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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18

The family Of Geo. Froome ID at
present rusticating on the Big
Meadows above Walla Waila.
DR.. Carlisle reports six cases Of
measles and one case Of malarial
fever at the house of Mrs. Morrison
in town.
VIM. Willaby and family left
last Wednesday for Newport Idaho,
to visit his daughter Mrs. Frank
Knowlton.
e. o: Elder Daisley, of the
church of Christ, at Athena, Or,
will preach in the court house on
Lords day, August 20, in the
morning at II 1o'clock and evening
at 7:30 o'clock.
Damose Bergevin, an uncle of
Bergevin Bros, came over from
Walla Walla yesterday to look af-
ter his large crop on the reserve.
Mr.. Bergevin recently returned
from his old home in Canada where
he went to have his eyes II ieated.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
MolIie Nichols Found.

Miss Mollie Nichols. about whom
there has been considerable anx-
iety. has been found at last, says
the Heppner Gazette. She was out
riding after horses and had crossed
the John Day river into Gillian
county, when she was thrown vio-
lently from her horse and sustain
ed severe injuries, causing concus-
sion of the brain and temporary
Inconsistencies. She was found
by some parties, who kept her for
two weeks. On becoming conscious
she requested that she be taken to
Wasco, which was done last Friday.
She is now at the Reynolds house,
in Wasco. and her mother, Mrs,
Sarah Nichols, of Kalama, WASH,
is with her.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
New Game Law.

The new game law, now in
force, prohibits the sale Of any part
of the deer at any time. On page
81 Of the Session Laws Of 1893 the
new law can be found. In refer
ence to this matter threads: Every
person who shall at any time after
the passage of this act, sell or offer
for sale the hide or horns or meat
of any deer, either in a fresh, salt
cd. dried, smoked or jerked condi-
ton, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor." The law also fixes a PEN
atty for the violation of this act as
follows: Every person convicted of
a violation of any provision ofthis
act shall be punished by a fine of
not less han $50 nor more than
$500, or imprisonment in the
county Jail Of the county where the
offense was committed for not less
than three months, or both such
fine and imprisonment. Half Of
such money collected for ines for
violation of the provisions of this
act shall be paid to the informer,
and the rest into the county treas
ury of the county in which the Of
tense was committed
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Wheat from White Land.

John Whitaker few days ago
brought to Corvallis a small sheaf
of Surprise" wheat grown on his
farm, IL miles south of Corvallis,
says the Corvallis Times. One
head contained IA plump, we'll
developed grains, and the smallest
head in the sheaf contained over
100 grains, and there were FIVE or
six grains in each mesh. The
largest head in the sheaf was grown
on white land that was titled last
January. The estimated yield of
the field which contains much
white land, is 40 bushels per acre,
and portions will yield so to 60
bushels. In a 40 acre field of white
land that has been cultivated for
seven years, Mr.. Whitaker has 20
acres Of oatSthat will go 50 bush
els per acre, and 10 acres of wheat,
as good as was ever grown, on land
where wheat never filled before.
According to Mr.. Whitaker, white
land thoroughly cultivated is as
good as the best black land in
Webfoot.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Concerning Farmers.

A wheat producer of California
recently said; With the compile
tion of the Nicaragua canal will
come, | believe, a very marked
change in the wheat export trade.
Sailing ships will then not be util-
zed to anything like the same ex-
tent they are now. The trip will
be made in much shorter time by
steamer and the cargo will arrive in
better condition. At present
vessels cannot be used to advan-
tage in transporting wheat, as so
much of their room would have to
taken up for carrying enough coal
to last through the long voyage
around the Horn.
Had the farmers each season
promptly sold their crops instead
Of holding them for a possible rise
they would be much better off, as
the developments of the past ten
years have shown. The farmer
should not speculate, but should
initiate the course of the manufac.
turer. AS soon as his goods are
ready for the market he should
dispose of them and leave the mid
die man to gamble on the future.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Colfax Frowns on Gambling.

The city council of Colfax has
Surdered all gambling dens to be
suppressed, and Marshal Mackay
is enforcing the order very effective
~. All the gamblers will be run
out of town if they don't leave vol
UNFAIRLY. About this time each
year, says the Walla Walla States
man, every town and village in the
Palouse country is swarming with
tinhorns, who come to fleece the
harvest hands and then leave
Such work drains the country of a
great deal Of money that ought to
be kept in the legitimate channels
of commerce, besides the harm it
inflicts upon society. But there is
likely to be an end put to the gam
bling business thereabouts from
now on.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18

Doesn't Give Up Its Dead.

An old steamboat man in speak
ing of the recent fearful Annie
Faxon disaster, and about the
bodies of the hapless victims being
thrown into the stream and not re-
covered, said: SIN some respects
the Snake riveri is peculiar stream.
1t is very seldom that the bodies
of those who are drowned in thai
river are recovered. / do not
think one body in 10 has ever been
recovered from that stream. There
are SO many eddies and cross un-
der-currents that its waters are
very treacherous and dangerous to
those who commit themselves to
its mercies.D The speaker seem
ed to have very serious doubts
about the recovery of the bodies
of those who have perished in the
dreadful disaster.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Accepted the Challenge.

Nat Holman took his boy Jimmy
and Harry Belt out to his farm,
says The Dalles Transcript, and
set them to herding sheep, giving
them one of his big grey horses to
ride. In a short time Mr.. Holman
looked up and saw two horses run
ming neck and neck, the riders ply
ing the whip with all their strength.
An explanation was called for and
Harry said "that fellow came along
and said he could beat us any mark
in the road; Jim told me to knock
him off the Christmas tree and /
done it.n
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Forest Fires.

Section 4 ofthe laws of Oregon re-
garding forest fires read as follows:
Any person or persons who shall
wilfully set fire to any wooded
country, or forest belonging to the
state or United States, or to any
person or persons, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction before a court Of compe-
tent jurisdiction, shall be punish.
ed by a fine not exceeding one
thousand dollars, or Imprisonment
not exceeding one year, or by both
such fine and imprisonment; pro-
vided that nothing herein contain
ed shall apply to any person who
in good faith sets back q fire to
prevent the extension of fire al.
ready burning.-Ex.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Must Leave or tiang.

Mamie Howard, a young man
who has been suspected of horse
stealing several times and who has
been in jail on that charge once or
more times, has been given a notice
to leave Baker City which read as
follows:
BAKER Cry, August 6, 1898.
"Mannie Howard-We, the citi-
zens of Baker City, will give you
"a hours to leave this town or your
fate will be as illustrated"
On the letter was an illustration
of hanging. Young Howard says
that he is satisfied that it is the
work of two women and that he
does not propose to bulge, let come
what may.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Took a Shock.

Young Robin Fletcher had q
somewhat dangerous experience
Tuesday night, says the East
Oregonian. Work to rearrange the
telephone exchange on account Of
office removal has been actively
pushed, and all night the boys
were busy with their task. On
top Of the telephone pole they had a
fifty--candle--power incandescent
lamp to furnish light, and while
holding this Robin connected him
self some way with an arc circuit
wire and received a tremendous
desc of electricity, rendering him
unconscious. He was tangled up
in the wire and cross beams in
such o way as to escape a fall, and
finally recovered his senses; but
Bob" will hereafter have feeling
of sympathy for the criminal who
dies in an electric chair.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Einneran Goes under.

Martin Finneran is another VIC
tim who could not stand the pres
sure of the times, and he has gone
under, his popular resort, "The
Club" being closed this afternoon
under attachment entered by the
Rosenfeld Smith Co. to collect 1850.
This firm desired the entire run.
ming account which he had with
them secured, which demand Mr..
Finneran refused, as only one
third of the claim is now due. So
suit was brought. Martin will make
an assignment, in order that all
his creditors may have an equal
show.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
WHEAT NOTES.

Alf. Price has in one hundred
and sixty acres and thinks that it
will go 30 bushels to the acre.
H. H. Walkers wheat near He
lix is making 25 bushels to the
acre and is good quality.
Frank Ely's field averaged about
25 bushels to the acre, is some
what shriveled but will weigh
we'll.
The crickets on the reservation
did considerable damage to some
fields, while others they did not
molest
\ Jinks Dudley had eighty acres
that went 81 bushels to the acre,
that will go in as No. without
any trouble.
Several threshing outfits are
hauling water from town for their
engines. One outfit at work six
or eight miles north Of town hauls
water from here.
uaboring men generally are con.
tent,to work for farmers on the
promise Of money after the wheat
is sold. tobacco and board il all
they demand at present.
Barger & Finley claim tocut and
thresh 30 acres per day with their
outfit in the Helix community
They say the wheat averages about
20 bushels to the acre.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18

Thomas F. Oakes of New York,
w. H. Payne of Milwaukee and
Henry Grouse, president of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Rail.
road Company were this afternoon
appointed receivers for the North
ern Pacific railroad in the United
States court in this city. The,
Northern Pacific and Great North
ern companies have decided to rd-
store freight and passenger rates ID
the basis prevailing last February
to go into effect as soon as practic-
able. Other transcontinental lines
are expected to follow the example
Of the two companies mentioned.
The receivers are the same as those
| appointed in Wisconsin. They
gave bonds of$500,00in the United
States court. The application was
made without the consent Of the
railroad company. The Nartherr
Pacific company was compelled tc
take this step on account of the
hard times and appalling decrease
in freight and passenger traffic.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18

q A pew feature of a closed banks
methods presented itself in the
U1ited States court today, says the
Portland Telegram. Hon. L. B.
Cox, attorney for the receiver Of
the Pendleton Savings bank, APP
peared before Judge Bellinger this
morning and asked for an order to
the effect that the receiver could
loan some Of the banks money on
hand, in order to make another
good loan. 1t seems taat a farmer
who raises wheat or an extensive
scale owes the bank the money due
on a good sized note. He he's big
crop, and can pay the amount when
he realizes on it; but has no money
with which to move it or pay the
hands. BY this order the bank ad-
vances the necessary money, and
hopes in that way to get returns
soon on the whole Indebtedness.
The request was granted and the
order issued.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Got Him Sure.

Mrs. Williams claims to have
located the devil. Now that the
cat is found will somebody he
brave enough to put q bell on it?
It is not Of SO much consequence
to know the location of the devil
as it is to find some means Of
squelching the old rascal. There
is a popular notion that the devil
has his Headquarters in Wall
street, and that the only thing that
will clean him out is free coinage.
Portland Telegram.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
An Angry Chief.

.Chief Peo, of the Umatillas, was
considerably exercised Friday eve-
ming saysths. BEST 0regsnian, over
the action of Pendleton's pound
master. The portly chief sold
twenty-five calves to butchers, and
drove the cows in withthem. Three
Of the latter were captured by the
enterprising genius who presides
over the city pound. Peo argued
with him and offered dollar for
the release Of the animals, but the
poundmaster was obdurate, and
the chief said he would bring his
Indian policemen and wreck the
corral. A compromise was finally
effected.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
MARRIED.

Mr.. Lake France, Of Athena,
Oregon, and Miss Minnie Wicker
sham of Tacoma, were united in
the holy bonds of matrimony at
the residence of the brides parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Wickersham
Of Tacoma, on Wednesday morn
ing, at 5 o'clock, August 8, 1898.
The contracting parties are we'll
known in Buckley and have host
of friends who will ever wish them
full share of life's happiness.
After short trip to Sound points
they will 90 TO Athena, whore it Is
their intention to permanently re-
side.--Buckley Banner.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
The Indian Regulars.
walla walla Union.

-
Troop L, which mustered out of
service at Fort Walla Walla yes-
terday, is the third Indian troop
mustered out of service, and it is
believed that it will be only a oues-
tion of a short time when the re.
naming dozen or more companies
will be sent back to their reserva-
tions. /The fad of improving the
noble red man by making a SOL
dier of him has proven fiat fail
ure. It is to be hoped Hoke Smith
will succeed better in teaching him
to milk than Secretary Elkins did
in teaching him the routine of
army life. In his natural state
he is fighter, but civilized descip-
line and soap seem to eliminate the
martial instinct from his charac-
ter. Desertions have been par
ticulariy numerous among the In
dian soldiers. The members of
troop L had lands on the reserva-
tion, and were continually pining
tc get back to them. The expert
ment has been in progress two
years, and the army people have
become heartily tired of it.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Goes Again sassengers.

Mr.. Eddytur of the Boston Herald:
Tha what wish to ASK yo is
weather stritchinine wot the po-
leece gives to dogs wort pizen hui
man beans after the sassengers has
ben fride. Please to put in the
pryper how this, is fur if fride
stritchnine is pizen, I goes agin
sassengers. Yours till pizened,
A. ALLEY Boy.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
A Grain Fire.

The grain fire Wednesday after
noon, supposed at first to be loca-
ted on the reservation east of PEN
dIeton, occurred at the BlaKelv
place on the north side of the Wild
Horse, below Adams. The fire
originated from the belt Of. the
separator, but the machines we're
saved. Forty-two acres of grain in
stack were destroyed, however,
making quite a serious loss, as it
would have averaged 40 bushels.
A brisk breeze blew, and the only
thing that stopped the fire was a
large body of summer fallow that
luckily happened to intervene be-
tween it and other grain fields in
the direction of the wind.-E. O.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Stanton's House Burned.

Tuesday night about IL o'clock
The house and its contents of s. G.
Stanton, on his ranch on Geer
Springs burned, together with the
smoke house. The house has been
vacant for some time and was be-
ing used for a cook and eating
house for harvest hands, most Of
whom were sleeping in the barn
when the fire occurred, which is
thought to have originated from
the stove pipe which ran through
the roof of the kitchen. 1t is quite
a severe loss to Mr.. Stanton as he
had no insurance on the build
ing.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
ADAMS NOTES.

~t Oes,i ~@N e.SS Ast @00Os
Hugh Macarthur of Pendleton,
made US business trip last week.
E. ]. Wilbur the lumber man of
Meacham, made us a business call
yesterday.
Joe Mcbride and family, of
Walla Walla, passed few days in
this city with Mrs. T. c. Reed, Mr..
McBride's mother.
Bridge foreman Lloyd. with
large gang of carpenters are en-
gagged in repairing company bridges
in this vicinity this week, their
outfit being side tracked here.
Mrs. Frank Brown, whose hus-
band is engaged with Hamilton &
Rourke, in the grain trade, at
Havana, arrived from Spokane last
week. Mr.. and Mrs. Brown were
formerly from Grants, Oregon.
Mrs. Mary Fleming, of Califor.
MIA, who has been visiting here
with her sister, Mrs. Klein, took her
departure Friday evening for her
h ,me in the land of orange bios.
SONS.
During the absence of Mrs. Arkell
their residence was entered by
sneak-thief who made away with a
valise filled with clothing belong
ing to member Of the family.
Since the above was written
we learn Mr.. Baker has thrown
open the road in question, only
temporarily however. More roads.
more business--and we think oui
citizens should take steps to opei.
the road permanently and legally
Wednesday afternoon the stacked
grain from 40 or 80 acres owned b
VIM. Blakely, caught fire from IL
thresher engine, and was complete
ly destroyed, also wagon, belong
ing to the threshers was burned
Farther, no damage was done.
Sundays dust storm was as ne;
success as dry storm, as W.
have known, coming early in Il
day and making as steady a rim as
possible during the entire day mut
to the discomfort of all, besides i
iuring the standing crop by She
ing out much grain estimated -
many to exceed one bushel per &C
over the entire region visited by !.
! It looks to us as.if the people,
/ Adams were standing in their ov q
light, besides kicking up some u
necessary dust, by compelling farf
ers to haul their wheat throu. i
town, and to do SO, to go mile o :
of their nearest road. The subie
should be looked after unless It
desirous to keep the reservati,
farmers out of town,
This week finds the harvest full
under way. The report of vie,
and quality, hardly coming up t,
earlier expectations. Much W
not make to exceed twenty bushe
per acre, while quite q percentas
willsnot grade above rejected. OWL
to its shriveled and smutty conc
tion. While the amount receive
this week by the warehouse wi ]!
probably exceed 10000 sacks, bl
one carload has gone to marks
AS to prices--well we can't fin
out.
]. I. Lieuallen is Offering 4
cents per bushel--as for the buyer
they seem to be making q sti
hunt, and as to farmers--we inns
CINE some who yet think they vii
obtain go cents per bushel, hav
not read Growers late message upol
the conditions Of the country anf.
its commerce. @. ID.
q
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18

This summer. it is said, will see
the last Of the famous Harvey val
ley crickets. They are dying by
millions from some disease, and
have not yet deposited their eggs.
Those who have observed their
habits say the disease which caus-
ed their destruction in other places
is the same to all appearances as
chat which is killing them there.
They have been in the valley in
numbers ever since 1t was first
visited by white settlers.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
A Runaway SONS Fortune. .

At the age OF 10 Henry Hutch
ings ran away from his home in
Chicago, where his. father was then
a small green grocer. Since then
he has had a hard life among the
logging camps Of Humboldt county
Columbia. Recently, he learned
accidentally Of the death Of his
father and that he had left large
estate. Henry Hutchings had been
away from home 20 years, and had
not heard from his family in that
time. He employed Attorney A.
T. Barbette, and upon investigation
it was learned that his father shad
left an estate valued at $3.50. 1000,
and had died intestate. He is at
present in this city, and expects to
go to Chicago September |, with
his attorney, to settle up the estate.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18

/ DIR. Carlisle was called last Satur-
day to attend a child on the reser
walton. He informed the parents
that the child could not live many
hours. The child's father brought
the doctor to town and to save time
took coffin out with him saying
if the child did not die he would
return the coffin.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
Eel from Grace.

Rev. H. Sadlier, Of HALEY, Idaho,
in attendance upon the Methodist
conference in session this week at
Baker City, got drunk and went on
q tear, visiting bagnio during the
night. The next day Methodist
brothers got together and promptly
"fired' him out of the conference
and the church. Rev. H. Sadlier's
action has caused much comment
and surprise, as it was not known
he was addicted to such excesses.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
/ will give free with every $40

will give free with every $40
(cash) worth Of goods purchased,
or to those having an account Of
$40 or over, who come and settle
by Sept 1st., a 4 life size crayon or
Air Brush Portrait. You have
undoubtedly some picture Of re-,
lative or friend that you would
like to have enlarged and THIS is
your opportunity. I. ]. CRoFUTT.
Weston Oregon.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-18
BORN.

MfDEVITT--Monday evening, August IA In
PendIeton. 70 Mr.. and Mra. McDevitt,
daughter
JAbEs-In Pendleton, August 10, 10 Af. and
LTe. Samuel 3. James daughtog.