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VOLUME 47.
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 2. 1926
NUMBER 27
HOMAGE IS PAID TO
INDIAN JAR HEROES
Crow Agency, Mont. Homage of the
nation was paid to the heroes of the
Indian campaigns when the body of an
unidentified soldier who lost his life
with General George Armstrong Cus
ter was given all the honors of a Uni
ted States military funeral after 60
years. .
With him into the grave went the
tomahawk of White Bull, a sub-chieftain
of the Brule Sioux under Gall,
directing genius of the allied tribes
that annihilated the command Of : Cus
ter at the battle of the Little Big Horn,
June 25, 1876 a symbol, the chief ex
plained, of his desire to' show . that
enmity between the red men and the
white men was at an end.
The body , of the unknown soldier
was uncovered a few days ago. by a
road construction crew, the buttons of
an army uniform and the bullet which
ended his life being the only means
of. identification. -
Columbia River May bs Surveyed.
Washington, D. C Th9 deficiency
appropriation bill turned over to the
house by the appropriations commit
tee, provides 25,000 for investigating
the possibilities of the Columbia river.
ECHO BANK ROBBED AND
ROBBER AFTERWARD TAKEN
A lone highwayman robbed the
bank at Echo Wednesday at noon of
currency amounting to $1500, when
only Mrs. N. H. McFaul, assistant
cashier was in the bank.' Request
ing change for a $10 bill, the robber
was covering Mrs. McFaul with a re
volver when she handed him the
change.
He then tied her to the vault door
with a wire and made his escape.
Mrs. McFaul gave a good descrip
tion of the robber, and officers ob-.
tained a clue that he made his . get
away in a Star car.
At Stanfield the officers drove , up
in front of a garage and was ques
tioning, a man seated in. front,, when.
the owner informed them that, the
man they were talking , to was the
one they , wanted.
While the officers were m front
of the garage, Rose, the owner, be-
came suspicious ana examined me
Star car the stranger had driven in
to his garage," "with the result that
he found a false compartment in
which was stored the clothes the
robber wore in the bank, two guns,
goggles and the roll of , currency
taken from the bank.
El Paeo Chosen by Disabled Veterans.
Atlanta, Ga. The delegates to the
Disabled American Veterans of the
World War selected El Paso, Tex ror
their annual convention in 1927
Adjournment Plans Upset In Congress
Washington, D. C The house de
clined to set a definite date for the
close of 'the present session and thus
upset the program of republican lead
ers." By a vote of 191 to 133 a move,
sponsored by Representative Tilson,
the republican floor leader, to bring
about adjournment on June 30 was
defeated, for the time being at least.
YELLOWSTONE WILL CLAIM
MANY TOURISTS AGAIN
The breaking of many vacation re
cords in the Pacific Northwest was
foreseen today in a statement by A.
B. Smith, passenger traffic manager
of the Northern Pacific Railway, who
estimates the 1926 attendance at
Yellowstone Park at more than 170,
000. "I think it can be conservatively
predicted that there will probably be
more than 2,000,000 travelers in the
national parks this season," - Mr.
Smith said. Last year there were
more than 1,760,000 registered.
. Dude ranches, lake resorts, conven
tions, and fishing, parties will claim
many, but Yellowstone Park probab
ly will continue to be the outstanding
western attraction, according to Mr,
Smith. Yellowstone draws more peo
ple from greater distances than any
other park. One of the largest open
ing day crowds on record entered
Gardiner Gateway Sunday, June 20,
when Stephen T. Mather, director of
National Parks, formally opened the
national park season.
"Wonder is the great appeal of
Yellowstone Park,", Mr. Smith said.
"It brings hundreds of thousands of
travelers from the world over. Won
der geysers, hot water volcanoes,
boiling pools, uncanny caverns that
his3 and roar, terraces richly colored,
knotted trees and petrified woods, a
mountain of glass, lakes of green and
blue, and innumerable other miracles
of Nature crowd a journey througr
Yellowstone with amazement and ov-
ermastering interest. . j
"Yet Yellowstone has much more
it is beautiful as well as astonish
ing. Its dense forests, its lofty
mountains, its meadows of flowers,
its swift, clear streams with their
wonderful cascades and waterfalls
are quite enough for the endowment
of any park.
"Then there is the climax, the
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
River, that sublime gulf which has
baffled pen and brush to describe.
Many tourists cross the continent
year after year for the inspiration
of the Grand Canyon. It is a dazzl
ing and unbelievably beautiful pict
ure. ' ,
"Yellowstone Lake is another great
attraction. It is more than 7,700 feet
above sea-level, yet it is 20 miles
long and 15 miles wide, cool, clear,
deep and filled with fishing trout
"Animals and birds what a para
dise for them! Elk, deer, antelope,
buffalo, moose, beaver, big-horn
sheep, bear roam at wilL There ars
scores of species of birds. They
have been zealously protected for
years. Today, unafraid and curious
Ytllowstone animals are aa interest
ed in visitors 83 the visitors are in
Jhem." "
VIRGIL ZERBA DELIVERS
NEW CROP AT SPOFFORD
Walla Walla county's wheat har
vest is on in full force.
More than a dozen outfits are at
work west and south of the city,
many of them starting yesterday
morning. In another week harvest
will be underway in the Prescott sec
tion..
The start of the harvest is many
days ahead of any previous year in
the valley. That the yield will be
spotted is the opinion of all, for the
wheat ranges from fair to good in
various fields.
Wheat is already being delivered
at the warehouses, the Spoffod
house having opened. Virgil Zerba
was the first to deliver wheat there.
His yield is good and the federa
tion grain has been sold to the Pea
cock Milling company at Freewater.
Mr. Zerba recently purchased a
body of wheat land two miles from
Spofford Station, and will move there
this fall to reside.
AIRY FARM RELIEF BILL;
DEFEATED IN SENATE 45-38
The McNary farm relief bill was
killed in the senate. The vote was 45
to 89.
Modeled on lines contained in the
Haugen bill, which was defeated, in
the house, the measure would, have
set up. machinery to handle the sur
plus crop problem by levying an
aqualization fee - on basic agricultu
ral commodities.
It had the endorsement of the
com belt committee which has been
urganr farm legislation ; -
Tw& stirring attacks on the meas
ure, both from the democratic side
of the chamber, featured the closing
hours of the discussion. The demo
cratic leader, Senator Robinson of
Arkansas , predicted that if the equal
ization fee were enacted into law. it
would "blow up" in the ceurts, and
Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri,
declared that if the bill went through
you will have a revolution in this
country in less than 30 days."
Senator Reed also asserted that
the equalization fee was unconsti
tutional and "would be inimical to
the fanner himself." He attacked
Secretary Hoover as an "imported
Britisher" who had undertaken to de
prive the farmer of opportunity of
obtaining world prices for their pro
ducts and added that a "more damn
able, illegal, infamous outrage never
was perpetrated" than Hoover's ac
tivities as food administrator during
the world war.
"I have heard argument in this
chamber that makes me sick all ov
er," said Reed. "And I have heard
the suggestion, 'Let's pass this bill
and put it up to Coolidge let him
veto it and get in bad with the
farmers'." "
' "What an argument and an idiotic
thing to come from the lips of men
who have sworn to uphold the con
stitution."
CO-ED GIVEN SENTENCE
Ethel Dow, University of Wash
ington co-ed, who confessed stealing
ington co-ed, who confessed setealing
nearly $2,000 worth of finery in Se
attle, by using other women's charge
accounts, was sentenced by Superior
Judge Jones, ' from six months to
three years in the state penitential y
at, Walla Walla. She is a graduate
of the normal school at Bellingham
and attended the university this year,
Lorenz Dow, of Tacoma, her father
and former prosecuting attorney for
Pierce county, pleaded leniency and
broke down when the sentence was
imposed.
BEGIN HARVESTING
Farmers in the vicinity of Athena
are either harvesting or making fin
al preparations for taking off the
1926 crop. Ralph McEwen began
operations Wednesday while the E,
A. Dudley and Otis Lieuallen outfits
got under way yesterday. Weather
conditions are ideal with old Sol
much in evidence. Fear of an elect
ric storm has been expressed as the
air has been quite sultry and threat
ening clouds have been hanging
about Prospects for a normal yield
are good, the wheat being too far ad
vanced generally to have been affec
ted by the recent hot winds.
MAN LOST THREE DAYS
J. Sweeney, 80 and partly blind
became lost in the Horse Heaven
hills last Thursday and was not
found until Sunday morning. He is
in a serious condition, and little hope
is held for his recovery. A delega
tion went from Kennewick, and
searched all night in the bright
moonlight. They found him about
o'clock Sunday morinng, lying on
the ground exhausted and brought
him to town.
ELECT COMMITTEEMEN
Guy Johnson of Pendleton, will
guide the . destinies of democrats in
Umatilla county during the cam
paign. He was named chairman of
the county central committee at
meeting held by precinct committee
men. Thomas Murphy was elected
secretary and Will M. Peterson was
elected state committeeman from this
county and Judge J. W. Maloney,
congressional committeeman.
CHICAGO GIVES ADVICES
ON NEW CROP PRICES
Foreigners are, not taking cash
wheat in the southwest as freely as
was expected two weeks ago, which
makes exporters bearish for the time
being, according to Chicago reports.
It is a case where bearish domestic
conditions outweigh the effect of a
bullish foreign situation as crops in
Germany, France, Italy and several
other countries . have been damaged
by floods and excessive rains. These
conditions however have no appar
ent effect on foreigners at present,
as they are buying wheat only in a
limited way in the southwest, where
the movement promises to be large
unless interfered with by wet weath
er, as indications are that yields in
Kansas and Oklahoma ; are around
five bushels more per acre than ear
ly expectations.
This has created a bearish feeling,
bringing liquidation by large holders
the last week, which had a depress
ing effect on values.
Viewed in the light of larger yields
than expected in the southwest and
moderate improvements is other sec
tions, it is not out of line to expect
that the government report in July
would increase the estimated winter
wheat crop from that of $543,000,
000 bushels suggested in June.
While there has been extensive
damage in parts of the northwest, re
cent rains have brought improve
ment in other sections and the prom
ise in Canada at present is good.
Old-crop wheat is now getting
pretty well cleaned up at Portland,
as a result of the heavy shipments
which have gone out during the pact
months. There will still be some
movement of that cereal during the
coming month, however.
SITE OF THE FIRST PHONE MESSAGE
NEW CROP WHEAT SOLD
'More than 100,000 bushels of wheat
has been contracted for in Umatilla
county during the last week, Pendle
ton buyers report, for July delivery
at $1.25 a bushel. This is considered
a good indication of the trend toward
fair prices for this year's crop, it
was announced.
reports
93, died
DEAD AT 93
The Walla Walla Union
that Martin V. Campbell,
late Sunday evening after a long ill
ness having been an invalid for many
years. He had been in the north
west since ' 1856, and in the Walln
Walla community since 1863. He was
in turn sailor, sawmill worker, min
er, farmer and miller during his lonr;
life.
NEW NORMAL DEDICATED
Under smiling skies and with
cool breeze blowing down from the
Siskiyous to give the first real re
lief this week from the head wave,
the people of Oregon Saturday dedi
cated the new southern Oregon state
normal school at Ashland.
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STANDARD PICTURES
Tomorrow night the Standard of
fers Harold Bell Wright's "Son of
His Father" as produced by Pain
mount on the screen, with Warner
Baxter and Bessie Love in the lead
ing parts. There will , be no show
at the Standard on Sunday night,
July 4th. Wednesday night, July 7,
Fox presents "Lucky Horseshoe," a
splendid photoplay.
FALL FATAL TO GIRL
Marie Gertrude Spencer, 16, died
at a Walla Walla hospital, where
she has been receiving treatment
since June 7 for a broken neck, sus
tained in a fall from a cherry tree.
She graduated from the Ferndale,
Oregon, high school this year. She
is survived by her father, Chancey
Spencer, and a brother, Herbert.
UP TO VOTERS
The Public Service league, sponsor
ing the state income tax bill with
property tax offset has filed its com
pleted initative petitions with Secre
tary of State Kozer. The petitions
contained a total of 28,206 certified
names, or nearly twice as many as
are required to place the measure on
the ballot.
Walter S,. Gilford, (left), president of the American Telephone and Tele
graph. Company, and Leonard H. Kinnard (right), president of the Bell Tele
phone Company of Pennsylvania and Associated Companies, are shown
standing on the exact spot where Alexander Graham Bell first talked over
his invention at the Centennial Exposition 50 years ago. In the background
jean be seen Memorial Hall, relic of the Centennial, and which is now being
Used as A museum. It was on this spot that Don Pedro, then Emperor of
Brazil, met the 29-year-old inventor and exclaimed, "My God, it talks!" when
he heard Bell's voice come over the wire. The exhibits to be staged by the
organization these men represent will be one of the great features of the
Sesqut-Contonnlal International Exposition, which opens in Philadelphia June
1 and continues to December 1 to celebrato the 150th anniversary of the
signing of the Declaration of Independence.
CELEBRATION AT SPRINGS
A popular place' for celebrating
the Fourth will be at Bingham
Springs, the 3rd, 4th and 5th, where
there will be swimming, dancing,
picnicing, sports and fishing. The
Jolly Joy-Makers Orchestra of Athe
na, will furnish music for the dance
Saturday night, July 3, and Fletch
er's Orchestra has been secured for
the remaining days of the celebration.
The hotel management is prepared
to give good accommodations to all.
Campers and cabin patrons will re
ceive special attention.
TITLE IN DOUBT
The Championship of the Blue
Mountain league is still in doubt as
the result of Pendleton's win over
the Beau in a slow game last Sun
day, 7 to 3. Neither team shone es
pecially although the Buekaroos had
a little more on the ball than did the
Bears,
GOVERNOR PIERCE WOULD
STOP OFFICERS KILLING
Governor Pierce says he is deter
mined that the killing of law violat
es and suspects by officers making
arrests shall stop and stated that the
letter sent out by him Saturday to
peace officers over the state urging
them' to exercise extreme care in the
use of firearms in making arrests is
but a first warning to the officers.
The governor declares that if the
killings by officers which have been
increasing at an alarming rate in
recent months, do not Btop, his office
will take action to see that they are
stopped and to prosecute those offic
ers who shoot without justification
in their effort to enforce the lows.
PROBE. OF LEAGUE
FUNDJNDER WAY
Washington, D. C A sweeping in
vestlgatlon of the $35,000,000 "war
chest" used by the Anti-Saloon League
of America to write prohibition into
the constitution was assured when the
senate "slush fund" committee called
for the league's financial records for
every year since 1917.
The request was made of Wayne B.
Wheeler, general counsel of the league,
by Senator Reed, democrat, of Mis
souri, chairman. , The records, which
the committee" will examine, include
all contributions, subscriptions, the
payroll of the national organization
and the campaign and educational ex
penditures for the last ten years.
"I . want the financial records for
every year since the league began its
national campaign to put the prohi
bition amendment in the constitution,"
Reed said.
Wheeler agreed to furnish the doc
uments.
Besides the Anti-Saloon league, Reed
announced that funds of all organiza
tions . which participated In primary
campaigns would be investigated.
Another broad vista of campaign in
vestigations, outrivaling even that into
the Pennsylvania primary, was opened,
with the presentation to the senate of
charges that $3,000,000 was spent la
the Illinois republican senatorial 'pri
mary in which Frank L. Smith, chair
man of the state utilities commission,
defeated Senator William B. McKin
ley.
Investigation of the Illinois situa
tion has been planned by the senate
compaign funds committee as soon aa
the inquiry into the Pennsylvania pri
mary and the activities of the Anti
Saloon league is completed and con
gress has adjourned.
AMUNDSEN PARTY ARRIVES
SWIMMING HOLE POPULAR
These hot days are the cause for
popularity of , a certain miniature
swimming hole in the creek above
the city park, with the Athena small
boy.
His Hundred and Fiftieth Birthday
, c ' '
SIX WHEEL TRUCKS
Six-wheel trucks are viewed with
disfavor by the state highway com
mission. One or more manufacturers
is announcing a six-wheel truck cap
able of carrying an enormous load.
The commission gives notice to any
one contemplating buying these new
trucks thBt the commission will ask
the legislature for corrective legis
lation at the 1927 session. The warn
ing is given now so that when the
legislature meets truck owners can
not complain that they invested
heavily in such equipment and did
not know it was under the ban.
MIKE RYAN DEAD
Michael J. Ryan, 70, long time re
sident of the Athena district died at
a Walla Walla hospital Monday
night of paralysis following a long
illness. A native of Ireland, he came
to the United States when 19 and had
lived in the Athena section as a
farmer for about 40 years. He nev
er married. A sister, Miss Margaret
Ryan of Pendleton and a niece, Mrs.
Joe Murphy, also of Pendleton, survive.
MACHINE WORKS FINE
Emory Staggs started up his new
International harvester, purchased
from Rogers & Goodman of Athra,
Wednesday in heavy Federation
wheat in a field Northeast of Wey
ton, Wednesday. Chance Rogers
who was with the machine, reported
that it was doing good work, hand
ling the full 16-foot cut in fine shape,
Other of these machines, sold by
Rogers & Goodman, will be started
to work in a few days.
Leader "Virtually Certain" No Land
on Route Followed by. Norge.
Seattlo, Wash. Captain Roald
Amundsen and 15 others who flew
across the North Pole from Europe to
Alaska last month arrived hero Sun
day from Nome.
"My work is fulfilled," the Norwe
glan leader -of the expedition declar
ed. "All the big problems are solved.
The work that remnins in polar explor
ation Is a matter of detail. Let others
handle it."
Amundson looked tired, and worn.
Seven Norwegians, members of the
party, Bald they would likely organize
another Arctic expedition, with the
nid of Lincoln Ellsworth, the lone
AniBrican cn the trip, who was Amund
sen's financial backer.
Amundsen oxprestied himself as "vir
tually certain" that there was no land
on the route followed by the Norge
from Spitzbergen to Alaska. Probably
100,000 square miles, of Icy waters,
occasionally broken by open water,
were seen on the trip, the leader said.
j MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Miss Ruth Froebstel has been elect
I ed music supervisor of the Prosser,
Washington, high and grade schools
j at a lucrative salary. Miss Proebstel
will attend the summer school at the
Monmouth Normal during the vain
tion period, and will receive her stats
' diploma. Weston Leader.
Senate Passes Veterans' Bill.
Washington, D. C The senate pass
ed and sent to conference the veter
ans' rehabilitation bill liberalizing the
conditions Cor reinstating lapsed war
risk Insurance policies and extending
the benefits of vocational reliablllta-
Whipping Post Law Reduces Burglary
Wilmington, Del. Delaware's drastic
whipping post law, credited by the na
tional bureau of casualty and insur
ance underwriters with having reduc
ed the state's burglary and theft ln
surance rates 33 1-3 por cent, will func
tion again in June. John F. Fee and
Thomas Kelly, both of Philadelphia,
were sentenced to 15 yours' imprison
ment and the maximum of 10 lashes
for highway robbery.
Turner Appoint oieyc:i ocnoo, n.
Salem, Or. II. U. Turner of Dallas,
democratic nominee tor state super
intendent of public Instruction, waa
appointed to the office to succeed J.
A. Churchill, who has resigned to ac
cept the pfsldtticy ol the new stat
normal s:li'l at Aiihlund.
bennte Oneho Myers.
washlne: :u, I. (:. Rcnomtnalion of
T. V. OToiinor and the nomination of
Jt-ffenuiu My rH of i'mtlutul, Or., to
nt'jinbci'nliif, on tint shipping hoard
were approved by the senate com
merce cominiuue. O'Connor is now
chairman of the board.
clayers ot -jiuru l.oub mw, , ,M.,..
Salem, Or. Tho Oregon state su
premo c(,;::. ;ifrirri,e(i the decision of
tb.3 lower ( i u:t in sentencing to death
Hll8wor;h K liey unci James Willos
fcr convieticn on -hurge. growing
Cf the prison bnuk of last August.
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