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Newspaper Page TextBuy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXIV. ATHENA , UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 24. 1912. NUMBER 21 OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKE Vice-President. F. S. Le GROW, Cashier. E. A. ZERBA. Aas'L Cashier. DIRECTORS S. F. WILSON, H. KOEPKE, W. S. FERGUSON M. L. WATTS, F. S. Le GROW. FIRST NATIONAL BAfl OF ATHENA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $100,000.00 We extend to our Depositors every" cAccommdation consistent with sound Banking. Paint Protection The paints we proffer the public hereabouts have- a bull dog grip on the situa tion. That is, they hold fast hans on, endure, last long, worth while considering, because some paints look pretty for awhile, then fade blister and fall off. BTJNDY PAINT STORE THE TUM-A-LUPl LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and ail Kinds of x ...... BUIL.DING MATERIAL: PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M; Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon THE ATHENA MEAT WiARKET We carry the best EATS That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. D. II. MANSFIELD Main Street, Athena, Oregon Athena Bateiry A. F. Crusey, Proprietor All Bakery Products are Fresh Daily. We carry a fine line of Confections, and serve light Lunches. Soft drinks and Ice Cream are specialties with us. Give us a call. NAVAL IJIUl TO BE 0 WEST ANNOUNCES PURPOSE TO CUT USELESS EXPENSE. Organization, Which I Has Been In Existance a Year Costs $1300 Per Month. Following Governor West's abolish meat of the offioe of superintendent at tbe state prison in the Interests of economy, be now proposes to disband the state naval militia wbiob is cost ing the taxpayers of the state 1800 a month. "Unless a showing oan be made to justify its ezistenoe ty friends of the Oregon Naval Militia, the organiza tion will be disbanded SO days from This announcement was made by Governor West and is tbe seoond obap ter in bis campaign to trim and abol ish unnecessary and fruitless expend itures o taxpayers' money. He gives assurance that snoceeding ohapte's will follow with surprising regularity. . "1 he law creating the organizalion went into effeot May 20, 1911, and it has cost tbe taxpayers for 10 months, June 1, 1911 to April 1, 1912, about $13,000, an average monthly cost of about $1300." said tbe governor. "As tbe bill oreati jg the organization car ried an appropriation of $25,000, there is still remaining an unexpended bal- anoe of about $12,000. This amount will be saved if the organization is disbanded." Tbe naval militia' has been in al most constant turmoil sinoe its organ ization,' either over the eleotion of offioera or tbe oondnot of officers and the men on the cruiser Boston, whiob was assigned by the government for the oae f the mllltla-aod has been in Portland barber. - . t Adjutant General Fiuzer, chief ex. eoutive offloer of the Oregon National Guard and Naval Militia, is in entire" accord with the announced polioy of Governor West to disband the naval militia at tbe end of 80 days unless there is in the meantime a big im provement In the conduot of tbe offio era and men of the organization, "I bave known for sometime." said the adjutant general, "that tbe gov ernor was serionsly considering dis banding the naval militia. The or ganization has been in a turmoil sinoe it oame into existence one year ago. Tbe officers have been fighting and sorapping among themselves and the men naturally bave little respeot for the antbority of their superiors. An other trouble, wbioh has bothered us all along, was tbe unwillingness of the oSioers of tbe organization to sub mit to tbe authority of the naval hoard. We bave bad trouble in en forcing discipline in the organization, tut this condition has improved some what during the past 60 days. In faot, the naval militia as a whole is in bet ter shape than it was a few months ago. - "I am confident that the governor would like to retain tbe state's naval organization, but I know that he will put it ont of business if every man oonneoted with it doesn't at once turn over a new leaf and help to put tbe organization on a muoh higher plane than it has ever been." . Mrs. Ralph Smaller Dead. Mrs. Ralph Smalley died Saturday evening at Walla Walla after a brief illness. The cause of death is given as kidney trouble complicated with heart failure. Mrs. Smalley was formerly Miss Elsie Myriok, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Myrick of this city. Tbe family were notified of the daugh ter s serious oondition Saturday even ing and left at once for Walla Walla. Tbe fnneral took place In that city Monday forenoon at 10 o cloofc. Road Improvement. Walla Walla Union : After spend ing almost balf a day inspecting differ ent highways, tbe oouoty commission ers praotioally deoided the road Walla a m ii if i m,m mm sh t.t m. mm mm bum n ,m ma m mm Km mm m- w m m m-m. mm mm mm w id ft ft ft ft. ft ft ft ft 7 'GROCERY PE0Sery WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT "Tain The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in 1s Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here DELL" BROraER "ot 9E5i .,N Athena, Oregon & G? Walla couhty will tuild from this city to tbe state line to oonnei-t with tbe highway Umatilla county is construct ing to join it will be what is known as tbe lower Milton mad, a county road rnoning from tbe Bradsn sohool, on the McDonald road, almost to the lower Milton road, and the MoDonald road from tbe Braden sohool to Walla Walla. By putting the highway through the properties of W. L. Rus sell and G. Hanson for a quarter of a mile to the lower road, a water grade oan be bad ana tbe stretob from this city to Milton and Freewater will be one of the finest pieoes of road in tbe northwest. .The thoroughfare will be macadam. Brown Is Captain. When the direotors of the Walla Walla base ball club in the Tri-State league met Tuesday to ont the salary list down to $1200 a month, White, who baa been oaptaining the team from tbe benob, was released and R. T. Brown, captain of the Athena pnnnant winners of last season, was given charge of the team. White is with tbe LaGiande team. The change is one that has been favored by' Walla Walla fans ever siuoe Brown joined the team. Brown will probably do the receiving behind tbe plate with John eon i for hh change oatober. Boise is playing at Walla Walla this week and LaGrande at. Pendleton. OBSTRUCTIONS INVESTIGATED Two Places Found in Pine Creek Where Salmon and Trout Cannot Cross. Edgar Averill and G. I. LaDow. deputy game and fish wardens, were in tbe oity Tuesday and went out to Pine creek to investigate tbe causes for fish not asoending that stream. They went out in Claud Steen's big Franklin automobile, acoompanied by Mr. Steen, Heury Barrett and Marion Bansell. Tbe prinoipal obstruction encount ered was a fall 9 feet bigb. The fall is caused by a baok-wasb of soil and the only remedy to boost the fish up stream is to build a raceway around tbe falls. The raoeway would entail considerable expense and whether tbe expenditure would be justifiable, de pen del on whether there is a suffici ent number of fish entering the stream from tbe Walla Walla river. Further investigation will be made by the war dens before this faot oan be established. There is another fall on tbe Wash ington side and Mr. Averill has taken the matter up with the Walla Walla Englers' association, with tbe result that a fish ladder bas been estab lished there. Tbe fall examined by Mr. Averill and party disolosed a disoouraging state of affairs. Tbe flood waters bave tackwasbed the soil to the extent that no permanent work oan be done in es tablishing a flab ladder, and to give tbe fish passage over tbe obstruction would necessitate tbe oonstruotion of a flshway around for a distanoe of about 160 feet. To keep tbe soil from fur ther cutting away and injuring two irrigation ditohes direotly above the obstruction, a flume has been built to oarry tbe water over tbe bank. Ibe water runs through this and drops nine or ten feet into a deep hole in tbe creek bed, making it utterly im possible for fish to pass upstream. CHANGED HIS "M1N0. Hf Wat Awful 8trong, but Ho Took Dielike to Boxing. Talking of the padded mitt and its practitioners, some one remembered a story of Tom O'Rourke when he was managing that black warrior, Joe Wol cott Every now and then some green horn would happen along and beg to be tried out It-afforded Mr. O'Rourke and Mr. Wolcott a great deal of inno cent pleasure to try tuem out plenty. On one occasion a large walnut color ed man came, hat In hand, to O'Rourke. "Ah'm most powerful desperlt, Mr. O'Rourke," said he, "an strong! My. my, Ah'm that strong1 Ah'm jes' natch ally afraid to leave mahself go. Ab want you to match me to fight wiv somebody.". O'Rourke said that would be easily done If the caller was as good a fight er as be believed himself to be. But he'd have to be tried out first The stranger said he was willing, and O'Rourke called Wolcott "Take this man out in the gym," said be, "and try him out" The pair fiddled and fenced about for awhile. Then Wolcott got bis chance, whanged that right hand over, and the stranger bounced three times before be came to rest. By and by he waked up to find O'Rourke bending over bint. "Mebbe Ab'd make a pret ty good wrestler, Mr, O'Rourke," said be hopefully. Cincinnati Times-Star. Cold Blooded Man. "Man is tbe coldest blooded animal there is," said a well known doctor. "Man's low temperature," the doctor went on, "Is responsible for more than half his ailments. Your normal tem perature Is degrees F. It Is only when you bave a bad temperature that. you get as warm as any of the lower animals that Is to say, when you are in a high fever, with a tem perature of 102, you are at the normal heat of the cat, tbe dog, the ox, the rat, and so on. In the coolest of seas tbe porpoise is' never cooler than 100 degrees. The bat the rabbit tbe guinea pig, the bare and the elephant likewise are all coot at 100 degrees. The hen bas tbe highest temperature of all the lower creatures, and It Is a good deal wanner, too, when a chicken. Its temperature then Is as high as 111, but age and experience cool its blood by 3 degrees." New York Globe. THE LfflOF COLD Absolute Zero and the Way It Is Defined by Science. POINT' OF MOLECULAR DEATH At 459.4 Degress Below the Fahrenheit and 273 Degrees Below the Centi grade Zero There Is No Heat, No En ergy and No Motion Within Matter. Few people have any definite idea of the meaning of absolute zero. When temperatures or degrees of heat are mentioned it Is natural for most people to think of these degrees as given on the household or Fahrenheit scale, with its freezing point at 32 de grees and Its boiling point at 212. The space on the Fahrenheit thermom eter below the freezing point of water is divided into thirty-two equal spaces down to zero. The other thermome ter scale In common use Is the centi grade scale, with Its boiling point at 100 degrees and Its freezing point at zero. The zero points on these two scales are not the zero of absolute temperature or absolute zero, but are only two relative points. Temperature as used and spoken of In ordinary practice Is only relative and Is measured In reference to two points the boiling and freezing points of water at sea level. But science and scientific Investigation requires another scale for its measurements, which has a theoretically correct zero point. This scale is called the abso lute scale, with Its zero point 273 de grees below the zero of the centigrade scale and 459.4 degrees below tnat of the Fahrenheit zero. This Is whnfjs mea""' ' atur A? finei ter . mole spaci motif In ga and apar the lute matt matt of tl cles. To point Imag inchc watei this i grade m!m - , creased to 274 cubic Inches, uud If heated to 2 degrees Its volume will be 275 cubic Inches. Likewise, If the original volume be cooled 1 degree be low the freezing point of water Its volume will be decreased by one cubic Inch and become 272 cubic Inches. For every additional decrease of 1 degree tho volume will contract one two-hundred and seventy-third port of what It was to begin with, so that, If the cooling Is carried far enough, It Is easy to see that at 273 degrees below the freezing point of water the volume will become nothing. The volume of n gns Is due to the real volume of Its Individual particles, together with the rolunie of tho spaces between these particles. At ordinary temperatures thoso particles are In swift motion. But for every degree of cooling this motion Is slackened, and the paths of vibration become shorter. This motion continues down to 273 degrees below the centlgrado zero, where the motion has entirely ceased and the paths of the particles are infinitely short. Of courso the gas under consideration at 273 degrees will have a volume due to tho sum of the volume occupied by the molecular particles themselves. This 273 degrees then Is the abso lute zero. It is the point of molecular death. No heat Is there, no energy and consequently no motion. Matter at this point Is entirely motionless within Itself. . The thermometer scales of the world should be based on It as the logical starting point The freezing point of water, which Is zero on the centigrade scale, referred to tho absoluto scale Is 273 degrees, while tho freezing point of 32 on tbe Fahrenheit scale is 450.4 degrees on It. The ordinary tempera ture of a room Is about CS degrees F., or 527.4 degrees on tbe absolute scale. On the same scale summer beat is about C58 degrees F. The zero of absolute temperature has nearly been reached in the prepa ration of solid hydrogen gas and liquid helium. Tho temperature of liquid helium (one of tbe rarest of gases) Is only about 4 degrees above absoluto zero, so that the Individual particles of liquid helium have almost become motionless. Probably In tbe near neighborhood of absolute zero this gas, which Is tho only one that has not been solidified, will become solid and represent matter In its state of molec ular death.- W. 0. Dumas In Chicago Record-Herald. The Longest Novel. The "Story of tbe Eight Dogs" Is the longest novel that bas ever been pub lished, Fortunately, perhaps. It is written In Japanese, so no one will set himself tbe task of reading it It con tains 100 volumes, several hundred characters and numerous dogs, all of which are successfully disposed of by the time tbe last chapter Is reached. Just Imagine reading through that one book tbdt would last a lifetime! Tbe world's great men have not com monly been great scholars nor Its great scholars great men.-Holmes. : AN ARMY OF PECCAfilEST Fierce Fighters Are These Tusked Wild Pigs of South America. The peccaries of South America are formidable because they attacked their enemies in large bodies and with great vigor and bravery. The method and skill of their charges suggest that they are led by chiefs skillful enough In predatory , warfare to direct the sur rounding and destruction of a powerful jaguar. - The object to be stormed Is surround ed In silence by a circle of hundreds of peccaries. At a given signal a simul taneous snapping of teeth occurs, which is followed by a converging rush toward the center. The largest and strongest reach tbe front first, and the smallest and weakest bring up In the rear. Those in front are pushed on by tbe mass in the rear, so that the enemy Is constantly confronted by a rank of foes, no matter how many he may have disabled. An American engineer while survey ing a Brazilian forest for a railway route encountered a herd of peccaries one night and with difficulty drove them off. nia experience affords an illustration of tho bravery of these wild pigs. ' One day ho and his party came upon a morass, the furrowed ground, trod den grass, turbid pools and pigsty odor of which indicated that it was the headquarters of all the peccaries in the vicinity. But not a pig was to be Been. : Tbe camp was fortified. Ip tbe night there came an alarm. Suddenly from all around- rose tbe sound of simulta neous snapping of teeth, and then came tho charge of hundreds of black animals rushing toward tho fort Guns were discharged, and the occu pants reached down and slashed with their knives at the swarming pigs be low. .-Numbers of these were cut down the men in the fort, but others, im jd by those in the rear, threw them ks forward, ripping and slashing 1 tbelr sharp tusks... idenly the attack censed. The an t had silently withdrawn. Then rat a moment's warning save the - of teeth came another wild re, and the tight was renewed, l tbe pigs drew off, and again they red the battle. Seven times they ed during the night, and not until eak was the last grunt heard. r's. ASTE OF SUPPLIES. slnete Problem and the Way One Factory 8olved It. one manufacturing plant the su- tendent found that bis men were jss with supplies. lie decided too much material was kept on in the shop. Mechanics found it an easier matter to throw away slight ly damaged or spoiled work and begin on U new pleco than to take precau tlons In turning out their work, re marks a writer In Business. He there fore devised a stores order which made every foreman responsible for raw mn terial issued to his department New material could not bo hnd from the general store except on requisition, and the general store would honor no requl sltlon unless It was O. K.'d by tbe fore man. These lists were kept on file and totaled at the end of ench month to en able the superintendent to make com parisons. This put the foreman on his guard not to nil out a requisition for some thing which ho did not absolutely need, and tho first six months after adopting this rule expenses In one department alone were cut nearly 20 per cent with out sacrificing efficiency. Tbe foreman also claimed thnt it bad a tendency to develop bis men into more skilled me chanics because they were under tho necessity of accounting for the work they spoiled in machining. The Postmark. Great Britain, It Is said, can, with out fear of contradiction, claim the honor of having originated the post mark. Tbo first one, which was used in London as long ago as 1000, was a very simple affair, consisting of a small circle divided Into two parts. In tho top portion were two letters indicating tbe month, while In the lower half the day of tbo month was shown. No endeavor was made to. de note the year, and It Is only by tho dates of the letters on which the mark is Impressed tbat It Is possible to fix the date of Its use.-London Standard. Tl ID Mill LEADERS IN OHIO HARMON WILL CONTROL STATE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. Roosevelt's Decisive Support Was General Througout the Home State ofTaft. ' According to returns on band from approximately 4500 of the 5192 pre oinots in the state, Colonel Roosevelt's delegates to the national convention carried Ohio's primaries by a plurality of 25,000. It does not seem possible that final results will ohange the number of del egates for either side by more than one or two. The best figures obtainable show tbat Roosevelt has S3 of the 42 distriot delegates and tbat President Taft has 10. Although late returns of the deniooratio presidential prefer ence primary vote gave Woodrow Wil son a fighting obanoe for "one or two delegates, tbe New Jersey governor's exaot standing will not be known for several days, when belated rural re turns have been proonred. Governor Harmon is assured of a complete delegation of 48 dolegatea in the Baltimore convention. His lead now gives him ooutrol of the state deniooratio convention wbioh will se lect six delegates at large. It also is said tbe convention will provide for tbo unit role wbioh will force tbe Wilson delegates eeleotad by diskiots to vote for Harmon. The delegates-at-large situation in the reputlioan party will not be known or settled until Jone 8, when tbe state republican convention is convened. An analysis of the recapitulated Roosevelt vote shows that the Roose velt strength was not confined to any particular Beotion of tbe state or par ticular class of oitizens. He carried mining and industrial sections, suoh as the Hooking Valley as well as some of tbe oldest and moat conservative suburban Communities. Venue. Venus is both a morning and evening star because she always accompanies tbe sun, never receding from him be yond certain limits, while the rest of the planets, with tbo exception of Mer cury, are seen at all possible angular distances from the sun. When Venus is to tbe west of the sun she rises be fore him and is a morning star, but when she is to tbe east of tbe sun she rises after blm and is an evening star. Granted. "Ah," cried the count gallantly as ho bent low before the American beauty, ! would I was ze glove upon your band.!' . "You may act in that capacity, count" he replied graciously. "I nev er wear a glove more than once, and then I give it to my mnld'-IIarper's. Two Unpleaeant Habit. "Isn't it 'orrible tbe way 'Obbes drops 'Is basplratesr "No more 'orrld than the way he drops 'Is vowels. I've got alf a dozen of 'Is IOU'sf-London Mall. Opinion of Him. BIobbt-Docs young Dr. Squills know much about medicine? Slobbs Well, 1 should eny tbat whnt he doesn't know about medicine would Oil r. mcrgue. Philadelphia Record. IN THE ALFALOOSA PATCH Iloldman Scores When Cow and Alfalfa Growth Interfere With Ball. Eleven to three was tbe soore in the Holdman-Athena game in this city Saturday afternoon, with tbe Cubs on tbe long end of the score-getting. Holdman was retired - in one, two, three order until tbe ninth, when with Dudley tiring and a couple of foozles in the Held, two scores were registered. Tbe other run oame in tbe fourth in ning wben a Iloldman batter binged out a olout into short right field. And while Walker was herding a miloh oow out of bis way to field tbo ball, the snheroid became seoreted io tbe alfaloosa" patoh and remained hid den witbin 80 feet of tbe first sack nntil tbe runner raoed home with a tally. Tbe Cubs opened tbe doin's in tbe first and scored four. Singles and two baggers aoaumulated on tbe Hold- man twirler with successive regularity and he was substituted in the second by Bannister, who held Athena off for a few innings, although be was not effective in tbe pinobes. Pell and was particularly aggressive with the bat and stung ont a borne run, clouting 1 the ball over the left field fenoe. Al exander and Sanders also wielded the wuiuw u proper siHgHB oi me Bessiou wbiob netted runs. , , Iloldman exhibited a nifty reoeiver beblud tbe bat, who had a Danny Shea wing wbiob bad the effect of! oheoking base pilfeiiog. Dudley and Sanders weie the batter? for tbe Cubs. Dudley showed considerable of bis old time form and ooly in tbe last inning did tbe visitors take kindly to bis t slants. Tbe Cubs booked op' with La Salle at Walla Walla Sunday, and oame out of an interesting scrimmage on tbe short end of a 0 to 3 score. Jonas, tbe 17 year old lad who pitched for Li Salle, allowed but five bits and struck out 17 batsmen. Pavne Won at Corvallis. Flovd Payne, Athena's long distance . runner won tbe mile raoe at Corvallis ' Saturday, participating in tbe inter sobolastio traok meet. In the mile events the Athena boy was an easy winner, with Lafky, Salem, second; Hyde, Baker, third. Time 4 minutes 88 4-0 seconds. The eooros of the state meet tesulted in favor of tbe following schools: Colombia, 83; La Grande, 17; Pendleton 13; Salem, 9; Vancou ver, 9; Lioooln 8; Corvallis, 8; Baker, 7; Athens, C; Dayton, 5; Eugene. 5; Marsh Qeld, 8; Grass Valley, 3; Jono tionCity, 2; Wallowa, 2; Lafayette. 1; New berg, 1. Puhllc RecitaL A pnfclio recital, given by (he pu pils of the Royal College of Porpora, under tbe tutorage of Professor U. O. Blakilee, was given in bis studio last Friday evening. Splendid vooal and instrumental seleotions were given by tbe advanced students, and marked progress was noted in tbe work of the beginners. This will te tbe last of tbe recitals notil after tbe heated term is over, wben they will be resumed.