The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, September 18, 1908, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

The Athena press., September 18, 1908, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1908)

Page of 6 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (4.2 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 6 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextVI TUS' Edition -con-tains Six Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks IT Buy Your Groceriea from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XX. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 18, 1908. NUMBER 38 THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. 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-Parton Floor is made ia Athona, by Athena labor, lu the latest and best equipped mill in the west, of the best selected Bluestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grooei sells American Beaaty for Merchant Millers Athena, Oregon. v 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 Horsei, Cattle, Sheep, Swine and Fowls, They are made from the active principle or the condensed essence of the drug. They dont contain Sawdust, Ashes, Chop Feed or Bran, Are just as good when 10 year old aa when 10 days old. They comply with all pure drug laws. Ask for and try one SKIDOO Condition Tablets, or SKIDOO Worm, Kidney, Chicken Cholera, Blister, Cathartic, Heave. FeTer, Hog Cholera, Distemper, Pink Eye, Colic tablets or Lonse Powder, Spavin Cure or Barb Wire Liniment. Distributed by THE BLUE BELL MEDICINE CO.. incorporated! Capital stock o,ooo.o0i Watertown, South Dakota, U. S. A. , . Sold in Athena by A. B. McEwen & Sons. " THE oil Al iTIf PPHPrHW -m4 e he ppMLi 1 1 uitubciii i m PROMPT llfUCDC DDIPCO ADC DIPUT POHNE DELIVERY 1WIILIIL I IIIULU Hill. IIIUII I The Freshest and most Choice the jrj tJe Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, "' Athena, Oregon Milling Company BEAUTY ack.l er arid Grain Buyers : Waitsburg, Wash. 2 THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET STONE & BODDY, Prop's The place to get the best cTVIeat that money can .buy, and at the lowest price Fish and Oysters in season The high est cash price paid for poultry. R. J. BODDY WHOLESALE BUTCHER Makes a Specialty of furnisliing Meat in Large Quantities. First-class stock, Reasonable price VEGETABLES Ad Winters Has a. Liking for Other People's Money, and Finds Himself in Jail. Ad Winters, a young man who has been employed in the harvest fields iu the Athena neighborhood was be fore Judge Richards Monday charged with stealing $22 from a man named Sutton, employed in . a wheat ware bouse at Hillsdale and the theft of $6.60 in cash, 50 cents in stamps and a pair of suspenders from John Martin, a farm hand employed by Joseph Ber gevin. It is alleged that young Winters while "buoking" wheat with Sutton, with whom be slept in the wheat warehouse, took the $22 from Sutton's pocket while the latter was asleep. Sutton finally aooused Winters of the theft, when Winters also said some one bad taken his money. The fellow was searobed by the warehousemen, but no money was found on him, ard he quit work at the waienonse. Leaving there, Winters ended up at the Bergevin place south of town, where he committed the second offense so it is obarged. Mis. Martin's evi dence went to show that young Win ters was in a tent occupied hy her aDd her husband for an hour Friday even ing, and also Saturday morning when be changed his clothing before coming to Athena. She had occasion to go to her trunk after Winters departed and found that $6.50 cash and 50 cents in postage stamps whioh was in the trunk Friday had disappeared. Suspecting Wiuters, Mr. Martin followed him to town and bad a war rant issued for his arrest. Iu the meantime, Sutton had come to town and seeing Winters on the street, told him to dig up the. $22 he had stolen from him or be would give him a threshing. This had the desired effect, so far as Winters' resources went, for be forked over bis watob to Sutton and was trying to borrow money with wbioh to further settle with him, when he was arrested on the Martin complaint. Winters several times got himself into the unsavory predicament of con tradiction during bis bearing in the justioe court. He wa bound over to the oirouit court and was taken to jail b y Constable O'Harra. Biffed the Autocrat. Central Illinois Methodist Episcopal oouferenoe by unanimous vote adopted resolutions condemning the action of Speaker Cannon in "refusing to allow vote ou the Littlefield bill" and sug gesting that "such representatives as lack elements of statesmanship should beretired to private life." The res ulotion concludes: ".We urge upon the people the use of all lawful means in scouring the defeat of J. U. Can nou, speaker of the bouse of represen tatives." Family in Dire Distress. J. B. Shew of Milton died of blood poisoning Suuday eveuing at the Wal la-Walla hospital. The deceased is survived bv a wife and four children, the wife being bedfast at the hospital with blood poison in ber band whioh beoame iufeoted while she was oaring for ber husband. Mr. Sbew and family reoently moved from Indiana to Milton. Mr. Shew was54 years of age. Protecting the Quail. The Walla Walla county game war den has had printed and placed in the county auditor's offloe for free distribution among the farmers a large number of notices printed on glazed muslin, prohibiting bunting, shooting or trespassing on tbe land whereon these signs are posted. He is very desirous that the farmers when they are iu town stop at tbe offioe and prooure two or three of these signs to tack up on their premises. By means 111 km. MAIN 83 Market affords in pi of this prohibitory measuie Mr. Whit ney bcfJSs kto prevent tbe killing of many quail until the legislature meets and laws oan be passed prohibiting their killing for a number of years. Failure to heed these notices provides a fine of $10, half of wbiob goes to tbe owner of tbe land whereon tbe trespass is committed. Union. Gus a Candidate. Waitsburg Times : Did you notice bow our fellow townsman, Gus'av Vollmer, candidate for nomination as a representative in tbe 13th District. ran in this city and iu bis home pre oinot of Washington? Out of a total of 93 republican ballots cast in tbis in bis precinct, be received 89 votes, and then several voters neglected to vote for representative. In Washing ton precinct tins reoeived !il votes out of S3 republican ballots cast. Mr. Vollmer. is justly proud of this show ing made among bis neighbors, who know him best. Bids on Celilo Canal Work. The contract to exoavate and build oonorete walls for 14,000 feet of the Celilo canal will in all probafciilty go toa Spokane firm, Gaughren, Winters, Smith & Co., says a Portland item. It will take some time to asoertain wbioh with csrtainty is the lowest bid, but a hurried investigation indicates that the Spokane firm has the iuside track. Bid on tbe work were opened in tbo offioe of Captain James Maolndoe, United States engineer corps, and be sides tbe firm mentioned above tbe fol lowing submitted bids: North Amer ican Dredger company, Johnson P. Porter, Celilo Construotiou company, Robert WakeQeld & Co., and Tuohy Bros. The contraot provides for tbe completion of a seotion of tbe canal and will involve tbe expenditure of approximately 1700,000. THE FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL One Hundred and Seventy Pupils Enrolled For Work. The Athena publio sohools opened last Monday. Tbe greater patt of tbe work this Week has been given over to a very careful organization and olassifloatio'ii of the entire sonool. Owing to tbe faot tbat Prof. Lester Miller of Eugene, to whom tbe school' board bad offered tbe assistant prin oipalship, did not aooent. it was nec essary to begin with ouly live teaoters. Tbis makes heavy work for those teaohers present, especially iu tbe grades below tbe ninth. The present total enrollment is ap proximately, 170. The teachers in obargeare as follows: Prof. T. D. Miner, Portland, principal, grades 9 and 10; Miss Blanche Orswell, Engene grades 7 and 8; Miss Edith Orswell, Engene, grades 5 and 6; Miss Velma Wilkineon, Atbena, grades 3 and 4; Mrs. E. Lane Walker, Huntington, primary, grades 1 aud 2. It is tbe earnest desire of the school board, of Professor Miner and of all the teachers to develop a three yeoi high school course sufficiently, so (hut .work done here will be credited iu tbe higher colleges and nuiversitios, with the idea tbat when tbat is tbe case, our students will prefer to attend sobool at home rather than away, and tbat a strong, patriotio school spirit will spring up in wbiob the name, Athena, will be tbe key note. Sucked Poison From Bite. Last week Fay Barton, while out bunting on tbe Imuaha with two com panions, Perry aud Earl War nock, was bitten by a rattlesnake. Tbe boys bad flushed a covey of grouse and Fay was walking along, keeping tbe biida in sight, wheu suddenly be felt a sharp prick on tbe sbia. He looked down aud there was a rattler just i-j tbe act of strikiuK bim. He jumped back and sbot tbe snake with bis .22 grouse rifle. He immediately buckled a strap as tightly as possible around tbe bis leg above tbe plaoe w here tbe snake bad bitten bim. One of tbe Warnock boys sucked tbe poison from tbe wound. Joseph Herald. Brush Up at Anaconda. Fay LeGrow's racer, Brush Up, is showing the way to the fast ones at the Anaconda race meet. SiDoe leav ing tho Bote track, which is bard, for tbe soft track at Anaconda, tbe little mare ran winner iu two 5-fur-long races this week. She won out Tuesday in 1:02 1-2. A peouliar fea ture of tbe Botte traok is tbat on tbe borne stretch tbe running is made on a down grade with a very bad surface, tbe balance of tbe track being soft and springy. Quarreled Over Sheep. Word bas been received at Burn tbat Jobn C. Midland sbot and killed a Spaniard named Lorenzo P. Rames on Stein mountain. Tbe men quar reled over tbe mixing of two bands of sheep. Two davs later Rames whipped .Midland in a fist fight. Midland rode to Diamond valley and purchased a re volver, and, it is alleged announced be would kill Rames if there was any more trouble. Returning to camp Midland sbot Rames three times. Midland alleges eelfdefense. OLD MIKE SLASHED Republicans Carry Yankee State By the Narrowest Margin in Many Years. The republicans carried Maine Tuesday by about 8,000 plurality as against 28,816 in tbe last presidential year and 8,064 in 1906. Returns for governor from 468 out of 519 cities, towns and plantations give Bert M. Fctoald, retublioan, 72,117, Obediah Gardner, demoorat, 64,993. Same places in 1904 gave Cobb, republican, 75,334; Davis, demoorat, 49,416. The missing (owns, wbioh are small, four years ago cast 1,630 republican votes and 730 democratic. The demooratfo vote increased more than 13,000 over that of 1904, while the republican vote fell ott about 2,500. Tbe republican plurality is tbe smallest recorded in a presidential year in 25 years. The two parties split even in tbe 20 cities, each capturing ten. The vot ing waspattionlary heavy iu tbe rural districts where the demoorats, largely through popularity of Mi. Gardner among tbe farmers, made great gains. Although the republicans came off victorious in the election tbe demo crats had tbe satisfaction of seeing tbe normal republican plurality out to less than 10,000 votes for tbe first time in a presidential year for more than a quarter of a century. All four republican candidates for congress were elected and for stato auditor, Charles P. Ilatoh of Augusta, republican, defeated bis opponent. Tbe republicans were on tbe defens ive throughout tbe oampaigu, seeking to hold tbe state by tbe usual plural ity by answering tbe various demo cratic arguments wbiob were mainly for resubmission of tbe prohibition law, taxation of the wild lands and re form in administration methods. Tbe republicans strongly defended the so-called Stmgis law aDd invited tbe voters to support its stringent methods in tho enforcement of the cause of prohibition. Nearly 140,000 voters went to the polls, a number wbioh was witbm a few thousand of tbe record for the state Tbe democrats gained over four years ago in nearly every county and city, altbougb come of tbe municipal ities which went demooratio two" years ago returned'to the reputlioau fold. Congressman Alleu Burleigh, John U. Swaysey and Frank E. Guernsey, re publican, are elected. Dugger Zerba. Mr. Harvey B. Dngger and Miss Avis V. Zeiba, both of tbis city, were united iu marriago at Pendleton Wed uesday afternoon, at the Golden Rule hotel, in the presenoe of relatives and friends. Rev. W. T. Euster was the officiating clergyman. Tbe wedding party returned on tbe evening train and tbe bride and groom, wbo are receiving congratulations from their friends, proceeded at ouqo to house keeping iu ono of tbe Speucer cottages ou High street. Tbe bride is tbe youngest daughter of Mr. aud Mrs. O. W. B. Zerba, and for tbe past two years has held the positiou of operator ou'tbe type setting machine in tbe Press office Mr.. Dngger came to Atbena from Missouri about two years ago aud is a young man of industrious habits. Ministerial Appointments. At tbe annual conference of tbe M. E. oburob held tbis week at Weuat chee, Wash., Pendleton was taken from Tbe Dalles District and plaoed in tbe Walla Walla District. Rev. Gabriel Sykes will serve as superin tendent of tbe Walla Walla District. Iu the appointments made by tbe con ference, Rev. CV W. Griszler comes to Atbena; Rev. John Evans goes to Asotin; Rev. Baker to Clarkstou; Rev. Israel Putnam to Pataba, and Rev. A. W. Roberts to Grangeville, Ida bo. Electric Line Opened. Capitalists aud officials of tbe Spo kane & Inland Empire Electric Rail way System will compose the operat ing crew of tbe first train to be sent over tbe newly completed electric line from Spokane to Moscow, Ida., tbe morning of September 23, when tbe 150,000 club of Spokane will give its annual excursion. Tbe crew will be beaded by Jay P. Graves, president of tbe oompany, as conductor, and bis son, Clyde M. Graves, as motorman. . Milton Wheat Crop. Acoording (o tbe Eagle tbe whea, crop in tbe Milton neighborhood tbis year averaged higher than grain in other sections of Umatilla county. Four hundred 'acres ou the foot bill ranch, owned by Jobn McEwen aver aged 45 bushels per acre, and tbe Eagle says many other fields averaged 35 to 40 buahels per acre. 30 Bushels of Alaska. Authoritative reports have been received in Spokane tbat the claims made by Abraham Adams for tbe no called "Alaska" wheat grown on bis ranob uear Jnliaetta, Idaho, are not justified, i Tbe average yield is about 30 bushels tbe acre, instead of from 100 to 222 as be asserted, aid it is not true tbat the grain can be grown any where. Tbe flour making qualities of tbe wheat are unknown for the rea son no-official test has been made. Experts say that if Adams' claims were true tbe wheat farming industry would be revolutionized, bnt since be has failed to make good his assertions, the disoovery of an agricultural mar vel is exploded, aud is, in faot, with out foundation. A Swell Company. The Dalles Chronicler says of the Walters & Christ oompany, whioh appears at the Opera house Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday sight of next week: "From start to finish, tbe drama 'Dora Thome' was well por trayed -at the Vogt last night to an appreciative audience. Every obarao ter was so well taken tbat it ia not possible to say whioh was best. The play is full of heart interest and thrill ing situations that were carried put with a vim and rush, so there were no dull moments. Every actor bad bis lines letter-perfeot and each one seem ed specially fitted for the part taken. The play was well given in every de tail." Bard Leaves Walla Walla. After being reotor of St. Paul's Episcopal church of Walla Walla for 10 years, the Rev. Andreas Bard is sooq to sever bis oouueotion with tbe praish there and will leave with bis family within the uext few weeks for Heidelberg, Germany to tace a oonrse of lectures for six months. "Blind Pig" Cases. The oases of the twelve men arrested at Pendleton Saturday night on the charge of selling . intoxioating liquor have been deferred until tomorrow at 10 o'olook, when each of the ment wbo are under $250 bonds will have their hearing before Justioe Parks. HERM1ST0N PLAEE SELECTED In All Probability Experimental Sta: tion Will Be Established There C. A. Barrett attended the meeting held at Pendleton Saturday night for tbe purpose of disouesing the proposi tion to establish a government ex perimental station in tbis county. President W. J. Kerr, ot "tbe Oregon Agricultural College, aud several ex perts were present at the meeting which was attendod by a nnmber of Umatilla county men. Hermistou, wbore tbe government bas reserved 40 acres of laud under the reclamation projeot, appealed to President Korr and others present as the most desir able looatiou for tbe station, inasmuob as tbat section of tbe county is arid and tbe class of production expected from tbe soil will require expert at tention in order that settlers wbo are r.jakiug bomes there will be started into the work of reclamation iu tbe proper way. To secure the station, tbe county must provide (be equipment, includ ing buildings. It is estimated tbat from 3000 to 15000 will be required for tbe purpose. With tbe station equipped by tbe county, tbe state and federal govern ment will furnish experts to oarry on tbe work. , Lightning Strikes at Weston. During the severe eleotrio storm Mouday night, lightning struck tbe I. E. Saiing residence at Weston and caused considerable damage bnt for tuuately no fire resulted. A couple of obimueys and tbe cupola were demol ished, and tbe effect of tbe shook was felt iu all parts of the dwelling. Mrs. Saliug, who was alone at the time, es caped injuiy. i i " - -" Editor Turns Rancher. -Bert Huffman, editor of tbe East Oregonian, has purchased a section of wheat laud near Calgary, Alberta, aud will plant 400 acres to spring wbeat. Mr. Huffman but recently mado bis laud purchase, whiub was from tbe Canadian Puciflo Co. Wet For Utah. A plank favoring the passage of a looal option law was defeated in the committee on resolutions of tbe repub lican state convention wbioh met at Salt Lake Tuesday, and tbe matter did' not come Dp on the floor of tbe convention. Kodol will, iu a very short time, enable tbe stomach to do tbe work it should do, and tbe work it should do is to digest all the food you eat. I makes tbe stomaob sweet and it is pleasant to take. It is sold here by Palace Drug Company. For Sale. Mrs. May Jorgenson offers 80 acres of fine reservation land for sale at $90 per acre. Tbe land description is N of N W eeo. 17, tp. 3, 35 E W M. Iuquiie of F. S. Le Grow, Atbena. Kodol will, without doubt, make your stomaob strong and will almost instantly relieve yon of all tbe symp toms of indigestion. Get a bottle of it today. It is sold bere by Palace Drug Company. . DeWitt's Little Early: Risers-are small pills, easy to take, gentle and eore Sold by Palace Drug Co. 7 " , ' ; , - v.