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Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXV. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JANUARY 17. 1913. NUMBER 3 OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKE Vioe-President, F. S. Le GROW, Cashier, E. A. ZERBA. Ass'fc Cashier. DIRECTORS S. F. WILSON. H. KOEPKE, W. & FERGUSON M. L. WAITS, F. S. Le GROW. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA . . v . CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $100,000.00 We extend to our Depositors every cAccommdation A rnnstetpnt with sound Banking. - 1 . . ww - - o- 0 . . . V - 48 THE TUPM-LUM LUMBER GO. iv -VLumber, Mill 'Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal v A: M. Johnson, Manager - , Athena, Oregon.; , THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET We carry the best That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. D. II." MANSFIELD Main Street, Athena, Oregon jvi Home of 1 ftglAIITV Hpiii. Groceries Good Groceries go to the Right Spot Every Time This is the Right Spot To go to Every ..Time for Groceries c TRY THESE THEY'LL PLEASE! ONE BEST THE MONOPOLE Monopole Vegetables Monopole .Fruits Monopole Salmon Monopole Oysters DELL BROTHERS, Athena, Oregon CAT&KEKS TO THE TUBLIC IN GOOD TIIING3 TO EAT THE GOVERNOR'S BIENNIAL MESSAGE NO DEFICIENCY IN ANY STATE DEPARTMENT FUND. West Sees Improvement In Conditions and Advocates Law Enforcement. The following are the main features of Governor West's biennial message to the Oregon legislature: , j The State's Finances. The state's finances are in a splen did condition. We bare no debts, tonded or otherwise, to worry as and there are ample f onds on band to meet all current expenses. Unexpended ap propriations and aooumulated reoelpts from license fees and other souroes n excess of a million dollars will be available for expenditure during the ensuing year and make neoessry a state tax levy of but $1,000,000 as against $3,000,000 last year. A Single Board of Control. All state penal and eleemosynary institutions should be placed under a single board of control and to avoid creating new officials and expenses tip said board should consist of the governor, eeoretary of state and state treasurer. The state purchasing board should be merged with this board. By this arrangement the management of our state institutions can be greatly simplifled and the oost reduoed. The Soldiers' Home. The Soldier's florae appears to be receiving fair treatment at the hands of the legislature and offers many com forts to those old patriots who through wounds, misfortune or old age have been obliged to throw, themselves up on the mercies of the state. The commandant is not asking a single dollar for betterment. ' Insane Hospital. '', "The overcrowded conditions which have prevailed at the Oregon State Insane Asylum at Salem during the past few years have been relieved to a certain extent by the oooupanoy of the new receiving hospital and will be further relieved by the transfer within the next few days of a large number, of patients of the new hos pital at Pendleton. This transfer would have been made upon the first of the year had it not been' for an un fortunate delay in supplying certain hardware needed for the final com pletion of the institution. The Penitentiary, f Regarding the penitentiary, the governor, says that under bis new plan this institution has earned in oash, and in labor famished the state but not paid for, $70,570.76, or about half the cost of maintenance of the institution. Ibe governor be lieves that the prison can be made self-supporting. ' . ' 4 - Good Roads. We still need good roads legislation, The paople indicated . through their votes at the last eleotion that tbey were opposed to any but conservative action along these lines. We have made some headway dating the past two years, and the way is open for further progress. Law Enforcement. Tha governor is admonished: by the constitution to take care ttfat the laws be faithfully executed but neither the constitution nor the statutes give him adequate authority to execute this command. It is true that he may call the militia to his aid in the exe cution of the laws, tut this is an ex traordinary power which it sboald be necessary to exercise only upon grave and extraordinary occasions. The governor should not be forced .to use the artillery of the state to bombard bootleggers or pursue blind pigs. Our liquor laws should be strength ened as follows: Shipments of liquor of any kind in to dry territory, exoept under certain restrictions, should be prohibited. The sale of near beer should te pro bibited in dry counties. No liteuse lor the sale of; liquor ebould be.isaued to anyone doing bus iness outside of an incorporated city or tswn. Saloons shonld be kept closed Sun days, and oo week days between the hours of say 11 o'clock at niabt and seven o'clock in the morning. rio saloon sbonld be permitted in or about railroad stations. All saloons should have ocen or glass fronts; all chairs and card tables ebould te prohibited. - Saloons should not be permitted to oash obecks. Illegal sale of liquor by druggists should work a forfeiture of lioense to do business. The several measures recommended l;y tie Portland Vice Commission should be given state-wide application and stringent laws as to the sale of cocaine, ; morphine and similar drugs should be enacted; also laws which will better enable us to abate nui sances through injunction proceed ings. . The Oregon System. -Oregon's system cf popular govern ment, having successfully withstood the attacks of its enemies, is here to stay. The time bas come therefore when its friends should take steps to remove suoh defects as a fair trial bas shown to exist. None but registered voters should be permitted to sign initiative cr ref erendum petitions. Each petition should have a preoinot heading and signatures should be taken according ly. This would enable county cleiks to quiokly obeok the signatures and when necessary certify the list to the seoretary of state. As the matter now stands it is pbysioally impassible for the seoretary of state to check the sig natures on tho petitions filed in Jhis office. Bogus signatures can be filed with impunity, and suoh a con dition equivalent to the nullification of all safeguards which the framers of the law attempted to throw around it to prevent its abuse. This matter mer its your careful attention and consideration. E ALFALFA PEST. While Theoretical. It Is a Step in the Eight Direction. Disoussing the threatened appear ance in some part of Eastern Oregon of the alfalfa weevil, . already suoh a pest in Utih, and the control mea sures under consideration, A. L. Lov ett of the crop pest foroe of the Oregon Agricultural College says: "The value of a quarantine is whol ly theoroetical, but sorely it would be a step in the right direotiou to keep out any produot of an infested district, such as alfalfa bay, though it is certainly tut one of the many ready agents for the diffusion of the pest. "Beoause of the many different av enues through whioh the pest might be introduced, some measure author izing a competent person to investigate thoroughly any reported outbreak or fUspioiouB district or shipment should be passed This person should also have authority, when an infestation was found, to use whatever stringent measures were neoessary to; stamp out the pest in its inoipient stage. "Railway rights of way, where any legumes are growingafford an excel lent breeding ground for the stray beetle whioh drops from the passing oar. From this unnoticed initial spot the pest may spread to adjacent fields. A measure which would euoouiage the cleaning up of railway rights of way is another step in the right direc tion. "- . ' . ; "Remedial measures are, so far, strictly in the experimental stage. Rather than -. disouss these, I would urge a careful consideration of the se rious nature of the alfalfa pest. I would urge growers to aoquaint them selves as muoh as possible with the pest, and watch diligently for any sign of an injury similar in nature to that made by this weevil, and report at once to the experiment station, giving all particulars as fully as pos sible, and enolosing samples when it is possible." ' .' v FREEZING TO DEATH. Sensations That Come With Exposure to Extreme Cold. . In the course of a series of expert ments with extreme cold carried on at Berlin, Raoul Plctct, an iuvestlgntor, inserted his bare arm beyond the el bow in a chamber refrigerated to a temperature of 157 degrees below zero F. and kept it there for several min utes He suffered no permanent dam age, but experienced a number of pe culiar and painful sensations.. The chief of these and the most trying was a feeling of pain In tho hones of the hand aud arm. Tho pain increased steadily. It was located chiefly la tho interior parts of the arm and was far less severo In the portions near or ot tho surface. Tho skin was purple when the member was withdrawn. In about ten minutes a violent reaction set in with violent burning sensation of the skin wherever it had been exposed. Investigations carried on with dogs indicated that the process of freezing to .death is not necessarily an unpleas ant one. Placed in a temperature of 123 to 150 the animals displayed quickened breathing and heart beats, with a decided, rise above normal In tho blood , temperature. These, signs pointed to a sudden and violent auto matic effort of the heart to preserve tho bodily temperature. In spite of en ergetic heart action the temperature of the blood fell gradually to 71 degrees. At this poiut the heart action ceased very suddenly. ; The sensations of bodily warmth and languor mentioned in descriptions of death by violent cold cun easily be un derstood in view of the above experi-ments.-New York Sun. Destroying Money, Paper money Is nothing but ft prom ise to pay so much coin. If you de stroy a fire dollar note, for Instance, you simply release the government 01 the bank which issued the note from the payment of the $5 la gold wblcb the note called for. Of course, there fore, you are not punishable in any manner for destroying the note if it is your own. There is no penalty for mu tilating gold or silver coin If you keep it la your own possession, but as you have thereby destroyed a considerable part of Its value yon must not try to puss It nt pnr nfter the mutilation. ' - : Poor Mamma, The Dear Chikl-Oh, Mra. Bloom, when did 70a get back? .Mrs. Bloom Bless you, dear, I was not away any where. What made you think so? The Dear Child I tbonght yon were. I beard my mamma say that you were at loggerheads with your husband for over a week. n n 011 IL1EY BARRETT SECONDS IN BENALF OF EASTERN OREGON. Mc Arthur Made Speaker of the House of Representatives Without Opposition. Two extremes were cotioable in organization of the Senate and House, when the Oregon legislature convened Monday. Without so muoh as a tipple to dis turb the smooth course of events, the Oregon bouse of representatives got into its working clothes Monday morning by electing 0. N. MoArthur of Multnomah as speaker and then go ing immediately into canons to com plete permanent organization by ap pointment of the neoessary olerks. The eleotion of McArthur went through like the rush of a steam loco motive. Bnt there was not tbe slight est suggestion of steam roller methods, for tbe simple reason that there was nothing to steam roll. MoArtbur's eleotion was unanimous, exoept for bis own vote, which he cast for P.O. Bonebrake, of Benton county. But it was different in tbe senate. Bitter denunuiatiou of Senator Dan J. Malarkey just before be was eleoted as president of the senate wag staged by Senator George W. Joseph, one of tbe new president's oolleaguea from Multnomah. While Joseph declared that Malar key is a progressive for office only and asserted that be baa bartered appoint ments right and left to win election as head of the senate, Malurkey sat two desks bebind him and yawned, read letters or looked at the ceiling by turns. That Malarkey is a friend of the corporations, that be has a "peouliar alliance" with the Oregonian, that he works in "devious ways," that be cannot be trusted to legislate for tne people and is politically inconsistent were tbe things upon whioh Joseph framed his indictment He referred constantly ' to Malarkey during bis speoob as "this man." ; "I am not taken into tbe delibera tions of the senators," he said. "I was not requested to attend a private oauouB, or to take part in trades. We know that offioes have been bartered out. Even tbe olerksbips have been parceled out in return for support, and possibly tbe interests of the people have been overlooked. "I have a right to go into the po itical history of this man. Never in the days of old ring rule was suoh an outrage perpetrated upon the people as to deal out tbe offioes. It is a shame, a disgrace, a violation of tho spirit of tbe corrupt praotioea act. I oould have been on tbe ways and means committee, on tbe judioiury, I oonld have bad anything I wanted, "Ho asked mv support, and I refused biiii. You wbo are voting for him are not doing so beoausn you have con Q denoo in him. Never was there such a complete oiling of tbe machineiy as exists here." Joseph reviewed the fight of last season over the Malarkey publio util ity bill, declaring that Malarkey bad betrayed tbe people to tbe railroads in that measure, and said Malarkey bad helped the Title Guarantee & Trust "robbers" to steal from Judge Mar quam, and referred to the Mitohell days, drawing the oonolusiun that Malarkey is a progressive for offloe only. Joseph's Nominee Withdraws. 'This man went before the Pro gressive Business Men's olnb in Port end and called Senator Kelliher and myself liars," said Joseph, "AH agree ments between ns are now ended. Ha has forfeited all consideration at my bands." When Joseph finished, Neuner of Douglas took the floor and hotly re sented tbe obarge oommlttee places had been promised in return for sup port. He said that so far as he was oonoerned the oharge is absolutely false, "as black as yua oan make it." It had been agreed by Malarkey's friends that no reply should be made to the personal attaok of Joseph. But ler, who bad been plaoed in nomina tion by Joseph, arose to say be was not a oandidate and would support Malarkey. Winds Back to Malarkey. Barrett of Umatilla seoonded the nomination of Malarkey "in behalf of eastern Oregon," and this brought a retort from W. Lair Thompson of Lake, wbo said he allowed no other senator to speak for him. He opposed Malarkey on tbe ground that the pre siding officers of both houses should not be from Multnomah. He nom inated Carter of Marion. MalarKoy made only a brief reply to bis aocusesr when, after bis election, he deolared it untrue that he promised any committee appointments or made any trades to seoura bis success. When the vote was taken Malarkey reoeived 25 out of 80. Of the remaining five votes, Joseph and Kelliher voted for Butler of Wasco and Hood River, Thompson voted for Carson of Mari on, Miller voted for MoColloob of Baker and Malarkey gave bis ballot to Calkins of Lane. ' TAFT TENDERS FHE JOBS McCusker Is Rewarded for Standing Pat for Taft. True to the prediction given out by Committeeman Ralph Williams a few days ago that President Taft would appoint only regular Repnbliuans and Taft men to jots in Oregon, tbe pres ident Tuesday sent out tbe following nominations to the senate: In Oregon Collector of Customs at Portland, Councilman John Burgard. Collector of Customs at Astoria, Frank Parker. United fctates Marshal of Oregon, E. 0. Kirkpatrick. Postmaster at Portland, Thomas McCusker. - Postmaster at Astoria, Frank Car ney, (incumbent,) In Washington Register of U. S. Land Office at North Yakima, Harry Saint. It is significant that MoCusker is rewarded for standing pat for Taft in tbe Republican national conven tion, when with four others be re fused to vote for tbe nomination of Tbeodoie Roosevelt, wbo later bitter ly denounced him as "a seoond Judas" for refusing to carry out tbe instruc tions of tte people of Oregon, as evi denced in tbe preferential primaries. THE ANH1VERSARV CALDONIAN SOCIETY PREPARING ELABORATE PROGRAM. Concert of Two-Fold Signif icance Will Take Place On Evening of January 25. The 161th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns will be celebrated with greater activity this yoar than ever before. All over the world, wherever the sons of Scotia have gone, there will the memory of Burns be honored. Tbe Caledonian Sooiety of Athena is making elaborate preparation for a great celebration. A conoert is to be given on January 25. The object of the oouoert la two-fold: To celebrate tbe anniversary of the poet's birtb, and to raise money in aid of the Cal edonian Piooioj these are both worthy objeots and we are sure tbe oitizens of Athena will boost the project. Tbe Caledonian Pionio is of more than looal note, it is known through out the state, and there is no reason why it should not be known through out tbe whole Northwest. Milton has her "Strawberry Day;" Weston her "Pioneers' Day;" Pendleton her "Roundup;" and tbe greatest day in our calender is tbe Caledonian Picnic. It is intended to have a bigger and better celebration this year than ever before. It takes money to do this, and in order to help raise the fnnds, tbe concert will be given on tbe 25tb. Tbe concert will be one of tbe best ever given in Athena as the program will attest. Gavin Dunoan, tne Soot tieh dancer, will give the Highland Fling and tbe sword dance in native uostume. Piper MoDonald will fire the heart and quloken tbe pulse with tbe martial strains of the pibroob. Songs, speeohes, wit and humor will make the evening one to be long re membered. Tbe off ioers of tbe Caledonian So oiety and their friends will dine at tbe St. Nichols Hotel at six o'olook January 25tb. The program follows: Prelude - Johnson's Orohestra Chairman's Address Edw. E. Koonta The National Anthem The Audience "Tbe Campbells Are Coming" Piper MoDonald Vooal solo, "Maokay," Malcolm MoFadyen Recitation Savannah Smith Vocal solo - Miss Anna Soli Pianoforte solo Miss Zola Keen Highland Fling . Gavin Dunoan Oration, "Robert Burns," - . A. Mackenzie Meidrum, M, A. Vooal solo - Miss Zelma DePeatt "Tbe Maokenzie Men" . Piper MoDonald Vocal solo - Jos. N. Scott Reoitation - - Miss Ida Kelly Tribute to Robert Burns A. O. Kirk Vooal solo - Mrs. G. S. Newsom Sword danoe Gavin Dunoan Reoitation - Miss Zola Keen Vooal solo Miss Velma Wilkinson "Sbonld Anld Acquaintance Be Forgot," Orohestra and Andienoe. Chairman, Edward E. Koontz. H THE BROADEST MOST COMPREHENSIVE WHITE SALE WEVE HELP-PROVIDING SU PERIOR QUALITIES AND GREAT VALUES. We open this Great White event Saturday morning January 11th after weeks of careful thought planning and painstaking preparations and with a determina tion to make it a white Sale extraordinary, and no matter for what purpose, no matter for what member of the family you want white goods, you'll find it here; and you'll find it here at prices extremely attractive prices that afford you an opportunity to affect savings on your white-wear requirements for the next rix months. Better arrange to take advantage of these unusual savings. Remember, Sa e Begins Saturday Morning, January 11th - Send lis Your Mail Orders 0ed Pendleton by mail at very small cost this law allows you to send packages by mail up to eleven pounds in weight and up to 72 inches in length and girth combined. The rate within fifty miles of Pendletoc is as follows Fiat rate of lc per ounce up to 4 ounces above 4 ounces rates are paid by the pound 1st : pound 5c Each addi tional pound 3c 11 pounds 35 cents. '. . : ' . ' v' ; The Peoples Warehouse Where it Pays to Trade. Save Your T. P. W. Trading Stamps.