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This Edition con tains Six Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXI. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 27. 1909. NUMBER 35 V- ' 35- THE TUiVVA-LUM LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of UILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal K A. M. Johnson, Manager :. Athena, Oregon ESTABLISHED 1865 Preston-Par ton Milling Company BEAUTY Flour is made in Athena, by Athena labor, in the latest apd best equipped mill in the west, of the best eeleoted Blnestem wheat grown anywhere. Patronize home industry. Your grooer sella American Beauty for $1.75 r act. 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, Keasonble prices H BUS ESS FIR I B, Jarman Sells Athena Depart ment Store to Steward & Brown Merchants of Spokane. I . Paints, Pi Oils, per La B. Jarman has sold his depart ment store in this oity to Steward & Brown of Spokane. The deal, whiob bad been under way for two or three weeks, was closed Saturday and the big task of taking inventory of the stock has been carried by a Dumber of experienced persons this week, and will be finished tonight, so that the store will be open for business tomor row morning. S Mr. Jarman retains his mercantile interests at Weston, and will oontinue to reside there. Mr. Steward, the senior member of the new firm, is an experienced mer chant and business man. Before going to Spokane, be was in the tanking business at Harrison Idaho for a num ber of years, and was also engaged in the mercantile business. Be establish ed the first bank at Harrison. Mr. Brown has been in the mercan tile business for foity years. He was in business at Salem for a number cf years and left the Oregon oapitol 18 years ego. For several years be has teen at the head of the olotbing de partment in Dollar's big store in Spokane. The members of the new firm are praotioal men and are experienced buyers. They will be in a position to buy theii stook direot from Eastern manufacturers, and it will be the new managements desire to cater to the wants of the trade in supplying the best grade of goods at the lowest pos sible prioe. With this objeot in view, new lines will be added from time to time. A ladie's suit department will be installed at onoe und soon a full line of grooeries will be oarried. When the present stock has been sufficiently arranged so that proper displays oan be put into effeot, a mon ster closing out sale will betpajigur ated. No artioJe in the particular lines wbioh the sale effeots will be reserved. The sale will be instituted for sole purpose of closing' out lines to make room for the new ones wbioh are to be installed. r. Messrs. Steward and Brown are both men of families and are oqming to Athena with the view of making their permanent homes here. Mr. Jarman is loath to leave Athena ) business ciroles, but the faot that bis able manager,' Mr. Ora Rhodes, bad deoided to engage in other work, left a vaoanov wbioh Mr. Jarman felt would be bard to fill, and this with the odditional care of his Weston store, led to bis deoision to sell. Mr. Jarman desires tbe Press to state that be will ever remember and appreciate the generous trade given him in his long years of businoss here. for yeats and walked away with the $500 trophy cup offered. In addition he will receive a gold medal and $50 in cash, as well as jumping into prom inence throughout the servioe. Phen omenal soores were made by the Pen dleton youth in the matoh. At 800 yards he made a perfeot soore. 50 out of 50. At 1000 yards he lost but one point in 50. In the skirmish run his total was 98 out of 100, and at 200 yards rapid Ire he made the most un usual total of 45, firing 10 shots in 40 seoonds. The young man is a son of Wm. Roesoh of Pendleton, and will graduate from Annapolis this yea.r WES 1ST IIC PIODIFE BUSINESS C0LLE6E Walla Walla Selected For Home Of a New Institution. f Mr. G. Barnes-Cleaver, vice-presi dent of the Los Angeles in oon jnnotien with Messrs. Albin Mills & E. Cleaver has arranged to open a Business Col lege in tbe Bees and Winans block. Walla Walla. The slogan of the college is the training of experts ty experts." We feel sure tnese gentlemen will make great suocess, as it will no longer be neoessary to go to tbe larger cities to seoure expert business training. . Mr. Barnes Cleaver, apart from his oollege wo:k, has done considera ble Court reporting in Los Anseles. Messrs. Albin Mills and E. Cleaver have been aseooiated with tbe Port land business colleges for some years, and have many friends in this distrlot. Mr. Cleaver claims that individual instruction is neoessary for tbe suocess of tbe student, and that parents should not expeot their ohildren to make good in tbe business world today, unless they have given them tbe right soit of training. A oommeroial oourso in a High sohool to learn the tbeoiy of shorthand and bookkeeping is all right, if followed by a oourse of in struction by actual business experts, who will place the student in a posi tion at a good salary, and with pro9- .jpeots of advancement. Parents or students may arrange to meet Mr. Cleaver at his offioes, Bees Winans Block, Walla Walla, ty sending a postal to Seoretary L. A. E. Business College, Rees & Winans Bldg. Walla Walla. Glass House Sign .and Carriage Painting E. T. Kidder, MeArthur Building Oity bvd 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. n. STONE, ATnENA, OREGON Two Rivers Survey. , A Walla Walla item says: Owing to errors in surveys made near Two Rivers, Engineer W. G. Winkle has gone to Two Rivers to survey the entire township. He stated that some of the. lines are 200 to 400 feet from their proper position and that tbe 1 nrouertv debts of many people will be affected. Tnia involves tne town site of Two Rivers where many people have set out orchards that will prob ably be found on others' land when the lines are correctly run. Tbe whole township was badly surveyed. The work is being done at the instanoe of P of. L. F. Anderson of Whitman col lege, who reoently bought most of the townsite of Two Rivers. Roesch Is Champion. The greatest sensation ever develop ed in connection with national riflJ competition was oreated at Camp Perry, Ohio, when H. O. Roesoh, of Pendleton, was bulletined as winner In tbe governor's matoh. He beat the world-famous marksmen who have been firing in international contests iimi iiiMMiMiiwiniiiiiw ii wiiii iniriirrainTMMninrTmBTlTniwri I . I wm PR0Seby WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT mlm 83 The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in vegetab Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here 3 DELL BROTHERS, CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THING3 TO EAT Athena, Oregon I 6 J J V y T V r t - - - ; Washington Supreme Court Affirms Conviction of Mrs. Aldrich's Brutal Murderer. MORE -LAND IS GIVEN MY Government to Open Indian Reserves In Dakotas. Superintendent James W. Wbitten, who presided over the Iudian land drawings reoently held at Coeur d'Alene, announces that the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian lands in North and South Dakota will be opened in Ootober. This is the largest oompaot area of Indian lands left unopened, being 90 miles long and from SO to 40 miles in width, containing approximately 2, 019,000 acres in South ' Dakota and 217,000 in north Dakota. Applications will be managed in muob tbe same manner as for the Coenr d'Alene and Flathead reserves. Registration days have been fixed be tween Ootober 4 and Ootober 23, the registration points being Aberdeen, Pierre, Lemmon, Lebeau and Mow- bridge in South Dakota, and Bismark, North Dakota. Judge Wbitten will bold the draw ing of numbers fit Aberdeen, S. D., tbe last week in Ootober. Hesekiah W. Barnes will be hanged at Walla Walla penitentiary for tbe murder of Anna M. Aldiioh May 1, 1908, at Walla Walla, as the Wash ington supreme oourt has affirmed the judgment of the oonviotion. Inform ation as filed May 9, following the commitment of the orime and it said Barnes was plaoed on trial charged with murder in the first degree. Af ter the jury had been out forty-three hours they were called into the oourt by the judge June 15, 1908, and dis charged. The reoords show that tbe jury were agreed Barnes had killed the woman, but disagreed as to whe ther to find him sane or insane at the time he oommitted tbe orime, because tbe members differed as to whether the verdict of insanity would be fol lowed by a sentenoe of imprisonment for life. The records show the oourt told the jury the "question of punish ment is none of your business" and discharged them. May 24th a seoond trial was had and Barnes was oonviot ed of murder in tbe seoond degree and a speoial verdiot that defendant was not acquitted at tbe former trial. An appeal was taken whiob the supreme oourt holds now is without merit. Barnes has proven a model prisoner. The long delay in the law has had a tendenoy to make him forget the gal lows of whioh ho has been for so many months in tbe shadow. Oregon, from Island City, Union county, a he oeremonies were con ducted by tbe Masonia grand lodge of Oregon. Tbe first two stories of this structure will be used for tusiness and office purposes and the upper floors will be oooupied by the Masonio lodges of that oity. Hill Wins the Battle. A Portland dispatch says that James J. Hill, empire builder, has gained a great victory over E. H. Harriman, railroad king, in the fight between the Hill and Harriman interests for control of the right of way of the Desohutes naoyon, whioh is the key to the mastery of oentral Oregon and California valleys, aud an assured outlet at San Franoisoo of tbe Inland Coast line. Hill was given at loast a year's start over his rival by the deoision of Justioe Robert S. Bean of the federal court in whiob the Harri man iii tor est s were temporarily en joined from tbe occupancy of the dis puted right of way iu tbe canyon. Attorney Cotton representing Harri man appeared stunned by the deoision, and announced that be would ask for an injunotlon compelling the Hill men to use only a 200 foot wide strip to whioh tbe oourt gave them absolute right. Swept By Fire. Tbe most disastrous grain field fire in the Palouse country this year oo oured Saturday morning, three miles north of Diamond, when 8000 bushels of wheat belonging to John Kirkmaa and 1500 bushels of stacked grain be longing to Jaok Stuart was destroyed. Tbe fire originated on tbe Kirkman place from embers left at tbe setting by tbe threshing engine, whioh left the field neary 48 hours before and when discovered bad gained suoh headway that it spread to Stuart's farm abjoining despite the ettorts of over 100 men from nearby heading and threshing crews and it required several hours bard work to got it under control. Tbe grain was insured. Electric Company Organizes. Tbe board of directors of the Uma tilla Elootrio Railway & Power com pany, tbe corporation witob proposes to build an eleotrio road south from Pendleton into the John Day country, has perfected its organization. George Arthur Brown of Portland, las suc ceeded Dr. C. J. Smith on the board and has been made vioe-president of tbe corporation. Douglas Belts of Pilot Rook, is the president while A. R. Turner, also of Pilot Rook, is tbe seoretary-treasurer. All three of these men are now in tbe field securing rights of way for their road. Among other things it is proposed to supply a passenger servioe for the various summer resorts in tbe southern end of the oounty and the officers are now conferring with tbe proprietors of these resorts to that end. East Ore- gonian. - Hidden Coin is Returned. Two years ago C. A. Garretson, hobo from Presoott, Ariz., arrived in North Yakima with $15 in gold Fearing that fellow tramps would rob bim, he bid tbe money, $10 in tbe railroad yards and $5 beside a church on Yakima avenue. Last week Gar retson returned to his native town, sick man. Remembering tbe $15 be bad buried there, he wrote to Captain Jenkins, of tbe Salvation Army at Yakima telling bim where tbe money was hidden and asking him to send it to bim. Captain Jenkins, armed with diagrams, went to the oburob and found tbe $5, but tbe fonndations for tbe new depot bad obliterated all landmarks that would show tbe loca tion of tbe $10 coin. Tbe $5 will be sent to Garretson. Bridge at Cayuse.. The government will build a bridge across the Umatilla at Cayuse station. Bids are being advertised for. Tbe bridge will be 194 feet in length and will have a carrying oapaoity of 20 tons. HOG FAMINE AT PULLMAN Buyers Now Offering 9 cents a Pound, Live Weight.: A Pullman item says: There is a UU5 IflUllUO U tUtO UU U U lift J IUA being soaroer and higher . than ever known. E. D. Priest, a shipper of live stock, is offering 9 oents a pound, live weight, for a carload of fat hogs with no prospect of getting them. Fresh pork is a luxury seldom obtain ed at the looal meat markets and sells for from 15 to 20 oents a pound. "I will soon have 400 head of young stook bogs for sale bore," said Mr. Priest today. "I will bring a carload or two from Oiegou and offer them for Bale. If tbe prioes and demand justify it I will import several thou sand head of stook hogs and sell them to tbe ranohers who have grain laying down, whioh only bogs oan gather up." There is no doubt suoh bogs will find a readv sale, for there are thou sands of brshels of groin lying on the ground. One farmer, who has been trying to buy stook hogs, said: "I have enough wheat lying in my stub ble fields to fatten 600 bead of hogs, but I oan't buy the hogs aud fear tho grain will be a loss." Where grain was knooked down by the heavy rains of July muoh of it is lying too flat to be gathered up by anything shoit of a mower or scythe. Tbe combine machines and binders have run over it and mashed it flatter than it was before the attempt was made to save it. At the Age of 83. . . . i ! . .1 m ii jxdb rress nas a cupping ironi lao Burnsvlle (N. O.) Eagle announcing the death of Will M. Peterson's grand -father, at the age of 83 years. Tbe Eagle says: Mr. Bert Peterson, one of the county's oldest and most res peoted citizens, died at his home on Jack's Creek, on tbe 7th inst., after a prolonged sioknesrf. "Uncle Bert," as be was familiarly oallod was known to almost every one and he was unl versally liked. One by one the pioneer oitizens of Yanoy county are passing away, and the death of "Unole Bert" will be learned with sadness through out tbe country. &6 He Is an Advertiser. N. Williamson, manager of a Mos- oow Idaho store, who has been twioe arrested for blookading the sidewalk in front of bis plaoe of business and whose trial was postponed in eaob case, and who engaged in a bloody fistio fight with the chief of police in his store end successfully resisted arrest, has engaged tbe Palouse band to lead a great parade of four cars of merchandise tbronsh tbe streets of Moscow tomorrow afternoon, loaded on a score of drays and wagons. Last week Mr. Williamson was obarged with having left two oars of merohan dise oases standing on tLe walk for a distanoe of 140 feot all day and was arrested for obstructing tbe sidewalk. It "Pellagra" a Corn Disease. has been found that pellagra, tbe new disease that has developed in certain seotions ot tbe South is caused form eating products made from mouldy corn. With five death from pellagra in Butler County Alabama, three persons dying and nve oases under observation, there is almost panio in that section. The state de partment of health has been impor tuned to send help, but Dr. N. Mason tbe only expert in tbe servioe, is in vestigating in Clark county, where more than 100 oases aro reported, County Health Offioers have been in structed to isolate all oases and watch them with a view to determine wbetb er or not they are infectious. Of Masonic Temple. With appropriate oeremonies tbe corner stone of tbe new four story Masonio temple at Roseburg was laid Monday afternoon. Tbe grand offioers present were Dr. Norris R. Cox grand , master, and D. G. Thompson grand tyler, of Portland; and Edward E. Kiddle, grand bigb muster and grand bigb priest of tbe R. A. M. of Squaws "Copswallow" Wheat. The next time a certain couple of squaws oome to town, Marshal Gbol son is prepared to give them a bunoh of troublo. The charge of theft has beon prefered against them by Will Ferguson. Wednesday evening, one of bis teamsters lost three saoks of wboat, and tbe grain was later piled against the fence, when it would be put on the next load. In the mean time a couple of squaws came along and "oops wallowed" two saoks of the grain. Paralysis, Too. By allowing swarms of bees to sting him on the bare arms and legs, J. B. Webster of Roxbnry, Mass. is recover ing from an attack of paralysis and already has regainod tbe use of bis loft arm and can walk a milo. He hoard (hat bee stings were an effioaoious cure for paralysis and rbonmatism. He hesitated for some time to try such ex treme measures, but finally deoided to do so and today apparently is a well man. Editor Refused Pardon. The application for the pardon of Cbarlos Niokell, editor of the Jack sonville Times, who was oonvioted of conspiracy to suborn witnesses in the Oregon land fraud cases, has beon denied by President Talt. The papers were received from Taft's snmmor borne at Beverly by the department of justioe. J S Sheriff Taylor Married. Taylor, perhaps the most pop ular sheriff any county in Oregon ef er bad was united in marriage with Miss Clare Moussu, a well. known young lady of Pendleton, Sunday in Portland. Both bride and groom are well known in this oity, where a host of friends extend oongrutulatons. Notice. Having disposed of my Atbona store and wishing to close up all business matters couneoted with it, I have plaoed all accounts, due me with Ora Rhodes for collection. Ho will receive settlements at tbe soie of Steward & Brown. Please all and settle at on oo. D. B. Jarman. "Happy Home" canned goods excel any on tbe market. For sale by T. M. Tuggart & Co. 141 H 'i r V s.