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"1 , - 1 ' -7? r -u- . - This MiiDii Con tains Four Pages i t iiiini.wrt.ir i awMsaa.-- Carry Big Slot Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXIII. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1911. NUMBER 38 .A I fcHWWIIIIlW III W Mi OJTICEBS S. P, WILSON, President, H. KOEPKE Vice-President, T. S. Le GROW, Cashier, E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier. ' DIRECTORS S. P. WILSON, H. KOEPKE, A. B. M'EWEN, M. L. WATTS, P. S. Le GROW. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. $90,000.00 We extend to our Depositors ever cAccommdation consistent with sound Banking. w 1 ACTION OF RALROADS WOULD EFFECT INTERIOR POINTS. Plans Exposed When New Schedule is Filed With Com merce Commission. BAKSAVHER DUST PAN OLD WAY NEW WAY With your next purchase amounting to $2.50 or over, we will give you one of these Dust Pans Somethiug entirely new. It. will save your temper and last a lifetime. BUNDY& CHRISTIAN THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER CO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon The Washington correspondent of the Portland Oregonian, under date of Ootober 1, says: Proposed new rates, instead of low ering tariffs to inter-moautaia points to bring them within the ruling of the commission are made to oonfoim to the relative' requirements of tbe de cision by raising the rate to the coast. Por example, after November 1 it wiJl cost 111 more to ship first class freight from New York to San Pranois co and other PaoiBa coast points. Two months ago the commission constructing . the amended loug and short hanl section, decided that from the Missouri river to the interior points the rate might be no higher than to Pacific ooast terminals.- Prom Cbioago it might be 7 per cent high er, from Pittsburg 15 to 25 per cent. If the new rate is allowed to go into effect jobbers in inter-mountain cities will not lose the advantage gaiued by the decision, but the consumer will And very little comfort by the com missions aotion. If the rate is aooapt ed now a fight is likely to be made before the commission solely on the question of the reasonableness of the rate in wbiuh both Coast and inter mountain cities will be able to join in hearty acoord. THE GRAIN MARKET QUIET Coast Warehouses Are Overcrowded and Dealers See Trouble. fWY PRIZE WALL PAPERS-1 If 3yi2r0 These famous patterns are handsomer lpsfii lWliSL better P?4 than those of apy fl V If OSfSFJ0'-" rnVifactvrer, They consist of all fIM Jfl Jbi 1 1 ' 6raes from the most inexpensive Kitchen gWM VPl Wm an I Bed Room papers to the choicest Halls, w!ff3 Wllri 'Wll D; ling Rooms and Parlors, representing a IK'S 'Ess ISwc III m Ps?!j In't buy old shop worn goods when jp5j Sotv mm Mm wbcansavbyoubopercent. f IPt I H til JHl D ' P?'terns n,anulctur" 8 lLtf III I1 HLp orders taken for one room or a wble boose, IjSfmffi jjp I ' DES,QNS AND C0URiNGS EXCLUSIVE. W f MM(M((ri -a"- ir immi lliniHIl Wli il INI, millllil I II , I I, i i I. lull WimTWWMH Wheat has been nearly at a stand still during the week, sales having dropped off to a smaller point than any week since harvest. Th o principal reason assigned by grain dealers for this conditiou is the overcrowded condition of all the Coast warehouses and docks, where it is said that no more space is available, while little grain is being loaded for export. With the exoention of small nnauti- ' ties ordered especially to fill mill de mands the.Coast houses have withheld buying orders from their local Bgents stating that the Liverpool market is doll. Walla Walla grain prices dropped off a oeut below the level for the last week or ten days, the highest price being 75 cents a bushel paid for turkey red of One quality. Bluestem is in demand only at 74 cents and olub varieties are dragging at 69 oeots. One wheat bnyer detected in the sluggish condition of the market a slight indication of a flurry among the smaller holders and stated that a large number of small growers appar ently believing that the bottom is about to drop out of wheat, have un loaded their grain, most of these lots ranging below 2000 bushels eaob. Hunting Season Opens. The hunting season for docks, geese and other like birds opened Sunday in Washington and dozens of hunters spent the day by stream after the birds. The law permits the shooting of the birds after October 1, and there were many licenses issued Saturday in preparation for the event. The docks are reported to be already plentiful on the streams of the lower end of the Walla Walla valley, and hunting is said to be good. Road Bonds Voted. By the tremendous majority of more than 1650 votes. Jackson county passed the 11,500,000 bond issue for the pur pose of constructing a modern system of bigbways in the county. Medford alone gave the bonds a majority of 1371, casting the heaviest vote she has ever oast. When news of the passage of the bonds was flashed to the citv from the tower of the Mail-Tribune r 3 UALITY GEiOC DonMDT linirnr nninro Anr niniiT phhnf delivery Tint HE riUOtd Htlt muni "MAIN 83 & The Freshest1 and most Choice the Market affords in VEGETABLE Best that, Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERS, "SSS18 Athena, Oregon building, the town went mad with joy. The streets were jammed with a great throng of people celetrating.- Seldom has the equal of the oelebratiou been witnessed in Southern Oregon. Ibe bond issue was a Medford move, fathered by the Medford Commercial club, which has carried on a systemat ic and earnest campaign in favor of the toads. GOES OUT, 800 DIE Wall of Water Ten Feet High Sub merges Three Towns, Austin, Pa., a town of 3,200 res idents in the northern part of the state, was swept out of existenoe Sat urday and more than 800 of its people were killed by a flood wbiob followed the breaking of the Bayless Pulp and Paper company's dam a mile and a half north of the town. Almost 500.000,000 gallons of water rushed over the plaoe in a wall ten feet high, wrecking every structure in its path. The flood caused heavy loss of life and property also in Costello, a town of about 500 inhabitants. Wharton, a smaller town, was also reported to have sustained heavy damage. In Austin, the bursting of sooros of natnral gas mains as the buildings were swept away added fire to the general horror of the flood and hun dreds of those imprisoned in the wreckage were burned to death. The contents of the 'dam which was filled to overflowing by the heavy rains of two weeks, swept through a natural gorge in whiob Austin and Costello were situated.. While many residents of Austin escaped to the hills, the warning givou by the, blasts of the Bayless mills whistles was too trief for hundreds of others. The catastrophe paralleled in many respeots the destruction by food of Johnstown, Pa , in 1889, iu wbioh more than 2900 lives were lost. The extent of the loss of life and the de struction of property oanuot be known for several days. The property loss will surely be several million dollars. Within an hour of the first general knowledge of the calamity, speoial trains bearing physicians, nurses and food supplies were on the way to the scene. Hundreds of automobiles bear ing resouers also toiled over the moun tain roads to lend aid. The food sup ply of the town was destroyed and immediate aid to survivors was ur gent. Hundreds of those who escaped were seiiously injured iu the collapse of their homes and the panio of th6 rush for safety. Temporary hospitals were fitted up in nearby farm houses and improvised structures fashioned from the wreckage. The Red Cross also made preparations for immediate aid to survivors. The intense heat of the tire sweeping from the natural gas maiua made it impossible for surviv ors to visit the scene of destruction for many hours. ZEBRAS IN AFRICA. They Are a Fearful Pest and a Menace to Civilization. Zebras in Africa are a nuisance and a menace to civilization, according to John T. McCutcheon in "Hunting Ad ventures In the Big Game Country." He says: Then there's the ubiquitous zebra, almost as numerous as the kongoni. You see vast herds of zebras at many places along the railway, and there after, as you roam about the level spots of east Africa, you are always running Into herds of them, At first the sight of a herd of zebras is a surprise, for you have been accus tomed to seeing them iu the small numbers found in captivity. It is a source of passing wonder that these rare animals should be roaming about the suburbs of towns In hundred lots. You decide that It would be a shame to shoot a zebra and determine not to Join in this heartless slaughter. Later on your sentiments will un dergo a change. Everybody will tell you that the zebra is a fearful pest and must be exterminated If civiliza tion and progress ore to continue. The zebra is absolutely useless, and efforts to domesticate him have been without good results. He tramps over the plains, breaks down fences, tears up the cultivated fields and really fulfills no mission in life save that of supply ing the lions with food. A.i long ns the zebras stay the Hons will be there, but the settlers says that the lions are even preferable to the zebras. Under the old game ordinance -expiring December 15, 1900, a sportsman was allowed two zebras under his license. Under the new one he is al lowed twenty I That reveals the atti tude of oast Africa toward the Jaunty little striped pony. THE TONIC OF VICTORY. Army Surgeons Say It Acts Almost a an Anaesthetic. Bonnette, n French army surgeon, writes in tho Presse Medlcale of the extraordinary Indifference to the pain of operation manifested by the soldiers of Napoleon while the great conqueror was sweeping victoriously over Europe. While the defeated soldier is full of imaginary terrors, subject to panic, madness and treason, the conqueror, on the other hand, Is Intoxicated with suc cess, says the New York Medical Journal. Nothing, not even the morbific microbe, can resist troops who believe themselves to be invincible. Victory is the most powerful of re storatives and deepest of anaesthetics. Legless members of the old guard crowded Into an ambulance would at sight of the emperor rise on their Btumna to salute him. After Kylau Larrey" operated uninterruptedly for thirty-six hours, and ho reports how the soldiers seemed unconscious of their own troubles, lost In thought of the glory of their leader, and, maimed as they were, lending their best nid to fel low patients. At Borodino Larrey disarticulated the shoulder of a colonel, who immedi ately set out for France on foot, where he arrived after three mouths walking. After fording the Beresina, a river in Russia, General Zayonchek, seventy five years old, had his kneecap shat tered by a bullet. Amputation was per formed in three minutes in a violent snowstorm and in bitterly cold weather, j et the white haired officer was placed In a sledge and taken to Vilna, where he died at the age of eighty-six years. Many similar anecdotes are told by our civil war veterans. Stupid Fish. Professor Harold Russell, the Lon don zoologist, will have none of the popular yarns about the wonderful things fish will do when put to It. He says they are deaf, dumb and vir tually color blind. When the calcare ous stones are taken out of the ears of fish they lose all sense of equilibrium and roll about as if crazy. Most fish hunt their food by only defective sight, but the eels by even more de fective smell. A conger eel with which Professor Russell experimented devoured with the same avidity fish dosed with cheese, anchovy, camphor spirits, turpentine and iodoform. Where We Aim. William Dean IIowclls In one of his talks about literature said: "Good lit erature is always condemned on Its first appearance. That is because, being original, it is new and strange. Shel ley's work was bitterly condemned at first So was Coleridge's. So was Words worth's. So was Stephen Crane's." Mr. nowells paused, then added im pressively, "Stones are only thrown at those trees which are heavy with fruit." The Fertile Rock. Gibraltar is often called a "barren rock, yet it has 450 species of indige nous flowering plants. Castor oil plants, daturas and daphnes attain tho dig nity of trees and geraniums and hello tropes the proportions of hedges. These floral delights often conceal can non and other armaments. The few snakes that are found are small and harmless. Lizards several inches long are often seen. FRENCH POLICEMEN. They Can't Be "Fixed," and They Are Always Polite. The laws of France relative to the out of door life of tho masses are made in the interest of the people. Furthermore, they are enforced. , There is no fixing things with a French po liceman. If your bicycle has suddenly been twisted into Junk by a careless driver the belted and brass buttoned gentleman who arrives on the scene questions you with Intelligence and Jots down in his notebook the facts of the occurrence ns near as ho can ascer tain them. Throughout the interview he is polite, alert and painstaking iu getting at the exact truth, and, wheth er you or the offending driver or both accompany him to the police station, he conducts you with n quiet dignity and on air of fulfilling his duty. It does not make tho slighfest difference in France who you are or whether or not you have mutual friends or come from his "ward" or are a relative of Congressman So-and-so. If you ure at fault you must pay the d.'tmuges. If the other fellow Is to blame you will bo ushered from the presence of the commissnire de police with as much cercnioniiil politeness ns would bo shown ut a diplomatic interview. If it is boiling hot or freezing cold and you are In need of Information, go to the nearest policeman, address him as "monsieur" and raise your lint. He will Immediately return you n mil itary salute, listen attentively and glvo you, as carefully as possible, tho nec essary information, saluting you again as you raise y5ur hat to leave him. F. Berkeley Smith, "Parisians Out of Doors." Couldn't Fool Him. Serving in the capacity of collector for a local bank is n colored man who spends his evenings playing in on Oak land band. One of the clerks In the bank, know ing of the Merle's musical attainments, said to him, "Joe, I went to a vaude ville show last night, and one of tho fellows there played 'Traumerel great!" Joo looked at him suspiciously for a moment nnd then said: "You tell that stuff to Bonny. You don't get me to bite, 'cause Ah knows they ain't no such instrument." San Francisco Chronicle. A Simple Antidote to Poison. It is a valuable thing to understand thoroughly what simple antidote to take if one is so unlucky as to swallow poison of any kind. Sweet oil is to bo found in nearly every house, however humble, nnd half a pint of it taken Im mediately is an effectual antidote to almost nil nolsons. Any one with a strong constitution should take a lar ger quantity of this simple remedy. London Family, nerald. Greatly Changed. "Have you seen Miss Beanpole since she inherited a fortune?" "Yes. She is greatly changed." "How?" "Well, fche used to bo frightfully skinny." "And now she's divinely slender. Toledo Blade. 1 COMPULSORY EDUCATION LAW EFFECTS CHILDREN OVER NINE AND UNDER 16 YEARS. Parents and Guardians Are Responsible for Pupil's At tendance at School. The following is a digest of the Compulsory Education Law. as fur nished the Press by the prinoipal of tbe Athena publio and High schools. They should be oarefnlly read and studied by all patrons and pnpils of tcit. eohools: 1. Every parent or other person having charge of any obild over nine years of age and under sixteen years of age, shall be required to send such obild to the publio schools for a term of not less than the number of months of publio school held annually in tbe district in wbioh such child resides. The following exceptions are made to the above law: (a) . Children physically unable to attend sobocl; (b) . Children taught a like period of time in a private sohool; (o). Children under ten living be yond a mile and one-half limit; (d). Children over ten living be yond tte three mile limit. 2. Tbe Distriot Boundary Board of each couuty is required to appoint a County Truant Officer, whose duty shall be to enforce the provisions of this law. 3. The distiiot school olerk shall provide tbe teaoher or prinoipal with a copy of the last sohool oensus. Tbe teaober shall report to tbe secretary of the distriot boundary board all chil dren who are not in regular attendance at school, and the secretary of tbedis trict boundary board shall forthwith notify tbe truant officer of the non attondauoe of suoh ohildren. 4. Iu estimating regular attend ance, tbe teaober shall count all ab sences, unless suoh absences were ex cused; provided, that no excuse shall te accepted unless suoh alisenoe was caused by the pupil's sickness, or by the siokness of seme member of the pupil's family, rendering it impossi ble for suoh pupil to attend school dur ing said time. Eight unexoused half day absenoes in any tour weeks .shall be called irregular attendunoe. 5. Upon notification by tbe secre tary of the distriot boundary board, the truant oti'ioor shall within twenty- four hours give wiitten notice iu per- bou or by registered mail to the parent or to tbe person in parental relation, that such child shall present himself at tbe public sohool on tbe next sohool dsy following the reoeipt of each notice. Said notioe shall inform the parent that suoh atteudanoe must be gin and must continue regularly dur ing tho remainder of the sohool vear. At the same time the truant officer shall notify tbe teacher of the faot of notioe, and it shall be tbe dnty of tbe teaohdr to notify tbe truant officer of the failure on tbe part of tbe parent to oomply with said notioe. 0. Should tbe parent, after receiv ing said notioe, from the truant offi cer, fail to send suoh ohild to sohool, then the truant officer shall imme diately file o oompluiiit before tbe nearest resident Justice of tbe Peaoo. Said justioe of the peace shall issue a warrant npon said complaint and in case of conviction, said parent or oth er person in parental relatiou, shall be puuisbed by either One or imprison ment, or both, iu tbe discretion of tbe court. 7. Should any board, officer, or teacher fail to oomply with all tbe provisions of this act, said offioer or teaober shall be eubjeot to arrest, and -upon conviction, shall te fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $20,00 for each offense. (See Lord's Oregon Laws, Seotions 4119. 4120, 4121, 4122, 4123. 4124. 4125. 4126. 4127. 4128. 4129.) Use Road Drag; Now.' "Use. the road drag cow" says Prof. E. P. Ayers, highway construc tion expert of the O., A.' C. "These heavy rains thoroughly wetting down tbe roads, have made ideal conditions ' for tbe use of the drag before the win ter weather begins. All potholes, mud- . holes and other irregularities can be , leveled and the surface of tbe roads put Into first olass conditiou by using the drag two or three times before the ' roads get too soft. Tbe use of the drag, moreover, at this time for crowning the roads will aid drainage and keep in good condition many roads which were very poor last year. The expense of using a road drag is slight, and a much wider use of it throughout the state would be very favorable. There is no better way to keep a dirt road in good oondition than dragging it frequently." Walla Walla Loses. By a eoore of 56 to 0 the Walla Walla high sohool football team went down to inglorious defeat Saturday afternoon at tbe bands of the fast and heavy Wenatohee aggregation of professional players, for which the apple town is well noted throughout the Northwest. Watson, a Tekoa star player who has long since passed through his four years of high sohool, starred the victors, while other big aud heavy hired men of professional calibre, ploughed though the scholas tic team at will. Trains on tbe main line of the O. W. R '& N. have been late since tbe strike of shopmen started.. Railroad officials say the train delays are cot caused by tbe strike. The Walla Wal la-Pendleton looal (has been on time during tbe week, but the Spokane trains have been late. RAILWAY SHOPMEN STRIKE Harriman Lines Including Illinois Cen tral TiedJJp. With members of the system feder ation of the Harriman lines and Illi nois Central railroad on strike, with Sante Fe railroad employes striking in sympathy rather than handle work otherwise handled by strikers; with, the federal courts in Mew Orleans issu ing one of the most sweeping injunc tions yet handed down against strikes and with strikebreakers being re cruited in large numbers, the middle w est and far west faoe what, it is feared, will prove one of the most crit- cal upheavals American railways" have ever encountered. Officals of the systems federations of the Harriman lines and the Illinois Central deolare 35,000 men already have obeyed tbe strike call; offioials of the roads deolan they do not em ploy that many men iu the depart ments affeoted. Tbe strike order went into effect at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, called out boilermakers, maobinists, car men, blaokmiths and helpers, clerks, steam fitters, sheet and metal wortters.paint ers and laborers. It involved all the western lines of the Harriman system, tbe main lines beiog the Union and Southern Paioifio and tbe middle, western and southern lines of the Illinois Central. Fear that tbe strike may spread to other lines and eventually to every line in America, was given -added fnel when 100 Sante Fe shopmen iu Los Augeles walked out when told to make repairs that had been left by tbe strik ing Harriman employes. That the battle may be fought in the United States courts and may re sult in a final battle of labor against what it terms "governmeut'by injunc tion," is the belief expressed follow ing receipt ofa message from New Orleans. Better Results Less Labor Walter A. Wood Queen Cultivator has an I-beam frame that makes it extra strong, rigid and light. The handles stay tight. Come and see them. Walter A. Wood Disc Harrows are easy on men and horses. Easy on men because they do the work thoroughly, and easy on horses because very light in draft and without neck-weight. The gangs are flexible and have ad justable spring pressure on the inner ends. , Walter A. Wood Sprinii-Tooth Harrow the only one with a relief spring on the adjusting bar. G. W. PROEBSTEL I Hardware Dealer, Weston, Ore. 3 wMsm 4 . . j i J m . h.. . ..r ft V - ft ' t. j