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I t A BIG JOB, BUT ITS DEAD EASY It would be a big job to tell one hundred people any thing that would interest them in your goods but its dead easy if done the right way. This paper will tell several hundred at once at nominal cost. , ill i i a m. Ml a m. a NOT ONE DAY CAN BE FOUND in the week but that you do not need stationery of some sort or other. We furnish neat, clean printing at the very lowest rates. Fast presses, modern types, modern work, prompt delivery. 41 Entered at the Post Office at Athena, Oregon, as Second-Class Mail Matter VOLUME 48. ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY MORNING, JIJLY1, 1927 NUMBER 26 us Cloudburst Strikes Arlington, Oregon Property. Damage is Esti; mated to be Over $100,000. Arlington, Or. A terrific cloud burst that struck on Sutler Hat, seven miles south of here, Sunday after noon, sent a wall of water seye.n feet high sweeping' over Arlington. " The torrent washed away houses and other frame structures and did dam age estimated at from 100,000 to 1250,000., The center of the property loss here was the Vendome hotel, which is almost a total wreck. All of the buildings in Arlington swept away or wrecked were along the main street. Much of the dam age done by the raging waters will bo in 'the accumulation of mud on stocks of goods in the various base ments and lower floors of business houses and stores. There was no loss of life as far as cculd be ascertained, and it was be lieved that none was injured. This fact was : attributed" largely to the warning given by William Head and Frim William, who had started to drive to Condon. The men ran into the cloudburst on the John Day high way and turned around and drove for Arlington. Motorists were warned on the way and the alarm was given in the town. Residents of the city, which is situated at the outlet of several large canyons, have always feared the flood menace and they took to the hills without delay. - OREGON FISH WHEEL BAN DECLARED LEGAL Portland, Or. Oregon's new law, passed by the legislature at the 1927 session, barring fish wheels from the Columbia river and seines from that part of the river above the cascades, is constitutional, according to a decision handed down by Federal Judge Bean. This decision was made in a suit brought by P. J. McGowan, wealthy cannery man of Ilwaco, Wash., who sought a permanent injunction against the state to prevent it from enforc ing the law. McGowan's attorneys contended, when the, matter was argued in fed eral court that a contract was en tered into by the states of Oregon and Washington in 1918 legalizing the use of fish wheels and seiae's. The regulations could not , be changed by Oregon without Washing ton also changing them, it was main tained. However, Judge Bean said he could see no reason why the state should not be allowed to supervise Its own citizens and direct how fish should be caught by them" in . the river. LEGISLATORS SEE C00LIDGE South Dakota Solons .Visit President at Summer White House. Rapid City, S. D. The legislature of South Dakota, made up of cow boys, bankers and farmers, came up from its special session , at Pierre, the state capital, to welcome Presi dent and Mrs. Coolldge at the sum mer White House. The .legislators, were accompanied by 110 relatives and friends in the largest delegation which has yet vis ited the vacation capital of the coun try. In the gathering were many 10 gallon hats and most of those who wore them appeared as if they had freshly come from the ranches, but they came with a "Yippee" and "Zowie" for a real western welcome to the president. G. N. and S. P. Railroads Agree. Washington, D. C A rlan for set tling the long standing Oregon rail road controversy was submitted to the interstate commerce commission in a Series of applications by the Great Northern railroad. All phases of the plan are acceptable to the Southern Pacific company, the application said. Union Pacific Ready to Open Bus Lme rom Portland to Pendleton Sapiro Ousted as Cotton Counsel. Memphis, Tenn. Aaron Sapiro has teen ousted from his powerful posi- !ion as general counsel for the Awer can Cotton Crowers" Exchange, it was learned here from executives of th$ orgaaUat'on. The Union Pacific system, through its recently incorporated subsidiary, Union Pacific Stages, Inc today will inaugurate a new daily two-way mo tor stage service between Portland and Pendleton. (' Five coaches, declared by the pas senger traffic department to be the last word in motor stage construction and equipment, have been built espe cially for the run. Four of them will be in daily operation;-. The fifth will be held for. emergencies. . Operation of the stages will make no difference in train service between Portland - and Pendleton, though on Sunday, July 3, the local train be tween The Dalles and Pendleton will be cancelled because of the substitu tion of the two stages daily between the two points. The morning stage will leave Port land from the terminal at Sixth and Salmon streets, at 6:50. It will ar rive at Multnomah Falls at 8:25; Hood River, 9:55; The Dalles, 11:05 Arlington, 1:25 p. m., and Pendleton 4:30 p. m. The afternoon stage will leave Portland at 1. It will.arrive at Mult nomah Falls at 2:55; Hood River, 4:05; the Dalles, 5:15; Arlington, 7:35, and Pendleton, 10:40. " Returning, the morning stage will leave Pendleton at 7:05 a. m., and arrive at Portland at 4:45 p. m. The afternoon stage will leave Pendleton at 12:20 p. m. and reach Portland at 10 p. m. The Union Pacific system already operates a motor coach service be tween Pendleton and Walla Walla and on other runs on its various units, and further expansion of the motor coach schedules has been intimated. Trench Mouth War On at Walla Walla Dr. H. T. Sparling, county health officer, is directing a campaign launched by the Walla Walla Health department to prevent the spread of typhoid fever and Vincent's Angina, or trench mouth. The death knell Sf the common drinking cup, common water bottle and of unsterilized dishes in eating places is the first step of the campaign, Dr. Sparling said. Warning is being given to farm ers at the start of harvest season to abolish the common drinking bottle or cup in the field or cook house. Dr. Sparling urged the use of either individual drinking cups or canteens. Sterilization and1 thorough washing of all dishes or glasses in places which sell food or soft drinks is also being required. Dr. Sparling explained that trench mouth is an infectious disease com municated by unsterilized dishes and glasses. Typhoid germs, ho said, are also carried in the same fashion. Former Athena People Hold Annual Picnic The second annual picnic of form er Athena residents living in Port land and vicinity was held Saturday afternoon and evening June 18, in Laurelhurst Park. Mr. L. B. Reeder was the princi pal speaker for the occasion, speak ing of Athena in the early days. Others also responded with short talks. Mrs. G. C. Osburn was r-elected president, Ivah Callender Kilthan, treasurer and Alma Koontz, secre. tary. About sixty-five were present and a most enjoyable time was had by all. These picnics will be an annual event, McNary Says That He 'Is Not a Candidate United States Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon emphatically de clared himself not a candidate for vice president on the republican tick et "What is more, I wouldn't accept the vice presidential nomination if it were offered me," he said. "I like an active life too well to tie myself up in the vice presidential office, even with as good a man as President Coolidge. "I think President Coolidge is cer tain to be the republican presidential nominee, and certain to be re-elected In my mind there is nothing to it' Senator McNary was at Medford with Senator Frederick Steiwer and Congressman J. Sinnott looking over the irrigation situation. Income Tax Measure Overwhelmed at Polls Light Yote Over State Goes Against Threat of High Levies. With only four measures out of the whole list escaping the avalanche of negative votes thrown into the ballot boxes on Tuesday, all the rost have been swept into the discard, in cluding the three Patterson admin istration proposals the income tax, the tax limitation amendment and the legislative law giving the state tax commission power to reassess property valuations throughout the state where found to be too low. All of the various bonding and money measures were brushed aside by the voters in a most emphatic manner. It is interesting to note that Mult nomah county handed the big wallop to the income tax, where the com plete count shows a negative major ity of 20,654 votes, virtually a two to one rejection, while in the upstate the voters approved the measure by a narrow majority of 1405 in 988 of 1315 precincts outside of Multnomah The complete count in Multnomah is a 20,654 negative majority. The complete count from 1520 precincts of the whole state, including the com plete Multnomah returns, gives a negative majority of 19,249. Those counties giving substantial affirmative margins to the income tax measure are Benton, Clackamas, Hood River, Lane, Linn, Polk, Uma tilla,, Wasco, Washington, Wheeler, and Yamhill. The vote was close in Columljia, Peschutes, Douglas, Gil liam, Harney and Jefferson. : A light vote was polled in the special election Tuesday at Athena, as elsewhere over the state. The in come tax bill carried in Athena by a vote of 43 to 35. The following is the total vote as cast in Athene's three precints: . , Suffrage Section Constitution Yes 39; No 32. Portland School Tax Yes 18; No 33. Criminal Information Amendment Yes 38; No 25, Legislator's Pay Yes 9; No 57. Voter's Registration Yes 36; No 31. Officer's Salary Yes 25; No 31. City County Consolidation Yes 13; No 41. Veteran's Memorial Amory Yes 7; No 47. Tax Limitation Yes 28; No 54. Income Tax iBH Yes 42; No 38. Property Assessment-Taxation En forcement Yes 16; No 4fl. Fish Bill-Yes 23; No 30. Vandal Wolf Caught in Lake County Trap After Twelve Years The big white wolf of Sycan marsh which slew $15,000 worth of cattle, sheep and horses and which for 12 years was feared and respected in Lake county, has been trapped and killed says the Oregonian. Those persons who declared "There ain't no, sech animal" have been prov ed wrong. There was such an ani mal; Elmer Williams of the United States biological survey had him at Silver Lake, Oreggh, night before last. - The Sycan wolf is the only preda tory animal ever reported to the bio logical survey in Oregon which has not been caught within what Mr. Jewett calls a reasonable length of time. More stories of mystery and devastation surround it than any oth er animal Mr. Jewett ever knew of. His tracks were the size of an av erage cougar's, the largest wolf tracks Mr. Jewett ever saw in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho or Montana. His howl was described as a sound like the baying of a hound. And ho Was white. The ZX ranch, owned by the Che waukan Land & Livestock company of Paisley, Oregon, provided most of the fresh meat in the diet of the Sy can wolf. The cattle men estimate their loss in horses, cattle and sheep at from ten to 20 thousand dollars. Just a few weeks ago the wolf look two- yearling cattle. , The Sycan wolf ranged usually ov er an area of 30 mile square, can tering in the Sycan marsh, but last year he was reported seen as far east as Summer lake and as far west as the upper end of the Klamath marshes. He would kill a steer at one place today, they said, and hi3 howling would be heard 30 miles away the next day. The Sycan wolf never returned to, his kill. He was always accompanied by one or more coyotes. Mr. Jewett es tablished that fact on a visit to tb? Sycan marsh thismsnth. It was oil this trip that the biological survey leader was first convinced that the devastation report was -wrought by a single large animal.' The coyotes were along only to feed upon what the -wolf left. What the. coyotes left the magpies got. It is not unuaualt Mr. Jewett said, for coyotes to ac company wolves on their rounds. The Sycan wolf made his rounds fortnightly. A foot log across the Sycan river was on his route, and it was there that Mr. Williams thought he would surely trap the beast. He might have, if bobcats hadn't gotten into the trap on the log so often. And then this spring freshet carried thef log away. Fruitvale Wins Pennant By defeating Adams 7 to 4 in Sun day's game, Fruitvale clinched the pennant in the Valley league Sun day. Weston won from Walla Wal la Electric. 9 to 6, and Helix trounced the Twin Cities 9 to 2 in the Big Four league. Pendleton and the In dians were in tie in the seventh in ning, 2-2, in the last game of the Blue Mountain league, '.Stakes are set and grading of the new Eagle Hollow market road will be started soon. It is expected that the road will be finished by October first. Standard -Theatre Programs Anna Q. Nilsson, Huntley Gordon and Charles Murray head a big cast in "Her Second Chance," one of the swiftest dramas ever seen at the Standard, tomorrow night. There will be no show at the Standard Sun day night on account of Fourth of July preparations. Weston Vicinity Hit In Cloudburst Sunday Buildings Swept Away and Damage to Growing Crops Heavy. Anti-Fish Wheel Law O. K. The Anti-Fish Wheel Bill, passed by the electorate of Oregon in No. vember, Is not In conflict with the constitution of the United States nor with the Oregon-Washington compact governing the commercial fishing on the Columbia river. A decision to this effect was handed down in Fed eral District Court. Two cloudbursts Sunday afternoon did considerable damage to buildings and crops at Weston and Arlingtonr Sheets of water falling on thehills adjacent to Weston surged through the town, carrying everything loose before it. Teh business and resi dence sections were hit by the flood and two bridges put out of use tem porarily, r ; Water and mud rushed into main street business houses, and a portion of the floor in the H. R. Pope gen eral merchandise store, which stands on the bank of Pine creek, fell out when that part of the building was undermined by the wall of water and participated a part of the dry goods stock into the flood and was carried away. Other business houses and many homes had their floors cover ed with deposits of mud. Adjacent rural districts in path of the flood bore the heavy brunt of the destructive force of the wall of wa ter. The home of Newton O'Harra, whose farm is on Little Dry Creek, was swept away by the flood, the family barely escaped as the house left the foundation, and floated away in the torrent. Hardly a vestige of the house was found, and its entire contents was scattered along the track of the flood, the piano lodging a half mile below where the house stood. The school house near by has one side caved in and hole through the other, where a boulder or some heavy object hurtled through. A scene of wreckage at the Ott place will" re quire much time and hard work to efface. Farther on down Dry Creek, the Winn place received scars from the flood, as also did' the Staggs place. At Blue Mountain Station debris and silt covered the highway, for a time making automobile traffic dan gerous. Throughout the track of the storm farm houses and yards and gardens suffered m damage from the surging floods, and in the grain fields thousands of dollars in damage re sulted. Weston suffered a loss of probab ly $50,000, while damage to grain in the path of the storm will mount to many more thousands, as the re sult of hail, rain and wind. Damage in Milton-Freewater and Couse creek vicinities was confined principally to ranches in the sur- rounding territory, the towns escap ing the crest of the flood, though the streets of Milton are covered with mud, and the municipal light plant is out of commission. In the vicinity of Athena, the storm caused a flood at the head of the municipal water system, which car. ried away the pump house, filled an auxiliary well with mud and caused other damage. Hail damaged gruin to some extent on Gagnon farm. One portion of the Kocpke place is dam aged as the result of the flood which struck at the head of the city water system, and flowing on down, rushed into the Frank Coppock farm homo leaving a deposit of silt and mud covering the lower floors. ' Heppner's 1903 Flood Disaster is Recalled by Sunday's Cloud Bursts Sunday's cloud bursts, which in undated the towns of Weston and Arlington, recall the disastrous Heppner flood of Sunday, June 14, 1903, in which over 250 people lost their lives. : - The catastrophe was caused when a storm coming up over the Blue mountains from the est . and one from the west met over Willow creek, which flowed through the town, and a terrific electrical storm, hail and heavy rain followed. ; Willow creek became a torrent. Ordinarily the rain water ran down one fork of the creek known as Balm fork, but debris lodging against the piling of bridges dammed up the flow and the other fork also became a rushing torrent of flood water. Most of the houses of the town were along the creek and they were washed away. The rapidity with which the water moved was more responsible for the heavy toll of lives than was its depth, The water was ice cold, which was also responsible for many of the deaths. Property damage of approximately $1,000,000 resulted from this storm. Chamberlin and Levine Fly. to Germany N . Jti WF''- fo? : m' A ' f j - tfrninr "-m r frff! t 1 1 r r ' "i i - V - 'i 1 -""r r V flf" "f " X ' . i. fr 1 1 . ft it if itii-frt-i'r" " fcfrf itl frttCi Ll Al G. Barnes Circus Walla Walla July 8 Advertising agents representing A. G. Barnes Circus have been post ing pictorial circus bills in this vi cinity announcing the coming of this excellent, show, and advertisements will be found in our columns this week. The management of the A.. G. Barnes Circus announces the follow ing features this year: The all new spectacle entitled, "Al addin and the Parade of Gold," in which approximately 1,000 people take part, including the Chinese beauty, Lola Lee Chong; the Chinese giant, Liu Lu-Ching the biggest man on earth; Klinkerts, equestrian mid gets, fourteen tiny horsemen from Bavaria; San Marcus, the $16,000 equine star; the zebra round-up, with the largest herd in captivity in Am erica; and many other novel features and performances given by American and foreign artists, and animals from every part of the world. Two performances are given daily, the afternoon starting at 2:00 o'clock and the night performance at 8:00 o'clock. The doors are open one hour previous for tho inspection of the largest travelling zoo in America, pnd for the children to see the Chin ese exhibit in which Liu Yu-Ching and his suite hold a reception. Wheat Destroyed in Idaho by Hail Storm Over 20,000 acres of fall wheat in the vicinity of Cottonwood, 69 miles southeast of Lcwiston, Idaho, were estimated to have been destroyed by a severe fifteen minute hail storm which swept an area 80 miles square there Monday. Hailstones over an inch in diamet er, that broke hundreds of windows and riddled automobile tops were re ported to have fallen in Cottonwood during the storm. The total damage to crops, truck gardens and buildings is estimated at $800,000. The storm is said by old residents to have been the worst that has struck the region in recent years. One report placed the damage from the hail storm at about ,$750,000 This would include damage over the whole Camas prairie. Japanese Accept the Views of the British Favor Proposal to Discuss Capital Ships at Naval Conference. Clarence D. Chamberlin ond Charles A. xw ::in!ins before t lie WiUhl-llelluiicu plune Colun.blii Jtmi be ton their start on the successful nonstop flight tiom New York lo Klulebcn, Germany. Death of John Ridenour John Ridenour, brother of Mrs. F. B. Boyd of Athena, and of Mrs. S. A. Barnes of Weston,' died at Sheri dan, Montana, yesterday morning, after a short illness. Relatives were apprised of his critical illness Tues day morning, and Mrs. Boyd left for Sheridan Wednesday evening, but Mr. Ridenour passed away before she arrived theee. Mr. Ridenour was well known here. He was raised ut Weston and was a member of the Knights of Pythias lodge there. He Is survived by one brother and four sisters, Emsley Ridenour yf Seattle; Mrs. W. A. Graham of Albany, Ore gon; Mrs. J. E. Michael of Portland; Mrs. S. A. Barnes of Weston and Mrs. F. B, Boyd of Athena. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Geneva, Switzerland. Suddenly tak ing on a new angle, the tripartite na val conference was faced by a new situation when the Japanese delega tion with considerable solemnity an nounced that, since the British pro posal to discuss capital ships appear ed to possess the merit of promising diminished naval expenditures the delegation had cabled to Toklo asking for new instructions. Virtually the entire Japanese dele gation, headed by Admiral Saito, cere moniously filed into the hall, where the newspaper men had been request ed to meet them. After the distribu tion of a long statement touching on Japan's general attitude In the con ference, Viscount Isbil, ex-foreign minister, In addition to explaining the statement in the above sense, declared In answer to a question concerning tho probability of a three-power se curity pact that so far as Japan was concerned there was no idea of pro posing any security treaty. Viscount Ishll's remarks were of a tenor to give the distinct Impression that the Japanese delegation is sym pathetic now to the British Idea on discussing at Geneva some fundament al features of the Washington treaty a plan which was opposed vigorously hitherto by the American delegation. The British proposal, with regard to reduction of the tonnage of capital ships and the extension of their age, he continued, appeared undoubtedly to have the merit of leading In no small measure to a reduction In genera naval outlays. Washington, D. C. The United States was pictured by state depart ment officials as unalterably opposed to acceptance of the British proposal to revise at the Geneva conference the Washington arms treaty provi sions affecting battleship and cruiser tonnages. Goes to Salem Dr. David B. Hill, prominent dent it of Pendleton, has sold out to Dr. S. E. Allen of Portland. Dr. Hill will locate at Salem to practice hi profession. HALF MILLION SPENT IN D'AUTREMONT HUNT Spokane, Wash. It cost a Jjalf mil lion dollars to bring the three De Autremonts, confessed Siskiyou bandit-murders, to Justice, Charles Rlddi ford, United States postofflce Inspec tor, who directed the manhunt foi four years, made this estimate at his l-.radquarters. The federal government, Southern Pacific railroad and American Ex press company have paid approxi mately $500,000 for reward posters and expenses, he added. The reward for the arrest of Hugh, firnt of the brothers to bo captured, probably will go to a soldier, who at Angel Island, Cal., recognized In the circular of Hugh the picture of the man with whom he had served in the Philippines. A $5300 reward was offered for each of the brothers. Following Hugh's arrest, a second nerlea of photographs, more accurate tliun the first broadside, was distrib uted. A man at Steubenvllle, O., rec csnlzed the twins, Roy and Ray, anj told authorities. Mr. Rldiliford did not give the names of the two men who first recognized the fugitives. U. S. PACT WELCOMED All France for Treaty of Amity, $sy Premier Polncare. Paris. All Frauce would rejoice t the Hlnnature of a pact of perpetuul umlty between France and the United States, such as that proposed by For eign Minister IMand, Premier Poln care told the American club of Paris ut a luncheon at which he was the guest of honor. But such a pact, the premier re marked, would only be a re-statement of the deep sentiment of friendship that has existed between the two reoples from tho American revolution down to the world war and which was agxln revealed In the French welcoma to Colonel Lindbergh. Cattle Inspection Law Held Invalid, Portland, Or. The cattle brand and inspection law punned at the Instiga tion of the Cattle and Horse Raisers' actfociution was duelured uuccnbtltu tlQpal by Jbe federal ccurt