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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07
wOMAN's SWEET REVENGE.
Maverick. J

Maverick
Some weeks since Mrs. w. A. Clark,
the young wife of the Montana mil
lionaire, returned to Butte after an
absence of several years. When she
lived there, as Miss La Chapelle, a
poor girl, some of the "swells'' ig-
nored and snubbed her. These people,
of course, hastened to call on her
return. The butler took the cards,
and while they waited they heard a
"gentle, familiar voice" instructing
the servant to tell the callers that
Mrs. Clark was not at home. Other
women were turned down in like man
ner, women described by the passion
ate correspondent as stately DANES"
many of whom have been leaders in
Butte society for many years, but the
women who had been friendly to Mrs.
Clark in her humble days were well
coined cordially. The great lesson to
be learned by women from the enter
tanning episode is this: Treat kindly
every poor and goodlooking girl,
shop girl, telephone girl, steno-
grapher, for at any moment she may
become the wife of a multi millionaire
and a society queen. This ordinary
bread thrown on the waters will re-
turn to You as pumpernickel. You
will be hidden to pompous feasts; you
will sit in opera boxes; you will be
driven in parks, esteemed and envied;
nay, more, you will be invited to
automobile parties in France, England
and Italy, and presented at foreign
courts.
What boy in small town has not
longed for the day when, returning
as man enormously rich and power
full, as pirate king or the discoverer
of Solomon's mines, he can wreak
vengeance OH his oppressors, school
teachers, constables, sexton and the
boy that rubbed his face in the snow
in the presence of his adored Arabel-
la-and raise to proud eminence the
playmates that stood by him? Mrs.
Clark now tastes these delights in
reality and she is enjoying them more
than the boy ever could, as only a
woman can. She is having the time
of her life, and though no one can en-
ter very heartily into her triumph, all
warm blooded men regard with salts
faction the humiliation of the danes
who humiliated girl because of her
poverty.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07

Recent exposures of great frauds in
connection with the public lands of
the United States have attracted more
attention in Europe than such ques-
tion of apparently domestic import
would seem to warrant. There is a
simple reason for this, however, in
that European nations are now devot-
ing enormous sums of the public funds
to the undoing of conditions arising
from the ownership of land in large
estates. America has always been
looked upon as the one country which
had adopted a method of distributing
virgin country among individuals
which would prevent the building of
vast holdings, which in turn create a
tenantry or dependant class of farm
ers and give rise to many other eco
nomic evils. OF course, in Europe the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07

large land holdings originated in the
grant given to some royal favorite,
and almost the entire surface of the
principal countries of Europe was
originally SO apportioned. Conditions
of population and industrial develop
ment are widely contrasted in Europe
and the United States, but the rapid
growth of population and phenomen-
al industrial development of habitable
areas in the latter country bespeaks a
time in the not very distant future
when the land tenure question will
become almost acute as it is now in
Europe.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07
ATHENA, JULY Z 1905

Being the only paper published in
Athena. the Press numbers its patrons
among all classes of people and its
advertising columns have been patron
lied by every branch of business rep
resented here. 1t has been the policy
of the paper to treat everyone of these
patrons with the courtesy due them as
patrons and supporters of the paper.
In doing this we have endeavored at
all times to run clean, reliable news
paper. according all parties, factions,
and creeds with the justness and fair
ness due them. In the twelve years
the Press has been under the present
editors personal charge, he can con-
scientiously and truthfully say that
the business conditions Of the paper
have been brought to the present
standard by this policy of fairness.
Realizing this it makes it doubly hard
to feel the keen edge of an egregious
error which crept from the Office last
week, not through the columns of the
paper, but from the job department.
Reference is made to the printing of
a saloon card on which was objection
able reading matter. The objection
able feature of the card passed un-
noticed and went to the mechanical
department for composition and press
work, in the ordinary manner in
which all job work goes. Perhaps in
spection would have been closer, but
for the fact that on the reverse side of
the card handed in as copy, appeared
the advertisement of Shaw Borden
Co., of Spokane, one of the largest
printing and publishing houses in the
northwest, giving also the name of
the representative of the firm. The
circulation of such literature is
strongly denounced, and that the Press
was in any manner whatever connect
cd with the card in question, is
deeply regretted.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07

The dressed-up man on these hot
days could we'll think about this way
Wood, of course, excepted, for the
reason that he never owned boiled
shirt: Some day there is going to be
a terrible revolt in this country
against the boiled shirt. We are not
going to wear boards on our bosoms
surmounted by picket fences when the
laundry man feels cross and cuts a
saw edge on our collars. American
manhood is going to rise in its might
some day and carefully drop the
starched shirt over into the next lot,
where the tin cans are. Today we
haven't the nerve to do it. We are
under the domination of social and
commercial propriety to such an ex-
tent that we do not dare to arise nd
proclaim our freedom in the name of
liberty of person and freedom of con-
science. Some day we will wear soft
shirts and flowing collars; and the
man who wears starched board on
his bosom and a sheet iron ring
around his neck will be known no
more.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07
Tit could have been cons;stent

If it could have been consistent
with the obligations of their oath they
doubtless would have been we'll pleas
ed to have done otherwise, but per-
haps not more so than the general
public of Portland and Oregon. But
to have been consistent with their
oath they could not have done other
wise and however much we may de-
plore the necessity we must applaud
the high standard of manhood which
governed them. The whole subject
is painful one from every aspect, yet
its tremendous significance to Oregon
must be apparent. We believe the
verdict makes the real beginning of a
better day for the state as it has in
dubitably set higher standard of
public morality through its quicken
ing influence on the public con-
science.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07
THE MITCHELL CASE.
portland Journal. J
more.


The verdict of guilty with recon-
mendation of mercy rendered by the
jury against Senator Mitchell in the
federal court last night brought to a
close the most extraordinary trial in
the whole history of Oregon. The
verdict, in sense, was a surprise.
The age of the defendant, his dis.
tinguished career, the masterful place
which he so long occupied in the poll
tics of the state and the thousands of
courtesies and favors which he has
been in position to freely extend to
all classes of citizens, during his
many years of public life, combined
with his democratic spirit and natur-
al disposition to do good turns to those
who applied to him, have left an i'm
press which ordinarily would have
been expected to count something in
his behalf in the emergency which
confronted him-the most critical and
painful which man could face. IT
there had been nothing involved in
the outcome but the imposition of q
fine, however heavy, no unprejudiced
man would have had any doubt of the
outcome. But with all the sentiment
al reasons interposed, which strongly
appeal to men with warm blood in
their veins and the verdict carrying
with it an imprisonment, as we'll as
financial penalty, such a speedy and
positive outcome was not generally
looked for, Notwithstanding the
strength of the evidence for the prose
cution and the relatively little that
could be interposed in behalf of the
defendant either in mitigation or ex-
tenuation. To have gathered together
promiscuously from the state dozen
men, all of whom must have felt the
force of sentiment that has appealed
to the general public, and to have had
them render the verdict which they
did and in the manner in which they
did, speaks we'll for their moral fiber
and their high sense of public duty.
1t was duty which must have beer
painful to all of them, one which il
they could they would have avoided.
But being forced to face it they faced
it like men and acquitted themselves
in mannear beyond criticism anG
above reproach.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07

In the Idaho building at the fair
there is pyramid of nearly pure
lead ore which weighs so, 1000 pounds
A single specimen weighs 10000
pounds. Idaho produces annually
forty per cent of the lead mined in
the United States, and twentyseven
per cent of the worlds supply.
Saturday, July 1, was Trail day at
the fair and on that day the amuse-
ment streets were formally opened to
the public. There are 35 shows on
the Trail, and it costs only about
seven dollars to see them all. This is
much cheaper than at st. Louis.
In the Foreign Exhibits building
there is reproduction of Raphael s
"Sistine Madonna, done entirely iu
needlework. The reproduction was
made by a young German gilr, Frau
lein Clara Ripberger, and is considered
the most wonderful example of art
needlework ever created.
The free illustrated lectures by
Barry Bulkley, of Washington, d. c.,
which are given every afternoon at
four O'Clock in the Government build
ing are attracting large audiences.
Mr.. Bulkley speaks eloquently on the
wonders of the Yellow Stone Park,
and his lecture is beautifully illus
trated by colored lantern slides.
With four bands engaged and many
special events arranged, the seven
days beginning with Sunday, July o,
will constitute probably the biggest
week so far at the fair. There viii
be something doing on every day, and
it is expected that the attendance,
which has been increasing steadily
since the opening, will break all rec
ords during this week.
The price of admission to the fair
grounds in the evening has been
reduced, by provision whereby the
purchaser of fifty cent admission tick
ct receives with his ticket coupons
which admit him to twenty-five cents
worth of shows on the Trail. The
arrangement is proving popular. The
change was made because it was
thought that the fifty-cent charge
which merely permitted the visitor to
the grounds was unreasonable, since
the exhibit palaces are not kept open
in the evening.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07
Centennial Notes.

Liberati's famous Italian band of
fifty pieces is now giving two free
concerts daily at the Lewis and Clark
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-07-07

FOIey's Kidney Cure
makes kidneys and bladder right.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-13
Could Not he BETTER

The uniform success of ChambeIlain's
Colo Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy has
won for It a wide reputation and many
people throughout the country will agree
with Mr.. Charles w. Mattison of Milford
Va, who says: ut works like magic and
is the best preparation 1 know OF. 1t
couldn't be any better" He had serious
attack Of dysentery and was advised to
try bottle Of this remedy. which he did
with the result that immediate relief was
obtained. -re @
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-13
Three Special Hour Sales

FROM 10 A. NJ. TILL 70 M.-LADIEs'
NIGHT ROBES of extra heavy outing
flannel, good colors, worth a.
BOYS SHIRT WAISTS AND BIousEs-
in best styles and we'll known brands
worth 3gc TO 75c-sample garments and
greatest bargains ever shown at 1Or
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-13

FROM 8 TILL 10 A. M.-MEN'S SHIRTS
and DRAWERS, heavy fleece lined, worth
up to 69c, great snap, Dc
at ''''''''''''.''.'''.'.''s''
FROM 10 TILL II A. M-CHILDREN'S
HOSE, heavy ribbed, Just the thing for
school wear, qualities up to 15c, SC
at. per pair. .........................O ~
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-13

New California Peaches, per lb...........: 100
New cleaned Currants. per Id. ....,...... sac
New California Cooking Figs, per lb....719c
New Brittmore Dried Apples, per lb...,..9 &c
READ HAYDENS BUTTER AND
CHEESE PRICES.
Choice Dairy Butter, per lb..............,.lSo
Fancy Dairy Table Butter. per lb.......2oc
Choice Creamery Butter, per lb........... dc
Fancy separator creamery Butter, per 10. go
Choice Wisconsin Brick Cheese, per ID. .15c
Fancy Wisconsin Cream Cheese, per Id. 16o
Fancy Domestic Swiss Cheese, per ID. .l712o
Rognefort Cheese, per ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Roduefort Cheese, per Jar................23 o
FRUIT. FRUIT FRUIT.
Fancy Tokay Grapes, per lb..............Sho
Large, juicy Lemons, per 100
New Honey, per rack. ................,.....10 100
Omaha daily bee., 1905-10-13

lbc Flanneiettes, in long mill ends. all
at per yard. .................. .O2C
SIC Standard Dress Prints, pretty o.
patterns, at. per yard ................S Isl
lOc SeersuclSer Dress Ginghams -
at per Hdfu... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
25c Mercerized Sateens, great snap Ole
at PCT HdTu ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
&c Innings of all kinds, in long [lc
mill ends, at per yard .............f 3S
1Oc Percales, I'm fast colors. now =
FLANNELETTES Of all kinds, in very
best patterns, from the bolt 60
at per yard ......,...,,.,.,. ............ o.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
IS A BUCkETSHOP.
This Charge Is Made Against Bankrupt
 Boston Concern.

Boston December 29.-Contending that the firm of H. R. Leighton & Co.,, stock brokers, which assigned yesterday, was not engaged in genuine stock brokerage business, but in an illegal and fraudulent business of bucket shop" without any actual sales or purchase. except rarely, Olive M Davis today filed a bill in equity In the superior court asking for the ap- pointment of a receiver. The bill also asks that the company be stopped from doing business as bucket shop" and that a receiver be appointed to marshal its assets and to distribute them among It's creditors. It is alleged that the as- signment to Charles F. Allen. who had acted as the company's counsel was not made in good faith.
 The firm of H. R. Leighton & Co.,, whose main office Is in this city, had branches in forty cities and towns In New Eng land and Canada
 Its liabilities have been stated to be $500 000
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
ROAD SEEMS ASSURED.
Huntsville Will Raise the Amount Re-
 qulred for N. & H. Line.

Huntsville, December 3o-(Speeial.)-Th business men of Huntsville are now keen ly interested in securing the Nashville and Huntsville railroad. which has been projected from Nashville to this city by way of Elkton, Tenn. Huntsville has been called upon for subscription of s5o,0O0, and for a time 1t appeared that the special committee appointed to take subscrp- tions would fail fin It's object. The mat ter has been agitated to such an extent however. that there now appears no doubt that the money will be raised and the road secured Two big nursery concerns in this county along the proposed line have subscribed 5000 each Construction of the road is expected tol begin at Elk ton in both directions duflng the latter part of January.
 President Conner of the Nashville and Huntsville states that theN road will be continued to Pensacola. and when this is done, the future Of Huntsville will be secure. The new line would place this city in direct connection with the Ala bama coal fields and provide cheap fuel the lack of which has always been an industrial handicap.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
PROPERTY OWNERS
 APPOINT COMMIT TEE
They Will Investigate the Abstract of the Curbed-In Property on
 Highland Avenue.

A score of property owners on High. land avenue. who are interested in deter mining tho ownership of the strip of the avenue curbed in by the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, met at 10 o'clock yesterday morning in the city hall to consider the subject.
 Ell P. Smith was made chairman of the meeting and Charles A. Tillman. secre- tary.
 As the subject was discussed it develop ed that City Attorney Ed Smith was having an abstract made to determine exactly who owned the property in qucs- ton The abstract had not, however, been completed
 On motion of col. Sam Will John, con- nittee of three members. consisting of the chairman, the secretary and Colonel John. was appointed to look after tho abstract feature of the s~bJect. On motion of l. c. Beatty this committee was an- thorized to appear before the City Coun- cil and petition for the removal of the inside curbng on Highland avenue.
 The chair was authorized to call an- other meeting of the citizens whenever occasion might arise to do
 Alderman Heidt who was present ex- pressed his sympathy with the purpose of the meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
Modern Puritans.

The Modern Purtans held thelr regular meeting last Thursday. Officers were elected as follows: The Rev. S. P. West president; George A. Binn, Jr,, vice pres ident Bertram Jacobs. secretary and treasurer; w. l.. Howard. chaplain; II. H. K Jefferson. conductor; A. R. Wilson, in- side guard; r. F.. Hankinson, outside guard; Bctram Jacobs, representative to the supreme council at Norfolk.
 Their regular annual donations to tho charitable organizations were also made as follows: Salvation army home for fallen women. SEQ; mercy home, slo creche, sl0; Free kindergarten, se5; Boys Industrial school at East Lake, sio
 It has become the custom with the local council for the Modern Puritsns at their last meeting in December to dispose of all the surplus money in the treasury mot needed for the organization to the chart- able bodies In Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
MUSIC RECITAL.
Damn Petersens Pupils Will Be Heard
 Tuesday Night.

Damn -Petersen's first pupils recital Of the season takes place next Tuesday even ing at 50 Q clock at the Cable hall, when 8 number of his vocal as well as instru- mental pupils will appear. No admission will be charged, and the music-loving pub lis is invited to attend. The programme follows: Entreaty ...... ...... .... Wilson G. Smith
 MT. J. P Hibbler.
 Miss Marjorie Catchings. (aJ Rosemonde ............ ...... .Chamlnaoe tb) The Nightingaes Song ........Nevin
 Miss Lucy Bickley. Sonata In F Major First Movement. ....... .....-.. ............ ..........-....... Mozdi | (Second piano added by GrieG)
 Miss Mercedes Hamilton. Fair Jessie. Song Cycle ..........y. Fielitz
 Miss Kate Smith. (a) Solveigs Song. (b) Wood Wander ings .......... ......................Gr .Grieg
 Miss Eula Drennen. Two Etudes ........ ....,.............lieile Second piano added by hm-Petersen.l
 Miss Mercedes Hamilton. Next Pupils recital takes place at Cable hall Thursday evening. January 25, at so o'clock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
HAS BEEN BENEFICIAL.
Cutting of of Passes By Railroads in
 Pennsylvania Has Done Good.

Harrisburg, Pa, December 30.-Ma1. Isaac B. Brown, secretary of internal affairs and chief of the state bureau on railways. in his annual report for 1905. says there Is no room left 10 doubt the wisdom of the action of the railroads operating in Pennsylvania in abolishing the practice of issuing passes.
 He discredited the suggestion that the elimination of free transportation is but temporary matter, and says that the increased federal and state supervision of railroads would prevent a return to the old conditions, even If the railroads desired to do so.
 '"ro what extent the railroads have been imposed mpon and to what degree the abuse of granting free transporta- ton has grown is best known to the managers of railroads" the report says. "but no thoughtful observer has failed to note the unreasonable extent to which free transportation has been dis tributed to the favored few in times of political contests
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS
 TO ANSWER MANY CALLS

ed much headway before discovered. The roof was badly damaged and the second floor flooded with water The furniture on the first floor was also damaged by water It is estimated that s10O0 or si2O0 will cover the loss which is covered by insurance. The property Is owned by Mrs. M. S. Ware of New York.
 Capt s. M. Middleton of fire headquar- ters suffered slight financial loss when his residence at the corner of Rush ave- nue and Ninteenth street caught fire last night about 9:3O o'clock
 The frame residence or George Brown in Sixth alley between Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets was slightly damaged by blaze in the morning.
 Dr. Paul Cocke's residence. corner of Thirteenth avenue and Seventeenth street south, was slightly damaged about 99O o'clock last night. The fire was easily extinguished
 The last fire of the day was in the residence of Lula Curry, corner of Twen- ty-sixth street and Avenue F. The dam age was about $50. The property Is own ed by D. H. Edmonds.
 An alarm called the department to All lev B, between Seventeenth and Eigh- teentn streets yesterday morning but no fire was found.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-12-31
NEW LIFE COMPANY
 TO BE LAUNCHED
ATLANTA AND BIRMINGHAM MEN ARE INCORPORAToRS OF OLD LINE CONCERN, WHICH WILL HAVE s1,ooo, ,ooo CAPITAL.

Atlanta, December 30.-(Special) )-The Atlanta Birmingham Life Insurance com pany, which will be an old line stock company, the organization of which has Just been completed. will be chartered within the next few days and proposes to begin business early in the new year.
 The organization of this old line life insurance company in the south, 1t may be said, has practically grown out of insurance conditions in New York, and the east, as developed before the New York legislative Investigating committee, and one of the results will be to keep at home large amount of the money that is now expended for life insurance pre- miums
 The company will be organizeo with a capital stock of s1 ,oOooOO, and this stock will be distributed at various points in the south, but largely in Atlanta and Birmingham Practically all of this stock allotted to Atlanta and Birmingham has already been subscribed.
 Some of the Atlanta incorporators and stockholders in the new company are H. M Atkinson P. S. Arkwright, H. c. Bagley, c. E. Currier J. T. Dargan, Dr. A. w Calhoun John w Grant, J. Willie Pope. Willis Ragan and otncrs.
 Some of the Birmingham incorporators and stockholders are W. NJ. Drennen, w. G. Estes, Robert Jemison. c. B. McCor- mick. 1T. K. Milner, J. W. Minor, W. D. Nesbitt, Erskine Ramsay, K. N. Rhodes and David Roberts.
 I. Willie Pope of Atlanta, formerly a lumber merchant and railroad man, will be president of the new company, it is stated.
 While many of those who are interested in the Atlanta Birmingham Fire Insurance company are interested in the new he insurance company, of similar name and the former has s50,0o0 stock in the lat ter there is no direct connection what ever between the two companies, it is stated.