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THE PRESS, ATHENA, OREGON, AUGUST 30, 1929 It QUEEri KATHLEEN OF COWBOY RE All Accomplished Horsewoman and Will Ride In All Parades. Pendleton. It will be "Queen Kath: leen" at the Round-Up this year, for Miss Kathleen McClintock has been chosen to wield the scepter over the cowboy realm September 18, 19, 20 and 21. , Queen Kathleen in private life is Miss Kathleen McClintock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. McClintock, and next year will be a junior at Oregon State College, where she is a member of Sigma Kappa sorority. She is an accomplished horsewoman and will ride in all of the Round-Up parades. Besides her popularity with grown-ups, Queen Kathleen is belov ed by little children and uring the ed by little children and during the the public playgrounds in Pendle ton. In type, she is a real blonde, with blue eyes and golden hair. Perman ent waves and marcels don't trouble pretty Kathleen for the oyal tresses have a natural curl. Her first official appearance of the 1929 season will be on the evening of Saturday, August 31, at Happy Can yon, when a big community ' dance will be the climax for Pendleton's Round-Up Dress-Up parade. The parade marks the opening of the Round-Up season and donning of real Western togs, which will be worn by the men of Pendleton until after the close of the show. Heading the pa rade will be H. W. Collins, president of the Round-Up, and the presidents of various civic organizations of Pendleton. NEXT TO THE LAST Baker Hotel Opens Baker's new 10-story $275,000 Hotel Baker was formally opened Saturday in the presence of all who could crowd into the large and ela borately decorated dining room. The hotel is of cement-steel construction and towers high above the sky line of the city, being visable for many miles. It is painted in an attractive creamish tint. The structure contains eighty guest rooms. - Body of Aviator The body of J. J. Demshock, naval aviator, who was killed Saturday at Eugene, when his plane crashed at the municipal airport was sent to San Diego. VEGETABLES And FRUIT Fresh from Garden and Orchards to you at Lowest Prices See Our Window The Quality Grocery Phone 561 , " Alice Eager, Prop. SURVIVOR PASSES It Costs More to ride on Old Tires Than on New Figure up your costs for punctures, repairs and de lays with old tires. The last miles are not economy. With new Goodyears so low-priced, and our liberal allowance for your old tires before you render them worthless, you are money ahead gnnew tires, By building 100,000 tires a daya production far greater than that of any other company Goodyear enjoys lowest cost?, GOODYEAR SUPERTWIST CORDS ATHENA GARAGE Athena, Oregon WEBSTER'S WALNUT Dining Room Sets Prices Right Just Jlecfivgd Gome and See Them Walnwt and Mahogany (New) Upholstered Rockers New and Latest in Window Shades N. A. MILLER, Furniture and Undertaking Nancy Jacobs, As a Girl Witnessed Massacre of The Whitmans. Mrs. Nancy Ann Jacobs, next to the last survivor of the Whitman mas sacre died at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. Kate Dickey, in . Portland Tuesday of last week, at the age of 89. Funeral services were held at Port land last Friday. The body was cre mated, the ashes to be sent to Wes ton for burial. For many years the pioneer woman was a resident of Athena. While re siding here with her son and daughter she was united in marriage to W. W. Jacobs, now deceased. Mrs. Jacobs is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Kate Dickey of Portland, and a son, Marion Keys of San Francisco. Mrs. Jacobs was an interesting wo man, endowed with the pioneer char acteristics which make all women who carved present civilization out of the western wilderness loved and esteem ed by all who know them. A splendid conversationalist and possessing a brilliant mind, her remembrance in detail of the Whitman massacre has been handed down as the historical basis of one of the West's most ter rible tragedies. Many local people are conversant with the details of the massacre as told by Mrs. Jacobs. For those who are not, the Press reprints the following from the columns of the Portland Oregonian: Another chapter in the history of the early settlers of Oregon, who braved hardship and warring Indians, was closed yesterday when the funer al services were held for Mrs. Nancy Ann Jacobs, 89, who, as a frightened 9-year-old girl, witnessed the Whit man massacre at Wailatpu. October 29, 1847. Services for Mrs. Jacobs who died August 20 after an illness of almost one year, were conducted at the Snook & Whealdon : parlors. Final services were at the Mount Scott crematorium. The ashes will be sent to Weston, Oregon, for burial. Mrs. Jacobs' death reduced the num ber of survivors of the massacre to one, Mrs. O. N. Denny, 92, now a resident of Portland. Born March 24, 1840, Mrs. Jacobs, nee Nancy Ann Osburn, -spent the first few years of her life near Walla Wal la. When rumors of an impending up rising by the unfriendly Cayuse tribe spread, Mrs. Osburn, suffering from measles, and her children hurriedly fled to the Whitman mission for safe ty The family was hidden under the floor of the home of Marcus Whit man.; It was there the frightened group huddled when a treacherous buck Bummoned Mr. Whitman to the front door and then ruthlessly killed him with a tomahawk. : -The slaying of the missionary and his wife was the beginning of the tragic occurrence. Fourteen persons were killed and 53 women and chil dren talcen prisoners before the Cay use Indians were quelled, i Throughout the entire day of mur der and destruction, Mrs. Osburn and her cowering children remained under the blood-stained floor. With the coining of night, an Indian found the little family and for some unaccount abue reason performed a friendly act. He removed them all to a point of safety and then departed. That night Mrs. Jacobs awoke to find a tin cup missing. Without thought of the murderous Indians or of capture, she crept back to the house and retreived her toy. How she ever made her re turn to camp without being discover ed is one of the mysteries of the trag ic event The 53 persons captured in the up rising later were ransomed by Peter Skene Ogden, factor of the Hudson's Bay company" at Fort Vancouver, who gave the redskins tobacco, blankets and ammunition in lieu of money. Mrs. Jacobs' adventures with In dians continued for several years. Twice she was made captive and once held for ransom at a spot near Portland. With the final quelling of the red skins, Mrs. Jacobs settled near Walla Walla, Wash., living there for a num ber of years. Later she moved to Weston', and Athena, Oregon, and about 25 years ago moved to Port land, where she made her home with a daughter, Mrs. L. C. Dickey, at 293 East Thirty-fourth street. She re sided there until her death. Deer Season Sept. 15 With the opening of deer hunting season on September 15 sportsmen will be called upon to observe a change in the limit laws. Each hunt er will be allowed but one mule deer. He may kill one mule deer and one black tail o two black tails. Reports indicate that deer will be more plenti ful in all sections of the state than they have been for years. Heavy inroads made upon cougar have in no small degree been responsible for this increase of deer. 1 -" Pioneer of 1859 A funeral held at Pilot Rock, Mon day of last week has more than pass ing interest for Umatilla county pioneers. At that time all that was mortal of Harold Stewart, pioneer of 1859 was put to rest. Mr. Stewart died in Portland, August 16 at the age of 85 years. He is survived by four daughters and two sons. He was an early settler in the Pilot ; Rock district, where for many years he en gaged in the livery stable and live stock business. "Oregon Sta te" . A National and State College main tained, as described by Senator Mor rill, founder of the Land-Grant Colleges, "to offer opportunity . . -for a liberal and practical education . ", for the world's business, for the industrial pursuits and professions of life" ' Oregon's Land-Grant College, now in its 62d year, affords training in 10 degree-granting schools and departments. AGRICULTURE (B.S., M.S degrees) ' Agricultural Economics, Agri cultural Education, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Husbandry, Farm Crops. Farm Manage ' Went, Horticulture (Pomol ogy, Vegetable Gardening), -.- Poultry Husbandry, Soils; Ag ricultural Engineering, Hortl ... cultural Products, Landscape Architecture, Sciences Basic q Agriculture. 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Long hours on the waterway, free from noises and dis tractions, were very conductive to concentrated study and with zest added by the excursions ashore, no one had difficulty in keeping up in work. The cruise was arranged by Camp bell Church, Jr., of Seattle, and uni versity work on board was under the direction of Karl W: Onthank, ex ecutive secretary of the University. A second cruise, in a larger vessel and with a route that will include points of interest, is already being planned for next year, Mr. Onthank declared upon his return here. Every point of interest ordinarily seen by tourists to the territory was enjoyed by the students, and in ad dition Captain A. W. Nickerson took the vessel to many out of the way places that are of special interest. These included an unusually close visit to Taku Glacier, a trip into Glacier Bay, stops at Excursion In let, a voyage on open sea from Sitka north and many side stops. ' Truck Ran Over Foot When a truck ran over his foot, F T. 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