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Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer .V VOLUME XXIII. ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1911. NUMBER 45 I Christmas is ahead of you- t but we're ahead ' Christmas ! We've been industriously searching the market for the best things ; ; that the makers and importers have prepared for this Christmas tf : "v 1911 for all these best things are ready for "the trade" long before Christmas. You'll be immensely entertained by them, and look ing around involves not the slightest obligation to purchase. For the present, just enjoy seeing them we will let the future take care if itself. ' H. H. Hill, JEWELERj Athena. OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKB Vice-President, F. S. Le GROW, Cashier, E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier, DIRECTORS S. F. WILSON, H. KOEPKE, A. B. M'EWEN. M. L. WATTS, F. S. Le GROW. FIRST NATIONAL BAH OF ATIIENA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. $90,000.00 We extend to our Depositors every c4.ccommdation consistent with sound Banking. , BAK5AYHER DUST PAN OLD WAY . NEV WAY With your next purchase amounting to $2.50, or over, we will give you one of these Dust Pans res Something entirely new. It will save your temper and last a lifetime. BUNDY & CHRISTIAN LOADED SHOT G II PLACED Oil FOOT " ' ' " V" RESULT, HOLE BLOWN THROUGH PEDAL EXTREMITY. John Wall, Athena Boy, Hob les Mile and a Half After Ac cident Cripples Him. John, the young son of Mr. and Mrs.W. K. Wall of this city, aooi dentally shot himself Monday, while hunting dooks in tbeTouobet country, a charge of shot from an antomatio shotgun passing through the light foot, and resulting in a serious and painful wound. The aooident happened to the boy while tie was hunting a mile and a half from the boose and by sheer grit he walked the entire distanoe. Be was taken to Walla Walla where Dr. Blalook dressed the wound, and the boy arrived here on the after noon train Monday and has since been under the oare of Dr. Newsom. While hunting, he oarelessly plaoed the muzzle of the gun on his foot, and while in the aot of lifting it, his fin- ger struok the trigger and the entire oharge of shot and wadding passed through the foot, badly shattering it and making a frightful wound. Unless complications are encoun tered, it is thought the wound will heal without making him a cripple. Mrs. Preston Candidate. Mrs. Josephine Corliss-Preston, conn- ty school superintendent of v Walla Walla announoes that she will be a candidate for state superintendent of publio instruction to sncoeed Heury B. Dewey, whose term expires next year.- Mrs. Preston is the first woman can didate for this office in Washington for tbis office. She will try . for the republican nomination. Through Center of State. Construction on the Oregon Eastern railway, the trans Oregon line of the Harriman system from Vaie will be begun before the first; of the year, ac cording to Bight-of-Way Agent Harris of the Oregon Short Line,- -while We. Announce sir hess-for Chris A. Less than four weeks-only 20 shopping days remain, only 20 days in which to do an immense volume of business, and as rapidly as week succeeds week this volume will continue to grow. With buyers coming in greatly increasing numbers, assortments and varities must necessarily decrease. . , Thousands of articles come from markets" too far to permit of re-orderidg. Among these are the unique novelties in which early shoppers find joy in selecting. Therefore we advise all those who shop for Christmas, to top I We will prepare your packages for shipment, and hold them here until you want them here until you want them sent, and attend to sending them for you if you wish. , .We PEOPLES WAREHOUSE, PENDLETON Save your coupons -Where it Pays to Trade r-w y fll 'Ji 11 la A FED is- r w I QUALITY STOP. MPT VHirJDC DDIHCO ADC DIHUT DELIVERY WllUIIL TIIIULU H1IL. IIIUII I POHNE HAH 83 1! The Freshest' and most Choice the Market affords in U "-i Wq Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here ?i DELL BROTHERS, CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD TH1NG3 TO EAT Athena, Oregon ft sneaking before a mass meeting of 200 business men and ranchers at Vale recently. Three patties of surveyors are now plaoed in Malheur canyon. The ' first " camp is ' under Engineer Bupple, 8. miles south of Vale. Two other orew.s are encamped along the line of the proposed railway. The sur veyors are all working on the final survey and modifying looation lines. On the whole, the old survey Hues will be followed. ' ' Indians to Washington. After a week or taore of campaign ing that would have done credit to a more civilized community says the East Oregonian, tba Indians on the local reservation Lave chosen their delegates to the big gathering of red men in Washington, D. 0. wbioh is being held for the pnrpose of forming a Brotherhood of " North Amerioan Indians, the honor going to Umapine, chief of the Caynses, No Sbirt, ohief of the Walla Wallas, Amos Pond, aoting ohief of the Umatillas, Charley Van Pelt, Joe Craig and Captain Sompkin, three well known members of the looal tribes. r ; WESTON WILL VOTE ANYWAY Liquor License Question : to Be Sub mitted Despite Irregularity. Weston will vote upon the saloon question at a special election to le held at the same time &s its regnlar city eleotion next Monday, despite the rnling of ' tbo attorney general that snob an election would be irregular because the precioot boundaries had not been re-established to correspond with the city limits, says the Leader, i After disonssing the matter the mayor and ooonoil decided to submit the saloon qnestion as per program. They agreed that an expression from the voters was wanted in any event, and that it would cost little or nothing to secure it. The county antborities were so notified and the formal notices signed by tbe county olerk, were post ed in Weston 'luesday by Joe Blaklev, deputy sheriff. These announcements read as follows: 1 "Notice is hereby given that on Monday, the 4th day of December, 1911, an eleotion will be held to de termine whether tbe sale of intoxicat ing liquor shall be, prohibited in the city of Weston, County of Umatilla, State of Oregon, wbioh said eleotion shall be held at 8 o'clock in the morn ing and 'continue until 4 o'clock in the afternoon of tbe said day." " I YOUR MORNING MAIL. It May Be Dangerous to Open It at the J Breakfast Table. . ; -f Did you ever hear that it is danger ous to open your morning mail at tho breakfast table? According to n Ber lin scientist, Professor Kron, and the London Lancet, it is dangerous very. Professor Kron has succeeded fn trac ing several cases of contagion to the kid custom of waiting " until you sit flown at the breakfast table before opening and going through your morn ing mail. lie calls attention to the fact that the average man or woman goes down to breakfast "with hands and face scrupulously clean, teeth jscrubbed and throat gargled.. In that condition be is prepared to eat with out danger of swallowing more dis ease germs than may have possibly escaped the watchful attentions of the cook. ' - : But Instead of doing that ho handles letters and papers which have passed through many bands before reaching his own. Between bites he opens en velopes find wrappers and in doing so unthinkingly paves the way for the absorption of nil kinds of germs which may or may not do him a great deal of harm. It has long been the custom in many well regulated households where the breakfast hour is fixed somewhat late and where the mall carrier gets around before breakfast is served to place each person's morning letters 'by his or her plate in the dining room. This, says the Lancet, la a custom which should be abolished at once. Letters should be opened and read either be fore or after breakfast, but never at the table during the handling of food. Every Woman'a Privilege. Mrs. Byram That's the kind of a husband to have! Did you hear Mr. Dike tell bis wife to go and look at some $100 hats? Mr., Byram My dear, have I ever deprived you of the priv ilege of looking at $100 hats?-Ohlcngo News. ,. Venus will not charm to much with out her attendant graces as they will without her. Lord Chesterfield. Pre-Nuptial Agreement Piofl.tiDg by the experiences of their first mattimooial venture, J. B. Miller and Viola Miller filed a pre-marriage oontraot with tbe county recorder be fore entering tbe bonds of matrimony for a second time. Under tbe terms of tbe oontraot their individual prop erty rights ire to remain separate. Moving Picture of Schools. Tbe movicg piotore is to te put to a new use in tbis county, when Cood ty School Sopoiiotodent Frank K. Wlle will start on a tour of tbe country diatriots to abnw bow tbey can be ollt up and improved. He will use plot urea made in anme of tbe more progressive districts of tbis county. Horse 40 Years Old. A Weston special to tbe the Spokes man Review eats: Amass Phillips, 80 years old. is driving a borne just one-half bis age, and both appear to be good for several years of work yet. Mr. Phillips is the owner of valuable M ELL SWIPES AT JONATHAN JR PENDLETON ATTORNEY DENOUN CES OREGON SENATOR.. "If He Has a Home in Ore gon, Where is it and When Was it Acquired?" Judge Stephen A. Lowell of Pendle ton,, will be, a candidate for United States Senator, to suoueed Jonathan Bourne, whose term expires Marob 4, 1913. In his ' annonnoement to the republicans of Oregon, the Judge states explicitly bis attitude on nation al issues, for what be stands and gives the following reasons for bis opposi tion to Bourne: First I do not regard him as a bona fide resideut of Oregon. In ' the last campaign reputable speakers as serted that he maintained no home within tbe state, and tbe assertion was never denied. He visits tbe state up on rare oooasions, coming as a trav eler, and stoppiug at tbe hotels of Port land. If he has a home in Oregon, where is it, and when was it acquired? If he is a taxpayer in Oregon, where are tbe taxes paid, and what is the amount thereof? The gentleman is classed as one of tbe multi-miillion- aires of tbe country. Whether that be true oi not,, he assoredlv - is pos sessed of vast wealth subjeot to taxation. Seoond He is apparently more closely identified with Massachusetts than with Oregon. He is tbe bead of one of the great cotton manufaoturing ooncern of New England,' heavily protected by tbe tariff laws, aud said to yield immense revenues. Born an heir of Jonathan Bourne, Sr. in his day one of tbe leading capitalists of New Bedford tbe son has retained bis interests there and under such oir onmstanoes bis eoonomio views can hardly square with those of tbe people of the west. . Third I know bis reoord at Salem as leader in tbe disgraceful legislative hnld-up. The men who engineered that outrage should be tarred from publio office, beoause tbeir proceed ings then indioateil suob a disregard for tbe lawful conduct of affairs that no man responsible therefor can be safely relied upon in olfioial life. : If selfish purposes were superior to the interests of tbe state then what as surance have tbe people that selfish interests may not again te paramount, if oooasion arises? .- Fourth Beoause bis kaleidesooplo political changes make it difficult to determne bis real opinions upon publio questions. His erratio career as a politician is known, while upon entering tbe senate be allied himself with the Aldrioh wing of tbe party, and voted with that group as late even as the enaotment of tbe present tariff law. Now be claims to be a progress ive, but where shall we find bis im press open tbe pages of progress, ex cept in his personal literatuira upon, tbe Oregon system? His biHtory in tbis state is tbe opposite, while iusor genoy in'congrees found small comfort at bis hands until others had made tbe movement popular. He is an ad vertiser of remarkable cunning. Tbe editorial ear of tbe country was oaugbt by his speotaoular declaration that he would spend no money upon bis cam paign fcr re-election, yet what voter in Oregon is unfamiliar with tbe post al frank of tbe senator. Apparently be espoused tbe Roosevelt third term idea as a persaual advertisement, tried to pose as tbe golf orony of Taft for like reason, and is now exploiting bis new plaything, tbe Progressive League, for the same purpose. Who, if not Mr. Bourne, is financing that organization? Fifth Because be has not risen to a just appreciation of Oregon's needs, and bat failed to grasp opportunities to secure' legitimate national aid in her development notably manifest in tbe matter of distribution of irriga tion funds. And beoanse be seems not to appreoiate the graver questions of state, bnt is riding a hot by as Mindly ashe rode free silver to 1896.. I assume (bat at tbis late date do re publican candidate is likely to enter the field and therefore I extend to Senator Bourne an invitation to dis cuss with me upon tbe publiu plat forms of Oregon during any two weeks of the primary campaign, bis owo publio record and tbe political issues of the hour, He surely can be spared from Washington for that pe riod. .';' Pretty Steady. "That Jones boy wh9 used to work for you wants to hire out to me. Is he steady?""' " " "Srendy? If be was any steadier he'd be motionless.' Judge. Great Britain's Qrest Seal. Measuring six Inches In diameter and made of silver, the great seal of Great Britain Is kept In tbe custody of tbe lord btb chancellor,' and a new one Is prepaied for each reign. . Action. Every man' actions form a center of Influence opon others, and every deed, however trivial, bas somo weight in determining the future destiny of the world. Weston land and town property and labor with him is not a necessity yet be is not oontented unless industrious from morning until night. He is now hauling gravel for a oonorete building be is ereoting on bis Main street lots for an automobile garage and implement warehouse. One of the hprses be is driving was brought to Weston from Utah' by Joseph Blom gren. It has lost some teeth and its forage must be ground bnt it is in good condition otherwise and tngs strongly in the harness. - White Slave Case. . Jack and Faye Sullivan, bearing the same name but no relation, were given a bearing beiore United States Commissioner Vida Johnston this week and held to appear before the federal grand jury on a white slave oharge. ; ' ": Excavate at Night The work of excavating at the new asylum site ' in Pendleton is being rushed by tbe addition of a new foroe of men who toil at night in tbe gravel pits under tbe glare of eleotrio lights. Work has been under way at tbe asy lum grounds for tbe past two months. REWED ON DAY OF DIVORCE Judge Places New Construction on Law in Default Cases. So long as tbe defeudant iu a di voroe prooeedinga in Oregon allows the case to go by default, there is no limit to the time during which either tbe plaintiff or defendant to suoh notion deprived of the privilege, of joining in wedlook with any; person his or ber heart desires, aooording to a decision of Jnstioe Bean, of the Oregon Supreme court, wbioh has just been received. Hitherto it bas been the aooepted law that parties to a divoroe proceeding cannot tewed within six months after the decrees have been made, but it appears from tbe deoiaioo of Jnstioe Bean that tbis is a misconstruction. . Aooording to Jnstioe Bean it is a well aocepted prinoiple of law, that where there is uo contest that is, where the issue goes by default there oan be no appeal. The law reads that marriage is barred during tbe period during wbioh an appeal, may be taken from the deoree of the trial oourt, possibility for appeal in a de fault ease wbioh is six months. There being none the parties to the divoroe wbioh is allowed to go by default, may therefore marry the instant the deoree of tbe trial court is docketed, A STORM ON GALILEE. Fierct While It Lasted, It Went Quickly as It Cams. The sea of Galilee Is not always calm. The mountains Immediately nd Jolnglng . It nre 2,000 feet high, n:ul through their deep gorges the storm winds Are sucked into the hollow of the lake, so that sudden squalls come literally out of a blue Bky, One charm ing spring morning wo started out to sail from Tiberias to Capernaum. There was not a ripple on tho water or a cloud in the heavens. But when we' were a quarter of a mile from shore out boatmen noticed a band of rough watei' rushing toward us from the other side of the lake. Iu Bpite of our remonstrances they Immediate ly gave up the plan for making Caper naum, took down the anl! with aucb frantic haste thnt they nearly upset the boat and then rowed for the land with nil their might nnd with such ex cited urglugs to one another that we thought them a cowardly crew. But hardly had the boat becu beached iu n sheltered cove when the wind was howling down on us from the moun tains and the heavy breakers were foaming along the shore as fur out into the lake n& we cou'.d ece. A quar ter of an hour later the sen of Galilee was again as . level as a mirror, end only a soft, warm breeze was blowing over tbe smiling waters. Travel Mag azine. - SEWERS OF PARIS. How This Great System Swallows Up th Litter of the Strtets. Tho Purls newer system Is said to be the finest in the world. Tho observant visitor In the French capital soon notices that its people have somewhat different ideas from ours ns to the use of sewers, for he will see porters throw big bundles of paper down large open ings left in. the curb, nnd even rags and garbage. ' On Shrove Tuesday there is a car nival along the Paris boulevards. From noon to midnight the crowd throws paper confetti in such quan tities that the broad streets are cov ered with many tinted paper snow when the last revelers leave for home. Tbe visitor wonders bow this mess is to be cleared vp. In the morning, how ever, every scrap is gone. If he had stayed out late enough he would have seen the Utter swept and washed right into tbe sewers. Perhaps that takes him underground to visit them, one of "the sights of Paris. There are nearly 2,000 separate channels, some great aqueducts navi gated in a boat, with walks on either side. They carry the telephone and telegraph cables, electric light wires, gas mains and pneumatic letter tubes. Telephone Review. Cordova's 8on Pavements. Tho oldest pavement of which there is any record in modern cities is that of Cordovn, In Spain, which was paved with stones by the Moors In the middle of the ninth century. The Moors also raused water to be conveyed to the city in leaden pipes. HUTU'S M Oil 1HE BEASE CAIN OF NEARY 200 PER CENT SHOWN IN TEN YEARS; Nearly a Half Million Acres Added to Tax Roll But Live Stock Shows Decrease. ': Showing that the taxable property in Umatiila has increased from ap proximately $18,000,000 to more than $18,000,000 iu the past ten years, but testifying also to a great decline made . in the stook raising industry, As sessor 0. P. Strain submits to the publio his comparative summary for ' the Umatilla county tax rolls In 1901 and io 1911. His figures. in the East; Oregonian show that 40,000 acres of land have v been added to the tax roll which is an inorease of 60 per cent but they also tell the story of the passing of one of the last frontiers when tbey show 4000 less cattle and 56,000 less sheep in tbe boundaries of the connty now than in 1901. In his 'statement, Assessor Strain also takes oooasion to warn his con stituents against the movement on foot at Salem to take railroads and all publio servioe properties away : from tbe counties and give them to the . state as an exolusive subjeot of state taxation. To Umatilla oounty be de clares this would mean the loss of one fourth of her taxable property and would, raise local taxes $75,000 an nually, The table shows that 400.000 acres of land has been added to our tax roll in ten years, or an inorease of 50 per cent.: We have lost over 4000 or ttle and nearly 58,000 sheep, but have gainsd 6570 horses. The Assessment of 1901 was made at approximately one-third true value. The actual value of all property in the oounty ten years ago was about $18,000,000, while now it is $48, 000.000, tbe increase being $30, 000,000. "There is a movement on foot at ' . Salem," says Mr. Strain, "to tike rnilrnnda nnd nil nnhlin anruinn nrnnor. ty away from tbe counties . auoV'glTe" mem to tne state as an exclusive sun jeot of state taxation. "If tbis soooeeds, Umatlla oounty will lose more than one-fourth of. her taxable property. Tbis loss would ex ceed by $3,000,000 the oombined val ue of all our personal property and cltv ; real estate." , Sues For Divorce. , Alleging that on two oooasions her hnsbaod, Charles Matt , threatened to till ber and was only prevented doing so in Marob, 1908, by tbe time ly intervention of Lulu Snyder, Koset ta Matt, of Freewater, formerly of tbis city, bas oommenoed notion in the oironit court for legal separation. The complaint cites that tbey were married in Adams, January 4, 1906, and 'have one child, Robert Matt, aged 5, tbe oustody of wbioh she asks, also. S. P. Peterson cf Milton is her attorney. i.i i ii .ii -1 i ii, i. ' ' Teachers at Baker. More than 250 Umatilla oounty teaobers were present Monday morn ing at the opening of tbeannual meet ing of tba eastern division of the Ore gon State Teaobers' association, held at Baker. Umatilla, Union, Wallowa . Baker and Malheur counties are rep- ' resented in tbe association and up- ward of 600 teaobers were iu attend- , anoe. Tbe sobools of tbe counties are , enjoying a nine-days vaoat.ion. School Report. ..?.- Tbe following is the report for the month beginning November 6 and , ending Deoember 1, for La Mar. Dis trict No 50: Number of days taught, 15; number of pupils enrolled, 18; pupils who have beeu neither absent or tardy aod are especially noted for good scholarship. Charley Henley, Bazil Van Cleave, Floyd Oorporao, Carl Johnson, Elmer Corporan, Fred-V die Johnson, Helen Johnson, Shirley Barnes, Vergie Key, Lola Key, Mamie -Sbeatd, Minnie Johnson, Lela Schu bert and Velma SobnberL Visitors , for the month: Supervisor Albert E. , White, Wilma Downing, Mrs. Jos. Key, Bay Downing and Mrs. Sarah Swaggart. Lillian Downs-Dotson, Teacher. NOTICE. Tbe regular annual meeting of the stockholders of the First National Bank of Athena, Oregon, for tbe eleo tion of directors for tbe ensuing year and for tbe transaction of suoh other business as may lawfully come before it will be held in its office in Athena, Oregon on Tuesday tbe 9th day of Jan uary, 1913, at tbe hour of 2 o'olook p. ra. F. S. LeQrow, Deoember 1st, 1911. ' Cashier. Weston Girls-Win. Girls representing Weston ligb school and the Columbia college of Milton battled at basket ball in the Weston oourt Saturday evening. The visitors had numerous obanoea but oould toss but one goal, and were beaten by a eoore of 10 to 8. The attendance was large and tbe orowd remained for a basket scoial, .