Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer
VOLUME XXIV.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 9. 1912.
NUMBER 6
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..'-' : OFFICERS :
8. F. WILSON, President,
H. KOEPKE Vice-President,
F. S. Le GROW, Cashier,
E. A. 2ERBA. Ass't Cashier,
DIRECTORS
S. F. WILSON. H. KOEPKE,
W. S. FERGUSON M. L. WATTS!
F. S. Le GROW.
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FIRST NATIONAL BAM
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PITAL AND SURPLUS. $100,000.00
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We extend to our Depositors every tAccommdation
consistent with sound Banking.
BAK5AVHER
DUSTPAN
OLD WAY
NEW WAY
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. j
II.A.BUNDY. Athena
THEIUMMUHII LUMBER CO.
Lumber, vMiU-Work and all Kinds of
BJIL:DING?lv1WERIAL.
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnson, Manager
Athena, Oregon
THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET I
We carry the best
That Money Buys
Our Market is
Clean and Cool
Insuring Wholesome Meats.
TAYLOR & LE GROW
Main Street, Athena, Oregon
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THE
INDUSTRIES"
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Tbo aim of tbo College U to dignify and popularise
tbo industrial, and to servo ALL tbo people. It offers
courses la Agriculture, civil Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engin
eering, Forestry, DomestioScletice and Art, Com
merce, Pharmacy and Music. . Tbo College opens
September Ud. Catalog free.
Address: SEOISTKAS. OEEOON AGEICUXTPEAL
COUXOB, CorraUla, Oregon.
JAPAN CORNERS
1PPIIIC SPACE
WHEAT SUPPLY IS UNEQUAL TO
THE PRESENT DEMAND.
May Climb to Dollar Mark
Before Coming Crop Is Put
On the Market for Sale.
game did Eobo have obanoe to win.
Athena guards smothered their oppo
nents at will and the work of Glen
Dudley was a revelation to lovets of
the Kama. , Emery Worthington and
the balanoe of the Gqnad showed np in
fine form. Hoskioa was the teat for
Eobo and to his superior work waa
daethesoore acquired by the boys
from the sagebrush town. The visit
ora were entertained by the high
aohool student body at the borne ; of
Mrs. A. B. MoEwen after the game.
'.The Portlland Journal of Monday,
concerning the present outlook ' of the
wheat market.-says:
All parta of the world are now eith
er bnying northwest wheat or inquir
ing for it. From Vladivostok, Si
beria, to Liverpool and from the up
permost protipn of Pnget Sound down
to Mexioo and through that reputlio
the oall is coming foi northwest grain.
Tha demand today is the greatest
ever known in this seotioc and only a
small amonnt of wheat probably 10.
000,000 bushels.' are in all bands to
fill it
Were this oall for the cereal alone
the only faotor, oonditioua here would
not be so wild as they are. Not only
is there the greatest foreign oall for
our wheat; but' our flour is wanted so
badly by tha orient that the trade
there is willing to order five months
or more ahead to get it. There are
orders in the market today for delivery
the latter part of May.
With all this aotivity in wheat and,
flour the farmers are reaping benefits
not dreamed of at the start of the
season. ' Wheat prioes are advancing
from 1 to So a bushel almost every
day. The market is so wild at this
time that there is no telling what will
happen tomorrow
Some even prediot f 1 wheat before
the new grain is ready for delivery.
In any event: if flour orders continue
to come for a .few weeks at lively as
they have done within the past month
there will not he more than two-thirds
enough wheat to All the oalL " "
In the midst of all the wild fluctua
tion in the wheat and floor market,
Mitsui & Co., the Rotbsohilds of Jap
an, have come to the front as having
oomplete control of the situation. The
firm stands to make several hundred
thousand dollars on reoent purchases
of wheat and flour in the Faoiflo
northwest as a result of the advanoed
prioes alone.
The firm has a looal branob where
affairs for the Faoiflo northwest are
direoted. When the demand for floor
and wheat began to oome from the
orient it was found to the dismay of
the looal trade that the Mitsnit com
pany had a "corner" on nine tenths
of the freight room on all the steamers
that were to leave Paoiflc northwest
points for months to oome. The firm
is said by marjy to be merely a part of
the Japanese government which is said
to have aooonnted for its advauoe in
formation in reoent years when dnties
were to be remade and freight charges
changed.
Athena to Have a Boys' Club.
For some time the pastor of the
Christian cbnroh has been busy form
ing plans for a Boys' Club. These
piano will be more fully unfolded
on Sunday morning at 11 o'olook,
when be will deliver an address on
Toe Boy Problem of Athena." In
order to lay the plans before the boys,
he invites them to bis study to talk
the matter over tomorrow at 2 o'olook.
He wants to see all the boys in Atbena
present. Let every boy who wishes tc
grow np to be a manly man oome
and hear these plans disonssed. Every
boy in town weloome.
Home This Month,
A. B. MoEwen, acoompanied by his
daughter Jessioa will return home
from their sojourn in Europe the lat
ter part of tbis month. Tbey have
spent several weeks in Sootland and
Ireland and before returning will go
to London Paris and Berlin taking
passage at Hamburg for the trip baok
to America.
Athena Won From Echo.
By a soore of 86 to 22 Athena High
sobool Basket ball team won from
Eoho High sobool at the gymoasinm
Saturday evening. At no stage of the
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DELL BROTHERS, C"KSSS,,H Athena, Oregon
Gun Play at Helix.
. Dick Lee a former resident of He
lix went to that place from Pendleton
with the intention of shooting Charles
Hopner who, Lee claims, had been in
timate with his wife. He met Hop
per all right and leveled his revolver
at him but obanging his mind turned
and ran into a livery stable where
be held the off ioers at bay for a oou
pie of boors. Finally he came ont
leaving his gun iu the bay loft. Be
was arrested and taken to Pendleton.
BAND CONCERT TOMORROW EVE
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Interesting Program ' of Music to Be
. Rendered at Athena Opera House. -
' The first concert to be given by the
Athena Band will be heard at the
opera house tomorrow evening. An
excellent program of vocal and in
strumental' musio will be rendered
under the direction of Professor Edgar
L. Smith, instruotor and leader of
the Band. ' "
Rehearsals for this concert have
been under way for some time and
the selections rauge from oIbseIo to
popular numbers. The prooeeds from
the oonoert will go into the band trea
sury for use in defraying incidental
expenses of the band. The program
for tomorrow evening follows:
Marob. The Outlook - Jewel
Band ,,
Seleotion, Bohemian Girl Tobani
Band
Bass solo, "King of the Desert,"
Owen Bosie
Intermezzo, "La Bose de Castello," -
- - - - Beiter
Band
Vooal solo, - Miss Zelma DePeatt
Marob, National Emblem - Bagley
Band
Beeitation, - Evangeline Fix
Waltzes,.. Loveland, - Holzman
. 'Band. : . , -.
Part 2. "' -Overture,
"Festal' Johnson's orohestra
Vooal solo - MisB Velma Wilkinson
Seleotion, The Royal Chef, - Jerome
Band.
Piano solo, seleoted - Prof. Blakeslee
Cuban Danoe "Trooha," Tyers
Band
Piano solo, Miss Belle Molntyre
March "The Commander," - Bagley
Band
Violin solo, sehoted, . - John Braden
Marob, "Ohariolteer," - . Hall
Band.
AN ENGLISH PENSIONER.
Superannuated at Birth and Drew tho
8tipend All His Life.
The wife of an English cabinet min
ister had promised to stand godmother
to an infant and, calling on the parents
a day or two previous to the- christen
ing, expressed her regret that her hus
band had nothing left at his disposal
of any importance and that the only
thing he could do for her godson was
to put his name on the pension list as
a superannuated general postman.
The offer was accepted. The pension
was regularly paid to the parents dur
ing the minority of their son end to
him afterward as long as he lived. He
thrived in the world, became an alder
man and attained a considerable age,
often declaring that he had more pleas
ure in pocketing the few pounds be
drew half yearly from this source than
he derived from the receipt of any oth
er portion of his income.
He died a few days after one pay
ment was due, and one of his executors
came to town to announce bis decease
and to receive the money. On asking
the clerk who paid him if it wns neces
sary to produce a certificate of the
death he was answered:
"Oh, no, not in the least I will take
your word for it My father paid his
pension as long as he lived, and I have
paid It myself for the last thirty years.
I am quite sure that the old gentleman
must be dead by this time." . , '
This recipient of the public bounty
bad been a superannuated postman for
upward of eighty years. Exchange.
To Bo a Real Actor.
Sinking one's identity in character
parts on the stage is but an insignifi
cant branch of acting. The displaying
of a personality beneath the makeup,
tho incarnation of a written character
In flesh and blood, by a sheer net of
genius on the part of the actor In fill
ing a part with his own personality,
tempered to the limitations of his role
the creation, in short of a living,
visible and intelligible being, Is tlto
grand goal of the actor's art
How well Richard Mansfield knew
that art! In his performances you
saw an Impenetrable makeup; but,
tbopgh Mansfield was hidden, behind
the disguise were the brains of tho
greatest dramatic genius of our gen
eration, fashioning steadily and su
perbly a character as be conceived it
out of the materials placed at bis com
mand by the playwright Henry Kol
ker in National Magazine.
Friendship is courteous and gentle;
it does not domineer, does not com
mand, bnt is satisfied with proposing
without exacting compliance. At the
same time It is indefatigable tn labor
wben labor can achieve i friendly pur
cose. . .... ...
VHITES Illl
III
INOIVNS INTERESTED IN THEiR
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION.
Extend General Invitation to
Become Honorary Members
and to Assist Them.
The Indians are muoh interested in
the organization of the Brotherhood of
'North American Indians. They held
a meeting at the Agenoy Monday of
tbis week, where the delegates who
attended the national meeting at
Washington. D. C. explained tho ob
jects and purposes of the organization.
It seems to be the purpose of the
Indians to have white people who are
interested in their welfare to join the
Brother hood as honarary ' memters,
and with this object in view Jim Ka
nioa, who is taking' considerable in
terest in the suooess of the fraternity
of red men, brings the following letter
for publioation in the Press A white
friend donblless composed the letter
for Jim, wbiob reads:
"The Indians on the Umatilla Res
ervation have organized their local
fraternity and joined what is known
as the Brotherhood of North Amerioan
Indians.
"No doubt most of the whites are
familiar with and know the purpose of
this organization bnt it is our purpose
in tbis letter, to make known to them
that tbis Brotherhood is an organiza
tion formed for the purpose of the
betterment of the Indian; however it
is open for any and all whites to join;
tbe more w cites that we oan possibly
get to join, the more wd feel we will
te reoognized before tbe Indian De
partment at Washington, and the more
solid will be ocr organization.
"Our looal organization was organ
ized last week, and at the present time
a number of Pendleton citizens have
signed and become members of oar
Brotherhood, and now we are extend
iugan invitation to all tbe whites to
join our fraternity and help us in our
cause of eoligbtenmeut.
"Many of tbe rules and regulations
you will have to acquaint yourselves
wi'h, for I have not the required
knowledge to set fortbr the matter in
full at this time. We wish those who
are in sympathy with tbe Indians and
with the uplifting and betterment of
them in their conditions to beoome
members of our f ratemUy.
"We do not exolude any one from
joining, however you understand that
all whites who join are houarary
members, but we will look to them a
great deal for advioe and soggest'ons.
Tbe more whites who join, the better
we will feel. We would feel very
grateful to yon if you give Ibis letter
spaoe in your next issue.
Kespectfnlly yours,
"Chief Umupine."
"By Jim Kanine."
Miss Kearney, Wednesday Might.
Tbusa holding cenaon tioke s for the
leotnre course should remember that
on next Wednesday evening. Miss
Belle Kearney, tbe famous woman leo
tnrer will bo iu Athena. Those who
did not buy season tiokets should buy
a single admission ticket, and hear
tbis wonderfully gifted woman, who
pleases her audience wherever she leo
tnres. Those having the leoture course
in obarge do not hesitate to gaurantee
an evening of intellectual profit to
those who attend tbe leotnre, for the
reason that Miu Kearney has been
bigbly recommended to them.
Meldrum Lectures.
A. Mackenzie Meldrum gave his
leotnre on Switzerland, in the Chris
tian oburob Wednesday evening, to
a eplepdid audience, who folly appre
ciated i tbe instrootive discourse and
tbe magnificent views of Swiss scen
ery, Mr. .Meldrum annonnoes his
next leoture for a week from next
Wednesday evening, when his sobjeot
will probably be "Yellowstone Park,"
by ieqnest. These Wednesday even
ing lectures will soon be discontinued,
and tbe opportunity of bearing them
should be embraced while tbey are in
progress. Mr. Meldrum will deliver
an illustrated sermon uezt Sunday
evening. .
New Telephone Line.
The "Skooknm" rural telephone
line is beiog established tbis week.
Tbe new line rnns south and east from
Atbena to tbe farm of Walter Adams
on tbe reservation. To a point west of
tbe Bergevio farm, the wires are car
ried on the Paoifio Telephone and Tel
egraph Co. poles. 1 he system is said
to be one of tbe best rural telephone
lines in tbe county, being constructed
of bb wire and forms a metalia oirooit
The system accommodates at tbo pres
ent eigbt phones and tbe patrons have
organized a stock company with Jos
eph Forrest, president; W. S. Fergu
son, vioe pretident; Walter Adams,
seoretary-trnasnrer.
May Debate "Yellow Peril" Question.
Pendleton bigb sobqpl and Atbena
bigb school debaters will thresh out
tbe question as to whether or not tbe
law exoluding Cbinaoien from this
country should be broadened to in
clude all Asiatics, if tbey meet at all
on tbe platform. Tbe Atbena super
intendent in a letter to Principal
Hampton submitted that question as
bis oboioe bnt stated that he was not
sore his sobool wonld have a team. If
tbe Atbena sobool withdraws from
the league tbe looal team may yet
win the eastern Oregon ohampionsbip
ty default. East Oregonian.
Successful School Entertainment
Those wbo attended tbe sohool en
tertainment aud basket sooial Friday
evening had a most enjoyable time.
The program was interesting and the
baskets were readily - disposed of.
bringing satisfactory prioes.' The
pooeeds f rom the sale of baskets and
admittance oharges amounted to $58,
and tbe sum will go into the fund
oreated to meet tbe incidental expenses
of the student body.
Pilot Rock Smallpox.
It is reported that smallpox oases
at Pilot Book continue to increase.
It is said there are fourteen oases now
nnder quarantine there. As elsewhere
in tbe county where the disease has
made its appearance, it is in mild
form. ;
POULTRY INDUSTRY AT HOME
Local Men Become Interested, With Re
ault Good Birds to Be Had.
' Looal men have beoome interested
in the breeding of fine poultry with
the result that in Atbena and vioinity
there are now some of tbe best speo
mens of standard bred fowls to be bad
anywhere. . With tbis announcement
also oomes tbe realization of the faot
hat standard bred poultry and eggs
for setting oan be had of these looal
fanoiers for less money than they oan
possibly be secured for importation
trom other states : The breeds now
represented here and baoked by the
integrity of looal men, are among tbe
best that are produced.
Charles Norris is breeding White
Orpingtons and S. 0. Rhode Island
Reds. His White Orpingtons oome
from tbe Kellerstrass strain, and his
Beds from the Dorr pens at Tacoma.
B. N. Hawks is preparing to make
a specialty of White Orpingtons.
His fine pen of pullets is beaded by a
splendid cockerel he pnrohasod at the
Valley Poultry show at Milton last
week.
' Viotor Burke will deal in S. 0.
White Leghorns of the Star strain,
represented on tbe coast by Casey &
Son of Waitsburg. He will have a
large number of eggs to offer tbis sea
son. '
F. B. Boyd will have a limited
number of eggs for hatching from bis
pen of S. 0. Wbite Leghorns. Five
pallets of tbis pen produoed 98 eggs
for the month of January. They are
also of the Star strain, headed by a
Wyckoff cookerel, purchased from
W. B. Brown, of Portland.
J. M. Swaggart is engaged in tbe
breeding of poultry on an extensive
scale. His pen comprises pnre bred
Barred Plymontb Rooks, Kellerstrass
prize winning Wbite Orpingtons and
tbe: Bice strain of Aoconas. Mr.
Swaggart has reoently Imported a
Peason White Orpington cockerel and
five prize winning Anoooa pullets. A
visit to his ranoh north of town will
oonvinoe any one that he has splen
did fowls.
Louis Keen t reeds S. C. Rhode Is
land Beds exclusively. He purchased
a pure bred oockerel at the Pendleton
poultry show.
Wallan-Elliott,
Mr. Claude Wallan of Adams and
Miss Maxino Elliot were united in
marriage at tbe borne of tbe bride's
sister Mrs. Caspar Woodward Wednes
day forenoon, A. M. Meldrum, pastor
of tbe Christian oburob of this oity
heing tbe officiating clergyman. Tbe
groom is a well known young farmer
of tbe Adams neighborhood and tbe
bride is a popular and highly respect
ed young woman of Walla Walla.
THE WORD MELODRAMA.
Originally Meant a Play In Whioh Mu
sio Was Introduood.
Nowndnys "melodrama" is in general
uho ns demoting a purely sensational
play, with an all but impossible hero,
herolno and villain among the charac
ters represented. Formerly the word
kept more closely in its signification to
actual derivation. "Melodrama" is
compounded of tho Greek words
melon, a song, and drama, an action,
a play, and was applied to two sorts
of performances when it first came
into use.
It signified a play, generally of the
romantic school, in which the dialogue
was frequently relieved by music,
sometimes of an incidental and tome
times of a purely dramatic character.
On tho strength of bis "Pygmalion" J.
J. Rousseau is credited with the in
vention of this style. Some of the so
called English operas of tbe older
school, such as the once famous "Beg
gar's Opera" and the once popular "No
Song, No Supper," are in reality true
melodramas.
In the second place "melodrama"
was applied to a peculiar kind of the
atrical composition in which the actor
recited his part in nn ordinary speak
ing voice, while the orchestra played
a more or less elaborato accompani
ment appropriate to the situation and
calculated to bring its salient features
Into tbe highest possible relief. Tho
merit of the Invention of this descrip
tion of melodrama belongs to George
Benda, who used it with striking ef
fect In bis "Ariadne nuf Nnxos," pro
duced at Gotha in 1774. London Globe.
An Exeepi'on.
"TnkP my lidvli e itnd mind your own
nffnlra. No mnn ever got rich fighting
other people's buttles."
"I don't know. How about tt law
yer?" Boaton Transcript
Mrs. rim is
up it Linn?
EXCAVATES DOCUMENT FROM
WESTON RUBBISH HEAP.
Proposes Having Document
Giving Young Estate to Her
Probated at Once.
Following on the heels of her ao
qultal on tbe obarge of forging a will.
Mabel Young Warner annonnoes the
disoovejy of another will whioh she
says she will offer for probate. -
Tbis is tbe seventh will to make its
appearanoe in tbe long flgbt that has
been made between Mrs. Warner and
the Watts' for tbe possession of tbe
J. W. Young estate, Mrs. Warner
and tbe wife of Dr. Watts both claim
ing to be rightful heirs to tbe estate.
Mrs. Warner alleges that she found
the will buried in a rubbish heap in
tbe rear of tbe Farmers Bank of Wes
ton, and that the document has been
in her possession since last August,
awaiting propitious opportunity to be
sprung for probate. With two notes,
so Mis. Warner's story rnns, the im
portant dooument which leaves tbe
bulk of the Young estate, to her and
outs tbe heirs now in possession of the
property off with the sum of f 1, wbs
found buried in a metal box, rusty
with age and ooniaot with tbe ele
ments., ,
She alleges the will was fonnd by
her after overbearing a conversation
between Dr. Watts aud bis wife, re
garding wbiob she is quoted by a Pen- "
dleton paper as saying:
"Night after night I drove ont of
tbis oity and np to Weston and wben '
Watts and bis gang were least aware
of the faot, I was on tbe job. Many
is the conversation whioh I have over
beard between them and it was in one
of these that I raoeived a clew that
tbe will had not been burned. I over
heard Mrs. Watts 6sk the dootor if
be was sure the will had been burled.
He replied that be didn't know, as be
had left that to Hall."
In this will Dave Lavender is
named as exeontor without bonds and
he is direoted in case be shonld need
legal counsel to employ Charles H.
Carter of Pendleton. Tbe will is sign
ed by J. W. Young and witnessed by
Peter West and L. Hunziker, both de
ceased.
Mrs. Warner professes to believe tbe
Knox instrument ou whioh she was
tried for forgery last week to be gen
nine, but says she has never believed
it to be tbe last will left by her unole,
J.W. Young.
Pasco Airship Factory.
Aooording to 0.-A. Zornea and J.
Lndwlg, the Paoso bird men, they will
ebortly oommenoe tbe construction of
five more airships of various types.
Tbe one tbey have now practically
completed will be exhibited in a trial
flight as soon as a speoial motor for it
is received from San Franoisoo. The
one oompleted is of a five-passenger bi
plane type. According to Mr.
Zornes, it is their intention to pnt
on a larger force of men in the im
mediate future and start really aot
ive work in exploiting tbe merits of
tbe Paaoo made airships. In addition
tbey will start tbeir sohool of aviation '
as soon as tbe necessary machines are
oompleted. At the present time there
are five men employe in tbe faotory.
Mabel Acquitted.
Mabel Warner was acquitted of tbe
charge of forging a will to tbe Yonng
estate, of wbiob she has been trying to
get several different juries to believe -her
to be tbe lawful and only heir.'
Tbe oase occupied all of last week in
tbe circuit court, with Judge Brad
sbaw of Tbe Dalles sitting on tbe
benob. Tbis is about tbe 'steentb
time tbat Mabel baa been the central
figure in court, in cases ootoiopping
from the wrangle over the ownership
of tbis estate.
Father of Echo at Rest.
James H. Koontz, tbe Father of
Eoho, was laid to rest in the family
lot in Odd Fellows cemetery in tbat
town Friday afternoon. His nephew,
Edward E. Kooota of tbis city attend
ed tbe funeral. Tbe deceased was
bo'u in Belmont county, Ohio, May
2, 1830, and came to Umatilla Land
ing in 1863, In 1881 be started tbe
present town of Eobo. He was a mem-.
bet of tbe Methodist Epieoopal oboroh
and had been identified with tbe Odd
Fellow order slnoe 1868.
Athena Well Supplied.
With two pioture shows running,
socials and entertainments from time
to time Atbena citizens are having an
assortment of amusements and enter
tainment at present to suit all tastes.
Oct of tbe ordinary is tbe leetore of
Miss Belle Kearney, on next Wednes
day evening. Tbis will prove to be
one of tbe most interesting enmbers
on tbe lyoenm program. An entertain
ing and enlivening event will be held
at tbe opera bouse tomorrow evening,
wben tbe Atbena Band, assisted by
local vocalists and pianists, will give
a concert.
H. O. Wortbington has teen en
gaged in tanning and preparing a bear
bide to be osed as a rug. Luvoia Mo
Ewen is owner of the pelt, wbioh is
considered to be a fine one. by ail
who have seen it