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ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, J AT
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Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES r
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athena, Oregon
ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Parton
Flour is made in Athena, by Athena labor, iu the latest
and beat equipped mill iu the west, of the best selected
Bluestem wheat grown"; anywhere. Patronize home
industry Your grooer sells American Beauty for i
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n Athena; Oregon.
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The Year;?lJ07
Is Rapidly Passing
If yon intend to take that trip
A right start is everything and
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eAouU Avill be glad to explain routes and qnoto rates.
Our trains are wide ycstitmled, ateamheated, "well lighted, and
comfortable. Our Day coaches, Tourist and Standard Pullman
sleeping cars, Dining cars and Observation as are strictly modern.
Let us know your destination' and when you plan to go and full
information will be furnished. R.H, WHITEHEAD, Agent.
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A. D. CHARLTON, A. G. P.
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Sm WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT
The Freshest and most Choice the
Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here
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Milling Company
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R. I BODDY
WHOLESALE BUTCHER
Makes a Specialty of furnishing
: .Meat in"fihrge Quantities.
First-class stock, Reasonable price
this
year you will tave to hurry.
A., Nor. Pao. Ry., Portland, Ore.
Paciflo Exposition, 1909.
CATERERS TO THE PUBLIO IN
GOOD THINGS TO EAT
VEGETABLES
VERDICT REVERSED
Federal Circuit Court of This State
Erred In Instructing Jury, jtlence
New Trial Is Ordered.'
The supreme court baa reversed the
decision of tbe federal court of Oregon
in the Williamson laud fraud case.
The opftTion was by White, Harlan
dissenting. Too court remands tbe
case for new trial, holding that Judge
Hurteired in instructing tbe jury that
tbe contract to sell claims before final
proofs was illegal. The deieuse had
alleged that tbe law iu that respect re
fers only to the entry before it is made,
not to one in process of being carried
to perfection.
Tbe decision is regarded as a body
blow to tbe government in all tbe land
fraud prosecutions, and is taken as a
backing up of Judge Lewis of Colo
rado, who dismissed tbe coal land iu
dictments. In tbe light of the supreme court's
deoision, Congressman Williamson's
acquittal, when his case oomes on
I again for retrial, seems almost certain.
, The conviotion and pnuiibment of
1 1 Dr. Van Gesner and Marion B. Bigge,
i j who were co-defendants with William-
sou, seems, in the light ol the deoision,
to hare been unwarranted.
Dr. Gesner was but recently released
from the county jail of Multnomah
county, after undergoing a sentence of
five months' imprisonment and paying
a fine of $1,000. Marion R. Biggs is
still in the same jail, under sentence
of 10 months' imprisonment and $500
fine.
Normal Attendance Increased.
yPhe Normal opened again Monday
morning with an inorease in atten
dance after a vaoatiou of two weeks
for tbe holidays. The attendance is
considerably increased over the first
semester, and it is said that tha total
attendance is now about 250.' i ?
On Savings;
On the QuaiJeritf fiance or.""
On thelTWonthfy Balance
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ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
J. E. FROOME, prop.
I Only
First-class Hotel in
the City. 1
THE ST. NICHOLS
Is the only one that can accommodate
J . commercial traveleri.
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Can bniecomended for Us clean and
J well ventilated room. -
Cok. Main and Thibd, Atbkha, Or.
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Athena, Oregon
GEER FOR GOHGi
Pendleton Tribune Editor M
Candidacy Known Throu
the Portland Oregonian.
Ex-Goveruor Goer has given
Oregonian the announcement t.
candidacy for the Repnblioan Col
sional nomiuahou. In part be sa
It is true that I have decided t'
come a candidate for Congress -ia
second district and have doue so
presume for preoisely the same reaou
that has aotnated others who will as
pire to different positions in tbe public
service. In other words, I shall be a
oandidate because I wi-h to go to Con
gress and have received sufficient en
couragement, not to say urging, from
different parts of tbe district to believe
I can be successful.
If elected, I shall support tbe dis
tinctive prinoiples of tbe republican
party, workiag more particularly for
the carrying ont of the measures which
in tbe main marked Mr. Roosevelt's
administration, believing, with him,
that we should build up a code of laws
that will more nearly guarantee an
equality of privileges and opportunity
tetween capital and labor, while pre
serving tbe rights of both and prevent
ing discrimination whiob will result
in undue advantage.
In general terms, however, I have
an ambition to go to Uongress because
I feel that by reason of my long resi
dence n Oregon, my perfect familiar
ity with the conditions prevailing in
every section of it, together witb my
extensive . aoqnaintance with all its
people and my experience in publio
affairs that I can devote several years
of my life to tbe work cf advanoing
their interests in a field that gives
a wider opportunity than that in wbiob
I am now employed.- .
Along questions of national polic-T
am strongly in favor of the '
of a permanent and liberal syi, of
improvements of our river and barlbors,
and this is one of the foremost matters
of interest especially to tbe people Cf
tbe" second district, including as it
does. so. much of the great Inland Em
pire in Eastern Oregon, and exteuding
to Portland and Astoria with tbeir
great and growing commercial iutet
eats, and tbeolumbia. river wbioh is
tbe second in importance in the United
States. ' -' ' .. - ; . p
SIX MILL COUNTY TAX LEVY
Will Raise the Sum of $252,333.32 for
' County and State Purposes.
By aotion of "the county court the
county tax levy for tho year was plaoed
at six mills and the levy will provide
the sum of $253,333.32 for tbepnrpose
of defraying county expenses and pay
iug its portion of the state taxyS Tbe
levy, says tho East Oregonian, is made
upon an assessment of $42,055,866.48,
This is on the fall valuation basis in
stead of tbe ono-fourth as used in tbe
past. On .the old basis the present
levy would be 21 mills or two mills
higher than tbe levy of a year ab
In tbe order for tbe levy issued by
tbe court tbe itemized needs for tbe
ooming year are set forth as follows
State taxes
$56,3500
General county expenses
Sohool taxes at $7 per
capita ...
Roads and bridges
Sohool library -Interest
on warrants
Outstanding warrants -
55,000.00
44,158.63
74,298.69
700.00
6,500.00
15,326.00
Total - - $252,333.82
Aooording to tbe members of the
court tbe state tax is higher this year
than last and this, together with tbe
heavy expense for road and bridge
work causes tbe iudreased levy. At
present there are warrants outstanding
on tbe road fnnd and the amount es
timated for that fond for the ooming
year will meet expenses and redeem
tbe old warrants.
Tbe levy is segregated as follows:
State and county, three and one sixtb
mills; roads and bridges, one and
twenty-tbree thirtieths mills; school
library, one-sixtieth milL
Bankers Furnish Bonds.
All four of the Portland bankers
wbo were indicted on four counts in
connection witb tbe failure of tbe
Title Guarantee and Trust company
furniebed bond for tbeir appearance
in court J. Thorburn Ross, president,
and T. 1. tfurkbart, treasurer, gave
bonds for $5,000 on eaob count, and
Vice President Hill and Seoretary John
E. Ai to bison furnished bonds in $2,000
each on four counts.
Hide Prices Dropped.
After tbe highest prices ever paid for
hides in eastern Oregon, in tbe past
eight weeks, prices bave now dropped
to tbe lowest price known. Only a few
weeks ago dry bides were quoted in
this city at 18 cents per pound. Now
dry bides are worth but 9 cents and
green bides but 4 cents.
Pinesalve . Carbolized acts J ike
poultice, draws out inflamation and
poison. Antisoptio healing. For
chapped bands, lips, outs, burns,
Sold by Pioneer Drug Store.
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Water .
Umatilla p.
land shown u
townships 4 and
and townships 4 ai.
east, on file in tbe k
La Grande. Homesteu.
companied by application .
right may be made under pu
of the reclamation act for farrr
shown on said plats. The ob'
water right is $60 per acre an
nual maintenance average
acre.
Seoretary Garfield has
following publio notice:
The limit of area, per
senting acreage, which,
of tbe seoretary of the
be reasonably required fo:
a family on the lands in
fixed, for land entered sutjt
provisions of tbe reclamation v,
the amounts shown upon the plat for
several farm units, from 10 to 40 acres.
Tbe limit for wbiob water-iigbt ap
plications may be made for land in
private ownership shall be 160 acres of
..gable land for each landowner.
Charge wbioh shall oemade per acre
of irrigable land in said entriei and
for land in private ownership shall be
160 aores of irrgable land for eaob
landowner.
Charge wbiob shall be made per
aore oi irrigable land iu said entries
and of land iu private ownership
wbioh oan be irrigated by waters
from said irrigation project are in two
parts, as follows:
1. building of irrigation system,
$60 per aore of irrigable laud, payable
in no less than five nor more than ten
annual installments, eaob not less than
$6 per acre.
2. For operatiou and maintenance
wbioh will, as soon as tbe data are
available, be fixed in proportion to
amount of water used, with minimum
charge per irrigable aore whether wat
er is used or uot. Operation and
maintenance charges for irrigation
season of 1908 and until further notioe
will be $1 per aore of irrigable land,
whether water is used thereon or uot.
First payment on acoonnt of snob
charges for all irrigable aores, whether
or not water right application is made
therefor or water is used tbereou, shall
be due and payable at tbe looal land
office . at La Grande, on or before
March 1, 1908, to'al payment being
not less than $7 per acre.
Building charge for subsequent years
shall be due and payable at the same
plaoe on or before March 1 of eaob
year, and until further notioe opera
ting and maintenance charge of $1 per
aore of irrigable land per annum shall
be due and payable at tbe same time
and plaoe.
For all applications for water rights
filed before June 15, in any year build
ing, operation and maintenance oharg
es shall be collected at tbe time of fill
ing lor that irrigating saeson, but so
much as may be paid on aooount of
operation and maintenance shall be a
credit on aooount of installment for
next year. Charges herein provided
for may, for convenience of applicants,
be paid to tbe special fiscal agent of
tbe reclamation service at Hermiston
for transmission to tbe reoeiver of the
land office at La Grande, on or before
tbe dates specified bereiu for varment
at tbe looal land office.
INSTALLATION AND BANQUET
Impressive Ceremonies Witnessed By
Large Assemblage of People. .
Saturday night members of Wild
Horse Lodge No. 73 I. O. O. F. royal
ly entertained tbeir families and a
large number of invited guests.
The event was tbe annual installa
tion of officers and was crowned with
one of tbe most enjoyable sooial gath
erings of tbe season.
An exceptionally entertaining pro
gram was rendered prior to the instal
lation exercises, which was followed
by a banquet, at wbioh 175 plates
were laid. Attorney a. F. Wilsou a&
livered the principal address of tbe
evening and bis discoure was replete
Fellowship. . A t r
X Deputy District Grand Master Mil-'
lard Kelly installed the following
officers: Fred Koontz, Noble Grand;
Walter Judy, Vice Grand; S. F. Wil
son, Corresponding Secreary; E. A.
Oonnick, Financial Secretary; G. W.
, Gross, Treasurer.
OOuut.
Theie w
hand wtu
submitted, ,
of $1,621.6?
tbe sheriff .
report was sn
532.16 was pi
urer, and of
weut to the
couuty's state
Will Ret
Mrs. Frank
Myers, wbo die
and was buried
tery two weekn,
Portland to resirt,
property interestr
charlotte!
Passed Away at
Daughter, 1.
. Mrs. Charlotte Keobi
borne of . ber daughter,
Koepke, Wednesday ev,
o'clook, aged 71 years. Dei Cate """
to la grippe, tbe feeble cons v.j
the deoeased being unable to 1
the ravages of tbe epidemic t
prevailing in this vioinity. .
Tbe f nneral will be beld .,
Roepke residenoe tomorrow .
o'olook p. m. 1 be services w;
conducted by Rev. Blakney, tbt,
known Presbyterian ministor, of '
dleton. Tbe remains will be taken
Columbus, Ohio, for burial,' by A.f
and Mrs. Koepke. ;
Mrs. Keotoke was born in German .
January 8, 1837. . After coming t
Amerioa she made her borne in Co-
lumbus,Ohio. She was twioe married,
ber first husband's name was Sobultz.
She leaves one son and two daughters.
Tbe son is Rev. Sohultz of California
and the daughters are Mrs. KoepKe of
this otty, and Mrs. Haden of Helix.
She was a loving mother, a kind
Christian woman and her loss will be
felt by all wbo knew ber.
Geer Leaves Tribune.
Witb the Tuesday issue of Tbe Tri
buue T. T. Geer retired from the" m
tive editorial management and was
succeeded by W. F. Onion, who has
been aoting as business manager and
wbo will assume full control as editor
and publisher. Mr. Geer retired from
Afltivn rintv in nrrlnr in Tilnno hla nor. -
sonal affairs and business interests in
snob shape as to permit of his con
ducting his campaign for congressman
from tbe Second district, to which he
will later devote his eutire time.
Plum Goes to Schubel.
Christian Schubel of Oregon City"
has been nominated Ly the president to
be United States district attorney of
Oregon vice W. C. Bristol, whoso
nomination was withdrawn by tbe
president some time ago. Sobuebel is
Senator Bourne's candidate and bis
appointment is considered a victory
for Bourne over tbe other members of
tbe delegation wbo bad practically
agreed upon Bingbam of Salem. .
Minister Hit By Cupid.
Mrs. Paulino Hurt of Umatilla, Ore
gon, and tbe Rev. John W. McGeo of
Walla Walla, were united in marriage
at tbe latter place Monday. Tbe bride,
is 57 years of ago, and is well known
in Umatilla oonnty, while tbe groom
bas passed tbe four-score year mark
by seven years." He Is a pioneer of
this section, having crossed tbe pluins
in a prairie schooner in 1850.