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I t -1 This Edition con tains Six Pages t Buy Yotir Groceries from Your Home Grocer Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks VOLUME XXIII. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 24, 1911. NUMBER 8 l tar officers S. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKE Vice-President. F. S. Le GROW, Cashier, E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier. "1 DIRECTORS H. KOEPKE, F. S. Le GROW, S. P. WILSON, A. B. M'EWEN, M. L. WAITS. . FiRST- i OF ATHENA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. $90,000.00 . - Tien years from now will you be slavishly working at a low salary for somebody else or will you be your own master? You can be either if you wish. Start that bank account today with only a small deposit if necessary, and in ten years it will make you independent. Saving at the Spigot Wasting at the Bung" That's what buying poor paint means. Paint may be low priced by the gallon and be extravagant to use owing to to it's ' poor covering power and wearing - quality. After , the paint is applied it's too late to save. Start right and use The Sherwin-Wiluams Paint MADE TO PAINT BUILDINGS , WITH, OUTSIDE AND INSIDE. It covers more surface, spreads easier, and lasts longer than any other prepared paint, or hand-mixed lead and oil. THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal y A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon I ity Rleat Market WM. JAMIESON, Prop. NORTH SIDE OF MAIN STREET The Best Meat to be found in Town. Come and see me. I will treat you right. C. L. MAY, ATHENA, OREGON FEW HUE BILLS Corporations Have Easy Going, While Appropriations Climb to Total of $4,892,460.43. Few bills' whioh will increase the revenues of the state were passed at the session of the legislature just closed. Tbe only one wbiob will have any pronounced effeot in swelling tbe fnnds was presented by Represent ative MoKinney of Baker, regulating and requiring tbe registration of aut omobiles, wbiob is expected to yield about $75,000 to tbe state daring tbe next two years. Several otber bills wbiob may bring a total of $25,000 into tba treasury iu tbeuiui)ial per- iod reoeived favorable consideration, bnt these are all. . A . . Tbe MoKinney bill requires' every owner of an automobille having a rat ing of 60 horsepower or less, to pay $3 to the eeoretary of tbe state for regis tration. Owners having maobines rated at more than 50 horsepower are required to pay $5. Every peison or firm having several maobines pays $10 for tbe registration of all. If an auto is sold it must be re-registered and another fee is exacted. There was also a bill passed author izing tbe state to sell some asylum land near Salem wbiob is not needed and this will bring about $1200. Reg istration of trademarks will also bring several thousands into the treasury and a few others will bring similar amounts. Tbe corporations esoa.ped in easy fashion at tbe hands of tbe lawmakers who not only failed to pass most of tbe bills putting restrictions upon tbem but also killed any giving tbe state additional revenues from them. The public service commission bill was tbe only one of importance relat ing to the corporations which' passed and tba big Interests did not make very muob of a Sght upon it. Some of the bills defeated were the eight hour law which would have affeoted tbe Oregon City paper mills to the. ex tent1 of at least $50,000 a year and the Amme telegraph and telephone bills. The railroads and other publio serv ice corporations made a strong flgbt on tbe proposal to require them to keep a set of books in this state and this bill was killed off in the olosing hours in the bona by Thompson of Lake, after it had passed tbe senate. The request for the passage of suoh a measure was made by both the railroad- and tax commissions. Many publio service companies wbiob oper ate extensively in Oregon and main- ; tain headquarters here keep their hooks in New York oity. When tbe railroad commission or tax commission desires to obtain any figures it must wait until they can be sent here from the east. Another objeotion tbe mem bers of the commission make to this oustom is that it Rives tbe companies time, if .tbev desire, to joggle their books and figures so as to deceive tbe members of tbe commission. To tbe total of appropriations as voted by tbe two branches of the leg islature has been added an appropria tion of $340,000 by tbe eleventh hour enactment of tbe Mariner state aid bill, wbiob with two minor appropri ation bills reconsidered in the senate late Saturday afternoon, made the grand total of appropriations enaoted ty tbe twenty-sixth legislative assem bly $4,892,460.43, wbiob is an in. crease over the appropriations of two years ago of $1,804,072.92, an in crease of more than 60 per oent. While it is not olaimed for these figures that they are absolutely cor rect, tbe aotual appropriations made by tbe legislature at this session will not vary from tbem in any material degree. They inolude the annual ap propriations made by tbis legislature for tbe next biennial period only and do not Inolude continuing appropria tions made by tbe legislatures of for mer years. These figures Inolude only 3 mm WHERE PRICES ARE RICHT 83 & Tbe Freshest and niost Choice the Market affords in jrj Best .that Money can Buy Always Found Here MfMJk rj, DELL" BROTHERS, 0AlK0,KSi0 ,s Athena, Oregon X2 tbe aotual appropriations made by this legislature for tbe next biennial period. Lion Hunter Seeks Cougar. A dispatch from Dayton says that Blue Mountain stookmen on tbe Ore gon hid Washington sides are at last to have relief from troubles caused by cougars. Tbe obampion lion hunter of tbe west, G. E. Ordish, of Libby, Mont., bas signified bis intention of going on the trail of "stock killing" lions of tbe mountain country nar Dayton. It is estimated $3600 worth of oattle, horses, sheep and swine have been killed by oougars this win ter and tbe ferooious type is rapidly increasing in numbers and boldness. Ordisb claims a reoord of 22 lions tbis winter and 83 in tbe last four seasons. He claims to have two of the best lion Jogs in the world and hunts with them on saow exclusively. It would be worth $5000. prominent cattlemen deolare, to have the Blue ridges rid of cougar. CHURCH FINANCIAL STATEMENT Report of Treasurer Scott for the Year Nineteen Hundred and Ten. Reoeipts. " Collections - - $1185.67 Borrowed - - - 775.00 Unaooounted - - - .75 Collected for Martin Meeting 836.09 Collected for Note at Bank 355.00 Missions and Benevolenoe 110.85 Total $3263.36 Disbursements. Overdraft Jan. 1, 1910 $ 85.00 Pastor's salary - . .' . 1109.33 Insurance" - - 173.55 Notes . . . . 275.00 Interest - - - 11.90 Janitor - - - 165.00 Sundry expenses - - 189.96 Expense of Martin meeting 636.09 Paid on Note at Bank - 855.00 Missions & Benevolence - . 110.85 Bal. on hand - - - .78 Total - - - $3263.86. Tbe items for' Missions and Benev olence were inadvertently omitted from the report made to the congre gation last Sunday. Considerable donations of fuel were made during the year wbiob do not appear in the above report. It should be noted that tbe pastor's salary is $25 per week, with use of the parsonage included.. There was due tbe pastor ou January 1, 1911, $10.67 on salary aooount. Tbe church was without a pastor six weeks following tbe resignation of Ellis B. Harris in January. Joseph N. Soott, . Treasurer. n ' v Geer's Reminiscenses. "Fifty Years in Oregon" is tbe title of a reoord of bis personal reminis cences that is being written by T. T. Geer, governor of Oregon from 1899 to 1903, member of the house of repre sentatives at Salem for four terms, and speaker of tbe bouse during one session. Mr. beer says tnat be bas signed a contract with an eastern publishing boose for a book of 150,000 words, telling of publio affairs of tbe state and of publio men of tbe last halt ceutury. "I am just now afsem bling my materials," said Mr. Geer. and have not begun the real work of writing tbe book. Toe book should be on the market in less than a year." Jury Decided For Pinkerton. A lawsuit wbiob created interest enough to tax tbe oapaoity of 'Judge Riobards' court room took plaoe Tues day, when the evidence in tbe case of Bannister vs. Pinkerton was given be fore a jury. Homer I Watts was attorney for tbe plaintiff and tbe de fendant was represented by Attorney Wilson. Tbe case was brought before Judge Riobards to determine tbe own ership of a borse. Tbe evidenoe was iu some instances of a gingery nature, and after summing it up, tbe jury awarded tbe '.iorsH to Pinkerton, tax ing a pasture bill to bim and tbe costs of tbe case to Bannister. County Prosecutors. A bill providing for a prosecuting attorney for each county, passed both bouses of tbe legislature and now awaits the signature of tbe governor to become a law. Tbe bill will not be effective for two years. Tbe coun ty attorney of Umatilla will draw a salary of $2,000 per annum. Tbe present office of district attorney. wbiob includes tbe judicial distriot of Umatilla and Morrow counties, is worth $3,000 per annum. TO BOOMTHE WEST Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Vote $1,250,000 for Advertising During Present Yaar. One and a quarter million dollars for advertising the resources of 10,000 miles of railroad in one year ii tbe an swer of the directors of the Union Paoiflo and Southern Paoiflo systems to tbe oalamity bowler. This remark able appropriation, tbe largest by far in tbe history of railroad advertising, spoils prosperity in oapital letters for the United States in the next twelve month for this stand in favor of ag gressive but judicious advertising bas oot been taken without careful and oonsoientious weighing of the busi ness, tbe crops, the emigration, the rate deoieion and all kindred problems which have direot bearing upon rail road and, incidentally, upon national prosperity. Tbe passenger representatives of tbe Union and Southern Paoiflo systems and the Oregon Short Line met in Chicago Monday afternoon and decid ed upon tbe expenditure of $1,250,000, in advertising tbe faoilities offered by these railroad systems and tbe Indus trial opportunities offered by the com munities and country they serve dur ing tbe present year. Many large ooiporations and firms are making large annual advertising appropriations, by far tbe greater pro portion of the amounts being used for newspaper advertising. Among those coming to or passing the million mark, are the following: Union Pa ciflo and Southern Paoiflo Railroads. $1,250,000; National Biscuit company, $1,000,000; Standard Oil company. $1,000,000; Sears, Roebuok & Co., $1,000,000; Uooa Cola company, $1,- 000,000 and many others whioh range from $100,000 to $800,000. ' Pendleton Ball Club Officers. At tbe gathering of tbe Pendleton fans Tuosday night, J. Roy Raley was elected president of tbe Pendleton olub of tbe Blue Mountain league and tbe following men were obosen for the otber offices: Henry Collins for vice president; John Dickson for seo retary and Fred Lampkin for treasur er. These officers will bold a meeting to select a manager for tbe team, and common report bas it that Clark Xtelson will te tbe favored one, says tbe East Oregonian. of tbe educational work being done and the training department, and we found that the institution at the pres ent time is working within the provis ions of its charter. Under the effic ient supervision of George H. Blaok, president, the Lewiston state normal sohool has obtained a high standing, its graduates being placed f on a level with those of normal sohools in other states. As to the standing of the Lew iston normal, as a state institution apart from thai of a local sobool, we found, basing our figures on tbe en rollment of last semester, that the total number of students doing normal work with the intention of beooming teachers to be 277, with 82 additional students doing special work ; of these 277 students 111, or 40 per cent, gave Lewiston as their home, 115, or api proximately 42 per oent reside In the state outside of Lewiston, and 51. or 18 per oent, came from other states. We recommend an appropriation for the Lewiston state normal sohool of $100,600.00 for the biennum." THERE IS (SIDNEY IN POULTRY J, M. Swaggart Tells What He Is Do lng at Meadow Brook Poultry Farm. Boy Shot for Deer. Clarenoe Phipps, aged 17 years, was shot and killed by Haivey Sutherland, about tbe same age, in the hills four miles northeast of Ooburg and 10 or 12 miles from Eugene Sunday after noon tbe latter mistaking Phipps for a deer. Young Phipps and nepbew, Rex Green, started from their .homes two miles , north of Coburg for the bills to hunt squirrels and other small game and young Sutherland, alone. left bis borne in Coburg about the same time to look after some traps be bad set iu the bills. Pbipps and Gieen knew nothing of Sutherland's presence in tbe vioinity neither did Sutherland know tbey were there, While resting in some dense under brush, Sutherland spied something about 250 yards distant and thinking it was a deer, toot careful aim and fired. He was horrified to bear a ory of surprise from young Green. He ran toward tbe spot where he bad seen the objeot he thought was a deer and found Pbipps dead with a bullet bole in bis head. Tbe ball bad entered be low tbe left nostril and lodged in the back of tbe brain. Clarenoe Pbipps was tba son of Ira Pbipps. From Jail to Fortune. After being freed from tbe Walla Walla county jail, having just served a term in that plaoe or tbe passing of no fnnd obeoks, Clintou Baohanan has plenty of money to pay any obeok be may desire to write, at least up to tbe sum of $12,000. He reooived tbat amount forfa patent attachment for a eidebul combined harvester, Ben C. Bolt of Walla Walla, and J. F. Kri mer of Spokane being tbe purchasers. The device is purposed to keep tbe tbresbing maobine on the oombined harvester in a level position, notwith standing tbe . contour of tbe land and tbe tilt of tbe header. It is said that Buobanan's device is by far tbe most praotioal and useful of any like con trivance tbat has been purchased, and tbe purchasers are said to be more tban pleased with tbeir targain. Falling Shed Kills Him. J. H. Beobner, a farm band em ployed by G. DeOraw of Weston, met a violent death Saturday afternoon, when a shed on tbe old Green plaoe fell and bnriod bim beneath the de bris. Tbe roof of tbe shed was cov ered tbickly with straw, wbiob to gether with a heavy weight of snow oaused it to collapse, when Beobner for some reason bad entered on tbe inside. His body was fuund Satur day evening and was taken to Weston where it was prepared for burial. Beobner had been a resident of tbe Weston neighborhood for several years. At one time be was an engineer on tbe Southern Paoiflo, and had lately patented a traction engine. He bas a sister wbo resides in Seattle, and was a kinsman of Fred Foster of Weston, Good Words for Normal, Tbe joint committee of the senate and 'bouse, appointed to investigate tbe educational institutions of the state of Idaho made a very oareful in vestigation and as a result aooorded bigb praise to tbe Lewiston state nor mal. Tbe report relative to tbe Lew iston normal as in part as follows: "Your committee made a oareful in vestigation of -tbe needs of tbe Lewis ton state normal sobool. tbe character J. M. Swaggart, proprietor of Meadow Brook poultry farm, reoectly reoeived some prize' winning birds to head bis breeding pens for tbe coming year. Mr. Swaggart is meeting , witb phenomenal success in the poultry - business and importuned ty a Press reporter, he gives the following faots for the benefit of our readers. Mr. Swaggart writes: "There is money in eggs and poul try. Now, when I say that there' is money in eggs and poultry, it is oot an uteranoe from a phonograph; bnt is baoked by , experienoe. I do not make the assertion because some one else bas told me. and I believed it and thought tbat there ought to be money in it, or figured it out on paper, but I positively know it to be a faot. "For what otber produot is there suoh a demand as for poultry and eggs? In fact, tbe demand is so great tbat prioes for eggs always range from 15 to 20 cents per dozen and iu many localities as high as 60 cents. "Tbis in itself shows tbat a good flock of hens is as good as a United States mint. How many families are supplied with food and wearing ap parel from a good bunch of poultry? If plenty of range oan be bad, the oost of feed is comparatively slight, and nearly all the income a profit. There is money in a bunob of scrubs, or a mixed lot of obiokens, but there is more in a good flook of pure bred fowls. They will lay more eggs and tring bigber prioes on tbe market. Tbey thrive better and grow larger and besides all tbis , how muob pret tier a flook of obiokens, all of one variety, look, than a bunob of mixed birds, and bow muoh more satisfac tory they are. "It is now three years since we hatobed our first pure blood Barred Plymouth Rooks and now after tbtse years of experienoe witb tbem by tbe side of various breeds we are thor oughly satisfied tbat tbere is no otber general purpose breed of equal value. Tbey ore good layers, winter and sum mer. Tbey are good rustlers and as a market fclrd, tbey bring the very top price, while tbeir barring makes tbem a bird of beauty as well as utility. Tbe bens make tbe best of mothers. "Here is what my small flook of 80 hens did for me last year: From Maroh to Ootober, I sold $120 worth of eggs, and from November to Febru ary 15, $68 worth. I also sold $85 worth of oookerels; total $273. "My aim is to improve my flook and keep tbe very best strain. I bought 5 pullets and one cockerel at the Pen dleton Poultry show, 1910. These birds scored 87 8-4. I also bought 4 oookerels from tbe blue ribbon strain uf B. P. R. from Corvallis. Oregon. J. M. Swaggart." Mrs. Barrett Improving. Good news comes from Salem tbat Mrs. O. A. Barrett, who for several days was oritloally ill witb pneu monia, is improving, with every iodi oatioa pointing to her ultimate re covery. Her son, Henry, and Mrs. Plamondon, ber daughter, went to ber bedside last Saturday, and friends in tbis city anxiously awaited telegrams wbiob were reoeived from time to time, announcing tbe oondition of tbe patient. Monday a slight obange for tbe better was noted aod since tbat time Mrs. Barrett bas been Im proving gradually. Meat for Portland. Louis Calvos. representing a syndi cate of Greek and Slavonian restaur ants in Portland bas completed ar rangements to bntober sheep, oattle and bogs at Stanfield for shipment to Portland for use in tbe restaurants. It la tbeir intention to kill an average of 25 to 40 bead of sheep every day, besides several bead of oattle and bogs. Round-up Work. Work is to begin at once on tbe branoh asylum at Pendleton. Engin eer Murphy, of tbe asylum at Salem, is now in Pendleton for tbe purpose of superintending tbe preliminary work,