Athena Merchants
Treat you Square
Athena Merchants
Carry Big Stocks
Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer
VOLUME XX.
ATTTENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 10. 1908.
NUMBER 15
THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO.
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS aTND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athena, Oregon
ESTABLISHED 1865
Preston-Par ton Milling Company
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Floor is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest .
and beat equipped mill ia the west, of tho best seleoted
2 ' Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home
S indnstry, Yonr grooei sells American Beauty for
!$1.25 Per Sack.!
; Merchant Millers
Athena, Oregon.
DHU,fc OFFICE 355
RESIDENCE 392
EYES TESTED GLASSES GROUND-flTTED'
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 Horse, 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 food when 10 years old as when 10 days old. They comply with all pure drag laws. Ask for
and try once SKIDOO Condition Tablets, or SKIDOO Worm, Kidney, Chicken Cholera,
Blister, Cathartic Heave. Fever, Hoi Cholera, Distemper, Pink Eye, Colic tablets or Louse Powder,
Spavin Cnre or Barb Wire Liniment. Distributed by THE BLUE BELL MEDICINE CO..
Incorporated; Capital Stock $300,000.00; WateitOWn, South Dakota, U. S. A.
' Sold in Athena by A. B. McEwen & Sons.
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prooelWry where prices are richt
The Freshest and most Choice the
Mmt
e Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here
g DELL BROTHERS,
BEAUTY
and Grain Buyers :
Vaitsburg, Wash.
THE ATHENA MEAT
. MARKET -
J. H. 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".
OPTICAL SPECIALIST
18 EAST MAIN ST.
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CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN
GOOD TH1NG3 TO EAT
opera
MIES
A FARMERS' H
Experts May Visit Athena Wednesday
May 6, and Regain Two Hours
to Enlighten Ranchers.
After weeks of energetio work on the
part of the Pendleton Commercial asso
ciation, a farmers' train, bearing ex
perts and lecturers, may be inn through
Umatilla ounty, the itinerary having
been arranged for Wednesday, May 6,
over the O. R. & N. line. The train
will be in obaigd of General Freight
Agent R. B. Miller of the O. R. & N.
aud agrionltnral experts from the
Washington state oolIege at Pullman.
Lectures on summer fallowiug, deeper
plowing and diversified orops will be
given and stops will be made at all the
principal towns in Umatilla county
The itinerary as proposed, follows:
Leave Walla Walla, Wednesday,
May 6, at 8 a. m.
Arrive at Milton, Oregou, at 8:30
and remain one hour and 30 minutes.
Arrive at Weston at 10:10 and re
main one bonr and 20 minutes.
Arrive at Athena, in the heart of
the wheat belt, a 12:10 p. m., and re
main two boa re, including lunch.
t Arrive at Adams at 2 :20 p. m., and
remain one bonr.
Arrive at Pendleton at 3:50 p.m.,
and remain three hours for dinner and
evening session at oonrthouse.
Arrive at Echo at 7:15 p. m., and
remain two hours, with leoture at
opera-house.
Arrive at Umatilla at 10:45 and
transfer party to Spokane train No. 4
for return trip to Walla Walla.
Umatilla county farmers are do
lighted to have this train run through
the county and the prospects are that
immense crowds will attend the meet
ings and witness the demonstrations
should the train be run.
DeWitt's Carbonized Witch Hazle
Salve. It is especially goon for piles.
Sold by Palaoe Drug Co "
On Savings
41.
On the Quarterly Balance or
3
. On the tTMonthly Balance
I
t THE X
ST. NIGHGLS HOTEL i
J. E. ITROOME, prop.
Only First-class Hotel in
the City.
THE ST. NICHOLS
l the only one that can accommodate
oommerclal travelers.
i.
an twiecomended for its clean and
well ventilated rooms.
Cob. Main ahd Third, A thin a, Or.
POHNE
MAIN 83
Market affords in
Athena, Oregon
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SPEAKS
Republican Senatorial Candidate Dis
cussed Statement No. 1 at Opera
House, Tuesday Afternoon.
-lion. H,
M. Cake of Portlaud, re
publican oandidate for United States
Senator, and who is the republican
party's champion of the primary law
and Statement No. 1, opened the
campaign in Athena with a speech at
the opera house Tuesday afternoon.
To au audienoe composed about
evenly of republican's and demoorats,
Mr. Cake upheld the polioies of the
present adminstration, and lauded the
work that is being done in connection
with the forest reserves, the reclama
tion of arid lands, the oonstrnotion of
the Panama canal and the opening of
rivers to navigation.
Concerning the principle of State
ment No. 1, the speaker arrayed the
politician and the maohine one side of
the question and the people on the
other. With a nominal majority of
30,000, he asked why republicans
should fear the peoples choice of can
didate for United States Senator, when
tbey were called on to be satisfied with
the oboice of direot vote of the masses
of Congressman, governor, and other
officials ot state and county.
Why draw the line at Statement
No. 1," asked the speaker, "when the
principle for whiob it stands, gives
into the hands of the people the sim
ple right of expressing their choice of
man for an office that is the highest
within their power of gift. Until such
time as the constitution is amended to
give the people the right to ohoose
Senators by direot vote, Statement No.
will be used to conform with the
constitution relative to legislative
election of senators, but at the same
time it grants the universal suffrage
and privilege to the people of express
ing their choice by ballot. "
Mr. Cake spoke for an hour aud 15
minutes. After the meeting, he was
introduced to Athena people by C. A.
Barrett.
He was taken to Weston by Mayor
Plamondon, and from that place took
the evening train for Milton. He
spoke Tuesday night to a large audi
ence at Freewater.
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MRS.1SSEUT01HEM
Was Examined Twice and Was Finally
Ordered Committed.
Mrs. Lucinda Russell, mother of W.
C. Russell, was adjudged insane Mon
day aud fcy order of the oourt has been
committed to the asylum at Salem.
The afflicted woman was taken to
Pendleton Saturday, where Dr. Cole,
who made an examination refused to
prouounoo her iusaue. The old lady
wastben placed in care of a nurse, and
Monday morning became so nnruly
and violent that the lady in oharge of
her phoned to the oounty judge, with
the result that a second examination
was held and Dr. Cole diagnosed the
case as ohronio dementia. .
Mrs. Russell has a home in the
north part of town, where she has re
sided for several years. Her actions
have long been that of an insane per
son, and she has given considerable
trouble to relatives and neighbors as
toe result or tnese aotions, so it was
thought best by all oonoerned for her
to be sent to the state institution,
where she will receive proper care,
She will not be a burden to the state
as she is possessed of both money and
property.
TMiss Mattie Birch, who is at the
home of her sister Mrs. Walker, was
stnng on the arm by a soorpiou Wed
nesday afternoon. The young lady was
engaged in selecting apples at the
Walker home, when she was stung by
the insect. Application of ammonia
was at once made on the wound, with
the result that the poison was soon
drawn out. Scorpions are rarely, if
ever found in this section ot Oregon,
and it is piobable that this particular
one had been seoreted in the effects of
Mr. and Mrs. Walker, who not quite
year ago came from Nevada, the
home of these poisonous insects.
Opera House Party.
Friday evening a pleasant
social
event took place at the Atbeua
opera
bouse. About seventy-live persons
were present on invitation and one of
the most pleasant social gatheiings of
the soason was the result. Cards,
musio and dancing were features of
entertainment, and all present enjoyed
themselves. Johnson's orchestra of
Pendleton, was employed for the oc
casion, aud the bouse was brilliantly
illuminated with eleotrio lights.
Candidates for Recorder.
F. W. Hendley, county recorder and
oandidate for re-nomination was in
the city Monday, and called at the
Press office. Mr. Hendley has bad the
office but one term and believes be has
taken care of the offioo in such a man
ner as to merit a second term. His
opponent, 0. K. MoComber was in the
city Tuesday.
$10,000
John Bergevin Files Charges In Court
Against Dr. J. R. Sponogle,
and Withdraws Them.
Alleging that Dr. J. R. Sponogle, a
deutist of this city, bad rained his
daughter Annie, John Bergevin, a res
ervation farmer, filed a $10,000
damage suit against Sponogle in the
cirooit oourt Peterson & Wilson are
Bergevin'o attorneys, and these law
yers filed the papers in the case last
Saturday.
Acoordiug to the statements of Ber
gevin, as shown in the complaint and
published in Saturday's East Oregon
ian, Annie Bergevin, bis daughter,
aged 20 years, had lived with the fam
ily at Athena throughout her lifetime,
leading a chaste life until abont No
vember 1 last. At that time the plain
tiff alleges that Dr. Sponogle began to
show his attentions to the daughter
with the intention of wilfully, wrong
fully and unlawfully injuring, dis
graoing and wounding the plaintiff
aud the other members of the Bergevin
family.
It is obarged that to dishonor the
paintiS and his family the defendant
did "wickedly, wrongfully and mali
ciously entioe and persuade the said
Annie Bergevin to leave her home
and to have sexual intercourse with
him, the said defendant, and that be
did then and there before having sex
ual intercourse with her, piomise to
marry her and that by means of hypo
orisy and artifice aooomplisQ bis
wioked purpose and in so doing did
then and there seduce ber under said
promise of marriage."
It is farther charged by the father
that the defendant persuaded the girl
to take up her abode with him in the
St. Nichols hotel at Atbeua. That
he unlawfully associated with her
there, corrupting, debaucbiug and
criminally knowing her to tho plain
tiff's great damage and to the disrepute
of bis family and against his protest.
Because of the conduct of the defen
dant Bergevin further charges that he
and bis family are now looked upon
with disrepute and they are held in
disgrace aud disrespect by the public
generally to t bis groat damage. ... He
therefore prays for damages to the
extent of $10,000.
Dr. Sponogle, says there is nothing
in the charges, and that they were
brought against him by Bergevin
while drnnk, and at the instigation of
certain persons who desire to injnre
bim uersonally and pofessionally. He
aud Bergevin went down to Pendleton
yesterday, and the case was with
drawn. Bercevin oame home last
evening and Snonoele remained in
Pendleton.
John Froome, proprietor of the St.
Nichols Hotel is indignant that meu
tion is made of his hotel in the com
plaint iu connection with the charges.
He states that so far as be knows, the
Bergevin girl conducted herself iu a
lady like manner while staying at his
house. He says she paid her own bills,
and that her deportment was beyond
reproach. This, in substauoe is.tbe
other side of the case. The girl is now
at the home of ber father, and it is
said she takes no part in the proseou-
tion of Sponogle.
C. W. B. M. Entertains.
The ladies of the Christian Woman's
Board of Missions entertained their
friends at the church Wednesday after
noon in an open meeting of the auxil
iary. The Snnday sohool room was
transformed into a oomfortable recep
tion room by the addition of rugs,
draperies and ousbions, and a booth
from whiob tea and cake were served
was ereoted near the east entranoe. A
most excellent program was carried
out by the ladies, with a vocal solo by
Miss Ceoile Boyd, a piano solo by
Luoile Kemp and a reading bv Merua
DePeatt in Chinese costume, as special
numbers.
Bank Gets Teutsch Stock.
At publio auction Monday morning
the bankrupt mercantile stock of Lee
Teutsob of Pendleton, was sold to G.
M. Rioe, cashier of the First National
bank, at 56 cents on tbe dollar. Rice
was tbe highest bidder. The stock in
voiced $39,000 and the indebtedness
amounts to $40,700. The first Na
tional bank holds the largest claim.
Thirty-six cents on the dollar was the
opening bid. This was soon raised, a
number of eastern Oregon meronants
bidding. Tbe store will probably be
reopened under the direction of Rioe,
acting for tbe bank, in tbe near f utuie.
Peaches in Bloom.
"Doo" Osboin's peach tree, in front
of tbe Pioneer drua store is . in full
bloom. With favorable temperature,
tbe tree bids fair to bear this year,
and if it does, the chances are that
Osburn will claim tbe fruit. If be
wants tbe peaches he will perhaps hire
a company of militia to guard tbem
in proper season, and to barvest tbem.
Instead of employing Uraud Konde
Japs, be should send over as pickers,
a bunob of bis hello girls.
There is notbiug better than Kodol
for dyspepsia, indigestion, sour stom
ach, belching of gas and nervous
beadaohe. It digests what you eat.
. Sold by Palaoe Drug Cu.
HUES MAY. MERGE
Report That the Two Walla Walla Elec
tric Companies Will Consolidate
and Extend Road.
A report is ouirent that plans are
now under way to merge the Colum
bia & Walla Walla Traction company
and the Oregon & Washington Trao
tion company into one big electric
company, says the Weston Leader.
The merger plan was discussed at a
meeting of the stock holders of too
Columbia & Walla Walla company
at Walla Walla a few days ago, aud
plans, it is said, have so far progressed
that it is praotically certain that the
merger will go throngh.
The Columbia and Walla Walla
company has secured right of way,
depot and terminal facilities for its
proposed road to run from Dayton,
Washington, to Waliula, via Waits
burg and Walla Walla, to connect witli
the open river fleet of steamers, while
the Oregon & Washington oompany
was reoently organized to build nu
eleotrio line from Walla WUa to the
Wallowa ooutry, through the Blue
mountains. A big summer resort at
some point in the mountains in con
nection with the eleotrio, is also pro
jected.
It was the Oregon & Washington
people who made a survey up Pine
oreek to Weston and seoured a number
of rights of way along the stream.
Tha Weston will be "on the trolley"
some time this year is fondly hoped ky
our people The oounoil will undoubt
edly grant a franchise for the use of
any street desired.
Representatives of the traotion en
terprise were here again this week, but
deolined to give out any information.
They will meet with the oounoil
April 15.
Model Farm for O. R. & N.
The Oregon Railroad & Navigation
company is planning to establish an
experiment station near Walla Walla
and negotiations are pending for a
small farm near the town, which will
be given up to experimenting with
different kinds of grains, grasses,
frnits end vegetables. - The. Methods
of farming will be tested iu an effort.:
to give the farmers of this seoun
knowledge of the best manner of hand,
ling and cultivating the soil to oonservo
moisture and maintain a high standard
of produotion. TLe plan of securing
land there was not taken up in time to
do any work this year, but definite ar
rangements will bo made shortly, and
when once the site is determined, work
will go forward rapidly.
To Bore for Oil.
Tbe trustees of the Blue Mountain
Oil oompany have received the promie
of Prof. Samuel Angbey, an oil expert
operating on the Paoiflo coast, to visit
Walla Walla and Dixie on April 28,
and make a special examination for
tbe purpose of looating the exaot point
where tbe first oil well shall be drilled,
says tbe Union. The company will tit
onoe set to work to bore tbe well aud
prospect its oil properties, and have
tbe assurnnoee of Prof. Aughey that
the prospects of gotting oil in lare
quantities are especially good. The
realization of these prospects means
the establishment of a new industry
that will be worth many dollars to
Walla Walla and Dixie.
Pilot Rock is Boominr;.
Pilot Rock is booming, many new
settlors coming into that sootion. A
$5000 sabsorption for a hotel has been
started by S. L. Morse, who beaded
the list with $500. J. P. MoManas
and others have subscribed liberally.
A briok or oonorete structure will be
ereoted. A $.3000 stook subscription
for a new Presbyteriau ohurob baa
been beaded by Douglass Belts. . Ten
others will give similar amounts, and
tbe remainder will be raised later.
T iinvca fnr Pliilinnlnoa
) James H. E. Scott, teaober of the
8tb grade in Atbeua publio school,
left Wednesday for Milton, fiom
whence ho will soon take bis departure
ior San Francisco. From there be will
sail on tbe Mongolia, April 14. for tbe
Philippine Islands where be has con
tracted to remuiu two years. His
plaoe will not be filled in tbe sobool,
but Priuoipal Watts will have person
al charge of tbe extra classos.
Household Goods for Sale. -C.
S. Walker will sell at his resi
dence In tbe Methodist parsonage
household goods consisting of table,
chairs, rugs, stoves, small range, cur
tains, bedsteads, mattressos, dreewr,
cabinet table, cooking uteDsils, oto.
All articles will be sold separately ir
desired. Call at once day or evening.
Prices reasonable.
Preston Makes Sale.
D. H. Preston was down from Waits
burg Friday. While in town Mr.
Preston iuformed a reporter that ho
recently sold bis half iuteresf in the
Swaggart bog and threw a farm in
with it. to an Eureka Flat man. Of
course this item will be a boost for
Swaggart's bogs, but there are some
thiug tbat should be free, anyway.
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