SEMI-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. ''.
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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.