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ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 20. 190S.
NUMBER M
VOLUME XX.
THE TUM-A-LUIY1 LUMBER GO.
Lumber, Mill Work
BUILDING
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athena,
ESTABLISHED 1865
i Preston-Parton Milling Company si
Flour is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest
and best equipped mill in the west, of the best selected
Blneste'm wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home
industry. Your grocer sells American Beauty for
$1.3p
1 .- 1 11
Per
Merchant Millers
Athena. Oregon.
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Paints, Oils, Glass
House, Sign and Carriage Painting
. E. T. Kidder, McArthur Building
MAKE YOUR OWN STOCK FOODS BY USING
SKIDOO HORSE AND CATTLE TABLETS
. . . ' Crush and mix In feed or alt Proper dose In tablet
Makes Your Stock Look Like the Top Price
For Horse, CHle, Sheep, Swine and Fowl. They are made from the active principle or the
condensed esseoce.of the dru. They don't contain Sawdust, Ashes, Chop Feed or Bran. Are Just
.as good when 10 years old as when 10 days old. They compl7 with all pure drug laws. Ask or
and try once SKIDOO Condition Tablets, or SKIDOO Worm, Kidney, Chicken Cholera,
Blister, Cathartic Heare. Fever, Hog Cholera, Distemper, Pink Eve, Colic tablets or Louse Powder,
Spavin Core or Barb Wire Liniment Distributed by THE BLUE BELL MEDICINE CO.,
incorporated; Capital Stock $300,000.00; Watertown, South Dakota, U. S. A.
; ? Sold in Athena by A. B. McEwen &.Sons.
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and Grain Buyers
Waitsburg, Wash.
R.J. BODDY
WHOLESALE BUTCHER
Makes a Specialty of furnishing
Meat in Large Quantities.
First-class stock, Reasonble price
WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT P0HLh83
CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN
GOOD TH1NG3 TO EAT
GOOD ROAD MEETING
League Will Hold Convention In
Athena Saturday Afternoon
. November 20.
By order of .President Sobmitt of
the local Good Roads League, a con
vention will be held in this city, Sat
urday afternoon, November 28, at 1 :30
o'clook.
The general purpose of the couven
tioc Is to instill interest in a universal
effort to secure better roads in this
vicinity and also to devise plans to
oo-operate with the Oregon good roads
movement '
There is scarcely anyone who is not
interested in road improvements, and
the outlook for a rousing, enthusiastio
meeting is bright The convention
will be held in the exoommercial
association rooms, or more exaotly
speaking, rooms generally maintained
for srch purposes by Mr. 0. A. Barrett.
Improves Property.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Stone are soou
to have one of tbe finest homes in
Athena.- Tne carpenter work is now
finished and tbe rooms when out of
tbe hands of the painters and paper
hangers will be cozy and comfortable.
Thj house has boen remodeled
tbiougbout. a library, bath and pan-
try. art windows and spacious veran
das add to the appearance and conven
ience of the residence. The outside or
tbe premises'also'will be improved by
oement walks and new fences. It is
tuns we like to see Athena farmers
do when they retire from aotive farm
life, come to the home town and build
up the oity. '
School Children Send Box.
Tbe children of tbe Athena pnbilo
school are making up a box for tbe
Orphan's home in Portland, which
will be sent tomorrow, A goodiy
nnantitv of provisions, olothing and
money bas been donated by tne cuiia
ren of all tbe grades, and muoh interest
is mainfested in tbe Thanksgiving
offering. This is an annual gift, and
propagates a helpful spirit on tbe part
of tbe young folks.
NO STREET WALKING ALLOWED
Judge Gilliland of Juvenile Court Is
Determined te Stop it.
Boys or girls sex makes no differ
enoe if under 18 years of age may no
longer habitually frequent tbe streets
of Pendleton after 17 o'clook in the
evening. This was tbe ediot of Judge
T. P. Gilliland. of tbe juvenile court
in Umatilla county,', warning to tbat
effeot to tbe parents of Pendleton. It
was tbe Drat step in a crusade under
taken by Judge Gilliland against
"nt.r aRt. walking" and street idling m
tbat city. To a Pendleton newspaper,
tbe Judee said:
"I am determined, to break up this
habit of young girls walking the streets
of Pendleton after dark, i'bere are
some of these children whom I see
every time I como down town in the
evening, no matter what tbe hour, nor
how late. I see some of them gadding
up and down the street, loafing or the
oorners. or about tbe depot. I can not
understand what their parents or guar
diana mean bv so allowing them to
court dancer of a oriminal life.
"Some of tbe toys no doubt are just
as bad. although tbe girls are mor
noticeable. But both boys and girls
must keep off tbe streets at Digbt,
They will not be allowed to make
habit of loafing aronnd town after
o'olook in tbe evening. That is late
enough for any child to be away from
borne and the parents must see tbat
tbey are kept in unless tbore is a reason
for tbeir absence.
"The path in which some children
of from 14 to 17. years of age are
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traveling is appalling. It is the doty
of this court to pnt a stop to such gad
ding and loafing, and the delinquent
ohild law passed by the last legislature
gives me power to do so.
- Compelled to Re seed.
Reports which 'have reaohed Pen
dleton from Waitsburg, Wash., says
the Tritune, are to the effect tbat
many of the farmers in tbat section
are up against a serious situation,
wbiob means the work of reseeding
many hundreds of acres. The wheat
tbat has been sown was washed at tbe
mill there, and afterwards treated
with vitriol to prevent smut. It ap
pears now that tbe germ of tbe wheat
was destroyed thereby, as ample time
has elapsed since seeding for the grain
to sprout Investigation has shown
that none of the, washed wheat bas
germinated.
S. P. & S. Service.
Passenger servioe over the Spokaue,
Portland & Seattle in and oat of Port
land was inaugurated Tuesday morn
ing with a passenger train leaving
Spokane. This train, No. 2, will be
operated every morning, leaving Van
couver at 8:45 and traveling from
Vanoouver east on tbe same schedule
as is now in effeot. Westbound pas
senger No. 1 will travel on its present
sobedule as far as Vanoouver, reaching
there at 3:55 p. m. and will reach
Portland at 4:80 p. m. Sunday, No
vember 22, tbe throngb servioe of tbe
road will te established, with a doable
daily servioe in each direction.
OREGON IS NOW OUT OF DEBT
The State Has Balance of $658,320.15
in Its Treasury.
Oregon bas no state debt, bonded or
otherwise. This is one of tbe first
facts stated in the biennial report of
State Treasurer Steel, issued Wednes
day. There is in treasury a oasb fcal
anoe of $658,820.15, of wbiob $214,
897.08 is iu the general fund an
amount sufficient to pay state expenses
until next Marob, when taxes for 1909
will be paid.
Tbe report shows that two years ago
tbe balanoe in tbe general fund, ap
plicable to payment of current expenses
of tbe state institutions, was $212,-
612.03; there was received daring tbe
two years $2,592,893.40 aud disbursed
$2,590,507.45, leaving the present cash
balanoe in that fund, $214,897,98.
State Treasurer Steel makes a nam
ber of recommendations to tbe legisla
ture, among them these: That tbe
inheritance tax be made applicable to
the excess of $2000 on all collateral
inheritances and on all bequests aud
devises exceeding $500 to persons not
related to the donor; that tbe deposi
tory law be made applicable to tbe
school funds; tbat oounties be re
quired to pay the maintenance charge
for care of insane, in tbe first instance,
the counties collecting from tbe per
sons to pay the obarge; tbat such
speoial funds as tbe pure food fund,
tbe veterinary fund, tbe board of ex
arainers' fond, etc., be turned into
tbe geubral fund aud all claims now
paid out of these funds be paid oat of
the ceueral fund: tbat provision be
made for inspection of weights and
measures so tbat tbe law regarding
the same may be enforced.
700 Ownerless Sheep.
Seven hundred bead of sheep with
out an owner is tbe peooliar state of
affairs wbioh exists in southern Baker
county, aooording to a letter received
from there today. Tbe sbeep were
found and are being cared lor by a
ranoher who, thinking tbey belonged
to Borne Umatilla county man. wrote
to Pendletou.
Big Irrigation Scheme.
O. U. Teel of Echo, has filed
ou
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25,000 miner s inches of water
Camas creek, and will organize a com
pany for tbe purpose of const! notiug a
50-mile ditch, wbiob Will carry water
ta irrigate land in tbe vicinity of
Eobo.
Church Supper Nets $930.
To assist in furnishing tbe
new
parochial residence just completed
ou
Poplar street Walla Walla, the women
of St. Patnck's Catholio cburctr gave
a sale and served lunch and dinner
Thursday, netting $930.
Lieuallen-Hawks.
Dr. Fred Lieuallen of Pilot Kock
ram
and Miss Myrtle Hawks were united in
marriaee at Walla Walla Saturday.
Tbe contracting parties are highly
esteemed in this oounty and are,, well
known iu this city, where tbey have
numerous friends wLo unite with tbe
Press in extending congratulations.
7'be dootor is a son of J. T. Lieuallen
of Adams and bis bride is a daughter
of R. O. Hawks of Pendleton, and
spent a portion -ot ber girlhood in
Athena.
will tell you all about his big
stock of Christmas Goos
next week. (
THE ELECTRIC ROAD
Lumber Being Hauled for the Big
Flume Amended Water Notices
Have Been Filed.
Aotual work on the new power plant
of tbe Washington and Oregon Trao-
tion oompacy, was commenced this
week, when teams begau hauling tbe
lumber wbiob is to be used in con
structing tbe big flume. By tbe time
tie dam ia completed, tbe uume will
be well under way.
It is said to be tbe intention of tbe
oompany to employ as large a force of
men as will be praotioal as soon as tbe
material ia on tbe ground, with tbe
view to completing tne won as soou
as possible.
E. S. Isaaos and John Smith, ot
Walla Walla, members of tbe com
pany, died two amended water notices
with County Heoorder Hendley, Satur
day. These amendments to papers previ
ously filed are for the purpose of mak
ing changes in ' tbe details of filings
made on water power sites on tbe
Walla Walla river, above Milton, the
sites being located in this oouuty.
Want Bounty Law.
A bounty of from $1 to $1.50 per
coyote will be asked of tbe legislature
of this state wheu it conveues this
winter and tbe request will be backed
up by not only tbe sbeepmen of eastern
Oregon, but by those of tbe Willam
ette valley as well, for tbe hill pest is
already oreatiug great havoc among
tbe flocks of tbe western part of the
state. It is estimated tbat the coyotes
during tbe past yeai have done over
$1,000,000 damage to the flooks of the
state, and tbe sbeepmeu are willing to
be taxed for one-half the bounty.
Umatilla County Booklet.
Twenty thousand oopies of the book
let published by tbe Sunset magazine
publishing company has beeu received
for distribution by tbe Pendleton Com
mercial club. The booklet, whioh is
au exquisite production of tbe printer's
art. very creditably advertises Uma
tilla county.
PEEBLES HAS FUSSED MY
Well Known Educator Died Near Sa
lem, Sundav Morning.
George E. Peebles, a well known
Oregon ednoator, died at tbe Jj. U.
Griffith residenoe in tbe Waldo Hills
Sunday after an illness of several
weeks.
Mr. Peebles was boru near Salem in
1854 and was eduoated at Willamette
univeristy, from wbioh he was grad
uated in 1877. He began work as a
principal in tbe Salem publio schools
in 1879 and while teaohing pursued
the study of law until 1881, wben be
was admitted to the bar.
For ten years be was a pridoipal iu
tbe Salem schools and for seren years
city superintendent. He Berved two
years as county supntintendent of
soboolB. From 1889 to 1893 he was
principal ot the MoMinnville schools,
and from 1899 lo 1905 was professor
of English literature at Westou Nor
mal sobool. His work as teacber was
completed last June.
Mr. Poeblos left a widow, Virginia
Griffith Peebles, and two daughters,
Mrs. Herbert Junk of Berkeley, Cel.,
and Miss Alice Poeblo a teacher in
tbe Portland schools.
No Diseased Sheep.
Tbat Oregon flocks are free from
scabies or other sheep diseases is de
monstrated by tbe fact tbat though 11
unvfiinmeut insneorors have been
searching diligently tor two weens,
tbey have so far been unable to find a
single oaso ot scab among tbe sheep of
tbis state. Dr. n. W. MoUlure, neaa
of the bareau of animal industry in
tbe northwest, wbo has been directing
tbe work, says be believes the work or
tbe department two years ago was
even more successful in eradioatiug tbe
scourge than supposed.
Christmas Goods.
Tbe Mosgrove Mercantile company
bas received a splendid stock or holi
day goods, and wben the stook is ar
ranged in display, it will be found to
be one of tbe largest and most complete
ever seen bore.
THE POPE-ANKENY WEDDING
Bride's Wedding Gown Was Lace Robe
Over White Satin.
At the home of- Senator and Mrs.
Ankeny in Walla Walla, Wednesday
evening, oocurred an elaborate wed
ding, wben Miss Harriett .Ankeny
became tbe bride of Captain Francis
Pope, of tbe Fourteenth cavalry.
Tbe Ankeny borne was a blaze of
Btiiall eleotrio lights, while tbe deco
ations of flowers consisted ot designs
in wbite and yellow erysantberonms,
white and yellow being tba colors of
tbe FourUeutb cavalry. Banks of
these fragrant blossoms were every
where, while tbe altar at which tbe
ceremony took place was formed of
thousands of tbe exquisite blooms.
Bisbop Paddock, bishop of tbe Epis
copal diocese of Oregon, performed
tbe ceremony.
Tbe bride was gowned in an elabo
rate lace rohe over white satin, en
train, with a bride'.) veil of tulle and
orange blossoms. She carried a
beautiful boquet of lilies of the valley.
Mrs. John Ankeny, as maid of honor,
was gowned in wbite liberty satin
trimmed with old point laoe. She
oarried a shower of wbite sweet peas.
Tbe bridesmaids, Miss Winans and
Miss Thompson, wore pink liberty sat
in, empire effeot, and carried yellow
chrysanthemums.
Washington in Oregon.
Valuable timber lands along tbe
Columbia river have been declared to
be a part of Oregon by tbe United
States supreme court, thus endiug tbe
boundary line dispute existing between
Washington and Oregon for several
years. In lt'05 a suit was brought by
Washington to restrain Oregon from
disturbing the people of Paoiflo oounty,
Washington, iu tbe possession of their
land.
A Wife Conqueror.
A man named Williamson, baa been
arrested iu Pendleton for whipping bis
wife. Hhe woman was formerly Mrs.
Lee Prioe of Adams, and was the
oause of her husband engaging in a
gun episode in Pendleton, last spring.
The Prioes separated, were divoroed,
and each married again.
UMATILLA'S BIG TAX BOLL
Total Value of Taxable Property Is
Given at $25,272,960.
The wealth of Umatilla oounty as
shown by tbe tax roll just completed
by Assessor Stiain is $25,272,000.70,
something like $16,000,000 less Iban
tbat ot last year when Umatilla county
had tbe greatest roll of any county in
tbe state exoept Multnomah, but suf
ficient to give it tbe rank of third
wben the rolls are footed up for tbe
coming season. Tbe loss in valuation
is not due to prohibition in Umatilla
oouuty deolares a Pendleton paper,
but to the faot tbat tbe assessments
tbis year are made ou a valuation of
between 60 and 70 per oout of that of
last, a reduction hinde by Assessor
Strain to make the assessment more
equitable with regard to tbe assess
ment of other oounties in tbe state.
Tbe ' figures of tbe assessor show
tbat almost half of the wealth of the
county lies iu its lands, tillable and
non-tillable and improved and unim
proved, when over one-fifth of the
wealth of tbe oounty is credited to tne
railroad roadbeds.
Tbe city property of the county is
improved to a valuo of $200,000, ap
proximately, more than tbe land upou
wbiob tbe improvements stand.
Aooording to tbe assesssor'a return,
out of tbe $25,000,000 of wealth tbat t
Umatilla county boasts there is only
$118,000 onsb, while the value uf
Btooks iu various enterprises amounts
to $115,000 more.
Owing to the exemption of $300 per
person whioh in many instances was
given on stook, the number of head of
various domestic animals shown is less
than last year, while tbe value, due
to a fall in prices of stook, is also con
siderably less.
Mr. Strain's summary of tbe roll is
given herewith:
Summary of Umatilla oounty tax
roll of 1908.
Tillable land 443,6(54.3$
aoros - $ 9,456.957.00
Non-tillable land, (i08,
084.14 ncrrs
Improvements on deed
ed laud
Town aud oily lots, 11,
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1,899,658.00
894.730.00
1,413,086.00
1,696,491.00
93,205.00
5,471,948.70
178.293.00
431,442.00
104,000.00
619,405.00
198,095.00
118,615.00
889,195.00
415,110.00
69,370.00
713,890.00
188,490.00
378,040.00
12,590.00
Improvements on city
property
Improvements ou uu-
doeded land
No. miles R. R. bed,
231.16 - -
Miles telegraph and tel
ephone lino 567.83 -Railroad
rolling stock -Steamboats,
Alfj;. ma
chinery, etc
Mdse and stock iu trade
Farming implements,
etc. -Money
-Notes
and accounts
Shares of stock, 5300
Household furniture -Ilorsea
and mules 14,769
Cattle, 15,754 -Sbeep
and goats, 155,601
Swiue, 8892
Gross value of all
property
$25,272,960.70
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