Si This Edition con tains Four Pages Athena Merchants Carry Big stocks Buy Your Groceries from Your Home Grocer VOLUME XXV. ATHENA. UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22. 1913. NUMBER 33 Foss-Winship Hardware Company Inspect Our Splendid Line of El MACHINE OILS and Axle Grease . None Better. , cA Complete Stock BARRETT BULIDING, MAIN STREET, ATHENA MOD THE TUIM-LUIVI LUMBER CO. Lumber, Mill Work and all Kinds of BUILDING MATERIAL PAINTS, OILS AND TARNISHES Posts and. Blacksmith coal A. M; Johnsorii-Manager Athena, Oregon THE MHEUiV WiEAT WKET We carry the best That Money, Buys Our Market is , Clean and Cool Insuring Wholesome Meats. D. H. MANSFIELD Main Street, Athena, Oregon I mm tfjp taof QUALITY Groceries 'Good Groceries go to ;the; Right I Spot Every Time This is the Right Spot To go to Every Time for Groceries m TRY TIIESE-TIIEVLL PLEASE ! LLA DITCHES I TD BE en SECRETARY LANE BRINGS JOY TO PROJECT SETTLERS. Reservoir for 50,000 Acres on Ground That Cannot Be Tilled, on Extension. THE MOfyOPOLE Monopole Vegetables . Monopole Fruits v Monopole Salmon Monopole Oysters DELL BROTHERS, Athen , Oregon CATERERS TO THE PUBLIC IN GOOD THINGS TO EAT A Pendleton epeoial says: Secretary of the Interior Lane closed a busy day by addressing a representative gather ing of Eastern Oregon men in tbe Pendleton Commercial (Jlob .Tuesday nigbt, Tbe address followed an an to mobile ride over tbe Umatilla reser vation and an i early ban net at tbe St George Hotel. Never before has . snob universal gratification attended tbe visit of an Interior department bead in tbis vi cinity. Mr. Lane's positive, assnranoe that tbe order for tbe putting through of tte West extension sball stand, caused rejoioing tbrocghont Umatilla and M or row oonnt ies, and tbe Pendleton gathering developed into a general oel etraticn.' It : was .initber indicated by Mr. Lane that be will do all in bis power to .jusn through the entire . West ex tension of. JJO.OOO . ;aores just as soon as tne Initial bdU..qMO.00O aorea la completed. . Tbe plan is to enlarge tbe present irrigation project . of , 8000 aores to 10.000 aores, wbiob will be irrigated from a diversion dam to be- built Just below Hermieton. When : tbis land is watered tbe other 10,000 aores will be irrigated by means of a great storage reservoir , to be toilt on . tbe Umatilla liver two miles above Her- miton. Tbis is a radical change from tbe original plan, wbiob took in valuable land. The proposed site will cover only salt grass and alkali lands, wbiob otherwise would be viitoallv nselees. The Secretary mads three speoiflio statements of prime importance to tbe settlers. First, that $800,000, wbiob be had set Bside, wonld be spent as fast as needed on tbe first unit of tbe exten sion. Seoond, that he wonld "take care of tbe settlers on deferred payments" and wonld give them as long time as tbe limit of reclamation aot wonld permit. Third, that be wonld send experts to investigate tbe question of water and wonld see that each settler got snffloient water. Mr. Lane made his promise as to tbe extension contingent upon the agreement of tbe large landholders to divide and sell their holdings in email units. Mr. Lane Indioated strongly that he does not propose to permit big landed proprietors to reoeive tbe ben-1 eflt of the government's project de velopment, and that be proposes to favor tbe small homesteader as against tbe speonlator. Mr. Lane said he would ask congress to provide for an issue of 30,000,000 of irrigation tonda to be nsed for completion of tbe projeots now under way because there is work ahead for 175.000,000 and there is only $35,- 000,000 available from tbe sale of government lands and repayment on projeots already built. Oregon, eaid he, has not received a proportionate share of tbe reclamation fund and be proposes to see that this state in tbe future is treated fairly. "Oregon haa contributed about $9,000,000 and has reoelved little of the portion to wbiob it is rightfully entitled," he said. "I intend to take oare of yon from now on." Mr. Lane urged tbe people of Oreg on to write to their United States senators on ... tbe , questions vitally affecting tbe state, "so they will know what the big miud is thinking and wants." Ha said there never haa been an ad ministration ao nntrammeled and un pledged aa the present one. "Our purposes are honest, our aima high and I think that tbe people of tbe country feel that wa mean to do our test to solve the great problems whiob the nation faoes," ha said. - Ban on X-Rar Dresses. Mayor Albee of Portland, has put tbe ban on tbe "X-ray" dress and has given orders to his ebief of police to arrest every woman found wearing one on tbe streets. Tbe major's order went into effect immediately. The mayor's aotion followed observations during a trip in tbe down town dis trict, where he saw tbe objectionable gowns at short range. No Wildcat Games. Oregon's new bine sky law haa tot wildcat mining propositions on the obsolete list, according to Sydny B. Vincent. Inspector in tLa corporation department Salem wbo passed through Eugene after impacting mines in Southern Oregon. He recently in spected tbe Bine Biver mines near Eugene. ' Alfalfa Cam pairs With tbe slogan. "Mora alfalfa means more dollars,": Professor Pair Q. Holden, tbe man wbo pot Iowa on tbe map aa a corn state, will eoodoet a characteristically strenuous alfalfa campaign in tbe Inland Empire, com mencing Wednesday, Bsr tenjbef 21- f.lENDIilG A CABLE The Snapping , of : a Submarine ; Line Entails Hard Work. LOCATING THE BREAK IS EASY. This la Accomplished by the Use of Sensitive . Instruments, and Then Cornea the Difficult Task of Grappling and Raising the Severed Ends. . The 700 mile cable that connected Hamilton, Bermuda; with Halifax, Nova Scotia, bad snapped. Somewhere under many fathoms of water lay tbe two broken ends, perhaps only a few Inches apart-more likely half a mile or so from, each other-carried from their, accustomed bed by tbe wash of the waves.. Until the two ends were connected the thousands and thousands of dollars Invested In the cable were bringing no income. As tbe result of tbe accident Hamil ton was practically Isolated from tbe rest of tbe world,, for the only other cable .went to Jamaica.. By sending a message to Jamaica and having It re layed to Newfoundland and thence by telegraph to New York it was possible to get a few words through In a fairly short time. But the tolls were enor mously high. . The moment tbe operator at Halifax found that tbe key on tbe Bermuda cable did not respond to his touch be reported the fact to' his superior in tbe Halifax office. Orders flew back and forth, telephone belfs rang, messengers scurried in and out of tbe office, and In a few hours tbe cable repair steam er was on its way to Bermuda. The operators at Halifax and Hamil ton bad located the breaks It was about six miles from tbe Hamilton end of the cable. This they calculated with sensitive instruments nsed to re cord the "resistance." The writer was in Hamilton when the Mackay-Bennett steamed into the harbor and through tbe courtesy , of tbe captain was on board when tbe steamer went out and grappled for tbe ends of the coble and restored it to usefulness. Even when the captain of a coble re pair ship knows that tbe break is about six miles from one end It's no easy affair to pick up tbe big wire ropes. The floor of tbe ocean is uneven, and be must allow for alack. The crew was ready when the ship stopped With a splash the big grap nel went overboard, and yard after yard of line was paid out until tbe book touched bottom. Tbe water was 120 fathoms (720 feet) deep at that spot Luck waa with the cable ship. So well had tbe captain calculated that tbe very first cast of tbe hook brought up one end of tbe broken cable. It was hauled on board. The electricians attached their Instruments and called Hamilton. The 6tatlon answered Im mediately. , A huge buuy was attached to tbe heavy wire rope and lowered Into the water. Then we set out to flud tbe other end. Cost after cost of tbe grappling hook and not even a nibble from tbe missing part of tbe cable. Farther and far ther tbe coble ship worked away from the buoy. - At last, after three hours' work, the grapnel resisted the pull. The fish had been caught. There was a cbeer from the crew as it was pull ed on board, about a quarter of a mile from tbe other end This end was connected with a tele graph Instrument, and the operator at Halifax, nboui 700 miles away, an swered. There was nothing more to do except to Join the broken ends. A new section of cable was carefully spliced to tbe cable that bad just been picked np. Tbe cable was paid out over tbe stern as we steamed back to the buoy. This was hauled on board and tbe broken end spliced to tbe new piece of cable, an operation consuming less thaa half an hour, Tbe repaired cable, as good as new, was dropped overboard to resume Its place on the ocean's bed, - Rarely does a cable repair ship bave such good luck. . Often storms arise which drive tbe ship from her course, tear tbe buoys from tbe ends they bold and compel tbe work to b done over again. In northern waters these conditions are felt t their worst Tbe ship be comes crusted with ice, It is difficult to maneuver and doubly so to deal with a cable on bow or stem wben tbo roll of tbe seas threatens to. fracture it again, and tbe launching of boats with men In them to buoy a loose end if hazardous. From these causes occasionally cable ships get short of cool and bave to abandon work temporarily at critical periods, or they are enmeshed among the Ice floes or bergs and bave to let go all and retreat Karl S. Kitchen in Now York World. Between Worsley and St Helena, In the north of England, is tbe most re markable canal in tbe world. It Is un derground, from end to end, and Is sixteen miles long. In Lancashire tbe coal mines are very extensive, half tbe country being undermined, and many years ago tbo Duke of Brklgewater's managers thought they could save money by transporting tbo coal under ground Instead of on tbe surface. Tbe canal waa constructed and tbe mines connected and drained at the same time. Ordinary canal boats are used, but the power is furnished by men. On the roof of the tunnel arch are cross pieces, and tbe men do tbe work of propulsion by lying on their backs on tbe coal and pushing with their feet gainst tbo crossbars on the root f Oil B UM FOR BIG U S HO CAR SHORTAGE IN. NORTH WEST THIS SEASON. A Thousand New Freight Cars Being Delivered For Moving of Fall Crops. Agent Mathers of, tbe O-W., in forms tbe Press that one thousand new freight cars bave been oidered by his company in anticipation of a heavy demand for oars to move the big oiop tbis fall, are now being turned out by the car builders and, ate ar riving at the various reserve stations of tbe oompany in Oregon and Wash ington at tbe rate of 50 oars a day. Tbe delivery began on August 1 and tbe entire 1000 cars will probably t e ready for use by the time tbe wheat sales are made. "With tbis order of 1000 new oars," states Mr. F. W. Robinson, Assistant Traffic .Manager, "and an additional 2000 just delivered to tbe Union Pa oiflo, we are confident that we will bave plenty of rolling etook for all emergencies tbis year. ''The greatest need for oars in crop-moving time is about tbe middle of Ootober. Aa delivery of all tbe new rolling stock will te made by Sep tember 1, we expeot to be ready for any contingency. "The new box oars are all 10 feet long and of 100.000 pounds oapaoity. This is tbe standard size adopted by the oompany. "the Paoiflo iru't express has also ordered 3000 additional 'refrigerator oars wbioh will bring it total number to 13,000. Tbis will greatly facilitate the moving of tbe fruit crop." At present tbe O-W, R. & N. Co. is arranging for tbe parking of freight oais at points where they will be quiobly available after bat vest. A mote favorable omen in . connec tion with tbe important problem of car supply. Is tbe better understand ing tbat now prevails among shippers in general in the matter of oapaoity loading and redaction to minimum of lost time in loading and unloading. To biing tbis about a moBt persist ent and far-reaohing propaganda has been conducted throughout tbe year, not only by railroad traffic depart ments in tbe way of dirtot instruc tions to agents, but by trafflo bureuus in all large oommeroial centers, and by the Bureau of Railway Economics at the national oapital, till it is fairly safe to say tbat every shipper and agent in tbe land is alive to its impot tanoe. It is believed tbat tbe indiffer ence and tbougbtlessnees of past sea sons will be supplanted tbis year and in future, by hearty cooperation, and tbat oar shortage, exoept on extraor dinary occasions, will te largely ob viated. ' wife of Dr. P. D. Watts of Weston, and another nieoe of tbe deceased. An order of County Judge J. W. Ma looey was made aoceptiog the report of James A. Fee as administrator, and distributing the property of tbe estate. The litigation wbioh resulted from the contests of Mabel Warner cost tbe estate $10,829.89 and it has never been figured just how muoh it cost tbe oonnty in proaeouting : Mrs. Warner three times on forgery charg es. Hoppers at Walla Walla. ; Grasshoppers so thick tbat they fly in the faoes of auto and team drivers, almost blinding them are to be found in parts of Walla Walla oounty, but they have done no damage ns yet to garden crops and alfalfa. There ate more of the insects tbis year than ever before aocordiing to old settlers. The superintendent of thn Rivnr tracts on Snake river, near Riperia, states tnat there are millions of grass hoppers in tbat district. They eat , into tbe fruit and destroy it for market. Grasshoppers have visited the Snake river bars before, bnt never in suob numbers. . U PU lllVMttl llfl muiiiiHi n n HICK nULU nn ninnrimrnn PULL OFF ROBBERY AT A PORT LAND STREET BRIDGE. Soo-Spokane Train Stopped and Looted By Four Men Who Escape Officers. A. R. Burford Dead. , A. R. Burtord, formerly cashier of tbe First National Bank at Walla Walla, died Tuesday from cancer of tbe liver at bis home in Hollywood, California, a suburb of Los Angeles, aooording to word reoelved from bis son, Harry Burford. Burial will probably be made in California. Mr. Burford was one of tbe pioneer bus iness men of Walla Walla. He was oaBbier of tbe First National Bank for a number of years but resigned about five years ago to reside in California for bis health. He is survived by two sons. Riobard and Harry, bia wife end three daughters. Elephant on Home Sod. The Canyon City News says tbe Fossil beds of tbe lower John Day valley have revealed the bones of ele phants and mastodons, and that mil lions of years have transpired since the time they disappeared and an ele phant, wbioh waa with Frank Adams' oil one at Prairie City last week, was in tbe oounty. It being tbe first time that an elephant bad been lo Grant oounty for fifty million yews, it is no wonder tbat it seemed natural and like old times to the inhabitants. Masked highwaymen held nn the Soo-Spokane faBt passenger ttain on tbe O-W. K. & N. line as it wai pasa iog uader tbe East Twelfth street bridge in Sullivan's Golob. Portland, at 9:15 Tuesday nigbt, goiog through the coaches, foroing tbe passengers to give up their valuables and firing more than a score of shots to compel the trainmen to comply with their demands. . Joe Barron, a tramp, who was rid ing on top of one of tbe Pullman oars, was shot and badly wounded. Tbe men, wbo were four in nam ber, es caped. Barron, wbo is thought to have been oonneoted with the robbery, died without divulging any informa tion to the officers. After tbe holdup the train was held at the scene while an effort was made to obtain ao estimate of tbe loot tbat tbe robbers obtained. Money and val uatles were taken from the passengers. Thetnin was halted by the robbers directly under tbe bridge. Athena officers have received de scriptions of tbe robbers, from tbe railroad oompany, A reward of $6,000 is offered for the oaptoie of tbe (our rokbeis. Bill Booher Bays soma "feller" helped himself to bis trail wagon tongue at tbe Coomana & Zerba sbop. Wben said "feller" gels through with it, Bill wonld like to nsa it awhile. To Divide Estate. ''' Afte being held up for tbe. better part of a decade by tbe daring and peisistent attaoka of Mab'l Young Warner tbe estate of James W. Young, ber unole and step father, is to be finally divided among the accred ited heirs, says tbe East Oiegonian. Tbe principal heirs are Nora Watts, Bennett's Paint Shop House, Carriage and Automobile Painting", Paper Hanging Kalsomining, Etc Manufacturer of Bennett's "Imperishable" Paints and dealer in Paints, Oils, Glass and Wall Paper. E. A. BENNETT, - Athena, Oregon. 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