The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, February 14, 1908, Image 1

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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. FEBRUARY 14. 1908. NUMBER 7 THE TUM-A-LUIVI LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Partori Floor 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. Patronize home indnstry. Your grooer sells American Beauty for : Merchant Millers Athena, Oregon. Hi MAKE YOUR OWN STOCK FOODS BY USING SKIDOO HORSE AND CATTLE TABLETS Crush and mix In feed or ult Proper dose In tablet Makes Your Stock Look Like the Top Price For Hones, Cattle, Sheep. Swine and Fowl. They are made from the active principle or the condensed eseence of the drug. They don't contaia Sawdust, Aahea, Chop Feed or Bran. Are just as good when 10 years old as when 10 days old. They comply with all pure drat Uws. Ask for and try once SKIDOO Condition Tablets, or SKIDOO Worm, Kidney, Chicken Cholera, Blister, Cathartic Heave. Fever, Hot Cholera, Distemper, Pink Eye, Colic tablets or Louse Powder, Spavin Cure or Barb Wire Liniment. Distributed by THE BLUE BELL MEDICINE CO., incorporated; Capital stock $3oo,o.ooi Watertown, South Dakota, U. S. A. Sold in Athena by A. B. McEwen & Sons. t. :t si. ii Ji" - "nil as "TlWry WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT "ik 83 The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in eXgie Best that Money, can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, CkTlXJS!Xm Milling Company er Sack. and Grain Buyers Waitsburg, Wash. R.J.BODDY WHOLESALE BUTCHER Makes a Specialty of furnishing Meat in Large Quantities. First-class stock, Reasonable price THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET J. H. STONE, PROPRIETOR The place to get the best cJWeat that money can buy, and at the lowest price Fish and Oysters in season The high est cash price paid for poultry-. i t iTir praeprraw vegeta OH HIS PAST RECORD Representative Barrett Formally An nounces His Candidacy and Takes Statement No. 1 Pledge. Hon. C. A. Barrett of this city, gives bis formal announcement as a candidate for representative, as fol lows: I hereby announce myself as a can didate for representative in the legis lature subject to the choice of the re publican primary nomination and promise if nominated and elected to use my best endeavors to represent all tbe people to my best ability. I reserve to myself, as well as I con cede to others, tbe right to support whoever I please in the primaries for state and county officers and republi can nominees in tbe general eleotion. I am in sympathy with and believe in tbe direot primary law asd endorse tbe provisions of statement No. 1, believ ing that tbe intent of the prfmary law ia for tbe people to select their own ' choioe for United States senator. There are in round. numbers some j 100,000 voters in this 'stajJUand the i majority selection wouldfieaessitate some 50,000 individual voters choos ing one person. In ttfat event I woald heed the wishes of tbe majority al though suoh person might not be my individual choioe for senator. I stand upon my former record and having lived in Umatilla county for 35 years, I believe I am fully conver sant with the wants of tbe county and that tbe people at large may express their ohoioe as best gaits them, I sub mit my candidacy for their-considera tion. O. A. Barrett. Gamblers Fined at Pendleton. Lester Swaggart, Jesse Sellers and J. A. Ogg of Pendleton, tbe latter a sa loon keeper, pleaded guilty to a charge of gambling and each was fined $100 in the oirouit oourt. On Savings We Pay On the Quarterly Balance or 3 On the cJVlonthly Balance THE - t ST. NICHOLS HOTEL J. E. FROOME, peop. iOnly First-class Hotel in the City. THE ST. NICHOLS In the only one that can accommodate commercial travelers. Iff ran bfiecomended for Us clean and well ventilated rooms. Cor. Maim and Thud, ATHXHA.Or. Athena, Oregon nn OPEN BRANCH STORE D. B. Jarman of This City Will En gage In the Mercantile Busi ness at Weston. D. B. Jarman, proprietor of tbe big Fair department store in this city, will open a branoh stote at Weston. Mr. Jarman returned from Weston Wednesday evening, after having made arrangements for a store room and looking after other details preparatory to putting in a stock of goods. He has leased the store room in the bank building, and has secured the services of Jay Gross, the well known Weston salesman, who will have charge of Mr. Jarman'a Weston store. Mra. Jarman was formerly engaged in business at Weston, and operated a store there in connection with tbe one here lor a number of years. He has many friends in tbe Normal school town who have been prevailing ou bim to open a store for some time. Illness in Mr. Jarman'a family prevented him from opening the store sooner. REGARDING NEW POSTAL RULES Subscriptions More Than a Year in Arrears Must be Discontinued. Tbe Weston Leader pertinently handles tbe subscription proposition as follows: Order No. 007, put into effect Jan uary 1, 1908, by tbe postoffice depart ment, is a wis ruling, designed to protect the public from publishers who, persist in sending their papers to subscribers atfer discontinuance is ex pressly ordered; and also to protect publishers from their own folly in sending papers year after year to de linquent subscribers in tbe faint hope that they will "get something some time." In brief, Order No. 007 provides that after a reasonable time in which to secure renewals (beiug one year in the case of weekly papers) subscrip tions shall not be counted in tbe legiti mate list of subscribers, and tbe seo-oud-class postage rate ot one cent a pound will not apply. Instead tbe publication must prepay postage at the transient second-class rate, wbiob is praotically prohibitive. Tbe Weston Leader will abide striotly by this regulation. It has no wish to ce -jtseir upon .up willing patrons; and it is tired of trusting dilinqueuts more than one year in arrears, bv which practioe its present publisher has lost upwards of $3000. Take notice, therefore, tbat from and after March 1, 1908, all subscri bers one year or more in arrears will positively, without a single exception, be dropped from tbe list. We must meet our own obligations in spot cash. In future we expect cash from all our patrons. ROSE CITY OPENS ITS DOORS Excursionists Participate In Car Rides, Receptions and Banquet. With hearty cordiality and good fellowsbp, Portland threw open her gates Saturday to the Inland Empire excursionists and tbe response of tbe invaders proved their deep apprecia tion. The palatial special train reach ed the Union depot at 11 o'clock, on sobedule time, and the entire day was ultilized by toe visitors to become bet ter acquainted with the Rose City and its people and to disclose tbe prosperity of Spokane, Walla Walla and tbe sur rounding country. "The Inland Empire made Portland. You own the town," was the motto that greeted tbe exoursiouis&on every side aud this spirit prevailed through out the day. There were automobile and streetcar rides, receptions and a banquet at tbe Hotel Portland, with Ispeccbes tbat showed the cities repre sented are separated by distance only. At tbe depot there was a large crowd to add its greeting, while plaoards of welcome were placed at tbe depot gates and a band played as the visitors left tbe train. A long line of automobiles was in waiting and there was an boor's spin about tbe city before luncheon at tbe Hotel Portland. At luncheon formal speeches of wel come were made by Governor Cham berlain and Mayor Lane, with a reply from President Goodall of tbe Spokane Chamber of Commerce. After lunch eon six special cars conveyed tbe party to points of interest. Tbe visitors were especially pleased with tbe ride to Counoil Crest, whicb give au un equaled view of Portland and sur rounding country. The return to tbe hotel was made at 4 o'clock and tbe time until dinner was served at 7:30 was given over to informal entertain ment. Normal Wins Again. In the game of basketball between Pearsons' aoademy of Walla Walla and tbe Weston Normal teams wbiob was played at Walla Waila Friday evening, tbe normal team won by a scoieof 16 to 18. The game was a return contest, Wefctou having won tbe game two weeks ago ateo. Oregon's Wiley Land Thief on Way Home From Orient to Face Charges In Court. Horace G. MoEinley, Beau Brum mel of tbe minor Oregon land thieves, faro dealer in China, solider of foitune and affinity of Little Egypt, will step into the lime light of land fraud pub licity ouoe more Monday, April 13, when be will faoe Judge Wolverton in the United States federal ouort to be tried by Judge Traoey C. Beoker for tbe .crime of forgery, says the Oregon Daily Journal. The court has so de creed. McKinley is now supposed to be on the trackless wastes of the great Paoiflo speeding to Portland in oharge of a gaard to answer for bis having run away from tbe meroiful clutch of Mr. Bums and thus avoiding his trial on several pending indiotmouts. It is supposed that be will be in Portland safely tucked away in the county jail by tbe time tbe April term of oourt opens and for this reason Mr. Heney asked tbat his oase be plaoed first on the docket of tbe pending cases. MNTr-Tllli CASES Tracy C. Becker Will Prosecute the Cases at April Court Term. Following tbe conviotion of John H. Hall, for oonspiraoy in connection with fencing lands for the Butte Creek company, it is aunounoed tbat 23 un tried Oregon land fraud oases would be taken up at tbe April term of the federal court Tracy C. Beoker will oonduot the oases for tbe government with tbe exception of the Hermann and Williamson oases wbiob Franoia J. Heney expects to prosoute late in the April term. On motion of Heney iudiotments were dismissed only against Charles F. Lord and Charles E. Hayes. Tbe sentencing of Hendiioks, Clarenoe B. Zaobery, convicted of sub ornation and perjury, respectively, in August, 1906 is postpoued until April 13 next Tbe same date was fixed for tbe sentencing of W. W. Steiwer, Hen drioks and Zaobery, who January 22, last, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in tbe indictment in the Hall oase and testified for the government Mr. and Mrs. Heney and party left Portland for Sau Frauoiaco to take up tbe graft oases in tbat oity. "I do not know tbat my engage ments iu San Franoisoo will permit me to return to Oregon to further dis cuss Senator Fulton and bis oandidacy for reeleotion before tbe primary eleo tion," said Heney. "When Fulton replies to my first address I may have something further to say." F. H. COOLIDGE-EDNA STRAW. United In Marriage at the Bride's Home In Moro. The marriage of Mr. Frank H. Cool idge of this oity and Miss Edna Strahl, was solemnized Tuesday at the home of the bride's mother in Moro, in tbe presence of relatives and friends ot tbe contracting parties. Mr. Coolidge is Athena's well known jeweler and his bride is well known to Atbena people, having for a time been employed in Mrs. Miller's Milinery store. After a short wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge will return to Athena, wbere they will reside permanently. Contracting for Sacks. At a meeting of tbe Inland Grain Grower's Assooition, held in Pendleton Saturday, lids were asked for furnish ing 300,000 grain saoks to members of tbe assooiaton, bids to be opened Sat urday February 15. The Farmer's Union of the State of Washington, Saturday, let contracts to J. Z. Smith of the KerrGitTord company, whereby tbe Kerr-Gifford oompany agree to furnish tbe farmers of the Walla Walla valley, inoluding parts of Walla Walla, Colombia and Umatilla coun ties, with more than 1,000,000 of tbe best grade Caloutta grain bags for next season's wbeat crop at a flat rate of 7 cents eaoh, f. o. b. Walla Walla and surrounding points. Market Days Are Success. Pendleton's seoond monthly market day, whicb was held Saturday was a success in every particular. Tbe sales, wbiob were principally of stock, amounted to over $5,000. The market day at Waitsburg brought hundreds of people to tbe town. Freewater business men have become interested in tbe proposition and tbe commercial association at tbat place has taken tbe matter up and announcement of a market day for tbat place haa been made. Wanted by man and wife, job on farm, woman a good coot and man not afraid of work. Address D. C. Bowman, sr. Pendleton, 002 West Webb. OPENS II I LA D Government Is to Throw Open 1,145,- 000 Acres to Settlement This Year of Possible. That it is the intention of the da. partment of the interior to endeavor to open 1, 145,000 aorea of land in the xaKima reservation to settlement this year is the statement contained in the annual report of the department just issued from the government press at wasnmgton, says tbe Yakima Kepub lio. Whether or not the ureliminarv work whiob has been done in the way of classifying and valuing the lands will be completed in time for the open in this year remains to be seen, but it is tne geueral opinion tbat if the work is not done this year the reservation will be opened to settlement early next year in time to allow of the pew settlers getting in their crops for the harvest of 1909. Those who are acquainted with the oharaoter of tbe lands which are to be made available for tbe white farm ers are aware tbat some of the most valuable land in tbe country is con tained within the reservation, and that tnere will be a great rush for holdings goes without saying. The land will be valued and the successful applicant will have to nav an intallment this purchase prioe which goes to tbe In dian owners in addition to tbe usual homestead fee. One of tbe most immediate results of tbe opening of the reservation will be the rapid development of the reserve- tion towns and with the prospect of tne early influx of hundreds of white farmers to tbe reservation speculators are looking to Tormenish and Wanato real estate as a good proposition. But North Yakima, as tbe metropolis of the valley, will benefit to a great ex tent also. Tbe wide interest taken in tbe pro spective ooeninir of tbe reRarvatinn in indicated by tbe hundreds of letters of inquiry from all parts of the country wnion nave reached tbe looal United States land offices during the past mouth or two. People in tbe middle western states, particularly, are anx ious to have a look in when tbe time for applying for holdings arrives. SEEING BIG THINGS ATTAGOMA a Was it Japanese Airship That Caused Men to Stop and People to Gaze. Dark red, pale green, yellow and a brilliant white are the colors' of a strange light that appeared in the western horizon Saturday and Sunday nights, seen by residents of Kent and Taooma, who firmly believe them to be the lights of a passing airship be longing to tbe Japanese, says a Tacoma item. 'A large obfeot was soen sailing through the air at a high elevation, moving from uortb to south.. It was first sighted by an engineer on a Northern Paoiflo train on tbe tide flats waiting for tbe Fifteenth street bridge to close. He pointed out the object to tbe conductor and passeugers alighted from the train. Some examined it with Held glasses. So interested did tbe passengers and trainmen booome tbat tbe train was delayed several minutes. Those who saw it told of a large cigar-shaped object flyiDg a foreign flag, wbioh some maintained was French while others declared it to te Japaneso During the same week, on clear nigbts, colored lights were seen displayed at high altitudes aud ou oue oooasion a rocket was discharged high in the air, it is 'asserted. Since tbat time tbe light has appeared at various poluts along tbe coast, usually between tbe hours of 7 and 9 o'olook as at Kent, Sunday night In many of tbe smaller towns along tbe Grays Harbor. Taooma Eustern and North ern Paoiflo near Taooma, residents have watched tbe Hgbt It la tbe firm belief of many tbat the light is attach ed to an airship employed by tbe Jap anese spies, woo are studying tbe top ography of tbe ooast. The Pilot Rock News. Although Pilot Rook bus au excel lent newspaper in tbe Record, under tbe able editorial management of John P. McManus, another papor, tbe News, is to be started there. A company is behind tbe new venture. Tbe follow ing officers were elected at at a reoent meeting: E. E. Parkor, president; Henry Harrison, secretary and treas urer; J. D. Royer, J. M. Royer, J. M. Root k and Henry Han ison, directors. Wood Thief Evaporated. Danner, tbe photographer, ran into a wood tbiet tbe other night at his borne in tbe north part of town. Mr. Danner didn't have time to take a snap-sbot of tbe fellow, for be skidooed simply evaporated, so great was bis hurry to get away. However, there has been no wood taken from Mr. Dan ger's shed since. Take De Witt's Kidney and Bladder Pills. The promptly relieve back acbe and weak back. Sold by Paluco Drug company.