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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
FIRST WHITE CHILD.

Mrs. sSarah D lfenness Said to Have
Been Born at Meacham in 1S43.
Another first white child born in
Umatilla county" has been discover
ed. It is Mrs. Sarah o. Henness of
Portland, who died Saturday, aged So
years. OF Mrs. Henness and her his
tory the Portland Oregonian says:
The body of Mrs. Sarah Olinger
Henness was shipped to Gates, Ore.
last night by Dunning, McEntee &
Co., and the burial took place there.
She died at the North Pacific sana-
torium Saturday of cancer. She was
aged So years. The husband accom-
panied the remains to the family
home.
Mrs. Henness was the daughter of
Abraham Olinger, pioneer of Oregon
and was the first white child born in
Umatilla county. Her birth occur
red at Meacham, a station on the
Oregon Short Line, in the blue Noun.
tains. The date was October Z, 1843.
Her parents, accompanied by other
pioneers of Oregon, among them Judge
Waldo, we're just arriving in the
"Oregon country" having crossed
the plains on their western journey.
The birth was great and notable
event, and was celebrated in camp by
a jollifcation meeting and general
felicitation. During her lifetime of
GO wears. Mrs. Henness never saw any
but her native state, with the single
exception of Washington. She visited
relatives in various sections there but
never went to the homestead of her
parents in the east. She was mar
ried to E. Henness 20 years ago. Prior
to that time she was school teacher,
and by careful, painstaking work,
wrought quietly but faithfully and
increasingly in the upbuilding of the
mental and moral welfare of the
youth of earlier Oregon.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
PLEASED WITH ATHENA.

Oregonian Correspondent Gives His
Impressions of the Town.
With the Portland business men IS
excursion which was in Athena last
Thursday, was jolly crew of press
boys. They represented the big papers
of Portland. Each sent his paper an
article confined to the incidents of
the trip, and descriptive mention of
the towns and cities included in the
itinerary. The Portland Oregonian
correspondent sent the following con-
cerning the visit to Athena:
From Pendleton rapid run through
U matilla county brought the Pill
grims to Athena, the first stop.
Everybody was surprised to find a
crowd at the station. School was dis
missed, and the children were there
in large numbers.
Attorney Peterson made a glowing
| address of welcome, and Governor
Cham berlain and Tom Richardson
both made speeches. They were good
ones, too.
Every visitor was given card
wherein he was informed that the
country tributary to Athena produces
450, 900 bushels of wheat and 1000
tons of barley, that the First National
Bank has $500, 900 deposits, that there
are two $15, 900 churches, one $4,000
school house and that there is -four
mill with capacity of 1870, 900 per
year; that land is worth from 500 to
$3.50 per acre, and that the farms pro
duce more wealth per year than any
other farms in the world.
These are things which all persons
familiar with the growing Importance
of Athena have doubtless long known.
But most of the Portland people
did not know them, and they were just
as glad to fnd them out as Athena peo-
pie appeared to be to tell them.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
MAKING A DESERT
ARE FARMERS RUNNING PRO-
DUCTIvENEss OF SOIL!
Professor Withycomb Says Our Farms
Will Become Wholly Barren
In Time.

Now and then you hear the other
fellow tell the farmer how to farm,
but it is not often that you hear ad-
vice given the wheat grower of this
great inland wheat belt, for the reason
that about the only effort required on
his part is to get the seed in the
ground when fertility of soil and eli
matte conditions insure the crop.
However, the wheat grower, accord
ing to Professor Withycomb, is ripe
for 'hunch" that he needs fixing,
and the Prof. gives the "hunch."
The professor has theory; theory
that for all we know is original.
Well give him credit for breaking
the shell of new bubble Of pointers
for the rancher, and allow him to rest
peacefully on his laurels, at the same
time refraining from mentioning any
thing about so bushel wheat that
grows year after year on land that
has been summer fallowed. Here is
the professors prophesy, made in
Portland the other night, and printed
in the Journal:
Unless the farmers in the great
wheat growing districts of Eastern
Oregon adopt scientific methods in
farming, that productive country
will be reduced to desert wasteIwith-
in a few generations.
Mnay trainers have the mistaken
idea that summer following the land is
a benefit to the soil, he said. ''The
farmer who enormously rests his soil
is not only losing the crop of that
year, but he also loses strength from
his soil. The loss of strength in a
piece of land in one summer fallow is
sufficient to grow four heavy crops of
wheat.
Within few generations, if the
present method of farming is con-
tinued, Eastern Oregon will become a
desert waste. When the organic mat
ter in the soil is reduced by the pres
ent methods, instead of growing crops
with 0 to IL inches of rain annually,
the soil will require from 18 to 20
inches. II they would occasionally
alternate their crops of wheat with
crops of alfalfa, or vetches the soil
would always be productive; if not
the soil of this country will become
the same as in certain districts of
France where large areas once covered
with farms and forests are now un-
productive. The speaker said that
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
Sunday School Institnte.

Rev. w. O. Merritt, Sunday school
field worker for Washington, and q
man Of national reputation in Sunday
school work, win hold an institute
in Pendleton, Nov. 4th and 9Th. All
Sunday schools In the county are
urged to send delegates to the meeting.
The opportunity of hearing a man
familiar with all phases of Sunday
school work should not be missed.
The institute will be held in the Con-
gregational church of Pendleton. Sat
urday and Sunday, afternoon and eve
ming, November 4th and 5th.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
Helix Hotel Fire,

Fire early Saturday morning com
pletely destroyed the Arlington hotel
at Helix. The damage amounted to
about 81, 500, but the amount of in
surance is unknown. The confiagra-
tion started in the kitchen, presum-
ably from a range, A number of
guests were in the hotel at the time
the blaze was discovered. No one
was injured, but one girl, Miss Miller,
barely escaped and had no time to
secure her clothing, which was all
DESTROYED.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
Court Conyenes Today.

The jury session of the state supreme
court convened this morning at PEN
dleton, Judge w. R. Ellis presiding.
The new court room, though not as
yet completed, will be sufficiently
in order to be occupied, an extra force
Of men being employed all day yester-
day to get the room as nearly ready
as possible, reports the Tribune.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24

Washington, Oct. 23.--President
Roosevelt's reference to the Philippine
question in his speech at Atlanta, it
is learned, indicates the nature Of
legislation to be proposed by his
friends in congress this winter A
bill is to come through the ways aud
means committee providing for the
free entry into this country of Philip
pine products, and also opening the
islands to Investment The restric-
tions at present imposed are to be
swept away.
Mr.. Roosevelt's reference in his
speech to unfortunate measures
which have seriously, in some respects
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
THE CHANGE OF POLICY
President Takes First Step Toward Re
vision of Philippine Trade.

vitality, hampered the development o.
tao Philippines" marks his first STEP
away from the policy of "The Philip
pines for the Fiipinos. /"
He serves notice that the policy ex-
cluding capital has failed. The Phil
ippines need capital, and there are
two ways of securing it. One is by
alteration of the tariff arrangement
which now levies heavy burden upor
Philippine products exported to the
United States. Another is by remov
ing some of the restrictions which
have prevented the investment of cap
ital by individuals or corporations
from the states.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
Installs a Sawmill

William P. Reser, who lives in
Walla Walla, but owns large ranch
i'll the northern part of Umatilla
county, has just completed big saw
mill plant thirteen miles southeast of
Walla Walla, in a heavy timber
section of Umatilla county. Mr.. Rescr
will engage in the lumber business
on an extensive scale.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
Jerry Simpson Dead.

The funeral of ex-Congressman
Jerry Simpson, who died at Wichita.
Kansas yesterday, will be held to-
morrow in the Scottish Rite temple in
that city. The body will lie iD state
from to O'Clock today. The fun
eral will De Scottish Rite entirely.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
For Sale.

o. g. Chamberlain, the real estate
dealer, offers for sale:
One dwelling and three lots, $l100.
One house, barn and three lots,
$500.
A good cottage, outbuildings and
one lot, $1,000.
One dwelling, barn and three lots
and other choice city and farm prop.
prtv
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
ZOE Sale.

The desirable piece of real estate
on Main street known as the Garden
property is now offered for sale. For
price. apply to Charles Norris, Ath-
ena, Oregon. tt
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
To sheep Owners.

wish to correspond with sheep
owners with view Of taking from
1900 to 5000 head Of sheep on shares or
to purchase. Best Of reference given.
Address, w. Rulan Williamson,
Pocatella. Idaho.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24

the white lands in Linn, Benton and
Lane counties which are considered
worthless could be made very pro-
ductive by planting vetches to renew
the organic matter in the soil.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24
Local Wheat Market.

Wheat is quoted today by Athena
buyers at 81 cents.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-10-24

Edur;ats sour ItoweIs ssith CascarcSs.
Candy Cathartic. cure constipation forever.
sCc.25e. II c. g. 9. fail, druggists refund money.
Gilpin observer., 1905-12-28
Economical Use of Water.

A visitor in the city the last two
days, says the Denver Republican, has
been F. C. Hermann. of the Agricul-
tural Department, whose headquarters
are at Cheyenne. Mr.. Hermann is en-
gagged under Prof. Elwood Meade in
experimenting for the reclamation ser
vice, and last summer had two sta
tions in Colorado.
At Rocky Ford and Loveland, expert
ments were made in growing sugar
beet. The object was to show the re-
suits in production with differing
amounts of water, and the benefits can
readily be understood. Mr.. Hermann
says they gathered considerable data,
but 1t has not been worked up suffi-
ciently to draw conclusions. Next year
they will take up the study of the till
age of the soil in connection with the
irrigation experiments. If the depart
ment can show that as good crops can
be raised by using half the amount of
water now used something splendid
has been accomplished, because twice
the amount of land now under irriga-
ton can be titled.
The subject of dry farming has taken
the country by storm, but the govern
ment will not accept anybody's conciu-
sions, and is going into the subject it
self. The government experts will in
vestigate the question of how to best
conserve the moisture in the soil, and
Mr.. Meade will make extensive expert
ments during the coming y-ear. Atten-
ton will be particularly directed along
the line of auxiliary irrigation with
wells. For instance, drouths only last
two or three years until they are sue
ceeded by wet seasons again. The
farmer in the arid regions, who is de-
pending on sub-soiling, is likely to be
wiped out. But if he has a we'll that
will take care of ten or dozen acres,
intensiyely cultivated, he can pull
through.
In India they use auxiliary wells to
vast extent. In fact, Mr.. Hermann
says, that there is is more land under
irrigation from wells in India than
there is total area of irrigated land in
America. These experiments are to be
carried on in Texas, Wyoming. Colo
radO, Montana, Idaho and the Dakotas.
Other experiments to be made are
In winter irrigating. This is practiced
extensively in California and with sue.
cess. The object is to store water in
the soil rather than in reservoirs
There are billions of gallons OF water
going to waste running by in the win
ter months. The theory is to place this
water on the land in the winter and
saturate 1t. BY turning and loossning
the soil. 1t can be retained there and
1t will not be necessary to irrigate in
tie warm months. II these experiments
are successful it can readily be seen
that It means multiplying the irrigable
land by three with the amount of water
that is obtainable. All the government
or other irrigation projects would be
as 80 cents to silver dollar In com.
parison in bringing land under cult
walton.
Gilpin observer., 1905-12-28
Senator Patterson For Adams.

Denver.-The News prints the fol
lowing special telegram from Washing.
ton: Senator Pattersons attention
was called to articles appearing in the
Saturday Sun, William Grifiith's paper,
favorable to his nomination for gov.
ernor and to favorable expressions OF
opinion to the paper from some of Sen.
ator Patterson's friends. The senator
said such talk is futile.
Il am not and will not under any
possible contingency be candidate
for governor, nor would I accept a
nomination although unanimously ten.
dered. No one should be thought OF
for governor by the Democratic party
of Colorado but Alva Adams.
''He was nagrantly cheated out OF
the Office after he had been unques.
tionably elected by the people. by the
Legislature. His election in view OF the
large majority given TO President
Roosevelt proves his great popularity.
have no question but what he is 5000
votes stronger for the Office OF gov.
ernor than any other Democrat in the
state. 1t would. in my opinion, be po-
litical suicide for the porty to nominate
anybody but Adams for governor"
Gilpin observer., 1905-12-28
One Woman Kills Another.

Cripple Creek.-ln a quarrel Sunday
over the custody of child. Mrs. Sarah
A. Ault was almost instantly killed by
Pearl Ebert. The killing is an
other chapter in the Price divorce
case. which has occupied the Teller
county courts for months. The muir
deress is n notorious character who
has been the central figure in many
scandalous affairs. Recently she has
been known as housekeeper for Will
liam X. Price. the divorced husband.
The murder occurred mt $3.50 Sun
day afternoon when Mrs. Sarah A.
Price, armed with an order from
Judge II. II. Thomas of the County
Court, went to the home of her former
husband William X. Price. at 343
East Carr avenue. and presented the
courts mandate to Mrs. Ebert. Mrs.
Ault had accompanied Mrs. Price. Mrs.
Ebert refused to obey the order and
the woman now dead opened a wordy
war with Mrs. Ebert concerning it.
In the meantime Mrs. Price had
taken her little girl and disappeared
through the back door. Just about
this time Jessie Roberts. little girl
in the house. heard the women quar-
reling and started out to report the
matter. She heard shot and Mrs.
Ault ran out to the front porch, where
she fell and expired In few minutes
without uttering word.
Gilpin observer., 1905-12-28
THE FARM . AND RANGE

mere is an interesting class at the
colorado Agricultural College this win
Ter. 1t is known as the short course
In domestic science and agriculture,
ana 1t is proving a success There are
hundreds of boys and girls on the
farms OF Colorado, who car not be
spared away from home except for a
snort time in the winter months, and
tn1s course is made up of three months
terms in November, December and
January. 1t lasts two years and at the
END OF 1t the student has received a
training which should open way for
him to realize that the every day
things in farm life may be studied sci
entifically. The boys are taught ami
NAL husbandry, agronomy, horticul-
lure, veterinary science, bookkeeping,
etc. The girls take up hygiene and
nursing, dairying, laundrying, garden
ing etc.
Bulletin No. 104 of the Colorado Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station is
entitled "a Rust Resisting Canta-
loupe." The conclusion arrived at is
the necessity of selecting seed from
rust resisting plants. 1t says: "The
netting of canteloupe has long been
considered an attractive fancy feature,
and without question it is the essence
OF its appearance on the market, and
experience reveals that it has a value
in protecting the keeping qualities OF
the melons on long shipments. The
words Rocky Ford" scratched on the
surface of green melon appeared in
the netting at maturity, thus showing
that the netting of cantaloupe is
merely tracery of callous formed by
the natural cracking of the surface of
the melon. By observation and tests
1t is shown that close netted melon
does not lose weight by evaporation as
rapidly as one less covered with net
ting. thus it's keeping and shipping
qualities are largely determined by the
amount of netting on it's surface"
Gilpin observer., 1905-12-28
Sugar Making at Fort Collins.

Denver-A Republican special from
Fort Collins says: So far this season
the local sugar factory is having sue
cessful campaign. 1t began slicing
beets October 18th and has had a con-
tinuous run without an hours STOP
page, and has converted the juice ex-
tracted from $4,000 tons of beets into
commercial granulated sugar. There
are still $4,000 tons of beets to work
up. which will keep the factory in op-
Grafton until nearly the 1st of Febru-
airy. The product of the factory to
date has been approximately 212,0OO
sacks of 100 pounds each, or 81 $50 900
pounds Of sugar. These immense fig
ures will be swelled to 10000, 900
pounds at the close of the campaign.
The acreage planted to beets this
season in the Fort Collins district was
1O,OO3, an increase of about 1000 acres
over the crop of 1904. and the total
tonnage was 100000, as against 49,
900 in 1904. The average yield per
acre In 1905 was fraction under
twelve tons. as against 1872 tons in
1904, the falling Off being due to the
planting of new land in many instances
and the effects of a hail storm in July.
The highest yield per acre reported
was twenty-five tons and the lowest
seven tons. Beets planted on old lands
by experienced growers and which
were not touched by hail averaged
seventeen tons tO..the acre.
Gilpin observer., 1905-12-28
Alfalfa Food Product.

Five hundred tons of Colorado irri.
gated alfalfa hay are wanted at Elgin,
Illinois. and Prof. w. II. Olin, In
structor in agronomy at the State Ag
ricultural School. is trying to secure
1t for the firm making the request. His
interest in the matter is that he wants
to open a new market for Colorado
product. Friday he bought five cars
at Holly and Is looking for more.
The firm that wants the hay pre-
pares a food stun, and is making u
huge success. 1t started two years ago
with q 500.ton plant and is now
doubling the capacity. IL takes the al.
falfa, kiln dries 1t and cuts 1t up. Then
1t is mixed with other foods to produce
various results. For dairies 1t Is
mixed with sugar beet pulp; for poul.
try 1t Is mixed with certain grains and
for stock 1t has certain mixtures.
This firm has been buying alfalfa in
Texas. Kansas and other states, but
Professor Olin induced it to sample
the Colorado irrigated growth and 1t
has found 1t to be better than anything
else. The big order will demonstrate
completely whether the Colorado pro-
duct is the best and will settle the
question of the market. The irrigated
alfalfa is not leached like that grown
by other processes. AS the hay runs
nine to ten tons per car. this or
der means at least two trainloads and
perhaps morc.-Denver Republican.
Gilpin observer., 1905-12-28
COLORADO RAILROADS.
Report of Mileage and Taxes for the
Year 1905.

Denyer-Secretary r. r. Leese Of
the State Board of Equalization is pre-
pairing the annual report of that de-
partment, which will be ready for dis
tribution by the middle of January.
According to the figures based upon
the railroad companies returns, the
mileage will show an increase of 1872
miles, or net increase of 121 miles,
1896 miles having been abandoned.
The miles assessed during the year
ending December 81. 1905. are 1908
narrow gauge and 3,3S9.S2 standard
gauge main track, or a grand total of
1888 miles. This includes 16 miles
of electric railway owned by steam
roads and assessed by the board
The greatest increase in mileage is
in the lines of the Denver Northwest
ern & Pacific. the Uintah railway. the
new narrow gauge line, and the Den
yer & Rio Grande. The railroads Of
Colorado, according to the figures now
compiled, are paying an average tax
of $2SS.66 per mile. which is the high
est tax in any state west of the Mis-
sissippi river. except Nevada, where
the tax is $349 per mile.
Gilpin observer., 1905-12-28
SHOT BY TWO BOYS.
Prominent Colorado Springs Man
Dangerously Wounded.

Colorado Springs.-Frank l.. Scott.
vice president of the Davie Realty
Company of this city and for twenty
years prominent business man of Ell
Paso county. was shot in the back by
two unknown boys at 1906 O'Clock
Wednesday night, while on his way to
the Santa Fe depot. where he intended
to join his wife in California.
Scott was removed to st. Francis
hospital and probably will die He
Is thought not to have had an enemy
in the world and the only solution of
the mystery is that the assault was
the result of an attempt at highway
robbery.
According to Scott's statement in
the hospital, he was walking east on
Pixies Peak avenue, near Wahsatch
avenue. two blocks from the depot, a
valise in either hand, when he met two
youths. After he had passed about
ten feet beyond them they cried halt"
and Immediately afterward he fell to
the ground,d shot in the back.
Mr.. Scott described his assailants
as IA couple of kids about twenty
years old" He declared that he had
never seen them before and believes
that robbery was their object. One
wore cap. another a hat, and both
were of slim build. Both wore dark
clothes.
Captain Stewart has the entire day
and night force searching for the
youths. while mounted deputies under
the direction of Under Sheriff Day.
ton are securing the outskirts of the
city.