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Athena Merchants Treat you Square Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XX. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 13. 1908. NUMBER 11 THE TUM-A-LUM 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 B ESTABLISHED 1865 I Preston-Parton Milling Company i AMEHGAN Flour is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest and best equipped mill lu the west, of the best selected Bluestem wheat growu anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sells American Beauty for : Merchant Millers Athena, Oregon. MAKE YOUR OWN STOCK FOODS BY, USING , SKIDOO HORSE AND CATTLE TABLETS Crush and mix in feed or salt Proper dose in tablets Makes" Your Stock Look Like the Top Price For Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Fowls. They are made from the active principle or the condensed essence of the drug. They don't contain Sawdust, Ashes, Chop Feed or Bran. Are just as good when 10 years old as when 10 days old. They comply with all pore drug laws. Ask for and try once SKIDOO Condition Tablets, or SKIDOO Worm, Kidney, Chicken Cholera, Blister, Cathartic Heave. Fever, Hog 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 $300,000.00; VYatertown, South Dakota, U. S. A. Sold in Athena by A. B. McEwen & Sons. i THE QUALITY GROCERY STOKE g prompt ufiirnr nninro Anr ninUT POHNE rj DELIVERY imLnL fHIULO Hnt niuni MAIN 83 3 $y The. Freshest and most Choice the m n i rr vtut e Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, BEAUTY er Sack. and Grain Buyers Waitsburg, Wash. R. J. B0DDY ' WHOLESALE BUTCHER Makes a Specialty of furnishing Meat in Large Quantities. First-class stock Reasonable price THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET J. II. STONE, PROPRIETOR The place to get the best cTWeat that money can buy, and at the lowest price Fish and Oysters in- season The high est cash price paid for poultry". iTK n CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THINQ3 TO EAT AISOB MEETING Dolph Lodge No. 80 Entertains Visit ora Saturday Night With a Grand Banquet. Dolph Lodge No. 80. A. P. & A. M. held an interebting meeting Saturday night. A number of visiting Masons were present, including members of Weston, Pendleton, Helix and Walla Walla lodges. ; The master Mason degree was con ferred on three candidates, after which a banquet supper was served. J i Dolph Lodge is steadily increasing in membership and muob interest is taken by the members in its meetings. The lodge owns one of the finest fur nished balls in the state. Riflemen Entertained. Henry Barrett was host to a party of riflemen Sunday. He took the shooters to bis Pine Creek ranoh and after load ing them down with cartridges, turn ed them loose among the squirrel fam ily, with the injunction to shoot until ' 3 p. m. when dinner would be ready I The hunters were ready for dinner at j the appointed time and it is doubtful I if Mrs. Stamper ever wants to oook for a hungry orowd of squirr el shooters again. . The lady served a splendid dinner and that it reoeived ample jus tioe from those present goes without saying. ftortuantely, squirrels only were killed, no fatalities happening to Mr. Barrett's fine herd of cattle Wood Visits Athena, Colonel Wood of the Leader was iu town for a couple of hours Saturday. His services were required in adjust ins a press that wiokedly pinohed the right band of the Press man. The col onel did the work quickly and well, beoame swelled up over his meohanio al ability and said it wonld have been better for the community had Boyd's head landed in the press instead of his hand. On Savings We Pay 41 ol 0 On the Quarterly Balance or 3 On the Monthly Balance THE ST. NICHOLS HOTEL I ! J. E. FROOME, prop. Iff. ... Only First-class Hotel in the City. r Is Iff THE ST. NICHOLS the only one that can accommodate commercial travelers. iff n beiecomended for Its clean and well ventilated rooms. f-n Ml lit inn THIRD. ATBINA.Or. Market affbrdsin (I? Athena, Oregon WHEAT LB THEM Tide Has Turned From the Touted Lands of Alberta and ! Saskatchewan. A special oorieepondent writing from Begin a, Saskatchewan province, Canada, says of the situation in the Northwest Territory : A "grain famine in Alberta and Sas katchewan I Only yesterday the widespread pro vinces of the Canadian northwest were touted as the greatest wheat producing districts of the world. Yet the Canadian government' is spending today $4,000,000 in iurniHb ing seed grain to the farmers of Alber ta and Saskatchewan, beoause the late spring last year froze so muob . of the grain that it is unfit for seeding purposes. The two provinoee produced about 100,000,000 bushels of wheat and oats, but the loss has been enormous beoanse of the frost bitten grain and many f aimers are on the verge of destitution this winter. . - Regina is the headquarters for the disposition of seed grain, which is the most stupendous governmental distri bution since the settlers of Kansas ap pealed to the eastorn states to aid toem in tiding over the grasshopper panio and drought of 1889 90. Forty per oent of the settlers of the Canadian northwest are Americans from the states of Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas and the Dakotas. How many they number is almost beyond calculation. Probably 50,000 families iu Alberta and Saskatchewan is a low estimate. Wore than 60,000 Americans emigrated to Canada in 1900 alnne, carrying belongings valued at some 150,000,000, and it is believed that more than 100,000 settled there during the past year. Thousands spent their last dollar there. 1'he lure was wheat. The Canadian government has been spending $700,000 yearly iu encourag ing immigration. It advertised its wheat lauds in 7000 newspapers. It told farmers that 75,000,000 acres were waiting for them free. There were stories and piotures and advertisements about it. Settlers wrote home to their friends. Their friends' friends heard about it. Poems were wiitten about this marvelous wheat and this marvelous country. So the hordes poured iu. In 1906 the grain of Alberta and Saskatchewan was as fine as any in the world, and as far north as the very edge of the arotio mrole the wheat crop was prodigious. Then the frost came. It was either government " aid or a crash. If the settlers oonld not pay their bills and replant their lauds, it was the end. 1 he tide would have turned away. The newness of the land and the unpreparedness of the settlers made the guvernment aid imperative. This money will be considered as a loan. The farmers who take advan tage of it will get seed grain at cost; and will pay 5 per cent interest on the loan, while the government will hold the laud on which the seed grain is used as security. PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDER Without a Tremor Orchard Says He Killed Steunenberg. Harry Orchard stood up in the die- tiiot court at Caldwell, Idaho, Tues day and plead guilty to the murder of ex-Governor Steuneubreg. He did so with the full understand ing that this act would compel the oonrt to impose a sentence of death upon him. When the court finished this explanation ho was asked "And now what is your plea, Mr. Orchard?" "Guilty, your honor," answered Orchard, without a tremor. Judge Wood,' who presided iu place of Judge Ryan, because the latter was disqualified, having at one time aoted as Orchard's attorney, set the date for the passing of sentence as Maroh 18. Orchard was then returned to the Boise penitentiary. Orobard plead guilty to the Steunen berg murder within sight of the spot where the act was committed. The Steunenbeig home is but a short dis tance from the oonrt house. Two years ago, when Orobard was first called to answer to the charge of murdering Steunenberg, be refused to plead and the court entered a plea of not guilty for him at that time. The piooeedings were purely formal and when Orobard bad completed the ohange in bis plea, were complete. The Walla Walla Traotion Company ba engineers and surveyors at work running a grade line up Pine Cretk as far aa Weston. It is said that right- of-way privileges have been obtained and rails for the new road purchased. The Walla Kill UNR GOMES H i BUT LITTLE 1 NTEREST 1 Jonathan Has Change of Heart Support of Senator Ful ton's Resolution. in Jonathan Bourne Jr., United States senator for Oregon, has a personal in terest iu the fate of Senator Fulton's, resolution authorizing the department of justice to begin suits to determine the title of lands held by present own erj under purobase from the Oregon & Califorania land gran, says the Portland Journal. He is the owner of 560 aores of .land near Hoi brook in Multuomab county purohased from the Oregon & California Railroad company May 8, 1893, for whioh land be paid a total of $2,240 or $1 per acre. Intimations that have oome from Washington recently lead to the be lief that while Senator Bourne at the first was a supporter of the Fultou resolution, now he is less than luke warm in bis favorable attitude to wards the piece of legislation. The questioa is now being asked whether or not the senator's ownership of 560 aores of grant land iu Multnomah oonnty does not have something td do with bis apparent change of heart. Seuator Fulton's resolution is for the purpose of giving the department of justice authority to start suits against the Harriman interests, especially iu Oregon, to determine whether or no the titles to land sold by them out of the grants given by the government should not be set aside. Opposition has developed to the resolution by meu who contend that the prosecution of these suits would work great hard ship and perhaps loss of title to iuno ceut purchasers of these lands through out the state and in faot the north west. Attorney-general Boneparte has assured the committee having the resolution iu oharge, however, that it is not the intention of the department to attaok the titles of those known or proven to be bona fide homestead purchasers. It is further conteuded by Seuator Fulton's resolution that the railroad company has violated its agreement with the government under which it was to sell the grant land to homestead applicants at the uniform rate of $2.50 an acre; that it has sold some of the land for sums far in excess of this amount aud that it now refuses to sell to homestead applicants. Beoanse of this it is desired that power be given the department of'justioe to begin suits to adjudicate the titles to these sales that have teen made. NEWSPAPERS TIED UP IN STRIKE Union Printers at . Walla Walla Quit Work Sundar Night. Uuiou printers employed iu the Wasbiugton Priuting aud Book Manu facturing oompany, at Walla Walla, the oonoern printing the Union end Statesman, went on strike Sunday night and as a result both the Union aud Statesman are tied up. Alleged violations of the looal and international tpyograpbioal laws are given as the cause for the strike order which was following a meeting of the looal tvp ogiaphioal union Sunday afternoon. One of the principal bones of con tention, it is claimed, is the aotion of the oompany, of whioh P. C. Holland is manager, iu consolidating the three mechanical departments under one bead, the printers contending that this is not allowed under their laws. Following the mooting of the union Sunday, L. F. Claike, president of the union, was authorized to present the matter to P. C. Holland. No agreement could be reaobed and the meu were ordered ont. Notification of the aotion was immediately sent to President Lynch of the International uniou, but do further word has been received from him and the men will remain out until he decides the mat ter through a representative. September at Spokane. Twenty-five hundred delegates, repre senting between 2,500,000 and 3,000,' 000 members of the Farmers' Educa tional & Co-operative Uniou in all parts of the United States, will meet in uational convention iu Spokane, Wash., the early part of September, 1909, if the preliminary plans, ar ranged by A. A. Elmore, organizer for Washington, are oarried out In this Mr. Elmore has the hearty support of the Spokane chamber of commerce and the 150,000 Club, as well as that of oommereial organizations all over the Inland Empire of the Paoifio Northwest. Walla Traction Co. is composed of Walla Walla business men, the Drum hellers being the principal stockhold ers. The promoters are reticent in regard to their Intentions, but that they mean business is evident in the fact that right-of-way has been prao tioally secured along Pine Creek. LD D GE BURiED HIM No Relatives Could Be Found to Claim Daniel Avery, the City Jail Suicide. f ter holding the body of Dan Avery, the man who committed suioide in the Athena city jail by cutting his throat with the sharp edge of a broken whis key bottle, in the hope that some rela tive could be found, tho remains were given decent burial in the Atbeua cemetery Friday last. It developed that Avery at one time bad been a member of the order of Redmen. While he was not a member in good standing of any lodge of that order at the time of his death, the Pendleton lodge of Redmen, rather than have the body interred iu a pot tor's grave at the expense of the coun ty, generously gave $50 from its treas ury, and the suioide was given a bur ial that conformed with the desires of the lodge. Coroner Folsom and Undertaker Miller made every effort to looate rel atires of the dead man, but were un successful. The only clue they had to work on was the report that Avery had once said that his folks resided in Wisoonsin. Telegrams to different parts or toat state railed to elicit any information. Weston Has Market Day. The Weston Commercial Club has taken up the Market day proposition, and Saturday Maroh 31, is the date selected on whioh the first salesday iu that town will be inaugurated. The faot that the market day will be un der the auspioies of the Commercial Association guarantees its suoctss. Horses, oattle, hogs, farm machinery, household goods, etc, will be auction ed to the highest bidder, and mer chants will make special reductions in prioes for goods sold on that day. ; ARNOLD WOOD-GERTIE BERDEN Well Known Young People Married at Walla Walla, Tuesday. Mr. Arnold Wood and Miss Gertie Berden, a popular young couple well known in Athena were uuited in mar riage at the Dacres hotel in Walla Walla, Tuesday. Rev. M. Xi. San ders, pastor of the Methodist Episoopal cburoh, was the officiating minister. Only relatives and a few intimate friends were present at the wedding. The bride aud groom returned to tbia oity on the eveuing train. The groom is the youngest, eon of Mr. and Mrs Honry Wood, pioneers of this county and who reside on a farm south of this oity. He is a young mau of sterling qualities aud is well liked by all who kuow him. He weut through the Athena high school with splendid rooord and steps on the thresh old of manhood with bright prospects. The bride is a daughter of Mrs. Delia Berden, and spent her gitlhood iu this oity. She was also a pupil iu the Athena school for a number of years, and is a young lady whom every body likes. Mr. and Mrs. Wood will reside on a farm near Athena. Office Seeks an Editor. The friends of Lee B. Tuttle, editor of the Elgin Recorder, are urging him to aooept the nomination for the office of representative for Union oounty. If Mr. Tuttle aooopts it may . be set down as a clear case of the "oflloe eeekiuK tho man," us Mr. Tuttle would not for an instant make a fight for the place, and in fuct would not counten ance suoh a thing as an aooeptanoe of the nomination uuless urged to do so. From the best Information the Star can secure on the subjeot this demand is likely to be made, as Mr. Tuttle is considered on ideal man for the place, and bis stand on statemeut No. 1 is open and without equivocation. La Grande Star. Harriman Pays Tax. That the Harriman system is able to pay its taxes in time to sooure the 3 per cent rebate for prompt payment in spite of the financial flurry, wasahowu at the sheriff's office this morning whon a vouchor for $60,033.99 arrived through the mail, says the Eust Orog ouiafl. The amount was in payment of the company's annual tax for Uma tilla county and by making the pay ment promptly the railroad people saved $1,858.26 through the rebate. The payment just made by tho rail road compauy is the largest tax pay ment ever reoeived at tho sheriff s office for the railroad is now assessed at a higher figure than ever., before, and there are more sobool district levies than n.wal. Whitman Glee Club Coming. The pupils of the Athena high school are interested in the appearance in this oity of the Whitman Uloe Club, which if sufficient patronage is assur ed, will appear iu concert here on the evening of Maroh 19. The pupila have been given tickets to sell, and if a sufficient number are sold the con cept will be given.