Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer
VOLUME XXIV.
ATIIENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 19. 1912.
NUMBER 3
OFFICERS
S. F. WILSON, President,
H. KOEPKE Vice-President.
F. S. Le GROW, Cashier,
E. A. ZERBA, Ass't. Cashier.
r DIRECTORS 1
S. P. WILSON, H. KOEPKE,
W. S. FERGUSON M. L. WATTS,
F. S. Le GROW, ' ,
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Oil L0II6 TRAIL
J- B. DICKESON, A VELL KNOWN
CITIZEN PASSES AWAY.
Chronic Complications With
Mild Case of Smallpox Caus-
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ed Mr. Dickenon's Death. !
Mond&y morning at six o'olook,
John Benjamin ! Dickenson, a well
known pioneer " of Athene and the
Northwest, died at bis horns on Third
street, aged 77 . yean; ,eeven months
and 27 daye. Death was directly due
to smallpox, although the old gentle
man .bad 'been - ailing for several
months with kidney trouble and drop-'
sioal complications, and bat for this
fact, would perhaps have recovered
from smallpox, as- it was iu light
form as noticable in the oases now
confined in the family of John" Roth
rook. ' . :. ..' . ' "
Mr. Dickenson has been a ' resident
of Athena einoe 1875, and for many
years worked at his trade of Yragon
maker. He had an extended acquain
tance throughout the Northwest. Jn
early . days he frequented mining
camps in this state. California and
Washington and did his share in hew
ing out tbe trails of Western enter
prise and progress. He freighted,
mined, packed and hunted ' and fol
lowed other pioneer pursuits as occa
sion demanded, and assisted in several
campaigns when it was neoesaary to
subdue tbe redman by foroe. '
- His life has always been one of
justness and uprightness, and be bad
been a consistent Christian for many
years. Tbe stamp qf pioneer associa
tions clung to bim with indelible
characteristics to the end and "Uncle
Diok," as be was familiarly called,
will be sadly missed in this commun
ity. : ' '!: V
He was born in Albemarle county,
Virginia. May 19, 1884, and when a
yonng lad moved with his parents to
Boone county, Missouri, which was
then the frontier border. f" V
'When tbe California gold oall echo
ed throughout tbe nation in 1849, he
linked bis fortunes with those nf hun
dreds of other argonauts -who merged
themselves into civilization's skirmish
line iu its maroh to tbe golden West.
Later he came to tbis state and in
1871, at Koseburg, was united in mar
riage with Miss Naomi Banks, who
with three eons and two daughter?,
survives him. The sons are: Oliver,
of this oity; Sims, of Santa Rosa, Cal
ifooia and Roscoe, of Ukiab;, tbe
daughters, Miss Ruth of this oity, and
Mrs. Lizzie Clark, of WaJla Walla.
Since 1875, Mr. Dickenson has been
a resident of this city continuously,
with tbe exoeptiou of a period of five
years be spent on a ranch near Ukiab.
The funeral servioes were oonduoted
at the grave Tuesday morning, by
Rev. Denny, servioes at the church or
home being impossible owing to the
contagious disease from wbioh Mr.
Diokensoo died. ' 1
, New Store for Athena.
The Cos building has been leaded
to tbe Arm of Frost & Penney, of tbe
Golden Bale line of stores wbioh are
established throughout the Paciflo
Northwest. The store will be opened
for tusiness about the first of April,
Mr. Frost is now in New York, where
with other buyers be . is purchasing
stock for tbe-Golden Rule stores. ,
Improving Theatre.
Rawl Miller, proprietor of the
Dreamland Theatre, believes in giving
Iris patrons the best 'going. From
time to time he has made many im
provements since opening tbe theatre
to the pa blio and he is still at it.
This week the entire front of the
bnilding is being replaoed with one of -
modern, oity design. ;
Raalrpt Rail flam Pnatnnned. '
Tbe double header basketball games
between tbe pioked teams of tbe town
fellows and the two High sohool teams
wbioh were to have been played to
morrow evening bave been postponed.
Announcement of the. games will be
made .through the columns of tbe
Press. .
THE STRAPONTIN,
Found In Parisian Theaters, ft Is a
Delusion and a -Snare.
7- la every Paris theater there are two ;
or three score "strapontins." You won-'
der what a strapontin is? Well, it is a
folding or strap seat on the aisle at
tached to the side of the aisle chair of
the orchestra or balcony rows. It has
neither sides nor back and Is without
risible , means - of - support except
through affiliation and attachment'
The unsuspecting American tourist
whose stay In Paris is but a matter of
days approaches the Parisian box of-.,
flee and is shown the diagram by.
the middle aged, lady with the blond
curls. Guilelessly the visitor indicates
what be believes to be an aisle seat,
and congratulates himself on his luck
at so late an hour In capturing it .
A few minutes later he has paid bis
10 cents for a program and tipped the
woman attendant who shows him to
his strapontin. It Is as devoid of legs,
or feet this-strapontin,; ns of arms
and vertebrae, a device to be shunned
and tabooed. ..You squirm to make,
yourself comfortable, to secure some
attitude whereby the hardships of the.
strapontin may be annihilated, but in,
Vaiii. ; It drives from your mind the
most seductive music, the most dra:
matic episode falls to affect you, and
your thoughts are forced back on the
Instrument of torture which has cost
you the full 10 francs, the price of an
orchestra chair. New York Press. ; ;
UKANAA1BUR1A0' GROUNDS. ;
Bolivia's Fearsome1 Valley of the Shad-;
ow of Death. ' "
'i There Is a vallev in Bolivia, South
America, which might well be1 called
the Valley of the Shadow of Death, it
tins hppn inhabited for an Indefinite
period of years by the Kanaa Indians,1
who are kindred to the various South
American tribes and huinber "now only
a few hundred souls. . -
That they were once a very powerful
trib Is Indicated b.v' the condition of
the' land which, they as a tribe1 still in
habit f One cannot travel any distance
through their land without coming
upon.. tbe. old ('ahd ' forsaken burial
grounds Of the' Kanaa dead, i These
places cannot be called graveyards, for
the bodies are not burled, but rather
placed upon elevated platforms, wrap
ped in the garments of death and
bound to the crossbeams that they
may not be displaced. - :,
In one of these ourial grounds there
will be probably "fifty 1 high' skeleton
platforms, and on each will He from
three to five of the Kanaa dead. The
air In that part of Bolivia is very pure
and preservative, for It Is one of the
highest plateaus of thO contlnent, al
though Kanaa valley is Just a little
below the plateau's height A traveler
passing through that land at night and
by moonlight would be awe stricken at
the gloomy vision those graveyards
present " '
Won by Hla Wit'
On one occasion a dress rehenrsnl at
His Majesty's theater was prolonged
till the small hours of the morning.
The company grew very wenry, par
ticularly a gentleman who had been
with Sir Herbert Tree in a good many
productions, but who had never at
tained to more than a very tiny part.
When the time came to rehearse liis
few lines he,wa so tired that his voice
was anything but distinct.
"WhafB the matter, Mr. Z.?" ask
ed Sir Herbert in his most sarcastic
tones. -"Are you saving your voice for
the rehearsal?" V , '
"No, Sir Herbert," was the retort;
"I've never been able to save anything
under your management"
- Sir Herbert, an exceedingly witty
man himself, was so pleased with the
retort that the salary of the small part
man was raised. London M.'A. P. ;
A VICIOUS COLONY
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the Andaman Islands. . 1
life - Convicts from India.
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Athena, Oregon :q
Opposed to Mourning Clothes. '
"A southern physician of recognized
skill and eminence urges that all out
ward symbols of mourning should be
abandoned," says Munsey's. "For ninny
years he has expressed his views. He
has won over a large number of peo
ple who see no reason ,wby the heart
should advertise Its sorrow by the
conspicuous Insignia of gloom. There
are or have been peoples wiser in
their generation. Tbe Romans of the
days of the republic wore blue as a
sign of mourning, ' It is tbe proper
thing In"; Asia Minor now. The Turk
mourns In violet and the Persian In
pale, brown Until n French queen
set the present fashion in the latter
half of the fifteenth century white was.
the color of grief in Europe, ns it is
now' in China." . r
A Generous Actor.
I remember when Toole was playing
an exceptionally fine engagement with
us that he said laughingly: "Oh, by
the way, Calve.rt, if my wife comes
down next week don't say anything
about the Wg receipts. You see, I've
a lot of nephews and nieces, and they
all expect tips from Uncle Johnnie.
Last year they had over 400 from me,
and my wife thinks I rather overdo
it" "Slxty-elgbt Years on the Stage,"
by Mrs. Charles Calvert - -
Quite Different
"I suppose bis wife is the most care
less housekeeper in town." .
Toor fellowl"
"And she bas half a million in her
own right" -
"Ah, that's different" Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
'- Gossip. '.
"I wonder why gossip travels so
fast"
"Because the tongues which carry It
are always pa the roll." Baltimore
American.
Often" the Most Desperate Prisoners
" Kill One Another, While Others Fall
. Victims to the Native Head Hunters,
to Whom Murder la Snort. ; ' '
" Frederick Taylor,' F. It G. S., -wilting
In the Century Magazine about life In
the Andaman islands, says: ' .
' "The sailing of the Maharaja from
Calcutta for the Andaman islands was
not accompanied by the usual goodbys
and handkerchief waving, for of my
fellow passengers there were seventy
to whom no one wished bon voyage
or a safe return, These were convicts,
all murderers under life , sentences,
who for some reason had escaped tbe
death penalty, and included six worn-;
en, for the Maharaja is the ship used
by the colonial Indian government to
transport convicts to the penal settle
ments near Port Blalr,; South Anda
man island, a distance of 050 miles
f rom Calcutta. ' ; 1 s
"Tho prisoners were1 "all ' manacled
and shackled ; about the ankles, - with
chains fastened to bands at the wrist
They "were a despicable lot At night
a continual moaning and cursing and
hopeless sobbing came up "from tbe
hatches and made sleep out of the
question for me, though the European
officer in the steamer's cabin apparent
ly slept undisturbed. Early the' first
morning I went on deck and learned
that two of tbe male prisoners were
ill and had been brought up to the
deck for air. They were closely guard--ed,
and raw recruits were stationed at
the railing to prevent them from com-,
mittlng suicide by Jumping overboard
into the Hugli river. ;
' "The Andamans are literally the
homes of murderers. The inhabitants
are the most vicious members of on,
older civilization and the uncivilized
head hunters, among whom murder is
A sport and a pastime. In the settle
ment are about 1,700 prisoners, includ
ing 800 women: On arriving at Port
Blab: the prisoners first . spend six
months in solitary confinement in tbe
cellular Jail of Viper island. They are
then transferred to one of the associ
ated Jails and the comparative bless
ing, of hard labor in company with
others, though still occupying separate
cells ot-night. After a year and a
half of this they become slaves, work
ing in and about the settlement during
the day and sleeping in barracks at
night, always closely guarded. At the
expiration of five years a convict be
comes eligible to, Join'-the colony of
'self supporters' and live in the vil
lage, where he earns his living in his
chosen way, lives In bis Own house
and can send for his wife and chil
dren or marry a convict woman. In
a limited sense he becomes a pater
familias, but ' is always carefully
watched and cannot leave the settle
ment without permission. 1
"Despite the rigid discipline and the
vigilance of the authorities tho com
munal life is far from harmonious,
and the more vicious often rebel. Tho
murderers kill one another and are in
turn murdered by the treacherous An-
damanese, who regard the hapless con
victs and their guards ns their natural
prey. Occasional attempts at escape
are made by the prisoners, but tLs ef
forts inevitably prove disastrous. The
fugitive, finding his conditional free
dom worse than servitude, either dies
at the hands of tho Jarawa warriors,
falls a victim to fever or other din
ease or starves. There is also a sys
tem in rogue by which the more
friendly ' tribes of savages co-opernte
with the authorities in capturing es
caped convicts and receive, rewards
for the return of the unhappy desert
ers. More often, however, the head
hunters kill , the fugitive and return
only the head, receiving the reward
just the same, the killing adding zest
to tho chase and the return of the
head being tbe easiest and quickest
way of earning the reward.
"Under these conditions .there ' are
few attempts nt escape, though many
remarkably hazardous dashes for lib
erty have been made from time to
time, which, though futile, were most
daring. Somo time ago tbe steamer
Fulata, picked up a poor, emaciated
wretch who was sighted on a small
bamboo raft off the Arakan coast Ho
was later found to be an escaped con
vict. When picked up ho had been on
the raft for twenty-nine days during
one of the southwest monsoons and
had secured water by catching the
rain and sucking it from his turban
and loin cloth. Jle lived upon flying
Dsh that flew aboard the raft, eating
them raw, IIo was swept off tho raft
many times by the waves, but had
managed to cling to it. After a month
in a hospital at Rangoon he was re
turned to prison and solitary confine
ment "Another daring attempt at escape
was made by n party of six convicts
who were sent with two native police
men to a small island off the middle
Andamnn to work. They managed to
escape from the guards and, hoisting
(he sail of the small boat, started out
in a gale. After seven days of heavy
weather they were dashed upon the
rocks of fhe Tenasserlm const, and the
boat was wrecked. All escaped with
their lives and eventually reached the
Siamese border, where they were ap
prehended by the local authorities and
returned to tbe prison.
OUR PUZZLING TONGUE.
Snags a Foreigner Strikes In Trying to
Master English.
in spite' of certain undeniable dis
advantages the : English language
steadily makes headway. There are
few tongues so hard to master. One
foreigner who has had his troubles, but
has won his way to a perfect command
of tho language, has presented in' the
Bookmap some of . the humors and
some of the difficulties which belong
to this richest of living languages.
: As a boy I heard a fantastic Turkish
legend which' to my mind aptly, illus
trates the actual facts concerning the
origin and formation of modern' Eng.
ush. - --
. After creating the first parents of
each of the races, the story runs, Allah
took a large piece of meat, and, cut
ting it Into slices, distributed them
among all the people to Berve them as
tongues. Tor some reason the English
man, was absent when , the others re
ceived their share. At last he came
Into the presence e-f.hls Maker and
in mute humility begged him to put a
tongue into his mouth. But nothing
was left of the meat So Allah was
obliged to cut a little piece from the
tongues of all the others, and, joining
these pieces, he fashioned a tongue for
the Englishman. , . f .;
The orthography of the Engllsli'Jan
guage does not by any 'means contain
all of a foreigner's troubles. One bf
the most perplexing characteristics bf
the English tongue is the fact that, as
a rule, the same word has different
meanings. My dictionary gives to the
verbs see, lead, hold and draw four
teen, eighteen, nineteen and thirty:two
meanings respectively. Now, for a for
eigner to be able to distinguish all
these various meanings is a tremen
dous task. ' The 'words ' which 'have
only one or two meanings aro com
paratively few. Is It surprising that, a
foreigner is often puzzled by the nju.
merous mid' sometimes opposite mean
ings of many" !an English word? Just
as ttn illustration, consider the perplex
ity of & persevering Frenchman; over
the meaning of the word "fast." ' -
"Zia horse, salr, lie go queek. "What
jrou say?". , , . r,
"Yes ; he is a fast horse."
. "Ah, pardon, monsieur, but yopr
friend say be make fast his horse aad
he tie him to a post so he not go at
'all."v' '-';.,;, ,. :.
"Very true; he is made fast by being
tied." :;. : ... ; i( . : .
"Ah,' zat cannot be. lie cannot go
fast. But what you call a man that
keeps fast?" ,
"Oh, he is a good man that does not
eat on, fast days." . ', ; .'
"But I have seen one bon' vivant,
who eat and drink nnd-ride and do
everyzlug. Ze people say he Is a bad
man he is very fast." - , . !
"True, that is called living a fast
U'e" ; , , -,a ' 1 .
"Ah, certalnement Zen all zo days
of his life must be fast days." j f
"No, of course" . , , , ' '
"Eh bien. Does he eat every day?"
"Certainly he does." ! ,
"Zen how can he keep fast?" i :
"Why, ho keeps going, to be sure.?
"Vy, you tell mo to stand fast when
you want mo to keep still and go fast
when you want me to run. now can
I understand?"
; The Rooker Rebelled.
In the early days of missions ia Per
sia the people were naturally suspi
cions of the missionaries and were con
stantly on the lookout for something in
their houses which would exert a bale
fur influence upon native visitors, A
Persian lady, calling one day on an
American missionary lady, wished to
sit in a rocking chair, which was some
thing she had never seen before. Suq
got up into it with her feet and at
tempted to squat upon ber heels, as
she would have done upon, the floor,
with the result that she and the chair
both took a tumble backward. Hence
there went abroad a report that the
missionaries kept in their houses a
machine for converting people to Chris
tianity. Los Angeles Times,
Nothing Forgotten.
There is nothing no, nothing inno
cent or good, that dies and la forgot
ten. Let us hold to that faith or none.
An, infant, a prattling child, dying lit
tbe cradle, will live again in the bet
ter thoughts of those that loved it and
play Its part through them in the re
deeming actions of the world, though
its body be burnt to ashes, or drowned
in the deep sen. Forgotten! Oh, if
the deeds of human creatures could be
traced to their source, how beautiful
would even death appear! For how
much charity, mercy and purified af
fection would bo seen to have their
growth In dusty graves! Dickens
Setting Him Right. '
. Saplelgh Would youer advise me
to er marry a beautiful girl or a
sensible girl? llammersleyI'm afraid
you'll never be able to marry either,
old man. Tapleigh Why .not? Ilam
mersley Well, a beautiful girl could
do better, and a sensible girl .would
I now better. Pittsburgh Press.
Over Hie Heed.
. "It Is seldom nowadays foot you find
a man familiar with Eplctetns."
"Hum! That's true. Still, science
has made rapid progress in the treat
ment of contagious diseases." Cbica
go Record-Herald.
niiBEcgiis
FACTOR 111 RAGE
water co,mmissio::er would
ee a coxgressmah
La' Grande 'Man Announces
His Pla&n, Says He is V
Stranger tb Public Service.
. George T. Coohran, state water
superintendent, a resident of La
Grande, has made formal announce
ment of his oandidaoy cn the repub
lican tioket for oongtessional . nomi
nation from this district. Among
other things in his announcement,
Mr.' Coobiau says: ,.
"I have definitely decided to seek
to further serve tbe people of my state
as their . representative la congress
from tbe Second distriot. ,,. My present
position bh state water superintendent
has brought me in toaoh with the
needs of tbe district, and I thoroughly
believe I can render, .my constituency
more beneficial servioe by this ad
vancement. 4
" 'A solution of our" national irriga
tion problem, an Alaakan polioy that
will cermit of present as well as fa
tuie benefit, a more liberal putlio
land, poliov jot tbe development of
our arid lands and the benefit of the
home builder, and a continuing appro
priation foi the Oelilo oanal . and the
opening of the Columbia river, will
have my earnest support. , , . ' .
. "I am no stranger to pnblio servioe.
Three years were spent in tbe govern
ment servioe in the Philippine is
lands, wbioh gave me personal knowl
edge of conditions on wbioh to base a
proper policy with leferenoe to our in
sular possessions." .v ,.
ISy MAKER OF MANY WILLS
Mabel Young Warner Must Stand
Trial For Fraud.
The value of a thing is the peace of
mind it gives you.
Immune.
"Madam, can I sell you a vacuum
cleaner?"
"No, sir; we hain't got any vacuums'
in this house that need cleaning."
Excbangp.
vllope says to us at every moment.
"Go on, go on!" and lends us thus to
tho grave. Do Mululcuon.
",' For tbe third time Marel Warner,
alleged "maker : of many fraudulent
wills, on January 39 will face a jury
on a obarga of forgery, Cirouit Judge
Phelps having this week set that date
following the indlnl ment returned
against her several months ago by the
grand jqry, Twice has she gone
through tbe ordeal wbioh was to de
cide whether or not the would goto
the penitentiary and twice she came
free by reason of a fury disaRreement,
although once, it is said, 11 of tbe
jury stood for conviction. ,
Mrs. Warner is alleged to have made
five separate wills to whioh she is
obaroed with forging signatures iu
an effort to gain possession of the es-'
tate of James Young, ber unole and
stepfather. One of these wills was op-
held by Judge Henry J. Bean, now
supreme judge and former oirouit
judge of tbis distriot. Upon an appeal
the supreme oourt reversed the decis
ion of Judge Bean and Mrs. Warner
was ousted from the. farm whose
profits she bad been enjoying.
Another will is alleged to have been
drawn up but it was never filed tor
probate teoause of tbe publioity given
it after tbe fact fit its existence bad
leaked ont, ' Shortly afterwards the
grand jury met and returned an in
dictment against Mrs. Warner for
forgery, tbe basis of the charge being
tba will whiob tbe supreme oourt de
clared W be fraudulent. , : ,
Mrs, Warner professes to. have no
fear of the outcome of tb'Q coming
trial for she declares she baa evidence
enough not only to establish ber own
innooenoe but to pat tbe leaders in tbe
long tight against her in the peniten
tiary. She will be tiled by an ontside
judge beoause of the connection Judge
Phelps bad with 'her two previous
trials while he was distriot attorney.
The Smallpox Quarantine,
School and obnroheg are closed tbis
week on aoooont ot smallpox oases in
tbe oity. For tbis week at least, put
lio gatherings ot any nature will te'
prohibited. The disease is oouOned in
tbe family of John. Kothroob, there
being no other oases la Atbena or
violnlty. It is alleged that Mr. Dick
enson, who died from smallpox, was
on tbe fair road to recovery, but dur
ing tbe temporary absence of , attend
ants, rose frop bis bed and exposed
himself tn the oold, thus suffering a
relapse, lie bad a light case, wbioh
be contracted from his neighbors, tbo
Rotbrooks, so it is said. Tbe other
members of tbe family bad tbe dis
ease some years ago. Tbe members
of Mr. Bothrook's family are still in
quarantine, though all have recov
ered from the disease.
Odd Fellows-Rebekah Social.
A pleasant time was bad Saturday
evening at tne tioage iiau wnen uaa.
Fellows and Bebekabs and tbelr in
vited friends ' enjoyed a social and'
banquet A short program was otfered
in tbe way of entertainment and tbe
splendid banquet was a notable fea
ture. Daooing was indnlged in for
an hour. That the Odd Fellows an l
Rebekabs know how to entertain to
perfootiou was the deoisioo of all
present . . .
Everything la Winter goods at 18 to
CO per cent discount. The Sale is on
nnw. Fix & Radtke.
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