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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1910)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Publishes. Application for entrance an 2nd class matter made on Julyji, 1H07 at the pomofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actot Congress of March 3. 1879 Subaorl tlon Ratal, t per year, in advance 12.00 Single copies in wrappers, 5c, tATHENA. ORE.. MAR. 18 1910 The Astoria Budget has the follow ing very good suggestions with refer ence to town patriotism : Next to a man's family, bis personal friends and bis business, nothing should aroose bis energies in its behalf more thor oughly than the town in which he lives. It is his home. It is the place in wbioh he earns bis competence a ad educates bis family. If be wants to make it as populous, as thrifty and as widely known as possible, be can not afford to be indifferent to anything which will furnish these ends. It nan be said a town that is not worthy of the devotion of its citizens in making it widely and generally prosperous is a town in wbiob it is not worth wbilo to live at all. If a town is worth anything, it is worthy of our greatest energy, whether we reoeive an imme diate dividend in dollars and cents or whether we merely take our share of the common benefits acoording to the town and community we call homo. Every one can be a boomer. Keep your money at home. Patronize those who patronize you. Spend your mon ey among borne institutions where you stand a obanoe to get it back. Every dollar you spend with a home man finds its way bauk to your pooket. A dollar spent in some other town goes to belp build up that town. , A dollar spent here goes tojhelp build up your home town. Figure it down flue and you lose'money bybuying away from borne, even if yon do get the artioles for, less than what it oosts you at borne. The belief is general that the con cessional committee which is inves tigating Secretary of the Interior Bel linger will bring in a report exonerat ing him, but it is expeoted that short ly after the committee mokes its report Secretary Ballinger will tender his resignation as a member of the Cab inet, and return to Seattle. In the East, where conservation is very strong, there is a very strong senti ment among the press against Ballin -ger, one weokly publication going so far as to make an attack on Mr. Bel linger's private business life, when be was still a resident of the East, prior to moving to Washington. Politics is reoognized as a pretty oold blooded game; Mr. Iaft wants to succeed him self as president. The Ballinger in cident has developed into the one big scandal of the administration. While it is probably not worthy of the repu tation it hus beon given, the fact can't be changed and acoording to ad vices received from Washington, it is up to Secretary Ballinger to resigu in order to save tbo administration. Every administration has had its "goat" and the political supporters of Mr. Taft say that the unfriendly pi ess and other enemies of the administra tion have selected Mr. Ballinger for the role. Large sums of Eastern oapital have been invested in this state during the past week in the purohase of the Northwest Corporation, wbiob con trols numerous gas, water and eleotrio light and power plans in Oregon and Washington. H. M. Byllesby & Co. of Chicago, a large promotion con cern, are understood to have taken over the properties. The firm will estab lish an offloe in Portland by the first of next month and direct operations from there. The properties bought ex tend from Walla Walla to Southern Oregon. Ambitious projects yet to be completed are included in the com pany's holdings. Various eleotrio lines in the two states are planned, and the development of big water powers has been outlined. This transaction whioh carries with it a very large sum of Eastern capital, shows the confidence outside investors have in the future development of this section of the United States. Portland's big new packing plant, just oompleted by the Swift's inter ests, began killing livestock last week. From now on it will enlarge its op erations until all tbe departments and allied industries are under way. It is expeoted to be two or three months before tbe big $2,000,000 plant is in full operation. The completion of this great paoking bouse is a big boost for the produoers of livestook not only in this state but throughout the North west. Tbe killing department is pre pared to handle about 600 cattle a day as a starter and has a capacity of 1000 hogs and sheep. Tbe interest shown in livestook production through out tbe big territory tributary to that market will largely determine the magnitude of operations by the new plant. An International Club has been formed at tbe Oregon Agricultural College. Only students who are for eign born are eligible to membership. At the first meeting fifteen students were present, representing Japan, Rus sia, England, Norway, India, China, Denmark and Germany. There are several more foreign students in tbe college, who have since signified their intention of joining the olub. The purpose of tbe organization is to pro vide social privileges and offer greater opportunities for educational work to the students who have journeyed to this country and this college in order to gain an education. The prevalence of high prioea for food artioles in worldwide. Tbe res taurant keepers is Berlin, Germany, are meeting the exigency in efleotive fashion by outting down the portions served to customers instead of raising tbe rates. But these and other facts go to show that complaints of increas ed oost of living are not confined to the United States. To solve tbe prob lem the faots in every oivilized coun try will have to be taken into consideration. Total deposits in Oregon banks, both national and state, at tbe close of bus iness January SI, totaled $91,314,138, an iuoreaee of $1,205,883 sinoe last November. Loans and discounts in the same period increased $1,414,219. Colonist Elates to OR mm And the Great Northwest. The mnungomunt of the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Co. and Southern Pacific Co. (Oregou Linus) takes great pleasure in annouuoiug that the low rates from Eastern cities, whioh have done sojmuoh in past seasouato stimulate travel to and settlement in Oregon, will prevail aguin this Spring DAILY from Maroh 1 to April 15, inolusive. People of Oregon The railroads have doue their part; now it's up to you. BTheoolonist rate is the greatest of all bomebuildurs. Do all you oau .to let Eastern people know about it, aud encourage them to come here, where land is oheap and homebuildiog easy aud attractive. Fares can be prepaid at home if desired. Any agent of the roads named is authorized to leocive the required deposit and telegraph tioket to any point iu the East. Remember the rates FronChioago, $38; from St. Lcuis. $32; from Omaha and Kansas City, $35. This reduotion is proportionate from ail other cities. WM. M'MURRAY General Passenger Agent. On tbe last day in January there was due Oregon banks from approved re serve agents outside of the state, a total of $10,239,853 These figures are given in a statement just issued by State Bank Examiner Steel. One of the most remarkable, ae well as the quickest retributions on record, is that of tbe man in New York who, in trying to tunnel his way from bis own plaoe to a jewelry store opposite, whioh he wiebed to loot, was buried alive in the grave of his own digging. Life would mean very mnoh if such energy, originality, determination and readiness to take risks, were displayed in a better cause. I Tie kikzM Land4 h-,..-,..- Ml I.' Following a conference between officials of Oregon and Washington held during tbe past week in Portland an agreement was reaohed as to the disputed state boundary at tbe mouth of the Columbia river. An arbitrary line was agreed upon wbiob will be used in enforoing tbe fishing laws and in levying taxes'until the vexed ques tion is settled finally. A few hundred aores of timber land in Tillamook county reoently sold for one-tenth of the entire assessed value of tbe county. Timber land should be assessed as high as orchard land of the same value. Why not? Tbe weather bureau gives us exaot figures on mean temperature; but its vooabulary is unable to convey the whole truth as to mean weather iu its entirety. WONDERFUL RETRIBUTION. An Incident of the Workings of Can ada'a Government Protection. In September, 3904, two white men entered the Lesser Slave lake country, in the Canadian northwest, ostensibly prospecting for gold. Subsequently the Indiana reported that one of the men seemed to be traveling alone, an ob servant Cree boy adding, "The white man's dog won't follow that fellow any more." The answers given by Charles King of Mount Pleasant, Utah, regarding his lost companion, Hay ward, were not satisfactory. King was arrested, and there began one of the most splendid bits of detective work of which Canada bas record. Sergeant Anderson turned over the ashes of a campflre and found three hard lumps of flesh and a small piece of skull bone. In front stretched a little slough, or lake, which seemed a likely place in which to look for evi dence. Setting Indian women to fish up with their toes any hard substance they might feel in the ooze. Anderson secured a stickpin of unusual make and a sovereign case. He systematical ly drained the lake and found a shoe with a broken eyed needle sticking in it. The campflre ashes examined with the microscope yielded the missing part of a needle's broken eye and es tablished unmistakable connection be tween lake and camp. The maker of the stickpin in London, England, was communicated with by cable, and the Canadian government summoned a Mr. Hayward to come from England to identify the trinkets of his murdered brother. Link by link the chain grew. It took eleven months for Sergeant Anderson to get his com plete case in shape. The mounted po lice brought from Lesser Slave lake to Edmonton forty Indian and half breed witnesses. Tbe evidence was plnced before the jury, and the Indians returned to their homes. A legal tech nicality cropping up, tbe trial bad to be repented in its entirety, and once more those forty men. women and children left their traps and fishing nets and came into Edmonton to tell their story. The result was that Charles King was found guilty of the murder of Ed ward Hayward and paid the death penalty. The trial cost the govern ment of Canada over $30,000 all to avenge the death of one of the wan dering units to be found in every cor ner of the silent places, an unknown prospector. Agnes Dean Cameron in Century. Something From Nothing. "It is impossible to take something' from nothing," quoted the wise guy. "Well, you como pretty close to it when you take the conceit out of some people," added the simple mug. Phil adelphia Record. Examiner What is an alibi? Can didate For the Bar An alibi is com mitting a crime in one place when you are in another place. 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