Athena Merchants
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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
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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 $300,000.00; VYatertown, South Dakota, U. S. A.
Sold in Athena by A. B. McEwen & Sons.
i THE QUALITY GROCERY STOKE g
prompt ufiirnr nninro Anr ninUT POHNE
rj DELIVERY imLnL fHIULO Hnt niuni MAIN 83
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$y The. Freshest and most Choice the
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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".
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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
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J. E. FROOME, prop.
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Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
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Is
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THE ST. NICHOLS
the only one that can accommodate
commercial travelers.
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n beiecomended for Its clean and
well ventilated rooms.
f-n Ml lit inn THIRD. ATBINA.Or.
Market affbrdsin
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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.