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ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1906.
NUMBER 83.
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The Sale will include the entire stock of Men's Suits,
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SALE WILL BEGIN WEDNESDAY
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AND LASTS UNTIL CHRISTMAS EVE
Just as many fine words can be written about some
worthless article as about a good one. We will not
say how good our Clothing is, but we want your
judgment on them. Ed Manasse invites you to call
and examine for yourself. Such an opportunity to buy
good, dependable Clothing at these prices will not oc
cur soon in Athena. rN Is
$17.50 Suit will sell until Xmas for . . . . . . . .$12.00
$15.00 Suit will sell until Xmas for. ... . . . 9.90
$12.50 Suit will sell until Xmas for... . . 8.95
$10.00 Suits will sell until Xmas for , . , , . 6.90
$7.50 Suit will sell until Xmas for 6.10 "
$17.50 Overcoat will sell until Xmas for ... 12.50
$15.00 Overcoat until Xmas for . ...... , 10.20
$12.50 Overcoat until Xmas for . . . . .... . 9.90
$10.00 Overcoat until Xmas for .;..'. . 6 85
$10.00 Boys' Suit until Xmas . . 7.35
$7.50 Boys' Suits until Xmas. . . ... ... 4.90.
$5.00 Boys' Suits until Xmas. . . . . . . . . . J 3.45
$5.00 Men's Pants will sell until Xmas for 3.10
$3 50 Men's Pants will sell until Xmas for 2.40
$2.75 Men's Pants will sell until Xmas for 1.85
$1.25 Boys' Long Pants will sell until Xmas .85
65c Boys' Short Pants will sell uutil Xmas 40c
The prices we are making on this Clothing will warrant yon in buying to supply your wants for the
future, as the values are better than ever before offeredln Umatilla oounty, and we are here to prove it.
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ED. MANASSE
' Agent for Butterick's Patterns. ;
THE UP-TO-DATE STORE, cAthena, Oregon
Good Groceries, Coffee and Tea 1
In this trinity should the grocer build his business temple. The
. difficulty is not great, but it is 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 js selected with the same care and discretion.
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CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN
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RIVER RUNS AWAY
Puyallup Becomes Independ
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LEAVES NORTHERN PACIFIC DRY
The New Highwater Mark Gives
Valuable-Pointers to Chicago,
Milwaukee and St Paul
Tbe Puyallup river, wbioh at
Auburn was utilized by tbe Northern
Paoiflo railroad company for supply
ing a water tank tbat feeds tbe rail
road locomotives , on tbe Portland
Seattle rnn, has escaped from --tbe
company and is running away into
the Chuck river watercourse some
miles distanoe from tbe water . tank.
Tbe company is digging a large well
at tbe tank to supply tbe looomotives,
and engineers are figuring on plans for
recapturing the runaway Puyallup
and bringing it back to its bed.
It was during tbe recent' floods in
Washington that the gay Puyallup
went on a rampage and deoided to
elope with the Chuck. It went out
over its banks and aftei effeoting a
union with its neighbor a deeper
channel was cut in the latter stream
and tbe man way abandoned its old
course entirely, leaving tbe railroad
company in the lurch and tbe fine
truss bridge at Auburn spanuing a dry
ravine. -
While Northern PaoiQo people have
been put to great expense and trouble
by tbe floods, tbe water has taught
many valuable lessons in time to the
engineers of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul railway oompauy, now
building to tbe sound and Portland.
It bag shown them new high water
marks and given tbem pointers on
where to run their , lines io avoid
future floods. II. 8. ' Kowo general
agent for tbe Milwaukee in Portland,
speaking of the effeot of tbe floods on
construction work in Washington,
said:
'.'The Milwaukee's grades are wash
ed in numerous places, but uo serious
damage has been done by tbe floods'
along our route, for tbe reason tbat our
work was not far enough along to be
very much hurt. The grades have
bee a completed in many plaoes, but
there were no ties or iron on tbem,
and the washing down of tbe embank
ments is easily and quickly remedied.
Tbe floods were the greatest ever
known in western Washington. They
have served a very useful purpose for
the engineers of the Milwaukee road.
' At Seattle the flood scenes were
almost unbelievoable. Mauy acres
of suburban property where people
bad bought oheap lots and acreage
truots and built little homes were en
tirely under water." ,
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WISH TO BUY POSTAL SERVICE
Syndicate of Capitalisti Will Submit
Offer to Run Mail Service.
A Washington special says Uncle
Sam will be asked to turn over to a
syndicate of capitalists the conduct of
the postal business. Tbe joint com
mittee of congress investigating postal
abuses and intrusted with recom
mending reforms, which has been in
session in New York, has resumed its
meetings and W. D. Boyce, of Chica
go, will go before the committee witn
a bona fide offer made by substantial
capitalists to take over from tbe gov
ernment the postal business and re
lieve it of all the great expense at
tached. The offer baa several objects. It is
trne tbat capitalists have been found
who believe that money can be made
by a monopoly of the postal business.
Whereas tbe government has failed to
make tbe postoffice a paying institu
tion, the capitalists believe that by tbe
introduction of business methods tbey
can put tbe department upon a divi
dend paying basis. Wells-Fargo Ex
press company saw enough money in
tbe monopoly to offer the government
a bonns of $1,000,000 a year if per
mitted to run . the poetofllce. The
proposition is presented in good faith
and will serve tbe donble purpose of
emphasizing with tbe publio tbe fact
tbat there are capable business men in
the country who believe that tbey can
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give tbe people penny postage aud an
excellent service, as good as that per
formed by the government. Tbe offer
will have tbe effeot of showing to tbe
people tbat these business men, who
will give satisfactory bond, will
guarantee to give tbe patrons of the
postoffice reduoed postage rates,
which tbe department officials nnite
in reporting tbe government cannot
afford to do.
Tbe proposition broadly stated, is
that the government shall withdraw
from the field of controlling a public
utility and shall place tbe bnsiuess of
transporting end delivering the mail
i i private bands, as the express busi
ness is today conducted. Tbe capital
ists wbo are willing to assume tbe
burden will pay tbe government
rental for tbe postoffice buildings all
over the country aud will charge the
government regular rates of postage
upon its mail, which is now carried
free under frank and penalty stamps.
It is roughly estimated that tbe gov
ernment would offset in money re
ceived from rentals of tbe buildings
the charge it would annually be re
quired to pay for the transportation
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NEW PHASE OF COAL FAMINE
Citizens' of Winona, Whitman County,
Confiscate 0. B. & NfcCoal.
P. T. Abbot, ). R. & N. agent at
Colfax hag made ft demand for the ar
rest of six citizeus of Winona, a small
town in the' western part of Whitman
oonnty, demanding tbat they be offi
cially acoused of larceny and arrested
on that charge. The alleged oifeuse is
the theft of company coal from a car
at that plaoe. Tbe demand was made
by order of Division Superintendent
Tbomaa Walsh of tbe O. R. & N. at
Tekoa.
Last Wednesday a oar of coal was
received at Winona, consigned to tbe
agent at that place. Many families
in the town were entirely ont ot coal
and suffering extremely beoause of tbe
cold weather. In many instances chil
dren were sent to neighbors wbo bad
some f nel to keep tbem from suffering
extremely from tbe cold. Leading
merchants and business men offered
to buy the coal to prevent further
suffering but were met by a refusal
whereupon the oitizens . colled
enough money to pay for theire.
car of 20 tons at the rate of $8 a ton
and deposited tbe money with Stewart
Small, a merchant. Tbey then ap
pointed a weighing master and pro
ceeded to help themselves to tbe ooal.
Tbe entire car was appropriated and
distributed to tbe people who were out,
each getting abont half a ton.
- Tbe proseouting attorney ref used to
file an information, giving as bis rea
son that no jury in Whitman county
could be found who would convict
these men.
10 SILL BOYS KIDNAPPED
Police of Sandusky, Ohio, Try to lelzi
. the Children.
In an effort to looate two boys who
were kidnapped or mysteriously dis
appeared in Sandusky, Ohio, July I?
1809, the chief of polioe of that city
is sending circulars throughout tbe
land seeking informaton as to tbe
whereabouts of tbe children, iu hopes
tbat tbe parents of the boys may learn
something to their advantage.
On tbe nigbt of July 13, 1899, two
boys, Joseph Wirth aud Willie Missig,
aged 10 and 11 years respectively were
playing on the streets of Sandusky, O.
Tbat was tbe last seen or heard of
tbem. Tbe boys weie either kidnap.
ped or strayed away. All efforts to
looate tbe missing children have been
in vain and for seven years tbe pareuts
ot both boys have been searching the
wide world over.
Tbe circular which tells tbe story
gives tbe boys pnotograpns, taken
wben each child was small and per
haps tbey have greatly changed in
looks by this time. Tbo circulars are
being sent to every police offloe in tbe
world, and every effort is being made
to find tbe children wbo are no??
almost grown to manhood. '
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No Poor at Baker
Tbat there is not a poor family in
Baker City which is in need has been
proven as a result of a chance meeting
between a conple of old time friends
wbo had not seeu each other in 18
years, and tbe attempt of one ot tbem
to repay a loan ot $20 made by tbe
other at a time of dire need. For
three days C. M. Mullen, tbe well
known mining man wbo fell into sud
den wealth by tbe sale of tbe Ox Bow
power site a few months ago, has been
trying to donate a fine large tnity
with some celery, cranberries and
sweet potatoes, to every worthy poor
person in tbe city. Bis efforts have
beon vain, however, and after pro
longed search, Mr. Mullen has been
compelled to abandon his task and has
disposed of his stock of good things
to eat by presenting tbem to his
friends. '
estimates. It will require a couple ot
days at least to complete this work and
it is expected tbat tbe consolidation
will then be made. No one oonneoted
with either paper seems inclined to
discuss tbe proposition but the facta
have leaked out and tbe only thing
tbat will stand in tbe way of consum
mating tbe deal will be a disagree
ment at tbe last moment over tbe
question of valuation.
. Work Resumed
Active work is low going on on the
East Umatilla project after some delay
qn aocouot of the reoent floods. Forty
men are now at work on tbe headgate
with about a dozen teams, wbioh will
be completed in abont a week. Two
hundred and fifty men are at work on
different parts of the projeot Tbe
upper end of tbe ditch will be earth
for about a half mile", then cornea a
half mile of rock section, and a little
below Echo there will be a mile of
cemeut gravel, all of which requires
different work in different sections
along tbe di'ch to tbe Columbia.
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New Corporation With Fifty Million
Capital to Be Formed
Tbe recent advance in the price of
the shares of the Paoiflo States Tele
phone and Telegraph -company has at
tracted considerable attention within
tbe last few days, say San Francisco
advioes. On November 1 tbe shares
of the company were rather slow at
$100 per share, while yesterday 110
was t-id, but nothing obtainable at
less than f 113. For the last 10 days
'.here has been some quiet buying ot
tbese shares at prioes in excess of
1105.
In explanation in tbe rise of values
it is anuounoed that the company
will undergo ooniplete reorganization
and a new oompauy is to be organized
under the laws of California with
$50,000,000 capital to take over tha
stock of the present concern. It will
be divided into 132,000,000 preferred
aud 117,000,000 stock. Bonds will be
issued to rebuild and extend the lines
of tbe company. .
The expansion of bnsiuess during
tbe last ten years has exceeded the
company's expectations, and on tbe
showing of reoent years tbe company
bas determined to extend its lines to
every village and bamlet within the
borders of tbe territory. Eighteen
million dollars is to be used for this
purpose.
SALE OF SOME INDIAN LANDS
Four Tracts Advertised for Sale Dur
ing February.
Fonr traotsof inherited lands on tbe
Umatilla reservation, tbe total
amount being 321 acres, will be sold
at auction to tbe highest bidder dur
ing tbe month of February, the bids
to be opened by O. C. Edwards, super
intendent and agent of the Umatilla
reservation. The traots and tbe dates
of sale are as follows : '
Walla Walla 411 Joseph R. Ren
ville, sole heir, 41 acres. Bids to be
opeuod at noon on February 23, 1907.
Umatilla 106 -Isaiah White, sole
heir, 80 aores, bids to be opened at
noon, Febrnary 14, 1907.
Walla Walla 223. Louise Britten,
by James Britten, sole heir, 160 acres,
bids to be opened at tioon, February
14, 1907.
Walla Walla 408 Emeline Pam-
burn, sole heir, 40 aores, bids to be
opened at noon, February 14, 1907.
Now In Chicago.
P. A. Worthington, O. R. & N.
Right of way agent, and seoretary of
tbe board of regents of tbe Weston
Normal, lis now in Chicago on a
business trip. He was registeied at
the Kaiserhof last Sunday. East
Oregonian.
LAW POINTS.
The authority of a clerk of a district
court to take a ball boud was denied
In Territory ex rel, Tbacker versus
Woodrlng (Okla.) 1 I It. A. (N. S.), 843.
Tbe failure of the court In a criminal
case to InterpoHO objections to Improp
er questions made by a Juryman is
held. In State versus Crawford (Minn.),
1 I,. U. A. (X. 8.), Sr1!).. not necessarily
to be revernlblo error Iu" the absence
of objection or exception by counsel.
The right of a bank to apply to- the
personal obligations of a commission
merchant money Vneeivod for produce
sent him for sale anil deposited by him
in his general account In the bank is
denied In Bajie versus Northwestern
National bank (Wis.). 1 L. It. A. (N. S.),
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TALES OF CITIES.
Papers to Consolidate
Tbe Walla Walla Morning Union
aud Evening Statesman are to be con
solidated it tbe owners agree upon tbe
valuation of tbe plants, says tbe
Bulletin. O. R. Ball, manager of tbe
American Type Fouudet's', eompanyl
of Portland, bas arrived in the city
and afcer a conference with A. R.
Burford, commenced taking jovoics ot
the two plauta, be baviug coma by re
quest of both parties to make up the
DEATH QfAPRIHGESS
Mrs. Amos Underwood Daugh
ter Of Chief Chenowith:
LIFE OFBOiANCE AND SORROW
Belle of Pioneer Days Wedded Promi
nent Army Officer But Refused
to Follow Him From State.
Chicago has put Kh freight traffic In
stead of Its passengers below the sur
face of the streetH.
The population of Brooklyn at the
time of consolidation was 838,000. It
is now 1,358,000, a gain of 620,000, rel
atlvely larger than Manhattan's.
Where oiulon consumes 90,000,000
gallons of water a day New York: con
tiumes 500,000,000. Where London has
Hria area of 118 square aiies, Vw Yflr
Tbe death of Mrs. Amos Underwood
and her funeral at Hood River, which
has just been coudupted aooording to
the rites of the remnant of the power
ful tribe of Indians that once swarmed
along the bauks of the Columbia river,
has caused old pioneers to reveal the
faot that her life was one of romance
and sorrow in her youth, and also
that she was a great belle in her time
and was tbe wife of a prominent army
officer. .
As the story goes, aooording to one
of the few white settlers who was
here in the late sixties, Mrs. Under
wood was tbe danghter of Chief
flhnrtftunth of fat tnKnm n nmn in .
named on tbe Washington side of the
river, and who, in company with six
other Iudians, was executed at Cas
cade Looks for tbe massacre wbioh
took plaoe there in which 32 whites
were murdered.
Chenowith and his companions
claimed tbey were innocent, but after
an investigation were deemed guilty
and shot During their trial aud ex
eoution an army officer who was
stationed at Fort Dalles saw Mrs.
Underwood and became enamored of
her and asked her hand in marriage.
It is related that she refused to
countenance his advances, as she did
not care for him, bnt was prevailed on
finally to accept him tbiough tbe in
fluence of Indiaus of her tribe, who
thought that it was a good diplomatic
move and would Becnre the favor of
the great soldier against further chas
tisement.
So they were married and " for two
years lived together, but not happily,
as the Indian maiden is said to have
never recovered her repugnance to the -
man who was indrectly responsible for.
her father's death. At the end of
two years the army officer was trans
ferred to California and tried to per
suade his wife to go with him, but
she refused to do so and he went to his
post of duty. After a time he re
turned and . made another plea to
whioh she was also adamant, aud he
then went to Alaska, where he was
sent by the government, and is said
to have returned no more.
Atferward she met Amos Undersvood
wbo was one of the few white set
tlers iu this part of tbe country at
tbat time, and an Indian fighter of
great renown and wbo came into Ore
gon iu 1852. To him she was be
trothed and several ohildren . were
born to them, the bodies of two of
whom were exhumed at tbe time of
the funeral and reburied alongside
tbat of their mother with the cere
monies of tbe Indiaus of her tribe.
The ceremony was oonduoted by
Indian Jim, who for several years nas '
been engaged in tbe work of remov-,
ing the bones of his tribemen from
bnryiug grounds near the tiver back
to the, spot where Mrs. Underwood'
was buried, and wbiob, it is consider
ed, will be undisturbed for a great .
many years to come. It was Mrs.
Underwood's desire that she bo
buried according to the custom of her
raoe aud the family respected . her
wishes.
A PLANT FOR STATE PRINTER
Willis b. Buniway Will Invest In'
Hew Printing Material.
' To Cur Constlpulloit Forever.
t jilio Cwmtu Caaay othurtio. lOoorZna
C C- C. (ill to cure, Iwiuui rufuiul wodo
A new printing plant for the new
state printer, Willis S. Duniway, iu
the canitol of Salem, will tnkn tha
plaoe of the present plant, owned by
maun u. JBaner, ex-state printer, and
will be operated ou and after Duni
way's assumption of the offioe.Jariuary
14, 1907, 'says a " Portlaud paper.
Negotiations for the sale of tbo old
plant were considered by the two par
ties for some time, but it is understood
tbat a price conld not be agreed ou.
Baker says that should the legislature
put Duniway on a salary he will give
the old plant to the state. The new
presses will arrive -for Duuiway'a
plant early next month, and two are
already on hand. Typo aud other
accessories have been ordered, whioh
will bring the total oost up to be
tweon $18,000 and $14,000. The new
machinery will be installed before.
January 14, bo that Duniway will be
ready to turn out the legislature's"
printing ou the very first day.
"A dangerous eurgioal oporationf
involving the removing of a malign
ant uloer as large as my hand fiorn
my daughter' hip, was prevented by .
tUa application" of Buokleu'a Arnica
Salve," says A. C. Stickel, of Mile
tus, W. Va. "PersiBtent use of the
salve completely cured it." Cures
cuts, burns aud injuries. 25o at JIc-Bride'a.
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