A NINDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Twicf.-a-Wif.k Tuesday and Friday
F.B. BOYD, PlIBLIHHFB.
Entered its second-clou natter, March 1,
1001, at (be poitofflce at Athena, Oregon
Uuderan Actot Congress of March 3, 1871
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ATHENA, ORE., NOV 13, 1906
Unprecedented iu the history of the
United States army is the aotion ot
President Boosveelt, jost annoanced,
in dismlsaing iu disgrace from -the
army an entire battalion of negro
troops, because of tboir failure to dis
close the identity of some ot their
number who had been guilty of
violence and murder. As an evidence
of big intention to be lair with the
troops, the president bas accompanied
bis action by an order wbiob may
amount to the oourtmartial of a white
army officer of high grade, who was
charged with baviug caet slurs upon
the troops. The report by Brigadier
Generul Cardinton, inspector geueral
of the army, relative to the riotous
disturbance at Browusville, Texas,
on Angust 1, 1906, that resulted in
the death of one citizen and the
wounding of another is the basis of
the president's aotion.
Japan is taking probably her first
lesson in the principles of the consti
tution of the United States. The older
treaty powers of Europe have received
many lessons on the same complex
subject, but it is doubtful if they
have learned much. Just now the
government of Wusbiugtou is doing
its best to explain to tbo indignant
government at Tokio that the presi
dent and congress could bave bad
nothing to do with the exclusion of
Japanese children from white schools
and the establishment ot a separate
sobool for the Japanese iu the state
of California. The administration
bas to confess that if California should
refuse these little brown people ad
mission to any school at all the
national authorities could not stop it.
Our home merchants take the farm
er's produoe. With them be fluds a
ready market for his butter and eggs,
for bis potatoos, upplos and other pro
duee. Tbo department stores take
only bis mouoy. Our home mer
chants, uot for profit but for aooom
modation and to assist the farmer, buy
his produce. T hoy fell it iu a ma
jority of cases for less than they pay
for it and handle it at a loss, yet some
farmers do not appreciate this and
take this very same money and seud it
to a department store when they could
get bettor bargains right hero at
home.
After several days' bunting a cele
bratod old grizzly of tho Desohutes
region was killod by two Beud men
and their dogs. Tho bear bas crossed
the river tvvioe each year for 18 years,
and muuy a hunter has tried iu vuiu
lo get him. His tracks measured
Elegance in House
Furnishing
In selecting furuituro aud carpets for your borne let quality be tho
first consideration select pieces of distiuctivo grace, beauty and sterling
worth, that will be a pleasure to look upon and tbat will serve their pur
pose, uot for a mouth or year, but all through life. Such styles and
qualities are now sbowu at our store, iu larger varieties than you can
find within uiauy huudied miles ot Walla Walla.
Come iu tbe uoxt time you are iu tbo city aud give ns au opportunity
to show you through our store.
WE PAY the Freight whou bill amounts to f 10 or over.
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Our
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Room
THE DAVIS-KASER CO.
Everything to Furnish the
Home.
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WALLA WALLA, :- WASH
HxS inches, his forelegs were 24 in
obes around and be weighed over 1000
pounds. Tbe dogs that worried him
have trailed 81 bears that have been
killed.
It is announced that tbe proper
material bas been discovered near
Durkeefor making Portland cement
and a large plant will soon be con
structed. Such an industry means
much for Eastern Oregon. Tbe de
mand for cement is growing.
Etting too much sauerkraut nearly
caustd tbe death of J. F. Nowliu of
Klamath Fall. He was formerly
school superintendent of Umatilla
county.
Tbe Grand Konde valley bas its first
corn crib, near Cove, where a farmer
bas raised 85 bushels of corn per aore
on 15 acres.
JAPAN TOO EASILY OFFENDED
It is just possible that an unneces
sary amount of consideration ia being
given to tbo Japanese susceptibilities
regarding tbe exclusion of their child
ren from tbe public schools of San
Francisoo wbiob are attended by tbe
white cblidren there, and tbe estab
lishment of separate schools for them.
It is undoubtedly true tbat the Ameri
can people generally disapprove of the
discrimination, and would be glad to
see it discontinued. But that is not
tbe point.
If tbe children excluded are. citizens
of tbe United States, the Japanese
nation and government have nothing
to do with the subject, even though
tbe pareuts of these children may once
have been subjects of tbe mikado.
They are absolutely subject to Ameri-
nan -intarl1tf Inn arA tnnat ilnrtnn d nn.
on American law for tbe protection !
of their ngbts.
If, on the other band, tbe parents
and children in question are still
aliens, they have no rights iu (be
schools except such as tbe sovereign
state of California may graciously
afford them. The federal government
bas nothing to do with tbe matter,
and though treaties become part of tbe
law of tbe country, no treaty can
amend the constitution of the anion,
under whioh each state is in supreme
and sole control of its own schools.
It is, therefore, something tbat may
be regretted tbat California, or San
Francisco, bas discriminated in tbe
treatment of Japanese children iu the
schools, and it may be proper for
Washington to express such regret to
tbe Tokio government, on a similar
ocoasiou, tbut tbe whole matter is ab
solutely witbin tbe jurisdiction of tbe
sovereign state of California. Japan
may not bo able to understand this, as
Italy was not, but it is a vital element
in our system of government, and it
canuot be changed to please all Asia,
as it never was changed to please all
Europe. Dotroit News.
LOWER FARES PAY
When tbe New Haven Railroad
company reduoed its passenger rate to
2 cents a mile the officials estimated
tbat there would be a loss of about
If 700,000 a year in gross receipts. The
reduced rate, which affects nine
tenths of the system, bas been in oper
ation several months, and instead of
tho predicted reduotiou there is au in
crease iu gross earnings. Lower fares
bave given tbe company enough new
busiuoss to more than make good tbe
lessoned profit on each fare. When
tbe Michigan Central charter was re
pealed and a 2-ceut rate was fixed by
the legislature tbe compauy brought
suit agaiiiHt the state of Miohigau lor
$5,000,000. By the time the case got
before tbe courts tbe receipts already
showed a large increase in passenger
earnings. Instead of losing by tbe
repeal of a obarter which gave it tbe
right to charge 3 cents a mile tbe
Miohigau Ceutral bad actually beue
fitted.
Tbe recent reductions in fare on the
Pennsylvania were made iu a con
fident business belief tbat there would
Make
Your
appointments
Here
be more profit for the company in
oat ryiog people for less money. Other
companies are planning similar reduc
tions. The next five years will witness
unprecedented reductions ia passenger
fares. Railroad managers are coming
to nuderstaod tbe simple scientific
principle that there is more money in
doing a large business with a small
margin of profit on each transaction
than in doing a small business with a
large margiu ot profit on eacb tran
saction. New York World.
JOHN COYLE'S VALIANT SOUL.
Do you regard your lot in life as a
hard one? Do you thiuk you have uot
had a square deal? Do you rail at
your fate?
Listen!
John Coyle of Des Moines has only
one arm. He lost oue it was tbe
right one by accident. Tbe surgeons
did not leave even a stump.
But Coyle works every day in a
sewer ditch, does as much work as any
man on the job more than some
and gets the same wages of $1.7 per
day.
He knows nothing about tbe law of
tbe survival of tbe fittest, or if he
does, made no moau about it. As
soon as he got over tbe amputation he
learned how pathetio laborers ! to
use his shoulders and left arm, aud be
makes the dirt fly with the best of
them.
More about John Coyle:
He not only makes a living for him
self by hard work aud deceut living.
He supports with his left arm, shoul
ders, pick aud shovel an aged father
and mother.
Most of men in his place would
bave waited for an easy job to turn
up, or haunted the street corners, hat
in hand, or asked society for help.
But John Coyle bad nerve and cour
age and grim endeavor under his vest.
Like the soldier with broken sword,
he fought on.
Iu tbe light of this man's high pur
pose and achievement in rough, ought
riot you, with two good, strong arms,
be ashamed of your complainings?
Unfortunately Mr. Carnegie s med
als do not come to snob noble souls as
John CoyJe. But, just the same-
warp and woof of his valiant soul, he
is made of hero stuff. St. Paul News.
GOULDS OF ROYAL BLOOD
That her son, Kingdon Gould, might
be able to trace relationship to tbe
rulers of England and that she might
show that the blood in ber own veins
is of tbe purplest, Mrs. George Gould
bas em ployed a firm of genealogists to
prove it.
Workiug with a dozen agents iu
England and Franoe, these genealog
ists have now succeeded. They show
tbat Kingdon and Mrs. Gould have in
them blood of British Kings, aud re
veal ancestry back to tbe twelfth cen
tury. The result of tbe probers'
labors Mrs. Gould hae made up iu
pamphlet form. Every entry iu the
record is backed by letters from tbe
English College of Arms or from
churches and old reoords in England.
It cost Mrs. Gould $50,000 upward
for the work of preparation. Tbe
reoords shew that tbe Kingdons have
tbe right to quarter their arms with
those of tbe Hockins of England, as a
Miss Hocliius, known iu heraldry as an
'heiress," married a Kingdon. By
an heiress, it is explained by tbe com
pilers of the book, is meaot a maideu
who is the last of her race, and in this
oonueotiou it is stated tbat Mrs. Gould
is an heiress, being the last cf tbe di
rect descent of tbe Kingdons.
DON'T
Don't ask tbe editor to publish a
list of wedding gifts.
Don't add to tbe terrors of death by
taoking several stanzas of doggeral to
a death notice. Don't crowd tne
mourners.
Don't lug old clippings into a news
paper office and tell the editor that
you have brought him "something to
fill up with." Take him a cabbage;
he can fill up with that
Silting in the end of a oburoh pew,
dou't get up to admit others. Move
on.
Don't Kick a man when he is down
uulesa you are sure tbat he will never
get up again.
Don't put lard ou a man's shoes
wheu you see a man going down hill.
They are already greased lor tbe occa
sion. Don't pray with a hungry man until
you have giveu him something to eat
Prayer without pork availeth uot.
Exchange.
A Year of Blood
The year 1903 will long be remem
bered in the home of F. N. Tacket,
of Alliance, Ky., as a year of blood;
wbioh flowed so copiously from Mr.
Tacket's lungs tbat death seemed very
near. He writes: "Severe bleeding
from tbe lungs aud a frightful cough
had brought me at death's door, when
I began takng Dr. King's New Dis
covery for Consumption, with the
astonishing result that after taking
four bottles I was completely restored
aud as time has proven permanently
cured. Guaranteed for sore lungs,
oougbs and colds at tbe Palaoe drug
store. Prioe 60 . and trial bottle free.
Had a Close Call
"A dangerous surgical operation,
involving the removiug of a malign
ant ulcer as large as my baud from
my daughter's bip, was prevented by
the application ot Buekleu's Arnica
Salve," says A. C. Stiekol, ot Mile
tus, W. Va. "Persisteut use of the
salve completely cured it." Cures
outs, bums and iu juries. 25o at Mo-Bride's.
Treating Wrong Disease.
Many times women call on their family
physicians, suffering, as thev imagine,
ono from dyspepsia, another 'from heart
disease, another from liver or kidney
disease, another from nervous exhaustion
or prostration, another with pain here and
then-, and in this way they all present
alike to themselves and their easy-going
and indifferent, or over-busy doctor, sep
arate and distinct diseases, for which ho,
assuming them to bo such, prescribes his
pills and potions. In reality, they are all
only tymuUnu caused hv some uterine
disease. The physician, ignorant of the
antsc of suiferinff. encourages this prac
tice until large bills are made. The suf
fering patient gets no better, but probably
worse, by reason of the deiay, wrong
treatment and consequent complications.
A proer medicine like Dr. Pierce's Fa
vorite Prescription, directed to Vie cause
would have entirely removed the disease,
thereby dispell. ng all those distressing
symptoms, and instituting comfort in
stead of prolonged misery. It has been
well said, that "a disease known is half
cured." ,
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a
sciontliic medicine, carefully devised by
an experienced and skillful physician,
and adapted to woman's delicate system.
It is made of native medicinal roots and
Is perfectly harmless in its effects in any
condition of the nyHtcm.
As a powerful invigorating tonic "Fa
vorite Prescription " imparts strength to
the wholo system and to the organs dis
tinctly feminine In particular. For over
worked, "worn-out," "run-down," debili
tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers,
seamstresses, "shop girls," house-keepers,
nursing mothers, and feeble women gen
erally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is the greatest earthly boon, being un
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As a soothing and strengthening nerv
ine "Favorite Prescription " is unequaled
and is invaluable in allaying and sub
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nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration,
neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, chorea, St.
Vitua's dance, and other distressing, nerv
ous symptoms commonly attendant upon
functional and organic diseaso of tho
uterus. It induces refreshing sleep- and
relieves mental anxiety and despondency.
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets Invigorate
tbe stomach, liver and bowels. Ono to
three o dose. Easy to take as candy.
VVVVWVA
HENRY KEEN'S
Barber Shop .
Shaving, Haircutting,
Shampooing, Massage
for Face and Scalp.
HOT BATHS
Shop North Side Main
Street, Athena, Ore.
If there is no Piano in the house,
one should be purchased or at least
hired. And it should be one of the
BEST PIANOS
shown iu our rooms. These instru
ments are the perfection of mechan
ical workmanship and are unexcelled
sor sweetness and richness of tone.
STANLEY PIANO HOUSE,
.Main Street, Walla Walla, Wash
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THE WRICHT LIVERY
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COOD HORSES AND RICS. REASONABLE PRICES
DRIVERIFURNISHED WHEN DESIRED- I
Horses boarded. by the day, week or month 1
Stables on 2nd street, South of Main street j
J. r. Wright, - . - Proprietor
Foley's Kidney Cure
makes kidneys and bladder right
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You should see them. 140 New
Skirts for Misses and Women in all
the new plaid effects
$4.50 up
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