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Carry Big Stocks
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VOLUME XX.
A.TITENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 20. 1908.
NUMBER 12
THE TIM-LUM LUMBER GO.
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
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Athena, Oregon
ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Parton
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Floor is made in Athena, by Athena labor, iu the latest
and best equipped mill iu the west, of the best selected
Blneatem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home
industry. Your grocer sells American Beauty for
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Athena, Oregon.
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MAKE YOUR OWN STOCK FOODS BY USING
SKIDOO HORSE AND CATTLE TABLETS
Crush and mix In feed or lalt Proper doss In tablets
Makes Your Stock Look Like the Top Price
For Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Fowls. They are made from the actlvs principle or tbt
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 ail pure drug laws. Ask for
and try once SKIDOO Condition Tablets, or SKIDOO Worm, Kidney, Chicken Cholera,
Blister, Cathartic, Heave. Fever, Hof 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 $3M,ooaooi Watertown, South Dakota, U. S. A.
Sold in Athena by A. B. McEwen & Sons.
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1 H lOMLITV IS
pro&ery WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT mm
The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in
sjj Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here
DELL BROTHERS, n Athena, Oregon
Milling Company
Per Sack. I
and Grain Buyers S
Waitsburg, Wash.
R.AB0DDY
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 placa to get the beat t7Woat 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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OVER LAI LEASE
St Dennis Holds Fort On Reserva
tion Over Reinhold Harms
at Last Accounts.
There bas been doings ou the reser
vation this week. Rein bold Hairas,
the bntoher, olaims to have leased 610
aorea of land from Jerry J3t Dennis.
St Dennis was drunk when the lease
was made and he inolnded land wbioh
did not belong to him, land thathe
had sold to Moses Taylor.
St Dennis is in possession at last ac
ooonts, and he has brought suit In
equity to have the alleged lease an
nnled. He claims that Harras got him
drunk and when be sobered op found
that be had signed his land away. '
To the Philippines. .
J. H. R Soott, assistant principal
of the Athena High School, bas reoeiv
ed a government appointment to a po
sition in the Philippine Islands, and
will sail next month from San Fran
cisoo for Manila. He will beoonneoted
I with tbeedncatiooal department there
and when he enters the service, Will be
under oontraot for a period of two
yeiie. y
James Foss Injured.
MVhile tracking at the Preston-Parton
Mill Monday James Foss received
considerable of a sbaking-up by being
too close to a huge pile of sacked bar
ley, wbioh tumbled down. The grain
was piled 15 sacks high and when it
fell, Mr. Foss was caught nnderneatb
and flattened to the floor. . While not
seriously injured, he was incapacitated
for work for several days
Floods Delayed Trains. '
The annual spriDg freshet arrived
Saturday night and Sunday and as a
result O. R. & N. trains were annuled
Monday. The Walla Walla Pendle
ton branch line did not sustain much
damage, but the main line east of Pen
dleton was not in repair until Wednes
day night 1 ' .
On Savings
We Pay
. 4'
01
On the Quarterly Balance or
3
On the (Monthly Balance
THE i
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ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
J. E. FROOME, prop.
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Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
TUC ot uipuni c.
inc oi. munuLo
U the only one that can accommodate
oommerclal travelers.
lit
Can b i
contended for Its clean and
well ventilated rooms.
Cor. Maih akdThibd, ATBKHA.Or.
V
OUT . FOR SENATOR
Governor Chamberlain Comes Before
the People Championing
Statement No. 1.
George E. Chamberlain, governor
of Oregon, is a candidate for the Unit
ed States senate, to succeed Charles W,
Fulton. Yesterday afternoon the gov
ernor made the announcement of bis
candidacy, pledged himself, should be
be elected, to serve tbe people of the
state irrespective of party, fairly,
earnestly and impartially, and promis
ing should the office fall to him, to
plaoe country above party and to sup
pott those, measures whether of a Re
publican or a democrat administration,
which his conscience approved as best
calculated to promote the best interests
of tbe country at large and the state
of Oregon.
In making his announcement, Gov
ernor Chamberlain states that be has
been requested by friends of different
political belief to become a candidate
for tbe office. He has received tbe
indorsement of his own party in differ
ent oonnties of the state.
In outlining his position tbe gover
nor places himself straight as a firm
believer in and supporter of the direot
primary law and in tbe right of tbe
people of tbestate to nominate candi
dates for all offices. He reiterates bis
belief in the principle that tbe people
should by direot vote eleot tbe United
States senators, and takes tbe stand
that no member should be elected to
tbe legislature who does not sign State
ment No. 1 withont qualification.
Ibe principle of the direct election
of tbe senators in tbe state is tbe only
issue in the present campaign, the
governor contends, and it is one wbioh
involves the maintenance of the pri
mary law in its integrity aud the right
of tbe people to rule It is a death
struggle between the people on tbe one
band and a corrupt system on the
other.
Governor Chamberlain was born in
Natobez, Mississippi, January 1, 1854.
He graduated in Washington and Lee
university in 1876. aud oame to Oregon
in Deoember of tbe same year.
" He served iu tbe third judicial dis
tiiot for two years as district attorney ;
from 1891 to 1396 he was attorney gen
eral of Oregon ; be was elected prose
outing attorney of tbe fourth judioial
distriotin 1900; in 1902 be defeated
W. J. Furnish of this oouuty, for Gov
ernor, and in 1906 was re-elected gov
ernor over his republican opponent,
James Witbyoombe.
ATHENA EASILY BEAT MILTON
Six Innings In Mud Went to Score
of Five to 0.
And tbey came in tbe rain played
ball in tbe rain and went home in the
rain. v
Tbere were six innings of it flound
ered ont in a sea of mud on the Athena
diamond, Sunday afternoon, and when
old "Jup" wouldn't push tbe olouda
away, the crowd left the grounds leav
ing the score board leading, Athena 5;
Milton, 0. .
During the short session of mud
wallowing the fruit eators used two
pitchers and tbe kids jr., placed three
twirlers on tbe mound.
Goose eggs were plucked by both
sides in the first two innings, but iu
tbe third Athena soored.' In tha fourth
fonr scores were annexed by tbe borne
team and tbereafter tbere was nothing
doing.
Milton apparently baa a well balanced
team and clever amateur games may be
looked forward to with tbe bunob dur
ing tbe spring and summer.
Batteries, Milton: Storm, Hastings
and Henderson ; Athena, Stone, Dudley,
Smith and Boober.
A Barber-ous Condition.
Tbere is one man in Athena ( no name
mentioned) who has bad it forcibly
fetohed home to bim bow it feels to be
left alone at nigbt. This particular
man's wife bas lately developed a
penobant for attending lodge meetings
something tbat ha not happened
for seven long years. Not satisfied
with attending her home lodge, she
persists in attending lodge meetings in
nearby towns, and tbe poor man in
question is thus brought faoe to face
with bis lonesomeness.
Young man see tbe new line of
oollars and ties at tbe Cash store be
fore you buy.
THE SUDDEN DEATH
A telegram was received by David
Taylor last nigbt, announcing tbe
death of W. H. H. Soott, Mr. Soott
died suddenly of heart failure yester
day at Long Beach, California, wbere
he went about six weeks ago to visit
bis brother, James Soott. It is proba
ble tbat tbe body will be brought here
for boriaL While for the past two
years relatives were aware tbat Mr.
THOISJ, HAILEV
Death Ends Career of Highly Respect
ed Citizen of This County
and State.
Thomas G. Hailey, ex-distriot at
torney of this judioial district, and
until a few months ago, when be re
moved to Portland, an honored resi
dent of this oounty died in Portland
Sunday night after a long illness re
sulting from intestinal tiouble.
After serving with honor on tbe
supreme benob, Mr. Hailey went to
Portland and engaged in the practice
of law, being a member of tbe firm of
Chamberlain, Hailey & Thomas.
It was while engaged in the big wa
ter suit at Milton last fall, tbat Mr.
Hailey was first attaoked with tbe
malady whioh eventually caused his
death. Two surgical operations for
bis relief were of but little benefit to
bim. Tbe funeral took plaoe at Port
land Wednesday afternoon.
The following biographical sketch
of Judge Hailey 'a life was written by
Judge Lowell, bis former law partner:
Thomas Griffin Hailey, son of John
Hailey, formerly delegate in congress
from IdahOtf and Lucinda Griffin, bis
wife, was born at La Grande Oregon,
July 13, 1865. His parents removed
to Idaho during bis early childhood
and the boy was raised and ednoated
at Boise City. He received his legal
training in tbe office of Cox & Minor
(L. B. Cox and Wert Minor) at Pen
dleton, Oregon, and in the law depart
ment of Washington and Lee Univer
sity at Lexington, Virginia. About
tbe year 1888 he opend an office for
himself in Pendleton and continued
iu tbe practice of bis profession in that
city until tbe winter of 1905-6 when he
removed to Salem to fill by guberna
torial appointment tbe seat on the su
preme bench of the state made vacant
by the transfer of Judge Wolvertou to
the federal bench.
He was for a year a member of tbe
lawlQrm of Fee, Carter, Hailey & Aus
tin, with offices at Pendleton and at
Union, Oregon, and later became a
partner of tbe late John J. Bailer ay
of Pendleton. From 1892 until 1905
and again from 1902 until he left Pen
dleton, he was a partner of Stephen
A. Lowell. By all tbe men thus asso
ciated with bim he was regarded as a
lawyer of marked ability, both as an
advisorand advooate, and bis woik as
a member of tbe supreme court during
tbe year tbat he was a, member thereof
indioated tbat he was a jurist of high
obaraoter.
In politios Judge Hailey was a dem
ocrat and as suoh was district attorney
for tbe Sixth judioial district from
1900 to 1904, and during a portion of
those years wes mayor of tbe oity of
Peudleton, declining re-eleotion in each
office. In both those positious he was
an official who recognized tbe binding
force of his oatb of offioe, and he ad
ministered all laws fully and impar
tially. When bis term as supreme judge ex
pired early in 1907, he became a mem
ber of tbe firm of Chamberlain, Tbomai
& Hailey and looated iu Portland,
where be was rapidly making friends
and building a valuable business wbon
bis health failed in the fall of tbat
year.
He was a man of broad visiou and
publio spirit, always interested in tbe
development of tbe state, and bis -in
fluence was invariably thrown on the
side of politioal decency and oivio
righteousness. He was a life long
communicant of tbe Episoopal church
and a valued member of its councils.
Judge Hailey was married in 1892
to Maud L. Beach of Aokley, Iowa,
who, with her two children, Genevieve
aud Elizabeth, survive bim. His
domestic lite was most happy. With
a gifted and devoted wife and two
young daughters bis borne was ideal in
its charm. In bis departure tbe
family, the oorum unity and tbe state
meet unusual loss.
Peebler for Recorder.
John Q. Peebler has filed his an
nouncement of candidacy for the dem
ooratio nomination for tbe office of
County Recorder. Mr. Peebler is well
known throughout tbe county and bis
demooratio friends will be pleased to
learn tbat he has acquieacd in tboir
desires tbat be make tbe race for tbe
offioe. He is tbe third candidate to
come before tbe people for tbe office,
tbe other two being Fred Hendley and
Charles Maoomber, republican oandi
dates.
To Core Constipation Forever.
fako Cascurets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25CL
C C. C. (nil to cure. druKKiHts refund mon
OF W. II. II. SHI
Soott was not in tbe besf of heulth and I
tnat at times tbe aotion ot bis heart
was not what it should be, no appre
hension was felt, and bis sudden death
was a terrible shock to them and to t bo
community wbioh held bim in high
esteem. Sir. Soott was 8 god 67 years.
He was a pioneer of tbe county and
was one of tbe firnt men to take up
a homestead iu Gerking Flat
A STATE L
Splendid Assortment of Books for
Athena Conditions Under Which
They May Be Read.
first consignment of books sent
to Athena by the Oregon State Library
Association bas been received and
are ready for distribution by Librarian
Byron Hawks, at the Pioneer drug
store.
This consignment is an excellent as
sortment. The selection is varied to
tbe extent tbat old and young have op
portunity for satisfaction of literary
taste, and especially tbe young people
now nave opportunity to employ spare
time in perusing tho works of tbe best
authors of tbe world.
Tbe present assortment of books will
remain in Atbena six months, when
they will be returned to the state li
brary commission, and a new assort
ment will be received in their place.
Tbe conditions under which books may
be taken from tbe library and read are
that the applioant must deposit with
tbe librarian tbe prioe of tbe book se
lected. He has rightful possession of
tbe book for tbe period of 14 days,
when tbe book must be returned iu
good condition, when this deposit is
returned to bim, or at this time, he
may retain tbe book longer by speoial
permission of tbe librarian. These
conditions are to be rigidly enforced,
and should the book not be returned as
required, tbe librarian forwards the
deposit to tbe commission. Following
is tbe list of books now at the Pioneer
drugstore:
Old aud New Classics, Tbe Dear Old
Home, In Mytbland, Unbeaten Tracks
in Japan, Sbandon Bells, Fian dor's
Widow, Training of Wild Animals,
Tbe Patriots. Wutherina: Heiabts.
Frieuds and Cousins, Robert E. Lee,
Frank Brown, Sea Apprentice, Story
of Little Konrad, Iron Way, How and '
Why of Eleotrioity, Boys of '76, The
Pathfinder Prioe of Sileuoe, Oakloigb,
David Uopperfield, Down in Porto Rico,
Tbe Indian Primer, Biography of a
Prairie Girl, Young People's History
of Holland, Story of Abraham Lincoln,
Heroio Adventnres, Stories of Great
Artists, Ranch on tbeOxbide, Astoria,
Holland, Isle of Dreams, Pretty Goldi
locks, Rhymes and Stories. Hirsobvo-
gle, Nature's Craftsmen, Book of Bal
lad Stories, To tbe Credit of tbe Sea,
Beth Norvell, Giant Sun and His Fam
ily, Master's Violiu, Island Stories,
Conquest of Arid Amerioa, the Quartet,
Conqeust of Canaan, Idylls of tbe
King, Tlukbam Brother's Tide-mill,
Tbe Robin Reader, American Literary
Masters, Betty Wales, Senior; New
Chronioles of Rebecca.
Ml STREET IMPROVEMENT
West End of Street to Be Graded
and Macadamized.
At the meeting of the city council
Monday evening, a petition requiring
the grading aud maoadamizing of the
west end of Main street was read and
referred to the street committee
The loootiou of the proposed im
proveuient is direotly west of the O.
R. & N. tracks. It is understood that
tbe matter is now in tbe bands of tbe
committee on ordinances, and that uu
ordinance will be diafted at ouoo, au
thorizing tbe improvement.
Tbe aunual reports of tbe mayor and
the city reoorder were read and ap
proved. Bills were allowed for service
of judges and clerks of city eleotion
and also tbe year's calory of (CO to
Treasurer Kemp.
Tbe bonds of Marshal Gholson,
Treasurer Fobs and Reoorder Richards
wore appioved.
Mayor Plamondou appointed tbe
following committees for tbe ensuing
year: j
Finanoe Watts, MoEwen and Tomp-
kins.
Fire and Water McEwen, Tomp
kins and McBride.
Streets and Publio Improvements
Tompkins, Gross and Le Grow.
Ordinance Gross, McBride and
Watts.
Health and Police McBrido, Lu
Grow and MoEwen.
J. E. L. Gerkinir Dead.
.T V. T. f4nrlrllfy an nlri HtnA rocl-
dent of this vicinity, died Tuesday at
Weiser, Idaho, after a lingering
illness, aged 71 years. He was the
father of Jool and Quill Gerking
and Mrs. I. N. Richardson. It was
tbe intention of relativos to have had
tbe remains brought here for iuter
ment, but owing to railroad washouts,
burial took place at Weiser.
Minister Resigned.
V. E. Hoveu, pastor of the Christ
ian cburcu of this oity, has tendered
bis resignation to the oburob board,
tbe same to take effect tbe last of Jane.
Mrs. Hoven will go foine time next
mouth for a visit to her parents in
Los Angeles, Cal. It is not known
just wbat Mr. Hoven's intentious are.
but tbe obnroh in Atbena will lose an' .
worker in bis removal.