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VOLUME XXII.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MARCH 4, 1910.
NUMBER 9
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saying "Be sure you Have a 1 JhT
Stetson
Name
Stetson
and tlien go aheaol." '
We Lave tte Stetson Soft and Derty Hata
in all the latest styles, n
Remember
You get 4 per cent Discount for Cash. Return
$25.00
in cash register checks and get $1 cash or trade free
,"T : . ' I : T. M TAGGART ' , ' . -
General Merchandise Athena, Oregon
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THE TUi-A-LUi LUMBER GO.
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athena, Oregon
RESULT OF ELECTION
David Taylor and His Stand Taken on
the Water Question Is Vindi-
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Paints, Oils, Glass
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Blouse Sign and Carriage Painting
E. T. Kidder, McArthur Building :
A great deal of interest centered in
the city election Tuesday, and the
water issue was threshed ont to a
frazzle. , The vote polled was the
largest counted in a municipal eleo
tion here for some years The total
number of votes oast was 150.
Interest centered in the water ques
tion and the (people of Athena over
whelmingly sustained the stand taken
by Mr. Taylor, retnrning him winner
toy almost a two to one vote over his
opponent, Mr. Watts. Mr. Taylor
received 96 votes and Mr. Watts 54
voltes.
The raoe between Mr. Hawks and
Mr. Fobs for the offioe of city treas
urer turned out to be a close one.
Mr. Hawks received 80 and Mr. Foss
69 votes. Through a clerical error
by the reoordei iu arrangement of the
ballot copy for the printer, the names
of these two candidates were, not
placed in alphabetical order as pro
vided by the Australian ballot law,
and Mr. Foss has stated that if be
felt so disposed he could contest the
legality of the election on that ground.
He believes that he would have been
elected had his name appeared on
the ballot over that of Mr. Hawks.
- A. B. MoEwen had no opposition for
the offloe of Mayor, and reoerved 13?
votes. ' . '" I . . ' . ' .
An nnlooked for oomplioation arises
in the race for eleotion of counoilmen.
It develops that George Gross, who
reoeived the highest number of votes
of any candidate for that office, can
not qualify for the reason that be has
not been a resident for the required
length of time, having been in from
the farm a little over four months,
the charter requiring six months resi
dence to hold office. This is regret
table, for the reason that Mr. Gross
has held offioe before and proved him
self "aa able and effioient official.
As it now stands, W. W. Jaoobs,
who among others reoeiving scattering
votes for the offloe of councilman,
would be the logioai offioe holder
should he care to qualify, and the
newly elected counoilmen would be
Betta, LeGrow and Jaoobs. The vote
for oouncilmen was GrosB, 134 ; Betts,
124; LeGrow, 58; Jaoobs, 7. The next
highest man reoeiving scattering votes
for councilman is Henry Keen, with
four votes. Mr. LeGrow 's name did
not appear on the ticket for the reason
that bis acceptance of nomination was
not filed with the reoorder, although
he received the highest number of
votes in the nominating convention.
The ballots were oast in the eleotion
as follows:
For Mayor A. B. MoEwen, 137 ;
scattering, 2.
For oouncilmen G. W. Gross, 134;
Chas. Betts, 124? -F. S. LeGrow, 58;
scattering, 26. v !
For Treasurer Byron N. Hawks,
60; Austin A. Foss, 69.
For Recorder B. B. Biohards, 124;
scattering, 1.
For Water Commissioner David
Taylor, 96; M. L. Watts, 54.
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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
Prof. Case Re-elected Principal,
in recognition of his effioient ser
vices in the oapaoity of principal of
the Athena High sohool,. Prof. Case
was elected to that position for an
other vear, at a meeting of the sohool
board, Tuesday evening. Mr. Case's
services were in demand by other
schools, and iu view of this faot, it
was thought , best by the board to
settle the matter of his retention at
onoe." Other boards are also electing
their principals at this. time. Last
week the sohool board at Milton re
elected Principal Young.
Death of Mrs. Fletcher.
Grandma Fletoher died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Weber, west
of town Tuesday morning, aged over
85 years. She had been . practioally
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Athena, Oregon
helpless for about three years, and
her death was due to a general break
down inoideot to old age. Until the
death of her daughter, Mrs. John
Keen, she bad made her home there.
The faneral was held yesterday after
noon. The servioes were conducted
by Rev. Bradley. " , V
' Miss Susan Lee was born July 20;
1825, in Hardiman county Tennessee.
She was married to Washington East
erwood in December 1844. Easterwood
died from exposure and wounds re
ceived during the Civil War. Later
she was married to Hugh Fletcher.
In the fall of 1874 they orossed the
plains to Idaho. From Idaho they
moved to. Umatilla county Oregop,
where they lived for nearly a year.
From this oountv they moved to Wal
lowa where Mr. Fletoher deid.
A COUNTY BASEBALL LEAGUE
League With Pendleton, Athena, Wes
ton and Pilot Rock is Talked. -
Athena is asked to enter a baseball
team in a proposed four-team league,
comprising the towns of Weston, Ath
ena, Pendleton and Pilot Rook. Clark
Nelson, of Pendleton, was in the oitr
Tuesday interviewing players and fans
on the proposition. A meeting of the,
ball players now in the city is called
for Sunday, at which time the base
ball situation will be discussed.
The East Oregonian says t The four
town baseball league is now assured,
aooording to Clarke Nelson, who, has
just returned from a. visit to Athena
in the interest of the organization. It
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is to oe sirioriy an amateur league auu
the towns of Weston, Athena, Pilot
Rook and Pendleton will be represen
ted. ' ' ': ..-'
The Weston and Pilot Rook organi
zations have , already . been perfected
and the Athena fans are to have a
meeting in the near future to form the
organization. Nelson reports mnoh in
terest iu Athena, the town which
has the reputation of putting out the
best ball teams of any oity of its size
in the entire northwest. It is there
fore evident that when the Athena
spirit gets to working properly that
the town will be represented with a
team wbioh will not be found at the
foot of the pole in the race for the
pennant.
Athena will be the most fortunate
town of the empire league in many
respects. The new oity park wbioh is
being formed will inolude a baseball
diamond as well as a traok for field
meets. As the park is supplied with
shade and is almost within the very
oenter of the oity . the conditions are
ideal for suooessful ball.
0. R. & N. Company Will Start One
March 21, From Portland.
The first demonstration train to be
sent out this year by the O. R. and N.
oompany will be tbb largest and most
complete ever prepared sinoe the idea
was first conceived and carried into
action by Traffio Manager R. B. Mil
ler, aooording to the Portland Journal
It will leave there Maroh 21 for east
ern Oregon, to remain 10 days on the
road.
The train will oonsist of 10 oars and
a looomotive, seven oars to be devoted
to exhibits, agrioulture, horticultural.
livestock,, poultry and farming mach
inery and implements. , The entire
exhibit will be in oharge of 12 mem
bers of the faoulty of the Oregon
Agricultural college, who will deliver
leotures along the route.
A sleeping oar and a day coaob will
be carried for the lecturers and offi
cials accompanying the train. The
train will be in charge of Colonel A.
A. Morse, speoial agent of the freight
department, who has been the execu
tive officer on previous demonstration
tour trains.
The itinerary will be made up some
time next week, and the intention is
to make about 80 stops, three each
day. . Tha train will go as far east as
Baker City and into Wallowa county.
The character of . the leotures will
be governed largely by conditions in
the various districts and tbey are in
tended to te instructive in a way that
will result in larger traffio for tbj
railroad company going to the expense
of equipping it.
The stock oar will carry several
head of fancy stock from the college
farm, and the poultry oar will oarry a
colony bouse soon as a farmer can
bnild at a small cost. The poultry
house will illustrate how to guard
against insect pests and best systems
of feeding. Brooders and Inoubators
will also be shown in operation.
The horticultural car will have an
exhibit of packed fruit and fruit in
course of packing, and this, it Is be
lieved, will prove a very valuable ex
Mbit in vievr of the great interest
taken in that industry in this state.
Mr. Jesse Smith and Miss Effle
Pbipps were married in Pendleton
Wednesday. Both are well known in
this city, where the groom is an em
ploye ia the Preston-Parton Mills.
The home of the bride is in Weston.
The vonng oonnle will make their
home in Athena.
NIKE III TAXES
Assessor Strain Shows Tax Has More
, Than' Doubled In Period of '
" :i v ,'.Sotrn Yearn. ..... ..
To the Editor:
If you will kindly grant me space
in your valuable paper, I will state a
few points relative to the .tax laws
which I think will be of benefit to
your readers: ... ',
1. It is very important that a per
tra' tax reoeipt shall oover each and
every piece of bis property, for it is
now held by the Distiiot Attorney, as
I understand it, that the County
Court has no authority to abate such
penalty aud interest as might aoorue
against delinquent property. A fur
ther reason is that a tax title in the
future will be a much better title
than it has been in the past, whiob
renders the danger of losing property
through neglect or oversight in taxes
greater than it has been heretofore. '
2. Assessors and Boards of Equali
zation are now compelled under the
law to assess property as nearly as pos
sible at its full market value. Severe
penalties are provided for the punish
ment of such assessors as fail to com
ply with the law in this respeot. The
oath wbioh we have to fake and whioh
I took three tirpes last year, follows,
to-wit:
''1, , being the duly elec
ted, qualified and aoting assessor of
Umatilla County, do solemnly swear
that I have diligently and to the best
of my ability assessed all of the prop
erty in said county, which bylaw I
am permitted to assess ' at the fall
cash value thereof, that I , have not
willfully or knowingly omitted to as
sess any person or property, or assess
ed over or under the full cash value
thereof, any property or olass of prop
erty whatever." ,
It will be seen from the above oath,
taken in connection with the fact
that its violation works the forfeiture
of the assessor's .position ' that the
assessor oannot safely violate the full
value requirements of the law. Be
sides this violation of the law is likely
to result in an injury to the county,
for f.he reason that we now have a
state Board of Equalization with pow
er to raise or lower a county assess
ment for the purpose of state taxation.
This board is oheoking up closely on
oounty assessors and if we violate the
law they are sure to find it out. If
we lose their confidence in this way
tbey are likely to make sure that we
do not defraud the state. Tbey will
resolve doubts as to actual values
against the oonnty utterhpting to de
fraud them. .
However, it is not unlikely that in
attempting to comply with the law
relative to full value I have unwit
tingly assessed some property above
its teal value. It is my earnest desire
to correot all euoh errors this year. It
is important that corrections of tbis
kind be made for the reason that 1
have a classification of the property iu
a record in the assessor's offioe tbat Is
intended to be a permanent one. An
error will therefore be repeated from
year to year unless oorreoted.
8. Tax-payers have been asking
from year to year why taxes are high
er. The answer to this question
should be made by sohool districts,
cities, and the State Legislature. But
since the question is so often asked
me aud my deputies, I will state tbat
the increase has come to us from eaob
and every one of the ivarious govern
ments wbioh has authority to levy a
tax. The greater increase has come
from local governments, that is.
sohool distriots and cities. I have
been acquainted with tax matters
sinoe 1902 and 1 submit below a com
parative statement for the years 1902
and 1909: .
1902 1909
1158,604 $284,473
10,265 65,701
?,6,684 91,014
County and State
City
Speoial School -
several years ego, Bectly had in
soribed
"I am here; how do you do,
"I am dead and so are you."
Mr. Bently was a pioneer of tbo
Walla Walla country and was at one
time sexton of the graveyard where
he ereoted his tombstone in advanoe. ,
1833.
Well to Be Shot.
The oasing has been pulled out of
the artesian well and a big blast will
be shot off at the 890 foot level where ,
the vein of water was encountered, in
the hope that the explosion will serve
to open up a greater flow. The oharge
of explosives will be lowered to the
desired - location, when it will be dia-'
charged by means of an eleotrio cur
rent. . ; ' ' ' ' '
RAILROAD MAN PASSES AWAY
Hunt. Pioneer Railroad . Builder Died
: .',' In Portland.' " '
George W. Hunt, one of Oregon's ,
pioneers died at bis home in Portland '
Saturday aged 68 years, Mr. Hunt,
came west in 1859 and spent his life
in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. '
He established a freight line, using
horses, in eastern Oregon and later'
opened up a line between The Dalles, ,
Ore., and Boise, Idaho. He built the
Corvflllis and Eastern railway and the
Hunt system wbioh . opened a great
wheat country in eastern Oregon 'and .
Washington. These lines extended
from Wallula to Pendleton and Athena
from Walulla to Walla Walla, Day
ton and Waitsburg, and now form''
part of the North en Paoifio system.
The Corvallis and eastern runs from'
Corvallis, in the Willamette valley to
Newport on Yaquina Bay, Oregon. ' '
1 Mr. Hunt originated the idea of a
moran lanoi vnan . nnnrn t n a minmniB
river, whioh would obviate the moun
tain olimb over the Casoades and
wbioh was finally aooomplisbed by
the construction of the North Bank
toad. Mr. Hunt lost a fortune in
building a road from Centralia to
Grays Harbor, but later reoouped a
large portiou of it iu Western Uma
tilla oounty lands. A short time ago
he possessed 33,000 acres in that sec
tion. He was rated as a millionaire
at bis death. . .
IDAHO TOWNS UNDER DEBRIS
Slide, Solid as Granite Covers Up Two
' ' Idaho Towns.
Total - - 1196,553 1441,188
Under the item "County and State
tax" is inoluded the connty sohool
tax, the road tax, the maintenance or
the poor and of public property and
the payment of salaries. In 1902 the
kate tax was 145,080 and the oounty
school tix was 28,000, .making $73,
080 for these two items. Subtracting
tbis from $185,604 we have $85,542
which was the cost of the roads salar
ies, and other ordinary expenses. In
1909 the state tax was $74,000 and the
oonnty school tax was $63,000, mak
ing $137,000, for these two items.
Subtracting tbis from the $384,743
we have $147,473, whiob represents
the cost iu 1909 of roads, salaries and
other ordinary expenses.
From $141,473 whiob represent the
combined tax for 1902, ' and we have
$245,635, whiob is the increase in
1909 over 1902 in the taxes on Uma
tilla county property.
C. P. Strain
County Assessor.
"I'm Dead and so are You."
Pardon Dock Bently died iMonday
morning at St. Mary's hospital Walla,
Walla and.will sow occupy the tomb
which has long attracted attention of
all visitors to the cemetery, in tbat
city. On this monument, set up
Under a mass of ice, rook and deb
ris, paoked with almost the solidity
of granite, the little mining towns of
Mace and Burke, Idaho, lie buried,
tombs for both the living and the
dead.
Crushed and piled in inextricable
wreokage are the bodies of many of "
the inhabitants of the little villages,
is the belief of the resouers who are
laboring without rest that they may
perhaps be not too late. Coming '
without the slightest warning except f
for the thunderous roar momentarily '
preceding the immolation of the
sleeping residents of Mace the huge
avalanohe swept down the precipitous
sides of Ouster mountain Sunday
night, and filled the narrow canyon to
a depth of 75 feet. The slide is ap-'
proximately 8,000 feet long, and save
for a few places is packed as solid as
ice .
The first 'slide oame down a draw
between two of the tallest hills sur
rounding Mace, a distance of two and
a half miles. The momentum thus
gained explains the destruction of 11
bousos aoross the creek.
The depressions in the valley were 1
filled with heavier snow, loeand rooks
while the main body of the avalanohe 1
swept on over the level thus made, '
was hurled witb terriflo force against
the bouses wbioh offered no more re-1
sistanoe than paper. To add to the
hoiror of the situation ia Maoe. poles
bearing telephone, eleotrio light and
power lines were borne down, and the
town was thus in darkness, without
ability to oommunioate witb neigh
boring places for more than an hour.
Some of the miners at the soene of
the first slide are confident tbat the
remains of two, possibly three, Italian,
laborers are, beneath the overturned
boarding oars at the bottom of Coeor ,
d'Alene river, from which plaoetbe.
remains of Foreman John Thompson
were taken. . '
The oorreoted list of the dead show
tbat 13 persons lost their lives at Maoe
and four at Burke.
Thirty persons, including many obU-'
dren, have been dug out of the mass
of debris alive. It is believed several
among the women thus rescued will
not survive the shock of their nerve-'
raoking ordeal.
Missionary Society. -
The ladies of the Baptist Missionary
sooiety were entertained yesttrday af
ternoon at the home of Mrs. T. J.
Kirk. About twenty ladies were pres
ent, and after eleotion of officers and
other business, substantial refresh
ments were served in the dining room..
A separate table was spread for the
little folks, and was presided over by
Miss Vivian Ehrbart.