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This Edition con tains four Pages Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer Athena Merchants Carry Big stocks VOLUME XXIV. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY. JUL? 19, 1912. NUMBER 29 1 v ' ISP OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKE Vice-President, F. S. Le GROW, Cashier, E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier. DIRECTORS S. F. WILSON. H. KOEPKE. W S. FERGUSON M. L. WATTS, F. S. Le GROW. FIRST NATIONAL BANK 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. BUNDY PAINT STORE THE TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Wrk and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNI5IIES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, Oregon ! THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET We carry the best P SHE AT, . That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. D. H. MANSFIELD Main Street, Athena, Oregon I Bakery 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. Cream iced in quantities for customers. EXPERTS ULunp ESTIMATES CROP AVERAGE IS EQUAL TO YIELD OF 1911 Heavy Stand on Heavy Land Fell Down Under RainsOn . Light Soil, Crops Good. Hymen H. Cohen, orop statistician and commercial editor of the Portland Journal, was in the city this week and traveled over the surrounding country tributary to Athena. Of crop condi tions here be writes to his paper the following: Umatilla county will in all prob ability prodaoe 5,500,000 bushels of wheat this season. This is a conserv ative estimate, it may be a trifle too mnob bo. The only drawbaok to the. wheat prop of Oregon's premier wheat grow ing county this season is that the wheat grew tog well. This state ments needs no qualification among those most famiiar with the situation. In the section tributary to Athena, both east and west, wheat grew so high and heavy this season that con siderable of it is lying down. The total output of wheat in Umatilla county this season will depend muob upon how muoh of this graia oan be saved by the threshing oiews and combines. The greatest damage in this respect was done within a few miles of Athena.- In the oountry east from Pendleton there is every indioatiou of an aver age better than 40 bushels per aore. Some of the wheat will go 50 bushels but the average will be well within 40 bushels. While the present sea son is a remarkable one in the light land sections, the rainfall which help ed the wheat there was rather barm f ol to the growing grain in the heavier lands. In the normal season when there is but little wheat to harvest in the light land sections, the country from Pendleton to Weston and over to Milton, always comes forward with a good yield. Therefore the present orop year may be considered rather freakish inasmuch as it has built up the yield of the ground usually called poor while it has really harmed the sections whore the best production is usually found. Taking Umatilla county as a whole there is a smaller aoreage of wheat growing this season. This decrease is generally estimated at about 10 per cent although some consider the slight increase in the light land ' planting will make up the most of this. There is uniformity among the growing wheat in this section, suob as is not shown in other parts of the state. . Only where the grain has fall en, due to excessive growth of heads and stormy weather, does an even sur face show. As in former years there are oertaia small traots in the Athena section that will go better than 50 bushels per aore. This, however, cannot be con sidered a representative of the orop in general beoause such enormous yiolds grow only ia spots and on very small traots that have been carefully nursed. Damage to barley in this eeotiou is even greater than wheat. BIG Til Pendleton Lodge of Elks the Best Bet at Portland National Convention. The Elks Lodae of Pendleton made a great. nit at Portland last week,, wiine in attendance at the National meeting of the Grand Lodge of the order. Besides winning three nrizes. the city was turned over to the "cow boys" and "Indians' Satnrdav nioht and the Portland Journal says that for a few hours the oity was turned into the frontier of civilization. Its paved streets beoame the ranee of the Indian and the oowboy. Its id THE lOlliii 1T PplilPKilW f?TflflC i3 PUfiL! ! 1 miWUKlil 1 111 PROW ' MIHCPE PMfiCQ APE PinilT pohne UtLlitnY If llB-llL. I IIIULU ftllL. IIIU1I I iJ $J: The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in II MAIN 83 j?j e Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here V-m, DELL BROTHERS, ZlfrmmiSl"" Athena; Oregon g marble balls were as the wiokiops of the passing red men. oelebratiog a last stand before the whites. , Portland, and especially the horde of strangers within its hospitable gates, enjoyed the show immeusely, and the nest morning, everybody was talking about It Pendleton's big delegation was the oause of it all and the oowboy tand, the "bookaroos" and the "Indians," who ordinarily are some of the town's most prominent citizens, took active part in the festivities. With musio, war whoops and Indian dances, the jolly bunob paiaded the streets, ser enaded the hotels and entered the leading hostelries of the city, horses and all. j The Pendleton '"show" was prob bably the prinoipal feature m a whirl wind of merriment and riot of hilar ity such as Portland never saw before, Thousands upon thousands packed the streets, the hotels and, the cafes, and the spirit of carnival pervaded every nook and cranny. - Portland gave it self over todily to unrestrained hilar ity. As an added feature and muob to the surprise of the great Crowd of murryniakeis who followed them about the streets and were prepared for almost anything, Sheriff "Till" Taylor of Umatilla county and pres ident of tie 'Roundup," and George Perringer, a prominent wbeatgrower of Pendleton, rode their ' horses into the elevator at the Elks' club and were hoisted to tho third floor. ,. There they rode their horses Into the reoep tion room and gave an Impromptu program. Jack Keefe, seoretary of the Pendleton Commercial club, and an interesting vaudeville performer, added muob to the merriment of the eutertainment. - At tte Imperial hotel, Sheriff Tay lor, George Peringer, "Bill" Fergu son, wheat man, W. E. "Jinks" Tay lor, brother of the sheriff, and D. J. Clark, livestock agent for the O.-W. R. & N. company, rode their horses down the steps into the barroom. On the main floor the horses were given a "drink" at the bar. At the Mult nomah hotel the horses oantered into the tig lobby as though it were no thing new for them, and thei at the Portland hotel they walked dbwn thn stairs into the grill, with the sure footedness of the range and; mountain oow ponies.,. r. -. FUNERAL DFKMPLINEER . . . ... : i-.v ; Pastor Lord of Milton Conducted Serv ; ices"at Christian Church Sunday. The funeral cf Mrs H. C. Caplinger, wbo died at ber home Friday morning was held at the Christian cburob in this oily Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'olock. The services were oondnoted ky Pastor Lord of the Christian obnrch of Milton, in the absenoe of Pastor Meldrum of the home obcrob. A large number of friends and ao- qaaintanoes of the family attended the funeral, and the floral offerings were profnse and very beautiful. Lulu Doff was born at Lexington, Lafayette oocnty, Missouri, December 25tb, 1858. On ber 20th birthday, December 25tb, 1878, she became the bride of Louis Edwin Campbell. To the union, two sons were born, Wil liam and Bufus, both of whom sur vive and were present at the mother's death and funeral. The father died in 1888, and the mother with her two sons cams to Oregon the year following, making their home in Athena. In 1892 Mrs. Campbell was united in marriage with II. 0. Caplinger, and their wedded life was a happy one. Besides ber husband and two sons, Mrs. Caplinger leaves two sisters, Mrs. Bella Braoe and Mrs. Fannie Bennett. She was a member tf the Christian ohuroh and affiliated with the Order of Maccabees. Mysterious Red Marks. Mysteriously: sudden y on all sides all around town on every hizhwsy and cross road magio red orosBes have appeared. "What do they mean?" is toe universal question. They are not merely in this town and vicinity but seem to be all over the conntv. Some t faink it is the sign of an industrial move, others nave diflereut ideas; a few believe it to be an advertising soheme but still the question re mains unanswered. ' A Penguin Wedding. Dr. Charcot In a lecture on antarctic experiences referred to tho amusing antics of the penguins, which, ho said, were very much, like human beings lu their behavior. Sometimes a couple of betrothed penguins could be seen seat ed close together in lovorllke fashion in a recess formed by blocks of ico and observation had shown tlint subse quently tho same couple attended be foro a third penguin, who might be called tho clergyman or tho registrar, for tho positions of all three were sim ilar to those occupied by the minister and the brldo and the bridegroom at a wedding. London News. Fist Mail Coach In 1784. A theater owner was responsible for the first mall coach la 1784. John Pal mer, Bath, England, saw that it took four days to get his actors from Lon don. Ho went to the government au thorities and persuaded theui to start a number of couches to carry the mails and that these coaches should be built for speed and drawn by the fastest an imals iu England. In a little while a revolution wns worked. ( A Continued Story, "What did jour wlfo say when yon stajed out sc ';l last night?" "1 don't know. She hasn't finished te!!J:g.it all to mo jet."' """LONDON'S DIALECT. : A Perfectly Recognizable Child of the - Old Kentish Tongue. In a little book entitled "London's Dialect" Mr. Mackenzie Macbrlde chal lenges the view expressed by the edu cation department of the London county council that "there is no Lon don dialect of reputable antecedents and origin," and' that "the cockney modo of speech Is a modern corrup tion.", . "lie points out that the London dia lect, especially on the south side of the Thames, is a perfectly recognizable child of the old Kentish tougue, to which we owe our earliest written lit erature. "Thet" for "that," "beck" for "bank," "keb" for "cab," are remnants of the old Kentish mode of pronuncia tion. In the Kentish dialect "that" was spelt "thet" as early as A. D. 825. The Use of "1" for "a," as in "lidy," was common from the Trent to the Thames in Elizabeth's time, and John Stow, writing in 1580, gives us "bylyffe" for "bailiff." The use of "au" for "a" in such cockneylsms as "telegrauph" is of very old origin, and "abaht" and "ahtslde" are both warranted by an cient use. As for "kep" and "slep' without the final "t," they are really uncorrupted words, the "t" being au Intruder of late date. . TORTURE BY WATER. The ' hird Degree In Sorcery Cases In Louis XIV.'s Time. . . One of the methods : adopted : by Louis XIV. to purge his kingdom of sorcery was the "question ordlnnry." This, according to G. Duval in "Shad ows of Old Paris," consisted in having ten pints of water poured into the body. "The executioner placed the prisoner in a recumbent position, flrnily. tied upon a table, i A block was slipped un der the loins, "so that the chest and stomach were thrown outward and upward, while the contents of a meas ure of two pints were forced by means of a hose down the victim's mouth. If he resisted his nose was held until he opened his teeth to breathe. After every two pint measure he was glveu a few seconds' rest and the opportune ty to confess, If he continued his de nial, the question -was reapplied until the wh6l , ten pints had keen , con sumed. . , , . "In the 'question extraordinary', the quantity administered was augmented to twenty pints. The swelling caused by this unnafural amount of liquid In the body produced the most acute ago ny." Knew the Risks. Chloe, a huge black cook of middle age, came to her mlslrcss ono day with tho announcement that she was about to bo married. Regretting the loss of an excellent cook nud having real in terest in Chloe's welfare, her mistress said: "I hope, Chloe, you appreciate the fact that marrlngo is n serious thing and you have considered carefully in regard to the step you are about to take. Marriage brings great responsibility." '"Deed it does, ma'am!" said Chloe, with emphasis.' "I reckon I knows, fo' I's been mah'ied fo' times. I knows just what reesks yo' takes when yo' done git mah'ied. My last dlvo'co cost me twenty-five dollahs, but I made him pay half of it. Yo' uevah know what yo' is glttln' into when yo' gits mah ted."-Washlngton Star. Ruins of Yucatan. Tho explorations of Arthur Dlosy in Yucatan brought to light many new facts about tho stupendous ruins which stretch through the country In a chain 300 miles long. The most amazing thing about these ruins, ac cording to Mr, Dlosy, Is that tho peo ple who possessed such high archi tectural skill and tho knowledge of rich and graceful- decorative arts, be longed to tho stone age and had no knowledge of metals. These wonders In stone were carved with flint lmple ments and a civilization which has been compared to that of Egypt grew up without even tho use of bronze and Iron. Turned the Tables. Two hunters, returning from the Catskllls, decided to try some New York city humor upon the agent of a little railroad station hi the foothills. "When does tho 3:40 train got in?" asked one. The old man regarded him seriously and at length. "Waal," said he, "she generally gets in just a leetle behind tho engine." Later they approached him respect fully. "About time that train is due, Isn't it, uncle?" "Yes," said the agent, "she's about due. Thero comes the conductor's dog." Everybody's. Dauntless. "Ho cleared the sill at a bound and vanished in, tho darkness," related Ite rance breathlessly. "But," scoffed Realism, "only a mo ment ago he was riveted to tho spot. Did he file the rivets?" "Ob, no!" rejoined Romance, nothing daunted. "Fortunately it was only a small spot, so that by a superhuman effort ho wrenched it loose nnd car ried it along with him." Puck. Result of a Fad. Poverty enmo in at tho door. Lovo Immediately flew out of the1 window. "Ah," said those who observed, "tbl Is what comes of being fresh air fad dists!" -Judge's Library. You cannot dream yourself Into a character; you must hummer and forge yourself one. Jarce Anthony Frouda NAMES AND FACES. Douglas Marked the Man He' Wanted to Know Again. "Stephen A. Doug!:.s had the most remarkable memory for faces of any man in public life," declares a corre spondent "Upon the occasion of a rlslt to Washington on election day in 1880 the late Colonel John W. Forney .was discussing the election of Garfield over Hancock with Colonel Harmon of Detroit Colonel : Ilarmon had been mayor of Detroit and prominent in na tional politics. ... Harmon and Forney got to talking about earlier politics, and Harmon related the story of a meeting with Douglas in New York. Douglas had been nominated in Balti more by one faction of the Democratic party. Breckinridge was chosen by the other faction in Charleston. When he heard of his nomination Douglas was in New York. He entered the Astor nouse, then tho headquarters for all politicians and the nrlnetnal hotel in New York, and immediately was surrounded by his political admir ers. Among them was Colonel Har mon. The latter, according to the story ho told me, put forth his hand and congratulated Douclas on his nom ination. . ; -. ... "Thank you, Colonel Harmon, re plied Douglas. r; ; - ; "Harmon was amazed that, Douglas should have remembered his name,- for he had met the 'little giant' but once, fifteen years before, and then for but a brief period. After a time he return ed and asked Douglas how he was able to call him by name. " 'My dear colonel.' said Douclas. whenever I meet a man I want to know again I rut a mark on him and I never forget.' "-Washington Tost THE BRITISH CABINET. How Its Secret Doouments Are Pro tected and Printed. Each member of tho cabinet is sup plied with n key which fits the lock of a certain dispatch box retained by the prime minister. At any particular crisis, when important papers reach Downing street, tho premier, . after perusing them, places them in the dis patch box and hands the box to a spe cial messenger, who takes it round to each member of the cabinet In succes sion. Each member onens it with Ms kty and relocks It after he has read the documents It" contains. In this way tho papers are prevented from falling into the. hands of strangers or members of parliament who are not in tho cabinet. , Now and again It, is found necessary to print copies of a "secret" which comes up for' discussion at a meeting of tho cablTit,"6?rhy document Is cut up into many small pieces and dis tributed nmoug a goodly number of compositors in the government print ing works, each of whom sets up his little piece, and the little pleco may represent only a dozen lines of type. When all the fragments aro In typo a highly trusted official collects both the copy and tho type and puts the latter together. Tho printing of the docu ment is then done in secret under the eyes of this official, nnd the men who work the printing machine are for bidden to handle any of the paper after it is printed upon. National Magazine. Reverse Methods In India. Lady Wilson, the wife of an eminent Anglo-Indian official and long resident in India, in her book, "Letters From India," says: "It amuses me to notice the way tho Indians reverse the order In which we do things. For instance, at home men fake off their hats when they come into a house; Indians keep on their turbans, but take oft their shoes. We beckon with tho palms of our hands turned Inward; they beckon with thorn turned out. My ayah lays ray slippers in a row with tho toes pointing townrd me. Tho cook begins to read his Hindustani book of recipes from tho last page backward nnd writes his accounts from right to left When the native carpenter uses na tive screws he screws them in from right to left and saws inward, which makes one nervous." A Poser. A verbatim fragment from the law courts: ' King's Counsel (examining witness) Did you know you did not, but I am bound to put it to you on the 25th it was not the 25th really; it was the 24th; it Is a mistake in my brief see the defendant he Is not the defendant really; ho is the plaintiff there is a counterclaim, but you would not un derstand that-yes or no? , Witness What I-St. James Gazette, A Strict Grammarian. "You think a great deal of your hus band, don't you?" said tho visiting relative. "You have the wrong preposition," answered Mr. Meekton's wife, with the cold tones of the superior waman. ; "I think for him." Washington Star. The Spirit That Wins Griggs I ndmlro Tarkcr immensely, no lias a hard time making both ends meet, but he's game from the word go. Jlrlggs-Game! Why,' Parker looka upon the struggle with the wolf as a mcro sporting event. Boston Tran script. Something Like It "What vas the matter with tho old gentleman who was so fond of argu ing about everything?" ' ' "I don't know, but I believe the doc tors said It was something like discus sion on the brain." Bultlmore Ameri can. Who blackens others docs not whiten himself. THIRD PARTY GALL lomo m nornnii ifloucu in untuuii ROOSEVELT'S CONVENTION WILL BE HELD ON JULY 25 Delegates to National Con vention to Be Chosen at Port land at That Time. An offioial statewide call was issued Monday night for a state convection of the national progressive (Roose velt) party to be held Thursday, July 25 at 10 a. m., in the east side library building, east eleventh and Alder streets. Portland. The offioial call was issued by the memters of the national progressive clot of Oregon and was ordered unanimously. Fol lowing the eleotion of officers, vice president Levi Myers offered a resolu tion which Was adopted . unanimously. This resolution declared that the late republican national convention at Chioago failed to respond to the wish es of the people of the United States, that it was conduoted dishonestly and in no manner to bind tho consciences of honest men nor determine their po litical acts. . The resolution recited that a call had been issued by bitizens of forty states for a national convention of the national progressive party in Chicago, August 5th, and that it was desirous that the state of Oregon be represent ed there. A mass meeting of the oit- izeus of Oregon was therefore railed for July 25th in Portland to take suob aotion as might be necessary and to eleot five delegates to represent Ore goo in tho national convention. The resolution concluded: "All citizens wbo are in sympathy with our views and purposes are cordially invited to meet with ns, without regard to pre vious politioal affiliations." During the convention the national progressive olub will complete organ ization and will elect a state advis ory executive committee of 84 mem bers one from each county. Each member of this committee will be in structed to organize looal progressive cluts. The following offioers were elected by the national progressive olob: President, Senator Dan Kella ber; first vioe president, Dr. Levi W. Myers; second Vioe president, George Arthur. Brown; executive committee, George W. Joseph, J. T. Wilson, V. Vincent Jones and San- fleld MoDonald. IHN DEFEATED SELF "Jim" Maloney Back From Baltimore, Gives Opinion on Convention. J. W. Malouey, ; delegate to the National Demooratlo convention at Baltimore, returned to his home in Pendleton Saturday, aooompanied by War. Blakely. Mr. Malonoy gave some interesting information relative to the results of the convention. In an interview with the East Oregoniau, he said. "Cbamp Clark woold have been nominated on the second ballot had be aooepted the Bryan program for the temporary organization. He had many more instructed delegates than Wilson and there were many Wilso'i delegates like myself, wbo considered Clark a progressive and would have switohed to bim after be bad secured a major ity. But he showed so plainly that ha was a standpatter, a .'big business' oandidate and a political trader that it would have been party suicide to have selected bim. There is no ques tion . but that he bad an understand ing with Murphy whereby he was to secure the DO New York votes for his support of Judge Pat ker for tempor ary chairman and there is no question but that he thought, with the switch ing of the New York, delegation, he woold swing the otter Harmon votes and those for Underwood and lessor oandldates. But bo miscalculated. Those Underwood delegates, and those for Foss and Baldwin never gave up hope nntil the last that there would be a deadlook which woold result in the stampeding of tbe convention for their partionlar candidate. .The Foss supporters did more advertising than any other boomers and tbe Under wood workers were aotlve in conven tion and outside continuously arguing that tbe sooth has not bad a candidate since the Civil war and in justice ' should be recognized, . now that tbey bad a capable man." In speaking of the ohanoes for tbe eleotion of Wilson, Judge Maloney delated that, everywhere be weut in tbe eastern states be found tbat the prevailing prefeienoe is for tbe New Jersey governor. , "Tbe democrats are behind bim solidly," he said, "and I have talked with many republicans who unhesitatingly announce their intention of voting for Wilson. Tuft has no more obanoe of being eleoted than I have and I am as confldenttbafc Woodrow Wilson will be the next president as I am of anything." Marshal Uholson is baok to street duty again, Elmer Johnson having been put in charge of tbe men em ployed in prospeoting fcrao additional supply of water for tbe gravity system.