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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-14

A NUMBER OF Wasco county sheep
raisers have been arrested and TAX
en- to Portland, where they will be
required to answer in Judge Bell
ingers court to a charge of having
herded their flocks upon the Cas-
cade forest reserve, Information
was filed against the sheepmen by
Henry Failing, chairman of the
Portland water commission. 1t is
claimed by the informants against
the sheep men that they have been
herding their sheep on the Bull
Run reserve, the source from which
Portland obtains its water supply,
and also that the herders set fire to
the timber, which may do no end
of damage, The outcome of these
arrests will probably result in en-
forcing the law preventing the
herding or grazing of stock any
where on the Cascade timber re-
serve, and in consequence the stock
business of Wasco and Crook coun-
ties will be diminished at least one
third, for without the use of the
Cascade mountains for summer
pasturage one-third the sheep rails
ers in these two counties will have
to go out Of business.
There is little sense and much
less justice in depriving the sheep
men of the use of summer ranges
in the Cascades, since their focks
grazing in the mountains ale more
benefit than detriment to growing
timber, as they eat out the under
brush and give thelarger timber an
opportunity to grow. AS to the
claim that sheep men kindle forest
fires, it is absurd. They dread
forest fires more than any one else,
for there is danger of burning up
their entire fiocks, hence they are
cautious about setting them out.
1t is but just that the Bull Run
reserve be protected from the en-
croachment of hocks, since 1t is de-
sirable that the metropolis of the
state should have a perfectly pure
water supply, but the remainder o.
the forest reserve should be thrown
open to the stock raisers of Eastern
Oregon, and we trust that the Ore
gon delegation in congress will
exert their energies to securing
such an order.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-14

the east ever. find it out2 The cam
paign of education now under way,
and which will intensity as time
progresses, will make of the year
1896 memorable one. Those who
cry loudest for prosperity are the
sharers of dividens, profits and
rents. But it is not this longed for
prosperity that the laboring man,
mechanic, miner or farmer needs
so much as a new order of things.
He stands in need of justice, inde-
pendence, equal rights, social,
financial, legal as well as political.
Fears are entertained that this CELL
tury may not end in peace because
the workingmen seem in no sub
missive mood, but will the century
end in peace if reform sweeps every
thing before it2 May not the
sweeping changes now contempla-
ted precipitate disorders jus: as
violent from the other side2 We
think that there is here food for
reflection. The masters of today
| can buy mercenaries to shed blood
1t can and will end in peace if the
idling class is checked in its on
ward march, rather than over
thrown, and if our citizenship il
prepared by the educational cam
paign of 1896 for the decisive vic
tory of 1900. The Charybdis o
the angry millions threatens on ont
side, the Scylla Of the defiant mil
lionaires on the other. But th'
| diabolism of French revolution
can not take possession of thu
| American heart The United
Estates, even in such crisis, viii
see something better.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-14

however, for the sake of argument.
that Bryan may heed the counse /
Of common people of the country,
and may per chance call some
horney-fsted son of toll into his
official household, then compare
the influence that will surround
Mckinley, in case of his election,
and judge which will be most close
ly allied to the interest and well
fare of the masses. Judging from
those who are most ardently ad-
vocating McKinley's election, he
will choose his advisors from
among the plutocracy of the ma
tion. Such men as Hanna, Platt,
Quay, Spreckels, Huntington and
the Vanderbilts, the representa-.
tives of the railroad, and manufac-
turing corporations, the syndicates
and trust whose purposes is to
make themselves richer and the
masses poorer. What effect would
four years of rule of this nation by
the corporations have upon the
common people? What kind Of
| schemes for government paternal'
ism would be engendered under
their dictation? What favoritism
would be extended to the classes
that have already grown rich from
the paternalism ofgovernment ben
eficience? Mckinley is mortgagec
soul and body to these influences
discrimination was secured through
their influence, and his election
can only result through their aid
Four years of their rule through
him will indeed strain the safe
guards of this nation to the snap
ping point, and will bind the com
mon people in more complete
bond of servitude than were th'
southern slaves prior to Lincoln'I
emancipation proclamation.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-14
AN IMPENDING CRISIS.

THE San Francisco Chronicle has
become one of the loudest calamity
howlers in the nation, and sees the
direct destruction awaiting the
nation and all our free institutions
in case Mckinley is defeated. 1t
draws this picture of the situation;
"The Bryan democrats and Wat
son populists are forcing an issue
upon the country which is not un-
likely to transcend, in its import
ance, those OF the currency and
tariff. 1t is an issue of public
safety from the misrule of fanatics.
In this canvass the responsible and
sober men of whatever politics are
gradually getting on one side; and
on the other are all the wild-eyed
cranks who wish an enacting clause
put to their fads and their empir-
ical schemes for making the idle
man happy and rich. The cave OF
Adullam had in it every one that
was in distress, every one that was
in debt, and every one that was
discontented, but the cave of pop
ulists- democracy, besides all these.
has gathered in every one that is
insane and every one who has a
grudge against public order and
every one who has new political
philosophy, The Altgelds and Till
mans of the Chicago convention
are now re-enforced by the Cyclone
Davises, Calamity Wellers, and
General Coxeys;'
"It is men like these who would
feel vindicated and put in posi-
ton to assert themselves in the
affairs of government ifthe Chicago
or the Chicago and st. Louis ticket
should be elected. Washington
would be full Of them on the 4th
of March. Altgeld would be there
Ia promising candidate for seat
in the cabinet-to demand legisla-
ton against federal authority over
mobs. Tillman would be there
with a bill for q national gin dis
pensary, patterned after his state
barrooms in South Carolina.
Peffer would be there to work the
harassed farmers out of debt by
putting a government blanket
mortgage over their entire holdings.
Weaver would be on hand to ask
for silver monometallism, Henry
George will be in the lobbies OF
congress proclaiming the silver tax.
The cyclones the 'calamities' and
the commonweal generals would
mass for an attack upon the SUI
preme court, while the followers Of
all their schemes for government
paternalism, free homes, direct leg
islation through the referendum, q
price.of-labor gauge for salaries
and heaven knows what else, would
create a political pandemonium the
like of which no country ever saw
before except France in the days o
Jacobin excesses. Four years o
the rule of such men would strair
the safeguards of this nation to tn,
swapping point and justify Henry
Georges jubilant prophecy Of th'
struggle wider, deeper, and bitterel
than that over chattel slavery"
Were there any foundation fol
assertions as these the outlool
would be somewhat gloomy; but
there is no likelihood of Bryan
calling around him as his advisors
such men as Altgeld, Till.
man and PETER. He has nothing
in common with them. He is moi
beholding to them for his nomi'
nation, nor will he be indebted tc
them for his election. Admitting
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1896-08-14

1T IS now DuC q HtJlo over lZU
years since our forefathers declared
themselves independent of the
British crown. There is not today
a lover of liberty to be found any
where but must admits that this
declaration marks ali epoch in the
dawn of popular governments now
strewn so plentifully all over the
world, now is there a despot, how
ever fond of absolute dominion,
who will gainsay that humanity
everywhere was benefited by the
manly determination on the part
of our ancestors. But let us re-
view, says the Tomahawk, the
events in their natural order of
passage. The present century be-
gan in our land amid peace and
freedom and comparative equality.
The economic differences between
individuals and families were
slight. Nearly every head of a
household owned the ground where
his house was firmly set. There
were few paupers, none from lack
of work they were capable of doing.
The poor, while many, were all in
creasing their goods. A few were
wealthy. None were rich. There
were no cities like New York, Phila-
delphia, Chicago or Boston, with
their herds of miserable and hope
less humanity suffering not because
there is no wealth, but because Of
its unequal distribution, The pic
ture in the present is deeply
accentuated and forceful poverty.
We Americans of today are poor,
our masters are rich. We must
work, they work US. We are the
millions, they are the millionaires.
The word millionaire may be vari-
ously defined. At one time it
meant the man who had a million
dollars or property he could sell
for a million dollars. But little
reflection reveals the fact that prop
erty has value solely because
others want it, perhaps millions;
these millions make the million
aire of today. With this idea
uppermost contemplate with hor-
ror the distinction ofmulti-million.
aire! Let poverty muse and reflect
and find consolation if it can. We
all know, too, that every competent
statistician estimates that the
United states produces not less
than eight billion dollars worth Of
new wealth every year, and that at
least 70 per cent goes to pay in.
terest, rent or profits. Labor gets
two billions q year, idleness gets
six, This is q monstrous condition
from the fact that q land that is q
paradise for the idle can scarcely
fail to become an inferno for the
toiler. Now by noting closely the
characteristics of the idling capi,
talistic land.owning, employing
class, we find the one popularity
marks them all--the power to live
on somebody else, and the desire to
live more luxuriously on somebody
else intensified, The people of the
west and south have awakened 10
this truth. Win the millions Of
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1896-05-16
Who Are The Patriots?

Last night at Baton Rouge tho
Republican, Populist and 1nde-
pendent members Of the legisls-
ture united in a telegrsphic sssut-
ance to the committee Of business
men in this city that tho PROPOSE
tion to harmonizs all conflicting
interests and save the State from
turmoil and strife met with their
cordial approval.
It will thus be seen that the
supporters of Captain Phsrr have
met more than half way tho pa
triotic suggestions Of the business
men of New Orleans. The white
men who have been outraged are
no law-breakers, nor do they de.
sire to see our material interests
suffer. They have therefore yiel-
ded prompt obedience to the re-
quest of the committee for a set
Element of existing difficulties.
Our patriotic citizens who have
undertaken the task of securing =
peaceful solution of tho troublous
election problems must contrast
the high-minded, unsel6sh action
of the supporters of tho Old
Swamper with the wretched and
miserable subterfuges of the trick
sters who take their cue from
Murphy j. Foster.
The business men Of New Or
leans are not children engaged in
a game battledore and shuttlecock.
They are serious in purpose and
they do not expect to be met with
technical quibblss from the slick
and shrewd elected fobbers who
planned the campaign Of ballot
stealing and are now shifting from
one position to another to avoid
being caught.
At Baton Rouge last night tho
despoiled sugar planter, reduced
to poverty through Democratic 10
gislation; the honest Populist who
has had his vote stolen, and the
bold aud independent Democrat,
who will not wear Fosters collar,
united in a patriotic yielding up
of a portion of their rights in or
der that peace and prosperity
might abide in the State.
Contrast this action with that uf
the Foster trickstets!-D. Item.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1896-05-16
Planters Store.
/. 6. DUCHAMP.

Has always hand the largest stock of hardware agr
cultural Implements wheelwrght material, furniture house
furnishing goods crocksry paints oils pentine saddery
stoves, barbedwe stationary tnware agate ware,
Lime, cement sand, coal, SALT charcoal, canthooks
st4o rngdogs, at IaH Disc cultvaors best in the wod
terms; agent for the famous DAVIS GASOLINE ENGINE
year old boy it. pump. electricity in
minutes barbed wire $40 hundred pounds in lots of
s reels.
John Deere's Disc Cu1tiuators
at $500.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-10-03
A SPANISH OUTRAGE.
Gserlllas In cuba BrutalIy Maltre

Guerlllas In Cubs Brutally Maltreat
an American Citizen.
New York, Sept. 3O.-A special to the
Herald from Santiago de Cuba snys
Vice Consul Hyatt has entered an en-
ergetic protest in the case of Peter Il.
Rivery, an American planter NAL
: treated by Spanish guerillas OIL his
coffee estate, La Esperanaza, near st.
Louis. on the road to Rayamo. During
his protest to the Spanish officer in
command Of the guerillas against the
destruction of his fences and property
by the latter's forces, Rivery was
abused and led out to be summarily
shot. The timely intervention of a
Spanish scout, who pleaded with the
officer and vouched for Rivery's neu-
trality. alone saved him. Even then
the guerillas were SO enraged that in
defiance of the officers orders they
brutally beat him with their machetes,
and before leaving his plantation tore
down the American flag waving over
his residence, warning him not to dis
play 1t again. All Americans. the
guerillas said, were either members or
rebel spies, and II not openly aiding to
revolution were doing SO secretly; con-
sequently they ought all to be shot
wherever found by the Spanish troops.
Rivery was born in New Orleans. He
is of French extraction and came to
Cuba some years ago to assume control
of property left him by his grandfather
who died in Martinique; he is highly
respected by the better element, and
is In no wise suspected of sympathy
with the revolution. The Spanish col
onel in command at st. Louis apollo
gized for the outrage done him and ex-
pressed his personal regret at the in
subordinate acts Of the unruly gucril-
las in the field.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-10-03
Highest of all in Leavening PoweE-Latest Report
R@!a!!! g! Rs%asgE RRskiaHg
ABSOLUTELY PURE

George f. Gobcr, Judge Of the Blue
Ridge circuit of Georgia, was the VIC
tim Of Il sensational assault upon the
streets Of Atlanta, Ca, and was badly
hurt. His assailant was "Steve" Ryan,
who was formerly Atlanta's merchant
prince.
The California supreme court has Or
dered a new trial for Alonzo J. Whit.
man. who was convicted Of forgery and
sentenced to nine years imprisonment.
" hitman was formerly a wealthy man
and stood high socially and politically
in Minnesota and Michigan
Fred Boyilen, a Tember Of the COM
mission firm of Davenport, Quick &
Goy,len. Chicago. committed suicide at
Lincoln, Neb. He came there a fey
days ago, and was worried and fretted
over his wife's illness and financial
difficulties.
Gov. Hastings Of Pennsylvania has
paldOnel John Bardsley, former city
treasurer Of Philadelphia, who on July
.. 1891. WAS sentenced to fifteen years
In the pcnitentiary for misappropriat-
ing over $5O0,O0O Of city and state
money while occupying his official posi-
ton.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-10-03
CHARGES ILL FOUNDED.

g. A. r. Men Investigate the Sol
diers' Home Management.
Minneapolis. Oct. l. - For the pur-
poses Of investigating the charges pre-
ferrcd against the conduct of the Of
ficials Of the soldiers home OH the day
OF the G. A. II. parade in st. Paul. the
Minneapolis posts appointed commit
tee of inquiry, which submitted its
report yesterday. The charges were
that Commandant Mcmillan had Or
dered the old soldiers to march in the
parade OH pain of discharge, if phys
ically able; otherwise to remain at
home. 1t was also charged that cer-
tain inmate of the home was dis
charged for insnbordination for refus-
ing to march. The committees report
Is lengthy, but the substance of 1t is
that those who marched were looked
after with the greatest of care, and
those who were compelled to remain at
home because of physical inability
were also we'll cared for and were not
locked up as charged. In regard to the
inmate who was discharged, the com.
mittee finds that his dismissal was
due to insubordinate conduct and to
abusive language when requested to
march,
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-10-03
FOLLOWS A CUSTOM.
Mr.. sewall Writes Concerning His
Gold Contracts

Mr.. sewall Writes Concerning His
Gold C0ntracts
Louisville. KY, Oct. 1. - So much
has been written of late concerning
Vice-Presidential Candidate Sewall's
connection with gold contracts that l..
G. Delong of this city wrote Mr.. Sewall
concerning it, and received the follow
ing reply:
"Bath, Me-, Sept. 24.-Dear Sir: In
reply to yours of the 22d inst, l desire
to state that it is true that am max
ing contracts with the gold clause in
serted. have always made charter
contracts in this way for the last forty
years. and l doubt IL you could make
them in any other way. Charter con-
tracts for foreign voyages are invari-
ably made this way: Freight payable
in gold or sterling ! fail to see why
should be criticised for following
the custom in my business that has
universally obtained for the last forty
years to my knowledge. l am perfect
ly willing to take silver or currency in
payment If custom permitted.
ARTHUR Scwall."t
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-10-03
People I'm Print.

w. s. Rosecrans is elected president
of the Society of the Army Of the
Cumberland.
Princess Olga Of Montenegro. niece
of Nicholas l., the reigning prince, is
dead. She was born ut Ccttinje OH
March 10, 1859, and was unmarried.
Charles L. White, aged forty-one,
proprietor of the kentucky Register,
published Mt Richmond, Ky, died sud-
denly of congestion of the lungs.
DIR. Edward Reckendorif. who for
almost half century practiced mcdi-
cine ut st. Louis, is dead, aged seven
ty-four.
Alfred Hehard, who made the pre-
liminary survey across Iowa for the
Chicago, darlington & Quincy railroad.
for many years Il citizen OF Red Oak,
died at New London, Conn.,, from heart
disease. He had gone there OH IL visit.
Judge William T. Wolfe of the
Eighteenth Iowa judicial district, is
dead at Cedar l;al.ids, after Il long ILL
ness. He was among the most wide
Unknown members of the state bench
and bar.
Kate Fields effects will he shipped
from Honolulu to San Francisco by
the next steamer. A check has been
received from ii. II. Kohlsaat, of the
Chicago Times Herald, to pay all en-
pcnscs connected with the funeral and
the transportation of her effects.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-10-03
Marriage nj I,nr Harbor


Bar Harbor, Me-, Oct. IA bright
sky and autumnal sun burned away
the fog that hung like pail over the
island early to-day and fairer day
for q wedding never came than that
which greeted William Collins Whit
ney and Mrs. Edith 8. Randolph, who
were married in the pretty little stone
church of st. Saviours By Rev. c. f..
Iemngwell, the pastor. 1t was an in.
formal affair. There were no brides
maids and no best man. The church
and grounds were thronged with peo.
pie. and as there was no formal invi-
tations to the affair the townspeople
and society contentedly shared seats.
The interior of the church was a mass
Of roses. laurel, hydranges and pottcd
plants.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-10-03
HOMICIDE FIGURES.
The Prison AssOciation Di.cussea
the Crime nH Man killinw

The Prison AssOciatiOn Discusses
the Crime of Man Killing.
Milwaukee, Oct. 1. - Homicide was
discussed at this mornings session Of
the National Prison association. 1t
was concluded that the census taken
on the subject, and that the magazine
editorials on 1t partake largely of the
nature of sensational journalism; that
the world is growing better. and that
homicide is on the decrease. ]. d.
Milliken of Mcpherson, Kan. member
of the American Bar association, read
the report of the standing committee
on criminal law reform. His report
was a clear and comprehensive one,
and was listened to in an enthusiastic
silence which changed to volley of
questions and comment. DIR. Frederick
H. Wines offered resolutions. which
were adopted, calling for the appoint
ment of committee with which An
drew d. White is called upon to act, to
report at the next annual session upon
the question whether homicide is in
creasing in the United States more
rapidly than the increase of popula-
tion.
H. HI. Hart of st. Paul. secretary OF
the board of state charities. then read
the principal paper of the forenoon
upon "1mmigration and Crime"
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1896-10-03
COAL IS AFIRE.
Hundreds of Tons i'm the Usual Fail
COnnaGPatiOnS

Hundreds Of Tons I'm the Usual Fail
Conna&ratiOns.
West Superior. Wis. Oct. 1. - A
large quantity Of soft coal OH the
Northwestern dock is on fire. and 100
men are at work moving the pile The
crew worked all night, and this morn
ing the fire is not so dangerous, but
hundreds of tons more must be moved
to extinguish the smouldering fires en-
tirely.
After working all day yesterday and
all last night detail of the Superior
fire department., reinforced by hun
dreds of citizens, returned this MORN
ing from the suburbs and reported that
the forest fire situation is much i'm
proved, though it will still be ncces-
sary to keep close watch in order to
save property. Itasca was threatened
all night, as was also South Range,
but the wind has gone down and there
is now no immediate danger. Esti-
majors have gone out to ascertain the
extent of timber losses.