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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
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THE ATHENA iEAlARKET
- .'." We carry the best
& - Our Market is
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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.
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PE0SeBy WHERE PRICES ARE RIGHT P0HIL
The Freshest and most Choice the Market affords in
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Best that Money, can Buy Always Found Here
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' 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.
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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