Athena 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.
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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.
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"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-.
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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
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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
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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
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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.