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4.,; 4 - 4 0" r-f f Tn's Edition con tains Six Pages f'7 40 . Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks 41 Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXI. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCH 19, 1909. NUMBER 12 X I 1 1: f "v. THE TUi-A-lUltl LUMBER CO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal mm A. M. Johnson, Manager A Athena, Oregon" ESTABLISHED 1865 : Preston-Parton Milling Company l CLE FACTORY Cotton Gloves, Much In Demand, Are Being Manufactured In Athena. B 9 Flour ia made in Athena, by Athena labor, iu the latest and best equipped mill in the west, of the best selected Blaestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grooer sells American Beauty. for ($1.55 er Sack The Press is pleased to maee an nouncement of a new homo industry. The demand for cotton gloves re tailing at 10 oents a pair has increas ed ia extent nntil they are worn by working pjople in all classes of labor. Heretofore Athena merchants have purchased their stocks of cotton gloves from traveling salesmen, but hereafter it will not be neoessary for them to do so - : . VJames Gonley, the Athena tailor, alive to the demands of the trade has oommenoed the manufacture of gloves in this city. At present be employs four women to sew the gloves. He outs the patterns at his shop on Main street. The highest grade of cotton flannel is the material used in manu faoturiug the gloves. J Mr. Conley pays 10 cents per dozen for having the gloves sewed. A wo- ( man can sew one dozen gloves per Ihonr, and an expert can do better than that number. j It is Mr. Cooler's intention to equip BAA Ul . UiUlU ocwiug ujnuuiuoo Wlbu electric motors . should the business justify the cost of installation. This addition would greatly increase the output. ATHENA BASE BALL OUTLOOK Scant Attendance at Meeting: Held . Saturday Night. : Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers : Waitsburg, Wash. S 5 Athena, Oregon, B jMg R.J. BODDY (Wm WHOLESALE BUTCHER , 4(31 il&'n Mkesa Specialty of furnishing. 1 'y 3 Meat in Large Quantities. First-class stock, Reasonble prices Paints, Oils, Glass House Sign and Carriage Painting . E. T. Kidder, HcArthur Building The base ball situation in Athena at this time may be oorreotly placed as being in a disorganized tangle. There was but scant attendance at the meeting Saturday night. So few of the faithful were present that noth ing definite resulted. The general opinion prevails that sufficient funds can be raised by pop ular subscription to put an amateur team in the field. The players are here and are ready for practice but a manager is wanting. A Moses is want ed to lead the "Colts" to victory, but he oometh not yet. . The season has started. Other towns-in. the coupty , are playinsg the game and if Athena ia to make a showing she must get a move on.. Some one surply can be found to manage the team. The boys will do the rest. ' DEATH ENDSJISLONG QUEST Miner Suicides Where He Had Delved for Forty-Four Years. Cit yM eat Market J. II. STONE, Prop. NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET The Best Meat to be found in- Town. Come and see me. I will treat you right. J. II. STONE, ATHENA, OREGON Failing to find the mother lode of the plaoer ore in Canyon creek after a quest of il years, Harry Martin committed suicide some time last Sat urday and the body was found several hours later, buried under tons of earth and rook. He was 81 years old "No use to look for me, as I am dead and buried," was the note wbiob his lifelong partner, Harry Barm wetter, found iu their cabin, about two miles south of Canyon City, Sunday morn ing. Barm wetter hurried to Canyon City and a searching party was organ ized. At the mouth of an old tunnel, about 60 yards above the cabin, the seaiohers detected the odor of powder. By the flickering light of a candle they threaded the abandoned workings. At tbe portal of a drift just large enough to admit the body of a man they discovered Martin's foot protrud ing from beneath-a mass of shattered logging and piles of rook: and dirt. Mangled horribly, the remains were exhumed after an hour's work and brought to tbe oity and interred. At tbe coroner's Jnauest it was brought out that Martin bad taken a rifle, tied a string to tbe trigger 1 . "m wf 'm j--,m .;7 M M 13 PROMPT . DELIVERY WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT P0HS MAIN 83 The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in gfe Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, r5?&3?'" Athena, Oregon plaoed two sticks of giant powder on tbe slnlls above bis bead, lit the powder fuse and then released tbe rifle trigger with his foot. Tbe bullet entered bis brain, tbe powder caved in tbe tunnel, burying him. Martin went to Canyon City iu 1865 and the extent of bis prospecting for the mother iode of the plaoer ore in that seotiou is almost incomprehen Near Beer License. At "a meeting of the oity counoil Monday night. Mayor MoEwen ap pointed his standing committees for tbe term. Considerable discussion re sulted over tbe proposed near beer license. Tbe entire counoil favored lioensing but opinion varied as to tbe amount. The disoussion resulted in the ordinance committee being in structed to draft an ordinanoe to be presented at tbe next meeting of the oonnoily1' NEW NORTHERN PACIFIC TRAIN Service Inaugurated Between Pendle ton and Pasco. With tbe adveut of the North Bank road, and prospective traffic during tbe Seattle exposition the Northern Pa cific has pat ou a daily passenger train between Pendleton and Pasoo. Tbe new train leaves Pasco in tbe morning, aud returning, leaves Pen dleton at 6 p. m. It is said tbe train is receiving splendid patronage, and tbe question naturally arises why tbe passenger trafflo of that road could not he increased by inoluding Athena in the schedule of tbe new train. A slight chauge in tbo time card would enable the train to serve this point as well as Pendleton and inter mediate towns. Tbe time for tbe Seattle exposition will soon be here, and it remains to be seen whether tbe Northern Paoiflo will rise to the oc casion, or whether Athena passengers will flock to tbe Sound oity via Port land. . HARRAS WINS FROM ST DENNIS Lease on 640 Acres of Land Valid but Involves Government Title. IB. COLFSVERSION Representative Barrett Saved Normals for Referendum Vote at Hands .of the People. In a batoh of deoisions handed down ty Judge Bean of the oirouit court. one relating to the Rbeinbold Qarras- St. Dennis land lease case is of local interest. This case was one in which the possession of 610 acres of wheat land was involved. Harras claimed to have leased tbe laud from St. Den nis for a period of 10 years, paying rental at tbe rate of $0 per acre for each summer fallow crop. St. Dennis brongbt suit to have the lease cancel led on tbe ground that Harras bad succeeded iu gottiog bim intoxicated before makiug tbe lease and alleged that it was arranged while the two were in Walla Walla. After bringing tbe suit St. Dennis tried to withdraw from it, having found tbat tbe title to all but 60 sores of tbe land rested in tbe government and that be had no right to lease it for any length of time without tbe per mission of tbe Indian agent. Harias foroed bim to stay with tbe suit, bow ever, and it come into oonrt in on effort to show that tbe lease was not valid. The deoieion of tbe court is to tbe effect that in so far as the lease be tween St. Dennis and Harras is con cerned is valid.- He said in effeot tbat Harras would be compelled to look to the government for bis title, aud tbe court bad no jurisdiction in tbe premises. Miltons New School House, Plans and opacifications for tbe pro posed Central school building at Mil ton, preparid by Architect O. E. Fin kenbinder of Walla Walla, bave been aooepted. When oomplete, tbo build ing will be a modern structure, tbe better of wbiob it has been asserted cannot be found in Umatilla county. Outside dimensions of tbe structure will be approximately 00 by 80 feet, with four rooms on each floor, beside ample balls aud stairway. "Fightinjr Bob" In Athena. rr A J i 1 T5 I T r Xhcur AUIUirHi huuidj u. jjvbud won an Atbena visitor Tuesday afternoon for about five minutes, while the Spo kane passenger train stopped at the O. R. &N. depot. "Fighting Bob" was enronte to Spokaue, where he was booked to deliver bis leoture, "The Cruise of tbe Battleship Fleet' from Hampton Roads to California. V Christian Church Announcements. Sunday School at 10. That means something at ths Chiistian cbaroh. It means it is a Sunday school worth tbe name, and tbat it commences prompt ly at 10:00 a. m.-, and any one who comes at 10:01 is late. Preaching aud communion service at 11:00. This service will fire you to greater activity. Ed Forrest a Resident. Ed Forrest bas moved to Atbena from Walla Walla, occupying Mrs. J. W. Smith's residence ou Fifth street, Mr. Forrest recently purchased laud in Alberta, but will not go to tbe North land until tbis fall. Senator Cole's statement in Pendle ton Tribune, relative to final effort on behalf of friends of the Normal sobools is emphatically refuted by Representa tive Barrett. Mr. Barrett was quiok to see the trap laid by the foes of tbe sohools in tbe senate, and led his foroes out of utter defeat by calling on them to line up against suspeusion of rules to vote on the senate bill provid ing 8,000 to eaoh of tbe three sohools, wbiob bill was also loaded with pro visions for totally abolishing the Nor mals after tbe present school term, without giving tbe people the oboioe of voting whether or not the sobools shoold be retained. For this prompt action in defense f tbe sohools, Sen ator Cole rushes into print with the accusation that the Normals lost be cause of Barrett's aotion. "I am uot oheap enough to be bought for $8,000," said Mr. Barrett, "aud believe tbe choice of tbe sobools where referred to the people in the uext gen eral election is worth more tbau that sum. "I offered a resolution in the house, providing maintenance for the three sobools for two years, until tbe people could have tbe chance to vote whether or not they want 'hem retained. This resolution was loaded down with amendments and of course was killed. "Theu I introduood a bill providing $120,000 maintenance for tbe three sobools, and providing fr r a referendum vote on each sobool separately. While we had strength any time to have car ried the bill 'through the house, we could not muster the ueoessary two thirds vote to suspend ' the rules for passage of the measure. "Tbe senate held back until 8:30 p. m. and tnen sent in its bill, providing for tbe total abolishment of the sobools, even so tar as to disposing of the property, all of .which was taoked on tbe $8,000 worth of salve to eaoh school. It was then that I addressed tbe Normal supporters to vote against suspension, with tbe resnlt that the sobools are yet alive, but without funds." One Dollar For Bluestem. According to tho Walla Walla Union, a farmer of tbat vicinity has contracted his 1009 crop of blaestem wheat to a milling oouoern for $1 per bushel. , Looal grain dealers and mill ers scoot the idea, however, that this is any criterion of the values whioh are to prevail for this year's crop and even express iuoredulity as to tbe truthfulness of the report. It is argued tbat this would make club wheat worth 06 or 97 cents per bushel, which sounds preposterous. They also say tbat orops are rarely ever contracted for in advanoe wbeu tbe prioe of wheat is as high as at present. JOHN GOSHJWEER, SUICIDE In Early Days He Drove Stage In This County. The suicide theory still prevails in the case of tbe strange death of John Gosh, whose tody was fouud in tbe millraoe Dear Pendleton late Saturday. It is known tbat Gosh bad of late boeu laboring under mental balluoinatious. A baohelor of 72 years of age, be bad naturally lived a secluded life. He came to this county in early days and served variously as a stage driver and as a small farmer. A few years ago be sold bis ration and moved to Pen dleton where be bad since lived. Gosh porsuaded Attorney Perry to issue a false mortgage for h'.s proper y some $3000 worth, explaining tbat be was being pursued by a strange woman whom be didu't want to get hold of tbe last bit of wealth tbat be bad in tbe world. A few days later be was ad judged insane. Being considered harmless and told that tbe county officers would come oftor him Sunday Late on Saturday bo disappeared and was not seen again until tbe body was found iu tbe mill race by two email children, who were in search of but tercups. Tbe body was batless, coat less and shoeless, and tbo Hrticles hove not been found. fonutaio pitching eight feet into the air in a stream 10 iuobes in diameter. According to Hoyle. "See here, Mister Casey," said Pat to tbe tax assessor, "shore aud ye know the goat isn't worth eight dollars." 'Oi'm sorry," responded Casey, "but that is the law." Prodaoing a book, be read tbe following passage: "All property abutting on Front st. should be taxed at the rate of two dollars per foct." from "Sucoess Magazine." Echo Cream Supply. Farmers and stookmen in tbe vioisity of Eoho are now oommenoing the use of milking maobines and other impro ved dairy devioes aooording to O. E. Harper, manager of the Blue Moun tain creamery company. As a result the cream supply for the creamery is increasing. SLASH WAREHOUSE CHARGES New Rates Will Give Umatilla County Farmers About $10,000. A Pendleton dispatoh says more ttmn $40,000 will ba saved to tbe farmers of Umatilla county next year on ware- bouse obarges for wheat, acoordiug to announcement by local representatives of the Pogot Sound Warehouse com pany and the Paoiflo Coast Elevator uompany. luey auuounoed a ieduo tiou of 25 oents per ton, bringing the prioe to 50 eta, whero it was two years ago. Tbis is also tho prioe tne farmers sought to have made a law. Tbe redaotiou is said to have been made possible by the introduction of saok stacking machines and other labor saving maohinery, whereas the advanoe of two years ago was said to be neoessary beoause of tbe increased cost of lator. Looal wheat growers declare the reduotion is oaused by tbe fear on the part of tbe warehouse men that the farmers union will tuild and operate cooperative housos. They in sist that tbe warehouses of tbo county were as well equipped with staoking maobines two years ago as tbey ore today. The redaotiou means a saviug to the farmer of M oeut per bushel and as tbe other two warehouse companies, doing business iu tbe county will be compelled to follow tbo example sot, it will mean a saving of more than $40,000 annually to farmers. Farmers Contract Sai-ks. As a sequel to tbe granting of a large saok contract on tbe part of tbe Inland Grain Growers association Sat urday at Pendleton is tbe aooeptanoe of a like contraot by the Farmers' Ed ucational Cooperative union here. Tbe firm tbat seonred the contraot for tbe sacks to be aooepted by tbe farmers' union was the Kerr, Gitford Co. of Portland ,aud tbe contracted prioe is reported between 6 and 6' cents, or a little lower tbau tbe prioe accepted Saturday by the Inland Grain Growers association. The contraot with the farmers' union calls for tbe purchase of between 300,000 and 1,200,000 sacks. Tbe offer of Kerr, GitTord Co. stands for a short time only, since it does not bind indiv idual members of the union, but each member dooides ou the number of sacks be dosires aud pays 10 por oeut down at tbe timo tbe order is given. Tbe Inland Graiu Growers' associa tion gave a contraot Saturday to Bal four, Guthrie & Co., toacoept between 200.000 and 500,000 sacks at a price understood (o be between 0 and 6)4 conts. It is known to be higher than the prioe made tbe farmers' union. FREE BOATfUuNTERS Oregon Sheepmen Offer Inducement to Kill & otes. Four Get State Papers. Four Umatilla county candidates were successful iu passing tbe state ex aminations for teaobers. Miss Irene Rippey of Pendleton passed the ex aminations, tot bas uot tbe experience required yet, but her certificate. will be granted when she bas taught tbe required number of months, Miss Una V. Cauif of Eoho, reoeived a live-years certificate aud John F. English of Westou, aud Miss Grace Miller of Pendleton were awarded life diplomas. Gusher on Blalock Farm. Water was tapped late Saturday night In the fifth artesian well on tbe Blalock fruit farm. It flows about 8000 gallons a minute and is larger than other wells sunk ou tbe farm. Many Walla Walla visitors took tbe electric car to the well and viowed tbe Freo i-oard is being offered by Bheep meu of eastern Uregou to hunters to help in exterminating tbo coyotes. Some of them are also to offer a bounty in addition to tbe $1.C0 offered by tbe state for coyotes killed ou or in tbe vicinity of their ranges. That these offers ore to be aooepted is indicated by tbe score of letters wbiob Secretary Braylbe of tbo state association has received from hunters iu different parts of tbe state wbo are anxious for a cnonco to spend the spring and snmmer in tbis work. Soma of tbe woolgrowers have expressed a willingness to board a hunter at each camp. Tbe executive committee of tbe state association is calling upon the indi vidual woolgrowers to cooperate with these hunters and also to assist skilled hunters tbe forest service has announ ced it will place on tbe national re serve daring the summer. Haworth, Deliveryman. Sim Haworth bas purchased the paroel delivery business, heretofore conducted by Mr. Jones. Jones has eutered the employ of tLe Mosgrove Mercantile company, and has been assigned to the grocery department. Card of Thanks. For tbo many kind acts on the part ct friends daring tbe illness and death of our beloved sou, we desire to ex press our sincere acd beartfalt tbnuks. T. P. Defrence and family. I!