Bntered at tlae Poet Office at Athena, Oregon, as 8eoond-ClaM Mail Matter
VOLUME 50
ATHENA, UMATILLA COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25. 1929
NUMBER 4
COUNTY
MEMBERS
OE LEGISLATURE
Home Lawmakers Have Im
portant Work Before
Them At Session.
(Oregon Voter Reporting Service)
State House, Salem, Or. Joseph N.
Scott, of Pendleton, who is represent
ing Umatilla and Morrow counties at
the legislative session now , in pro
gress at Salem, is a1 member of the
mining, agriculture, and health and
public morals committees, having re
ceived his appointment the first day
of the session. Representative Scott
has his family with him in Salem,
and they are living at the Ambas
sador apartments. His daughter will
act as his1 secretary during the ses
sion. '
John S. Norvell, of Helix, represent
ing Umatilla county at the state legis
lative session now in progress at
Salem, has been appointed vice
. chairman of the Taxation and Rev
enue Committee, and a member of the
Ways and Means and the Game com
mittees. Senator Fred Kiddle was official
host in the senate to Burt Brown
Barker, vice-president of the Univer
sity of Oregon, on Wednesday, Jan
uary 16. Senator Kiddle asked that
the courtesy of the senate be extend
' ed to Mr. Barker, and the request was
officially granted by President A. W.
Norblad. The expression "courtesy
of the senate,'' is used when a senator
desires a guest to sit at his desk,
within the official railing which
divides the desks ef the members of
the senate from the seats provided
for visitors.
James H. E. Scott, attorney and
mayor of Milton, who is at the Ore
gon legislature for the first time,
representating Umatilla county, i3
staying at the Bligh hotel while in
Salem. Mrs. Clara B. Ferguson, of
Salem, has been engaged as his sec
retary. .Mr. Scott is on the counties
and cities, public institutions, rail
way and transportation and repeal of
laws committees.
Senator L. L. Mann, of Pendleton,
representing Umatilla County, will
make several trips of inspection of
state institutions within the next two
weeks, as a member of four sub-committees
of the Ways and Means Com
mittee of the state legislature. Sen
ator Mann is chairman of the com
mittee to inspect the Blind School and
the Deaf School, both located at
Salem. He is also a member of the
committee which visited Southern
Oregon institutions the past week
end including the State Normal at
Ashland, the Soldiers Home and the
Trial Farm, both at Roseburg. He is
a member of the committee to inspect
the State Penitentiary at Salem, and
of the one to visit the Patton Home,
the Louise Home, the Home of the
Good Shepherd, the Salvation Army
Rescue Home, and the Florence Crit
tendon Home, all located at Portland.
No more will weeds cover the rurai
cemetery. Tombstone obituaries, now
blotted out by matted coverings of
creeping vines, will be brought to
light. All will be neat, orderly and
well kept, if the bill introduced in the
, House of Representatives by J. S.
Norvell, of Umatilla county, becomes
a law. The proposed bill provjdes a
method for the upkeep of rural
cemeteries, Districts will be, for this
purpose, comprised of not less than
one school district nor more than
three districts will be formed upon
petition of a majority of the legal
voters residing within the limits of
the district proposed. Towns of less
than 400 population will not be al
lowed to come within the provisions of
this act. Funds for the purpose are
to be raised by a property tax not to
exceed two and one-half mills, and
are to be expended by the county
court, the bill states.
Snow Fall Welcomed
By the.Umatilla County
i Farmers and Stockmen
A 12-inch snow covers the fields
of the Athena wheat belt, and farm
ers are jubilant thereat, lhe snow
fall is welcomed by farmer and
stockmen alike, for the white blanket
covering the growing gram, also
means moisture for the soil and as
surance of good summer range for
stock grazing.
Thermometers dipped down to be
low the zero mark Fridav night for
the first time this winter, instru
ments recording various degrees from
one . to five below, in Athena. Tues
day night the mercury read 8 to. 12
below here, and water pipes in sever
al homes froze up. , . ;.
Portland frisked around in three
inches of snow durine the fore part
of the week. The snowfall in Uma
tilla county was reported as being
general.
The coldest weather in Oregon was
rennrted in the eastern Dart of the
state. Meacham recorded a temper
ature of 36 degrees below zero, wnue
LaGrande froze under a 10-degree-below
temperature. Enterprize and
the surrounding territory reported
the mercury about 25 below. ,
Possibilities of the Columbia river
freezing over were seen at The Dalles
where a temperature of 7 above was
renorted. The river already is frozen
at Crates point. Snow fell at Med-
ford.
Some change in highway conditions
was reported, with all of them still
open for driving. Travel was kept
going over the worst stretches of the
Siskiyous by highway officials. Mo
torists were advised to equip their
machines with chains as a precaution
against skidding.
Will Appeal Suit
Watts & Prestbye, J. H. Raley and
Will M. Peterson, attorneys who are
counsel for Henry J. Taylor, Marion
Jack and C. A. Johnson who brought
suit against the city of Pendleton to
enjoin it from operating under the
terms of the charter amendment pro-
viding for the John Vert Memorial
and its maintenance, have appealed
the suit to the state supreme court,
after the case was decided against the
plaintiffs in the circuit court.
Women Awarded Damages
Juries in the circuit court at Pen-
dlton have awarded $7500 damages
each to Mrs. Wilma McCutchan and
Mrs. Dora Hickey from E. V. Moon
and A. B. Dufur, proprietors and
operators of the Oregon Trail
Freighting company, in the loss of
their husbands who were killed tiear
Reith. when their car was struck by
a trailer on one of the company's
truck outfits, last FalL
Ridd Enforcement of
Dog Tax Law Planned
Rigid enforcement of the state dog
tax law has been ordered by the
county court and after March 1, A
special force of collectors will be put
into the field end a thorough canvass
of the dogs of the county will be
made, announces County Clerk Brown
to the . county papers. All those
"rounded up" by these collectors will
have to pay the double tax, and will
be liable to prosecution under the mis
demeanor section of the law.
According to Clerk Brown, the law
provides for payment b.y the owner of
an animal tax of $1 on every male or
sterilized female dog and $2 on every
female. March 1 has been designated
by the law as the last date on which
the license may be paid without
penalty, and after that date a penal
ty equal to the amount of the license
will be added,
The Jaw makes it the duty of the
assessor and his deputies to report
to the sheriff the names of owners
of unlicensed dogs,, and the number
and sex of the dogs owned. The law
provides further, that failure to pay
the license by a dog owner shall con
stitute a misdemeanor, and further
penalty of a fine of $10, and the costs,
on conviction.
Two thousand dog tags for 1929
were received by the county clerk and
he will begin to issue them imr
mediately.
Athena-Weston aGmes
Athena-Weston hierh school and
grade basketball teams will play
their first games of the season to
night on the local court, the errade
teams being in the curtainraiser at
t.au. lhe game between the high
school teams will immediatelv fnl.
low the grade game. ' The admission
price to. the double header will be
35 cents. Athena has been idle
since defeating Helix by the close
score of 26 to 25. Difficulties came
about which prevented the local
team making a scheduled trip in
Eastern Washington last week, where
three games was to have been play
ed. However, the players have been
in active practice and are in good
playing condition.
Feed the Pheasants
Now that the ground is covered
with snow sufficient to make food
scarce for game birds, to insure their
surviving the winter it will be neces
sary to place feed where the pheas
ants and, partridges can get to it. Ar
rangements will doubtless made by
gun clubs to feed the birds in parts
of the county, but the principal help
to the birds must come from mdi
viduals who have personal interest in
?eing that they survive. Small
quantities of grain or wheat hay
placed in secluded places used by
the birds, will tide them over until
they can rustle for themselves.
GIRLS' ACTIVITIES SPONSORED AT UNIVERSITY
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'jdy groups have been organized, and many teas, given, Plana Deininger,
?Vtl?ind, above, is president ot the group.
Steelhead Chief Topic
Faced By Legislators
Steelheads swam into the legisla
ture says John W. Kelly in the Morn
ing , Oregonian, and the biennial
wrangling over fish legislation start
ed. One of the most important de
velopments we? a promise made to
Governor Patterson that illegal fish
ing would be stopped in the Clacka
mas and Williamette rivers, now
closed commercially, if these streams
were opened from November 15 to
April 1. This promise was made by
a delegation of fishermen from Ore
gon City, .
Steelheads promise to be the bone
of contention, as usual, between the
sportsmen and the commercial fishermen.
The steelhead is a game fish, legis
latively, in the Rogue, Nestucca,
Willamette, Clackamas, Necanicum
and Wahana. Only , with hook and
line can this variety of fish be taken
in these streams. The sportsmen
want included the waters of New
river, Pistol river, Sixes, Chetce and
a couple of other small streams in
Coos and Curry counties. ,
Arrayed against the sportsmen are
the commercial fishermen, who want
to reopen the Willamette, Clackmas
and Nestucca rivers, the latter closed
by vote of the people. Also the fish
ermen want to change the open sea
son in . several commercial streams,
including the home of the royal
chinook salmon, the Columbia river.
Representative Lockwood has fa
vored a measure declaring the steel
head a game fish in all waters.
No bill to this effect yet has been
offered, but it would be unsatisfac
tory on the Umpqua to commercial
fishermen, who now catch steelheads
in the lower reaches around Reeds
port and Gardiner.
Mules and Horses Poisoned
Three valuable mules and 9 horse
died at the Homer Watts, farm north
of Athena Sunday as the result of
eating poisoned .grain, which had
been left over from poisoning squir
rels last season, and hung up in a
shed. It is presumed that the sack
containing the poisoned grain either
fell or was pulled down by the stock.
The loss is keenly felt by Mr. Watts
as one of the mules was the most
valuable work animal, on his ranch.
The other two mules and the horse
were also good work stock.
Railroad Man Murdered
Ferdinand Merz, of Pasco, railroad
employe, was murdered on a Santa
Fe train and his body thrown from
the car near Ananheim, California,
Sunday. 1 Merz wis known at Pendle
ton, where previous to going south,
he withdrew $5000 in cash from a
bank.
Beavers Netted Big Money
The Oregon State College football
team netted $13,500 after all expenses
of the trip east were paid, from the
New York University game. The
Reavers are scheduled to play the
Detroit University team at Detroit,
this year in the annual intersectlonal
football game.
Columbia Ice Floating
Floating ice from the upper reaches
of the Columbia, have caused cessa
tion in operating of ferry boats at
Umatilla and Arlington. The ferry
boats will probably be held up for
some time on account of ice.
Influenza In -Oregon ..
Is Rapidly Diminishing
The Oregon state board of health
says the influenza situation in Oregon
was the jnoat-important item in the
health records of the closing months
of 1928. This epidemic was nation
wide and it is reported that there
were over a million cases in the whole
country. There were undoubtedly
more cases than reported, since Ohio
alone estimated that at least 10 per
cent of its population had influenza. .
The above facts show that there is
a wide and increasing prevalence of
influenza. The epidemic was first
discovered late in October in Cali
fornia and during November and
December the disease spread to other
sections of the country.
The present outbreak shows very
clearly that a general prevalence of
even a relatively mild type of this
disease is a serious matter in its ef
fect on the death rate. The present
outbreak and former ones have shown
conclusively that even a relatively
mild type of influenza hastens the
deaths of thousands of persons who
suffer from chronic diseases.
Physicians, are very remiss in re
porting cases, says the board.. They
have various excuses for their fail
ure to comply with the law concern
ing reporting of cases or suspected
cases. The reports, however, al
though incomplete, show the course
of the epidemic in this state.
This tabulation shows the weeks of
Dec. 22nd and 29th were the highest
of the epidemic. At the present
time the epidemic is gradually di
minishing and the indications are it
will soon be a thing of the past. An
epidemic of influenza calls for cau
tion and care on the part of the in
dividual. Unfortunately it is not the
sort of thing that lends iself to mas.i
control.
Z. W. Lockwood Passes
On After Suffering a
Long Period of Illness
Z. W. Lockwood, retired farmer and
pioneer miner, died at his residence in
Athena, Sunday, after suffering from
an illness that has kept him to his
home practically for the past five
years.
Since the passing of his wife, he
has been attended in his illness by his
daughter, Miss May Lockwood, and
all that was possible has been done to
bring the patient back to health.
Trips to California , and different
medical resorts proved of no material
benefit, but Mr, Lockwoods surprising
vitality kept him alive for many
months.
Mr. Lockwood was born near Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin, August 19th, 1854,
and at his death was aged 74 years
five months and one day.
When a young man, he was success
ful in mining operations in Nevada
and California. He came to Umatilla
county in 1877 and took up a home
stead, north of Athena, where he
farmed until he retired and moved to
the home in this city.
After coming to town, he assisted
in organizing the Athena Land &
Trust company, which caused to be
bored the artesian well now flowing
from one of the lots on south Third
street, laid out the acreage plots ad
joining the city limits on the south
and made it possible for Athena to
acquire the city park. .
Mr. Lockwood was united in mar
riage to Ladora Schick, February 1,
1880, who preceded him to the grave.
He is survived by one son, Z. E.
Lockwood; ' two daughters, Mrs.
James S. Bell and Miss May Lock
wood, all of Athena; two grandsons,
two nephews and three nieces; also
two brothers, F. M. Lockwood of Wal
la Walla, and Ulysses Lockwood of
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin,
Funeral services which were attend
ed by a large number of friends and
acquaintances, took place at the
Christian church, Wednesday after
noon at 1:30.
Pastor McQuary of the Christian
church at Milton, conducted the fun
eral services.
Went Daffy On Dogs
Gus Schulery, about 43 years old,
who for the past four years has lived
alone in a cabin on Reed and Hawley
mountain, was committed to the East
ern Oregon hospital last week on
complaint of his neighbors, reports
the Weston Leader. He is said to be
deranged on the subject of dogs, car
ing to talk about nothing else. As
he had shown some indication of late
of becoming violent, his neighbors
feared that he might do some damage,
as did the crazed man, Harrington, a
recluse in the same neighborhood,
several weeks ago. Schulery left no
less than 31 dogs on his premises,
and these were killed by order of the
county court.
Broken Arm From Fall
Mrs. B. B. Richards suffered the
fracture of her right forearm and
sustained serious injury to her back,
when she fell on the walk leading to
the front of her home on Jefferson
street, Monday. The walk was made
clippery from ice and after descend
ing the porch steps, Mrn. Richards
slipped and fell. Dr. Sharp was call
ed and reduced the fracture.
THE RESCUE PARTY
FINDS PILOT DEAD
The Pasco-Boise Mail Plane
Crashes In Mountains
East of Cove.
Scarcity of Coal
Causes Anxiety Here
For some reason Athena has been
without adequate coal supply for the
last ten days. The bunkers of the
Tum-a-Lum lumber company were
empty and a carload received week
before last was soon doled out. Mr.
Johnson the manager, stated that he
had an order placed for delivery here
on the 15th, but for some unknown
cause the fuel failed to show up.
Weston dealers seemed to be well
supplied, however, and a number of
Athena orders were filled from over
there.
The semi-coal famine was relieved
Wednesday when Manager Wilson of
the Farmer's Grain Elevator com
pany received a car load over the
Union Pacific from Utah. It was
soon parceled out and greatly re
lieved the situation. The Tum-a
Lum people are expecting their ship
ment to arrive soon.
Sells Indian Relics
Mrs. John Tompkins recently sold
to John Vert of Pendleton, a collec
tion of Indian relics numbering 2000
pieces. Over 1000 arrow heads were
numbered in the collection. There
were also many mortars and stone
pestels, beads, wampum and many
other relics of value. The collection
formerly belonged to Mrs. Elsie
King, mother of Mrs. Tompkins, who
for many years resided near Wallula
Washington, where she assembled
the curios. The collection will
eventually be placed on exhibition in
the John Vert memorial museum to
be built at Pendleton.
Car Skids, Man Hurt
C. C. Cocker of Seattle, was serious
ly injured Saturday morning when a
coupe in which he was riding, skid
ded off the highway south of town
and crashed into the fence. Cocker
sustained . two - broken ribs. The
driver escaped injury. The injured
man was brought to town where Dr.
Sharp attended him. . The coupe was
badly battered up, but proceeded out
of town on its own power.
May Build Cannery
The Committee appointed by the
Chamber of Commerce to investigate
a proposition concerning the locating
of a cannery at Milton-Freewater has
returned from Portland and the Wil
lamette valley with statistics galore
and lots of enthusiasm concerning
the proposed enterprise.
Recital Well Attended
The piano recital given by Miss
Hanna's class in the Athena branch
of the Malen Burnett school of music,
Wednesday evening, was well attend
ed and the numbers were greatly en
joyed by the audienw.
Harold E. Bucker, known over the
route as "Buck," Varney air mail
pilot on the Pasco-Boise flight, died
as the result of his plane crashing in
the mountains east of Cove, last
Thursday evening, in a dense fog and
a snow storm.
Headed from Boise to Pasco, Buck-
ner flew over LaGrande Thursday
afternoon at 4:10, almost on schedule
time. Flying into the Blue Moun
tains above the fog line he soon en
countered a bewildering snow storm,
which veered the plane from its
course. Finally finding himself above
a stream, the pilot attempted a forced
landing on the ice, and in doing so
the plane crashed.
Fortunately two trappers, JacK
Hardy and Phil Brockman, at their
cabin one mile down the Minam ,
river, heard the plane crash and hast
ened to investigate. They found
Buckner pinned under the plane and
badly injured. Both legs were broken
and he was hurt internally. - With an
improvised stretcher made with ma
terial from the wrecked plane the
two trappers carried the pilot down
to their cabin.
Hardy remained in the cabin with
Buckner, and Brockman strapped on
his snow shoes and immediately start
ed out for Horse Ranch, fifteen miles
down the river to notify the outside
world of the accident and the air
pilot's critical condition. The heroic
trapper bucked through deep snow
for twelve long, weary hours before
reaching Horse Ranch, where he com
municated with Forest Ranger Mc
Cool at Cove.
A rescue party was immediately
organized at La Grande and the long
trip to Horse Ranch and the trapper's
cabin 15 miles beyond began.
The La Grande party was guided
from Horse Ranch back to the cabin
by Brockman, who found on his ar
rival there his partner, Hardy, with
the body of the pilot who had died
some time after Brockman left for
outside help.
The body was taken to La Grande
and prepared for shipment to Boise,
where the wife and two children of
Buckner reside.
At La Grande examination of the
pilot's body showed that both arms
were broken in the crash, that he suf
fered compound fractures of both
legs, his left chest was crushed, and
he suffered severe head bruises and
other injuries. Physicians said the
crushed chest was the cause of death.
On account of fog banks the air
mail route through the Blue Moun
tains has been a menace to pilots, and
a nart of this time the planes have
been abandoned. Pilots Buckner and
Taft have ir.ade a number of trips
through Athena from Pasco to La
Grande in a large Chrysler roadster,
carrying mail between the two points,
when it was impossible to fly planes
through the fog.
Wheat Prices Improve
Over the low mark of January 5,
wheat prices have advanced from four
to eight cents in the last ten days.
In his circular to the press Semour
Jones, state market agent, indicates
that an even greater improvement
can be expected shortly. He quotes
the following dispatch from Chicago:
The grain trade has had the most re
markable revival in the past two
weeks of any time in five years. It
has changed from extreme dullness to
marked activity, with a more bullish
sentiment on the part of local operat
ors and broadening in outside spec
ulative interest. Wheat prices have
advanced 10 cents, corn more than
12 cents and oats 3 3-4 to 6 3-4 cents,
with net gains for the week on wheat
of 2 1-2 to 2 7-8 cents.' "
Turkeys Prove Profitable
With fhA last shinment of turkey
for thn BPflson leaving Hermiston
Tuesday of last week, and represent
ing a clean-up of stocks witn tne ex
ception of those birds held over for
breeding purposes, Assistant Coun
ty Agent George Jenkins has been
able to prepare some figures on the
industry, which is a comparatively
new one in that district. This year
with three pools shipped out through
the Idaho Turkey Growers' associa
tion the tntal of the sales has
amounted to more than double those
of last year, or a total of 46,403.0I.
Rice Is Named
Richard Rice of Pendleton, has been
named secretary of the Round-Up as
sociation, following the resignation
of R. E. Cliloupek resigned, who is
leaving Pendleton to accept a position
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.