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.1 . J' ft 1tains Editioir cost Six Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks j If-. Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 26. 1909. NUMBER 13 Ik ,1 V THE TUM-A-LUM LUPslBER CO. Lumber. Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal r . M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Parton Milling Company SELL ALFALFA SEED Athena Farmers are Putting In Aver age Acreage Last Years Seed ing Not Satisfactory. i 5 . MIM BEAUTY j Floor is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest and best equipped mill in the west, of the best selected Blnestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grocer sells American Beauty for X.) .$1.56 er Sack. I A oanvass among the dealers selling alfalfa seed verifies the statement made some days ago that the average aoreage was being sown this spring to alfalfa crop. The faot also developed that rouoh of the seed sown last year was of inferior quality, the result be ing that many farmers who planted have a poor stand To date, T. M. Taggart & Co. bave sold a thousand pounds of seed for this season's use; G. A. Barrett & Co. as much more, and other dealers lesser quantiites. . Most of the seed, comes from Malheur oounty, where large quantities are threshed eaob year for the market. Iu this vioinity 20 pounds of seed to the acre are so wo, the price paid bar ing 20 cents per pouud, or $2.20 per acre. The faot the alfalfa aoreage is being i increased demonstrates that livestock is beginning to require more attention of the farmer, bnt at present prioes wheat will by no means be overlooked. The constant inorease in the demand for hogs and cattle is the prime incen tive for additional alfalfa production. The establishment at Portland of an immense packing plant insures a steady market for stook, the demand at this time being so great that terri tory as far east as Nebraska is to be drawn on for stook. failed to open its doors for business Saturday, expects to experience only a temporary suspension. Attorney Po land of the failed institution is now on his way to Salem and Portland, and be states that the whole matter will be fixed up and the bank reopened without a doubt. There is, so far as known, no speculation or ether trans actions that has involved the bank, and the people of Prairie City are in clined to the belief that the institu tion's funds bave been loaned in snob a way that notes fail to fall due at proper periods to keep the cash ac count large enough for daily business transactions. Milton Ice Plant. During the past week all heavy machinery and operating materials for the new ice plant in South Milton have been placed in station ready for operation within the next two weeks. The large warehouse and maoLine rooms of the plant together with the handsome office building have been painted a nut brown color, giving an improved appearanoe in that part of the city. Actual operations are to be commenced as soon as power can be secured from the oity plant. Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers : 11 ' '5 Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash. 2 I 1; fAi !i y Ml' If - JW 1 J. BODDY WHOLESALE BUTCHER Makes a Specialty of furnishing. Meat in Large Quantities. First-class stock, Reasonble prices Paints, Pa Oils, Cougar Kills Horses. Reports continue to come in at Day ton from the mountains of wild ani mals attacking live stook on the rang es, xwo valuable horses owned by Joe Abies, a ranoher living eight miles east of Dayton, were killed by oongars last week. The horses were killed in the open and the remains of one of them were found partially cov ered by borne. ARE EXPLOSIONS DUE TO OIL Colfax Man Thinks He Has Made a Discovery Regarding Smut. " Supplis Ten per Glass House) Sign and Carriage Painting E. T. Kidder, McArthur Building ityEUdeat Market J. II. STONE, Prop. NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET Silas Privett of Colfax, who .for 25 years was a praotioal threshing ma chine man, 10 years ' of which , be spent in the Palousa country believes he has made a discovery that means the saving of thousands of dollars ev ery year, not" only, to farmers and tbreshermen of this seotion, vbutvto those of other localities where smut is prevalent says the Waitsburg Times. There are two points in Mr, Priv ett'a argument that are borne out by the reoord of so-called "smut" explo sions in Whitman county. - The first is that while threshing machines had been handling smutty wheat; iu this section for years without an explosion, when they did begin to blow up there were 27 ot them burned in the first harvest, smut fires seeming to be al most epidemic , t The secoud poiut : is that neither j prior to that memorable first; run of explosions nor since mat time dbs a maobine on wbiob there was used on ly caatoi or lard oil as a lubricant been known to generate a conflagration in its interior, while those on, which the commonly called black o( petro leum oil is used oatch fire with alarm ing frequenoy. Mr. Privett deduces from this that the black oil, a crude petroleum produot, produces the explo sions whioh are attributed to bmut in the grain, in the same manner that gasoline produces the explosions which operates a gas or gasoline engine. Heney's Protest Put In. "f a Traoy 0. Becker, who is in iWash- iogton opposing the appointment of ex Senator Fulton as a federal judge in Oregon, called on the attorney general and presented a new protest irom Francis J. Heney. Later, Mr. Becker bad a brief conference with tber pres ident What transpired at these oou fetenoes cannot be learned,, ncr can The Best Meat to be found in .Town. Come and see me. I will treat you right. , . . . J. H. STONE, ATHENA, OREGON any informatiou be seonred as nature of Mr. Hdney's mos attack npon Mr. Fulton. the keoent Bank Expects to Reopen, Acoording to information received from Prairie City, the Stookmen'a and Traders' Bank ,of that city, which 11 OUAL "SSW WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in "i1 "MP POHNE MAIN 83 & CP vwuw e Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here 0 if. It 111 It l II It It li. ii it ' t it Jt. Ii Ji Jt ii Jt J J 1 DELL BROTHERS, CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THINGS TO EAT Athena, Oregon leaves and debris near, the II Gallons of Milk Every 24 Hours. Ten gallons of milk every twenty- four hours is the reoord made by a three year old Shorthorn cow owned by A. L. MoCanley of Dayton. That the oow will become one of the won ders of the country from the view point of the dairyman, is the belief of Mr. MoCanley. Although she has been giving ten gallons of milk daily for several weeks, the cow has snbsisted during the winter on hay. Only Sat urday did the owner commence feed ing the animal mill feed. Mr. Mo Canley predicts that she will be giving twelve gallons of milk daily before the first of April. To test the butter producing quali ties of the milk Mr. McCauley yester day made five pounds of butter from the cream of one days milkiug. Last year the receipts from the sale of milk totaled more than $160. This amount will te increased $50 this year says Mr. MoCanley. He refused an offer of $150 for the Shorthorn. The cow is a product of Colombia county, having been raised by J. H. Ingrabm, one of the leading breeders of fine titooK. Mr. MoCanley deirea to bave the animal iu the Columbia connty exhibit at the A. Y. P. exposi tion at Seattle . and it is altogether probable that if the little cow con tinues to maintain the standard she basset, she will be taken to Seattle during the summer. FUNDS FOR BASE-BALL TEAM First Game of Season Won by Weston Score 6 to 2. The Temperence Question Discussed by a Lawyer as Regards the Traf fic and Common Law. Emmett D. Niohola of Boise, Idaho spoke Jast Sunday evening in the M. E. oburob, this oity, to a foil house, Mr. Niohola is attorney and eeoretary of Idaho tor the International Reform Bureau of Washington, D. C. Before coming west be bad practiced law in Pennsylvania for 25 years. He Ii a been in the lecture field in the Northwest for nearly two years, speak ing in Washington, Idaho and Oregon. He has been in reform work a portion of the time for 30 years. When he beeau working in Idaho he looked up the laws of that state and found that every village and oity outside of Boise had the right to pro hibit the liquor traffic through the oonnoil. Hardly any oue seemed to know this. The most of the lawyers were in ignorauoe of the faot. He opened up his campaign Jn Moscow, and as a result a prohibition ordinance was passed in that oity. The oaso was taken to the Supreme Court of the State, and that tribunal sustained the aotion of the counoil in passing the ordinanoe in every particular. Mr Niohola afterwards was instru mental in getting a prohibition ordin anoe passed iu Troy, Payette, and Malad. He has the reputation ot dis cussing the liquor question in an en tirely new light and' those who heard him last Sunday night say ne "made good" his reputation. He disoussed the question from the view point of a lawyer, maintaining that the whole license system was null and void .being contrary to the laws of God, the principles of the Declara tion of Independence and the federal constitution. Amoug other things be said: "Any business that can be arbitrarily prohibited must necessarily be uncon stitutional and contrary to the com mon law. The constitution and com mon law of the land protect a man in the pursuit of any legitimate busi ness. Soon a business may be regu lated undor the constitution and the common law but it cannot be prohibit ed. "For instance, the farmer in soiling apples may bo prohibited from selling infected apples, but be cannot be pro hibited from selling apples free from infeotion. The liquor traffic may be entirely prohibited. It oaunot there fore, have any constitutional or com mon law right to exist. We talk about adopting piobibition. We never adopt ed prohibition. We bave adopted lioense, contrary to all law, correctly interpreted. "The liquor trafflo is a logalized outlaw. In the words of Blaokstone, 'Law is a rnle ot civil oonduot, pre scribed by the Supreme power of the state, oommaudins what is right and prohibiting what is, wrong.' "Through the so oalled liquor 11- oeuse laws, we command what is wrong and prohibit wbnt is right." Many who beard the speeob say it was the best ever delivered in the town on the subject. Several went up and shook bauds with him at the close of the address. OPPOSED BY ORGANIZED LABOR Resolutions Strongly Protest Fulton's Appointment. Ed. Koontz and Byron Hawks bave taken the matter of raising funds tor tbe ball team In band, with the result that they expeot to raise $300, which with tbe prooeeds from the games is considered sufficient to finance a first class amateur ball team through the season, wbioh oloses about July i. The first game of tbe season lock place in Atbena Sunday afternoon, tbe long end of tbe soore going to Weston 6 to 'i. Tbe game was a good one, considering the raw condition of tbe nlavers. Both teams presented a strong lineup. Atbena worked out three pitchers, LaBrasobo, Gtono and Wilson. The Weston battery showed up strong, and tbe NorDean brothers, former "Yellow Kids" are oa tbe team. Tbe prospective lineup of tbe Atbena team for the season is: Hawks, oatober; Stone, Wilson, LaBrasobe, pitchers; Willaby. lb;Labrasuhe, 2b;Lieuallen, 8b; Strauss, ss; DePeatt, If; Myrick cf ; Stone, Wilson, rf. A game will probably be played ty tbe Weston and Atbena teams on tbe Weston grounds, Sunday afternoon. ' Milton Pioneer Passes Away. David M. Wilkinson, a pioneer, passed away at his homo Friday and was buried Saturday afternoon in tbe Odd Fellows' cemetery. Mr. Wilkin son was 83 years of age and came west from Ohio when a young man. For 15 years be has lived in Milton. Death was dne to paralysis. Geer In Real Estate. Ex Governor T. T. Geer, formerly editor of the Pendleton Tribune, has gone into the real estate business in Portand. He has ao office in tbe Alingtoo building. 2. Ibis lecture is profusely and mag nificently illustrated by speoially pre pared and .hand colored views the finest obtainable. Crowded houses have heard this lectr.ro and the oppor tunity is one you should not let pass. You pay a much higher price to see inferior shows and entertainments. Here is a way up and first class enter tainment for the smallest prioe. There will also be the great song "The Holy City," sung and illustrated by 17 magnifioent pictures, also some oomio pictures and other miscellaneous ones thrown in. Over 125 pictures sin all projeoted upon a 20-foot soreen by a powerful eleotrio projeotroscope. Don't forget the date, Friday, April 3,8 p.m.- Sues to Collect $300. Claiming be has $300 due him from Robert Coppook from tbe sale of a Que horse, F. G. Lucas has brought suit against the former in the oirouit court, says the East Orugonian. The oomplaint was filed Tuesday by Messrs Fee & Slater. In the same Lucas states that he had an understanding with the defendant that if he, Lucas, should find a purobaser tor tbe horse at the prioe of $1000, the defendant would give him $300 as commission. The oomplaint further states that the animal was sold to a Washington man for that amount. Tbe commission was not paid the plaintiff though he de clares he brought about the sale. California Primary Law. Gov. Gillette will sign tbe direot primary bill passed by tbe California legislature although he is not iu favor of it. , ' . NORMALS GIVENTO MARCH 26 Regents Will Accept Contributions to That Date. Resolutions strongly protesting against tbe appointment of ex Senator Charles W. Fulton as a United States district judge for Oregon were adopted by a unanimous vote at tbe meeting of tbe Ceutral Labor Counoil Saturday night, says tbe .Portland Journal. Senator Bourne and Senator Chamber lain were asked, by tbe resolution, to nee every means in their power to pre vent Fulton's nomination by tbe presi dent. Copies ot tbe resolution were forwarded to Washington by the sec retary of the organization. The resolution in general terms, set out the faot that Senator Fnlton bas been in tbe past, and now is, unfriend ly to tbe cause and interests of organ ized labor; that be is a maobine poli tician who does not have the better ment of tbe conditions of tbe common people of tbe state at heart; that bis reoord as a politioian unfits him tor a place on tbe federal benob; that be is opposed to tbe principle and operation of tbe initiative and referendum, and from that to tbe exeroise of tbe rights of the people under that ameudment to tbe constitution. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of tbe state board of normal school regents at Salem the time with in whioh money may be contributed for tbe support of the normal sobools was extended from Friday, March 12 to Friday, Maroh 2. This does not nieufu that tbe state will be responsible for the support of tbe sobools up to that time. Tbe board has no authority to ex- , peud the state's money for the sup- V - port of the normal sobools after Deo ember 81, 1908. Tbe aotion of the board yesterday was taken so that tbe people iu tho normal school vicinities might contri bute if they wished to the support of the normal sohools and have them con ducted as state institutions to the 6pd of the present semester, in order to en- able tbe members of tbe present grad uating class to complete the course re quired by tbe state. President Frenoh of Weston was iu attendance aud made arrangements for tbe oootinuauoe of the Westou school until the end of the year. Mou- mouth has arrived at a similar agree ment with the state board of regents and it is expeoted funds will be forth-' coming from Ashland within a few days. $50,000 for Whitman. Fifty thousand dollars, unsolicited and graciously given for the eduoatiou of doserviug students aqd intended to serve as a supporting girder in the fast building financial superstruoture of a Greater Whitman, bas been plaoed in tbe hands of the oollege authorities by Stephen H. Mathews, of Spokane. Tbe gift is to be used for the crea tion of a scholarship fund to beknown as tbe Stephen H. and Maty Mathews Scholarship Fund. According to tbe conditions submitted by tbe donors and agreed to by tbe oollege in accept ing it, tbe $50,000 U to be invested under direotioifof ttiu board of trus tees and the scorning iuoome to be loaned to worthy students who are in need of financial aid. Buys Pullman Ranch, Mrs Isabella Taylor has purchased a farm near Pullman, Wash., and ex pects to make ber borne tbere in the future. Mrs. Taylor owns a first class wheat ranch here, which sbe bas rent ed for a cash rent ot $10 an acre per summer fallow crop, tbe lease cover ing six years. Benllur. Tbe famous illustrated lecture on "Ben Hur" will be given in tbe Bap list church on Friday evening, April Benson Opposed to Election. - -Although no oflloial statement bus been made, it is known positively that Governor Benson will not be a oandidate for the office he now holds as governor of Oregon at tbe next gen eral election. That Governor Benson will, however, be a oandidate for re election as secretary of state is not denied by bis political and personal associates at Salem. Weston to Rock Streets. Arrangements bave been made by tbe Weston city council to set up tbe city's rook crusher at tbe Deamer ledge. Mr. Boamer having given free to tbe oity tbe privilege ot setting up tbe maobine on his property aud to use what rook may be neoded for city purposesfroe of any cost for the season. Blucatem at $1.13. Tho Preston-Partoii Milling Co. paid $1.15 per bushel for blnestem wheat Monday. Tbe wheat, a lot consisting of 568 sacks, was stored in the ware bouse at Grandview station aud was the remnant of the Parris and Dicken son crops. This is tbe highest prioe paid for blnestem yet reaobed tbi season by millers. mil i mi Hi.y ill i-iiii I - E. A. Dudley was a visitor to tho county seat yesterday.