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. F.B.Boyd, Publihiifb.
Entered an econd-cluM matter, March 1,
1901, at tbe poitofflce at Athena, Oregon
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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.
"I am carrying an ax, a big blanket,
and five or six days' rations on my back
most of the time, and when I do not
cover my 30 or 40 miles a day I am called
down for loafing.
"I find that simple fooda stand by
me. much better than the chicken fix
ings you buy at the restaurants. Bacon,
corn bread and tea are my standard,
and when I cannot And bacon, strip of
raw salt pork that are fat and sweet will
serve as well. -
"When one has to lug his grub on his
back for days at a time he becomes cau
tious about taking en a big load, A
half-pound of bacon and a pint of corn,
meal the latter, to be cooked on a strip
of bark or a flat stone in the form of a
hce fVe-wllI stand by me longer than
a meal at Ypung's or Parker, Tnesa
two, with a Wg dipper of hpt tea that
la strong, and used without milk, or
sweetened, will put cne In shape to win
medals or 'moat anything,"
Wiring the Dormitory.
Al Sweauey, electrician for the
Preston-Parton Milliug company, is at
Weston, engaged in wiring tbe
Normal School dormitory for electric
lights. The building, which is quite
large, will take considerable wire aud
a large number of lights. Tbo .work
will be completed iu tiuio for tbe
begiuiug ut school
READ AND YOU WILL LEARN
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or long standing cases of catarrhal affec
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throat and lung diseases (except consump
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is not so good for acute colds and coughs,
but for lingering, or chronic cases it Is
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Golden tieal root, Uloodroot, Stone root.
Mandrake root and Queen's root all of
which are highly praised as remedies for
ill the above mentioned affections by such
eminent medical writers and teachers as
Prof. Bartliolow, of Jefferson Med. Col
lege; Prof. Haw, of the Univ. of Pa.;
Prof. Finley Ellingwood, M. 1)., of Ben
nett Med. Collogp, Chicago; Prof. John
King, M. I)., late of Cincinnati ; Prof.
John M. Scudder, M. D.. late of Cincin
nati ; Prof. Edwin M. Hale. M. D., of
Hahnemann Med. College, Chicago, and
scores of others equally eminent in their
several schools of practice.
The "Golden Medical Discovery" Is the
only medicine put up for sale through
druggists for like purposes, that has any
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monials. Open publicity of Its formula
on tho bottle wrapper is the best possible
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published formula will show that "Golden
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ous or harmful agents and no alcohol
chemically pure, triple-refined glycerine
being used instead. Glycerine Is entirely
unobjectionable and besides is a" most
useful ingredient in the cure of all stom
ach as well as bronchial, throat and lung
affections. - There is the highest medical
authority for its use in all such cases.
The "Discovery " Is a concentrated glyc
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and Is safe and reliable.
A booklet of extracts from eminent,
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THE PALACE
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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.
Foley's Honey and Tar
for chlldrea.ssfe.sure. No opiates.
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AND FEED STABLE
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GOOD HORSES AND RIGS. REASONABLE PRICES
DRIVER FURNISHED WHEN DESIRED-
Horses boarded by the day, week or mouth
Stables on 2nd slrevt, South of Main street
4. F. Wright, - - - Proprietor-
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HEN R Y KEENE, Agent,
ATHENA, OREGON
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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.
BLACKSMITH AND
REPAIRING SHOP
A. II. LUNA, Proprietor.
Shop WeBt of King's Barn, Athena.
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If you are not satisfied with
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Successors to the Umatilla Implement Co.
Agricultural Implements
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ATHENA.
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longer than any other prepared paint, or hand-mixed
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PETERSON & PETERSON.
Attorneys-at-Law
I A1HENA, - .- - OREGON
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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 u a trial.
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extravagant to use owing to
to it's poor, covering power
and wearing quality. After
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to save. Start right and use
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