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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-20
THE "YEUGMEN.' -
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ExCnange.
The "yeggmen" are distinct Grim
inal CLASS, and have their own meth
ods which are easily detected.
The word "yegg" or "yeggman"
originated with the gypsies. When
there is particularly clever thief in
a gypsy tribe he is selected as the
"yegg," or chief thief. The expires
sion has come to be adopted by most
other thieves, and especially by the
"hobos," the tramp element of this
country. Thus the cleverest thief in
band of tramps is now usually
known as ''yegg," !" and the class as
whole are called 'yeggmen. The
operations of the "yegg" burglar are
usually confined to postoffice, express
office, or business safes, but bank rob-
berries by them are not uncommon.
Their way of work is keen, and makes
them especially hard to detect.
The actual burglar sends out what
is called finder, usually some young
member of a tramp band. In the
''yegg" vernacular he is known as a
''gay cat. Disguised as beggar or
a peddler he is sent to the towns that
are to be "done" to learn all about
the methods of the police, the position
of the street lights, the best way of
entrance to the building to be robbed ;
if possible the make of the safe or
vault, and the best methods of escap-
ing after the "haul'' is made. This
''gay cat studies all the local freight
tables, learns the likeliest places of
boarding the trains, finds out where
hand cars are kept, or where horse
ami buggy can easily be stolen.
The "yeggs" who actually make
the attacks rarely visit the place in
day time, fearing subsequent identitl-
cation. They usually hide in the out
skirts of the town until about mid
night on the night of the attack. They
go heavily armed to their work, and
the explosive usually used is nitro
glycerin, which they carry in rubber
water bottles, rather than in glass
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-20
ATHENA, JUNE ...... 20, 1870
BUY AT HOME,

The Press has number of times
called the attention of the people to
the fact that home pride and loyalty
should prompt them to make their
purchases of what they require at
home and not wait until they go to
Portland to see the fair, and has
pointed out that everything needed
can be bought as cheap or cheaper
at home. The East Oregonian says on
the subject:
Are you saving up money to make
purchases in Portland while visiting
the fair?
''If You are you are premeditating
an injustic to home merchants.
Don't you know that Portland is
the highest priced city in the world in
which to trade this summer? Don't
you know that almost every concern
in that city has been waiting for this
harvestP Don't you know that all
strangers look alike to Portland mer-
chants, and whether You are from
Umatilla county or Pike county your
rate will be the same in the hands
of the waiting 'harvesters' of Port.
land.
"You can save money by buying at
home, you can have your home mer-
chant here to back up his goods at his
prices, you can go back to him in case
you don't get what you want. While
in Portland you are stranger among
thousands of other strangers, lamb
among thousands of others at the
shearing pens and will have no re-
course after you are shorn except to
bleat and bleat at Portland grafters.
Home merchants are helping you
support the city and county govern
ments, they are renting room of PEN
dleton property owners, spending their
income in your midst, helping build
up your roads and streets and school
facilities, and is it just for you to rush
away with the impulse of the hour to
carry Umatilla county money to Port
land for goods that can be bought
cheaper at home?
Portland is the highest priced
place on the Pacific coast in which to
trade this year, because it is the one
opportunity OF years to get outside
money, and stocks of goods will be
marked up to meet the rush of strang-
ers.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-20
A GREAT WHEAT CROP.
Spokesman Review.

Chicago commercial estimates of
the wheat crop now approaching har-
vest give promise Of the second largest
yield in the history of the United
States. These estimates were made uI
last week, in advance of the May re-
port of the department of agriculture,
which was not issued at Washington
until Saturday, but which fully con-
firms their figures, according to the
brief telegraphic advices thus far re-
ceived.
The winter wheat yield promises
34S, 900, 900 bushels from the IA prin-
cipal wheat growing states, as against
276, 696, 900 bushels from the same
states last year. The total crop fol
the United States is expected to reach
All, 900, 600 bushels of winter wheat.
The spring wheat area is larger
than that of last year by 100000
acres, and the condition is reported
as several points higher than at this
date in 1904. The crop is expected tC
total at least 259,O00,O0O bushels.
Thus, for winter and spring wheat,
the gross yield will be 100000, ,00C
bushels, the greatest crop in the history
of American agriculture, except that
of 1901, when the farmers harvested
748, 460, 218 bushels according to the
agricultural department. final fig
ures.
Should this outlook be made good by
results at harvest time, it will afford
an opportunity to test the prediction
that the United States is rapidly
reaching point where its people viii
consume its entire wheat product,
American exports in wheat and fioul
have been falling off in recent years,
owing probably to combination OF
causes--smaller crops and an increas
ing population, with larger per capi
Ia consumption of. bread and other
wheat products as result of general
prosperity. A continuance of the
bread eating habit will in time shut
off our exports of grain, and even now
Europe no longer looks to America fol
any particular proportion of its annual
bread deficit. As wheat grows scarce
an increased yield of course will bt
obtained by better agriculture. buI
this will never be profitable enough tc
make large factor in the worlds
trade. Nations practice expensive til.
lage to support themselves, but they
supply their deficiencies from the
countries where population is scanty,
as in Argentina, or where the inhabit.
ants live on cheaper grain, as in Rus,
sia. No country whose depleted soil
compels fertilization can be large
exporter of grain,
American prosperity is shown more
by the ability to consume the bulk Of
the country's product than by The
grain exports. "The prosperous farm
er, says the old adage, which hold,
equally true of the prosperous nation
''sells what it cant eat. The othel
kind eats what it cant sell. 4"
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bottles. which are more daneerous.

bottles, which are more dangerous.
The men who do the actual blowing
mp, select their own ''stick ups, /" or
watchers, whose duty it is to guard
all appros ches to the building, and
prev ent any interference. Guarded in
this way the inside men can take their
own time for their work. They begin
by sealing up the cracks in the safe
doors with common washing soap,
leaving slight aperture at the top,
where little cup of soap is built, in
to which the nitro glycezin is poured.
This quickly oozes into all the cracks
of the safe, after which fuse and a
cap are placed with which to explode
it. With the outer door is blown to
pieces, the burglars have little trouble
in getting at the safes contents. They
then escape on passing freight trains,
on hand cars, or in stolen buggies,
travelling by night and hiding by day
until they are safe.
Many of them carry bogus cards
purporting to be issued by trades un-
ions. If "yegg" is arrested on sus-
picion he produces one Of these cards,
claims he is out of work and seeking
employment in his trade, and not in
frequently is released on this account.
The principal recruits to these
''yegg" bands are from the working
classes. A mechanic who loses en-
ployment by strike, or other trouble,
leaves his town for larger cities in
search of employment, but if he is un-
successful and short of money he will
gradually drift into the cheaper lodg-
ing houses and saloons, after which in
sheer desperation, The starts out with
some other unfortunate ''on the
road" tramping and beating his way
from place to place. Living this sort
of life he eventually falls in with
criminals, who take him in hand and
"bring him up.
After such associations are formed
the step into actual crime is short.
These ''yeggmen" have choice
vocabulary of slang, known only to
themselves and to the detectives who
study them. For instance, an inter
rupted robbery is called a rumble"
minister is "sky guide;" freight
train RATHER" Jail a dump"
nitroglycerin is soup" to be sent
enced is Settled" and vault is a
"harnessed box"
In an address read by William A.
Pinkerton of the Pinkerton National
Detective agency before the annual
convention of the International As
sociation of Chiefs of Police last year,
he said:
In the many 'yeggmen' in whom
we have come in contact we found
few with any conscience. There is
little or no religious belief among
them, and they are for the most part
very rank morally. Many are degen-
crates.
The Pinkertons have collected a
mass of data concerning these "yegg-
men," photographs, records of the
mems career, ETC., and can furnish in
valuable information concerning them
ald their ways of work.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-20

The Oregonian and the Portland
Journal are worrying themselves near
ly to death all the time, over matters
of no Importance to anybody but them
selves and which they could avoid as
well as not, by thinking and saying
pleasant things instead of snarling at
each other, says the Eugene Journal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-20

The same fly or maggot defiles the col
umns of almost the entire American
newspaper press, while the magazines
and books are comparatively free from
contamination. Their denunciations
of each other and of pablo or promi-
nent men who do not happen TO take
their advice or serve their interests
are nearly always uncalled for, unjust
and frequently grossly false and out
rageous, while their eulogies of 'the
party" to which they belong are
usually undeserved and frequently un-
true. Reform is nowhere more need
ed than in this direction.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-20

The Lewis and Clark fair will be in
full swing for several months and
every property owner in Athena and
surrounding country has, in the way
of paying taxes, aided the undertak-
ing of promoting the big exposition.
There is only one way whereby we
can hope to get value received, and
that is by taking advantage of the op-
portunity to display our resources and
advertise opportunities. MI. F. H..
Forshaw of Pendleton has the matter
of collecting the Umatilla county ex-
hibit, and samples of wheat, rye, veg
etables, grasses, etc., sent to him will
have prompt and proper consignment.
1t will help the town and be better for
people to know that Athena is on the
map Let us get to work.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1905-06-20

English is the international lang
uage The negotiations between the
Russians and japanese for the sur
render of Port Arthur were conducted
not in French, but in English. The
Japanese generals who took part and
their associates talk English, and
one of them Russian. On the Russian
side they brought a young midship-
man who had to act as interpreter,
because the English of the officers was
imperfect. In Russia and Turkey the
officials still prefer to use French, but
the rest of the world, in the east as
we'll as in the west, turns to English.
The Washington times., 1905-07-30
FIXING THE HAT

Stockings are as varied gloves-snd embroidered.
to boot Most of them ali in single tone here
and there is pair embroidered with points
coor-brght red green touch black that is
so thoroughly French Clocks are especially good; but
they must be exactly the color of stocking; and
initials hardly seen at all.
Almost everything that silk has its echo in
Isle thread Of lacking character and rich
of silk and its simmer But embroidery
has found its Isle thread and open-work is
very pretty in it; and its long way cheaper
Every conceivable color is with black pat
ent leather pumps that everybody wears.
And hats-about tAs time they take on a most
jected appearance, with flowers and feathers alike
dropping It's the last ca' hats too for IN the
shortest possible time the showing the first
of the fall hats.
It's worth while, though picking up a fresh hat
which at this season of the year, you very
little. Al least, take your plumes off and have them
cleaned and curled; put flowers onthe little
fixing" adds fresh touch everything you wear.
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GIRDLES, BELTS, AND BUCKLES

The deeper grdes and the narrowest are preferred
getting tired Of that stupid little upward
point directly in the back, which what you would
cut off the length your bit and accentuated
every bad line you may
Deep girdles of ribbon. shirred Oh to bones and
made to fit carefully boned waist should, are
wonderfully popular and especially pretty in pale
blue Of the softest satin F1owered grdes are rapidly
dying out, but the shaded grdles are stflI good.
Belts and buckles girdleS CrealIy nothing
more than crushed bets) every day sees some new
whim expressed. The embroidery of every nation has
been pressed into service, with for newest of ALL
Togo Deltsthose stunning japanese BELTS embroid-
cred with silks of every imaginable color white
background and elasped by metal belt-Japanese too
expressing some good-luck sentiment.
As to gIoves-a wealth of colors have been brought
out in the sheer silk that is cool Pale
pale the sofest of yeIJows rich reds.
and the whole scale of blues. Ito match
the girdIes) through Alice blue strong
definite blue that Counterpart OF the blue kid
gloves that were such novelty in the spring.
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Pleated skirts about wth-those killed skirts
which up every practical and i'm
practical stuff Gored skirts are stu In but with the
longer severer types of coat favore skirts are
either ninegore crcuarnnegore and circular skirts
made UP a hundred that disguise for the
models they are and permit all sorts of distinctive little
touches 10 be used
Perhaps the prettiest these slirts-Its a d-
gresson coat-suit skirt al-ts of material that
belongs to the voiIe family is made with every
other gore accordion peated but the hips only
The cores between perfectly plain, the plain
tops to pIeated cores little hip-yoe effect
AS you walk the skirt sways and autters from
pleated cores It's a very graceful model-Iong of
course
Back to coat suits again There's lot of difference
OF opinion as to the coming most popular length coat
Everybody that long coats were done
with yet of the prettest fall models shown
long coats but best taiIors on the
other hand. are making everything hip Iength-what
they call a 'Iong hip length"
There's as much diversity of opinion about colors
except for these three points which almost every
body seems to agree; black, which has been out for
couple OF years probably be one of The seasons
coors especially in broadcloth; brown is dead" and
cheeizs-even the Invisible cheeks-are giving way to
plain cloths and Invisible stripes broken invisible
Dlaids.
Beyond these three statements there are the most
conflicting One tailor asserts that its be
gay season. even The pIainest of morning suits
claims that red and blue and green strong. deeep
shades OF them viii be more than the duer col
Another declares that everything quiet and unob-
trusiye win the foundation given touch of
piquancy by velvet collars and cuffs OF contrasting
color. or "a brighter shade of the color of the suit
And a indications point TO his being nearer
right than any them-says that the finished
tightly twisted sutngs viii be all simpler
sufts that homespuns and broadcIoths and a host of
materials that range in character between the viii
he used for them. and that everything will be
simply and practically utrimmed
II he is right. and it looks though he were,
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ordinary without the front panel being
smaller sizes it satisfactory for either
boy girl because of the extreme simplicity the
style.
Linen linene duck. madras-any of the heavier
cotton and linen materialsn1ake up well in it with if
you to make dressy affair of it, fine linen
but fine with a close weave-embroidered in a simple
blind pattern down the front The belt preferably
made of linen. leather Of every color
the rainbow for these little dresses.
Both and bonnet other child wears can be
made at home. and both be made either summer
winter materals-the :inens for summer
and silk bonnet matching in color The
cloth, both bonnet and cloth. The cape may
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Fashion Notes and Novelties for

= ONE one has discovered the last successful step In
the process Of washing white summer gloves. Put
I J them on your hands. exactly as If you We're going
out. them soap them and then fand this
Is her point take your scrub brisy for
a moment It works like magic.
Picture hats smaller than they've been for years.
but the world millinery is getting ready for sur
prses this fall.
The prettest Of the lingerie hats has just made its
bow-or its TIT! 1t is of pink handkerchief linen,
broideTed In exquisite eyelet pattern. made
pleatngs OF mousselne Of the delicate shade
A big bow Il soft pink ribbon finishes It.
Coffee Jackets Of Hnen 0 all-over embroidery or
lacethe heavy kinds course-rnake separate blouse
an a stunning little costume
For the white ribbon belts that spoil so soon wash
ribbon proves mighty satisfactory
New sweaters hint a tall sports.
For the palmer shirt waists linen fairly
heavy and embroidered round dots or with eyelets
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be omitted. but makes an
odd finish, with its trimming
of pointed tabs.
For midwinter wear, it
should be made either of
heavy cloth or of the lighter
cloth and an interlining of
flannel.
The only trimming this
bonnet is given Is a bow of
velvet ribbon-either of black
or of a darker shade than
the color of the cap-which
is passed around the hood
and ties in the back. with
hanging loops and ends.
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not brought together into designs, but set at regular
intervals.
White and silk petticoats alike come In varying
lengths. instead OF the length Chat always has to be
altered Of a couple of years
High shoes to be had Earlier in the season
they almost impossible to get.
Prncesse dresses among the pretest Of the sum
evening gowns
Skirts still show plenty of gores-seventeen and
twenty cores being oftenest met with.
All-oyer embroderes make the prettest OF the new
lingerie bouses- -al-overs ana edsings almost wide
enough call aI-overs
Lingerie skirts, embroidered and ace-trmmed and
lingerie blouses combine to interesting best
white dresses
Pongee coats-the very loose ones with circular
backs that fall into graceful ripping lines-are worn
over summer dresses a light wrap is needed.
The Washington times., 1905-07-30

They're the easiest things imaginable slip into and so
light as not TO crush the ARREST gown.
The danttest baby some sheer white cotton
stun has the palest of pink China silk a lining
a serviceable pettcoat strenuous girl is Of
mohar-gray. with gunmetal silk rune
And automobile clothes! Just why they're called
automobile clothes nobody knows, they re more used
for almost other occasion than automobIin
though of course, they're then. too
Shantung rajah toussah and BurIirsham are All
used to make them of-toussah expensive and
Birmingham the richest fashionable of all All of
them wear-and wash.
Iot of clever little ideas that seem bit daring for
everyday find expression them.
Bathing suits the order day Brown and
black and blue the favorite colors each made up i'll
hundred ways, trimmed with white. with braidins
o the color.
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Of us to own at least one


of least of,
Taffeta silk voiIe combined to make the
gown pictured the same model executed
many of the stuffs. with contrasting
material of the color, or of the same material
trimmed with Of stitching Some of the odd new
voles apparently plain. but Hghtened perhaps with
a thread breaks the weave invisible stripe
gives it shadows that make live changeable thfng
of it. without actually showing color that
gives 1t its life.
The waist fastens down the back has yoke made
of bias folds Of the material bands of silk.
Oddly shaped bands outline and come down on. each
side OF the wide pleat which directly front;
bands outline the little cap tops sleeve The
cuffs match the yoke
The skirt is circular. running directly
the front is trimmed with of bands
with fancy buttons The gtrdie is SOFT crushed
of silk
Chldren's clothes were never more easy to make at
home nor with more possibilities of being trimmed with
exquisite handwork.
Plenty of mothers dress their children heavy linen
all long. using.
weather slip flannel abatross to give the neces
sary warmth number are doing the embroidery
special little sults-dong it summer fancy work
Russian blouse dresses and coats, IN their numer
variations hold their The dress pictured one
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natural evolution from the suits been
wearing for three years And, tell the truth,
most little tired almost fussy styles
of walking suits that impossible to
from.
Shirt waists of heavy linen will be with these
suits all winter. place lingerie blouses which
evidently these styles
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The First Hints Of
Fall Styles.

~ He first hints of fall styles about early
is-noth1ng definite as yet, everything. instead,
1 seeming in the transition period. waiting for
some radical change to develop.
In these first hints (Which are everywhere in tho
shops only the conservative things have come out and
those tentative But. that there are definite
little changes both of color line, that mark the
styles different, though big changes haven't
been determined upon.
The tailor made suits-and they're the first things
that gets the early faII-arc more severely
tailored in style than the elaborate styles
we've been seeing long that almost forgotten
the charm long, simple lines. But Paris declared
severely tailored coats-and skirts go with
them-of linen this summer and the earliest suits
cloth are nothing the than reproduc-
tions Of some OF the stunning the late linen
modes-the that wouldn't do up!
Tight-fttng coats-pIain pipestem-are exquis-
ite1y shaped (buiIt" the makers say) to the
graceful lines, and to sweep
waist line into long-skirted effect that
suggestion of fuIness yet nothing
easy." They're only tight-fttng in effect. most of
fitting with easy grace that is impossible
coats depend upon being buttoned up for their
"set."
Instead of the straghter lined box-coats Of covert
cloth are promised these fitted coats.
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reshening Up
the Little Things
Of Dress.

4 the summer wears women resort more ana
a more to the little accessories Of dress to make
trihing changes in dresses. 70 tide a gown
over the season. Which makes the fact all The
significant that accessories have never before os
eup!ed important a position compared with ths
larger items Of dress.
Under that sweeping head-accessorIes- grouped
veritable host Of things. from large thing as a
silk slip down the tniest this years turnover col
ars-which. by the way isn't very tiny. after ali
GirdIes grow and important-and nsistent
Almost girdle shows signs of hard
for. unlike the dresses They're with, they
cant be unceremoniousy dumped into a tub washed
The best do for them have them cleared;
but it's whole lot better put that money toward
grdIe.
Fresh ribbons this time of the year can be had
for and short lengths of delicate evening
for even less; that for you can get up
girdle, which, earlier in the season. would have cost a
dollar or two.
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Following the wake OF cashmere, which
prsingly popular last wintersurprainG because II had
been lonG-henTictta promises high
for dresses and shit waist suits and hundred and
uses.
The shaggy stuffs, which went out with bang
year ago, likely stay indefinitely. although
its a IGnG way too early prophcsy about definite
Il winter material.