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VOLUME XIX.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1907.
NUMBER 74
Come in and see for
pimrseiff
I invite you to call and inspect my line sf Christmas
and Holiday goods, consisting of the very latest and
swellest, uptodate Toilet Articles, Perfumes, cTWhisic
Rolls, Hand Bags, Stationer, Candies, etc.
The Pioneer Drug Store
BYRON N. HAWKS, Proprietor ;
ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Parton Milling Company :
Flour is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest
and best equipped mill in the west, of the best selected
Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. s Patronize home
industry. . Your grooer sells American Beanty for
Merchant Millers
Athena, Oregon.
What Makes it the Popular Route Fast?
The Northern Pacific Railway
ever has in mind the comfort of its patrons. ' Its through trans
continental trains are composed of new and modern equipment
wbiob is kept in perfect condition. The latest improvements are
found in day coaches, in standard . Pullman sleeping oars and in
diniug and observation cars. None but the most competent, civil
j and obliging employes are in charge.
The company tries to make the journey of its patrons pleasant
and its efforts are appreciated.
INQUIRE OF LOCAL AGENTS
The Northern Pacific Railway
A. D. CHARLTON, A. G. P. A., Nor. Pao. Ry., Portland, Ore.
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and Grain Buyers :
Waitsburg, Wash.
1 J. BODDY
WHOLESALE BUTCHER
Makes a Specialty of furnishing
Meat in Large Quantities.
First-class stock, Reasonable price
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STATE If L BE PAID
Surety Company Will Turn Over Drafts
Amounting to $109,388 to Cov
er Steel's Deposits.
The American Surety company will
pay to the state of Oregon 1409,388.88
between this date and December 31,
1909, to cover the amounts entangled
by State Treasurer George A. Steel
through his deposits in the defunct
Title Guarantee and xiast company
bank and the suspended Merchants
National bank.
On $295,910.68 of this sum the
Surety .company will pay interest to
the state at the rate of 5 per cent from
November 6 until Deoember 31, 1909,
or sucb time as the debt shall be paid.
This, in short, says the Portland Jour
nal, is the result of the agreement
which was reached by the representa
tives of the state in the office of Gov
ernor Chamberlain yesterday after
noon. In return for this settlement the
state assigns to the Surety company all
its interest in the securities held by it
against the Title Guarantee and Trust
j company and toe deposits Held by tne
I state in these institutinos.
The bonds of $50,000 given by the
Surety company in behalf of State
Treasurer Steel are cancelled and held
of no effect in any future act or omis
sion of the state treasurer Lbough they
are still held liable for any short
coming in the administration of Mr.
Steel for a date prior to the signing of
the agreement.
Incidentally the state treasurer, now
being without bond, other than bis
personal bond for $50,000 secured by
J. Tborburn Ross, Louis B. Glafke, J.
H. Peterson, J. W. Cook, M. B. Rank
in and Wallace McCamant, has been
required by Governor Chamberlain to
furnish new bonds in the sum of $600,-
QOO within 20 days from this date.
The agreoment entered into between
the Surety company and the state is a
lengthy document and goes into the
whole tangle in detail and minutely.
In the first place, it sets out the
bonds given by State Treasurer Steel
upon bis assumption of office and
shows that he gave one bond secured
by personal friends in the sum of
$50,000. This bond was given July
10. 1906, and was signed by J. Tbor
burn Ross, Louis B. Glafke, J. B. Pet
ersou, J. W. Cook. M. B. Rankin and
Wallace MoCamant.
On December 8, 1906, Mr. Steel also
gave a bond of $250,000, written ty
the Amerioan Surety company, while
on September 21, 1907, an additional
bond with the Surety company for
$300,000 was also given.
It is then set out that the Title Guar
antee & Trast company gave a bond of
$50,000 on June 11. 1907, as an active
depository for state funds, and on June
Holiday Greeting
The happy Christmas time is fast
approaoniug, and again we take
pleasure iu inviting you to inspeot
our new and well selected line of
Watohes, Clooks, Jewelry, Sojid
Silver and plated ware, Cut Glass,
Fountain Pens, Etc Do not forget
that we pride ourselves on our good
goods and low prices. We make
our reputation on euoh goodsas
Roger 1847 and Community v
Silverware
the finest in the world. Iu watches,
I carry only the best makes,
Howard, Hamilton, Wal
tham, Hamden movements,
With a large line of Gold and Gold
filled cases, to select from.
F. II. COOLIDGE
Jeweler
Athena, Oregon
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20 gave an additional bond for $50,000.
The Merchants' National bank gave
a bond for $40,000 January 14.-1907,
as surety for an active depository of
state funds.
The agreement then shows that fol
lowing January 14, 1907. State Treas
urer Steel deposited with the Title
Guarautee & Trust company funds ag
gregating $400,000, of which there re
mained as balances at the time of the
bank's failure the sum of $107,483.81
from the general funds of the state,
and a further balanoe of $288,426.81
from the general funds of the state,
and a further balanoe of $288,426.87
from the oommon school, the agricul
tural school and the uuiversity funds
of the state. It is further shown that
siuce January 14, 1907, Mr. Steel has
deposited with the Meiohauta' Natioual
bank the sum of $12,478.20.
The agreement then goes into the
assignment of securities by the Title
Guarantee & Trust oompany to Steel
to guard the state deposits, all of wnioh
have been set out by the press since the
failure of the bank and which includ
ed the M. B. Rankin deeds aud notes
and the other general securities.
The document then braucbes into
the agreement proper and states that
State Treasurer Steol had transferred
all the securities giveu bim by the
bank to the state to seoure it against
loss, and tbe surety company desired
to settle controversy between it and tbe
state qoiokly and without tbe trouble,
expense or delay of litigation iu spite
of the question of tbe oompany's lia
bility upon its bonds I bat it would
agree to pay a part of the total amouut
immediately and the rest on or before
December 31, 1909, with interest nt 5
per cent annually.
HALF A MILLION IN FRUIT
Wonderful Record Made by Growers
Near Milton and Freewater.
Some wonderful fruit-growing re
cords are shown iu reports trom the
Milton Freewater seotion, iu Walla
Walla valley just across the state line.
Praotioally half a million dollars
worth of fruit was shipped out of that
Iooality this season says the Walla
Walla Bulletin.
There are four produoe bouses iu
Milton aud Freewater, tbe Clalook
Company, the Walla Walla Produoe
Company, tbe Shields Frnit Company
and tbe Milton Fruit Growers' Union.
These bouses shipped out 410 full
carloads to other localities in addition
to forty carloads of local stuff and
fifty carloads of goods from the can
nery. Apples netted tbe farmers from $1
to $1.25 a box. One hundred carloads
of prunes netted the farmers $2 a ton
or $500 a car; fifty cars of peaches
averaged $400 a car and fifteen car
loads of pears averaged $700 a oar.
Fifteen thousand orates of straw
berries were shipped, averaging $2.75
a orate, and ten thousand crates of
other berries averaged $2 a crate.
All the prodnce houses but the
Shields have olosed and it has about a
carload of apples to send out.
Fruit-growing is receiving an im
petus in the Walla Walla valley and
farmers and owners of small tracts,
especially in tbe irrigated district,
have found it pays better than any
other crop.
One man living near Freewater has
supported himself and wife and wid
owed daughter and child for five years
off one acre of land, though they had
to be very frugal.
Milton's Biff Water Suit.
Tbe trial of the Peacock mill com
pany vs. Milton City, et al was resumed
in that city this week. Tbe trial of
this case was begun the first Monday
in Deoember last, aud the court has
been eugaged at different times for
more than ft year taking testimony in
the case. It is thought that the tak
ing of the testimony will be completed
by tbe end of this weok, as the plain
tiff n as already rested its case, and
several days has been consumed iu tbe
taking of testimony for the defense.
Engines Are Idle.
Tbe freight business over tbe O. R.
& N. has fallen off to such au extent
that 20 locomotives were boused in the
round bouse this noon, standing idle.
Tbe work which formerly required
every available engine is now sucb
that there is abundance of power iu
the local division all tbe timo. La
Grande Observer.
Ex-Mayor of Pilot Rock.
E. F. Beitle, ex-mayor of Pilot Rock
and one of the pioneer residents of tbe
county, died at St Anthony's hospital
in Pendleton, Sunday morning about
10 o'clock. Tbe remains were taken
to mot koce ror burial Monday mor
ning. Death followed an operation,
which the deceased had undergone
several days ago.
Operating the Mines.
Tbe first day of tbe attempt to re
open the mines of Gold field without
tbe aid of tbe Western Federation of
Miners has passed and there has been
not a single instance of attempted vio
lence or disorder in tbe camp.
Foley's Kidney Cure
manes Kidneys end bladder right
MILLIONS
The
Government Will Throw Open
Indian Reservation Lands
For Entry Soon.
During the year eight Indian reser
vations will be thrown open to entry.
Praotioally 5,000,000 acres, now tied
up, will be released, and iu this total
are lands of all kiudsand descriptions
Agrioutural, timber, graziug aud min
eral lands, not to mention the vast
ureas of graziug land aud land that
will beoome valuable if irrigated. The
largest opening will be on the Yakima
reservation, Washington, aud other
large tracts will be released at Colville,
Wash., Flathead, Mont., Blaokfoot
Mont, Lower Bnrle and Rosebud,
South Dakota, Coeur d'Aleue and
Lemhi, Idaho. Brief reference is
made to these openings ia the report of
tbe commissioner of tbe laud office,
who says:
Tbe Colville reservation, Washing
ton, embraces about 1,000,000 acres,
aud will be opened by proclamation of
the president, to eutiy undor tbe
homestead aud mineral laws, after tbe
lauds have been surveyed, appraised
and classified as irregular, grazing,
timber, mineral or arid lands and cer
tain allottments liavo been made. It
will be more than a year before those
lands cau be opeued. The lands class
ified as valuable for timber are to be
sold under sealed bids. v
About 1,145,000 acres of the Yakima
reservation, Washington, will be
opeued undor tbe homestead and min
eral laws by tbe proclamation of tbe
president, except such parts as are
valuable for timber, which is to be sold
under a sealed hid plan. Approxima
tely 100,000 acres of these lands will
be subjeot to entry under the reclama
tion aot. These lands are to be classi
fied into irregnlar, grazing, timber,
miueral or arid lauds aud disposed of
at their appraised value. The time of
opening has not yet been fixed. Tbe
lauds classified as valuable for timber
are to be sold under sealed bids.
The Coeur d'Aleue reservation, Ida
ho, (310,000 acres) is to be opened by
tbe president's proclamation, to entry
under the homestead and mineral laws
after the lauds have boeu surveyed,
Hotted, appraised and classified as
agricultural, grazing and timber lands.
Tboso lands will be ready for oponiug,
perhaps, in tbe fall of 1908.
About 64,000 acres of tho Lemhi
reservation, Idaho, will be opened to
settlement and entry after tbe lands
have been appraised nnd soheduled by
the commissioner of Indian affairs.
The report of tbe appraisers has not as
yet been reoeived. Tbe lands will not
be opened before next year.
A
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Mansfield Goes to Freewater Johnson
Is In Charge Here.
Two ohaugos, effective at once,
takes place iu tbe management of the
Turn-a-lum Lumber company's yards
iu Atbeua and Freewator.
Mr. H. O. Manstleled, who has been
iu charge of the Athena yard, since
tbe company purchased it from A. M.
Gillis has been transferred to Free-
water to manage the yard there, with
his wife, will remove there this week.
Tho management of the yard here
fulls to A. M. Johnson, who tor several
years was connected with the Umatilla
Lumber yard in this city. Since tbe
purchase by tbe Tum-a-lum.compuny
of tbe Umatilla yard, Mr. Johnson has
boeu in tbe employ of tbe company
aud bis promotion to the management
of tho consolidated yards is deserved
recognition of bis efficient sorvioe.
Excursion to Pilot Rock.
Arrangements have now been com
pleted for tbe running of an excursion
train to Pilot Rock trom Pendleton,
Monday, in honor of tbe opening of the
uew road to traffic It is expeoted that
tbe numbor of Peudletonians to make
tbe trip will be between 200 and 800.
THE GRADE IS TOO SOFT
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R. & N. Extension From Elgin to
Joseph Will Be Delayed.
Construction work on tbe O. R. & N.
company's extension from Elgin to
Joseph will be resumed as early next
spring as the weather will permit. It
was the intention of the management
to complete tbe lino this winter to a
point where tbe Wallowa river valley
connects with tbe canyon, and thereby
furnish a rail transportation outlet
for the valley. On investigation of
conditions it has been decided that an
effort to continue work on the grade
tbis winter would be futile.
General Manager J. P. O'Brien has
made an inspection of tbe extension
thus far completed and tbe grade that
has been thrown up for a distance of
20 miles beyond tbe present rails laid.
There has been rain aud snow in the
mountains and about 100 men are re
quired constantly along tbe completed
line to maintain it
Slides are frequent, owing to tbe
new earthwork and the condition of
the abutting ground.
. Tbe line is completed for a distance
of about 15 miles from the junotion
with the Grand Ronde. Beyond that
the grade has been made, and is ready
for tbe rails. It was Mr. O'Brien's
idea that this grade might be put in
shape and rails laid on it this winter,
and that by compelting about nine
miles more of grade the road could bo
completed through tbe canyon and tap
the valley, at a point four or five miles
from Joseph. This would have given
the people of tbe valley a chanoe to
haul their produoe to toe end of the '
line, for transportation to outside mar
kets, during the winter months.
It is said tho soft condition of the
grade makes it impossible to wotk
teams on it, aud that tbe construction
of tbe line from tbe present terminus
to Joseph will have to te laid over un
til spring.
Zaspell's Murderer Caught.
Webb MoCaslin, alias George or
William Webb, alias Webb McLaugh
lin, who murdered K. F. Zaspell, a
wealthy farmer- near Heppner, tbe
uight of September 9, was arrested in
Spokane, Sunday. MoCaslin, who nas
reoently taken on the alias of MoCain,
was captured by Captain James Cov
erly, Patrolman George Miles aud Dep
uty Sheriff Pough as be dismounted
from a lumber wagon wbiob he has
beou driving for a few days for a man
named Whitney. He mado a full
oonfessiou, but claiirs he acted iu
self-defense. A reward of $500 was
offered for bis capture dead or alive.
EXPECT DROP IN WOOD PRICES
Big Supply Makes Cut in Price of $2
Per Cord at Lewiston.
"Lewiston fuel consumers can expeot
a big drop in tho price of wood withiu
the next six weoks," said a prominent
citizou of the Clearwater country, who
is a business visitor iu tho city today,
says tho Lowistou Teller.
"At shipping points aloug tboClear
wat3t largo quantities of wood are
stored and from the asking price of
$6.50 per cord of a few weeks ago, tbe
buyer ouu now seoure all be wants at
from $4 to $4.50 per cord.
"At the Orollno station there is
cords now piled along the railroad,
and farmers are delivering more every
day. It is safe to say that at least an
other 1000 cords will be added to that
now stored for shipment."
The same condition is true at all
wood shipping points aud men are go
ing to tbu timber every day to engage
in tbe wood cutting business for tbe
winter.
The present prices of wood in Lew
iston have been kept up by tbe persons
holding tbe wood in tbo outfide coun
try, aud much of the wood placed on
the market here was bongbt for $Q per
cord at tbo shipping stations.
Whitman Basketball.
Tbe basketball season is well under
way at Whitman College, and tbo first
game will be played next Friday night
at Pendleton with the Pendleton High
School. Whitman will have a great
team tbis yeur being especially
strengthened by tbe coming of War
leu Bolt, a freshman, who for several
seasons has been tbe star forward of
tbe Spokane Amateur Athlotio Club.
Apido from the trip to Pendleton, a
week's trip to Colfax, Pullman, Mos
cow, and Spokano has been arranged
for, and games will bo played in tbe
borne gymnasium witb W. S. C. and
Universities of Oregon and Washing
ton. Tbo annual iutercluss champion
ship serios will be played immediately
after tbe Christmas holidays.
Pursue Fleeing Bandits.
Hulf a hundred armed men, led by
Bun Dyer, have left Coulee City on
tbe trail of three robber's, who dyna
mited the safe of J. M. McDonald &
oompany in that town, about 8 o'clock
this morning. McDonald, who lives
near by, heard tbe explosion and rush
ed out but was told to go baok or have
bis brains blown out. Two bullets
coming his way, ho retreated to an up
stairs room aud shouted an alarm
from tho wiudow. The robbers left
bustily, securing no booty. At day
break tbe citizens found where three
horses had been tethered and a big
posse has started on tbe trail toward
Wilson Creek. The office of Mo
Donald's store was shattered by tbo
explosion. Arrangements are being
mado to put Harry Draper's blood
hounds on tbe truil.
Notice.
Tbe regular annual meeting of the
stockholders of tbe First National
Bank of Athena, Oregon, for tbe elec
tion of directors for tbe ensuing year
and for tbe transaction of such other
business as may 'lawfully come before
it will be held in its office in Athena.
Oregon on Tuesday, tie 14th day of
January, 1008 at tbe hour of 2 o'clock
p. m. F. S. LeOrow. Cashier.
December 6tb, 1007.
Reservation Land.
Lawrence Lieuaiiou of Adam,., bus
purchased 80 acres of reservation land
from Eli Parr. Consideration, $1800.