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fa JMhf nil xt s AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER TwIOB-A-WeIEK TCRSDAT AND FRIDAY F. B. BOVU, I'l-BLIKIIEg. Entered M second-class matter, March 1J 19W, at the postoffice at Athena, Oregon Under an Actot ronitress of March 8, 1879 Subaorlptlon Ratti s p i year, In advance 12.00 Single copies In wrappers, 5c, Looaireadlng notices, nrstlnserllon.lOcper Joe, Each subsequent Insertion. 5c. ATHENA, ORE., DEC. 4,. 1906 k It may be stated that coal land frauds now beiug investigated at Salt Lake may be iustrumetnal iu turning tbe western coal fields under govern ment control. Tbe feature of tbe in vestigation was tbe testimony of George . Holliday, tbe original locater of tbe SunnyBido rniuo, now owned by ' tbe Utah Fuel company. He told tbe story how he located tbe mine iu 1897 aud was visited by agents of tbe coal oompany and given tbe alternative of telling for a few hundred dollars or of being driven off. Holliday went to Salt Lake and interviewed tbe officials of tbe coal company and tbe Bio Grande railroad and told tbem "God never made a man who could take from me what I honestly came by, and If yon jump my propnrty I will come and settle with yon, and not with your hired assistants." The witness organized tbe Holiday Coal company urd started development. He left for Alaska, but at Portland received a wire uotifing bim that tbe property had been jumped. He le- j turned and was advised by tbe stock holders of tbe company to go over to the Suunyside property peaceably. He was met by seveu men armed with Winchesters and fired upon. Litiga tion followed and tbe majority stock holders decided to sell out to tbe Bio Grande interests for $20,700. Other witnesses testified to tbe existence-, up to August last, of a secret rate for the Utah Fuel company by tbe Bio Grande, making a difference iu some cases of $200 a car on all supplies for tbe mines aud company stores. department's invaluable work for tbe improvement of seed aud of cultiva tion methods. At an average of 10 cents a bushel, this year's crop will return to the furmerg tbe tremendous sum of fl, 125.438,000, as against $1,- 116,696,000 estimated by the depart meut of agriculture .os to the- income from the larfieet previous crop, that of 1905, when the yield was 2,707, 993,000 bushels. Stockholders of tbe Pennsylvania railroad have been paid a semi-annual dividend of 3 1-2 per cent on their holdings. This dividend completes a remarkable record of 50 years, during which time tbe Pennsylvania has never failed to pay a cash dividend at each semi annual period. Tbe first dividend in May,' 1856, of 4 per cent, was on $10,886,004, and amounted to ida,4io. roe dividend or 3 1-2 per cent just pafd ia on $:105,794 500 stock and amouuta to $10,702,807. Includ ing tbe present dividend, tbe total cash dividends paid by tbe Pennsyl vania during the half century aggre gate $269,116,854. Tbe total cusb and scrip dividonds together are $294, 628,993, an amount nearly equalling tbe present capital stock. An exchange says there are many farmers iu all seotions of tbe oouutiy who do not study tbe proposition of saving t.beir strength or tbat of help in their employ, but go at their work like a steam shovel into a buuk of eaitb. Suub men will often be seou closing a gate in tbe field and after wards jumping over tbo fence; they did not tbiuk uuont passing through until after it was olosed. They will paok fodder corn ou tbeir back into tbe barn and feeding yard from tbe field without a thought ot using a push cart or stone bout aud horse for tbat purpose. Tbey will be seen with water and slop pails in tbeir bauds carrying drink to the stock where an open trough or underground pipe would conduct the same into tbe pens nud ' yards at a email expense and a groat saving of strength aud tiuio, wbicb means money, when help costs two dollars per day the prevailiug price for anything who wore trousers iu the field this sum met regardless ot his ability or willingness to ,do farm work iu au intelligent man nor. Tbe November Crop Reporter, pub lished by tbe agricultural depart ment, estimates the year's corn crop at 2,881,096,000 bushels, or an aver Bgeof!t0.2 bushels pur aero, ua com pared with an average yield of 29.8 bushels as finally estimated in l!IO.r), 208. bushels iu 1901 and u ten year average of 23.2 bushi'ls. This indi cates a steady ineieiistv in the corn crop per year, duo iu large pait to the A town tbat never bps anytbiug to do iu a publio way is on tbe way to tbe cemetery. Any citizen who will do nothing for his town is helping to dig tbe grave. A man who curses tbe town furnishes tbe coffin. Tbe man who is so selfish as to have no time from his own business to give to the city affairs, is making the shroud. The man who will not advertise is driving tbe hearse. The ma"n who is always pulling baok from any public enterprise throws .boquets on the grave. The man who is so stingy as to be howling hard tiaies.p teaches tbe funeral sermon, sings the doxology aud thus the town lies buried from all care aud sorrow. Iudustry waits closely upon legisla tion. Already western farmers are considering tbe planting of crops from which they can manufacture alcohol, to be denatured and used as a source of power. There is a great desire for some cheap and effective substitute for gasoline, the supply ot whioh is limited aiid tbe price of whioh has steadily udvauoed for several years. There are two ways of spending a dollar. You can spend it at home, gain an easy conscience, make another friend and perhaps get the dollar baok tomorrow, or you send it away, feel that you have sinuod, offend tbe home merchant aud forever lose tbe dollar aud tbe blessed influence for Rood to yourself aud neighbor. Corn cobs are for "maple syrup" aud denatured alcohol. Corn and wheat are now to be used for making artificial rubber fur automobile aud bioycle tires and for golt balls iu fact for any use to which rubber is put. Belvu Lockwood says it is just as necessary for women to study the law us to loam to cook. A good many other women soem to tuke the same view of the case, aud tbey are not studying luw either. s , Naturally be president hopes that tbo couutry will not become so in terested iu tbe dismission of the fact that he is iu favor of spelling reform as to torgot that be is opposed to ince suicide. 'I he bank exauiiuer is a good deal like a streak of lightning. The worst has alreudy happened when we hear the report. SHIP-SUBSIDY LOOT . All our udvojutes of ship tiuhsidy are iu the position of those who make complaint that our ocean carrying trade is done at too clamp a rate, aud lepce in House furnishing In selecting furuituro aud carpels tor your home let quality tie the first consideration select pieoes of distinctive grace, beauty and sterling worth, tbat will be a pleasure to look upon and that will serve tbeir pur pose, not for a month or year, but all through life. Such styles aud qualities are now shown at our store, in larger varieties than you cau find within many huudiod miles ot Wolla VVallu. Come iu the next time you are iu tbe oity and give us an opportunity to show you through our store. WE PAY the Frelgbfwhon till amounts to $10 or over. Use Our Rest Rooms TIIEDAVIS-KASERCO. Make t Your appointments! . Here Everything to Furnish the Home. 12 11 1t 18 20 22 Alder Street, WALLA WALLA, : WASH T the government therefore ought to step iu aud pay subsidies out of tbe treasury, iu addition to tbe freight money now oharged against the goods. This ia preoisely what all tbe argu ments for ship subsidy come to. It is complained that American ships oan make no money in carrying the products f our country to foreign markets because foreign ships carry tbem at so low a rate. Hence our subsidy advooates are actually con tending tbat freight rates on our pro ducts to foreign countries ought to be raised, by taking money iu large sums directly out of tbe treasury, and turn ing it over to shipowners. We are iu a continual fight with our tailroad managers to get lower rail rates, aud are reduoing tbe rail rates by law, all along tbe line; yet we are told tbat ship rates are too low, and must oe increased by direot payments out of tbe publio treasury. Tbe. miser able foreigner is doing our ocean serv ice, or much of it, for us too cheap, and we are oppressed thereby. It is tbe shallowest argument ever made for , loot of tbe publio treasury. Tbe object is enriobment of hew syn dioates, formed for plunder. Every thing ou land having been appropri ated, attention turns toward tbe sea; but since tbo sea is the free highway of natious, monopoly in tbe carriage ol our products over it cau be had ouly through tbe subsidy method. It is "protection" gone mad. A proposition of this nature is, however, notice, acknowledgement or proof that the essenoe of the so-called priuciple is enrichment or a few among us at the expense of the many. Since foreign ships oan and do carry our products at rates admittedly low too low for our own competition why uot permit them to oontinue it? Why pay sub sidies and build up a new set of mil lionaire monopolists and plutooratio syndicates at home, ' at the expense of toe people on either side of tbe game; who are to be charged ou the one baud higher rates for transportation of tbeir products, aud then are to be robbed ou the other hand by takinsr money tbey nave paid in the. form of taxes into the treasury and putting it as freight money into the pockets of tbe ship subsidy exploitation? ' Secretary Boot, in - bis speech at Kansas City, seemed to think tbat tbe argument for subsidy was complete, when ho remarked tbat England was paying to steamship Jines several mil lion dollars a year, whioh makes com petition by us costly and difficult But Great Britain is an island em pire; her chief thought always must be of the sea ; her political situation and her vast colonial interests require her to pursue a policy not necessary for us; ana, after ' all, the few millions she pays fcr assistance of steamship Hues is but a bagatelle in proportion to her vast commercial, shipping and naval interests. With her colonies and dependencies she must maintaiu couueotious; aud incidentally she is iu position to do much of our ocean transportaion at lower rates than we can ever do it for ourselves. Strange to say, we have people who are dissatisfied because England and some other countries are in posi tion to work for us so cheap. Yet tbe whole agitation tor tbe ship subsidy bill uow before cougress has its origin in the designs of a body of franchise- grabbers and subsidy-mongers ou the. treasury of tbe United States. Ex haustion of other schemes has con centrated their efforts upon this one. Portland Uregoniau. RAILROAD COMMISSION It is said that the new railroad rate law, which wliJ be presented to the legislature in January, will provide for the creation of a railroad commis sion of three members, each of whom shall receive a salary of $5000 an nually. Such a salary may seem large to many, but if there is need of such a commission tbe individuals composing it should be ot the very highest char acter aud should be paid accordingly. Wo have bad cheap railroad commist sioners. We have paid tbem $3000 a year whou us a matter of fact tbey did uot euro $1000. It is to the advantage of the railroads as well as to individ ual shippers tbat tbe personnel of tbe commission shall be meu of not only the highest iutegrity, but meu of souud judgment aud a knowledge of the business thoy are to supervise. Muu cau be secured to serve the peo ple ut a salary of $5000 a year who cau be dopended upou to do tbeir duty and who will be above the possibility of enrruptiou. A commission com posed of men williug to work for two or three thousand dollars a year might prove to be in evety way worthy tbe coufldcuco reposod iu them, but tbe people cauuot afford to take chances in hiring cheap meu when taere is so much at stake us there is la the con flicts that constantly arise between the railroads and their patrons. THE BIG-SHIP MANIA With tbe sea trials of tbe huge Dreadnought exoeeding expectations and three new fighting monsters contracted for, tbe big battleship theory has become a formidable con dition iu England. The example of increased naval armament is there for other nations to accept or confess tbeir limitations. Tbe fact that our bureau of naval construction is working on plans for a 20,000 tou battleship to match the Dreadnought and tbe an nouncement tbat Americau battleships may be built to equal tbe new English craft iu fighting efficiency show the drift toward naval "Jumbomania" here. Where is the eud to be it eaob new battleship is constructed with a view single to is superiority over its prede cessors? Tbe 21-knot Dreadnought, a floating fortress with the speed of a cruiser, dooms soores of battleships of au old pattern to tbe scrap heap, as our own 19-kuot Virginia and Bhod Island, together with the new Con necticat, havf tbade our best ships of the Spuuish war obsolete. -New York World. 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