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This Edition con tains Four Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big Stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your H6me Grocer it . i VOLUME XXV. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY. OREGON. FRIDAY. JUNE 27. 1913. NUMBER 25 Foss-Winship Hardware Company Inspect Our; Splendid Line of rare b None Better. - cA Complete Stock BARRETT BULIDING, MAIN STREET, ATHENA 1 Gl'LE THE rUM-A-LUK! LUMBER CO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND GARNISHES Posts and Blacksmith coal A. M. Johnsoni Manager Athena, Oregon THEATHENA WIEAT MARKET We carry the best RflEAT! That Money Buys Our Market is Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. D.H.MANSFIELD Main Street Athena, Oregon if j Home ot v, ";; QUALITY mSBmi Groceries - Good Groceries go to the Right Spot Every Time This is the Right Spot To go to Every- Time for Groceries "l if TRY THESETHEY'LL PLEASE ! ONE BEST THE MONOPOLE Monopole Vegetables Monopole .Fruits Monopole Salmon Monopole Oysters DELL BROTHERS,- Athena, Oregon CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THING3 TO EAT 0 WEED LAW 10 BE ENFORCED ROAD SUPERVISORS NOTIFIED BY DISTRICT ATTORNEY. : Provisions of Weed Law As Enacted By ' Last Session of Oregon Legislature. ; 'The district attorney has notified tbe road supervisors of tbe county that the weed law ia to be gtriotly en forced. Sam JBoober, super visor of road disUiotNo. 9, baa received tbe following letter from the district at tornsy, together with a copy- of the laws wording and provisions: Pendleton, Jane 17, 1913; Mr. Sam Booher, Sapervisor R. Diet; No, 0 Athena, Ore. Dear Sir: Complaint has been made in various parts of the county that certain weeds are being permitted to grow. I know how difficult it is to get people to ont weeds, bnt it is important that this law be enforoed if possible, and I am therefore enclosing to yon herewith a copy of tbe weed law- passed by the 1913 legislature: Yon will note that this provides that yon shall give to each person offending a written notice, and that if he fails to oat tbe weeds, yon can then out them, or have tbem ont, and make a return to the County Clerk showing expense. This return when filed by tbe. Clerk, constitutes a lien upon the land and , will be en foroed by foreclosure brought by the District Attorney. Reap, yours, Frederick Steiwer, ; Distriot Attorney. The New Law. "It shall be tbe duty of caoh road supervisor in each road distriot in this State, in addition to the duties here tofore prescribed. by law, to asoertnin from time to time and know - whether or not there is in bis distriot any weed known as Russian thistle, the Canad ian tnistle, tbe Chinese thistle, or sis ymbrium sltissinom (oalled white or Jim Bill mustard,) oooklebur (known as the dagger oooklebur,) atrisplex argentia, (called silver salt busb,) and he shall, as be 'ascertains that there is any of snob weed, , and before any thereof has eb'ed its tloom or com menced to form tbe seed, serve or cause to be served upon tbe owner of the land or the land adjoining a road or highway to the; center thereof, if be be known and residing in the coun ty, and if not. .upon the ooonpant of tbe premises or tbe center of tbe road or highway- adjoining said premises upon whiob said weeds or thistles may be, a notide in writing: notifying said owner or ooonpant of the existence of said thistles or weeds, and id snob not ice shall give tbe name of snob weed and tbe disoriptlon of the laud - upon -wbioh same is growing, or in oase said weeds or thistles are growing upon a road or highway,- a description of tbtfl land adjoining said road or highway. Said notloe shall be served by deliver ing sjto the ooonpant or person in charge of said premises, or laud "ad joining said road or highway, a copy thereof duly certified to te sooh-by the person serving same, and if there be op oconpant, of such land upon wbiojb weed may "be growing, then snob' notice shall be served by posting in three conspicuous places upon said premises a copy 'at .sqob notice duly Certified to be snob by said road sup ervisor. - "If suoh owner or ooonpant shall fail or refuse for ten days after being notified of the existence of snob weed or weeds upon said land or said laud adjoining a road or highway, to com pletely remove same, it shall be the duty of snob road supervisor, and be shall have authority- to go upon said land or road or highway, calling to his assistance - snob help as he may deem necessary and cause said weed or weeds to be extirpated from said land or road or highway in snob manner that will be most effective and work tbe least injury to tbe land, . but that will destroy said weed and its seed and prevent the same from in any way spreadiog to any adjoining lands. "Upon the completion of said work tbe road supervisor shell file with the county clerk an . itemized state ment of tbe expenses of destroying said weed, including bis own fees as here inafter provided verified fcy his oatb, and when said statement is filed, tbe county clerk shall oaose tbe same to be entered upon a lien docket prepared for that purpose, and tbe amount of aaid obarges and flxpanses when so docketed shall constitute a first lien, prior and superior to all olber liens and obarges upon said lands, or in case said weeds or thistles are growing upon a road or highway, then npon tbe land adjoining said road or high way, exoept taxes. If tbe said obarg es and expenses are not paid, and said lien is discharged by tbe owner or oo cupant of said lands or of said lands adjoining said road or highway witbin six months after the same is docketed, it shall he tbe duty of tbe county clerk to notify, in writing, tbe distriot attorney of tbe diatriot in wbioh coun ty is situated of snob fact, whose duty it shall be to bring a suit in the name of tbe county for tbe foreclosure of said lien; and tbe lands affeoted there by shall te sold under execution for the payment and satisfaction of said charges and expenses, and of said lien and all obarges touching tbe same." A "LIVE" JACKRABBIT SPECIAL Pendleton Live Wire and Telegram . "Fall" for Fake Scourge, A Pendleton special to tbe Evening Telegram of Portland plays up a fea ture story oouoerniog alleged depre dations on crops in the Holdman seotion by hordes of jaokrabbits. Ibe Pendleton Live Wire, Eastern Ore gon's offspring of tbe Soripps-MoRea brand of sensational newspaper, stands sponsor for tbe rabbit pest, wbile the East Oregotilan treats it as a joke. Tuesday's edition of tbe Live Wire was certainly a "live" one so far as jaokrabbit lore is concerned. Ninety- four inches of reading matter spnee was devoted to rabbit statistics, in cluding tbree jaokrabbit editorials. It bad the appearanoe of beiog a jaok rabbit special edition. Athena sports men are contemplating extermination of tbe army of rabbits with an arsenal of "22" oalibre rifles, but are await ing . farther information from tbe Live Wire source before going to tbe expense of chartering automobiles for transportation to the field of action. Tbe Pendeton speoial to the Evening Telegram says: "J. T. Hoops, a leading farmer of the country north and west of Hold man 23 miles from here,- arrived iu Pendleton this morning to telegraph an appeal to Washington for govern ment aid in fighting a jaokrabbit soourge now sweeping over the west oentral part of Umatilla county, de stroying wheat and rye with astound ing rapidity. "Tbe state bounty on coyotes, passed for the benefit of the sheepmen and poultry raisers, is held . responsible. Coyotes have praotioally been exterm inated.. With tbe disappearance of their natural' enemies, Hoops says, jaokrabbits have multiplied in geom etrical progression in reoent years. This spring they invaded tbe Holdman oountiy in vast armies. Poisoning, trapping, shooting, iBids by bands of dogs and all other methods of attack ing pests have had little effeot. . "Hoops reports the conditions more serious than told in the first reports received here. A strip of grain 15 miles long and 13 miles wide has been eaten clean, be says, and that jaokranbita out a stalk off just below the bead, leaving ttestobMe standing. "Tragio features attend tbe devas tatioo. The dry farming district waa opened up only a few years ago by poor homesteaders, including a large Ureck settlement - and a number of Americans. Today hundreds of fam ilies are looking out on ruined crops and have lost ' all " tbey bad in tbe world. Scores have already abandon ed tbeir homes. Hoops says there are awful sights to see weeping women and children wbile men are wringing tbeir hands in despair. "Eastern Oregon farmers are in terror of a repetition of tbe Austral ian soourge. Tbe only hope of saving the remaining orops, it is said, Is by inoculation of jaokrabbits with tbe bacilli of tbe disease known as "sunt flea" or rabtit "distemper," wbioh attaoks the membranes of tbe nose and bead and kills tbe animals off rapidly. When inooulated, the rab bits are turned loose to infect others. Chicago Vaudeville Company. Of tbe Chicago Vaudeville company wbioh appears at tbe Atbena opera house on Monday and Tuesday evening next, the Pendleton Live Wire save: A packed house greeted tbe Chicago Vaudeville oompaoy at the New Grand theatre opening last' night. Every number was encored and the company individually and oolleotively were up to the standard as advertised. More than 700 admissions were, reoeivtd during tbe two performances and there was standing room at a premium all evening. Tbe opening bill is very creditable and tbere was a notioable absenoe of little indelioaoies some times attributed to vaudeville. Tbe entire performance was unusually re fined, many renditions being aotually olassicaland artistic and a genuine surprise in comparison. Smallpox at Dixie. Several of tbe worst oases of small pox ever seen in Walla Walla oounty are reported (o have developed in an epidemic of that disease neat Dixie and it is worrying health officials to no small degree, although tbere is said to be little danger of tbe contag ion spreading any fnrtber. Ono res ident of Walla Walla oontraoted tbe disease wbile in Dixie and after re turning was taken sick and is now quarantined in his home by tbe health officer, wbo says that tbe breaking ont on the patient Indicates a severe attaok. '"" ' Will Sell Park. Tnm-a-Lom park direotors have de cided to sell tbe pleasure resort. A meeting of stockholders will be held in two weeks to ratify the notion of tbe directors after wbioh tbe property will be offered for sale. It will be sold either atpubli9 auction or pii vata sale. Tbere are 22 1-2 scree of ground io tbe park. Some of it is suitable for farming purposes. Tbe property will be sold with all improve ments. The park has been run for several years. After 19 Years Ahsenee. After 10 years absenos. from Atb ena, Turner Uallender reappeared on the scene of bis boyhood borne Wed nesday, and bad great sport with old timers in identification meetings. Turner is a strapping big fellow and not one in a dozen recognized in bits the slim and callow youth wbo used to jump counters in tbe Mofgrove store. Iia is married and residee in Seattle, nod is employed as traveling salesman for a clothing Him, HE HONOR III BREAK WES! RULE EIGHT OF GOVERNOR'S TRUSTIES TAKE FRENCH LEAVE. James Barnes, Up From this County, Is Listed Among the "True and Tried." The old saying "there is honor among thieves" has been rudely shat tered by eight of Governor West's "honor men" witbin six weeks. First, a man convicted of stealing, soon after being paroled, began pat ronizing saloons. He was arrested, and on tbe way the the penitentiary alleges hn was severely beaten by a guard. Tbe guard pleaded gnilty and was fined $50 by Justice of tbe Peace Webster, the prisoner deolaricg at tbe hearing that bis ouly regret was bis honor bad been tarnished by bis drink ing when be had promised faithfully be would not do so. Governor West remitted tbe fine. : Then two boys, oue a housebreaker and the other a horsestealer, wbile engaged in road work near tbe institu tion, and being upon "their honor" not to ran away, did that very thing. Tbey have not heeu captured. A tew days later to men of acro batic proclivities and benefloiaries to some extent of the honor system soaled a will of tbe main oellbonse, scampered across the roof to a scuttle above the apartments oooopied by women prisoners and sawed their way through the floor of an actio, lowering themselves to the apartments below. Tbe women were at work in tbe base ment and tbe men, after rummaging tbrongb bureau drawers aud ward robes, departed as tbev had entered. 1 hey lett behind a saw and a rope ladder. Their identities have uot been learned. Throwing bis honor to the winds, John Keith, convicted of obtaining money under false pretenses wbile working in tbe brickyard at tbe peni tentiary last Saturday, slipped, un observed, through a door, out a wire screen and seoroted himself in a ditch until tbe guards departed, when he made his esoape. - Tom Alexander, a paroled man, wbo served tbree years of a 15 year sen tence, imbibed freely of intoxicating beverages iu Portland last Friday and offered two deteotives one-third each of a 200,000 "plant." He offered to take the deteotives to the plaoe where the money was buried, with a provision that a oertain man in tbe penitentiary be freed. Alexan der has been returned to tbe peniten tiary. ' . . James Barnes, who was a member of thn "Walter Johnson gang." while working near the reform sobool "ducted into the brush" and has not been seen by any one about the prison wbo knows him siooe. He was sen tenced iu Umatilla oounty to serve from ton to five years for obtainiog money under false pretenses. Barnes is 29 years of age, and two fingerj are missing from bis right band. He began serving bis term April 23, this year. VETERANS liOTO GETTYSBURG Athena Will Have a Representative at Great Anniyersary' Celebration. With tbe opening at Gettysburg, Pa., yesterday of tbe annual ' encamp ment of the Pennsylvania G. A. R. began tbe influx of veterans of the civil war for the grand reunion cele brating the 50th anniveisary of oue of tbe greatest oonfliots of modern times the deoisive battle of Gettys burg. The Pennsylvania veterans will find all arrangements for the great gathering completed and every detail perfeoted as to the care of tbe union and confederate veterans and the general public. Tbe oelebration of tbe anniveisary of the battle of Gettysburg will begin on July 1, and end on Independence Day with the ad dress of President Wilson. Atbena will be represented at tbe great oelebration hv W. W. Jaoobs, wbo fought on the Confederate side iu tbe famous oonfliot. Drowned in Mill Creek. After falling into Mill Greek from the bulkhead in front of his home, io Walla Walla, some time after 6 o' clook Monday evening, the dead body of Lewis, tbe five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Vernard was found shortly after 10 o'clock in a shallow riffle just before the Spokane street bridge, by Firemen Dongbteiy and Steinteok of Fire Station No. 2. Tbe body was swollen with water but otherwise was not disfigured. Ill EXTEIISIOII Gill SETTLERS LANE ALLOWS PROJECT FARM ERS MORE LENIENCY. Says Man Who Is Tilling Soil and Not Speculator, Is To Be Favored. Heavy Rain Storms. Heavy rain storms passed over this part of Umatilla county Saturday night and Sunday, Heavy spots lodged and tangled to tent, bnt serious damage baa reported. grain in some ex not been Speoial consideration for farmers who aotually cultivate land on gov ernment reclamation projeots as pro tection against speculators, was an nounced as an interior department polioy by Seoretary Lane. In line with this, the seoretary ordered a tem porary i eduction to one third of the amount doe from present teltlers on final building oharge installments pro vided no payment shall be less tban 60 cents an sore. The unpaid talanoe will be added to the last installments for water light applications. Those who have paid the obarges may have credits either on their next annual in stallments or on operation and main tenance now doe. This aotion was takengin reoognitiou of the difficulties many settlers on ir rigated lands have bad in meeting their obligatioua to tbe government as impressed on the secretary at tbe re cent conference with representatives of tbe water users association. "Tbe man wbo makes a farm and irrigates it ia the man I am interested in primarily, not the land speculator," said the secretary. "On some of the irrigation projects we have been mak ing money for speculators rather than homes for farmers. I find we have io our irrigation projeots, 1,200,000 acres of irrigable land but we are irrigating, only 650.000 sores. More tban 95 per cent of tbe remaiuing 650,000 acres all irrigable, bnt nnirtigated, is land in private speculative ownership. Tbe man wbo irrigates - bis land should have tbe easier terms from tbe government beoanse be is tbe one wbo is giving tbe publio tbe teoefitof that land. "jNot one of tbe water users desires the government to waive bis dobt, tut less than one-half of tbem have paid tbe building charges dne December 1, 1912 wbioh will te delinquent Decem ber 1, next. ' y (BEIT All You Are Entitled to Out of Our Great Kemoaenin Mm Whit mmum These combined sales offer you an opportunity to save from 5 to 10 per cent on the season's new and. wanted merchandise. Can you possibly afford to miss such savings? No no matter what anyone may tell you to the con trary", you are the loser if you don't come aud inves tigate, see what prices we are offering and examine our merchandise. It s new and fresh, Ours is the new est, best assorted, cleanest stock in Eastern Oregon and the largest, too. It's too large for the room we have; that's the reason why we are forced to remodel the interior of our store. 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