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This Edition con tains Six Pages SrA ttT7 Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks VOLUME XXII. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGONFRIDAY. AUGUST 26, 1910. NUMBER 34 I fmrnSk'" -Y ' r ' . Every "Be sure you are ngnt" is another way of SteUon saying "Be cure you tave a i "j '' i SteUon I I ' and tnen go ahead1." . E B We lave tne Stetson Soft and Derly Hata in all the 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 , lie ye rorit I Cash Grocery ofrn.OfT Don't Mod ey with Inferior Goods Hill Bros. HI GRADE STEEL CUT COFFEE Blue Label Can, 35c Red Label Canr 45c Ask your neighbor it be has ever tried that High Grade Steel Cut Coffee, which Wcrthington carries, and it he has not, 'PHONE UN 113 Eldest Son of J. W. Maloney Receives Fatal Injuries When Loaded ' Wagon Passes Oyer Him. : .. i 1 Word reached Athena Motiday evening that Wayne Maloney, tbe sixteen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs J. W. Maloney, bad been fatally in jured by falling from a load of bay, the heavily loaded wagon passing over him. -". ..." ''-' Later, after tbe boy's death whiqh ooourred an hour after they accident, particulars weie learned. Tbe toy, with two hired men, had been haul ing bay and tbe last load for the day was being taken to tbe ataou. Waybe was dtiving the four, borse team. The. front wheels dropped into a ditob and tbe boy pitched forward, arid fell off tbe front end of tbe load to tbe ground just behind tbe heels of the team, and before tbe hoises could be stopped tbe front wheel passed over bis cheat He was immediately taken to tbe farm bouse and tbe dootor sent for, but be died before assistanoe arrived. The boy suffered great pain and was conscious up to a few minutes before death relieved him. Bis watob came in contact with tbe wheel when it passed over the body and stopped at 6:18, snowing the exaot time of the accident.- A . Wayne Maloney was born in Athena November 12,-1891, and bad resided in Pendleton einoe 1898. lie was an exceptionally bright soholar iu the publio sobools of that city, and last year entered tbe high sobool, holding the offioe of vice president of the freshman class, fie was universally beloved by all who knew bim and was admired for his straightforwardness and manly traits of character, v f Tbe funeral was held from tbe fam ily resideotoe iu Pendleton Wednes day afternbon. The funeral sermon was' preached by Rev. Bleakney of Pendleton aoademy, and the pall bearers were high sobool classmates. WORLD'S BEST TIMBERBURHED Missing Rangers Show Up But Loss of Life in Fires May Reach 100. ... 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, "SSfo"' 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 ' The most sensational rumors of loss of life in forest flres oontinue to be cironlated. but it is impossible to ver- I ify them and it seems likely tbat, aside from losses among the National rangers, the number of dead in tbe three states will not exoeed 100. Tbe known victims of tbe forest fires number 53 as follows: In and near Wallaoe, Idaho, 38; in and near St. Joe, Idaho, 6 men, sup posed to be forest rangers; at Saltese, Mont., 1. Ranger Eottkey, who with 200 men was reported missing, is unharmed. Be was never near Wallaoe as report ed, but was near Adair, Idaho, on the Milwaukee. He reached Missoula and reported his men safe, exoept two packers. 1 Tbe Ore is destroying much timber in tbe National forests of tho great mountain chain whose crest foiros tbe northeastern boundary of Idaho and whioh chain is oalled tbe Bittei Root, Goeur d'Aleno and Cabinet Rangesin its progress northwesterly from the continental divide of the Rooky Mountains. .. ' ; These mountains and all of tbe panhandle of Idaho are tbiokly cloth ed with pine, spruoe, red fir and bemlouk, and most of tbe oountry burning has never befote felt the breath of fire. Tbe timber cannot be excelled anywhere in North Amerioa, exoept near tbe Paoiflo ooean. Timber in the Blue mountains is burning in Looking Glass oanyon near tbe Toll Gate and on tbe other side of tbe range, at Elgin. Thirty men left Walla Walla Wednesday afternoon for Elgin to assist in fighting the fire, and in response to a call from Forester Sobmitz, twenty more went in auto- J3 l sural nn Rniff Mr, Hill I Ml Biff 7 HWRI urn imuhli i h -.uiauijcni i wn PROMPT I'M CDC DDIOCO ADC DinUT POHNE DELIVERY WIIUllL I IllUtO tint nlUll I MAI OCR la MAIN 83 The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in ige Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here H DELL BROTHERS, BiTfXXIS Athena, Oregon mobiles to the Looking Glass blaze. Another consignment of men ftom Walla Walla were equally distribut ed between tbe Elgin and Toll Gate flies Thursday morning. The "Round-Up." There is muob enthusiasm 'manifest over the inaugnration of an annnal wild west show in tbe northwest snob as those beld each year in Denver and Cbeyenue and there is no longer any donbt tbat tbe Pendleton exhibition will be tbe peer of its two forerunners. From all seotioca are ooming most en couraging reports and promises of assistanoe in making tbe event suc cessful. From tbe : Coenr d'Alene oountry on tbe north to Klamath Falls on tbe south, and from Montana and Colorado on tbe east to tbe Paoiflo ooean on the west, are coming tto best riders and ropers tbat mountain and plain have produoed and the three days' celebration at Pendleton will bo a veritable carnival of cowboys. Ml EMI.HEPPD COIL III GO IS CLAWS Bedfellow Is Aroused and Rescues Child as He Is Being Carried ' Off By Big Cat ' i Walla Walla Capitalists Go to Morrow . County to Inspect Coal Lands.' : Fifteen Walla Walla capitalists, headed by Dr. N. G. Blalook, passed through Pendleton Monday morning in automobiles for Heppner, where they will inspect a large trabt of coal land whioh is now under option to Dr. Blalook, saya tbe East Oregoman. If tbe prospeots prove to be all tbat they have been represented, tbe party of capitalists will form a corporation and proceed to develop the mines. It is proposed to start development work immediate!?, if tbe result of their in vestigations is satisfactory. Dr. Blalook has already made a personal investigation of the land and is very well satisfied in bis own mind that it is worth developing. When seen by the reporter he said: "Five years ago while in Heppner, I beard of this traot of land wbicb con tains 5,100 aores, and of tbe coal that showed on the surface. After an ex amination of tbe land I seoured an option on it and ever since that time I have been making investigation of tbe natural resouroes of the property and tbe possibility of developing them. Tbe land is in the Blue mountains twenty miles from Heppner, at the bead of Willow oreek, and is connect ed by a good road to tbe O. R. & N. branoh that runs to Heppner. A min ing expert has been all over the land and in his report be says that tbo property overlies a coal deposit of from 20 to 21 million tons. Tbat means an output of J 50 tons a day would not be exhausted for 55 years. There are now five tunnels on the traot and in every one of them veins running from 1 1-2 feet to i feet in tbiokness have been out ' "We have a $5000 diamond drill tbat has been used in determining the looation of tbe deposits and by its use we know tbat there are two reins of ore one 2 1-2 feet in thickness and tbe ofher 7 1-2 feet in tbiokness, less than 500 feet beluw tbe sorfaoe." A Weston dispatoh to the Portland Oregonian says: A large cougar, described os seven or eight feet Jong, nearly made away with the young sou of J. L. Frankom, of Walla Walla, last night on Pine creek, three miles above Weston. Mr. Frankum is tbe contractor who is making the looal water works ini- i provements, and be and bis men are enoamped in tbe timber near tbe bead of the svstem. The boy was sleeping with one of tbe men, who was awak ened by tbe prowling beast and found that it wai trying Jo drag the toy from tbe tent. . Tbe man grabbed the boy and yelled at the top of bis voice. Men oame hurrying to the scene from the other tents in time to see the frightened cougar slinking into the brush, taffled. The olothing of tbe boy was seized baok of the neok, and tbe oougar's olaws did not enter the flesh so tbat be esoaped without injury. Tbe great number of forest flres is driving wild animals from their lairs in tbe high mountains to the brush and timber in the foothills lower down and in some parts of tbe northwest livestook is suffering to appease tbeir hunger. Deer and other wild game from the path of the. forest flames are an easy prey also to tbe dog and gnn. A num ber of flres are attributed to camp fires set ty fisherman and hunters, and in more than one . instance, arrests have been made. . - i; J " Moving Pictures Commencing tomonow night, T. J. uudo ui it aim it aua win uoirkq a moving pioture show at the Athena opera house. It is Mr. Rose's inten tion to give tbe publio good piotures and the show will oontinue nightly as long as patronage justifies, , ' W. G. FRAZ1ER PASSES AWAY Well Known Pioneer of Umatilla Coun ty Called By Death at Pendleton. ; " Pine Creek Project. Promoters of tba Pine Greek irriga tion projeot bh"e planned a publio meeting for September 16 at Weston, witb a view to acquainting farmers with the benefits of irrigation. It is proposed under this projeot to con serve tbe flood waters of Pine creek with an immense dam, to be built about three miles above Weston, and to irrigate thousands of aores of rich land now devoted to wheat raising. Plans and maps have been prepared and filed with the secretary of state and tbe preliminary work completed. Dr. N. G. Blalook and E. C. Burling ame, of Walla Walla, and H. F. Mar ble, of North Yakima, have promised to address tbe meeting. Water Mains Give Trouble. The wafer mains are giving oon siderable trouble to Water Superin tendent Gholson. , Tbe pipe lines are leasing in several places totn in the iron and wooden pipe seotious of tbe system. Between repairing leaks and attending to tbe pumping of tbe water, tbe superintendent is kept on the hike. K Wheat Teams Galore. Wheut baullng to Athena ware- bouses is at the highest flow this week. Tbe warehouse forces are having all they can attend to in keeping tbe runways from teooming congested, though by diilgent work and system atic maneuvers teams are not kept waiting very long before unloading. Chamberlain Registers. George E. Chamberlain, United States Senator and ex-Governor of Oregon, registered at tbe court house in Portland Tuesday. He said bis profession was tbat of a lawyer, tbat be was 56 years old, was born in Mis sissippi, bad been in Oregon 34 years, and was a democrat. Schmitt for Representative. y n,nn Hnhmift th wnll knnwn frarmer. is a candidate for tbe repub lican nomination for representative. At tbe solicitation of many republic ans, Mr. Sobmitt has consented to run and bis nomination petitions were put in circulation ttii morning. a generation to oome. It is neoessary to beat bim, therefore, in my opinion; and tbe only way to do it is to con centrate on Dimiok." Wiley C. Frazier, aged 81 years and a resident of Umatilla county for 81 years, died at 2 o'olook Saturday morning at his home in Pendleton af ter an illness of 18 mouths. Dnring a great part of this time bis suffering was intense. A year ago in May he suffered a stroke of paralysis and since that time he bad been an invalid able only to be about tbe house. . , Tbe deceased was born in Kentucky, Fetrnary 28, 1829. Wben a young man he moved to Missouri and in that state be was united in marriage to Miss Rebeooa Leard, by whom he is still survived. Had he lived until next Monday they would have lived together as man and wife for exactly sixty years. Mr. and Mrs. Frazier and their fam ily crossed tbe plains to California .with an ox team in 1851. . They took op their residence in Sonoma county, where tbey oootinued to live until 1879. Iu tbat year tbey oame over land to Umatilla county, settling near Athena and this ooouty bad been their borne continuously ever sinoo that time. ' , . Following their removal to Pendle ton, in 1883 Mr. Frazier was .engaged for many years in tbe truck and dray buisness. All his life up until the time of receiving tbe stroke of para lysis, he was a strong, robust man and the affliction whioh made him a help less invalid at times was almost more than be could endnre. In addition to bis wife, be is sur vived by tbe following children : Al bert A. Frazier, Hum bolt county, Cal. ; Thomas Frazier, San Louis Obispo county, Cal. ; Charles A. Fra zier, Colfax. Wash. ; J. E. Frazier, Susan ville; Mrs. S. F. Sharp, Athena; L. G. Fiazier, J. A. Frazier and Effie Jean Fiazier, all of Pendleton. Smy the at Seattle. Dan Smvthe, who was injnred in a railway aooidont some weeks ago from which be suffered the less of an arm and reoeived other injuries, has been removed from Hot Springs, Wash., to Seattle, where be is reported to be getting along as well as could be ex peoted VThe hotel and sanitarium at Hot Springs were destroyed by forest flres and ; the patients were removed barely in time to prevent loss of life. v.l., ; Physician Paralysed, :tJj , Dr. J. H. Kennedy of Freewater, suffered a stroke of paralysis early Tuesday morning, sinoe wbiob time bis life 1 has been despaired of. His two dangbters and one son, residing at Salem, were notified and are at bis bedside. Dr. Kennedy la well known in this part of tbe county, having praotioed medicine for years in Wes ton. ' . :. ' V; -',- . BULK OF ESTATE TO BRYSON Will of Late H. ' C. Adams Filed for , ; j Frobate at Walla Walla. D. C. Baker Hurt. While engaged in hauling wheat for George Gross, D. C. Baker was seriously injured Saturday. Baker was driving a four-horse team wben he dropped a line. Tbe leaders "jack knifed" and tbe wheelers followed. Wben the horses swnng around Baker jumped to catob tbem and fell in such a way tbat he oame out of tbe scrim mage badly brniaed in tbe side and abdomen. He was pretty badly shak en up, tut Dr. Newsom apprehends no serious results. ' . Lowell Will Not Run, Judge Lowell will not run as tbe anti-assembly candidate for governor. He advises tbe anti-assembly forces to concentrate tbeir support to Grant B. Dimick. While at Portland last week tbe jndge said of tbe assembly candi date: "Bowerman was raised in Ma rion county. He plays tbe game as he was taught to play it in Marion oenn ty io tbe old days. He is a maobine man, and to elect bim would be to fasten tbe assembly on the state for . The will of the late Henry C. Adams and the petition of Herbert Bryson to -be confirmed as exeoutor of the will, have been filed witb the olerk of the superior court at Walla Walla. While the amount of the estate is not given, it is known that tbe monetary value will reach into large figures. In ad dition to Mr. Adams' Umatilla county property, it is reported tbat the estate includes twenty-six sections of land in the state of Washington. Mr. - Ad ams died on the 17th of August, aud made a will dated September 1, 1909. He was a baobelor. Tbe heirs men tioned in the will aie tho following: John R. Adams, nephew, of Adams, Oregon ; Walter Adams, nephew,' of Walla' Walla; Henry A. Mitchell, nephew, of Eugene, Oregon; Paul Johnson, nephew, of Pittsburg, Penn.; Frank Mertitt, nephew, of Jay,' Me.; Panllue Adams, nieoe, of Walla Walla and Helen Adams, nieoe, of the same place; ' Charles A;,' Jennie E., and Henry A. Barrett and Areta Plamon- doo, all of Athena, Oregon; J. S. Bar rett and wife, Parker and Anna Bar rett of WallaWalla; William A, Whit look of Slater; Elmer E. ' Merritt of Adams, Oregon; Susan F. Adams, and tbe i petitioner, Herbert C. Biysou both ' of ' Walla Walla. Herbert 0. Bryson is named as executor in tbe will. . " " i ' -, The property is divided as follows: $100 each to Elmer A. Barrett, Paul Johnson, Parker Barrett, Anna Bar rett, Mrs. J. S. Barrett, Aieta Pla mondon and Henry. A.. Barrett. Two thousands dollars to Charles A. Barrett and Jennie E. Barrett in rec ognition of services rendered. He oanoels all their indebtedness to bim and leaves tbem also the residence property in Atbena. To Henry A. Mitchell be willsibo sum of $2,000. To Susan F. Adams, John R. . Ad ams, Pauline Adams, Walter Adams and Helen Adams be leaves tbe sum of $4000, share and share alike; also all land be owned in Kliokitat county ; a tract in Walla Walla near the raoc track and a plaoe known as tbe "Al exander" tract in Walla Walla county and all the cattle. All tbe property be owned In Uma tilla county is left to bis lawful beirs, share and share alike. To William A. Wbitlook, an old friend, la be queathed $500. The balanoe of the estate of every kind and description, by the terms of tbe will is devised to Herbert O. Bry son. Tbe names of Oscar Cain, Lewis, McMorriBand E. E. Shaw are sub scribed BB witnesses. Stricken With Pelagra. Mis. Maria rotts, a sister or i.ee Kirk, is ill in a faospitd at Walla Walla witb a disease tbat has beon diagnosed by Dr. Snttner, the attend ing physician, as pelagra, the disease wbiob has been prevalent in tbe south ern states, with fatal results Mrs. Potts was at tbe Hodgson plaoe, where she was attended for a time by Dr. Sharp of this oity, who bad neyer before encountered tbe strange disord er. This is the second oase to make its appearanoe on tbe Paoiflo coast. Tbe other was at Portland and proved fatal. ' Milton Peaches. A. J. Parker and Elmer Booher' went to Milton Wednesday and seoured some excellent peaohes for canning purposes. J. E. Froome went over yesterday after a load. There is a big crop of peaohes this year at Milton aod it is reported tbat tons of tbe ftnlt will rot for want of sale. Tbe retail piloe in Atbena is 60 cent per crate. This prioe is regulated by tbo fruit growers' union, while the fruit can be puiobased at orobards for 1 1-2 cents per pound. ;alnb MoEwen. who is employed in tbe engineering department of tbe government reclamation servioe is expected borne shortly on a visit to his parents in this city.