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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13
THROW BoOMERANGS.
Popular Sport Now On In the Cap
ital City.
Amateurs Huri the Dangerous Toys,
Bat Have Yet 90 Learn 10
Mako Them Return
60 Them.

Throwing boomerangs-not the po-
litical kind, but the real ones-is COM
ing to be a popular sport in Washing
ton, or rather In the suburbs OF Wash
ington, for boomerang throwing In
large cities is nearly as dangerous as
rifle practice, says report from that
city.
The Washington Boomerang club.
with membership OF respectable pro-
portions, has been organized. and
grounds for practice have been Sc
cured and the new sport is In full
blast.
The men who have gone into the
fun say a person may become just as
much Of boomerang crank as base
ball crank, or fishing crank or golf
crank.
Awhile ago, Prof. Walker, of Cam
bridge, England, who has been in for
nearly every kind Of out-of-door
sports, went to Washington and told
some scientific men there that he knew
no better fun than boomerang-throw.
ing, and that in addition to the physi-
cal exertion necessary, the training
given the eye and nerves was little
better than anything he knew OF.
More than that, Prof. Walker had
some boomerangs with him, and he
took the gentlemen to a field in the
suburbs of Washington and showed
them how the trick is done.
The sport took instantly, and the
scientific men went prowling around
lumber yards looking for white ash to
make boomerangs of.
It seems that rude Australian will
go into store and buy boomerangs
by the dozen, but that is not the eti-
quette OF the game as imported from
Cambridge to Washington.
More than half the skill In the sport
is In making the boomerangs. It is
made Of white ash, steamed and bent
into the desired shape.
OF course, the Washington players
are not expert boomerang makers yet.
but they have got along so far In the
art that any one OF them can make
boomerang 20 wonderfully con-
structed that no mortal can tell where
It will go when thrown with great
force
After awhile. through the exercise
OF much patience. they hope to get the
business down to 30 fine point that
the boomerang will do what is ex-
pected Of it--describe certain move
ments in the air and return to the feet
OF the thrower.
Until skill has been acquired on the
part OF the players, boomerang throw
Ing is pretty dangerous for everybody
within radius OF some hundreds Of
yards.
In the hands OF an inexperienced
thrower a boomerang may 60 any
where except where 1t is expected to
go, but wherever It does go 1t goes
with tremendous speed
When the boomerangs thrown By
the Washington throwers come 10
earth they go into the ground 80 fast
that II Is often n task to pull them out.
Were one Of the things TO hit
man or even horse painful wound
would be the possible result, and
should the blow be upon the head
ieath might follow.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13
Thnnrhtf,nIRI Man.

NJ. M. Austin, OF Winchester, Ind,
Knew what to do in the hour of need.
His wife had such an unusual case Of
stomach and liver trouble, physicians
could not help her. He thought Of and
tried DR., Kings New Life Pills and she
got relief at once and was finally cured.
Only 25c, at all drug stores.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13
nasst os sunanoa..

II is only In tropical stations, ac-
cording to Charles Nordmann. that
any effect OF the sunspot period upon
mean annual temperature can be de-
tected. From the records OF IL such
stations 1t appears that the annual
temperature varies with the sunspots.
and that the coldest years are those
OF maximum sunspots. Science.
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Public Notice.

. Notice Is hereby given that win apply to
the mayor and common council OF the City of
Athena, Oregon, at q meeting thereof to be
held ON the nth day OF Nov, 1905. FOR a license
10 sell splrtuous. malt and vinous liquors in
less quantities than one quart, said LIQUORS TO
be sold oniy in u building situate ON lot :,
IN block No. 5, OF said city. WIN Wells.
Dated, Oct. IL. 1905. Applicant.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13

Notice Is hereby given thai will apply to
the Mayor and common council Of the city OF
ASt,nena, SI,n Oregon, ~ meeting thsrsof 70 De
license to sell spiritucus, malt and vinous
liquors IN less quantities than one quart, said
liquors TO be sold only Ia u building situated
said city. j. w. Davis,
Dated Nov. 9, 1908. ApplicanN
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13
Art Trsnaure. of Llmrn,

Algiers has Its pompeii--the ruined
city of Timgat, in which number OF art
treasures have recently been found,
They will be added to the Louvre collec-
tions In Paris.--London News
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13

We have gotten only the
best in the prizes offered and
we have taken pains to get
something for the man,
something for the women
and children and something
for young men and boys. It
pays to trade at the Peo-
pies Warehouse.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13

The successful numbers of
the drawings just past will
be announced in the daily
and weekly papers. Be sure
and compare the numbers on
your tickets. We're never
idle. We're always on the
alert. You'll find it pays to
trade at Peoples Warehouse
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13

No need for you to buy your fall sup
plies away from your home town when
you can get prices such as are quoted in
Athena Mercantile Co.'S ad.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13

Steamers leave Riparla daily at 4.o5 a. m.
Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday. Returning
leave Lewiston daily Monday, "Wednesday
and Saturday ut q. IN.
For tickets TO and nom ell parts of the
country call on or write TO
J. .Swart, Ag ent.
Athena.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13

SAN FRANCISCO-P0RTlaAN ROUTE,
Steamer sails nom Portland p, IN. every
DAYS.
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Water Routes.

Mixed, for Pendle-
ll;50 Am ton and intermedi- ll,50a' m.
late points,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13

7th Prize SD Wsgqn W5R So,s END s Hnss Ss
We were obliged to send some distance for the goat but
the pleasure derived by the who wins it viii certain
y repay us for our efforts. The little wagon Stude
baker and taken in all there won't be finer Christmas
present anywhere. You will the rig complete at the
store. When we give anything bear in mind that it is
the best The value OF this gift is $500.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1903-11-13

Strength and vigor come of good food,
duly digested. "Force," ready-to-
serve wheat and barley food, adds no
burden, but sustains, nourishes, invigor-
ates.
II you have not tried the ladies cele-
brated Munsing underwear you do not
know what perfection in underwear is.
uNrsa Ill
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
GOVERNMENTAL CONCERNS.

On January 1, 1903, the number OF pas
senger cars of all the public railways IN
Russia was 1885, valued at $50, 7O7 1853.
The total value Of the 315, 046 freight cars
was sos, 072,655.
The French government is making
arrangements TO provide for the native
women in the largest villages OF Algeria
women doctors, who are to be paid by
the government, consultations being
free.
The deterioration CT the English sta
nina is being made parliamentary
question. A commission will probably
he annointed to inquire into the condi-
IONS of the dwellers in cities particu-
larly.
smugglers of alcoholic liquors on the
pussian boundary have recently made
,ouch use of trained swift dogs as car
,iers The officials have undertaken
war against the dogs with gun and
poison.
since last October the children in the
,ublic schools OF Strassburg have had
chance to have their teeth taken care OF
free. the city paying the dentists
Among 1861 children only 165, or
rifle more than one per cent, were
found to have sound teeth
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
PLENTY OF MONEY IN WEST
That Section Satisfied with Exis t.
ing Conditions.
Ex-senator Carter Tells the Presi-
dent of Indifference Regarding
Currency Legislation.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 24.-That
the west is indifferent to financial
legislation and is well satisfied with
its present prosperity was the story
told by ex-senator Carter of Montana,
president of the national commission
for the st. Louis exposition, in talk
with President Roosevelt. President
Roosevelt inquired of Mr.. Carter what
the feeling in the west was. Mr.. Car
ter replied that the people of the west
were entirely Indifferent as to currency
legislation.
"The people of our western coun-
try" said he, "are more prosperous
than ever before. They have abundant
crops and money in plenty; in fact, for
the first time in the commercial his
tory of this country the west is loan
ing money in the east.
Il know it to be a fact that Butte
(Mont.) banks are discounting Phila-
delphia and New York paper. / think
there will be an abundance of money
in the west to move the crops and that
our people will not find it necessary to
seek dollar in the east. Naturally,
under these circumstances they are
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
FURIOUS HURRICANE.
1t Devastates the Cayman Islands
Serious Loss of Life Is
Feared.

Kingston, Jamaica, Aug. PA
schooner which arrived here Sunday
morning reports that the Cayman
islands were devastated by hurricane
on the evening of August II. Many
houses at Georgetown, a village near
the west end of Grand Cayman island,
were demolished. The vessels in the
harbor were driven out to sea; two sub
sequently returned, but the others had
not been heard of up to August IL. 1t is
feared that serious loss of life has oc-
Cured. All the trees and crops were de-
stroyed, and famine is imminent. The
people expect the government of ia
maica to send supplies. Seven schoon-
ers were wrecked on the east side of the
principal island. No news had been re-
ceived from Cayman Brae and Little Cay
man up to the time that the schooner left,
but it was thought certain that these
islands were also devastated by the
cyc1OOQ
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
out OF the Race.

Springfield, o., Aug. 24.-At the close
of a long conference in Columbus Sum
day between Thomas l.. Johnson and
Charles Solen, of Cleveland, and John
w. Bookwalter, of this city, the latter
issued a signed statement withdrawing
from the race for endorsement for
United States senator before the Dem
ocratic state convention on Wednes-
day. Since his return from New York
Mr. Bookwalter has been in frequent
conference with Mr. Zimmerman and
this latest move is the result of the
understanding they arrived at Satur-
day. Mr.. Bookwalter was the recog-
nized Johnson candidate for senator.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
William p Sullivan, of Missouri, state
senator, was convicted at Jefferson City
of soliciting bride for votes and fined
500
FoRErGN INTELLIGENCE.

Germany will ask the reichstag to in
crease the standing army from about
608,000 to $4,000 men.
In Rome Pope Leo's fisherman's ring,
supposed to have been stolen, was found
on his writing table.
The Colombian congress will, it is be-
lieved, so legislate with reference to
the canal as to make possible the ratifi-
cation at an early date of a new treaty.
In Havana bids to raise the battleship
Maine, the Spanish cruiser Alfonso XII.
and the wrecks of other Spanish war
ships have been advertised.
Leading European powers are nego-
tiating with view to a joint naval DEM
onstration against Turkey.
The selections made by the car for the
Venezuelan arbitration court are highly
commended by Wayne MacVeagh, Sc
nior counsel for the United States, now
in Paris.
Advices from Port Arthur report ris-
ings in China which threaten to involve
the whole country in conflict
A force of British wiped out Nigerian
town and killed 700 natives.
Beginning August 81, the annual re-
union of the Army Of the Philippines
will be held in st. Paul for four days.
At Halifax, N. S., a negro who as
saulted and murdered Mary Jenkins,
aged 10. was hanged by a mob.
The Turkish foreign minister, Tewfik
Pasha, notified the Russian ambassador
that the porte accepted the Russian de-
mands on Macedonia, and begged that
the warships be withdrawn from Turk
ish waters.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27

1880, setting her spinnaker to port.
She tried to hoist balloon jib topsaii,
but it seemed to jam half way up, and
after a futile attempt to raise it sub
stituted a balloon staysail.
Shamrock to BE Remeasured.
Shamrock III. will be remeasured in
Erie basin this morning in the pres
ence of a representative of Reliance.
c. D. Mower, the official measurer Of
the New York Yacht club. notified Mr..
Crawford Saturday morning that he
wound measure the yacht at Erie basin
Monday morning with representative
OF the Reliance on board. Nobody
aboard either yacht would discuss the
measurement of the Shamrock with her
anchor and chain aboard Sir Thomas
Upton said, however:
TT was all an oversight and the yacht
club representatives were only made
cognizant of our being measured with
out them when we told them. Neither
their representative nor ours present at
the measuring noticed the error at the
time. 1t won't make any difference"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
ENGINE JUMPED TRACK.
Two Lives Are Lost and Several Per-
sons Are Injured at Little
Falls, N. ".

Paris, Aug 24.-All the members of
cial train on the New York Central,
carrying city newspapers, was wrecked
at Gulf Bridge, in this city, Sunday.
Engineer Robert Lilly and Fireman
Peter Conley, both of Albany, were
killed, and employees of the World, the
Sun, the Rochester News company and
the American and Journal were Sc
verely injured. Conductor Erhardt and
several other members of the trains
crew were slightly injured. The train,
which was running at the rate of
mile minute, was composed of an en-
CINE and three express cars. In round
ing the sharp Gulf Bridge curve the
engine jumped the track and landed at
the foot of the embankment into a
roadway. The front car, in which were
all of those injured, followed the en-
CINE down the slope.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
WEST AND SOUTH.

Inc N6DrdSkd republicans III SIdIG
convention commend the administra-
ton of President Roosevelt and favor his
denomination, suggest John L. Webster,
of Omaha, as their candidate for vice
president, and nominated j. B. Barnes
for Justice of the supreme court.
The union threatens railroad ex-
pressmen's strike in all railroad centers
west and south.
In Detroit, Mich, the body of four
year-old Alphonse Wines was found
bound, gagged and mutilated.
At Oshkosh, Wis, Thomas r. Nor
gan, a millionaire lumberman, was shot
and killed by Frederick Hampel, a
drunken employee, who afterward COM
mitted suicide in his cell.
At Angora, Ind, the private bank of
Kinney & Co. closed its doors with LA
bilities of $143,000.
Near Elk, Wash, forest fires burned
over 900 acres in belt of white pine
and cedar.
In Chicago national convention of
farmers will be held on September to
form a combination to maintain prices
and regulate distribution.
The examiner has closed the Citizens
National and Savings bank, of Beau
mont, Tex.
In San Francisco 10000 members of
the G.. A. R. paraded at the national en-
campment. In the evening camp fires
were held.
After being divorced Al years, Henry
Melville, a Waukegan Gid farmer, and
Margaret Brown, of Louisville, KY, both
70 years old, were remarked in the lat
ter city.
The Bridge and Iron company, at
Wabash, Ind, has assigned, with liabil-
tiles estimated at 100000.
A fence about the Fort Belknap In
dian reservation in Montana, which is
40 miles long and so miles wide, has been
finished after years of work.
At Hanna, Wyo., 16 more bodies of
victims of the recent mine explosion have
been recovered.
Mrs. Anna Koenig and William Koe-
mig were married at Davis City, being
the first known instance in Nebraska of
a man marrying his stepmother
Booker T. Washington was reelected
president at the fourth annual conven-
ton in Nashville, Tenn, of the National
Negro Business Mems league.
At San Francisco Gen. John c. Black
of Illinois, was elected commander-in-
chief by the G. A. R. encampment, and
Boston was chosen for the encampmeni
in 1904.
At Cruger, ILL.,, Frank ]. Schrieber,
said to have served longer than any
postmaster in the United States, died
at the age of u years.
Fulton and Miami counties in Indiana
were visited by remarkable hailstorms
and thousands of acres of growing corn
were completely ruined.
At Beaumont, Tex, President Oliver
of the failed Citizens national bank
| closed four other banks in which he was
| interested.
Burglars robbed the post Office al
Clinton, Wis, of $500 in cash and 81 ,00C
in stamps.
At Arcadia, CAL, Lucky" Baldwin
has been elected mayor.
Eugene Moss and James Budd, both
aged 16 years. were burned to death in
an electric light tower at Saginaw
Mich, by touching live wire.
Louisa Bugg died in Clinton, Ia. aged
101 years.
Democrats of the Eighth Texas dis
trict have nominated John III. Pinckney
| for congress-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
THE EAST.

Carrie Nation was fined ten dollars in
Bayonne, N. j., for attempting to use
her Ratchet in saloon.
AS a result of the official measure
ments, the Reliance must allow Sham
rock Ill one minute and As seconds in
the America cup race over 30-mile
course
For $4,000 Henry G.. We'll, leader of
Wall street bears, has sold his seat on
the New York exchange to A. M. Bur-
den.
At Brighton Beach, N. Y, Dan Patch
broke the worlds record for PAGERS by
pacing mile in 1859.
One of the oldest piano and organ
houses in the country, the Mason &
Hamlin company, of Boston, has as
signed, with liabilities estimated at ST.
900 900.
Questions of national concern were
discussed by the president and several
callers at Oyster Bay, N. Y.
Because of light wind the first race for
the America cup failed, with Reliance
16 minutes ahead of Shamrock III. at
the turn.
At the age of Sc years Charles Reich
man, KIN own as the inventor of the first
oil cook stove, died at his home in
Brooklyn, N. Y.
A monument marking the site of the
birthplace of the late President Chester
A. Arthur was dedicated at Fairfield,
VT.
At Johnstown, Pa, Robert SNOWFALL
shot his wife because she threatened to
leave him, and then killed himself.
At Baltimore, Md, the battleship Mis-
souri, was successfully launched.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
HUMBERT FAMILY GUILTY.
SO Decides the Jury In the Famous
French SwindIing Case
at Paris.

Paris, Aug. 24-All the members OF
the Humbert family were convicted to.
day after a sensational climax to the
trial, in which Nine. Humbert, in an
address to the jury, declared that the
mysterious Crawford was Regnier, the
notorious intermediary between Mar
shall Bazaine and Prince Bismarck, and
the man who arranged for the surrender
of Metz during the Franco-Prussian war
in 1870. For this he was sentenced to
death, but afterwards escaped the pen
atty. He died in England in 1886 and
his name has ever since been execrated
in France.
The court sentenced Nine. Humbert
and her husband each to five years i'm
prisonment and to a hundred francs
fine.
Ernie Daurignac was sentenced to two
years Imprisonment.
Roman Daurignac was sentenced to
three years Imprisonment.
Nine and M. Humbert will undergo
solitary confinement during their term
of Imprisonment.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
|SAL|SBURY'S
| CAREER ENDED.
Death Of the Former Premier of
Great Britain.
THE EMPIRE IN MOURNING
He Had Safely Guided the Destinies
of Great Britain Through
Many Trials and PERIL
Gus Periods.

London, Aug. 24-The Marquis of
Salisbury, former premier of England,
died at Hatfield house at 9:05 o'clock
Saturday evening on the fiftieth anniver
sary of his first election to parliament.
Lord Salisbury was unconscious for
eighteen hours before he died. He had
temporary rally at II o'clock Friday
evening. This was followed at o'clock
Saturday morning by relapse, after
which the patient did not regain con-
seriousness. He grew weaker hourly as
the morning advanced, and as early as
o'clock in the morning the physicians
informed the waiting members of the
family that the end was only question
OF a few hours. Oxygen was admins
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27

Flagstaff, Ariz., Aug 24.-For the sec
ond time this season a cloudburst has
swept fields, roads and bridges and
this city from their homes. 1t started
in the mountains north of this city, and
a wall of water eight feet high and 300
feet wide swept across the valley. The
torrent swept everything before it.
With a terrific roar it rushed across
grain fields, destroying all crops in its
path. Fences disappeared, trees were
broken down and roads washed out.
The floods struck Flagstaff shortly after
dark, damaging property of all kinds,
including the railroads.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27
4 WEEKS HISTORY
The Important Happenings OF a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
81 the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
I'M ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
THE LATEST FOREIGN DISPATCHES
FROM WASHINGTON.

During the month of July last the col
lections Of internal revenue were S22,,
168,4S decrease compared with July
1902, of Sill POI.
Controversy over Assistant Foreman
Miller, of the government printing Of
flee, has been revived by the filing o.
formal accusations by the Bookbinders
union.
The grand jury has resumed its IN.
quiry into the affairs of the post Office
department.
The post office department, on com
plant of Insurance Commissioner Folk
of Tennessee, has begun investigation OF
use of mails by so-called wildcat com
panies.
The president declares that no discrim-
ination will be practiced by the govern
ment against nonunion workmen, and
that the right to form unions is optional
with employees.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-27

That little unpleasantness over on
Lake Erie, when Canadian revenue cut
ter fired on an American fishing vessel
alleged to have been poaching in Domin-
Ion waters, is not likely to have any very
serious consequences or plunge two ma
tions into war. The fact seems to be
that the international boundary through
the lakes is somewhat vague, and there
Is reason to fear that the fishing vessels
of neither side are over-particular in
trying to locate it. But when one of
them is knowingly a trespasser it has
no ground of complaint because it is
driven away.