East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-03-09

Athena, March AT a meeting of
the citizens held in the Commercial
club rooms Wednesday evening the
sum of $500 was subscribed for the
purpose of supporting the yellow
Kid" baseball team, which is being
organized here. The team will be
made strong enough to play with all
eastern Oregon and Washington
teams.
A second meeting was held last
night of which Mayor Plamondon was
chairman. An athletic association
was organized for Athena, and a board
OF directors was elected to take
charge of the ball ground and suits.
All eastern oregon will be glad to
know that the yellow Kids" will
again be in the field
Result of Election.
The city election was rather quiet
Tuesday, though there was some in
terest shown in the different candi-
dates who We're run in for diversion,
all such parties receiving one or two
votes. The vote for the officers elect
ed stood as follows:
Mayor, j. D. Plamondon, 10S; Da-
vid Taylor, present mayor, 21; coun-
Gilman, c. A. Barrett III: T. ]. Kirk
127; a. B. McEwen, 1874; NJ. L. Watts,
III; T. j. Kirk, who received the
largest vote, will serve two years:
recorder, o. G. Chamberlain, 12S;
treasurer, I. NJ. Kemp, 12S; water
commissioner, G.. w. Gross, 12S. Da-
vid Taylor, the present mayor, de-
clined to run, and did not know that
his name was put up.
Dope Fiend Arrested.
Bob Lockhart, an alleged dope
fiend. was arrested in Athena a few
days ago and was made to spend a
night in the city Jail. The next morn
ing he was bound over by Justice
Chamberlain in the sum of $3.50 on
the charge of petit larceny. Lock-
hart and a woman drove up from
Pendleton, and soon after discovered
indications that he had stolen a num-
Der of articles at different places.
Officers found him and the woman in
hiding in a bunk at a China Joint
near Clemon's chop mill, and soon af-
ter all the stolen articles were found.
search of the baggage of the pair
resulted in the discovery of enough
opium ito put the whole city of Hong
kong into a seista for 40 days and
nights are the words of Col. Boyd.
Lockhart comes from good family.
His father owned the first hardware
store in Athena. E. r. Cox purchas-
ed his store away back in the eighties,
and the family removed to California.
For Woman's Suffrage.
Miss Mary y. Chase who spoke in
the city Saturday evening on the
woman suffrage question, has raised
considerable enthusiasm in the COM
munity. 4 committee of 80 was or
ganized, with Hon. VIII NJ. Peterson
at its head as chairman, and ]. NJ.
Craghead, secretary.
Monday morning an alarm called
the fire department to the home of
DIR. and Mrs. J. D. Plamondon, where
a conflagaration caused by a defect
i've flue, was narrowly averted by the
prompt action of Mr.. Booher, who
doused the contents of a fire extin-
guisher down the chimney.
ora Rhodes and James Foss left
last night for Crook county, where
they will spend some time on their
ranches.
The Williams Jubilee Singers drew
good house Monday evening, and
all We're highly pleased with the COM
pany.
Rev. George T. Ellis, of the Baptist
church, is conducting series Of
meetings at Helix this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Taitinger and
Miss Eva Wright left Monday for
Claresholm, Alberta. Mr.. and Mrs
Taitinger spent several weeks here
visiting relatives.
The Frazer Theater company of
Pendleton opened three nights en-
gagement at the opera house last
night with a good house. They are
playing, "A Southern Rose" "a Man
Of Mystery" and 1.-The Black Hand. :"
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