all linos ah onld be heavier than for several years past. Athena merchants, in anticipation of this, are beginning to lay in th eir fall and winter stocks and they all clulm thoy are baying mere uiid better goods this year than, ever before. All kinds of raoket has been kicked up back in Iowa since tbe republican state convention gave Cummins of the progressive wing the nomination for governor. The News-Letter, a stand-pat paper, published at Central City, gives vent to its feelings as follows: "Tbe News-Letter was op posed to the nomination of Cummins and will not favor his election to the governorship. His defeat at the polls will redound to the honor, gloty and stability of the republican party in Iowa. We love the republican party for the grout and good work it has done; we dislike to see the Iowa part of it fall into the hands of the eueni iud. And we have no reason to believe Cummins over was or is a republican. His defeat would not be tbe turning down of a republican oaudidute, but the obliteration of a thoroughly un scrupulous politioiuu and Belf-seeker. A good defeat now would do the re publican purty of Iowa a world of UonoHt. Perhaps it would drive from its rutiks tho scoundrels who hissed wheu Secretary Shuw's name was mentioned." Tlio Wallu Wullu Reoord pertinently asks these questions: "What do they want, anyway? Do the (lie iusarauoe oawpuuios doing business iu this state want the policy, holders of the state to pay their earthquake losses in Cali fornia? Aocordiug to their owu re ports, whioh the law compels them to make to Htnte insurauco commisiiouer, thoy collected in 1005 there dollars for every one they paid in fire losses. Now thoy have tbe audacity to suggest a 25 per cent iuoreaso in rates. It would bo downright robbery which the people of tho state of Washington will not stand." A steel passeugor car has recently been completed for tho Southern rail way which is regarded us the begin ning of the general use of steel instead of wood for all kinds of railway curs. The cur ouly weighs 110,000 pounds. There was no wood used iu its cou stinctiou except for the iuterior deo orations, and that wood was made llrepnmf. It is said that tbe cur could not be telescoped iu a collision, neith er eon Id the ends bo smushed in, and furthermore, it is uou-ooinbustiblo. It generally used, such curs would greatly reduce the dnugeis of railway travel. A youthful ambition to emulate tho deeds of bold, bad meu, as pictured in tha Jesse James style of dime novel, is undoubtedly what led to the run away and the subseaueut murder bv Thomas Reeves and Hugh Saxon. Both boys had good homes in Portland and were at work wbon they decided to go out into tbe world aud prey upon aooiety. Reeves seems to -have been the leader of the pair, who bad ouly mot n week previous to their rush deed. The need of money could not hive beau the rxouse for the crime, for both boys were well provided with cash when they left home. A boy with unrestrained aocess to dime nov els and cigarette quickly finds tbe path to the hobo earn p. From there it isonly a step or two to the bold-up or murder scene. Gallant Charles O'Neil, editor of tbe Prescott Spectator, says: "A Walla Walla farmer has taken bis wife and fonr daughters out to the farm to work as harvest hands, owing to the scarcity of farm laborers. This, it wonld appear, will not solve tbe labor problem, however. Ameri can young ladies, God bless them, were nover designed for tbe role of men in tbe harvest field and it is ferninsttbe"constitutioa" to put tbem in sue b a role." It's a Kansas paper that says tbe dnde with narrow striped clothes, saddle-colored shoes, a lond necktie, hair parted over bis nose and smoking a cigarette, by addressed the young wo man with whom be was keeping com pany thus: "If you was me and I was you, what would yon do?" She an swered with a smile "I would take off my hideous tie, put that cigarette in the stove, part my hair on the side, then pray to God for brains." Athena is quite as metropolition in consequence iu the mattor of the cirous us Pendleton is. So it would appear, at least. This town has had evey show that has visited the coun ty seat town this summer including tbe Sells-Forepaugh combination, whioh "passed through" yesterday morning. A WARNING TO CHICAGO. Portland Oregonian. Tbe Chicago bank which has been looted of 11,000,000 by its officers is a state bank and nnder state inspection. Tbe inspeotor seems very active, now that tbe mischief is done. His name appears prominently in tbe news. He has issued a statement that he does not know where tbe officers have gone, and another that the bank has been olosod for examination. It is a pity that be did not make an examina tion when it could have prevented tbe robbery of the depositors. It is a small consolation to tbe poor people whose money has been stolen to know that tbe books will be looked over now. They will wish to know what Mr. Jones, the inspeotor, was doing while the cashier and tho rest were making away with the funds. Of course this took time. A million dollars is not stolen in a day. And during that time Mr. Jones, who was chosen for the express ponpose of knowing what tho officers of the stato banks were doing, knew nothing at all about it. Now be makes up for his criminal uegligouce by postal notices. . . What is needed iu Illinois, and in Oregon no less, is un inspection law ' which ineuus somothiug, uud an in spector who will iuspect. Locking tbe bank after the funds are stolen, making a parade of official diligence wbon it cuu do no good, bus grown wearisomo to iho people. The unre mittou voice of thet Nation, and of this state iu particular, demands protec tion from these frequeut robberies. What security has the Oregon de positor iu a private bank for his mon ey? Absolutely uoue except the honor iu tho banker, and we me coming to learn what this valued "honor" amounts to. Anybody may start a bank, iuveigle multitudes of the uu wary to baud over their savings, and then do with the f uuds exactly as he pleases. There is no inspection, no control, no seourity. After tbe bauk has been looted, tbe cashier or presi dent may be tried for embezzlement, but that does not restore tbe plundered funds. It duos not buy bread or pro vide for old age. In fact, these em bezzlement trials have become a stench iu tbe nostrils of tho Nation. What is needed is a law that will prevent these embezzlements aud an ofllcor that will honestly euforce the law. The lack of a' bunking law in this stato is a scandalous oouuivauca at crime. It is an iuvitatiou to thof t. SKCOND NATURE.' St. Louis Post-Dispatoh. What sort of a man is Edward Crane who is introduced to the public iu a Post-Dispatoh telegram from Narra gausett Pier? It seems hard to be lieve iu him, but be is certainly possi ble. This is proved by tho report tbat he baa done more ulreudy ou the spur of tbe moment what everbody would like above all things to bo able to do with long praotice and from an honr to twelve hours for making up their minds. What he did as an auto-driver was to drive his own automobile up to the aide of another automobile whioh was ruuuing away at full speed with frightened women who could not check it. Thou, after haviug applied the brakes to his owu machine, he sprau from his owu machiue into that which was ruuning away, and after turning it into tbe road applied the brakes aud stopped it. This is a story of what is clearly possible, niece evcryoue who would be glad to be able to do it might do it with time enough to muko the habits which belong to a Bewnd nut are. Nothing but. a Bccoud uaturc, how- ever, could have made it possible. It shows an actual rational mind, act ing at once, in full control of tbe body rational enough to be controlled at once and fully by tbe mind. It requires a much higher quality of mind to do such a thing as this than it does to make a million dollars and be able to own any number of automobiles. As a second nature it could not have come merely from automobiling, but perhaps we may de velop more of it Anally through atuo mobiling or in spite of it FCTL'KE TKADK I If OREGON Cl'KIOS. East Oregonian. Think of tbe value of Oregon jails as curios and relics in the dim, distant future, when the unborn generations come to carry away pieces of wood and iron from places where Ringer Herman, J. N. Williamson, R. P. Mays, Henry Meldrnro and other prominent Oregonians looked through tbe bars back iu 1906, for complicity in the vast land fraud operations in Oregon. This is an entirely new and intensely interesting feature of the land fraud cases and will develop intoaprofltaole industry in relics, if tbe old buildings in which the trials have been con ducted and in which the guilty ones serve sentences, are preserved. In London the tourist is shown where Guy Fawkes concooked the "gunpowder plots"against the govern meutaud in Paris where tbe revolu tionists marched to the guillotine with defiant air. What an intensely interesting his torical feature might be added to Oregon, if the "homestead" cabins on the famous "7 It" district in Southern Oregon are preserved or if the footprints of Binger Herman made in Portland mud as he marched up to trial, are preserved for the hunters of the twenty-seoond century. COLLEGE MEN WORK. STUDENTS SEEK EMPLOYMENT XJT MAINE LUMBER WOODS. Young Hen of Education Take tha Places of Frenchmen and Indiana as Fir V .Watcher. "In quick, negotiable value," said For est Commissioner Edgar Ring, "the tim ber standing on the wild lands of Maine is worth more than all the other hold ings in the state. We have more than 25,000,000,000 board feet of spruce, which should be worth at least four dollars a thousand ou the stump. Then we have millions of feet in second growth pine, some of which Is very large to eay nothing of hemlock and hemlock bark. "To this we must add the young tim ber which is not yet big enough to cut, but which is coming on so rapidly that In many townships It is making for its owners from five to eight per cent, every year. Now, if you will add to these the vast area of hard woods, many of which are very valuable for flooring and cabinet work, you have a combined valuation that will nearly pay off the entire gov ernment debt" It is the realization of this fact, says the New York Sun, that Is leading owners of forest lands to give more and more protection from fire to their holdings. Several of the men who have large hold ings in wild lands have contributed to hire men to patrol the woods constant ly from late In May until the fall rains set In. The average pay of these patrolmen is about $1.50 a day and all found. The outdoor life and the strange scenes have induced college students and students of natural history topics to seek this kind of employment, so that instead of having Frenchmen from Canada or Indians from Old Town on duty, tbe fire watch of Maine Is com posed of young men of education. Now and then an employe grows weary of the solitude and gives up his Job on account of homesickness, but a majority are delighted with the work, and say they are the only persona in the world who receive pay while enjoying an outing. "It is away ahead of a gymnasium for keeping a chap in training." said an ath letic undergraduate from Harvard. "No man can do bis duty as a fire patrol and keep any flesh on his bones. 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