The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-09-15
Local News.
The PREss gives the news.

prices.
We will take No. 1 wheat on
subscription, at so cents per bush
ell.
Dollar collections of very choice
plants, at Mrs. f. ]. Beale's green
house.
ITL. A. Citizens, book-keeper in
EBergevin Bros. store is suffering
from severe cold.
Hewitt uses nothing but pure,
fresh drugs in filling prescriptions.
Take your prescriptions to him.
Mrs. Beale has some very fine
plants which she is selling for 5
cents piece.
1t is reported that the Umatilla
Indians have driven one thousand
head of horses to the Wallowa val
ley
All who are in arrears for sub.
scription with the Press, can set
tie the same with wheat at SOC per
bushel. Bring on your wheat and
pay up.
| EThe Butter creek farmers in
Morrow county report an abun-
dant crop of hay in their locality,
which can be bought at the pres
ent time for 81 per ton.
A dispatch was received by T.
Rourke, of Pendleton, Sunday, from
his wife, who is visiting in Ackley,
Iowa, that their infant son was
dead. Mr.. Rourke left for that
place on the next train.
E. Finley Kitson is. the new edi-
tor of the Corvallis Gazette, and
the first week of It's appearance
under the new management looks
something like newspaper. Sue
ces to you Bro. Kitson, may you
bring her out of the ditch.
Hop fields about Butteville,
Marion county, were forcibly evic-
ted from their houses by seventy
FIVE white men and shipped to
Portland on the Steamer Toledo.
No Chinese will be allowed to har-
vest crops in that neighborhood.
/ A bdrglar entered newspaper
Office in Iowa short time ago,
only to find All old revolver and a
dilapidated flute. Burglars ought
to know better than to find any
thing of value except intelligence
and wisdom in newspaper office.
| kong Creek Eagle: Ben Carter
| and Norve Hamilton returned
| from Umatilla county last week
where they have been laboring
| during harvest. ''There is plenty
of work in that country" they
said "if man will agree to wait
| for his money"
i A young printer in a country
newspaper office fell in love with
q clergyman's daughter who did
| not seem to reciprocate his affec-
tions. The next time he went to
church he was rather taken back
when the minister announced the
text: "My daughter is previously
tormented with devil"
/ Ed. Lafaye is repairing the hitch
| ing racks on the east side of his
| property ON 3rd street, this week.
Let the good work go on. The
committee on streets and public
| Improvements should see that
| more hitching racks are construc-
| ted in the city.
/ George Miller and August Kon-
| gell escaped from the penitentiary
at Walla Walla on Friday after
noon through tunnell which they
| had consumed weeks in excavating.
They were in for 20 and 10 years
respectively on conviction for muir
| der, each having served about four
years of his sentence.
| Two heavy wagons crossed the
Main street bridge at Pendleton
| at the same time, Monday, and
Jared loose a lateral brace which
had been improperly put in when
the bridge was built. The timber
| fell upon one of the teams, break
ing the nose of one horse and bad
lily injuring the animal
| After carefully reviewing all the
evidence in the case of State VS..
Frank Sloan, Frank and Newt
Jones, Justice HalIock OF Heppner
| decided that sufficient proofof their
| having been connected with the
robbing Of ]. A. Thompson had not
been produced to justify him in
binding them over and the boys
we're discharged on Saturday
morning.
| Saturday the county court pur-
chased Of T. F. Rourke his one
half interest in the famous Lee
street bridge at Pendleton for So
| 500. The order was signed by
Judge Martin, Commissioner Gill
| liland, but the, signature of Conf
| missioner McRae is not attached,
and he has fled an objection to The
proceedings. This is the bridge
which the least end' and Milton
| in particular has done SO much
kicking about.
j RRobert McBroom, while engaged
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