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VOLUME XXIII.
ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 13. 1911.
NUMBER 39
OFFICERS
S. F. WILSON, President,
H. KOEPKE Vice-President.
F. S. Le GROW, Cashier,
. E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier.
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DIRECTORS
S. F. WILSON, H. KOEPKE,
A. B. M'EWEN, M. L. WAITS,
F. S. LeGROW.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF ATHENA
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $90,000.00
We extend to our Depositors every cAccommdation
consistent with sound Banking.
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OLD WAY
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With your next purchase
amounting to $2.50 or
over, we will give you
one of these Dust Pans
Something entirely new.
It will save your temper
and last a lifetime.
BUNDY & CHRISTIAN
THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO.
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal
PIONEER li
DIES SUDDENLY
STRICKEN AT HIS FAMILY HOME
IN WALLA WALLA.
Succumbs to Apoplexy After
Spending Day In Motor Car
Touring About the City.
With no warning to family or
Mends, J. J. Ronlstone, ot Walla
Walla, was stricken with apoplexy
Tuesday night, death following im
mediately after.
James J. Ronlstone was born in
Searspott, Maiue, December 27, 1842,
being 69 years of age. With bis pa
rents be moved to the Paoiflo north
west when 17 years of age, spending
rost of bis life in Umatilla oonnty,
where be still owns a large amount of
farm land. lb 1878 he was married to
Miss Sarah Skewis at Apple River,
Wisconsin, where they spent their
early married life. They moved to
Oregon again in 1881, taking op land
and acquiring more, wbiob he farmed
until Ave years ago wben be retired
from active woik and moved to Walla
Walla with bis family.
He appeared to be in tine health and
epirits all day Tuesday and no inkling
of the calamity about to befall them
was reoeived until he was suddenly
strioken iu his home.
Besides his wife, three children sur
vive bim, two daughters, Cora and
Nettie living with their parents, and
a son, John, who is in the real estate
business with headquarters in Denver.
PLEASANT TIME AT RECEPTION
School Faculty Meet Citizens, Friends
and Patrons of the School.
Posts and Blacksmith coal
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A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athena, Oregon
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The reoeption given Fridav even
ing iu the I. O. 0. F.-K of P. ball was
pronounced by all to have been a
most pleasant sooial event. Address
es were made by several of the gen
tlemen present, including Rev, Thom
as Lawsoo, M. L. Watts.of the aobool
board, A. Maokenzie Meldrnm and
Superintendent Wiley uf the sobool.
A rare musioal treat was enjoyed,
when three vooalists of the oity
favored the assemblage. Mrs. G. S.
Newsom, wtb Mrs. Rollo T. Brown as
aooompanist; Mrs. Byron N. Hawks,
aooompanied by Mrs. A. M. Meldrnm
and Miss Katberiue Romig by Mrs. J.
U. Plamondon, made a most splendid
musioal program.
Refreshments of oake ant punob
wore served by the ladies of the
town, the tables and punch bowl be
ing presided over by Mrs. B. D. Tbarp
assisted by Mrs. M. L. Watts, Mrs.
Wm. Littlejobn and Mrs. Barry Mo
Bride. Those present pioolaim the function
as being one of the most pleasant of
the character held in Athena, demon
strating the interest that is being uni
versally evinoed in tbe snooess of the
sobool.
REORGANIZE HARRIMAN LINES
Segregation of Southern Pacific and
0-W. R. & N. Included.
Plans for tbe reorganization of the
Harriman lines in tbe northwest were
announoed by J. D. Marrell, newly
eleoted president nf the Oregon-Washington
Railroad aud Navigation com
pany while in Portlaud Tuesday. Tbey
include the complete segregation ot
tbe Sontbern Paoiflo and tbe 0-W. R.
& N. properties, tbe appointment of a
separate set of officials for tbe Sontb
ern Paoiflo lines in Oregon and tbe ex
tension of J. P. O'Brien's jurisdiction
as general manager over the Seattle as
well as tbe Portland districts of tbe
0.-W. R. & N. company.
Mr. O'Brien will he relieved of au
thority over tbe Southern PaciQo
lines in Oregon and a general manager
will be appointed to that plaoe.
R. B. Miller will be relieved of
authority as traffic manager
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g DELL BROTHERS, B"lBXlls Athena, Oregon
BEST BANKNOTES.
They Are Produced by American
Talent and Methods.
HARDEST TO COUNTERFEIT.
From tiie Time of Paul Revere, the
First Amerioan Banknote Art i it,
Our Have Been More Difficult to
Imitate Than Those of the Old World.
To say that Americans make the best
banknotes in the world ruay sound at
first rather boastful, and yet any his
tory of the art and industry of note
engraving which failed to record that
fact would, be incomplete. Taul Re
vere was the first American banknote
artist, and from the time of the char
tering of the Bank of North America
under th direction of Robert Morris,
in 17S1, up to the present American
engravers have excelled not only in tuo
artistic quality of their designs, but in
their provisions against counterfeiting.
Marco Tolo found banknotes in Chi
na ages ago, printed on paper made
from the bark of the mulberry tree.
One of the notes upon which the great
Venetian traveler himself may hare
gazed is on exhibition at this day in
the office of an American company. It
is one of a series issued by the Ming
dynasty about 1309 A. D. "current
anywhere under heaven" and seems
to have been printed from wooden
blocks on a sheet of paper nine by
thirteen inches, a bigger surface than
any man could cover with both hands
outstretched. It "is good for "one
string of cash." The provision against
forgery is simple to the point of sever
ity: "Counterfeiters hereof will be ex
ecuted. Tersons giving information of
counterfeiters will be rewarded with
taels 250 and in addition will receive
the property belonging to the crimi
nal." Another groat government has placed
much dependence upon death as a de
terrent to imitators of its promises to
pay. When Jacob Terklns of Xew
buryport, Mass., invented the method
of transferring designs from hardened
steel plates to steel cylinders and re
transferring to flat plates, thus en
abling the engraver to devote the time
necessary to accomplish his best work
in the original and reproduce it at will,
the new process aroused international
interest. Mr. Perkins and his asso
ciates went to London in 1819 at tuo
instance of the British minister at
Washington to help the Bank of Eng
land to issue notes not easily counter
feited. But the conservative old bank
refused to adopt the new method, pre
ferring, as one of the Americans said,
to rely upon the hangman rather than
the engraver. Nevertheless the Eng
lish began in time to follow American
methods after the geometric lathe had
been invented by Asa Spencer of New
London, Conn., and improved by Cyrus
Durand.
The governments of continental Eu
rope depend exclusively upon color
work to protect their paper currency,
and several of the large banks of issue
have civil engineers in charge of their
bureau of engraving and printing,
though what connection there may bo
between engineering and engraving is
a mystery. Many Italian banknotes
are easy to counterfeit. The Bank of
Spain has of late abandoned its own
plant because its notes were imitated
so successfully that counterfeits were
accepted by the bank without ques
tion. A private concern now does the
work. The Bank of Greece now uses
the American method, having had sad
experiences with notes of Austrian,
German and English fashioning.
A myth that probably will never dip
tells us that the notes of the Bank of
England cannot be counterfeited. As
a matter of fact, they can be Imitated
readily enough, for little attempt Is
made to protect the notes beyond the
use of a watermark paper. The wa
termark can be easily copied.
One practical safeguard of great ef
fectiveness Is the custom of the Bank
of England to cancel every note that is
returned to the bank and issue anoth
er in its place. This and the practice
of keeping a record of the numbers of
nil bank notes used in every business
establishment keep alive a keen sense
of responsibility which adds to secu
rity. The custom of circulating soiled
banknotes, of course, gives the coun
terfeiter his best opportunity. Forgery
is much more readily detected in a
crisp, stlflf, new bill than in a rumpled
and dirty one.
The American style of banknote has
become the standard in the countries
of Central and South America. The
experience of the Brazilian government
led the way in this after various dis
appointments. First the much vaunt
ed Austrian system was tried, the
notes being engraved and printed in
England under that system. They
proved a complete failure. Counter
feiters flourished. The Brazilians tried
banknotes made in France, and these
were promptly and extensively imitat
ed as soon as the counterfeiters could
get their plates and paper ready. Bra
rll tried German and English establish
ments, but still without securing pro
tection to the banknote circulation,
and at last turned to the United States
and found a type of bills practically
impossible to counterfeit. H it in no
boast, but a mere record of fact, to
state that Americans make the bit
banknotes in the world. Detroit News.
Ths Pessimist.
Tommy rop, what is a pessimist?
Tommy's Pop A pessimist, my son,
la man who loves himself for tbe
enemies be has made. Philadelphia
Record.
PRESSURE OF AIR.
It May Readily Turn the Ther
mometer Into a Fibber.
THE BOILING WATER POINT.
On the Soale This Is Marked at 212
Degress, but Under Certain Condi
tlons It May Be Several Hundred
Degree The Critical Temperature.
On an ordinary Fahrenheit thermom
eter there is writteu opposite 212 de
grees "Boiling point of water" and op
posite 32 degrees "Freezing point of
water." Neither of these is correct ex
cept for a certain condition of the at
mosphere, and that Is when it gives on
the barometer about thirty inches, or
fifteen pounds pressure to the square
Inch. This is the ordinary pressure at
what is known as sea level, and to this
all thermometers are calibrated. In a
mountainous region tbe pressure is
hardly ever so much as fifteen pounds,
and water bolls at sometimes as low as
200 degrees.
If water is boiled in a diving bell,
where the pressure is forty or fifty
pounds a square inch, its temperature
will be several hundred degrees in
stead of 212. If water is boiling in a
near vacuum the temperature is so
small that the hand thrust into the
water would actually feel cold.
What has been said about tbo boiling
point applies to some extent o the
freezing point, but here it differs for
different materials, whereas the re
marks about the boiling point of water
apply to the boiling points of all
liquids.
Some substances when they freeze
become larger, while others become
smaller. On this depends the freezing
point nt different pressures of atmos
phere. Water expands on freezing; so
do type metal and some other things.
All other substances become smaller
on freezing. Water pipes burst when
the water freezes. Coins of gold and
silver are stamped instead of being
molded, for the metals grow smaller on
freezing or solidifying, and consequent
ly the coin would be wabbly.
It has been found that the things
that expand on solidifying, as water,
freeze at a lower temperature when
the pressure is increased, while tbe
others freeze at a higher. When a
substance that expands freezes under
higher pressure than usual it has to
exert more force to shove the pressure
away, and consequently has to use up
more of its heat energy, thus losing
more heat and becoming colder.
Take the substance that contracts
when It solidifies. The pressure will
help it to get smaller, and consequent
ly the greater the pressure the less
beat it has to lose on attaining the
solid state, so it will freeze at higher
temperature. If the pressure is great
enough it may freeze or solidify at a
thousand degrees temperature, which
Is high enough to change most sub
stances to vapor under ordinary at
mospheric pressure.
This Is one of tho reasons advanced
to prove that the Interior of the earth
Is solid, for the assumption is that tho
core is made up of substances that
contract wben freezing, and there Is,
of course, an enormous pressure a few
hundreds of miles below the surface.
In regard to the boiling points of
liquids, there is an upper limit to tho
point at which a thing boiis-that is,
changes to the state of vapor. It is
called the critical temperature. No
matter how great a pressure exists on
a substance, if it Is nt a temperature
greater than its critical it will change
to vapor anyhow..
The ignorance of this point held
back the making of liquefied gases-
such as n I r, carbon dioxide, etc. for
many years. The experimenters tried
to liquefy gases at ordinary tempera
tures by enormous pressures, whereas
if they had Just cooled the gases be
low their critical temperatures before
applying the pressure liquefaction
would have ensued immediately.
This Is tho method employed today
in making liquid air. The air is com
pressed at first and then allowed to
Issue from a small orifice, thus ex
panding and cooling, is then pumped
back and compressed by tbo pump,
allowed to go through the orifice
again, thus cooling still more, until at
last it Is below the critical tempera
ture, when tho compression caused by
tho pump liquefies it. Lawrence
Uodges In Chicago Kecord-BTerald.
In Trouble
"Yes," be said regretfully, "I'm In a
tight corner. My Bweetheart Is wild on
the subject of germs and microbes,
and she insists that I must choose be
tween her and my mustache. I'm to
lose one or the other."
"Lose the mustache, my boy."
"That's Just the trouble. If you ever
saw mo without it you'd pity my
haunting fear that when it's gone I'll
lose the girl too."
The Simple Answer.
A society man at rf luncheon said of
a well known suffragist:
"She accomplishes a great deal, but
some of her methods are not quite fair.
A man once inquired of her husband:
" 'Do you give your wife an allow
ance, or does she ask for money when
sbe wants it?'
" 'Both,' was the simplo answer."
In Doubt.
"Wero you ever up before me?"
asked a magistrate.
"Shure, I don't know, yer anner.
What time does your nnner'get cp?"
London Answers.
Pay what you owe, and you'll know
what you own. Franklin.
BRUIN'S BANQUET.
It Vas Long Drawn Out and Only
Whetted His Appetite.
THE FINISH WAS EXCITING.
After the Pork Course Gave Out a
Dessert of Cold Lead Ended the
Feast, and the Unwilling Host Vowed
Never Again to Fool With a Bear.
A teamster in the employ of one of
the big tanneries in the west had a
laughable yet trying adventure with a
bear while on his way from the woods
with a load of bark. As he emerged
from the woods with his team he
stopped to give the mules a breathing
spell and to eat his dinner, which he
carried in a tin bucket. He had
scarcely opened his bucket and begun
to eat when a bear camo out of the
woods on one side of the road, only
two or three rods in tho rear of tho
wagon. Bruin sauntered along, paying
no attention to the team, but the team
ster, desirous of seeing what the bear
would do, threw a bit of salt pork in
his way. The bear stopped, smelled at
the pork and gulped it down greedily.
Then the animal, noting the source
of the morsel, came toward the wagon
and rose on his haunches as if to say
that another bit of pork would, prove
acceptable.
Tho teamster laughed and tossed out
a second piece, which bruin devoured,
and then he posed again. But the
teamster wanted the rest of his dinner
himself and paid no attention to the
shaggy Intruder. Tho beggar, seeing
that the teamster was no longer aware
of his presence, snorted sharply two or
three times and walked bnck and forth
across the road as if reconnoitering
tho situation. Presently he growled,
but the teamster, thinking that the
beast would go nway if he got nothing
further, continued his meal.
The bear ventured near nnd finally
climbed up the load of bark at the
hind end of the wagon. The man was
unpleasantly surprised at this move
ment of bruin's, as he was wholly
unarmed.
Accordingly he threw a bit of pork
into the road, at the same time yell
ing to the bear to direct its attention
to the meat. The bear dropped down
and went aud picked it up, but as
soon as it was swallowed and there
was no more forthcoming he made an
other charge upon the wagon.
The teamster started the mules on
ward, but knew that he, could not hope
to escape with his heavy load of bark.
An idea struck him. He would coax
tho bear on by feeding tbo lunch to
him until they should come to a
friend's house a mile or two along tho
road. Theu ho would get a gun and
shoot the old fellow.
The teamster sat on tho bark, facing
backward, his big dinner bucket at
hand. When tho bear came up with
tho wagon and threatened to climb
upon tho load tho teamster tossed out
a piece ot pork. . The supply of this
edible was limited, so ho tossed tho
beast a sllco of bread, which fell but
ter side up. Bruin nosed it, then
licked tho butter oft and left it.
Tho next slice fell butter side down,
and tho bear ignored it. Boiled eggs
nnd cheese fared the same. Bruin
wanted pork. Tho teamster dealt this
out In small bits, which failed to satis
fy, and the bear was growing ugly and
aggressive.
At length tho teamster saw his friend
at work In a field and called to him to
run for his gun. Tho man seemed to
reallzo tho state of the case and set
off on a dead run for his house, a
quarter of a mile distant But the
supply of pork was out before ho re
turned, and tho poor teamster was in
a sorry plight.
The boar climbed upon the load. Tho
teamster tossed him the last piece of
pork and then Jumped from his wagon
and tore down the road. Bruin, prob
ably thinking that tho teamster was
fleeing with a stock of coveted pork,
started after him. The terrified man
had a fair start, but lie stumbled over
a stone and fell full length, and the
bear wus close upon him when thcro
camo tho loud report of a gun.
The friend bad como at last Tho
teamster roso and looked round. Thero
lay his late pursuer in tho road, dead.
The teamster declared that never again
would he fool with a bear. Harper's
Weekly.
Our history contains tho name of no
one worth remembering who led a life
of ease. Roosevelt
W. L ZEIGER DEAD
BY HIS 01 HAND
TOOK HIS LIFE WITH POISON AT
ST. NICHOLS HOTEL
"Without Funeral Services of
Any Kind, Bury Me In Box
Made of Rough Boards."
W. L. Zeiger oommitted suicide at
tbe St. Niohola hotel in this oity yes
terday morning, by drinking oyanide
of potassium.
He arriived iu tbe city at 1 a. m. on
tbe Spokane train, fiom tbe north.
Going to the hotel, he registered from
Taooma, and was assigned to room
No. 8. He instructed landlord Frcpjw
to oall him at 7 oolong. '
Alia. Froome called bim at tbe
pointed time but ooold receive no '
spouse, and John Gallender, the r
went to the room. He found tb
nnlooked and Zeiger in
walked across the room am
of the man's arm to aronsr
he became awaie that so
wrong. Dr. Sharp, who
was oalled and pronoum
dead, as soon as be enU. .
On a chair near tbe b
water glass containing a larg,
of the deadly drug, from which
bad drained a portion of tbe
A paper paroeJSsMng tbe 1
Gartleid, Wash.,aTnggii'
tbe stand and contain,
the poison to kill every .
aud child iu tbe town.
The euioide was of a prt
nature, for Zeiger bad undou..... .,,
oome to Athena, where in former
years be had resided and was engaged
in the blaoksmitb business, to delib
erately end his life. A few lines
aoribbled on a tablet, giving direc
tions as to his buiial, left no donbt as
to tbe suicide, and tbe coroner found
it nnneoessury to bold an inquest.
The dead man was well known in
this city, where in the early 90's he
ooudnoted a blacksmith shop. From
here he went to Helix, and later
formed a partnership with Marion
Jaok and took over the Pendleton Ma
chine Shop. Reoently be has resided
in Taooma. He is well connected and '
wes one of tbe best known, men in the
oonnty. He is a brother-in-law of
Jndge J. W. Maloney of Pendleton,
aud of Attorney L. B. Boeder of Portland.
He had taken every pieoantion to
end bis life surely, and ha died , with
out making any disturbance that any
one beard.
Before taking tbe poison, he wrote
tbe following, using a lead pencil and
a new tablet, ont of wbiob a page
or two had been torn, possibly con
taining a message to friends or rel
atives, and mailed before coming to
Athena:
"Before you judge me, stop and
think who it is, and bow yon are to
judge. I have sinned many times, lot
will sin no more; have made many
mistakes, but will make no more, aud
may those that I have wronged for
Rive me, as 1 have forgiven those
that have wronged me.
"My request is, bury me in a box
made of rough boards, and let there
be no funeral services of any kind.
If I have friends enongb to lay me
away, do it, and I thank yon for it
if not, let the oonnty do it.
"Love to all, good bye.
"W. L. Zeiger."
The dead man was at one time a
member of the Masonio lodge in this
oity, also of Pythian Lodge No. 29,
K. of P. He married Mius Mattin
Bounds, a daughter of M. A. Bounds
who in early years was an implement
dealer here.
Mother's Club.
Tbe Mothers' Club met Ootol er 6th
at tbe home of Mrs. Charles Norrls,
with twenty-one ladies present, Tbe
subject under disoasfliou was; "Tbe
Cbild, tbe Home and tbe Sobool,"
a subjeot whiob proved to be veiy in
teresting. Tbe next month's meeting
will te at tbe Lome of Mrs. George
Mabar, wben an interesting program
consisting of vocal solos, readings and
reoitations will be given. Every lady
is cordially invited to attend these
meetings.
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