The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-12-22

Rev Leonard was IN Pendleton
Wednesday. ~
The roads leading TO Athena are
becoming passables [{ 4
Chicken pox has attacked the
Milton school children.
A social hop will be given in Gil
lis Hall Christmas night.
Morrow county has 214,000
head ofsheep. No scab is report
ed
+ Pendleton is negotiating with
Eastern parties for a securing
milk
The worlds fair will be held this
wipterin the same old manner
or, the knees. q
The Press win be better than
ever the coming year. Now is the
time to subscribe. s
Queen fsiliuokalani' viii give up
her throne if paid half q million
dollars BY the United States. \
If there is anything a school
ma'arn don't know, she should
never let the people suspect it.
Though We issue no paper next
week, our job department will as
usual, be in full operation. Bring
on your work. II . s4
There is only one woman among
363 ,convicts at the penitentiary.
She was sent there from, Morrow
county for cutting harness to
pieces.
Our merchants are displaying
their holiday goods, and judging
from the elegant displays in the
stores they expect to have large
trade.
Some time ago all the gambling
games in Pendleton We're closed bf
the officers, but it is stated that
since the recent city election they
have opened again in full blast.
The Oregon Editors have decid-
ed to visit the Midwinter fair Feb.
5, 1894. About 150 have already
sionified their inteution to be in
attendance.
A Chicago woman seeking assis-
tance Id d line Of unemployed al
one Of the relief headquarters had
her pockets picked Of 5000. A
well-to.do property-owner was also
found among the applicants.
Gs ,At Canyon City = team drawing
a wagon loaded with butter and
barb wire ran away andmixed thu
load up SO badly thstthe wire wal
,fately injured, but there Is hope
! that the butter is strong enough tc
recover.
A rival telephone line is talked
of in Spokane to compete with th,
] Inland. Telephone company undel
/ a new patons which che presen
company have tried in vain to Sc
cure. Rates are to be $3.50 pc
month and the "hello girl" is to b
done aWov with.
An exchange thusly walls
This is trying times for the news
4 papers. Not a week elapses but W
hear Of some unfortunate publica
tion giving up the ghost, and tn
good Lord only knows how soon !
will be our turn. The papers Q
the state are struggling bravel
and many Of course will weathe
the storm, but it will take back
bone and nerve to do it such a
Il few men possess.
A%NWalla Walla Statesman: Troo
! n Fourth Cavalry, under com
mand Of Lieut.. Voorhees,, returne
from Bitter Root mountains o
Monday, where they aided in tn
, search for the Carlin party. The
were tired looking lot Of me
and state that they had yer
: rough time Of it. In endeavorin
! to get out of the mountains thei
! were times when it was impossibl
+ to make more than two miles pc
J day.
3 The child of we'll known ma
! ried couple of Olympia had th
Group the other night. The alarm
:. ed mother arose and went to th
: corner where the goose grease is q
7 ways kept, but in the darkness di
!, not notice that her husband ha
' unintentionally placed his she
s blacking there instead. Whe
Z morning dawned the child had r.
j covered but its little belly shon
like a patent leather shoe.
While coming across Combs fl
t last Friday w. G. Plummer wi
5 messed an exciting fight betwee
> an eagle and coyote. The Gag
had caught a rabbit, and the co.
e ote undertook to take it away frol
! him. The eagle defended its pre-
5 manfully for some time but II
coyote was too much for him an
. finally got away with the rabbi
but not until after the eagle hs
! clawed several hand fulls Of ha
: out of his back, and left him som
! what dis6gured. -Ochoco Revie'