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tATHENA. ORE.. MAY 13 1910
. It is a question whether the plan to
hold a mass meeting to discuss county
division, as proposed by Judge Lowell
and S, F. Wilson, would do any ma
terial good. The proposition is the
same as it has been for twenty years.
Milton wants the oounty divided and
outside that looality no one else does.
She comes seeking territory that is
unwilling to accede to her demands
and always has eon. She has sig
nally failed in the past to draw Ath
ena and Weston into hor imaginary
boundary lines for a new county and
she expects nothing but opposition
from them now.faence nothing could be
gained by her entering on public dis
cussion of selflsh desires. Outside of
the Milton-Freewater district, the
divisonists are counting on support
from the state at large in their unjust
contention that Athena and Weston
territory would be better served in the
confines of the proposed oounty. Thus
in the possibility of securing assistance
by invoking the aid of votes through
out the state, Milton divisionists are
keen to override the wishes of Athena
and Weston and will make a supreme
effort to Booure the sufficient number
of names required to get tier scheme
to a vote. She has selected her
boundary lines and will conduct her
fight for them. She has flung down
the gauntlet and it is up to Umatilla
oounty to provide methods of educat
ing the voters of the state, as to the
true status of the division question.
The divisionists are in the fight to
stay and Athena and Weston are rad
ically opposed to being dragged into
a division of territory whioh would
tuck an embryo county seat four miles
from the Washington state liue and
perpetrate an unjust burden of taxation.
That Oregon irrigation projects will
be pushed to completion is the mes
suge of encouragement givon by Ar
thur P. Davis, ongiueer of the United
Status Reclamation Service, who was
in Portland during the week. Ha is
on a tour of inspection of projected
irrigation works throughout the West.
Mr. Davis says he has every reason to
believe the $!!0,000,000 bond issue for
reclamation will be approved. This
will be distributed among 20 projeots
uud will mean $1,000,000 for each of
the Oregon ' projeots, including Uma
tilla, Malheur and Klamath Lake.
"The visit of Jatned J. Hill nud
party to Portland duriug the past
week has boon of great siguifioanoo.
Accompanied by railroad oflioials
Louis W. Hill has left Portland to
wake a tour of the state. He will
cross Central Orogou and see for
himself what the tounage possibili
ties of that groat region are. After
this tiip, it is expeoted that a definite
announcement will be made as to the
expeoted east and west lines across the
state. While in Portland Mr. Hill
talked freely and bis statements mean
much for Oregon. He confirmed bis
purchase of the Oregon Eleotno and
United Railways, interurban systems
running out of Portland, and says he
will extend them down tbe Willamette
valley. He also confirmed his pur
chase of the Paoifio & Eastern but
said it was yet too early to talk of a
conneecting road clear aoross tfce
state. The Deschutes road will of
course go ahead as fast as possible,
he said, and besides all this railroad
aotivity in this state Mr. Hill proposes
to do a great deal in securing public
ity for Oregon throughout the East
and Middle West.
The College Suffrage league has
donated ten thousand posters to the
equal suffrage campaign in Washing
ton, which will termiuate-ot the eleo
tion in November with a vote on the
suffrage amendment to the state con
stitution. Now tbe ladies militant
will proceed to plaster tbe state with
tbe posters, bearing quotations from
Lincoln, Roosevelt and Mark Twain
advooating "votes for women," Suf
frage ' headquarters, 495, Aroade
building, Seattle, are sending out
posters free of oharge to anyone who
will promiseo have them displayed.
Tbe suffrage campaign had a little
ginger injeoted into it last week by
the Seattle Star, whioh began a straw
ballot vote among its women readers
to find out if the women really want
to vote. The results obtained by the
newspaper so far are overwhelmingly
in favor of "votes for women."
The sale of the holdings of the
Northwestern Corporation properties
throughout Oregon, Washington and
Idaho to H. M. By lies by & Co., large
Eastern investors, announced recently,
was confirmed during the past week
wheu the final options were closed in
Philadelphia. This means the coming
of a great amount of new capital to
the Paoifio Northwest where it will
be used developing water powers and
gas and electric plants.
W. P. Temple Dead.
William P. Temple, son of J. F
Temple and one of the best known and
most successful farmers of Umatilla
county died at his home in Pe'idleton
about 0 o'olook Sunday night, after
a brief illness. Death was the result
of aoute ntritis. The deceased was
born in Mahaska oounty Iowa in 1862.
The deooased was a member of the
Masouio lodge and the order of the
Eastern Star and a prominent worker
in tbe Farmers Union. Two years
ago he united with tbe Presbytenau
ohurob and has been an active mem
ber of that organization continuously
sinoe that time. East Oregonian.
Took All His Money.
Often all a man earns goes to doc
tors or for medicine, to cure a stom
ach, liver or kidney trounle that Dr.
King's New Life Pills would quietly
cure at slight cost. Dust for dyspepsia,
indigestion, billiousuess, constipation,
jauudioe malaria and debility. 25o
at all druggists.
The Culgiau stallion, Commissaire,
No. !!2870, will he in Athena a,
Wright's feed stable for tbe season.
Terms, $10, $15 and $20.
It. E. Stewait.
For Sale A new 5-room house in
Milton; or will exchange for Athena
property. For particulars, see Emery
Achilles, Athena.
EXCURSION RATES TO EAST
DURING 1910 FROM ALL POINTS ON
OREGON RAILROAD & NAVIGATION COMPANY
TO RATES
Chioago ....... $75.50
Ccunoil Clutfa 00.00
Omaha 00.00
Kausas City 00.00
St. Joseph 60.00
St. Paul ....... 00.00
StjPaul via Couuoil Bluffs .... G3.00
Minneapolis direot 00.00
Minneapolis.via Couuoil Bluffs - . - 03.90
Dulutb, direot - - - - - - 00.1)0
Duluth, via Council Blults 07.50
St. Iuis 67.50
Ticket will te"ou sale May 2nd and 9th; Juno 2nd, 17th aud 21th;
July Gth and 22nd; August Urd; September 8th.
Ten days provided for the going trip. Sropovers within
limits in either direotiou. Final return limit three
mouths from date of sale, but not later thau October
li 1st. Oneway through California, $15.00 additional.
Inquire of any O R & N Agent for complete
information, or write
WM. 31. MURRAY
General Passenger Agent.
A COOL RECEPTION.
It Wat Not Surprising, Though, In
View of the Explanation.
Letters of introduction are not In
variably serviceable. For one reason,
they may be too frank". Harry Kur
fllsa in bis "Confessions of a Carica
turist" says that wheu a brother artist
was setting forth on bis travels in for
eign climes he was provided with a
letter of introduction to a certain Brit
ish consul. ,
The writer of the letter Inclosed It
In one to the artist saying that he
would find the consul n most arrant
snob, a bumptious, arrogant humbug,
n cad to the backbone. Still, he would
probably offer some courtesies to nny
one who had a good soelnl standing
and thus nunpeiiKiitP the trnveli-r for
having to come In contact with such
an Insufferable vulgarian.
On the return of the artist to Eng
land the writer of the letter asked
how he had fared with the consul.
"Well, my dear fellow," drawled the
artist, "he did not receive me very
warmly, and he did not ask me to din
ner, iu fact, be struck me as being
rather cool."
"Well, you do surprise nie," rejoined
his friend. "He's n cad. as I told you
In my letter, but he's very hospitable,
and 1 really can't understand this state
of things. You gave him my letter of
introduction?"
"Why. I thought so; but, do you
know, on my Journey home 1 discov
ered It In my pocketbook, so I must
have banded to biin instead your note
to me about him."
The explanation was quite adequate.
A MEMORY TEST.
The Act by Which One Controversy
Was Decided.
Three men were disputing iu Berlin
one day as to which of them had the
best memory, and finally they asked a
well known writer to decide the mat
ter. "Head me any page of Goethe's
prose works," said one of the three,
"and I will at once repeat it word for
word."
"I can do better than that," said the
second one. "Put me in a corner of
this room, find I will play three games
of chess simultaneously without ever
looking at the boards."
"That's nothing to what I can do,"
said the first speaker again. "Begin a
conversation with me now about the
most absurd things possible, and at
the end of an hour 1 will repeat the
entire conversation to you."
The third roan was silent, and the
referee said to him: "Why don't you
tell us what you can do? A few min
utes ago you were boasting a good
deal of your wonderful memory."
"I know it," was the reply, "but 1
did not then know that my two friends
took the matter so seriously. And as
they are so much In earnest I will not
try to Nnrpass them, for 1 cannot for
get that each of them did me a favor
yesterday."
"Yesterday?" asked the referee.
"Yes," was the reply.
"And you have not yet forgotten it?
In that case the laurels belong to you,
for you have Indeed a wonderful mem
ory." Seven.
Numerous are the queer beliefs con
cerning the number seven. From the
vry earliest ages the seven great plan
ets were Uuown and ruled this world
aud the dwellers in it, and their num
ber eutered into every conceivable
matter lmt concerned man. There are
seven days In the week, "seven holes
in the head, for the master stars are
seven," seven ages both for man and
the world in which he lives. There are
seven material heavens. There are
seven colors in the spectrum and sev
en notes in the diatonic octave, and
the "leading" note of the scale is the
seveuth. Be it noted that the seventh
son is not always gifted with benefi
cent powers. Iu Portugal he is be
lieved to he subject, to the powers of
darkuess and to be compelled every
Saturday evening to assume the like
ness of an ass. St. James' Gazette.
Natural Gas.
Natural gas is a member of tbe par
affin series formed by the decomposi
tion of animal matter, as In Ohio and
Indlaua gas, and from vegetable mat
tef, as in Pennsylvania gas, this decay
having occurred within the rocks and
probably at moderate temperatures.
When once formed it accumulates in
the pores of the rocks in which it orig
inated or In the overlying layers, but
Is usually kept from escaping to the
surface by the presence of some layers
of impervious rock. It is then obtained
by the piercing of these strata by
wells, or where the beds have been
Assured by folding or faulting It may
issue from natural channels. New
York Americau.
An Inspiration.
"What's the name of her successful
story';"
"Byllosiperhoof:"
"Gracious: What does it mean?"
"She doesn't know."
"Where did she get It?"
"Wh.v. she was on a train wonder
lng In a discouraged way where sbe
would cet a name for the story. Ana
Just then the brakeman opened the car
door aud called the next staion."
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Got His.
"I'll admit I was trying to get some
thing for nothing "
"Well?"
"I pit whnt 1. deserved."-Washing
ton Hern Id.
Never ferret t'nit the nearest ap
proach to perfei-i domestic happiness
on earth Is the cultivation of unselfish
ii ess.
I Tte: Mfaenaland
'Company'
Post Building, Main Street, Athena, Oreg.
Farm Lands and City Property
Listed for Sale at Right Prices
4S0 acres of finest wheat
land in Umatilla county and
highly improved, can be had
now for $S5 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
v
or exchange for . Portland
suburban property.
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