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VOLUME XVIII.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1906.
NUMBER 75.
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INSPECTED THE mlLL
Legislators Entertained at the
Walla Walla Penitentiary
VISITED THE WESTON NORMAL
Thirty-two Members Assembled In
Mock Legislative Session at Com
mercial Association Banquet.
A party of 75, including 21 repre
sentatives and eleven senators of the
Oregon legislature, citizens of Uma
tilla comity and members of the Pen
dleton Commercial Association went
over to Walla Walla Tuesday, where
the Washington state penitentiary and
the into mill was inspected under tbe
direction of Governor Mead of Wash
ington.
Governor Chamberlain of Oregon
and the Multnomah county delegation
had goue direct from Portland to
Walla Walla Monday evening, and
were in waiting at Walla Walla when
the Pendleton train arrived. t
For an hour and a half the party
viewed the wondrous mechanism of
the jute plant, studied state reports
and talked with penitentiary officials,
in the quest for knowledge as to the
working of the plant aud the cost of
operation and maintenance.
'After1 the inspection or the jute
plant the Oregou party was tendered
an elegant luncheon in the offioers'
quarters of the penitentiary by the
state board of control of the Washing
ton penitentiary and the Commercial
club of Walla Walla.
For the benefit of tbe visiting mem
bers of the legislature, tbe board of
control of tbe Washington penieutiary
bad prepared the following excellent
statistical report of the operation of
tbe Walla Walla plant, its cost, re
quirements and the profits accruing
from its operation :
Tbe jute mill at the penitentiary
has 70 looms with tbe neoeseary auxil
iary machinery to even up the plant.
The appraised valuation of the entire
plant an September 80, 1906. iuolud
, ins structures, machinery and all ap-
purtenanoes wasabout $125,000. Tbe
appraised valuation or tbe machinery
alone is about $50,000; it is estimated,
however, that a similar plant could
be installed and fully equipped with
modern machinery for a bout tbe pres
ent appraised valuation of this plant.
Tbe jute mill, as well as all other
manufacturing . industries at the
Washington state penitentiary is oared
for by a fund separate and independ
ent from the prison proper. For the
past three legislative periods, or since
April 1, lOOO.tbere has been appropri
ated $150,000 for eaob suooeeding two
years; this allows $75,000 a year for
tbe operation of tbe various industries
at the penitentiary. The receipts from
tbe sale of all manufactured pro
ducts are turned in direot to tbe state
treasurer.hence tbe necessity of a new
appropriation eaob legislative period.
The enhanced prioes of raw materials
with tbe greater demand for the
manufactured products will - necessi
tate the increasing ot the appropria
tion by a considerable amount in
order to keep the mill in operation tbe
year around and cover the increased
oost of tbe manufactured product.
Heretofore it has been the oustom to
shut tbe mill down from two to four
montns of each year with very short
hours after the harvesting WS done.
During the year 1805 jute cost
$15.67 laid down at tbe milL It cost
5.16 cents to manufacture the bags
during the same period, while they
sold for 5.85 cents eaoh, leaving a
profit of about .7 of a cent eaob.
Athena, Oregon.
During 1906 tbe jute oost $18. 34 at tbe
mill, tbe grain bags cost 5.51 cents
each, and sold for 6 1-3 rents each,
leaving a profit of nearly 1 cent per
bag. The oost of the bags during tbia
season was considerably deoreased by
the installation of electrical power,
and a better grade of jute, whiob per
mitted a much larger daily output.
During tbe time between January 1,
1906, and September SO, 1906, tbe
mill turned out 1,339,650 grain bags,
together with quite an amount of
bop cloth, oat bags, hop warp, wool
bags, fleeco twine, floor matting and
other products made by jute, all of
which is made with tbe same ma
chinery with but a trifle loss of time
ire the re-adjusting of tbe looms for
the different produots. It has been
estimated that since the electrical
power has been in successful opera
tion, that tbe mill can easily make a
daily average of 7000 bags, with a
monthly average of 175,000 and with
a yearly output or say a.ouu.ooo.
On this basis there would be a short
time allowed for closing down the mill
for a general overhanling of tbe plant,
whioh is deemed advisable at least
once a year:
Jute at $18.34 par bale $58,009.43
Salaries - - - - 7,069.64
Fuel - 2,791.04
Eleotrioal Power - - 5,25i;97
Repairs and improvements 3,013.73
Other supplies for mannfaotnr-
ing purposes - - 2,356.42
Total expense 9 months $78,498.22
Value of artioles manuf'd 91,100.74
Net profit for operating mill
9 months - $12,602.52
Duriug tbe bieuuial period ending
September 80, 1906, there were ex
pended from the fund provided for
this purpose $153,515.87, while tbo
gross receipts were $204,558.84. This
included tbe sale of any manutaotured
produots which were carried over
from the preceding biennial period.
The gross profits for the jute mill
for the two years were $22,149.01.
It is estimated with a fair margin
of profit, and sufficient machinery to
ntilize the surplus convict labor, to
gether with a sufficient appropriation
wbiob will insure tbe continual opera
tion of tbe jute mill the year around,
that the Washington state peniten
tiary oan bo put on a self-sustaining
basis.
After luncheon at tbe penitentiary
tbe party left Walla Walla by special
traiu for Weston, where they arrived
at 3 o'clock, and were met by tbe
citizens of Weston with between 30
aud 40 carriages and transported to
tbe Weston Normal, eastern Oregon's
only state educatioual institution., I
Returning to Pendleton on the even
ing train, at 9 o'clock the guests as
gambled at tbe spaoious dining ball of
Hotel Pendleton, where an elegant re
past had been prepared by W. A.
Brown,, and after opening prayer by
Rev. H. B. Knight, Held secretary
of Pendleton academy, T. C. Taylor,
who had charge of the program, in
troduced Governor Albert E. Mead, of
Washington, who in a stirring ad
dress of five minutes pledged tbe state
of Wasbingou to assist Oregon in
bringing about tbe opening of tbe
Columbia river and development of
tbe northwest through co-operation
and frequent inter-state conferences.
Following Governor Mead, Uov-
eroor Chamrjeriain 01 uregon, au-
dressed tbe guests, renewing bis en
thusiastic promises to further m every
way the rapid development of east
ern Oregon, abd called upon Governor
Mead of Washington to use bis best
efforts to induce tbe legislature of bis
state to co-operate witb Oregon in
oneninff tbe Columbia river to com
merce, in protecting tbe fishery inter
ests along tbe Columbia river, and
in every effort toward bringing tne
two states closer together commercial
ly and fraternally.
After tbe address y tbe governors
T. O. Taylor, ex-president of the Ore
gon senate, called tbe mock session ot
tbe legislature to order. The session
was begun by the calling of the roll
of members present by chief Clerk
John McCourt, 21 representatives and
1 1 senators responding to roll call.. r.
COIN MUTILATORS AT WORK
Industrious Criminal Shave Scores ot
Scores on scores of five and ten dol
lar gold pieces are being mutilated in
Seattle by some industrious criminal,
who is apparautly trying to follow in
the footsteps of George W. Hess who
recently 'completed' a term of im
prisonment for a similar offense, re
ports a Seattle paper. " ' j.
It is estimated by Captain B. W.
Bell of tbe Unitod States secret serv
ice bureau that tbe coin mutilator is
making on an average of 60 cents on
each five dollar gold piece that be
tampers witb, and about $1 from tbe
ten dollar cold niece. The work is
apparently beinif done by a skilled
machinist, and is so well done that
many banks are now known to bave
in their casb drawers specimens ot
the coins that have gone through tbe
bands of tbe unknown criminal, but
wbiob the cashiers have uot deteoted.
Apparently tbe man has a lathe in
which he sets tbe coins that are to be
"shaved." A knife running around
tbe outside rim of the coin, shaves off
tiny circles of the gold from the
edges outside of tbe milling. Tbe
machine is so accurate that the work
is done smoothly. The edges of tbe
coin are made just a trifle thinner
than the body of tbe gold piece, but
not sufficiently so as to attract notice.
The only way tbe fraud can to dis
eovered with certainty is by weighing
tbe coin.
Tbe system pursued by George W.
Hess was to shave all around tbe rim
of the coin, destroying tbe milling
and rendering it necessary to make
new milling. The man now operat
ing, however, is oareful not to so
mutilate the money, aud bis work is
of a far more dangerous charaoter.
HOT BATTLE WITH OUTUWS
Sheriff Wounded, leputy Killed and
One Highwayman Dead-
In a bloody battle betweeu brave
officers and desperate outlaws Wed
nesday noon at Kennewiok, two men
were killed, a third fatally wounded
and st 11 another seriously hurt. The
battle was thrilling in tbe extreme,
tbe offioers, armed witb revolvers,
coolly righting iu faoe of an aoourate
fire from rifles iu tbe hands of tbejdes
pefadoes. Wbeu the flriug ceased the
oitizens of the town armed themselves
and started for a small island iu the
Columbia river where the surviving
robber was supposed to be oonoealed,
and a man hunt began. -The dead
are: '
Deputy Sheriff Miobael Glover,
shot through tbe heart.
Unknowu burglar, killed by Sheriff
MoNeil.
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Holzbey,
kidney shattered by a rifle bullet
throneh tbe stomaob, believed to be
futally wounded.
Sheriff Alexander MoNeil, shot in
the stomaob and left thumb injured
by a bullet; obauces for recovery fair.
The outlaws were burglars who
broke iuto soveral stores at Kenne
wiok. stealiue different artioles of val
ue, including shotguns, rifles, revolv
ers. ammunition and clothing.
Later. Frank Porry and Joseph
Halsbey died this morning, making
four deaths as a result of the battle
witb tbe bandits. i
AGENT WILL BREAK UP TRAFFIC
Whisky belling on Yakima Ec:va
tion is Under the Ban.
A report from North Yakima is to
tbe effect that Superintendent Lynch
of tbe Yakima Indian reservation has
takeu steps to stop gambling and
whisky selling on the reservation.
Trouble arising from this source has
been of frequent occurreuce.and may
crimes, including several murders of
Indians by tribesmen, have resulted in
tbe past two or three years.
The agent insists be has not been
able to secure proper co-operation on
tbe part of tbe looal and state author
ities, and in tbe future will prooeed
without tbem. The government has
at last given him a sum of money to
prosecute tbe violators of tbe law, and
furnish him a private deteotive, who
for several weeks has been gathering
evidence against tbe whisky sellers
and gamblers. An attorney at Top
penisb bas been employed to prosecute
tbe oases, which will be instituted at
ouoe. Sufficient evidence to warrant
prosecutions bas been obtained and
complaints were tiled.
FRUIT GROP WORTH $750,000
Enormous
Proportions
Industry.
of Yakima
It is estimated that the fruit orop of
Yakima county for tbo year 1908 will
bring $750,000 to tbe valley. The
apple crop this year, It Is estimated by
conservative growers, w'as 10fi, per
cent It was the largest in tbe his
tory of tbe valley, and was exceeded
by that of no other district iu Ameri
ca. Tbe crop of pears aud peaoli.es,
seoood to apples in extent, almost
equaled apples in percentage of. .'pro
duction. " '
Witb the acreage that Iras been
planted to fruit, particularly apples,
in tbe last two yeais, it is predicted
that in flveears tbe returns to tbe
growers of Yakima will be ten times
what it is estimated for this year,
And with tbe orchards that will be
planted in tbe next two years produo
log fruit tbo crops of tbe valley will
in seven years more be more tban 12
times as much.
To Can VuiMtipatlon rortr.
Tulid CHKuareu Cunilv Cathartic 100 or t&a.
liC.CC. fail to cvre, drugtfUits refund mono
LICENSE FISHERMEN
Act Planned to Include Them
in Game License Law.
PETITIONS WILL BE SENT OUT
Flan to be Discussed at Next Meeting
of the Washington Game and Fish
Protective Association.
The Washington State Game and
Fish Protective Association has a plan
in view whiob will be discussed at the
next meeting of that body for tbe
licensing of fishermen on tbe same
principle as is now iu force in regard
to hunters. During several weeks
past several communications have
been received by Seoretary H. Kief,
of Seattle, in regard to the matter, and
tbe association bas become interested
to suoh an extent that blank applica
tions or petitions have been prepared
and will be sent out ou request, re
ports tbe Union. Tbe general prayer
of tbe petitioners is that the assooia-
tioa take action to have a bill passed
by tbe next legislature making bunt
ing licenses include tbe privilege of
fishing as well as making it compul
sory for every fisherman to take out a
license before be oan engage in tbe
sport. '--
"Since tbe matter bas been brought
to my attention I have talked it over
witb a number of tbe members of the
association," said Mr. Rief, "and a
majority of tbem soem to favor the
plan. It would work no hardship ou
tbe fishermen, for tho majority of
tbem who hunt are also fishermen,
aud only one license being neoeseary
and the sale price being the same,
they would be called upon to pay no
more tban tbey pay at present. As
to tbe few who fish and do not bunt,
tbey have no complaint to make that
is reasonable, for the funds secured
from the sale of gun licenses, 'wbiob
amount to thousands of dollars eaoh
season, is, to a great extent, applied
to tbe propagation of fish in the state.
The buuters have never objected to
this manner of expenditure. They
have stood it all tbe time, and tbe
fishermen who do no hunting have
received tbe benefit of these funds
without its costing tbem one cent.
Personally, I favor tbe proposition
very muob, and I mean to do all in my
power to have tbe measure put
through. A small private hatobery
bas just beeu built iu Wbatoom
county out of tbe funds received from
gun licenses, and we are now planning
to build one ou the same general plans
iu this county."
AFFIDAVIT
A
Showing Guardian of Minor Beds Used
His Position for Personal Gain
Tbe climax of tbe Umatilla Indian
affairs came in an affidavit from A.
L. Parker showing that W. L. Thomp
son, cashier of tbe Commercial
National bank, guardian of tbe miuor
Indian heirs, connived to secure In
dian lands below their market value
from tbe heirs, afterward selling tbem
for double prices and making a pri
vate profit from bis government posi
tion.
Tbe affidavit is concerning tbe sale of
tbe land of Jennie Van Pelt, an In
dian woman, and tbe most serious part
of it follows:
"I told Thompson I would bid $20
per acre for the Van Pelt land. He
advised me to bid a little over $10 aud
be would endeavor to keep others from
overbidding me. Relying upon
Thompson I left my check with him
for part of my bid, whioh was $10.50
per acre. After tbe land was sold
Thompson told me McCallum bad
slipped in and bought it over me.
Thompson then told me he naa a
power of attorney from McCallum to
sell tbe land and I paid bim $21 per
acre for it."
Paper on War Path.
A North Yakima dispatch says: A
representative of a Pendleton, Oregon,
paper was here obtaining affidavits
relative to the escapades of Major
Edwards, Umatilla Indian agent, who
was arrested aud heavily fined here
-la.it mouth for threatening to jpiiic a
Yakima oonuty deputy sheriff in irons.
Among those who made affidavits
were Sheriff urant, Chief of Police
Cayou aud Justice Taggard. Tbe
paper is making a fight to have tbe
agent removed aud bis actions at
North Yakima, culminating in bis
arrest and fine will, it is believed by
bis opponents, bave great weight
wbeu tbe case is brought before tbe
Indian department at Washington.