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Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXV. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1. 1913. NUMBER 7 "1 OFFICERS S. F. WILSON, President, H. KOEPKB Vice-President, F. S. Le GROW, Casbier, E. A. ZERBA. Ass't Casbier. DIRECTORS S. F. WILSON, H. KOEPKE, W. S. FERGUSON M. L. WAITS, F. S. Le GROW. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENA CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $100,000.00 We extend to our Depositors every cAccommdation consistent with sound Banking. THE TUNMKUM 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 THE ATHENA MEAT MARKET "' ' - " v JL Home of QUALITY. tajgjaw 1 Groceries We carry the best RUEAT That Money Buys Our Market is Glean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. Wain Street, Athena, Oregon 1 Good Groceries go to the Right Spot Every Time This is the Right To go to Every Time for Groceries Soot if TRY THESETHEY'LL PLEASE ! ONE BEST THE M0N0P0LE Monopole Vegetables -Monopole Fruits Monopole Salmon Monopole Oyster DELL BROTHERS, Athena, Oregon - CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD TH1NG3 TO EAT C3 V EXPLORER SCOn GIS UP HIS LIFE SUCCUMBED IN PERILOUS RE TURN FROM SOUTH POLE.' Heroic Englishman Faces In evitable End With Courage and Without Regret. A heart reudiog narrative comes from New Zealand, given by the sur vivors of Captain "Scott 'a Sontb Pole English exploration part;. Scott and four others made a daeb for tbe pole last Marob, reaobed the coveted goal, found Amundson's tent and records and on the retain perished of banger and piiration. Tbe bodies were found within 11 miles of a base of supplies, by a relief party. With death staring him in tbe faoe, Captain Robert P. Soott wrote with dying bands bis qnest into tbe Ant arctic region tbat the world might know. This was found beside the corpse and cabled to London. In part it Bays: ' "The oanses of the disaster were not dne to fanlty organization tint mis fortune and all the refc that had to be undertaken. We first lost our pony transport in Marob, 1911, wbioh obliged me to start later than I in tended. Seoond, the weather through out the outward journey, especially the long gale at 83 degrees, stopped as and tbe soft snow we encountered in the lower reaobes of Beardmoie glacier again rednoed onr pacer For four days we were unable to leave the tents. A terriflo gale is blowing about us. We are weak. Writing is difficult. I appeal to oar countrymen to see that those who de pend upon as are properly oared for. Had we lived we would have bad a tale to tell of hardihood, enduranoe and courage which would have stirred tbe hearts of all Englishmen. These rough notes I y our dead todies most tell tbe tale," Tbe faot tbat Petty Officer Evans died from concussion of tbe brain as early as February 17 seems to indioate some aocident, possibly involving tbe loss of a portion of the equipment. Captain Gates died on Marob 17, whioh clearly shows tbat the party were in dire straits and must have un dergone terrible sufferings during tbe remaining 12 days. Captain Scott's party found Captain Roald Amundsen's tent and records at the south pole. On the return trip, about March 29, 1912, 11 miles from One Ten depot, a blizzard overwhelm ed them. They had suffered greatly from hanger and exposure, , and tbe death of Soott, Bowers and Wilson virtually was due to tbat. Tbey died soon after the blizzard swept down the party; The death of Evans resulted from a fall. The other members of tbe expedition are reported to be in good health. A searching party reach ed the bodies and records of those who perished some time later. " TWO FflTjOCGlDEHTS IN HOUR Pendleton Is Shocked By Death of Boy and 12 Year Old . Girl. Pendleton papers of Wednesday re port two sad aooidents which ooourred in that city within an hour. The first viotirn was Lloyd Hall, a sixteen-year-old high sohool boy, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hall of Gur dane. Tbo tragedy ooourred at tbe family residence shortly before 8 o'olook a. m. The youug man and his uncle, Ed MoBroom bad been killing rabbits tbo day before with a .23 Winchester rifle, leaving the magazine full of car tridges. Wednesday morning the toy picked up tbe gun with tbe intention of shooting a rattit. At the time his mother called, to him that it was time to go to sobool, and be started to hand the gun to his little sister. Evidently be had cooked it and while tbe muz zle was pointed toward his breast, it was accidentally discharged. Death was almost instantaneous. The second aocident occurred jnet before 9 o'clock by the wheels of the Walla Walla local train, near the Woolen mills, where the track inter sects Court street The viotim was Ethel, tbe little 13-year-old daughter of J. B. Grnbb. The only eye, wit ness to the aocident was Katberioe Dority, eleven years old, who was oa her way to sohool. She saw tbe little Grnbb girl running evidently in an at tempt to cross tbe track in front of tbe oncoming train. Tbe next she saw was tbe body beneath the wheels of tbe engine. Tbe mangled remains were picked up and taken to the depot in the baggage car. Expensire Blockade. Tbe reoect enow blockade on tbe Northern Faoifio connecting Athena with tbe Pendleton Pasco lioe has cost tbe company about $12,000 it la es timated. Traffic was suspended for three weeks bat tbe line is cow atout cleared. Tbe trouble began Jaaaarv 7 after a severe wind and snow storm which lasted over tweoty-four boars, filling the deep outs between Hillsdale and Wayland stations about ten miles northeast of Athena. PRISON FOR AUTO DRIVER COWARDS PROPOSED MEASURE WOULD PLACE RESPONSIBILITY.; C. E. S. Wood Would Make Failure to Stop After Acci dent, Puishable Crime. Intended to minimize the possibility of accidents by providing prison sen tences for motor oaf drivers who have accidents end then fail to report them and to offer help to their victims, C. E. S. Wood of Portland has draft ed a proposed bill for introduction to the state legislature, Mr. Wood's bill, if it lecomes a law, will make it obligatory, ander severe penalty, for tbe driver of any vehicle rnncing over or colliding with any other vehicle, person or object, to stop ana offer all possible aid to the injured person, and to get all details of the acoident aod the names and addresses of witnesses, and report tbe affair to tbe polioe. Failure to do so, if a person is killed,' loses a limb or is probably permanently injured in the aooident, will subject tbe guilty driv er," upon conviction, to imprisonment la the county jail or in the state pris on for not less than una year and , not more than five years. Tbe lioenso of snob driver shall be revoked and an other one will not be issued to him within one year from the date of bis conviotion. . If the acoident does not result In permanent injnry or loss of life, the guilty driver shall be liable id a fine of not less than $500 end not more than f 1000, cr to imprisonment in the county jail for iiot less than 10 days and not more than one year, or to both snob imprisonment and flue. Mr. Wood's bill also provides 'bat the vebiole of tbe operator at fault shall beoome subject to a lien for tbe amount of any damages occasioned. The instrument further provides that the lioense numbers on vehicles shall be legible at all times; that they shall be kept free ot dust and dirt, and tbat at night or in fog or mist tbey shall be brightly illuminated. It is required that the number be displayed on both tbe front and the rear of any vehicle so licensed. - , , In the oase of an aooident not oooor ring in a city or town, tbe details of tbo aooident, including the names and addresses of ell parties concerned and witnesses, shall be forwarded at onoe to tbe county cleik of tbe county in which snob aooident did ooonr. The proposed bill, if passed, will re peal all sots of a similar nature now in effect in the state of Oregon. ' Shipping Wheat From the Rock. -Live Wire: Tbe Interior Warehouse company shipped last week 12 earn of wheat, being about 8,000 saoks, from tbe warehouse at Pilot Book, wbioh is the highest record made for that sta tion in one week up to this time. Mr. Eggertb. the local manager there, is endeavoring to get tbe house as nearly empty as possible by tbe time tbe roads get good again, as there are a number of farmers who were un able to get warehouse room last fall and tbe grain still remains staoked op in tbe field with straw piled over it. Because of the faot tbat there have teen some years when tbe grain yields of tbat country have been short, the companies have not builded extra large booses, and consequently when the prioe did not justify selling, there was not nearly enough room for stor ing the wheat and barley raised in that vioinity. Rabbits at Lakeview. Lakeview Examiner: The thousands of rabbits that now infest this valley promise to beoome a nuisance right here in town unless there is a decided change in the weather in the imme diate future. At night they corneal most to the basinets center of town in their scarab for food, and moonlight bunting parties are now quite popular. Wherever there is a stack of bay the bunnies swarm around it, and even the trees and shrubbery in tbe oity park are threatened with destruction. At a meeting of the Ladies' Civio Im provement olnb tbe question of pro tecting tbe park from rabbits was con sidered, and it is likely it will have to be inolosed with rabbit-proof fence in order to save tbe trees and shrub bery. South of town tbe country lit erally swarms with tbo pests, and at farms many of them go into tbe cor rals and refuse to leave. Even in some of the backyards tbe rabbits barn made trails in tbeir efforts to seonre food. Pythian Annual Ball. Pythian Lodge No. 29 Knights "of Pythias announces that its annual ball will te given on Friday evening, February 21. Job c son's orchestra has been engaged to furnish tbe mag ic, and supper will be served in tbe lodge hall dining room. Bob Bay mood and Bert Davia will officiate as floor manager! and every member of the lodge will constitute a committee of one to see that all wbo attend tbe ball will bate a good time. A large number of visiting Knights and tbeir ladies are expected to te present. DOLL REED IS FOOD DEAD IRIS V Doll Heed was found dead at the Walter Adams ranoh, sooth east of Athena, this morning. Rood and Lutn Pamfarun were in town yester day, and left for the Pa m bran home on the mountain last evening. Both were intoxioated and had been drink ing here tbe day before. The Adams ranoh is a half mile from the road and about three miles this side of the Pam bran plaoe. This morning about 5 o'olook, Floyd Puroell, wbo works for Walter Adams, returned home and found the Pam bran sled and team at the tim. Lum Pambran and another man were there, and Beed lay in the front part of the sled, covered with a quilt, dead. It ia presumed tbat he died during the night, the canse of death doubt less being dne to heart failure or ex posure. Puroell immediately notified the offloers here. I l 'i ' .-' i - , J: ' P ; ! I - -1 SUDDEN DEATH0F MRS. OGLE Heart Failure Takes Former Athena Resident. DR. C. W. LASSEN, OP PENDLETON Umatilla County Veterinarian. Back From South America. Helix Advocate: John Mnrum, Her man Subl and Spenoe Bentley, all well known farmers of tbe section between here and Pendleton, returned reoently from a trip of several months duration to South Amerioa. v in speaking of tbe wheat oonntry in tbe Argentine and Brazil, Mr. Mumm said tbat there is some fine oountry there and good crops are raised, but owing to the condition ot the government in tbe Argentine it is impossible to 'get a title to lands. After going clear aoross tbe best part of South Amerioa be thinks that a person will have to travel far to beat Umatilla county. Mrs. B. F. Ogle, who with her fam ily removed from Athena to Pendleton three years ago, died suddenly of heart failure at ber borne in that oity ! Friday afternoon. Funeral services took plave trom the family residence Sunday afternoon. .' Mr. and Mis. Ogle were united in marriage in Missouri nearly 51 years ago and came west, settling first near Eugene and afterwetds coming to ttfis county and living on a stock ranoh on Bear oreek for many years. Tbey have bad 13 children, seven of whom passed away during the diphtheria epidemio which raged in the early '70S. "v.' Five ohildren are living at this ! time: John, tbo only son, and four daughters, Mrs. Thomas B. Siming ton. Mrs. Bufas J. Campbell, Mrs. William E. Campbell and Mrs. Sim eon O. Kilgore, all of whom are res idents of this oounty. Mrs. Ogle was about 71 years of age and while ber general health bad not teen good for a number of years, still, until strioken with tbe grip a few weeks ago there was nothing alarming in her condition. It was thought she was making a good recovery from that until she was suddenly strioken with death. Her husband, Ben F. Ogle, is Buffering from grip and is not well at this time. . SEND SHEEP TO PEND OREILLE NORTHERN FORESTER 1 WOULD RENT THE RESERVE. Lack of Room In Wenaha Will Cause Many to Take Advantage of Offer. Dr. Bnd Mrs. J. A. Gross came over from Walla Walla this morning, and are spending the day with friends in the city. Kill Filing Bill. . ' Senator Barrett's till, providing for a filing fee instead ot a petition, for candidates for office, met defeat in tbe boose. Eaton of Lane and others held that, although tbe primary laws are unsatisfactory, this would be no improvement. ' In fact, they argued, it would forever shut off tbe offioe seeking the man. Thousands of head of sheep from this seotion of tbe state will te grazed in tbe Pend Oreille and Coeur d'Alene forest reserves daring tbe coming sea son, aooordiog to tbe decision of sev eral prominent sbeep men, reaobed at the annual meeting of tbe Washing ton Wool Growers association, held Tuesday morning in tbe office of For est Supervisor J. M. Sobmita at Wall Walla. C. H. Adams, assistant district for- Nester of District No. 1 appeared before tbe meeting and informed the associa tion that there were grazing lands in his district capable of supporting 400,000 head of sheep during tre com ing season, and that it was available for any and all desirable sbeep owners of this seotion who oared to ship tbeir sbeep to that country for tbe summer. The Wenaha reserve has room only for 103,000 and for this reason baa been overorowded in past years,- and is not now sufficient to oare for all the sheep local owners are desirous of turning onto it. Many applications have to tie turned down every year and more or less dissatisfaction has resulted over the allotment. For this reason 0. A. Hales of Waitsburg ancounoed that be would ship 10.000 sheep to the Pend Oreille forest reserve this spring and others are seriously contemplating the same move. All present were deeply in terested in Forester Adams' propos ition and are now investigating freight rates and other details ot finanoing snob, a movement of their etook. Tbey believe tbat if enough pasture is not available in this seotion of the state that money can be saved by shipping their sbeep northwards from where they could be shipped to eastern markets. Off t ', . . ... ANNOUNCEMENT: We take pleasure in stating that we will deliver FREE of all transportation charges to any Postoffice or R'. F. D. Route within a radius of 50 miles any purchases in our Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoe or Notion Departments. This arrangement will be found especially convenient for those who have the R. 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