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Newspaper Page TextAthena Merchants Treat you Square Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XX. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 24. 1908. NUMBER 4 THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal '-. A. M. Johnson, Manager . Athena, Oregon g ESTABLISHED 1865 S Preston-Parton Milling Company : LIKE MARKET IMS POSfFICE RUUIIG DHK EVIDENCE PEARS AT $8 A BOX Pendleton's Was Successful and Waits bare Will Inaugurate a Sale Tomorrow. AMBHGflN BEAUTY n H Flour is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest and best equipped mill in the west, of the best seleoted Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sella American Beauty for Per mt Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena. Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash. r A '5 rSfcanSue1 Monthly Market day is an innova tion reoently established in the west with the view of attraotiug people by inducements offered to come to town to trade on the particular day specified. Pendleton reoently held one and it is said to have been a success in every paitioular. r Market day as a regular feature of business life in Waitsburg will be in augurated tomorrow, when tbo ranch ers from the surrounding towns and country will take their pioduotB there for sale. The municipality is baoking the enterprise. A place will be set aside where horses, cattle, hny and other farm pro' duots will be auctioned. The time is thought to be propitious for the sale of stock, since now lanobers. are con sidering the purchase of borses for early spring work. The prices paid as a consequenoe are likely to be as high as could be obtained from private barter. A special program to interest visit ing ranchers will be devised and tbe first market day will be made a holi day affair. Should it piove a success a day each month will be set aside as market day. Mr. Max Zimmerman, who has charge of the Waitsburg Market day has written tbe Press regarding toe prospects of putting on a series of mar ket days iu Athens. .Athena mer ohauts and business men would do well to look into the proposition. Pioneer Woman Dead. Mrs B. B. Bishop, a pioneer resi dent of Pendleton, died Sunday after noon at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Thorpe Roberts, in Piosser, Wash ington. The deceased was 78 years of age and bad lived in Pendleton for 85 years. Subscribers to ' Newspapers and Mag azines Must Pay Subscription in Advance. Testimony Introduced in the Hall- Maya Land-Fraud Case Shows Conspiracy Plot. - R. J..B0DDY WHOLESALE BUTCHER Makes a .Specialty of furnishing Meat in Large Quantities. First-class stock, Reasonable price BUY THE I w m I k ,. II i T J UX-i for Boys and Children. 9 1 1 I Every suit is made from the choice woolens, steam shrunk w -sP- .! JJ H an' color' 8ewed witl1 flnwt silk and linen thread through. 4 I f I nxk. . int. Im.. ilnnM. A.f anil 4nnhl IrnA... ' jk . I I OurKASiTWEAKOUTbanireriatoandon theinsldeof collar 9 . If ll . ot every garment. They coet no more than the ordinary mud. a On Savings We Pay ol 0 On the Quarterly Balance or 3) Oh the tTWonthly Balance Mr L,,;i,;A,-:.. . .,, Subscribers to daily and weekly pa pers, monthly magazines and all peri odicals entitled to second class postage rates must pay their subscription practically up to date if they wish t receive the publication, aooordiug to an order issued by tbe postmaster gen eral. Tbe order is a drastic one and does not leave any alternative to tbe publisher other than, to collect tbe subscription pi ice or stop tbe paper. The new ruling gives papers ample time to get right with their subscri bers. On daily pagers they have three months in whioh to revise their list and out off tbe dead heads; on tri weeklies, six months is given ; on semi- weeklies, nine months is tbe limit. aud on weeklies, one year's graoe is allowed, but after the time limit nam ed a publisher must make affidavit that bis list is paid up and genuine or else he will lose bis second-class pos tase privilege. . Each publication cannot send sam ple copies to more than 10 percent as many as there are paid subscribers on its lists. ' - The order came as a surprise to the publishers and it is feared that it may work a bardsbip on some of tbem as many publishers bave been io tbe batit of continuing to send tbeu pnD lioations to many who are considerably more in arrears than the limit set by the order, their expectancy being, of course, that tbe subscribers were only neglecting to pay the bill when du and would pay the bill . before long anyway. The early enforcement of tbe regu lation will make it bothersome for subscribers affected as it will mean that their papers will have to be stop ped in case they do not remit before this order goes Into etteot. Ibe poo- lisbers oannot continue the paper un less this is done as the penalty imposed bv the uostoffice department for viola tion of the regulation is severe, tbe maximum being to shut out the entire circulation of tbe paper from seoond class privileges. Stricken With Paralysis. I. S. Bruce, a well known citizen of Milton was suddenly strioken with nnralvsis. early Saturday morning. Though Mr. Bruoe is some tetter, He is still in a most critical conditlou, having no use whatever of bis left side. . Mefiford Pear Orchards Earn as Much as $2,000 Per Acre for Their Lucky Owners. K 1 I f-X-. DAUBE, COHN & CO., Manufacturers, CHICAGO. S W F0R SALE BY LEADING DEALERS. OHO111" OFFICE 353 i l II' W ' JillMiSllBfBMijiSjitiiiiMiiii jm OPTICAL SPECIALIST 18 EAST MAIN ST. RESIDENCE 392 EYES TESTED GLASSES GROUNDS-FITTED THE ST. NICHOLS HOTEL t J. E. FROOME, prop. ;iWl : Only First-class Hotel in the City. THE ST. NICHOLS Is tbe only one that can accommodate commercial travelers. : - ffi : . .- Can be leeomended (or Us clean bdi - well-ventilated rooms. .. - . , i.'or: Maim andTbibd, AiBi,Or." With the testimony that appears almost conclusive from witnesses in the so oalled Hall-Mays conspiracy case, tbe government disclosed to the jury bow duriug tbe years of 1900 and 1901, tbe Lumber company bad so- ccrcd large areas of public land in a manner tbe prosecution alleges was fraudulent and illegal. The proseoution made wonderful progress this week with tbe develop ment of its case. In brief the testimony is to tbe effect that Clarence 8. Zaohaty, foreman of tbe company bad served as a sort of advance ageut for tbe corporation iu its alleged land grabbing. Tbe wit nesses deolaied Zacbary was the oue who suggested the idea of filing on tbe homesteads. Ibey declared he propo sed to erect their oabius and look after tbe oultivatiou and to attend to the other requirements of the homestead law and be agreed to purohase the claims for about 300 when tbe Anal proof was completed. Tbey testified that these applications were filed with H. H. Hendricks an other member 'of the oompany, nbo was at that time united States com missioner. None of the entrymeu, tbey declared knew where the land was located when tbey filed their ap plications and none of tbem ever visi ted a claim more than two or three times and tbeu for periods of bnt 10 or 15 minutes eaob. Wbeu the proper time arrived, the witnesses declared, eacb appeared be fore Hendricks, exoept one who was tbe one who went before James Stewart at Ibe Dalles and signed final proof papers. When their final receipt ar rived from the land office, tbey testifi ed, tbey transferred their property to tbe oompany and received tbe stipu lated consideration. Judge Webster for the defense, cross examined tbe witnesses severely and sought to bring out that they knew they were perjuriug themselves at all times tbe acts in question were- i com mitted. This cuused tbe prosecution in tbe re-direct examination of one of tbe witnesses to elioit tbe statement whioh had already been filed into tbe blanks before tbey bad signed them. and that the extracts from the land laws, printed on tbe blanks which are supposed to be read to each entryman for his guidance and protection, were never read to tbem. "There is a good deal of gold be neath the surfaoe in southern Oregon, but I prefer to find mine on top," said G. A. Hover, a Medf ord orobardist "I bave realized $3 a box net on the Comio pears I sent to New York tbe past year," be says, "and at this rate over $1000 an acie can be netted rais ing pears. F. W. Hopkins, a neigh bor of mine, sold bis pears off 10 acres for $19,000, and these pears were of tbe Winter Nell is variety. Ad Helm of Ashland obtained $16,000 for tbe product of eight aores of pears. His trees are about 15 years old. H. O. Lewis sold his Bartlett pears in Tor onto. Can., for $4 a box net. "Orobard lands are, of course, ad vancing iu valne as a result of the high prices secured for. apyies and pears, and as for bearing orchards they oannot be bought at all. W. F. Burrell of Portland bought H0 acres eight years ago in the Kogue Bivcr valley for $20,000, and many of our people thought he bad been buncoed, but this same land would sell today for $80,000 were tbe owuer willing to let it go. 'Of course, fruit growers of Medf ord and vioinity have money to throw at the br ds, and they would uot exobange places with the owners of tbe best pay ing gold mines around there. While tbe miuera are delving in tbe ground for something they do not see, tbe fruit growers are producing $20 gold pieces wbere tbey can see tbem grow on the trees." TOO MANY KINDS OF FRUIT MRS. WiLLABY SEEKS DIVORCE Criticism Which Will Equally Apply to Umatilla County. After 31 Years of Married Life Athena Wife Asks for Separation. m4 III? aimi l?BF IftlOlfltHEOlF tflifn m pay i hmwm a u Si km PROMPT IffUirDr DDIPCO ADC DlfUJT POHNE DELIVERY Vl llLiiL rillULU HI1L USUI 1 1 MAIN 83 fj The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords iu Si ' . n irr-r rr-TT n , sw 2& ? it. J Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here; DELL BROTHERS. CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THINQ3 TO EAT Athena, Oregon! g A bit of criticism which will apply equally well, to Umatilla county, ootnes from the Dayton Courier-Press, and is as follows: IS. G. Campbell, who has been in this vicinity buying fruit for W. N. White $5 Co., of New York, stated reoently that the people ol tnis county maae a great mistake when they put out so many different varieties of . fruit as fruit buyers do not care to buy froit in small quantities io mixed lots. He also says that bis company aooepted much fruit tbey would not bave taken had there sot been a shortage, bnt there was always a good market for good fruit When asked if this section of tbe country was naturally adapted to , raising fruit be said there were some drawbacks, among tbem being tbe frost, soale, moth and principally that people are of the opinion that an orchard will take oare of itself, and this will not do, as muob time, labor and money must be spent, to. raise a good orchard. i. & Spokane Printing Trust. Jnitan W. A. Hnneke in the superior court at SpokaDe overruled tbe demur rnr nf thn Snokane Printing and Manu facturing association, tbe local print- ing trust, in tbe suit brougbt against it by Cbarles E. Miller., a nonassocia- tion member, who otiaiges tbe organ .Unn with bovooUint? Dim and pre venting mm from obtaining supplies from the paper bouses. Miller charges that the agflooiatioa baa seriously ham pered his business by its action and be seeks s damages. - lie alleges in bis complaint that tbe ooly reason be is opposed cy the associtatou is bis refu sal to join tbe Spokane printing trust, Tbe case will now be beard. Pendleton, Jau. 23. After a mar ried life of nearly 81 years Mrs. Bar bara A. Willaby of Athena, has start ed divorce proceedings against William P. Willaby. Tbe suit was filed this morning by Peterson, Peterson & Wil son and the complaint contaiu? some staitling allegations against the defen dant The Willabys were married at Athena on December 9, 1877 and buve three daughters, two of whom are aged 29 and 25 respectively. Tbe property claims bave already been satisfactorily settled by stipulation and agreement Turned Over in His Grave. Wben the body of Riobard Churoh ill, who was buried al Tillamook after a sudden illness in 1888, was disinterod Sunday there was evidence to show that tbe man bad been buried alive. The bead lay face downward, one leg was drawn up almost to tbe body and both arms were on tbe left side, as it the man bad partially turned over be fore death came to bis relief. Mystery surrounded tbe death of Cburobill 20 years ago. He bad been traveling with considerable money, and at tbe time of bis turial there were suspicions the man bad been drugged. Indications now are that he was robbed and bur riedly buried in order to cover tbe crime. Giving Orchards Attention. Milton orobardists are busy pruning up their orchards and getting them ready for spraying, which will com mence as soo u as spring opens, says tbo Eagle. Tbe indications are that more atteutiou will hereafter be giveu to tbe oare of fruit trees than has been done iu tbe past, the excellent results reoeived last season from such efforts having opened tbe eyes of our fruit growers to tbe undeveloped possibili ties of their orchards. To the Voters of Athena. A mass meeting of tbe citizens of Athena will be held at tbe City Hall on Friday evening Jan. 81st, 1908, for the purpose of nominating officers to bo voted for at the annual election, Tuesday, March, 8, 1908. J. D. Plamondon, Mayor. PORTLAND BANKS WILL OPEN' Institutions Are to Resume Business By the First Day of February. Unless tbe unforeseen happens, all three suspended banks iu Portland will be iu operation within a little more than two weeks' time. Tbe Title Guarantee & Trust com pany is scheduled to puss under tbe control of William M. Ladd about Monday or Tuesday. The plau of absorption of the Oregon Trust and Savings bank . by the Ger-mau-Amerioan should be in such shape that liquidation of tbe def nnot insti tution may be buguu some time during tbo week of January 25 to February 1. As for tbe Merobants National, President J. Frank Watson states that wbilo the officials hoped to be able to resume operations February 1, it might be a few days later than that before tbe reorganization plan was in suoli shape that it would moot tbe approval of Special Exaiuiu'r Wilson aud tbo controller of the currency. Grand Jury Report. The ' grand jury for tbe present term of tbe circuit court completed its work Wednesday sud made its report. Tbe jury was io session nine days, ex amined 105 witnesses and returned into court H true bills and 10 not true tills. ' Among' tbe not true bills . was that of David Lavender, City mar ebal of Weston, wbo shot, young Reid while making, an arreat; j.d. that of Mabel Warner, Charged -tvitth "obtain ing a search warrant without probable cause and malicious intent. Lost a lady 'f chatelaine breastpin. Finder will please lvave at this offioe. t Knights of Pythias Installation. AAt the regular meeting of Pythian Lodge No. 29 K. of P., Thursday night, tbe following officers were in stalled (C. 0., Reed Hill; V. c, Byron X. Hawks; Prelate, Tbos. GilkiejM. of W.. J. C. Burke; K. of R. & S., Henry Keen; M. of F.. W. E. Dobson; M. of E., York Dell; M. at A., Ad Pinker ton; I. G., Ernest Sbiimpf; O. G., Roy Cannon. ; Trustee, Cass Cannooy A Captive Eagle. A magnificent apeoimeu of tbe Amerioan gray eagle is on exhibition at tbs Fieewater Times ofilce. Tbe bird was caught in a coyote trap on Diy creek on Saturday morning by Guslavus C. Sprague. Tbs bird meaures from tip to tip seven feet and is about 86 inches bigb. Take) De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. Tbey promptly relieve back ache and weak back. Sold by Palace Drug company. Walla Walla Bonds at Par. Hale was mado of $100,000 worth of Walla Walla municipal Lonrta to Rol litis & Co., of Chicago at par. Tbe money is to be usod in completing tbe new oity hall and fire station. Tbe bonds bear 5 per cent interest. Tbe Hie station was almost completed when tbe panio struck tbe country while negotiations were in progress with another firm of brokers last fall, but tbe city ball building is only about one fourth completed. Wben the brokers refused to take tbe bonds, all work was stopped except on the city ball, which was completed a few days ago. Contractors hope to begin wors soon on tbe fire station. Burglar in Music Store. A burglar effected an entrance to tbe Thornton musio store at Pendleton Sunday uigbt but was freightened away without securing any booty or doing any more serious damage than to frighten Mr. and Mrs. Thornton, so tbey ran out through tbe back door and into tbo chilly night, with only a small portion of their customary Opens Saloon at Waitsburg. George Thomas, one of the proprie tors of tbe "Corner" Saloon iu tbis city, has opened a saloon at Waits hurg. His pattner iu tbe business ia M. Gagnon, who recently sold his land on tbe reservation. "