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ATHENA. ORE.. SEPT. 13 1907
Over in Grant county they really
class an Indian along with the whites
when it comes to hunting without a
liceusn. In this county the "injun"
is preferred stock, is allowed to bunt
at will, no attention teiug paid to li
cense ,and this in face of the fact that
whites are not allowed to fish or hunt
on the reservation. Over at Canyon
City, the Blue Mountain Eagle says:
"On complaint of Forest Ranger Ar
thur Bennett, a warrant was issued
out of Justioe of the Peace Chambers'
court last Friday for the arrest of.four
Piute Indians who had come over from
Burns and were bunting on upper Can
yon creek without being in possession
of a hunters license. They were ar
rested iu town and haled into court
and lined $25 each ty the justice and
ou default of the money were put iu
jail tut were released Saturday and
told to "bias klatawa" out of the coun
ty, which they immediately proceeded
to do. Before leaving eaoh procured
a hunters' license. They were accom
panied by their squaws and a baud of
ponies and had bees bunting and trap
ping beaver on Canyon creek for some
time."
With its monstrous 160-page Fifth
Anniversary number, Sam Jackson's
Oregon Daily Journal came out of
Por'laud into the Oregon country Sun
day morning, the greatest newspaper
triumph ever given the people of the
Paoiflo Northwest by any publisher.
The edition comprises 160 pages, and
nothing of interest in Oregon is left
untouched. In it 90 tons of paper were
used, and it cost $20,000 to complete
the big edition ready for the mails.
The supplement, containing flue Lalf
tone outs and descriptive reading mat
ter is printed on calendared paper and
exoels typographically and mechanic
ally any printed product before at
tempted iu Oregon.
Not many days ago tho owner of
about ouo-half acre of heavily loaded
puur trees in the Yakima seotiou of
Washington, was offered $3000 for the
crop on the trees. He refused it and
by doing so made $1500 as he has com
pleted the deal whoroby eastern buyers
take tho output for $3500. The peais
aretheBuorre d'Anjou variety. Fifty
four trees yield enough to fill 1000
boxes, worth $3.50 eaoh.
Tho asauranoe of a good school iu
Athoua acts like a magnet iu attrac
ting peoplo who have children to ed
ucate. Vacant houses are filling up
rapidly, so fast iu fact, that but few
desirable rosidouoos remain unoccu
pied. A good school does more to
build homes iu a town than anything
vise that can bo offered as an induce
ment. Good sohools are bouse fillers.
The Methodist church of Iudiaua,
whioh holds prohibition as one of its
modern teuets, is somewhat exoited
over the question whether Fairbanks,
with bis cocktail record, shall repre
sout tho church attbequadreuuialcou
ferouce. Fairbanks is finding it rather
difficult to bold the prohibitiouists and
the liquor peoplo both iu line for his
presidential boom.
Baukor SobifT of Wall Street stands
up for Fresidont.lloosevelt and deolaies.
to blame bim for the difficulties iu
wbioh we iind ourselves is both
thoughtless nud unjust. There is a
suspicion that Mr. Sohitf has been
milking money ou the hear side of the
market aud tho presidential policies
bavo helped bim.
It uow turns out that the carved
medicine chest which was presouted to
the president by uu army oflloer, was
manufactured at the army cabinet
sUoplu the Philippines at a cost of
$153 to the government, aud the in
vestigation by Col. Garliugtou shows
a vast .amount of similar graft in the
quartermasters department.
Tom Lawson, the Boston speculator,
advertises to buy stocks. Henry Clews,
the Wall Street banker, advises great
caution. As long as the frenzied
financiers canuot agree it may Ue wise
to let them fight it out without your
assistance.
So niauy rich men, aud those who
WDuld be rich, have been "Btung" in
Wall Street or by depression iu busi-
uess, that the world reports automo
biles selling for one third their cost,
and almost a panic amongst the auto
factories and tbeir agents. Eight fail
ures up to date this season of automo
bile manufacturing concerns are reported.
Are we to understand that no guilty
trust or wealthy malefactor is to be
allowed to esoape?
SOLVING THE WEED PROBLEM.
lechnical World Magazine.
How to kill standing weeds in fields
of grain without injuring the crop is
one of the gravest problems that con
fronts the agriculturist of any country.
It is impossible to cultivate them - out
and, unless the farmer tramps through
bis grain field, pulling up each weed
by hand an impossible task they
must be left to grow with the grain,
drawing iu the moisture, spreading
rank leaves for the sunlight and ex
tracting nourishment from the soil.
The most persistent weeds occurring
iu the grain fields of the United States
are the wild mustard, Canada thistle
and rag weed. The wild mustard of
which there are over eighty species is
considered by farmers the most trouble
some. It is of so hardy a character
that its seed will survive in the soil
for ten year?. The mustard is also a
weed that harbors numerous vegetable
pests and parasites. Through large
areas of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota
and the Dakotas it infests fields to the
extent of giving the appearance when
in bloom of beiog a field of mustard.
Tho grain farmers of the Northwest
have a continual battle with wild
mustard. A few seeds will cover an
entire field in two years if not kept
down. It is impossible to eradicate it
where it has once taken hold. Iu some
fields where it bas not grown tco strong
Minnesota and Dakota farmers spend
several days with all the children and
women obtainable picking the weeds
from the fields during the month of
June. It is of no benefit to turn the
ground into meadow or pasture for the
seed will lie dormant for years and
when the sod is plowed will come up
again as great a pest as ever. Profes
sor R. A. Moore of the Department of
Agronomy of the Agricultural College
of the University of Wisconsin says,
"Hundreds of square miles of farming
land in the state whioh otherwise
would be the finest agricultural land
in Wisconsin are covered with mus
tard."
It is estimated that weeds out down
the yield of graiu in this country at
least twenty per oent. Under these
oonditious agriculturists have for sev
eral years occupied themselves iu the
attempt to discover a chemical that
can be used for spraying grain fields.
To make it a success it is necessary
that the chemical should destroy the
weeds but leave the cereals uninjured.
Dr. Frank bas carried on extensive ex
periments in Germany. Yorkshire
College, Leeds, has also made several
tests on farms in England. Numerous
methods of extermination have been
tried aud abandoned because they
were ineffective, injured the graiu
crop, poisoned stock or were too expen
sive. From this it is evident that any
means that can be found to destroy
these pests will mean one of tbe great
est discoveries for agriculture tbat bas
ever been made. No meobanioal in
vention in farm machinery will com
pare with it iu importauce.
Itoeunow be said with certainty
that such a discovery bas been made.
The first successful experiments were
attempted in June, 1906, by the Agri
cultural College of the University of
Wisoonsiu. The work bas been oarri
od ou under the direction of Professor
R. A. Moore. It should be leoalled
that the University of Wisconsin bas
already established a wide reputation
for itself. The Babcock milk test
whioh has saved more to the farmers
of Wisoonsiu than the cost of the
whole university from its fouudation
to the preseut timo, resulted from ex
periments at the Wisconsin Argicul
tural College. The formaldehyde
treatment for smut iu grain is also one
of the successful discoveries of tbe
same iustitutiou. Tbe discovery of a
practical method of eradicating weeds
will be of at least twice the value of
either of these.
Tbe experiments carried ou consist
iu spraying tho field with a ten per
cent solution of iron sulphate. The
idea or controlling wild mustard by
tbis method was oouoeived last year at
the University Exporiment Station.
The work was based on information
derived from Germany where experi
ments had beeu tried ou mustard.
Plans were laid to make tests on tbe
University farm as soon as the wild
mustaid appeared. No maohine for
the purposo is made iu this country.
A sprayer costing $135 was imported
from Germany. The tests on the Uni
versity farm were entirely successful.
Professor Moore then experimented on
other Wisconsin farms, in Dane, Ken
osba and Waukesha counties and at
Lynn. Lyons county, Minnesota. As
far as kuowu these are the only ex
perimeuts that have yet beeu made in
tbis oountty and iu every case there is
evidenoe tbat tbe weeds have beeu an
uihilated while there has beeu no per
ceptible injury to the grain. The grain
that have been tested are oats, barley,
wheat and spelts. No tests have been
mado on rye iu the United States, But
Professor Staglioh has had suooess in
spraying rye in Europe. Experiments
are also being made on Indian corn
and the results so far hare been sue
cesef ul. The only effect tbat is seen
on the graiu is the blackening of tbe
lower aud older leaves that are doomed
to wither eventually, while the young
leaves, that bring tbe oereal to matur
ity, are unharmed. There are no com
jl plaiuts from auy oeuter of duteriora-
This is not a Clearance Sale, nor a Mid-summer Sale; I am positively
going out if Business and my prices will convince you of the fact that
I am going to quit. So now is your opportunity to get Harvest Sup
plies cheaper than you ever did before. Stock is complete now. &
CASH WILL SAVE YOU CASH
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tiou either in the quality or quantity
of the grain crop sprayed. There has
been no difference observed in the time
at riuenine. No tests have been made
in this country on olover or grasses but
experiments made in Scotland show
that in do case was damage done to
the young olover or grass while tbe
mustard was entirely destroyed.
So far. tbe sulnbate of iron solution
is found to act definitely on mustard,
vellow dock, cockle bur. smart weed.
rait weed, and Spanish needles wmie
there is every reason to believe that
it will destroy Canada thistle. Pro
fessor Moore says, A sprayer of Ger
man make was recently snipped to tbe
college for use in this investigation
and I believe tbat it will mean tne
redemption of much laud now infested
with noxious weeds. Canada thistles
can eventually be killed off, too, but
they are perennials, sending up new
heads from the root, they must be
treated several times duting successive
seasons. Experiments along tbis line
are now being carried on by the sta
tion, but definite results cannot be ob
tained until another year shows
whether the thistle roots are killed, as
wo hope, by tbe frequent blighting or
the tops. "
Pineules are for tbe Kidneys and
Bladder. They bring quick relief to
backache, rheumatism, lumbago, tired
worn out feeling. They produce natu
ral action of tho kidneys. 80 days
treatment $1.00. Money refunded if
Pineules are not satisfactory. Pioneer
Drug Store.
Tbe old remedies are the best. Hick
ory Bark Cough Remedy bas been in
use for over one hundred years by the
old Dutch Dunkards of Pennsylvania,
and is still in use by all the old families
of Western Pennsylvania. Is abso
lutely pure; made from the bark of tbe
white or shell bark hickory tiee. The
bark is shipped from tbe east, and
manufactured in Walla Walla, Wash.
For sale by Palaoe Drug Store.
Cau you affoid to trifle with so
serious a matter as to neglect bad cold
or cough, when for a trifling amount
you can secure a bottle of "Hickory
Bark Cough Remedy, that is guaran
teed to cure or money refunded. Price
25c, 50o and $1.00, per bottle. For
sale by Palaoe Drum Store and dealers
everywhere.
Lost and Found.
Lost, between 9. SO p. m., yesterday
and uoou today, a bilious attack, with
nausea and sick headache. Tbis loss
was occasioned by finding at Wm
McBride's drug store a box of Dr.
King's New Life Pills Guaranteed for
biliousness, malaria aud jaundice. 250.
From
My $3,000 Stock of Groceries
Will be Sold Regardless of Cost
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A few doses of this remedy will in
variably cure an ordinary attack of
diarrhoea.
It can always be depended upon,
even in the more severe attacks of
cramp colic and cholera morbus.
It is equally successful for summer
diarrhoea and cholera infantum in
children, and i3 the means of saving
the lives of many children each year.
When reduced with water and
sweetened it is pleasant to take.
Every man of a family should keep
this remedy in his home. Buy it now.
Price, 25c. Large Size, SOc.
Sold in Athena by McBride.
The Crackers with a
Flavor
INLAND CRACKERS
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DRiVERIfURHlSHEP WHEN DESIRED-
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