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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 20. 1909. NUMBER 34 THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO. Lumber, fllill 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 Milling Company BEAUTY Flour is made iu Athena, by Athena labor, iu the latest and best equipped mill in the west, of the best selected Blnesteni wheat grown, anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grooer sells American Beauty for !$1.75 er Sack. S Merchant Millers and Grain Buyers Athena, Oregon. Waitsburg, Wash. R. J. BODDY WHOLESALE BUTCHER Makes a Specialty of furnishing Meat in Large Quantities, First-class stock, Reasonble prices UTS I Whether or Not It is An Intoxicating . Beverage, Will Be Tested in Washington Court. vA question of much interest to Umatilla county aud moat of Oregon la about to be threshed out in the courts of Washington. It is whe ther or not ''near beer" is iutoxioat ing and as to whether or not its sale shall be prohibited in "dry" oountiea.- x rea u. rugo, prosecuting attorney for Spokane county, has deolared that the so-oalled "temperaqfee" beverage is iotoxioating and that, hereafter all persons found selling it iu "dry" ter ritory inoluded in his jurisdiction will be prosecuted. The result of this an nouncement will be followed with great interest by proseouting attorneys in Oregon, who have beeu contemplat ing taking similar aotion. Iu speaking of the matter the Spok ane proseoutor said : "I have had several inquiries lately as to whether Inland Bran and "near beer" can lawfully be sold in "dry" townshipB or whether tbey oome with in the denomination of 'intoxicating' liquors. This depends upon whether tbey ara intoxicating when need as beverages. Chemioal analysis shows that Inland Brau con tains over 3 per oent 'alcohol and uear beer about the same, or in other words, they carry more alcohol than some kinds of ordinary beer. The phraseology of the licensing statute in spiritious, fermented, malt or other intoxicating liquor.' "The definition of the phrase 'intox- ioating liquor,' found iu the looal op tion law passed at the last session of the legislature is muoh more compre hensive and includes 'intoxicating properties,' if it is oapabla of being used as a beverage. "The oolleotor of internal revenue, I am informed, requires a lioeuse for the sale of these liquors, and in. my opinion the state authorities should exaot the same requirements. "It is asserted that much drunken ness is seen about plaoes where these liquors are sold. Tbey have tbe ap pearauoe of beer, carry almost if not quite as much aloohol and if permit ted to be sold as a 'soft drink,' would render it praotloally impossible for the offioers to determine whether the liquor sold in any given case was or dinary beer or one of these convenient substitutes. v 't-.x "Hereafter,? therefore, all persons selling near beer and Inland Brau without a county or oity license, will fce proseouted." 1 1 WORD LIST FATAL TO TEACHERS Spelling Proves Too Hard For Those ' Who Did Not Make Grade, Paints, Oils, Glass House Sign and Carriage Painting E. T. Kidder, McArthur Building City RUeat 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. H. STONE, ATHENA, OpEGQJJ Spelling proved the nemesis for most of the eight who failed of the 33 applicants for oounty papers who re cently took the teachers' examination here or had their papers sent "for grading, says the East Oregonian. The 11 applicants for state papers will not know their fates until the papers can be passed upon by the state board. This will be sometime in September. Below is-the liBt which proved too difficult to the majority of the eight who failed to make an average suffici ent to entitle them to the papers wbiob would permit them to teach in the oounty. The fifty words counted for half the examination and tbey are as follows: Inflexible, insensible, intersperse, iuterstioe, intolerant, invincible, in visible, italicize, laboratory, labyrinth, maritime, mepagerje, meroenary, mis creant, misdemeanor, mnemonics, mollify, mqqetary, monosyllable, mo notony, neoeaaary, 'nihilism, nullify, observauoe, ominous, optimist, pessi mist, ostraoise, pageantry, panaoea, (S3 PB0Seby WHERE PRICES ARE BIGHT p 83 Jhe Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in j X?b Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here S4 DELL BROTHE Athena, Oregon paroxysm, Pentateuob, percussion, phosphorus, piquancy, plagiarize, Pleiades, pneumatio, polygamy, pre paration, pretentions, priority, pro montory, proprietor, rapacity, re currence, redolent, relegate, repara tion, repartee. The other half of the examination questions consisted of the following : 1. Distinguish between suffix and prefix. 2r Define synonym. ' 3. Name two English prefixes and three Latin. I. Give synonyms for the follow ing: Disooveror, talent, heroism, nbeerfuluess, talkative. 5. The following prefixes equal what? A- ap- extra- inter- sup-. HEBEART FINED FOR CONTEMPT HisTalkfest Cost Him $17.50 in Po lice Court. Joe Rainville aud LouieJBw were up before the polioe court Tuesday afternoon, oharged with fighting and disturbing the peace. The evidenoe pointed to Rainville as being the ag gressor and Ebear would have got off without a Que, but his tongue, lnfcri oated with near beer, wcnld run away wJUtgelf fHe was admonished by the oourt to keep quiet, but he would steam up, and $7.50 imposed for oontempt, did not stop his talkfest. Bis near beer oration reaohed its olimax when he told Judge Riohards that he oonisder- ed the flu? to be a present to the oourt. Such generosity stunned the judge, but not sufficiently to cause him to overlook such a glowing opportunity, so he promptly taxed the gentleman $10 more, and Mr. Hebeart paid $17. 50 into the oity treasury and still bad his jag left to go home on. Rainville was fined $7.60. JAP WEDS PRETTY WHITE GIRL License Refused In Malheur County, Couple Goes to Weiser. A Japanese restaurant owner by the name of Zoe and pretty Miss Marcia Harold, both of Vale, were married in Weiser, Idaho, Tuesday. This union is the culmination of a court ship of several months. Publio senti ment has been aroused .at the affair and the oounty clerk refused to issue them a license, so tbey were compelled to go to Weiser. This is the first oriental that has ever married an Amerioan girl in Malheur oounty. The bride is from La Crosse, Wis., and is a graduate from the college of that place. She is 21 years old and a good musioian. For three years she has been a teaober in Dakota, Montana and Idaho. The frccm is intelligent, having been graduated from the college at Takahara. Japan, and from the Hill Business college, San Francisco. While in San Franoisoo be owned a large Japanese' ourio store. He sold out there and went to Spokane where he engaged in the same busi ness, then oame to Vale and engaged in the reotauraot business. He is worth $25,000. Big Haryest Festival. The business men of Palouse City have completed initiatory arrange ments for a harvest festival, carnival and stock show to be held there Sept. 14-17 inolusive. They have employed the services of a man who oonduoted a like event with success in that town two years ago. Prizes will . be giveu for farm prodoots of all kinds and for the best stook, A feature of the week will be a stock show aud it is expeoted the farmers, many of whom in that vicinity have taken up raising better stock, will come forward with a good display. The evening attrac tions will be. furnished by a first-class oarnival company. A business man puts forward the question as to why Athena cannot have a harvest festival this fall. Backed Over Embankment. Mrs. O'Brien, employed as a do mestic in the home of A. L. Swaggart met with a serious accident Monday evening. She was driving a horse to a buggy and stopping on the approaoh to the bridge at the Watts place on Pine Creek, the horse backed suddenly sending the vebiole over the embank ment, Mrs. O'Brien was severely bruised, and Ettabel Swaggart, who was also in the buggy narrowly es oaped injury. The buggy was de molished at easy and convenient stages, the horse leaving the last part of it and a portion of the harness, near home. He Hotfooted It, J, E. Rankin, a waiter who had been employed at the St Nicholas hotel undertook the hotfoot act to beat his laundry till, Monday afternoon. He was overtaken ou the O. R. & N. track ty Marshal Uholson. His laun dry bill amouoted to $1.25, aud for security he put up a few articles in bis possession which included a revol ver, a pair of boxing gloves and a suit case. After Rankin had left town it developed that the suit case was the property of Landlord Froome. I II SHIFTS Artesian Well Drill Pounds Away Con- tinucusly Splendid Progress Made This Week. The big drill that is seeking artesian water for the Athena Land & Trust company in this city is now pounding away continually twenty-four hours eaoh day. A night crew was put on and began work Monday night, after parts had beon reoeived to replaoe those that bid been broaen in the Rasoliue engine, and whioh necessitated a lay off the latter part of last week. The work at night appears to pro gress as well as the day work. Tues day nights' work netted 15 feet. For the most part, the drill has been dropping through a porous lava rook this week, and splendid progress has been made. The well is now down in a depth of 322 feet. The maohinery is in exoellent working order, and a reoord run for continuous -operation, is looked tor by the drill workmen. BARGING WHEAT ON COLUMBIA Four Hundred Tons May Be Taken On One Tripi Barging wheat from the Iulaud Empire down the Columbia river to Uolilo aud then sending it to Portland by steamer will be tried as an ex periment by the Open River Transpor tation company. The stooaholdeis of the company have arranged for the building of a wheat barge. It will be constructed at Celilo, the work on it starting im mediately. The craft will be ready for servioe within the next few weeks. Toe barge will be 90 feet long and 30 feet beam, having a oapaoitv for handling 200 tons of wheat. It will be towed between Pasoo or Kenne wiok to Celilo and return by eithei the steamer Twin Cities or Inland Empire. At the same time the steam er will also oarry a cargo of cereals. Consequently tbey will bring down the river at one trip 400 tons of wheat. "If the experiment proves suooessful we will have several other barges transporting wheat down the river from Pasoo next season," said J. N. leal of the Open River Tiansportation company. "rt will mean lower rates for the piodnoers and every one will benefit by it." EXPLOSION WRECKED MACHINE Smut Causes Fire Which Burned But Little Grain. Sam Bannister's new separator was d estroyed by fire Saturday, which re sulted from smut explosion. The explosion oooured shortly after noon Saturday, when the crew was finishing the George Bannister field 6ontb of town. Saturday evening Bannister went to Walla Walla and purchased a maobiue of the Gilbert Hunt company and Monday afternoon finished the field. By prompt work on the part of the crew, only about an aore of grain was destroyed, the county road on the east side of the field materially assist ing the fire fighters. The sacked grain was left untouched by the fire. The maohine was entirely consumed. Taggart Will Move. T. M. Taggart has leased the big brick store building on the corner of Maiu and Third aud will move his stock of goods thereto. This is one of the best business stands on tbe street, and tbe owners, T. J. Kirk of this oity, and the Todd estate in Portland, are putting tbe building in spiok span shape for Mr. Taggart. Tbe exterior has been painted and improvements on the inside will be made. The move is a matter of more room, for Mr. Taggart intends to branch out in tbe Meiobandiso business aud meet the demands of bis growing trade. HILL IN GRANO TRUNK ROAD John F. Stevens ex-Panama Engineer Says So. The Oregon Trunk line wbiob is contesting tbe route up the Deschutes canynn into central Oregon with the Harriman system, is controlled by John F, Stevens, former chief engineer of tbe Panama canal. James J. Hill as an indivindual is financially inter ested in tbe Oregon Trunk line, to an extent necessary to carry tbe road through to a successful completion. This was the voluntary statement of Mr. Stevens made at Portland and finally settles tbe disputed question as to who bas been behind Porter Bros., contractors and owners of re cord of tbe Oregon Trunk, who have been making a spectacular figbt re cently tor advantage is the Deschutes oanyon. Tbaj Mr. Hill has been behind the proposition has teen surmised from tbe momnnt tbe Oregon Trunk began aotive construction work. It is the presumption in railroad circles in Portland that tbe road is' the initiat ing of a line whioh will eventually termiuate at San Franoisoo. The district which will be tapped by the Deschutes road as the Harri man project is known and the Oregon Trunk line, is a virgin country, but is said capable of beiug made one of the ruost productive seotions on tbe Paoifio coast Sells Mountain Farm. B. F. Barklow of Weston has com pleted the sale of his mouutaiu farm consisting of 80 aores, about dtfaill able, tbe bahnoe pnsturo land, to Wesley Alynn, lately from lone, Mor row oounty. The consideration was $3700 oasb. This pieoe of land could have been bought for $1200 only a few years ago. There were no im provements at that time, and the same oouditioDS exist now. Mr. Alynn will immediately commence the erec tion of a residenoe aud make other Improvements. New Fly Exterminator. -J. R. MaoMaster, president of the Pomeroy, Wash., Hardware rnd Im plement company bas discovered a now fly-killer that seems to do the work better than anything ever tried there. Tte way that gentleman line been demonstrating his new disovery at bis piaoe of business has caused a rush to the drugstores for the ingred ient that does tbe work. The formula for the iuseotlde is very simple and is giveu 'as follows: Two teaspoonfula of formaldehyde aud one teaspooufnl of sngar in a pint of water. It is said tbe flies do not get over two feet from the receptacle ocntaining the liquid befoie dying. GIRLS WIN IN COYOTE MELEE Plucky Kennewick Girls Dispatch Wolf With Cudgels. Miss Marian Griffith and Miss Flor ino Bonn two 11-year-old girla of Knnnewiok, Wasb., proved themselves true daughters of the west Sunday afternoon when they olubbcd to death a big coyote and curried their trophy home as testimony of their bravery. The girls were strolling along the ' river near the Bonn rauoh when the Griffith dog started from the saco- brush an unusually large coyote. With a fierceness rarely exhibited by its speoies the wolf attacked tbe dog and the two were soon rolling on tbe prairie in a deadly encounter. Seeing the plight of tbe faithful old family dog and oalling her companion to her assistance, Miss Griffith armed herself with a stout club and rushed into tbe melee. Following the example of tbe other girl Miss Bonn secured a cudgel and performed valiant service. Tbe two brave lasses wielded their weap ons with telling effect and soon dis patched tbe coyote. With the oaroass of their prey swinging between them, their nut brown cheeks (lushed with the excite ment of battle and tno old dog limp ing along behind tbe plucky hunters arrived at tbe Bonn home, where they told tbe story of their novel ex- . perieuoe. Campers Privileges. The campground nt tho Oregon State Fair, Salom, is in readiness for the great number of campers that will occupy spaces thereon during tho forty-eighth annual fair whioh will bo held on September 13 to 18, 100!). Albert Tozier is superintendent of tbe camping quarters and be expects that tbe tented city will he greater tban ever this time. Massive on Is trees form a nice grove on tbe camp ing quarters, whioh makes it an at tractive place to enjoy a week's outing away from one's home, whether it ua in the city or country. An evening scene on tbe camp ground is u most pleasant one generally, especially when tbecampfiros are burning around whioh are assembled groups of people engaging in social converse and games interspersed with music. Grain Quotations Direct. Beginning Monday morning the farmers of Walla Walla found what tbe world on the outside was soiling and purchasing wheat A telegraph instrument was installed iu the offices of tbe farmers nuiou aud the wire was connected with the Tucoma Board of Trade, which is operated iu conjunc tion with tbe Liverpool,. England., Board of Trade. Tho quotations will oome daily from now on from Liver pool. Heavy Railroad Trailic. Tbe freight and passenger traffio tbroogh Pendleton over tbe O.'K. & N. is the heaviest it bas ever been, aooording to local railroad men. and it seems to be getting heavier every day. Some relief is expected in a few days, however, as fivo locomotives are on their way from the southern Paoitlo shops at Sparks. Nev., aud two are ooming from tbe Oregon Short line. Postmaster Gittieos bas purchased a lute model L. C. Smith shot gun, a fowling piece, of which he is justly , proud