Athena 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.
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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
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Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers
Athena. Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash.
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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.
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WHOLESALE BUTCHER
Makes a .Specialty of furnishing
Meat in Large Quantities.
First-class stock, Reasonable price
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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.
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OPTICAL SPECIALIST
18 EAST MAIN ST.
RESIDENCE 392
EYES TESTED GLASSES GROUNDS-FITTED
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ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
t J. E. FROOME, prop.
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Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
THE ST. NICHOLS
Is tbe only one that can accommodate
commercial travelers.
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Can be leeomended (or Us clean bdi
- well-ventilated rooms.
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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.
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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.
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