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This Edition con tains Six . Pages I Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks VOLUME XXII. ATTIENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JULY 15, 1910. NUMBER 28 "Be eure you are right" is another way of flaying "Be eure you tave a Stetson Every Stetson bear the SteUon Name ELUS COULD TELL Responsibility at No Time Rested Upon Oregon's or Any Other State's Senators. and tncn go ahead." We Lave tne Stetson Soft and Derby Hattf in all tne latest styles. Remember You get 4 per cent Discount for Cash. Return $25.00 in cash register checks and get $1 cash or trade free. T.M.TAGGART General Merchandise Athena, Oregon steps lie j) ye Front I Cash Grocery Don't Mod ey with Inferior Gooda Hill Bros. RFEADE STEEL GUT COFFEE Blue Label Can, 35c Red Label Can, 45c Ask your neighbor n be has ever tried that High Grade Steel Cut Coffee, which Worthington carries, and it he has not, 'PHONE 113 Men's Working Clothes and Shoes, No Shelf-worn Goods. Quick sales and small profits is the motto of the Old Reliable BLUE FRONT STORE, "SS?? THE TUM-A-LUM 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 Complete refutation of the charge that Oregon's senators are responsible for the repeal of section 9 of the fed eral reclamation aot, is made in a statement over the signature of Sen ator George E. Chamberlain to the Portland Journal. Section 9 of the reclamation aot provided for the ex penditure of money in constructing itiigation works within the several states benefitted by that aot, in ratio to the proceeds arising from the sales of pnblio lands within suoh states, re spectively. Speoifloally, the major portion of eaoh state's sales should be returned to such state. The aot providing for a bond issue of $20,000,000 for tho completion of existing Irrigation projects, passed at the recent session of congress, con tained a clanse repealing seotion 9 of the original aot. In this new aot it was also provided that the apportion ing of reclamation funds ehonld be plaoed in the bands of the president, whose advisors with respeot to these funds should be a board of army en gineers. Hence, it might ooour that Oregon, after pouring into the reclam ation fund more money than any other state, might get least of any in return, or nothing at all, in the "discretion" of the officials charged with the ap portionment of funds. The charge was made weeks ago by the Oregonian's Washington corres pondent, and be bas reiterated it, that Oregon's senators were responsible for the repeal of seotion 9, and the Ore gonian has upon these obarges based repeated editorial taunts. Senator Chamberlain's statement in full follows: Washington, D. 0.. July 9. The Oregonian correspondent never calls on the Oregon senators for any pur pose, and he prints alleged news affec ting the interest of the state, frequent ly false, with the opportunity to get the truth by calling on either of us. so, with reference to charging us with responsibility for the repeal of seotion 9 of the reclamation act, the charge is false. The senate bill pro viding for $30,000,000 of certificates passed the senate, bnt did not pass the house.- It looked as though it would fail in the house, and Senator Carter proposed it as an amendment to House Bill No. 24070. The amend ment was adopted by the senate and was rejeoted ty the house. Neither the senate bill nor the amendment i providing for $30,000,000 for the com pletion of reclamation projects Lad I any suggestion of repealing seo'.ion 9 I of the reclamation aot. Mondell's bill No. 18398, was in trodnced in the house January 17. It was reported to the house June 17 by the ways and means oommittee, and, as reported, contained the proposed amendment for the repeal of seotion 9 of the reclamation aot. The amend ment is the last section of the bill as reported, as it originated in and passed the honse. On Jnne 22 the bill was reported to the senate by Lodge, a member of the flnanoe oommittee. When the bill came np for considera tion it was not disonssed, but Lodge was asked what, if any, changes had been made as to the form of the bill as oompared with the one which had originally passed the senate and which had been disonssed at great length. He stated that the bill wbiob be bad reported was idenfioal with the bill wbiob bad passed the senate and whioh was subsequently tacked as an amendment to the withdrawal bill, exoept that it reduced the amount of bonds - to twenty millions, end also provided for approval of projects by a board of army engineers (See Con gressional Record, page 9084, for what ooonmetl.) I believe every" western senator, in the bnrry of the closing hours of the session, accepted Lodge's statement, whioh I am sure was made w V -O -W .X .x & E& !! iPt pbo&ery WHERE PRICES ARE RICHT P0Ta.h sa m mm mmm mi mmi mm mt wmmm mmmmmm mmm The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in VEGETA Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, wrsrScm Athena, Oregon with no intent to mislead. I doubt if Buy of the senators knew that the bill cootained the repealing clause. I am advised that the house leaders would not appropriate twenty millions for reclamation work witbont the re peal, though I did not hear of this until after adjournment. It was ex ceedingly difficult to seoure the appro priation even as it was. I call yonr attention to the f aot that Representative Ellis was a member of the,oommittee on ways and meaDB of the bouse, and tbe'amendinent for the repeal of seotion 9 of the reclamation aot was reported to the bouse by bis committee. He ought to know all about the reasons of the amendment and would doubtless have given the Crcgonian the truth. Oregon bas not reoeived its full share of the amount of the reolamation fund, but 1 have no doubt that the state will be fairly treated. I, for one, will not insist npon spending any portion of the fund exoept for the completion, in good faith, of projects under way. No new projeots so far as I know, have been contemplated in the state, and I have every reason to believe that the Klamath and Hermiston projeots will be completed if the people themselves do not interpose obstacles thereto. George E. Chamberlain. THE UMATILLA COUNTY DROPS Cohen's Estimate Is Between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000. Bushels. The following story of the crops of Umatilla county appeared in the col umns of the Portland Journal Satur day, and was written oy Hyman II. Cohen, market editor of that paper, who is on a tour of tbe grain regions in Eastern Oregon: Umatilla oounty will produce this season between 3,500,000 and4,000,000 bushels of wheat. Not only will this be done, but the quality will be tbe best ever sent forth. This alone is a factor of considerable importance. Last year tbe total wheat output of Umatilla oounty was about 3,500,000 bushels, although some interests were inohned to figure that the production was considerably above this. This year's greater outpnt will be caused by the greater yields in the western portion of tbe oounty where a year ago only a nominal crop was gathered by most growers and some failed to harvest at all beoause of tbe very poor showing. It is safe to estimate that these light land seotions of Umatilla will cause this oounty to harvest a greater orop than a year ago reaching a total inorease of fractionally more than a million bushels. Some of tbe best seotions of Uma tilla county seotions that were al ways considered tbe oream of tbe wheat belt of tbe PaoifJo northwest will not produce as great an amount of wheat per aore as a ye ago, but this defloienoy will be more than made up by the harvesting of a very liberal orop in tbe, poor seotions of former years. For instance, there is every likeli hood of a good orop in the Pilot Rook country this harvest, while a year ago many of tbe fields remained uu cut. Fields of growing grain in tbe Pilot Book country that would not yield more than a few bushels an acre last season promise an average of about 15 an acre this season. While in some quarters there has been a ory for rains, it is not likely to aid the wheat output in the least. Fall whoat would be hurt by a down pour, while tbe spring crop is ad vanced far enough so that showers coming at this late date would do prcotioally no good, although no harm is anticipated from that quarter. In Umatilla county there is a wide range of views among grain inteiests as to the extent of the yields of wheat this season. Some of the best men in tbe conntry figure as high as 5,000,- 000 bnsbels for tbe crop beoause of tbe improved showing in the light land seotions, bnt tbe general estimate among grain bnyers and among tbe larger grain bnyers fails to run above 4,000,000 bushels, and if this yield is shown at tbe end of tbe harvest Uma tills connty will be doing wonders in tbe shape of wheat prodnotion. Death of Captain Ira D. Conrad. Tbe remains cf Captain Ira D Conrad, who died in Pendleton Saturday morning, were shipped to this city and buried Sunday at 2 p. m. in tbe Athena cemetery. - Tbe funeral was conducted at tbe M. E. obnrcb, and Rev. Evans of Petidleton preaobed tbe sermon. Tbe young man bad suffered long from abdominal aheess, He leaves a young wife and a father to mourn his loss. Captain Conrad was late of tbe Salvation Army in Spokane. He was aged 21 years, 10 months and 9 days at tbe time of his death. Walla Walla Won. Walla Walla's fast ball team put tbe ''skidoo" sign on tbe Pendleton Bine Mountain league team Sunday, by a soore of 5 to 2. The game was punotured by tbe usual assortment of grouches, bickerings, etc., that always mark contests pulled off in tbe county seat town, and wbicb have given Pen dleton tbe reputation of being tbe best town on tbe circuit to play ball in. Ill WORK Enter Mosgroye Mercantile Co. Store and Select Clothing and Suit Cas esAttempt at McEwen's. The yeggman has put in his annual appearance in Athena. Monday night, by prying open the iron shutters in tbe rear of tbe Mosgrove Mercantile Co. 's store and prying off tbe look, entrauoe was effected into the dry goods department of tbe store. Indications warrant the belief that two persons broke into tbe store. At least two suits of clothing were taken,, and tbey were packed into two of tbe best suit-oases in the stook. Tbe rob bers were particular and evidently took plenty of time in making their seleotions.tor a conple of 40-size coats were disoarded and thrown promiscu ously about, and in their place size 38 was taken. Adjourning to the grooery depart ment, a stook of tobaooo was laid in and a bottle of grape juioe was dis posed of, the empty bottle being fonnd on the desk in the offloo. There is no way of telling just what was taken from the store, save that enumerated above. The stook was not disarranged and tbe entrauoe was effeoted without defacing the doors. Officers have been notified in adjacent towns and in all probability the store breakers will be apprehended. Friday night an effort was made to break into the MoEwen hardware store. A portion of the corrugated iron siding in the workshop at the rear of tbe main building was cut away, and a hole large enough to per mit a man to crawl through was made. The hardware people have missed nothing from the shop, but iu all probability tbe parties who broke into tbe Mosgrove store were tbe same who tried tbe hardware store. The robbery at tbe Mosgrove store has brought about the realization of the need of a night watohman, and Atbena business men will probably unite in seeing that one is added to the police foroe. In addition to "shooing" housebreakers away, a night watoh man is needed at this season of the year on aooount of grave danger of fire breaking ont. Case's Goods Released. Atturney Stuiwer, of Pendleton, representing H. G. Case, came up from Pendleton Friday afternoon and s'eoured relinquishment of Case's household goods, wbiob were attaobed by Attorney Watts when be brought suit to oolleot $100 attorney fees. Justice of the Peace Riobards, who is also a member of tbe sobool board, was present wben tbe attorney took an inventory of tbe goods and observed that several volumes belonging to the pubiio sobool library were includ ed in Mr. Caso's book collection. He brought tbe following volumes belong ing to tbe school library to bis offloe: Swiss Family Robinson j" "Pieces for Every Occasion;" "Dandelion Cot tage;" "Plane and Solid Geometry;" "A First Book Upon the Birds of Ore gon and Washington, " and five other volumes, not belonging to tbe sobool. but to private individuals. Attorney Watts bas filed another suit against Case for $200 in Jnstioe Riobards' oonrt. Married in Washington, D. C, Friends in this city have leooived tbe announcement of tbe wedding of Miss Jeanoette Beverly and Mr. Dur ham D. Devlin, of Durham, N. C, wbiob oaourred in Washington, D. C, on Friday, July 1, 1910, Miss Bever ly was a popular teacher iu the pri mary department of tbe Atbeua sohool last year, and bas many friends here who will join tbe Press in ex tending congratulations. Tbe young lady was on ber way oast and was mot at the Capitol city by tbe bride groom. The couple will make tbeir borne in Durham, North Carolina. Streams Are Drying Up. Water in tbe streams of the Walla Walla valley is lower now than at any time in tbe history of tbe country, aooording to old-timers who have re sided there for scores of years. Certain it is tbat in recent years tbe stage of water bas nover been so low. And this, notwithstanding tbe fact tbat tbe preoipitation sinoe September 1, 1909, is more than an iooh in excess of normal. Snow fell in unusually large quantities, hut it melted in one large tbaw and now there is little to supply tbe mountain streams. Harvest Union Broken Harvest is going right along in the Walla Walla valley and the threaten ed combine of tbe Industrial Workers of tbe World, wbicb bad tbe police and farmers guessing for awhile last week has dissipated, and-nothing but its memory can be found. There are few red ribbons in evideuoe at Walla Walla and few men are talking In dostrial Workers of tbe World prin ciples even in tbe "jungles" outside tbe city limits. there is no conntry on earth so good as old Oregon. He considers himself fortunate in getting out of Alberta and is gleeful over the faot that he disposed of his land there. He says tbat crops there are almost a total failure. The drouth bas literally burned up vegetation, and in tbe vioinity of Claresholm there are but few fields of fall sown grain that will pay to harvest and spring grain is en tirely mined. Dave Cargill, formerly of Pendleton is back from Alberta and reports there will be no grain to bar' vest in his seotion. It is reported that tib rain has fallen sinoe July 5, 1909, in some parts of that country aud but very little snow fell last winter. Has Left Alberta, W. T. Barto bns left Alberta for all time to come. He i iu Atbena aud comes Lack with tbe Arm belief that Henry II. Kirk of Halsey, Dead J. A. and Charles Kirk were called to Willamette valley the fore part of the week by a message announcing tbe serious illness of their father, H. H. Kirk, of Halsey, whe was afflicted with pneumonia. Word was reoeived yesterday morning that Mr. Kirk bad passed away Wednesday night, and tbe wives of tbe two sons left last evening for Halsey. The de ceased was a man of uprightness and influence, and had a large oirole of friends throughout the state. He was a brother of the late T. J. Kirk, and ma-y Atbena people knew him. through his visits to this city in the past. His sons and tbeir wives had just returned froi a visit to his borne when the news of his illness was received, Fights Fire. Nearly Dies, William Sherwood, a farm hand woiking for G. M. Morrison, came very near giving bis life for a smoke Tuesday, wben he lit bis pipe and threw tho matoh down. The grass caught on fire, reaohed and bnrned up one hay staok. Sherwood took sacks and began to fight tbe fire to save tbe bouse and barn. Though he suoceeded in doing this, wben tbe fire was out be fell in a faint. Casper Woodward saw him and oallicg to George Adams, sent him after Dr. MoKenny, who worked with bim from nine in tbe morning until 6 in the evening before be showed any signs of life. He is still in a serious oondition. Ryan in Penitentiary. Michael Rvao. who was sentenced I to tbe penitentiary for a term of seven years, and to pay a tine or $ aooo ror tbe killing of Edward Dixon, was taken to Salem Monday nigbt by Sheriff Taylor. Sinoe tbe supremi court denied bis petition for u rehear ing and npbeld tbe deoisiou of tbe low or conrt, Ryan bad beon engaged iu winding up bis business a H airs and by appointment met Sheriff Taylor at tbe O. R. & N. depot in Pendleton Monday and took tbe night train for Salem. Ready for Harvest. Harvesting tbe barley orop will begin in this vioinity next week. Wheat is ripening fast and by the time tbe barley fields are out, will be ready for harvest. A number of new machines have beeu purchased by wheat raisers in this seotion this sea son, aud on tbe wbole there is ample machinery on band to make the har vest year a short one. No delay is an ticipated from bad weather, and from the number of idle men in tbe oity, apparently there will be plenty of help iu tbe harvest field. Better Price Last Year. Peaoh prioes, according to an east ern buyer in Walla Walla, will not be as high this year as bad been hoped by tbe orobardiats, for the east and middle west are turning ont some fine fruit, despite tbe reports of a total failure. Iu tbe south tbe orop is said to be excellent and tbe frnit now on tbe market is of good quality. Tbe dealers say tbat 45 to 0 cents will be a fair prioe this year, although it may be some higher. Ticket for Democrats. Democrats of Walla Walla county are determined to make the biggest fight tbey bave put np since tbe party was defeated in 1896. For tbe first time in years a full ticket will be named in tbat county and an effort will be made to laud every plaoe, ac cording to tbe loaders of the party. Hot Weather Here. Monday and Tuesday rather torrid temperature was experienced in aui ena. Some thermometers registered as high as 103 in tbe sbado, but these were in locations partioulatly favor able to boosting the meroury. More accurate thermometers registered 96. Mrs, Temple Dead. Mrs. John F. Temple, a woll known w oman of Peudliton, died at ber borne in tbat oity Tuesday morning. Sbe was the moth or of ten obildren, and with tbe exoeption of two sons, all were at ber bedside when tbe last summons came. Fire Destroys Barn. Fire destroyed tbe barn on tbe MoAuslen plaoe on Basket mountain Monday afternoon, loss $1000. The fire started from grass burning along tbe roadside, wbiob was caused by carelessness in throwing away a matoh nr cigarette.