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This Edition con tains four Pages filter Atfieiia Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXIV. ATITENA, UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 16. 1912. NUMBER 33 . OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, : "; H. KOEPKE Vice-President F. S. Le GROW, Cashier, E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Cashier. .- ; directors. . ; s. f. wilson, v h. koepke, W, JS. FERGUSON M. L. WAITS, F. S. Le GROW. NRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA v; ; CA PITAL AND SUR PLUS. $100,000.00 , W extend to our Depositors every riiccommdation consistent with sound Banking. E'RWINS Cigar Store POOL, BILLIARDS AND CARDS. SOFT DRINKS & CONFECTIONS. A GENTLEMEN'S RESORT, QUIEr 'AND RESPECTABLE. MiiiiiiiiiiMminiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiii THE -'TUM-A-LUM LUMBER GO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal , A. M. Johnson, Manager Athena, -Oregon .r,.- - THE ATHENA iEAlARKET - .'." We carry the best & - Our Market is ' '1 i " WT' : - an(i 00 1""' Hit fi 'nr Insarin8 W'holesohie Meats. UiJX MANSFIELD; ' Vlairi Street, Athena, Oregon 1 1 r iiiiiiii hi iwnmmmmKmmnmmnnmKmmKm illinium1 Mmi Tenth Annual ' " ' " Walla Walla County Fair ; . September 16-21 Inclusive; . V ;V"')"V-... ATTR ACTIT PREMIUMS FOR FRUITS, VEGE- V TABLES, GRAINS, GRASSES & LIVE STOCK Six days of hish class racing. Tigano's-Band in two con certs daily. Big free acts and other special attractions between races. Address W. A. Ritz, Secretary. 1ILLK INTEREST WOULD SUFFER LOCAL MAN SHOWS CHARTERS HAVE BECOME SCARCE. Fund of $225,000 to Insure a Portland-Oriental- Ship Line Bids Fair to Materialize. Indications are that the (225,000 fond to guarantee a line of steam ships frost Portland to tba Orient, will be raised without trouble. The O.-.W. B. Ss N. company has subscrib ed $75,000 of the amount and the bal ance of the rnnd it is said will be raised without delay. . la giving the subscription, the com party makes the etipniation that the Hill lines Bubsonbe a like amonnt. This will nndonbtedly be done at once, and the remaining 175,000 will be raised in Portland. This sum' will insure a permanent line of steam ships for Portland In the Oriental trade. Withont the line, milling interests of the Inland Empire would be foroed to the point of chartering spaoe in vessels heretofore chartered for wheat exports, or else close down. In the event they would eeoure the wheat carrying vessels to transport flour to the Orisnt, the wheat exporter would be op against an insurmountable proposition, and the wheat raiser would suffer accordingly. With the Oriental line not running out of Portland, the .milling interests of this section would be seriously affeoted. In an interview with M. L. Watts, manager for the Preston Shaffer mill io this city, be said: "The milling interests of the inland empire are pnt to their wits' end for spaoe io vessels bound for the orient as it is, and with Portland connections cutoff, the situation wonld be still worse. "We have a 500 barrel mill.in op eration here, and it is running night and -day. - Our principal; shipments are scheduled for oriental points, and should the present connections at Port land be annulled, we would be forced to send all oriental consignments via Seattle. "The tonnage at that port has been coutraoted for to ' a., large degree in advance, so that I see only further oomplioalions, by the . abrogation of the Portland servioe. Flour shippers with whom I have disoussed the ques tion seem to te united io the opinion that Portland will not 'fag out' on ton proposition; hot will mister a solid front in a successful effort to get and maintain a real oriental shipping ser vice. K : -; ; ; ; '. -."Should :; even the; present servioe cease, not only 'would the milling in terests feel tba effects, hut indirectly the wheat raisers would be losers also, for the reason that the bulk of the grain grown in Umatilla county is ground into flour, and, this flour, as a rule, finds consumption in the orient. '."Under present conditions the mills must necessarily have the grain, and this beipg the case, higher prices ao-. orua to the raiser in sections where ; mills are looated. Consequently - with ; a premoim plaoed on shipping ipace, : aa would necessarily result with the doing away of the Portland oriental servioe, the mills of the inland empire would te up against it and the farm era with them.'-' Bin Apple Crop. Washington is given credit by the International Apple Shippers associa tion, with having a crop three, and three fourths times times aa large as last year, this being the greatest in crease in the United States with the exoepticn of Een'tuoky whiob has a crop, tbe association claims, five time as large as in 1911. ; The quality is good. Walla Walla growers state that thesa figures are probably correct, the yield being from three to four times as large as last season. -m4 ij PE0SeBy WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT P0HIL The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in RD LU. Best that Money, can Buy Always Found Here DELL BROTHERSAT Oregon H U & ' ROUSED THEAlJDiENCE, ' A Mining Camp Melodrama With an Unexpected Climax. Joseph Jefferson used to soy that his career came very near being nipped In the bud in a small western town. He at that time was a "member of a small pioneer company which progressed by means of three "bull teams" from one mining camp to another. They were always heartily received by the" min ers and cowboys, who readily paid the ?5 in gold required to witness their performance. Mr. Jefferson was the traditional melodramatic villain and in the third act was supposed to kidnap "the child." The supposed . mother, bearing its cries, rushes upon the scene lust as he is about to escape and fires a fruitless shot from a revolver. Upon this particular occasion all hnd pone well until this scene was reached, and the audience, many of whom bad never before seen any kind of theatric al performance, sat as If spellbound. At to crack of the mother's revolver, however, the spell, was rudely broken. ."By heaven she missed him I" a red shlrted miner in the front row shout ed,, drawing his own six shooter and leaping to his feet. "Round to the back door and head him off 'fore he can git a boss, boys!" he yelled, and, following him, half the audience stam peded for the. exit. The excitement was finally allayed by the "mother" and the villain 'ap pearing .hand in hand before the cur tain and the manager's explanation of the situation. : When the performance bad been concluded the audience in sisted on paying another admission price and having an immediate repe tition from beginning to end. , QUICKSILVER MINING An Occupation That Quickly Dooms , the Workers. . v ' The chief quicksilver mines in Eu rope are in the Spanish town of Alma den, which is an Arabic word, mean ing "the mine of quicksilver." These mines were formerly worked by the Iberians and after them by the ancient Romans. Between 1645 and 1843 the Spanish government employed galley slaves in them, an occupation that soon ended in death. The fumes of the mercury produce constant saliva tion, and the system becomes perme ated with the metal. At. first the victim Is seized with tremblings, and then the teeth drop out; pains in the bones follow and then death. The annual yield of mercury is 1,500,000 pounds, to produce which 4,000 men are engaged in this un healthy employment. After Almaden so far as yield of quicksilver is concerned comes Idrla, an Austrian town, twenty-eight miles from Triest These mines also were once worked by criminals, who,' owing to the terrible qualities of the mineral, expired after about two years' service., ' There are now nearly 500 miners en gaged in the work at Idrla. They ore induced to enter the mines by high pay. . A pension is allowed when they are disabled, and provision is made for their widows and children. Pearson's Weekly. " A Wager Won. The following story is told of J. P. Morgan and possibly of other success ful business men as well. For three consecutive drtys the great financier carried an empty birdcage in his hand to and from his office. On the third day -one of his managers ventured to ask why he carried that apparently rise less article. "To see," renjied Pierpont Morgan, "if any one would have the impudence to ask me why I did so." 'I'bej your pardon," began the in quired 'i?TV- (;. v'You needn'tido that," said the chief, smiling giirhly. "I had a bet with a man that I had at least one employee with some curiosity. I've won the money; but In future don't ask ques tions about things that don't concern yon!" A Fortunate Chance, "What I don't ketch on to said Mose Willerby, "is how ye managed to make that ottermobile feller pay ye thutty dollars fer spillin' a waggin load o' bad eggs. Ye can't spile a bad egg, kin ye?" I' Waal, ye see," said Uncle Jabez, "it come ' abdut this way. When the smnshup come th' air got so full o' that pesky gasoline that the condition o' them there eggs warn't hardly purr ceptible." Harper's. Tho Dangerous German. One can never resist a good school-, boy "howler." Here is the latest. The teacher had been giving a les son on elementary hygiene, explaining about Cleanliness and germs, ana bo on, and the scholars were asked to write an essay on the subject ; Said one youth: "Dust Is a thing that should always be carefully got rid of. as it nearly always contains Germans, which do i lot of barm." London Answers. 1 - Vie Vorta. ,, Parson So your husband is sick. Maybe he has been throwing himself too heavily Into his work. . Mrs. Casey Not on jTire loife! He's been throw ing his wu-urk too hirily into him. That's what's the trouble wid him. He's a bartender. Judge. Lovo That Never (Minds) Dye. Mrs. Flipp I wonder if my husband will love me when my hair is gray? Her Ftiend-Of course he will. He's loved yon through three shades of hair already. Exchange. " FLOATING A TOWN AWAY; Story of iho Origin of Commercial ' Street In Provincetown. Commercial street la Provincetown had an origin la keeping with Its pres ent nautical air and appeal to the im agination. The " town originally stood, on the spit of sand far out across the harbor, where the lighthouse now is. Many years ago the government bought Provincetown, houses and all, in order to protect the harbor from the threatening sea. The Provincetownlans went to the government people and asked what they were going to do with the houses. "Pull 'em down, of course," said the government "Can't we have 'em?" inquired the late owners. "Sure," replied the government, "if you'll take 'em away." r "Sure!" echoed the Provincetownlans. Old wreckers that they were,' they applied their technic to the problems of house moving. They bulkheaded their dwellings up, necklaced empty casks about them in the way of life preserv ers, and one sunny morning the village of Provincetown, true to its maritime traditions, set sail, schoolhouse and all, and came floating gayly across the har bor to where it now -stands. Near the railway track today they point out a certain store as the original seafaring schoolhouse. Metropolitan Magazine. THE CURIOUS SNAIL. This Creature Can Live Without Air, Water or Nourishment. While the snail has lungs, heart and a general circulation and is in every respect an air breathing creature, it can nevertheless exist indefinitely with out inhaling the least breath of air, the element that is usually considered the essential to existence in all creatures supplied with lungs. "To all organized creatures," said Leppert, "the removal of oxygen, wa ter, nourishment and heat causes death to ensue." When that statement was made Leppert did not appear to con sider the snail as one among the great host of "organized beings," for experi ments by Spallanzanl have proved that any or oil the usual life conditions can be removed in the case of the snail without terminating its existence or in any way impairing its functions. , " The common snail retreats into his shell on the approach of frosty weath er, and the opening or mouth of its shell is hermetically sealed by a 'secre tion which is of a silky texture and absolutely impervious to air and water. In this condition it is plain that it is deprived of three of the four elements of life mentioned above air, water and nourishmeut.--Harper's Weekly. , ' THE ELEVATOR BOY. : in Chicago He Made Rapid Progress v In Becoming an Expert. - The first day he Is occupied mainly In learning how to run, his elevator." The second day he is so' delighted with his position that he makes every effort to give all the Information asked of him.' The third day he gets his uniform and begins accustoming himself to telling the passengers to step lively. ' The fohrth day ha learns how to advise anxious Inquirers to look at the bulletin board or ask the starter. The fifth day be Is so thoroughly versed In the duties of his position that he can run the car past people who are yelling "Down!" or ''Up!" and three floors away 'from them waft back the gentle admonition to punch the button. Also, he Is now able to carry ; the nervous passengers two floors too far and then refuse to go back. The sixth day he is an "adept and demonstrates It by sliding the door quickly in the face of the man who is a second late, also by stopping the car and dropping a couple of floors to take on the stenographers with huge blond rats, who haughtily omit pressing the button. , -. He Is now a real elevator boy and wonders what right the public thinks it has, anyway. Chicago Post. GBI11D. CAIIAL nLATll I FAVORS FREE TOLL FOR AMERI CAN COASTWISE VESSELS. Statue With Umbrella. Some poor art is to be seen in this country in the shape of statues dedi cated to the memory of great men, but no American enormity In this lino quite equals that which was perpetrated by an English sculptor . for the town of Reading. When the fellow townsmen of a certain George Palmer of that place decided to honor his memory they de termined upon a bronze statue of Pal mer, which should be not merely a portrait as to features, but a correct presentment of him as he appeared among them every day. Accordingly, the stranger in Reading is startled by the most unconventional of statues, with every crease and wrinkle of the homely attire of the original repro duced. To complete the effect the stat ue is bareheaded, with silk hat and um brella in hand. It is thought that this is the only Instance in which the necessary but not entirely beautiful umbrella has been reproduced in bronze. New York Sun. He Fooled Her. "If you were asked to get ready to" start next Thursday on a long Journey do you think you could do so?" asked her rich employer, who was a wid ower. "Oh, 1 much would depend upon the kind of Journey . It was to be," she replied. "I mean a pleasant Journey a Jour ncy that would last for a month or more." "And should I have company on the Journey?" 1 "Well, I hadn't thought of that No, I don't believe you would. I should expect you to go alone." "Then I don't believe I could get ready," she. said turning to her type writer and making four mistakes in the first line of the letter she had be gun. Chicago Record-Herald. , Melody Becomes Malady. That persons have very diverse ideas and tastes in music was exemplified in an incident at a pupils' vocal re cital lately. A young woman was hav ing quite a struggle with a song and one woman in the audience said to her companion: 'Isn't that a beautiful melody?' V The other looked bored and said: "It sounds more like a malady to me." St Louis Post-Dispatch. Great thing are just ahead of you. but you must reach out for thenx Horace Fletcher. Making Her Comfortable. Host's Youngest Don't your shoes feel very uncomfortable when you walk. Mrs. Newryche? Mrs. New ryche Dear me. what an extraordi nary question! Why do you ask, child? Youngster Oh, only 'cos pa said the other day since you'd come Into your money you'd got far too big for your boots. In the Hall of Fame. "His father is in the hall of fame." "Why. I didn't know the old gentle man was dead." "Have to be dead to be in there?" "Sure." "Well, he is only in there das tins the busts." CHEERFUL MENDELSSOHN. ! The Pioneer In Good Conducting and the Boy Joachim, . ; The art of good conducting : began with Mendelssohn. The Leipzig Ge wandhaus owes the greatness of Its or chestra to him. He was ahard task master, but, according to the words of Joachim, he earned the good Will and respect of his men by his thorough knowledge,' says the Music Magazine. ' ' He was sane and rational, preferring a cheerful mood 'to gloom. Johann Krusei formerly second violinist of the Joachim quartet, once told a little sto ry of Mendelssohn's conducting in Lon don, where b,e" was always' a favorite. ' "Mendelssohn was to bring' out the boy Joachim, then about twelve or fourteen years of age," he said. ' "At that time Joachim played Bach and Beethoven like a master. 1 He began to rehearse the Mendelssohn concert with the orchestra when suddenly with boy ish Impetuosity he turned to the con ductor and said, 'Kerr Mendelssohn, I am sure there is a ' mistake in the or chestration here. ; "The cheerful and; sunny Mendels sohn replied, 'Well, tits is a good time to correct it my , boy,' and the error was found arid corrected." Oregon Senator Favors the Bill as Reported From the Lower House Recently. Two Curious Knives. When Sheffield first became famous for . its cutlery a peculiarly shaped knife, designed for a ; variety of uses, ; was made with great care and sent to the agent of the Cutters' company In London. On one of the blades was en graved the following challenge: London, for thy life. Show me such another knife. The London cutlers, to show; that they were 'equal to their Sheffield brothers, made a knife with a single well tempered blade, the' blade having a cavity containing a rye straw two and a half inches in length,' wholly sur rounded by the steel; yet, 'notwith standing the fact that the. blade was well tempered, the straw, was not burned, singed or charred in the least! It is needless to add that the Sheffield cutlers acknowledged themselves out done in ingenuity. Bytes on Bills. Among the . humorous memories con nected with English Judges Is one of Justice Byles and his horse. This em-' Inent Jurist was weil( known in his pro fession for his work on "Bills," and as this gave a fine opportunity for alliter ation his associates.' were accustomed to bestow the name on the horse, which was but a sorry steed. "There goes Byles on Bills," they took pleasure in saying, and as the Judge rode out every afternoon they Indulged daily in their little Jbke. But the truth was that the horse had another name, known only to the master and his man, and when a too curious client Inquired as to the Judge's whereabouts he was told by the servant, with a clear conscience, that "master was out on Business." The French Imperial Guard. 1 - The Imperial Guard of France was created by Napoleon I. when he be came emperor in 1804. It was formed by a merger of the "guards," the "con vention," the "directory" and the "con sulate." It consisted at first of 0,775 men, but was afterward considerably enlarged- In the year 1809 it was by the emperor's order divided into the old and young, guards. In January ,- 1814, it numbered 102,70a It was dis solved by the Bourbon Louis XVIII. in 1815, revived by. Napoleon in, surren dered with Metz to the Germans and was abolished by the government soon after. i Robert Browning. Of Robert Browning toward the close of his life Frederic narrlson In his memoirs has this to say: "He was all things to all men and all women, always at bis best, always bringing light, happiness, generosity and sense Into every society he entered. I think him the happiest social spirit whom it has ever been my fortune to meet." ; Hie Retirement Friend I haven't seen you for some time. Poet No. Fact is I have become good deal of a recluse lately. Friend I feared so. now much do you awe? He that speaks of things that do not rjneern him shall bear of things that nil! not please him. Arabian. Proverb. Senator Chamberlain, after trying for some days, suooeeded ' In getting tba floor of the senate to speak on the regulation of the rates through the Panama oanal, and the management of the oanal zone. The senator said that be was unequivooally in favor of the house bill. His speeoh was listen ed to with deep interest by every one, and there were few interruptions. The senator disouss-d the bill from three standpoints. First, he said, . be was moved to insist ou the right of this country under either the Clayton Bulwer treaty or under the Hay Pauooefort treaty, to discriminate io favor of Amerioan shipping engaged in the ooastwise trade, and be con tended that we could, if we wished to do so, discriminate in favor of Amer ioan sbippiDg engaged in foreign trade . and without . tbe'eby violating the terms of either treaty. Seoond, Senator Chamberlain insiBl- t ed that Amerioan ooastwise traflio ' ought to be given free tolls. He dis cussed generally the eSeot of free tolls on transcontinental and other rail rates, insisting that whatever might be the reduotion in tolls on Amerioan ships, the railroads would have to meet it bv a corresponding reduction io their rates. : - Third, the speaker said that ships owned by the railroads, or in wbiob the railroads bad any interest, ought not to be permitted to pass through the canal at ell. Be gave bis reasons for this contention at considerable length. . "' ;: The effect of allowing railroad owned ships to pass through the oanal, said. the senator, would be to throttle the independent competition and drive the independent sbipfl bnt of business, enabling the railroad companies to in crease their rates as soon as compe tition oould be swept from the sea. - Senator Chamterlaio disoussed the Colombia river situation where inde pendent boat lines had brought down ratas to a very marked degree, and had made .fates muob lower than they had been before between all points where there was ri-vtir and rail competition. The railroads ma a bitter waifare on the independent lib's, but did not drive them ont of business' tef ore they had demonstrated their effective.08 Going into the teoords to prove ii.'f contentions that the railroads bave maintained ship lines to use them at clubs against independent ocean car riers, the senator referred to an inves tigation bv a special committee of the house in 1803 regarding collusive arrangements between the PaciHo Mail and the Southern Pacific to sup press business across the isthmus of Panama, and if snob practices were inimioal to the . business interests of the country to recommend some remedy. Will Test New Wheat. H. D. Cox of the Farmers Union, who returned from Northern Idaho recently with samples of wheat which were running 100 bushels or better tobe sore expects to use the samples for experimental purposes, says the Walla Walla Union. He plans to test the wheat and see if it will do as well as in Latab oounty, Idaho. The sam ples were secured from tbeG. O. Clark ranch on Fix ridge in Idaho, the grain leiog introduced from Alaska a few years ego. It is of the "miracle" variety. ome " millers claim that while the percentage of gluten in the grain is large, it is not the best gluten. The heads are busby and are like or dinary wheat heads only for a few mesbes. Milton Lowers Kate. ' Within the next six weekl or two months a reduotion in eleotric liaht ratra will be made ty Manager L. B. Coyle of the Milton municipal light and power plant of approximately 25 to 33 1-8 per cent, says the Eagle, Al though the definite sobedole is Dot complete and no official authorization of the reduction tas teen made by the eounoil, the change in rates has been agrted upon to take effect some time this fall. Call for Warrants. Notioe is hereby given that the City of Athena will redeem outstanding oity warrants numbers 615 to 570 io olueive, and water oommission war rants numbers 487 to 560 inclusive. Warrants will be paid at the office of B. B. Bicbsrds on August 18. 1912, after which date interest on said war rants will cease. Dated at Athens, Oregon, tbis the 16th day of August, 1913. ; Victor a Burke, - City Tieasnrer. Killed Br Auto. W. W. .Roper, a salesman for the Milton nurseries was instantly killed near Hay station, in Whitman county Tnesday night, wben bis automobile turned turtle with him and pinned the owner beneath with a deadly weight