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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (April 22, 1910)
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Six and Eight Pages Every Friday. F. B. Boyd, Publisueh. Application for entrance an 2nd class matter made on July;5, 11)07 at the postofflce at Athena, Oregon Under an Actot Uongress of March 3, 1879 Subserl tlon ftatet : pir year. In advanot 12.00 Single copies in wrappers, Sc, cATHENA. ORE.. APR. 22 1910 For the last throe years Oregon has been chief among the states in attract ing Western immigration, and while it Is too eaily for comprehensive fig ores on this year's colonist travel it is already certain that the total will be the biggest yet. Trains have been running in from two to fonr sections to accommodate the travel, and owing to the aotive work of the Oregon De velopment League in furnishing ad vance information through the com mercial bodies in dozens of O regon communities, these newcomers have their minds definitely made up as to location, and buy their ticket to that point. Oregon never got an advertise ment so wide-reaohing or so striking as a full page advertisement, with Portland as the central features, whioh appeared last Sunday in the New York World, Indianapolis Star, Ghioago Keoord-Herald, Chicago Trib une, Minneapolis Tribune, St. Louis Globe-Demootat, Kansas City Star and Omaha Bee. Aptil 26th. One of he most beautiful rooms in this attractive building is finished throughout with Oregon fir, the mill work made right in Oregon from speoial design and furnished by the Oregon and Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association. Canada is not all peaches and cream. Its western provinces are cinohed by the railroad combine al most as bad as is Eastern Oregon. It conserves its timber and ooal, how ever, without selling the land or al lowing it to be "guggenheimed." Timber is out and ooal mined by men who do not own the land and never will, and the timber is growing again for future generations. In Wallowa County the deposits of marble are enormous. Recently at tention has been again called to the fact that the best lime In all the west is made from it. With reasonable consideration from the transportation combine of Oregon this valuable asset will be developed, and lands now very nearly worthless exoept for the tim ber or pasturage will be of immense value. The Anti-Saloon League of Iowa is' making oat its reports for the past three months ending Maroh 31. It has prosecuted and had fined forty drug gists and has olosed 88 saloons during t bis time. This leaves 1,366 saloons whioh are operating in the state. One hptel has been enjoined and put under ail abatement bond of 165,000, whioh is the largest bond of this kind that has ever ' been required in Iowa. Fourteen hundred ' square miles in Iowa has been added to the dry terri tory. During the past fourteen months the Anti-Saloon League has ou an average olosed fourteen . saloons a month. The lovel beaded man employed in mercantile or manufacturing pursuits and so situated that ho is dependent on another for the job he holds will do well to get hold of a few acres of land in .. the course of the next few years so as to have somothing to fall back on when advanced age compels him to give up his position to a young erjman. Suoh an investment is pre ferable to wildoat miniug and other investment sohemes, beoause the land is there, won't burn up or blow away or disappear in some swindler's satchel. . . . , ; The development. of both the Col umbia and Willamette rivers bus been the topio of important meetings dur iug the past week one at Puhoo, the other at Albany and both hud splen did attendance. A number of prominent citizens of Oregon have received invitations, through Hon. John Barrett, Director of the Bureau of Ametican Republics, to be prosout at the dedication of the new building at the nation's capital The proposition of the czar to re strict the building of navies does not spring wholly from humanitarian in stincts. Europe is realizing that un leas that mad race for dreadnoughts stops somebody is going to wilt by the wayside. The weather bureau, which has to make knowi the significance of great atmospherio disturbances, should he notified of the date on which the presi dents of the Central American repub lics will get together to talk over their troubles. The philosopher of the Topeka Capi tal says: "If the wind blows your hat off do not chase it; let the spec tators chase it for you." The trouble with the human raoe is that too many of tbem chase the other fellow's hat for bim. An association of honest farmers in northern New York is contemplating renaming one of. its bills Mount Hood, and thereby seouring a legitimate lab el for its apple orchards for miles around. This beats moving to Oregon. A professor of the University of Chicago has discovered that baseball is a prehistorio game. It is simply dreadful for modern enlightened hu manity to think what happened to the umpires in those savage times. About the only word fit to charact erize the state of mind in Great Brit ain upon the sntjeot of naval supre macy is "panic" There is panic or something closely resembling it,, in both government and opposition. Count Zeppelin is leading the way to the organization of aerial navies. His airship carried 26 men 150 miles, and the next ono built may curry 53 inou H00 miles and so on in geometri cal progression. Being a driver in an automobile raoo may be a trifle less exoitiug than going over Niagara in a barrel, but it is a lot dustier. All of the local news is in the Press Colorast Kates to Oil :gon And the Great Northwest. The management of the Oiegon Kaihotid & Navigation Co. and Southern Puoiflo Co. (Oregon Liuos) takes great pleasure in announcing thut the low rates from Eaateru oitios, which have done uojinuuh in past Huasons to stimulate travel to and settlement in Oregou, will prevoil aguiu this Spiiug DAILY from Maroh 1 to April 15," iuolusive. People of Oregon The luilioads have done their pHrt: now it's up to"you. 'The oolouist rate is the greatest of all homebuilders. Do all you onu to let Eastern people know about it, and encourage them to come here, .where laud is cheap uud bomebuildiug easy ami attractive. Fares can be prepaid at home if desired. Any agent of the roads named is authorized to receive the required deposit and telegraph ticket to nuy point in the East. liemeuiber the rates From'Chioago, $:(!; from St. Lcnis. f;i3; from Ouiaba and Knnsas City, f 25. This reduction is proportionate from ail other cities. WM. M'MURRAY General Passenger Agent. FOUGHT OFF DEATH. The Respite Dr. Shrady Bravely Wen For General Grant. "You can see . the conditions Gen eral Grant is dying- uov" came Dr. Douglas' voice in broken tones. The Rev. Dr. Newman had knelt by the bedside and. holding one of the man's nerveless hands, began to pray. "You see the preacher is busy, und the doctors ought to , be busy, too." Dr Shrady whispered grimly to his senior colleague. "It would be a torment wituoul avail," sighed the senior. So there stood the medical code warding off succor from the dying man. The general must expire, per chance, because the initiative belong ed to a man without any at the mo ment. Douglas must consent. Shrady must not he shackled. He turned again to the patient, leaned above him a moment and touched his pulse. He twisted the gray goatee in nervous twitches. Suddenly he turned ngala. ultimate resolve in his face, and tip toed again to where his colleague was. "I say. Douglas, something must be done. If this man dies here now, what can we say to the medical world? Ev ery doctor on earth will want to know what and when were the last shots we fired. Shall we tell them that for ten minutes at the last, half an hour so far as I know, we stood idly and star ed at a dying man?" The old doctor stirred wearily and turned a hopeless and therefore help less face to the younger one also; there was in its lines a touch of won der. "Douglas, it would damn us both eternally, and it ought to. Perhaps you can afford it, but I can't, either as a physician or a human being. Some thing's got to be done, Douglas. It won't do, I tell you." "Do: But what would you do now?" glancing pityingly at the family group and the slowly gasping man on the bed. "Something, anything a hypoder mic of brandy first!" "Oh, if- you wish to try it yes." It had been enough. The code was satisfied. Shrady was filling the lit tle silver syringe with the ardent liquor from French hillsides. Some thing was being done. Members of the family turned to watch. The man ner of Its doing somehow inspired them, and the older doctor, looking ou, drew near. The left arm of the dying man was bared, the slender hollow needle found its way, and the potent brandy mingled with the blood. The Rev. Dr. Newman had risen from bis praying. Shrady was half kneeling in his place. Both by differ ent means sought the same end. Keenly the younger doctor leaned to the patient. All his other senses had lent their powers to those of sight and hearing. The tiny instrument gleam ed between thumb and finger of his still extended hand. There was a slight catch in the general's throat, followed by a half sigh. Swiftly a new look came into the face of each physician; swiftly the younger refilled the little syringe and hurried to the other side of the couch. Then through the right arm sprang the potent fluid, and again they wait ed the result very soon a long, flut tering sigh; then a longer, stronger inspiration; then measured breathing and finally consciousness. When General Grant lay dying that April morning the work on his mem oirs, which netted his family one-half million dollars, was little more than half finished. He lived seventeen weeks afterward, finished his task and was ready to go. Frank W. Mack in Saturday Evening Tost. Took the Hint. A story is told of a certain English bishop well known for his verbosity who rose to address the house of lords on n very important occasion. "I will divide my speech under twelve bends," he said, to the discomfort of his audi ence. The Marquis of Salisbury begged to be allowed to Interpose with a little anecdote. "A friend of mine was re turning home late one night," he said, "when opposite St. Paul's he saw an intoxicated man trying to ascertain the time on the big clock there. Just then it began to strike and slowly tolled out 12. The man listened, looked hard at the clock and said: 'Confound you! Why couldn't you have said that all at once?' " The bishop heartily joined in the laughter which followed and took the hint contained in the story. Not the Sealskin. A speaker apropos of wifely sym pathy said nt a recent dinner in New York: "How hard it is when the wife Is unsympathetic! Toor Jones trudged home through zero weather one win ter night and, blowing on his frozen hands, said solemnly: " 'Well, I've got the sack. " 'Oh, you dear!' his wife cried. 'The sealskin or the other one?' . '"The other one,' .said Jones, laugh ing bitterly." Washington Star. He Liked It All. Johnnie, aged five, liked to go to his jrraudnm's to diuner. One day oue of his auuties said to him. "Johnnie. I think the only reason why you like to eat here is because of the dessert you are sure to get." 'Oh, no," said Johnnie. "I like the diuner too." Dellueator. Hooked. Mrs. Newlywcd The night you pro posed you acted like iv fish out of wa ter. Mr, Newlywed-I was. and very cleverly landed too. Hick. Uad men exeov their faults; good men leave t';o::(.- -Jouson. he Athena annul Company Post Building, Main Street, Athena, Orcg. Farm Lands and City Property Listed for Sale at Right Prices 480 acres of finest wheat land in Umatilla county and highly improved, can be had now for $85 per acre $15 be low adjacent lands. A splen did opportunity. Should you want choice city property, see us. We have it. Property bought, sold and ex changed in all parts of Oregon and Washington. - Box 274, 'Phone, 355. We have a first-class Sta tionery Steam Threshing out fit for sale cheap. Full equip ment and ready for the field. Four sections of wheat land in Township One, Morrow county, can be had for $25 per acre. Well watered and all fenced 2000 acres tillable and level enough for a com bine. Owner will either sell or exchange for Portland suburban property. . pi &m. 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