Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Gfocer
VOLUME XXIV.
ATIIENA,' UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 2. 1912.
NUMBER 31
ear.
" officers
S. F. WILSON.'President,
H. KOEPKE Vice-President.
P. S. Le GROW, Cashier,
E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier.
DIRECTORS
. P. WILSON. H. KOEPKE,
W. S. FERGUSON M. L. WAITS,
P. S. Le GROW.
FIRST 1TI0NA
IBANK
. OF ATIIENA
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. $100,000.00
We extend to our Depositors every cAccommdation
consistent with sound Banking. ;
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Paint Protection
The paints we proffer the
public hereabouts have a
bull dog grip on the situa
tion. That is, they hold fast
hang 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-LUM LUMBER CO.
Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of
BUILDING MATERIAL;
PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES "
Posts and Blacksmith coal
A. M. Johnsouf Manager
Athena, Oregon
THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET
We carry the best
MEATS
That Money Buys
Our Market is i
Clean and Cool
Insuring Wholesome Meats.
D. H. MANSFIELD
Main Street, Athena, Oregon
.Attaa 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.
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BALKS AT ORDERS
OEFICERS OF THREE COMPANIES
UP FOR COURT MARTIAL
Governor Authorizes General
Finzer to Convene the Court
At Earliest Convenience
Aa a result of tbe mutiny and refus
al of three companies of. the Oregon
national guard to otey orders at tbe
manuvers held last week, court mar
tial proceednigs will be in order.
Adjutant General Fiozsr of tbe-Ore-gon
national guard has received tbe
authorization of the governor for hold
ing court martial to try Major R. O.
Soptt, Captains H. E. Williams and
Walter L. looze and Untenants Rioh
ard Deioh and H. C.t Brumbaugh, and
be states that be will appoint tho of
floers of tbe oonrt as soon as the char
ges are formerly plaoed in bis bands.
Tbe ooort martial will inolnde not
less than five officers. Under tbe ar
ticles of war the court must be named
within 80 days after the - offense
olitrged, and tbe trial must re witbin
a reasonable time, wbioh is usually
fixed at ten days after the obarges are
formally made. ,
Officers of tbe Oregon national gnard
are now preparing tbe obarges, wbiob
probably will be signed by Colonel
Poorman, No oonrt of inquiry will
be convened.- General Finzer explain
that this nnneoessary in a case wbere
tbo incident is so open and testimony
so abnndant as in tbe present oase.
: "Never- before has such an incident
as this taken place among Oregon
troops," said. General Fiuzer. "'It
is muob more serious than the officers
nay have supposed. It tends to bring
discredit upon the Oregon military or
ganization, ' sad - oalls f or Immediate
attention. Tbe articles of war Were
not framed for fnn. '
"As soon as tjje officers engaged in
preparing obarges submit them to me
the oonrt martial will be appointed,
and it will probably sit in ,about ten
days. Tner were many witnesses to tbe
o onduot of tbe of Doers aoonsed, and
there will be no necessity for calling
General Mans.' Tbe language address
ed to bin), alleged to be insulting and
subversive of discipline, was beard by
many," " " ' ; -
A representative of General Mans
bas reported to General Fizner the oon
duotof the five officers. "With this
statement tbe - direct connection - of
General Mans witn the affair is said
to be closed. ' He will take no part in
tbe prosecution of tbe charges.
Homesteaders Get Relief.
A' speoial to tbe Esat Oregoniao
gives good news to the' people of the
Umatilla projeot. It came in tbe form
of a telegram from Gongressman Laf
ferty to the effeot both houses bad
passed the bill giving relief to tbe
homesteaders on the projeot. Under
tbe terms of the bill homesteaders may
prove up on their homesteads without
first making all of tbe ten annnal wat
er payments to the government. Tbe
message from Lafferty was reoeived
by tbe seoretary of tbe waterosers' as
sociation, and did not state whether or
not the bill will also apply to desert
land entrymen. Tbe seoretay bas
wired to find out rbgardiug this point,
as many are anxious to bave the law
inolude the desert entrymen, also.
' Hot Lake Celebration,
- Next Thursday there will be held at
Hot Lake, Union county tbe oentcary
anniversary of tbe discovery of tbe
now famous sheet of hot water by
white men. Last . December Baker
City observed tbe oentennial of tbe
coming of tbe pioneer party of Wilson
Frioe Hunt to the : Powder River Val
ley, and the following year tbe discov
ery of Hot Lake is noted although tbe
Hunt party passed it going westward
In January, 1812, probably witbont
notioing its existanoe. ' The disoovery
is understood to have been made by
Peter Skeen Ogden party going east
ward in a for buying expedition.
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j4 Best that Money can Buy Always Found Here
DELL BROTHERS, BKTTXS1S Athena, Oregon
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Every Country on Earth to Be
Represented at the ' Great-
est World's Fair In History.
Eighty Million Dollars to Be
" Expended on National Celebration.
WITHIN a few weeks time
: thousands of men and teams
' will be engaged uin leveling
off the grounds of the Panama-Pacific
International exposition site
In San . Francisco, and it is estimated
that within six months 10,000 men will
be employed in the construction of the
material part of the great exposition at
which the United States of America
will celebrate the opening of the Pana
ma canal. Responses to invitations to
participate and offers of co-operation
from every part of the world are flood
ing the exposition management, and
President C. C. Moore and his thirty
directors, who represent every impor
tant interest on the coast and $1,000,
000,000 In invested capital, are working
night and. day to keep up with the
avalanche of duties that pour in upon
them.' .; -V. ' " ,
' Responses of foreign countries sur
pass all anticipations of the exposition
management. Every civilized nation
on earth, every land within the sweep
of both shores of the Pacific ocean
and every state in the Union will be
represented by the finest assemblage
of displays the world has ever seen.
"San Francisco," says President
Moore, "as hostess for the nation will
entertain the world in 1915 with the
most comprehensive exposition in his
tory, a jubilee of nations, a splendid
commemorative "'" celebration, ; which
shall include not only the finest fea
tures of all former world's expositions
"In recording the progress of the world;.
but yet in magnificence, in diversity,
In Its distinctive color of tbe west, of
the orient and of all the countries bor
dering upon the Pacific ocean will
stand alone. . The nations of the world
will see tbe finest -American displays
ever shown at the Panama-Pacific In
ternational exposition. ;.
"Tho plans of the people of tbe west
for the Panama-Pacific International
exposition are being- undertaken upon
a scale of world education and Inter
est, and the exposition is the subject
of enthusiastic co-operation in every
APES OF GIBRALTAR.
&
Highly Prized and Carefully Protected
- by Martial Law.
Major is the name of the chief of
he ' highly prized and carefully pro
tected tribe of Barbary apes that in
habit the rock of Gibraltar. There is
a saying in the fortress to the effect
that it were "better to kill tho gov
ernor than Major." ,
There are only about twenty left of
;his band of monkeys, which in somo
mysterious manner came over from
Africa many years ago and claimed
citizenship In Europe. They are pro
tected by martial law, and ony addi
tion by birth to their number is care
fully chronicled and announced in the
local paper. The apes change their
place of residence ffom. the highest
peaks of the rock to lower and more
sheltered portions and back again, ac
cording to the state of the weather.
Tbey show their sense of humor by
throwing stones at tho soldiers, but
they are often not seen for weeks at a
time save in the early morning.
A few years ago, on account of the
diminishing numbers of these animals,
some apes were procured from Bar
bary and turned loose upon the rock.
But resident monkeys killed them all.
Although so fierce to Intruders of their
own kind, they never attack human
beings and are greatly beloved and
esteemed. New York Press.
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THE DEATH DICE.
A Murder Case In Which They Re
' turned a Jutt Verdict.
The German emperor some time ago
presented to the Uohenzollern museum
the "death dice" with which one of
his ancestors decided a difficult cas
In, tbe seventeenth century. The his
tory of these (lice Is generally given as
follows:
A young girl had been murdered.
Suspicion fell upou two young soldiers,
Ralph and Alfred, who were suitor
for her hand. They both denied their
guilt, and even torture failed to ex
tract a confession from either.
Then Elector Frederick William do
elded to cut the knot by means of the
dice box. The two soldiers should
throw for their lives and the loser
should be executed as the murderer.
The event was celebrated with great
solemnity. Ealph had tbe first chance
and threw sixes, tbe highest possible
number. The dice box was then given
to Alfred. lie fell on bis knees and
prayed. Then he rose to his feet and
threw the dice with such force that
one of them was broken. The whole
one showed six, tbe broken one also
gave six on the larger portion, and
tho fragment split off showed one.
This was a total of thirteen, one be
yond Ralph's throw. The audience
held its breath in amazement.
"God has spoken!" cried tho prince.
Ralph, appalled by what he regarded
as a sign from bearcn, confessed hla
guilt anA was : sentenced to death. '
Composite Fleet of Navies of
the World to Pass Through
Panama Canal and Enter
San Francisco Harbor.
What the Great Fair Will
Be Like.
land upon the earth. San Francisco
Is preparing to meet the standards of
ft great national -celebration. Every
land under the stars and stripes will
be represented, and the nations of
the world are intensely interested in
the Panama canal, America's gift to
civilization, and in the exposition at
which America will formally celebrate
the opening of tbe canal. This uni
versal Interest has assured the most
remarkable world's exposition in point
of size, dlrersity and speclflj interest
ever held." ; ,
The -opening of the Panamacanal
will not only be the most important
commercial event in the history of the
world, but it will mark a supreme
epoch in tho lives of the nations bow
derlng upon tbe Pacific, and appropri
ately the visitor will see in the ex
position the greatest displays of
strange tribes and peoples of the Pa
cific ocean countries ever assembled.
Down the streets of San Francisco
in exposition days will pass such ori
ental pageants as the world has never
seen. China, Japan, the Philippines,
India and other oriental lands will
join in parades that will rival the In
dian durbar In magnificence and sur
pass the durbar in variety by reason
of the many nations represented.
The exposition will formally open
with the entrance into San Francisco
harbor of a composite fleet of tbe bat
tleships of the world. Upon invita
tion of the United States nearly 100
warships of foreign nations will first
assemble at Hampton Roads and will
be Joined by detachments of the Amer
ican navy, and the composite fleet will
then be- reviewed by the president and
by foreign dignitaries. ThKfleet, the
largest ever assembled, will proceed
through the Panama canal, arriving
In San Francisco harbor about two
weeks after the exposition opens.
The exposition will be held upon the
shores of San Francisco bay and of the
Pacific ocean and will occupy an area
of more than 1,000 acres. The grounds
will describe a semicircle about San
Francisco, fallowing the contours of
the shore fbm the harbor out to and
beyond the Golden Gate. The struc
tures will be the largest and costliest
ever erected for a world's exposition.
The two principal locations of the ex
position will be at Harbor View and
in Golden Gate park. Harbor View
lies as a crescent on San Francisco
bay midway between the ferry build
ing,' the principal entrance to San
Francisco, and the Golden Gate. Gold
en Gate park fronts the Pacific ocean
one mile below the famous Cliff House.
These two main sites and intermediate
locations will be connected by a ma
rine boulevard that will skirt tho
shores of San Francisco bay and also
by an intermural railroad. A trackless
trolley will run over the boulevard.
Harbor View is within twenty min
utes' walk of the Fairmont hotel and
the most extensive apartment house
section of San Francisco.
At Harbor View will be located a
yacht harbor, the Midway and night
life of the exposition and many con
cessions that lend themselves to night
illuminations as well as great build
ings to house such heavy exhibits as
may be readily unloaded from ocean
going vessels, such as tho structures
to contain tho manufactures and ma
chinery exhibits, the Palace of Liberal
Arts and other industrial features.
, Golden Gate park will be the seat of
the permanent features of tho exposi
tion With an area of more than a
thousand acres Golden Gate park, for
ested and created of sand dunes, today
presents one of the most notable
achievements in landscape gardening
in the world. The west end of Golden
Gate park, comprising 540 acres, will
bo utilized for exposition purposes.
Around a great stadium, already built,
will be erected a huge concrete coli
seum, the largest structure of its kind
in America, capable of seating 73,000
people and in architecture like that at
Rome. A' chain of lakes at different
levels will be connected by a working
model of the Panama canal.
Lincoln park, where the Golden Gate
rounds out into the Pacific ocean, com
mnnda a ' nanorama of the Pacific
ocean, of San Francisco harbor and of
the hills of the city. Its area is luO
acres, and its contours rise more than
800 feet above sea level. At Lincoln
park will bo erected a great commem
orative statue welcoming ships to tho
Golden Gate. Tentative plans for St
Francis memorial tower call for n
structure 850 feet in height, with a
base 200 feet sauare. The ton of the
tower will be almost 1,300 feet above
the waters of the Golden Gate.
From Lincoln nark the boulevard,
turning south toward Golden Gate
park, will pass through an area of 200
nrrea that have been secured by the
directors for exposition purposes. Here
will be located the foreign buuaings,
live stock exhibits, mining, horticul
ture and agriculture and other dis
plays requiring extensive space.
The reward of one duty done Is the
lowcr to fulfil antther.-Ellot.
; : BRASS WORKERS. :
Theirs Is a Dangerous Trade, and They
Uiually Die Young.
The present rate of mortality of the
brass fonndryman is two and a half
times that of the farmer.' Respiratory
diseases, particularly consumption, ac
count for the difference. Comparative
tables based on sickness and invalid'
Ism, if obtainable, would shovr even
greater differences. ; , , ,
Tho age statistics In" the trade are
startling. .: Of 1,751 brass foundrymen
but seventeen over fifty years of age
were found and a bare 200 over forty
years of age. When asked the cause
of this officials .invariably - stated:
"They got too old. They can't turn
out the work they should every day."
But what sort of an Industry is this in
which nearly six-sevenths of its fol
lowers are too old at tho age of forty?
It is not thus among ironmolders, most
of whom are hale and hearty even at
sixty years and still able to turn out
their full quota of work dally. Work
men claim they "are knocked out by
tbo brass fumes."
- These age statistics for Chicago
workmen are no different from those
Sir Thomas Oliver gives In his book
on "Dangerous Trades:"' "Only ten
brass workers of 1,200 casters in Bir
mingham, England; were found living
beyond sixty years. A superannuation
insurance for brass founders, to begin
at fifty-five years of age, had only
three applicants in a period of some
ten years." :
' There is no cure for brass chills. But
they can be prevented by striking at
tho cause. - For such an important in
dustry not to do so is like tolerating
smallpox in a modern community'. The
workmen must be protected foin the
breathing in of brass fumes and foun
dry smoke. In largo foundries with
good ventilation, either natural or arti
ficial, brass chills practically never oc
cur. Emery R. Hayhurst In Survey.
FAVORS BILLIARDS
111 HIS SEB
PENDLETON PASTOR YANTS A
TABLE IN EVERY ME.
Atttude of Rev Milne Defend
ed By Younger Members of
His Congregation,
HUNTING THE WOLF.
Trained Eagles Are Used by the Tar
tar Tribes of Aela.
There are many ways of hunting tho
wolf in Russia, some very curious and
exciting and others as tame as target
practice. The most sportsmanlike way
is by means of hounds, and air over
Russia today there are well to do
sportsmen who hunt tho animal in this
fashion. Wolves are also taken in pit
falls and shot, while still another way
is to drive in a sleigh through the for
est in time of hard frost, when the
wolves are bold with hunger. At the
back of the sleigh ono or more sports
men lie snugly under their fur rugs
with their rifles ready. A young pig is
can-led in the sleigh, and Its cries soon
reach the ears of tho lurking wolves,
who cannot resist following the sleigh
and are speedily shot.
One of tho most picturesque ways of
hunting the wolf, perhaps, is that
which one may see in the west of Asia
on the bleak Kirghiz steppes. The Tar
tar tribes are wonderful horsemen, and
they ride after the wolf in very large
parties. Not only aro dogs used to
overtake tho quarry, but because a
fleet wolf may get away from them,
eagles are used, being trained to help
the hunter in very much the same
manner as falcons in olden times. Tht
great bird sits on tbe hunter's wrist
until it is let loose. Theu it soars into
the air, sails after tho quarry and
swoops down upon it. Its duty is not
to kill, but to "bother" tho wolf by
flapping its wings in its face and driv
ing its sharp, claws into tho animal's
buck. Such hunting makes capital
sport tor tho riders; but, apart from
this, wolf hunting Is a real necessity in
those parts, the brutes being far too
partial to tho lambs and kids of the
Tartars' flocks. Wide World Maga
zine. Hard to Get Into Jail.
There was a queer old specimen of
humanity brought to tho Cuyahoga
county jail. He had been convicted of
the crime of cruelty to animals, and
there was no doubt in anybody's mind
that bo richly deserved the penalty in
flicted. It is the custom to examine
prisoners, however, before they are as
signed to their cells. When this old
reprobate was brought up tho interro
gation went thus:
"WThat is your name?" ?
"Budd Dobbs.'"
"What is your nge?" .
"Sixty-eight."
"What is your religion?"
"Great snakesl Docs a man hafter
git religion before they'll let him inter
Jail in this county?" Cleveland Plain
Dealer. ' '
A Gentle Reminder.
Neighbor Hello, Jenkins! How are
you? Haven't seen you In tho garden
for quite a time, and you never come
and see tbo wife and me now. Why
fet it? Jenkins-Well, the fact is, old
chap, that it's not through 111 will or
bad feeling or anything like that, you
know; only you and Mrs. Tossmors
have borrowed so many things from
mo that when I see your place it
makes me feel quite homesick. Lon
don Answers.
Deolating that if he had bis way
there wonld be a billiard, table in every
home in tbe United States Rev. Frank
J. Milues in bis farewell sermon to
tbe congregation of tbe Presbyterian
oburoh in Pendletoa Sunday afternoon
defended the popular parlor game in
tbe course of his plea for what be
termed "Progressive Religion," says
the East Oregoniao. . His advooapy of
billiards was bis leply to criticisms
wbioh members of his flook bave di
rected bis way because of bis freqneut
manipulation of tbe one in tbe rooms
of the Pendleton Commercial associa
tion. ' .
Rev. Miloes deolaied his preference
for billiards over all other games be
cause, he said, it oontains less of the
elements of chance aud stimulates the
imagination and the desire for aoonr
aoy in the player. "In it, as in all
other innocent games," he said, "the
growing boy can find a proper express
ion for bis nnsuppreseible energy aud
it is a function of the church to en
tourage in him snob expression. If
tbe ohnroh fails to get abreast of tbe
glowing tide of progression it will not
be long before tbe recording . angel of
time will dip ber pen in the dyes of
the rainbow and inscribe upon its
tombstone tbe single word 'obsolete.'
; "Yon say the little ivory balls be
long to the devil," be went on, "and I
answer that so also did the violin and
the oigan not long ago and yet today
tbey are used by almost every ohorob. t
Henry Ward Beeober, Amercia's
greatest preaober, had a billiard table
in his borne. Lord Tennyson, Eoglands
poet laurate, once said, 'My respect for
a man is not complete until I leain
tbat be can play at least a fair game
of billiards.'-"''
Rev. Miloes also took occasion to
denouDoe prudery wbiob prevents par
ents from instructing their offspring
in the mysteries of eelf-reproduotioo
and forces them to learn of scob tbinr
from vulgar associates in back alleys.
He strongly urged tbe introduction of
courses in embryology in tbe course of
study outlined for a child, deolaring it
wonld do more than any one tbing to
offset the infloenoesof degradation and
to oonserve tbe parity of the nation's
youth. 0,
Tbe retiring pastor took for bis text
en bjeot, "Expression vs. Suppression,"
and bis dissertations on billiards and
prudery were bat small part of an elo
quent sermon illustrating Ibis funda
mental contention that all sin, all
vioe and all crime are but some 6ort
of form of suppression." '
Rev. M lines was forced to resign
under a storm of ciitioism which bis
sermons and aotions aroused witbin
bis congregation, acousations cf . un-
orthodoxy in tbe pulpit and indisoret
ion outside tbe cbutcb being heaped
upon bim. Many of tbe young mem
bers of bis nook supported him and
it is said will fight for bis retention at
tbo meeting wbiob will be held soon
to consider his retention.. ' ''
Art and Science. -
"What a beautiful picture of an an
gel!" said tbe lady who was visiting
the art gallery.
"Yes," replied the aviation enthu
siast, "but between you and me those
wings aren't practlral."-Washington
Star.
Never Despair.
He who despairs wants love, wants
faith, for faith, hope and love are
three torches which blend their light
together, nor does the one shine with
out tho other. Metastaslo.
He is a brave man who refuses to
be disheartened by tbo fact that he
was boatcu yesterday.
Governors Greet.
... .,1,
Clad In a flannel shirt, ilding boots
and wearing a deep coat of tan. Gov
ernor Oswald West of Oregon, accom
panied by Governor Hawely arrived at
Boise at ten o'olookt Tuesday night
and ended bis 600-mile horsebaok trip
from Salem to Boise, to attend the
meeting of tbs Western; governors
wbioh will be in session this week.
Governors West and Hawley m jt at six
o'clock Tuesday night at the center of
tbe bridge at Myssa. Governor West,
riding bis horse, and accompanied by
tbe mayor of Nvssa and - other promi
uent citizens of tbat city, left tbe Ore
gon side of Snake river, while at the
same time Governor Hawley and bis
son James Hawley, Jr., in an automo- '
bile, Jeft the soil of Idaho. When
tbey met in tba middle of tbe bridge
atove tbe stream wbiob divides tbe
two states, Governor Went dismount
ed. Uovrenor Hawley left tbe anto
moble, and tba two chief exeootlves
greeted each other amid tbe cheers of ,
many spectators. ' .
Bourne Heard From.
Senator Bourne, replying to letters
urging bim to reconsider bis dooiaon
not to be a oandldata for reeleotion,
man? of which have been reoeived by
bim, so be says in a published inter
view, writes tbat he appreciates the
evidences of good will and confidence,
but would consider it a reflection on
tbe primary system of Oregon to be
oome a candidate for the senate unless
Ben Selling's nomination should be de
clared fraudulent. Initiative in deter
mining this, as well as in plaoing bis
name before tbe people wonld bave
tooine be says, from others than bim
self. After the eeoate adjourns Mr.
Bourne may deoide to visit this state.
A team bitobed to a water tank,
tooka spin dwo Main street Wednes
day futeooon' and brought op in tbe
West part of town witbont farther
damage than tbe treating of tbe lines.