The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, August 21, 1906, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSEMI-WEEKT , VOLUME XVIII. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21. 1906. NUMBER 5. Ed M AN ASS E REDUCTIONS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS Summer Goods Must Go A Few Shirt Waists Left Prices Cut In Two. & & & it Come Early And ED. MAN ASS E Agent for Butterick's Patterns. , ess ; Nationa of Athena CAPITAL STOCK. SURPLUS,.. We do Strictly a Commercial Business. We Solicit the Accounts ot Individuals, Firms OFFICERS H. C. ADAMS, President, T. J. KIRK, Vice President, F. S. Lo (mow, 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 . s 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 wkh the same care and discretion. REMEMBER Our prices are always consistent with quality. " DELL BROTHERS A i? SP Get Your Size . $50,000 17,500 First I Bank nml Cnrnnrfltinns. HI DIRECTORS H. 0. ADAMS, T. J. KIRK, F. S. Le GROW, D. H. PRESTON, P. E. COLBERN. CATERERS TO THE TUBLIC IN GOOD TH1XG3 TO EAT SAFE BLOWN OPEN Robbers Get No Reward For Their' Work. BUT KEYS IN BOX Saie a Complete Wreck Overlooked $3 85 lathe Ticket Office Counter Till. Safe , blowers gained . entrance through a window of the 0. R. & N. ticket office Sunday night and demol ished the safe with nitro-glyoenine. They got no returns from their work and left the building with an iron box containing a few keys, which they extracted from the safe, believing it to contain coin. In their haste to get away, they overlooked $385 in the ticket office counter till, the only cash In "the office at the time of the robbery. Evidently the robbers were experts in their line, but, their work on the safe proves that they had inferior tools to labor with; ' They attempted to drill three boles in the safe door and failed. The bandje, which slides the bolt was removed with a wrench, and intro-glycerine was poured into the cavity. The explosion "which followed, literally demolished the safe door, hurling the face plate across the room, and covering the floor with bits of iron, steel and cement. Fortunately, Agent Dobie had de posited the money on hand Saturday evening, and all the iron box in .the interior of the safe contained was the lew keys mentioned. ' ' ' : 'There is no olue to the robbers. All they left behind' was a burned fuse, some oiled paper, a sorew-driver and a wrench. Girl Thrown From Horse, v . " Pauline, the yougest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Myriok was thrown from a horse at Havana Sta tion Saturday, and sustained a severe fracture of the right femer. Dr. Sharp of this city and Dr. Smith of Pendleton reduoed the fracture, - and the little patient is getting along as well as could be expeoted. '? 1 -. . Is Selling Weeders. Lafayette Chamberlain is in the Big Bend oountry. up in Washington, where be is making many sales of the Richardson weed catting machines to the farmers of that section. These machines are manufactured at Helix, and are meeting with great success. peennflyiant Alfalfa Mowers LIGHT DRAFT EASY RUNNING, AND NEVER CHOKES C.j A. BARRETT & CO,, Athena and Tea Athena, Oregon, j A CITY FULL OF HORRORS ..! : 1 V.J-'' ' ,J""' ' Five Thousand Dead and Wounded at . Valparaiso Chile. Great confusion and contradiction prevail with regard to the number of dead and wounded as a result of . the earthquake and fire at Valparaiso. The dispatohes evidently, come from sources more or less in a condition of panic, aud are not wholly trustworthy. Acoording to a dispatch from Santiago, fully 6000 i people lost their lives in the Valparaiso disaster. Santiago also suffered severely. Thirty people were killed there, and property loss is placed at $2,000,000. . Another mes sage places the loss, at 600, whil j a tbiid dispatch from Santiago, vio Buenos Ayres, places the number of killed and wouned at 10,000. ! Panio reigns in both cities. The people are in the grip of fear of far ther shocks and are fleeing. Refugees from Valparaiso are getting into San tiago, 43 miles away. - ' . The disturbances have covered a large area. Shocks were felt at Tacna, in the extreme north of Chile. A number of minor towns have either been destroyed or materially damag ed. Valparaiso has been desoribed as nearly destroyed, while another mes sage says half that city has become a prey to the earthquake and names. The loss of life and property undoubt edly was heavy, i Telegraphio advioes received from the scene of the earth quake in, Chile indicate an enormous death rate both in Valparaiso and Santiago. The latest reports, which have been received partly by the over land route show that the dead in San tiago number 6000, and that the dead in Valparaiso are between 7000 and 8000. ' The greater part of the business sec tions of both cities and their suburbs fire in a state of ruin, and nrgeut ap peals for aid have been received dur ing the last 48 hours. While the earthquake ; ' had been expeoted in Western Chile, its severity has been such as to ruin every building along the coast that was constrnoted with an idea of permanency in view. , Among the plaoes reported to have been damaged or destroyed are Vina del Mar, 12,000 people, there miles from Valparaiso ; Qnitorque and Limaohe, of 4000 people each, both iu Valpaarsio province; Quillota, 26 miles from Valparaiso ; Illopet, G000 people, 130 miles northwest of San tiago; ! ; Vallenar, .,, 5000 people, . 300 miles north of Santiago, and other small towns. Almost all the houses in Valparaiso are said to be down. , The fugitives estimate the -number- of dead and wounded ; there at 10,000. Entire streets are buried in ruins. 1 Fires, which broke ont immediately after the earthquake, added to the terror and danger. Sixty thousand people have taken refuge on the hills surrounding the city. Lack of water prevents efforts to extinguish . the flames. . SALEM LIKES OILED SIKLtlS Is Cheaper Than Sprinkling With , Water and Also Is Better. The use of crude oil as a dost pre ventative is proving very successful on the streets of Salem. The county court recently bad ordinary f nel oil put on half of each of. the streets sur rounding the courthouse square and the result has beeu an entire elimina tion of the dust nuisance there. At first the oil adhered to wagon tires but since it has soaked into the soil, there is no more trouble of this kind, but the surfaoe packs smooth and hard. There is an oil odor in the air but it is not as disagreeable as the dust and probably is not unhealthy. It is believed that the oil odor is only temporary. . The use of oil will be only one third as costly as water for settling the dust. The portion of the street treated with oil is more pleasant to drive over than the other half, as wagons and car riages do not rattle over the gravel as they do where oil has not been used. It is expected that the streets treated with oil will shed water better in the Winter and be less muddy. ATHENA SCHOOL OPENS SEPTEMBER 17. The Athena public school will open Monday, September 17. with Prof. A.H.Perryman, prinoipal, will instruct tbe 9th 10th, and 11th grades assisted by the following corps of teachers: O. A. Cannoo, assistant priocipal, 8th grade; Minn Tillie Bessinger, 7th grade; Mrs. McDauiel, 5tu and 6th grades; Miad Carrie Sharp, 3rd and COL WOOD'S BEAN EXPER1EHGE A Bij; Fisted Dutchman and Pasco Sand Storm Blighted the Crop. It's an old one, but a good one. Beans, you know, are prime keepers. An old saw is, that "nothing sticks tighter to your ribs than beans." Per haps this is the reason the bean joke was kept sn long before cropping out o.i the Colonel. "Harry Turner was in town yesterday and told it, aud if there's any one in the world who ap predates a joke better than Boyd, it's Turner. , Away back in the days when Wood was delving into the mysteries of Mon golian physical culture and Franklin county . agriculture, the egotistical Leader man deoame imbued with the idea of planting a bean crop. He hired a , big-fisted Dutchman, who possessed a superfluity of shrewd ness and a team, to put in the orop. Wood furnished a couple of sacks of seed and the Dutchman went to work. Wood went borne. , After remaining in the newspaper business about the period be supposed it would take for the beans to sprout, Wood made a visit to Franklin county to inspect the orop. The Dutchman had sown the crop broadoast under the Colonel's scien tific instructions. It transpired that a day or two after the ."crop" was in, a Pasco sandstorm "blew in also.", The sand was lifted from the bean crop and distributed over Franklin connty. The beans lay where they had been sown. The story goes that the owner of the crop sat down in his bean patch, took in the situation a1, a glance, and came to the conclusion that the proper way to plant beans was in rows. Miles away from seed he industriously picked the seed beans up until he bad a half gallon or so. Then he went to the "shack" for the night. And here's where he got next to it. Wood felt the craving of hunger gnawing at his vitals and the only edible that wonld , appease it was beans. On the fire went the buoket of "seed" beans. From time to time he poked them with a spoon but they did not appear to be cooked. He fell asleep and when morning came, investigated. He found that the beans were small, white pebbles. He investigated, fur ther and found that the Dutchman had sown the pebbles, taken the seed to Pasco, sold it and bought a keg of beer with the proceeds, , Back From The Mountains. Ira Kemp and Fred Boyd returned Saturday tight from the mountains. They found the small tributaries to the South fork of the Umatilla river badly torn up and filled with rock and trees as the result of the big storm this spring which made fishing in that looality a failure. Game were plenli ful however. ''. niniT rum nnrn in . iisnmiir DIY1UI tmUULD 111 ITIAulllIlL By Quick Work.Crew Saves Separator From Destruction. Yesterday morning, the crew opera ting tbe the threshing machine owned by Frank Brotherton, near Helix, by quick : work, prevented the sepa rator from being destroyed by Are, Smut caused an explosiou wbioh set tbe maobine on fire. It is said that machine men iu that part of tbe country are encountering smut in the grain to some extent this season and are called upon to exercise great care to avoid loss of machinery by fire. This is the third explosion that has taken place from smut this year. Bnd Nelson, while threshing with bis outfit near Adams, just at the be ginning ot harvest, lost his separator. He immediately placed an order for u new machine, and on its arrival, commenced work in tbe same field. Tbe machine had ran bat a few hours, when tbe smut exploded and and this maobine, too, was bnrned. Sons Were Born. A son was born Friday, August 17, 190 6, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence La Bracbe. and to Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Myers. 4tb grades; Miss Gibbous, 1st and 2nd grades., In common with other school districts in Oregon and Wash ington, the Athena school board met with considerable difficulty in secur ing teachers, and only reoently, was the board successful in securing a principal, Iu all parts of tbe North west the cry is going up for teachers, aud wages are raising aooording ly. , BETTER DRAINAGE h Ordinance Passed to Regulate . ' Sanitary . Conditions. NO SEEPAGE INTO GUTTERS Provides for the Excavation of Cess pools, Which Must Be Provided With Proper Vent Pipes. , Ordinanoe No. 109, reoently passed , by the City Council,, provides lor a better sanitary condition in Athena. Hereafter it will be unlawful foe any sewer pipe or seepage of any character whatever, exoept rain-water ; pipe or troughs to discharge into any ' gutter at the side of - the street All sewerage of whatever charaoter must hereafter have Outlet into cesspools which are to be excavated in the -grouud not less than six feet, nor more tbau ten feet deep, nor less than five nor more than seveu feet iu di ameter. 1 All cesspools must be provided with a veut pipe not less than 1 1-1 inches inside diameter, the vent pipe to be higher than the surrounding build- . ings. ., Disregard for the provisions of tbe ordinance is punishable by a fine not less than $5 nor more than $35 and costs of proseoution. . r , Tbe enactment of this ordinanoe comes as the direct result of the sani tary conditions existing on the north side of Main ' street, from Second street, west to the O. R. & N. depot. : That particular looality in the hot, ' summer months beooruos stagnant with the seepage from the entire upper por tion of Main street, aud has long been a menace to the health of the com munity. . . 1. MARSH LIKES TWIN FALLS Great Possibilities of a Great Irriga tion District. Charles Marsh is in town from Twin Falls, Idaho. Mr. Marsh owns land in that great irrigation district aud is very enthusiastic over the resource ful possibilities of the country adja Jt?t to. tbe Twin Fall canal and later als, v '- Real estate is increasing in value. One instance given tbe reporter by Mr. Marsh, was tbe sale of a five-acre tract of land sown to alfalfa, wbioh brought 9300 per acre. The owner, before disposing of the land, had sold two crops of hay from it which net ted bim f 50 pr ncre, making the crop and tbe sale prioe of tbe land $350 per acre. Two crops of alfalfa on another piece of land this year went 7 12 tons per acre and there will soon be another crop to cut. Wheat barley aud oats do well iu that irrigated district, as also does fruit, vegetables and garden truck. Mr. Marsh's family is in tbe city with him. Tbey will leave shortly for Portland where Mrs. Marsh and tbe children will raido temporarily on account of ill health. Mr. Marsh, after locating tbem will return to Twin Falls. ADDED TO ATHENA DISTRICT Athena Methodist Pastor Will Fill Pulpit at Adams. At a meetiug of tbe trustees and members of tbe Methodist Episcopal cbnrch of Athena, yesterday after noon, it was decided to annex the Adams district to tbe Athena pastorate for tbe next year. Presiding Elder Sykes was present and presided at tbe meeting. There was a good attendance at the meeting and tbe sentiment was unanimous for tbe consolidation of the Athena and Adams churches under one pastorate, for the ooming year, at least. 1 After the annual Conference which convenes shortly, and tbe pastor for tbe year is named for Athena, he will hold regular servioes each Sunday iu Athena, with tbe exception of tbe evening of tbe third Sunday in each month, when he will preach at Adams." -' Colonel W. F.-Butcher. A Baker City dispatch says: Colonel. W.F. Bute her has left for New York to join with other prominent Democrats all over tbe country in welcoming William J. Bryan. He will attend the great banquet ot August 30.