The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1893-08-04
CITY AND COUNTY.
A Full Resume Of News---Looal Per.
sonaI and Otherwise.
The PREss gives the news.

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Refrigerators at cost. Call ear
ly at the G. A. Barrett Co.
Go to Knapp Burrell & Co for
your machine oil, betting etc.
We have left few 3-inch Header |
trucks. The c. B. Barrett Co,
Antifermentine, the greater fruit
preserver, at the Pioneer Drug
Store.
The Craver Header the finest in
the world for sale by the G. A.
Barrett Co.
Have you seen that silverware
Hollis is giving away to his custo-
mers.
IfYou want the news of the city
and county, take dose of the
PRESS.
Parties desiring good work horses
should call on Geo. Froome, He
has some for sale cheap.
M. E. Clark & Son have opened
out Racket Store in the Clark
building on third street.
Hewitt uses nothing but pure,
fresh drugs in filling prescriptions.
Take your prescriptions to him.
The G. A. Barrett Co., carry the
largest line of machine oils in the
city, farmers will find the largest
assortment to select from.
j. G. Leasure, the Pendleton edi-
tor and lawyer and George Morrow,
Cold Spring farmer had little
fstic encounter Saturday after
noon, in which Morrow came out
second best.
! Fred Page-Tustin, a former Pen
dleton lawyer, has located in Boise
City. Mr.. Page-Tustin is inter
ested in mining property which
promises enormous returns near
that city.
The Helix band came out in
bran spangled new uniforms last
Sunday. The wearers thereof now
have all they can do to escape the
wiles of the fair sex Of that vicin-
ity.
Late Friday night, Isaac Rud-
ducks house and barn, at North
Fork siding, near Wilbur, were
burned to the ground, with all
their contents. Nothing could be
learned as to the origin of the
fire.
Work has begun on the st. An
drews school building on the re-
servation. The stone foundation
is being built, and in a short time
there will be a fine brick school
house, a monument to the energy
of Father Chinale and his mission
work in behalf of the Indian chill
dren..
Il Owing to hard times and the
! low price of wheat, farmers north
: east of Pendleton have organized
local combine pool, and have
sent an agent to Portland and the
Sound for the purpose of consult
ing with buyers. The farmers vii
buy their sacks in lump an6
draw on advance on their whea
sufficient to meet harvesting ex
I penses.
S The other day Marshal McBrial
E and Deputy Durham Of Pendleto,
had hand to-hand battle will
five hobos whom they found nea
ware house at the depot. Th
wayfarers were happy in the pos
ession of keg Of beer and had sue
+ ceeded in getting gloriously DRUM
+ when the officers arrived. The ma
: estjy Of the lawpreyailed and thre
: were captured.
David Brown submitted Thurs
: day in Pendleton to surgical or
: Grafton. He had been sufferin
20 much from the result Of his acc
: dent several months ago, and th
operation afforded him consider
1e able relief. His chest was tappe
by the surgeons, who drew off fror
hs the pleural cavity quart or MOI
fe of liquid that had been compress
: ing the lungs.
Frank Buckless, a grading col
%, tractor, who lives in a tent aboy
Pendleton, came home to Dime
the other day, when his wife il
i formed him that the baby ha
took hold Of a bottle Of acid ths
was on the table and spilled IL
contents on its body, burning it
some extent, and that she had sci
for a doctor. Buckless began u
braiding his wife for carelessnes
and ended his displeasure by knocl
] ing her down and dragging her il
I to the tent. This not being IL
! | first time he had beaten her, she hs
him arrested.
Tuesday man was observe
1 lying beside the w. & C. r. trac
Z, about three miles from Killia
= y by a freight train crew. He W
:. to all appearances dead, but W
., finally restored to consciousne
:, and proved to have been prostr
ted by heat and exhaustion. I
ms said he came from Walla Wal
and had been walking the track