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This Edition con tains Six Pages ' Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks VOLUME XXI. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 6. 1909. NUMBER 32 5? THE TUM-MUM LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal A, M. Johnson, Manager Athenu, Oregon ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Parton Milling Company : l-AMERICAM BEAUTY! B am Flour ia made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest and best equipped ill in the west, of the. best selected Blaestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grooer sells American Beauty for 1.75 Per Sack. 5 Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg,IJWash. R. J.BODDY WHOLESALE BUTCHER Makes a Specialty of furnishing TMeat in Large Quantities, First-class stock, Reasonble prices WW Paper Paints, Oils, Glass -. House Sign and Carriage Painting - ; E. T, Kidder, MoArthur Building v ' ;C ity ftl eat Eyl a rk et J. H. STONE, Prop. NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET The Best Meat to be found in Town. Come and see . 1 me. I will treat you right. TO SAVE SONS' LIS "T In the Effort, Wife of Rev. Spaulding-, and Two Boys Drown in Late Kelso. While struggling frantioally la the waters of Lake Kelso, near Athel, Idaho, stiiviog to save her two sons from drowning, Mrs. Frank H. Spaul ding, wife of Rev. Spauldiug, Sunday eohool missionary of the Columbia river conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, Saturday drowned with her loved ones. The Spaulding family have been camped for the summer on the shores of Lake Kelso, one and a half miles from Granite, and the two oys aged 9 aid 11 years, ventured into the wat er aud got beyond their depth. The older boy, Ralph, beoame taken with cramps ana criea to fits momer zor aid. The mother plunged into the cold waters o resoue bim and when the cries of the drowning boy reached the little fellow, Angus, he also sank beneath the surface. An older .son Olin, was at the scene of the drown ing but could do nothing to save bis mother and brothers. Mrs. Spaulding was a half sister of Mrs. H. U. Wortbintgon of this city, and a sister of Harvey McDonald of Walla Walla. Both attended the funeral of mother and sons, whioh was held Monday. ; Women of Woodcraft Officers. . The Paoifio jurisdiction of Women of Woodcraft, the grand oirole of whioh was iu session at Portland elected the following offioers': Grand guardian, Mrs. Carrie C. Van Orsdall. Portland; grand oleik, John L. Wright; past grand guardian, Elona Bishop, Montana grand advisee, Evan geline Heartz, Colorado; grand bank er, Bertha M. Summer. California; grand magioian, Louisa Menefee; grand attendant, Elizabeth Graham, Wyoming; grand inner sentinel, Union Kilborn, Washington; grand outer sentinel, Hattie L. Jones, Wash ington; grand managers, Dr. Lillian Pollook. Colorado; Mrs. Clara Billix, Colorado; Mrs. Florence Webrly, of California aud Mrs. Anna P. Haw kins, Oregon. the car, when ascending a steep grade, the gasoline flowed back from the engine, and diminished the feed to the extent that the engine stopped. The oar immediately started to run backward and the brake would not hold. The machine turned completely bottom-side up, the passengers fall ing underneath. The tops of the high seats struck the ground and prcteoted the oooupants from injury. The oar was badly wreoked. AWFUL uPERIEHGE Harmon With Aberdeen. 'Cotton" Harmon is to report to the management of the Aberdeen baseball organization this week. Word to this effect was reoeived by "Cot ton" better known as "Home .Run Harmon," to Athena fans, and al though he did not expect it, those who have been watching the youngster have been looking for some of the teams of the Northwest league to pick him upyHarmo has been one of the mainajays of the I Walla Walla nine for some time and his loss is bound to be felt in every departmeat. He is a Walia Walla boy and bis career in the tent next to the big show will be watohed olosely. . STATUS oWPlCIPALSHIP W. C. Howard, Late President of Col umbia College, Here. WEIL MEN WAIT FOR CASING- Mineral Found at Depth of 240 Will Be Assayed. Feet J. P. TONE, ATHENA, OREGON The well drillers at work on the Athena Land & Trust company's ar- ! tesian well have discontinued work i until suoh time as the oasings ordered ! by the company arrives. . i An order was sent to Spokane for . the material, but the amount was so j great, that in all probability the oom- pan? will have to wait until it can be shipped from San Francisco. Mineral found at the depth of 210 feet has been sent to O. A. C. to be assayed. The ore is knownjto barry a per cent of copper ad it is 'believed that it also contains gold. J High Price For Land. (Eighteen thousand dollars is a high 1 n n 4nr a 1 fiA anna uthaot. ran Ah tut this is the amount Joseph Key paid Donald MoKinnon for his "quar ter," last week. Mr. Key is a pro gressive young farmer who acquired considerable farm property in the last few years, bis first purohase being the MoGrew: homestead on Pine Cieek. Mr. and Mrs. MoKinnon and daushter Mary, will leave soon for Alberta where members of the family already reside. A Narrow Escape. A peculiar automobile aooident in whioh the oooupants of the oar tnirao piously escaped injury took place Sat uiday near the O. R. & N. station, at Weston. O. M. Riohmond, bis two daughters and -Mrs. Preston, were in The status of the vaoanoy made in the Athena high sobool, through the resignation" of Prof. Klemme. remains muoh the same as it did last week. The board felt disposed not to bring pressnie on Klemme to stay with bis agreement to accept the position here, perhaps from the belief that if in anyway forced to come, he would not havo his heart in the work, and anyway, after aooepting the sobool here it transpires that be had the Normal school bee buzzing in his bon net, and as soon as that job was open to him, be doubtless bad little con sideration for Athena. The board is looking into the capa bilities of other men, among whom in W. C. Howard late President of Columbia oollege of . Milton, and, for three years principal of the Heppner his b sohool. Mr. Howard has been eleoted to the priooipalsbip of the North Yakima high sohool, aud for certain reasons seems to be in a posi tion td honorably withdraw from the Washington city sohool. tie was in the nitv Tuesday oonfeiing with the board. Man vs. Rattlesnake. A Davton item says that it was a case of man against rattlesnake Mon dav when Otis Tate, a young farmer living in the foothills of the Blue mountains near Davton. found Him self face to face with a huge specimen of the noisonous reptile Monday. The fleht ooonred in a plowed Held, iar from convenient rock piles or friendly brush Without means of defense ex cept a pocket knife whioh was rseless young Tate resorted to the nse of nature's defensive appendages and his bravery won the day, for be sue oeeded in kicking and tramping the big snake before it buried its poisonous fangs in his flesh. $8000 FIRE; WN AGENCY v Mysterious Blaze Consumes Umatilla Reservation Property. D. B. Jarman Passes Through Horrors of Disastrous Train Wreck Near Coeur d'Alene. ryL- D. B. Jarman was one of the injur ed passengers in the wreck of the Electric train, near Coeur d'Alene. Saturday afternoon. Mr. Jarman's injuries consist of fraotured ribe, bruises, outs and scratohes. " He was r b!e to returu,fo his home at Westou, on the day following the wreck, and is improving as well as could be expected. In the wreok. whioh was caused by a headon col lision of two eleotrio trains, heavily loaded with passengers, twelve were killed outright and 103 injured. Mr. Jarman 8 description of the details of the catastrophe are horrify ing iu the extreme. He was helplessly pinned beneath heavy timbers for an hour and was compelled to witness the death of a woman, whose prostrate form was lying aoross bis, death re sulting from a large splinter being jabbed through her body. Beside bim was a little boy who was badly wounded. When Mr. Jarman arrived be was completely prostrated from the effects of the terrible ordeal through which he had passed. WITH THE WHEAT GROWERS Harvest Operations Well Advanced- Buyer and Seller Apart. '- x- :f- ;;.-.:-..v:-;iu--i.::- -.: - : 7, O'-f "ill- muni itr afraQftPEiW (r-i-il- C? PROMPT Ill U CDC DDInEQ ARE MMJT DELIVERY if imill. ! IIIUMJ Hill. HIWHi POHNE MAIN 83 D The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here Jj DELL BB0THERS, CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THING3 TO EAT r . Athena, Oregon The loss of at least $6000 worth of government property by fire has been renorted from the Umatilla Indian reservation agenoy. The oonfiagra tion. which broke out about 10 o'clook Saturday night burned to death eight of the most valuable horses of the agency, all of the agenoy hay, and about 1000 bushels of wheat. The origin of the fire is not known. When discovered late Saturday night the bin government barn was a mass of flames. The barn contained all oi thA hnst horsed of the reservation : a driving team and a draft team, vain ed at 1300 a span. None of the horses oonld ba saved, and all the harness was burned. From the barn the flames went to the cranary. containing 1000 bushels of wheat. With the fire fighting ap naratus the agenoy employes were able to save several buildings. There was no insuranoe, following the gen eral policy of the government. May Call Extra Session. Governor Benson b&n reoeived notioe in an offloial communication from Philander C. Knox, secretary of state of the proposal to amend tLe constitu tion pursuant to a jcint resolution of oougrees in order that an income tax may be enacted by congress. The governor is requested to submit the proposal to the legislature of this state for action. In order to become effective the amendment must be rati fied by tberjB fourths of the states of the union. Beginniog August 10 Dr. F. A. Clise the optical specialist will make regular visits to Athena. The doctor has louated permanent offloes in Pend leton, Oregon in the John Schmidt tldg. Remember the date August 10 With good weather, operations in the harvest fields have made exoellent progress tbis week and saving of the '09 wheat crop is well advanced in tbis vicinity. The quality grades No. 1 and the yields ruu all the way from 85 to 50 bushels pec acre, the general average on land in tbis neigh borhood being around id bushels. Only one sale of any oonsequenoe is reported so far. G. M. Morrison of Adams, sold $10,000 wotth at 85 cents. The looal market seems to be standing on end, the ptioe whioh the buyer offers and the piioe which the raiser thinks be should have being at suoh variance, that up to date there has been nothing doing in the wheat line. Harvest Notes. C. A. Barrett's field neat town av eraged 46 bushels per aore. Quality good and remarkably free from smut Will Ferguson's lower raooh yielded 10 bushels per aoie. His oombine is now harvesting Turkey Red on bis reservation land, south of town. Al Johnso'is' field averaged 40 bush els per aoie. Here's one on Cass Cannon, one of Lu l 1 ik. 1 1.. . L . 1 iuo uetii i uiuauui iu bu iu lue uuuuiy. Cass is a holy glutton ior work, and it is said of bim that wLile grain was not coming fast enough to the mach ine the other day, be oonoeived the brilliant idea of threshing the drap ers. Result: All kinds of concaves, splinters, rivets and leather in tbo wheat sacks . so iar reported, too Jtsanmster orew takes the bun for reoord run this soa son. A total of 1400 sacks is the result of one day's work. Sam Pamburu threshed a yield of 50 bushels per aore from one of his fields south 'of town. E. A. Dudley's field east of totrn is netting 45 bushels per aore. The Willaby place north east of town turned off 40 bushels per aore. C. A. Barrett has a field of wheat reservation land, south of town warehouses of their own in whioh to handle next year's crop. As for this year's crop it was de clared by many that instead of haul ing their wheat to the warehouses they would staok it in the field and sell it from the staok. Others suggested that temporary platforms be ereoted at different points along the railroad. Having been led to believe that the warehouse charges this season were to be 50 cents per ton, up until the first of the year, instead of 75 cents per ton, the prevailing pnoe for the past few years, the growers of grain are more than indignant to suddenly learn that the price is to be 90 cents per ton for wheat left in the ware houses nntil January 1. The 50 cents per ton rate is to be good for only SO days and ten cents is to be added for eaoh additional month that the wheat remains in the bouses. Declaring that wheat is worth one dollar- per bushel nearly all those present at the meeting, Saturday, ex pressed the belief that the ruling was made in an effort to compel the far mers to sell early in the season, whether they wanted to or not. Another meeting is to be held here next Saturday afternoon and though the time of the year is a busy one, an effort is to be made to have most of the farmers of this vioioity represent ed at the meeting. DUSKY ELOPERS ARE DETAINED Dashing Redskin Must Answer, Too, . For Stealing Horses. on which is yieldng about 50 bushels per aoro. M. L. Watts' threshing outfit will SDon be moved to bis fields on the high ground, southeast of town. Attorney S. F. Wilson has a prom ising crop of wneat south of town, which is estimated will yield from 45 to 50 bushels per aore. On E. A. Dudley's borne plaoe, wheat is averaging about 45 bushels per aore. At the Dime. Tonights bill at the Dime, as an nounced, will be: "The Wonderful Lantern," "Diabolical Itching," Collecting Post Cards," "The Clown's Daughter." Song, "Arrah Wanua." Because Frank Johnson, a youug and dashing Indian cavalier, overdid the thing in eloping wittrtibis mothre's horses and buggy, as well us with his -friend's wife, he is now occupying a cell in the city jail, awaiting the arrival of a Deputy United States Marshal from Portland. Had he teeu satisfied to take only the other man's wife, he might have goue on his way rejoicing, for Walter Bomson, husband of the woman, re fuses to have anything more to do with her saying she sets too fast a pace for him. The mother, however, objected to losing her rig and the couple were overhauled at Adams by the Indian police just after they had sold the horses and buggy. The woman was turned loose after spending the night in jail, but Johnson was held by United States Commissioner Hailey to appear before the United States grand jury. Prunes Are Ripe. . Prune time is nearly hero. Orohards iu the Walla Walla valley containing prune trees are beginning to take on a pnrple hue as the fruit nears maturity and though the trees are not loaded so heavily as last year a fair crop will be picked. Marries the Jap. A minister residing in Ritzville ia reported to have come to the resoue of Minnie vrookett, the white woman who says life is too short to have any raoe prejudice, and bas been trying to get some person of authority to marry herself to Frank Iebikuro, a Japanese. The parties reside iu Walla Walla, whete ministers refused to petform a marriage ceremony for the couple. A Land King. E. O. Burlingamo, of Gardeua, was an Athena visitor yesterday. It is reported that Mr. Burlingame has re fused au offer of $750,000 for bis land holdings at Gardena. Col. Wood of Weston, is also interested iu Gardena teal estate, but the Press can substan tiate the statoment that he is not iu Burlingame's class a-tall a-tall. Back From Seattle. Uuole John Calender ia home from a six weeks visit at Portland ana Suuttle. With a brother whom ba bad not seen for 25 years, Uncle John took in the exposition and all points of interest on the Sound. His son Turner is with one of the big Seattle whole sale bouses and there remains but one position between him and the head of the oonoeru. It took Turner two days last week to sell an Alaska customer $25,000 worth of goods. That's the Seattle way. WHEAT GROWERS WILL BUILD Will Own Warehouses to Hold Their Crops Next Year. The East Oregonian of Monday says: Saturday afternoon's meeting of the looal tranoh of the Farmers' Edooa tional and oo-operative nnion of America, resolved itself into an in dignation meeting because of the reoently announced increase in storage charges on wheat by the warehouse. companies doing business in tbo county. After the several farmers present bad relieved themselves of their indignation, it was decided to be the sense of the meeting that steps should be taken al once tb tfecure Lodges Buy Piano. Weston Leader: The society hall has been equipped with piano eua pianola purchased by the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. These tretn len of the three links and the triangle are never very musical and when it comes to the task of playing a match for lodge worn, the best that any of them oan do is to thump a few chords mil. .! ' on toe nail organ, xnis nanaioHp will now be obviated with the intro duction of "canned musio" interpret ed per pianola. Mab'.e Warner Loses. Mrs. Mabel Warner is specifically charged with having forged the fam ous "mysterious fourth" will to the estate of the late James W. Young, while Attorney 8. V. Knox of Westou and MrB. Delia Staoey, of La Grande, ate charged with conspiring with her in the forgery, by the findings of fact in the county court bearing of the Young will contest These findings were signed by County Judge Gilliland before whom tbe hearing was held. n S t L,