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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-02-09
Address
Show Tonight.

The Great Eastern Vitagraph Co.,
is billed to appear at the Athena
opera house tonight. OF the COM
pany the Gold Hill News says:
The Great Eastern Vitagraph Co.
closed very successful two nights
engagement in the city last night.
This is without doubt the best COM
pany of this class that has ever Wis
tied Gold Hill and each night sent
their audience home more than
pleased. Miss Winnette Grosebeck as
descriptive singer aud soft shoe
dancer is more than clever with her
songs and darces. She is possessed OF
very sweet voice and together with
her pleasing personality, makes it a
very easy matter for her to hold hel
audience. We predict very success
full season for these clever people and
return engagement in Gold Hill
would be met with the liberal patron
age they deserve.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-02-09
More Paved Streets.

The Wa:la Walla City Council
Wednesday evening by resolution,
determined to pave additional streets
for a distance of go blocks during the
coming spring and summer.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-02-09

Methusala was all right, you bet
For good old soul was he,
They say he would be living yet,
Had be taken Rocky Mountain Tea,
Pioneer drug store.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1906-02-09

1.-THE best place on earth to eat, is
in walla Walla. Once you eat at the
Portland restaurant, when in the
garden city, you will always eat there.
Only white help employed.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

cramming machine is composed Of a
feed trough or chamber placed upon
the top of a three-legged, movable
table, as it might be called, with a
plunger in the top, placed there after
the cylinder is filed with the properly
prepared food, and with the pressure
OF the foot upon the lever, the food is
forced through the tube into the crop
of the fowl.
THE CRAMMER is AN EXPERT.
The operator in charge of the cram
ming machine has several assistants
who bring the fowls from the coop to
him; he placing the tube down the
throat beyond the windpipe towards
the crop, fills the same by pressure
of the foot, always gauging the amount
forced into the crop by the hand
pressure upon it.
This manner of feeding is carried on
for a sufficient number Of days to
make the entire period of feeding from
IS to q days. An experienced handler
knows just the time when the fowls
are finished ready for killing. When
this time arrives, they are speedily
killed, dry-picked, and placed in proper
condition for market.
The food made use of for this pur-
pose is mixture Of meals of several
kinds, ito conform to the requirements
of the market. Ground oats, corn
and middlings, mixed with boiled
milk or water into very dry mash
or mixed food is made use of for the
first II to IA days for trough feeding.
During this period, the fowls have
grit and plenty of water to drink
where they can help themselves. So
soon as they show a disposition to
stop feeding themselves, all the food,
water and grit is removed from the
trough, and the stuffing machine is
brought into service. The same meals
mixed into cruel are used for this
purpose, the food forced into the crop
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
8. OGDEN ARMOUR.

saloon keeper. My reply was that for
one thing had observed that the com
panies pay their men in checks, and
that saloons are the most convenient
places in which these can be cashed;
and that also as consequence of the
lack of dining-rooms the men are liter
ally compelled to resort to the saloons
in winter. The packer then dropped
the subject.
Prior to the last strike in Chicago
the union officers made computation,
based upon ten thousand time checks,
and found that the average weekly
wage in Packingtown was between 80
and Sc; since the strike, conditions
have of course grown worse. A friend
of mine who has recently been making
investigations for me stated that ne
stood in saloon on Saturday nlgh!
and gathered up the pay envelopes OF
the men as they came in and got their
checks cashed. He collected over
score. and the average was less than
s4: there were some as low as $1.7O.
This represented a weeks wages for an
able-bodied man in Packingtown at a
dull season.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

wooden floor and slide part way into
a filthy mems toilet. 1t was picked up
by two employees, placed upon truck,
carried into the cooling room and hung
up with other carcasses, no effort being
made to clean it.
SIN another establishment, equally
well known, a long table was noted
covered with several hundred pounds
Of cooked scraps of beef and other
meats. Some of these meat scraps were
dry, leathery, and unfit to be eaten;
and in the heap were found pieces of
pig-skin, and even some bits of rope
strands and other rubbish. Inquiry
evoked the frank admission from the
man in charge that this was to be
ground up and used in making 'potted
ham,"
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
PROFITS IN CHICKENS.
Crate and Machine Fattenine Bring
the Highest Prices.
T. T. McGrew,

Some time since we published an
article on poultry growing North and
West, and referred to the large num-
Der of fowls that are grown upon the
wheat fields of the Northwest and
which are purchased and shipped in to
the big packing establishments Of
Kansas City and other western centres.
The packers of the west have estab-
lished enormous finishing plants, as
they are called, for the feeding, fat
tening and preparing of poultry of all
kinds for market. Thefowls here are re-
ceived in large numbers, placed in
coops that hold from three to five
birds, according to their size, and are
'trough-fed'-that is, they are fed a
mixture Of ground meals properly pre-
pared in troughs, and permitted to
eat as much as they will consume,
from three to five times per day.
Poultry crate-fattened in this way
will continue to eat well and thrive
from nine to twelve days. So soon as
they cease to feed themselves raven
ously from these troughs, what is
known as the cramming machine is
brought into service. The manipulation
of the cramming machine must have
experience in the handling and feed
ing of the fowls in this way. The
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
Cultivation of Garden Crops.

Frequent shallow cultivation should
be employed for most garden crops,
and during dry weather the depth
should not exceed 2 inches. By keep
ing the surface soil we'll stirred what
is termed a "dust mulch" is formed,
and while this layer of finely pulver-
ized soil will become quite dry, it pre-
vents the escape of moisture through
the pores of the soil. A mulch con-
sisting of fine manure, clippings from
the lawn, or any similar material,
spread to a distance of 10 or II inches
around the plants will preserve the
moisture; but the mulch should not be
so heavy or matted as to exclude the
air.
A crust forming over the soil after
rain or watering is detrimental to
plant growth and should be broken up
as soon as the land can be worked.
To determine when the soil is suf-
ficieHtly dry for cultivation, apply the
same test of squeezing together in the
hand as is utilized in determining when
to plow. Sandy soils can be worked
much sooner than clay soils after a
rain. Too much Importance cannot
be placed upon the matter of thorough
cultivation of the garden, and if the
work is promptly and properly done
there will be little difficulty in con-
trolling weeds.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
Homemade Bone Fertilizer.

Everyone with large garden has an
out-of-the-way place for fertilizers
where 'bone barrel" could be placed.
To reduce bones to fertilizer without
the use of acids takes time, but for
the home garden it is well worth wait
ing for. Put in barrel three or four
inches of soil, then closely packed
layer of bones, broken up somewhat,
and cover these with wood ashes and
wet with liquid manure from the
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
ONE VAST TRUST.

Inc conditions in Packingtown have
reached their present state of degrad.
alton by the natural process of com.
petition, or rather, there is competi-
tion OF labor while there is no competi.
ton OF capital. There is but one
vast employing trust and a body of
absolutely unorganized and HELPLESS
types OF human beings are coming
there. There has been a regular pro-
cesslon OF the races through Packing
town; the industry was founded by
skilled cattle butchers from Germany:
tnen they began the importing of Irish
men. After the strike of 1894 they set
TO work deliberately to crowd the labor
market so as to prevent further trou-
bies; first they brought Poles, then
Bohemians, then Lithuanians. and now
finally Slovaks. These are nearly all
undersized, wretched people who can
not speak English, and who impress
one as having no more intelligence
than dumb animal. The bosses beat
them and kick them and spit in their
faces. saw sights of this sort which
fairly made my blood boil. l saw a
poor, wretched Lithuanian pushing a
truck IN one OF Swift & Co.'s cellars;
1t was loaded with hams, and the poor
fellow was scarcely able to stir it on
the level floor. He came to a slight
incline and could not get it up, and the
boss fell upon him and pounded him
out of the place. I presume that he
was firing" him. Another and
stronger man took his place
NOArnNr MI nO xyrer,r
One of the things pointed out in the
Presidents report is that the men are
provided with no places to eat. 1t is
difficult to imagine what this means in
the winter time. 1 saw them crouching
in the stairways of the packing
houses and outside under the sheds to
get away from the falling snow. In
conversation with one of the packers
l spoke of the horribly low wages that
were paid to the men, and he answered
that there was no use in paying any
more, because the balance went to the
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
BEEF TRUST METHODS.
THOUSANDS OF HUMAN BEINGS
GROUND DOWN By PIIZLESS
CORPORATIONS.
Inhuman Treatment of Men and
Women Who Are Forced to Work
in Great EstabIishments.-In Low.
est Depths of Misery.
BIZ UPTON SINCLAIR.
Cew York World }

It Is literally the truth that the pack.
ers treat their men like dogs. There
is no place in all Packingtown where
the slightest consideration is shown
for a human being. They are COM
PEELED to be on hand at a certain hour
in the morning, even though there is
no killing to be done; they are laid off
without the slightest ceremony, and
they have no idea when the work will
start up again. They are cheated out
OF their pay most shamelessly; if
enough men happen to be on hand the
bosses will start them up before the
whistles blow, and cheat them that
way. If they are working overtime
and do not make a full hour. even
though they fail by only five minutes,
they get nothing for it. If any error
Is made in the computation of their
work they have no redress; there is
always one answer to every complaint:
If you do not like it you can go else
where"
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

stables, if possible, or with plain water
strengthened with 10 cents worth
of washing ammonia. Repeat the
layers as there are bones enough until
the barrel is full. Cover with soil,
rounding the surface, and SOW with
clover or grass seed, or plant the top
with some plant that will knit the soil
together as cover, that will not let
through much moisture. In a years
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS.
MALE HELP WANTED.

AN EXPERIENCED NURSERY Salesman, also
man to learn the business, Salary Commission.
Pan-American Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
FROM THE BEEF TRUST REPORT.
Extract From NeiIl-ReynoIds Docu-
ment Which the President Sent
to Congress.

"An absence of cleanliness was found
everywhere in the handling of meat
being prepared for the various meat
food products.
"As an extreme example Of the en-
tire disregard on the part of employees
of any notion of cleanliness in handling
dressed meat, we saw a hog that had
just been killed, cleaned, washed, and
started on its way to the cooling room
tall from the sliding rail to dirty
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
BUSINESS EQUIPMENT.

CALIGRAPH TYPEWRITER $1,000 Remington
Yost Densmore q Jewett. 1890 each Electri
Commercial raphaphone Ou.et, new uaper-arI
disc phonograph cheap. Edison Mimeograph 500
o. Hacker, 2 Park Pl., N. Y.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

BOOK-KEEPERS-Keep out Of trouble Remove
blots and incorrect entries without scratching OuI
Eradicator never fails. Send 25c. for bottle. Best
terms to Agents 4. A. Ink Eradicator Co, 1850
Washington Ave. New York.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13

time empty the barrel, spade the con-
tents together, make into heap, and
let 1t stand for month, then use as
wanted.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
REAL ESTATE.

COUNTRY PROPERTY oNLY-EvERYwHERE
Farms Fl residences. hotels stores, ETC. CataloE
Free 10 intending buyers. Owners wishing to eeu
Building New York
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
LADIES APPAREL.

SHIRT WAIST HOLDER EXTRAORDINARY
keeps waist down all around: no pins or hooks to
tear send 2c. with waist measurement over corset
and ask for white or black. Felix Corset Co., 13l
Prince St., New York.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-13
MIscELLANEOUs.

VALUABLE SCARF PINS absolutely protected
by our patented thief proof Simplex Pin Guard.
Ask dealer or send 25 cents to-day for gold plated
sample. q. Rypinski. 1E2 West l06th Street, New
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-21

thousands Of members Of the
knights Of the Maccabees will make
their way to,mosrow towards Indianola
Park. Columbus, Ohio. where will open
the Biennial Encampment Of the sq'
preme Division, Uniform Rank, of the
Maccabees. The encampment prom
ises to be one of the most successful
ever held in. the history Of the lodge.
The encampment begins Sunday,
July 22d, and viii be over sunday,
July 29th. The street parade on next
TUESDAY promises to be one of the
most successful features Of the en-
campment; there will be thousands
Of Maccabees in line. Wednesday is
the picnic day; and on Thursday Prize
Drills will take place, and the next
day win be devoted to sight seeing.
The people OF Columbus have made ev.
cry arrangement for the success of the
encampment and for the entertain!
ment OF the visitors.
Captain Lang. OF the local lodge, VIII
have large number at the encamp
ment from this city. They have been
drilled exceptionally wen, and many
who are in a position to speak. say
that there is probability of the Fair
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-21
Minister'S Son
HAS nzEn ARRESTED IN LINCOLN
COUNTY cN CHARGE OF MuR- (
psRlNd NJ. IA. WRIGHT

CHARLESTON, w, va July 81. ~
George Thomas. eighteen, son Of q
minister. is in jail! in Lincoln county,
charged with the murder OF w. NJ.
wright, Of Island Creek, near the Kan.
awha line, who was shot in the head
from double barrelled gun from be-
hind briar bushes. "A boy saw Thorn.
as in the bushes. Thomas was arrest.
ed while fleeing. 1t ist said Thomas
some time ago eloped with Weights
wife, who later returned to her hus-
band. His wife and others were with
Wright when he was shot.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-21
knights Of lIaccabees Will Start
TO Morrow for Biennial Encanlp-
raer1t any Local People Going

mont agg regatlon winning the prize
of the drill contest which win be
held on Thursday
A large crowd from Philippi will be
i'm Fairmont this evening on No. 80
aud there will come at $3.50 a large
number Of Maccabees from Weston,
The members from Philippi and wes,
ton will remain here several hours,
during which time they Will be the
guests of Fairmont Division. No. 2,
and will be entertained at the Opera
House session at the Eagle Hall, on
Main street. where supper will be
served at about twelve o'clock to-
night.
Those who will attend the encamp,
ment from this city, are the following:
Capt. and Mrs. ]. A. Lang, Lieuten'
ant and Mrs. II. u. Gould, Mr.. and Mrs.
Emery Toothman, Guy Hawkins, Mrs.
w. e. Hawkins, W. L. Meredith, j. g.
Cunningham, @. a. Cunningham,
Charles a. Grapes, F. w. Riggs, Clark
Riggs, French Collins, Sergeant s. B.
Kopp, e. M Wrase, seargenat and
Mrs. w. f. Cunningham, G. "A. Bon
ham, q. L. shnttlesworth, and Mrs.
Minnie Watkins, who will be guest Of
Capt. Lang and wife at camp.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-21
II hree Men
Are in Plot.
TO KlpNAP ONE or THE cHIL,
DREN OF AUGUSTUS AND
MARY SCOTT HARTJE.

& /. u Z ~ ~.
PITTsBURG, July 21.-An alleged
plot to kidnap one OF the two chill
dren of Augustnust and Mary Scott
.Hartie, who are real stakes in the
present sensational divorce suit be
fore Judge Frazer in Common Pleas
Court, caused a stir In Pittsburs po-
lice circles yesterday.
Superintendent Of Police Thonas l!
4. McQuade received a telegram yes
terday morning from Chief OF Police
Taylor Of Philadelphia, stating that
a story had reached him that an at
tempt would be made to make away
With the elder Of the Hartje children
-"scottie," aged IL. who is said to
have been his fathers favorite
The two children, 'sscottie' and
Mary Louise, are now with their moth
er at the home OF her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. John F. Scott. on Bartlett
street, Squirrel Hill. The latter stat
ed that the authorities in the Eastern
city had information that three men
would leave Philadelphia this morning
with the. intention Of Kidnapping the
child. The philadelphia authorities
had no description Of the three men.
AS soon as the word was received
heer city police and the private detec'
tives employed on Mrs. Hart1e's Side
Of the case began to act. The children
have been closely guarded ever since
tha case began. but precautions were
re.doubled. Mrs. Hart1e was greatly
worried over the warning and hurried
home to her little ones as soon ns
court adjourned.
Superintendent McQuaide refused to
discuss the story Of the telegram last
night. 'You may say for me. how
ever, said the Superintendent, that
therein be no kidnarping Of those chill
dren in Plttsburg, if the services oi
the entire police and detective repaFt
ments are required to prevent It"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-21

Id
H. Dixon "a Company ave been
=wardel le3 con tract for the new MO
nongah Class House, which Is to- be
built On the 8south Side, between 11tE
ana l2tl The contract was
awnrded to that tftir1l yesterday after.
noon
THE calls tor building
which WIN me sure 125x45O feet, and
part % Will be Of two stories; as
ven tol tie furnaces. Work is to
begin once and Sit rs to be finished
by October 15th, so that the machtn'
cry may he placed in the factory and
the ptaitt may be set in operation by
Berenbef
Fine second story will he for the cut
Ting foong lii It will be finished Tho
rt and nesdled ware. This kind Of
gIas mas never been produced in thiI
section
1oni a Company are OF Pitts
bufg ind ders among glas
house btttld Thays also have bee
awarded tie con tract for the erection
OF tae new glass house which is sool
To be built AZ Ora atton. For raptdit
ana tforong ghness. this firm stands pre-
eninent afnon builders Of g1as
nous if 81 the men who are n
unired % btitd the building win b
brougtit here ana lllfr. Baker, who vii
haze charge nf the carpenter worl
VII move here next week, from Fair
ehance: where he has Just finishes
tlIe erection of large window glasi
house IN hat town.
tinlafed that the new factor:
hen completed will cost about $50.
C9d ing will be omitted from
hieh VIII contribute to its be1ni
mo lerr II. every department.
dent doulds, Of the Monongal
Class Company. win leave next wee
il TO purchase the engines AM
mehinery which will be necessar
Tor the liberation of the new house
sTEiefe win be given employment tf
abput three hundred people in the ney
iactoIsg and q large portion of th'
wortmen win nave to be brought here
many 81 them coming from Rochester,
Tie town which Is famed: for IL
CLASS houses 5s
4 y . 4
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-21
American Federation Of Labor
Will Issue Political Proclamation
To Workmen of America Monday

WASHINGTON .. e. July 21.--
on Monday next the American FEEDER
alton Of Labor. through President
Gompers and members Of the execu-
tive council, will issue a political proc
iamation to the workmen OF America.
urging them to act as a unit against
the election of candidates for Office
who are unfrtendly or Indifferent to
the interests OF organized labor. The
Federation has two million voters on
its rolls. and is hand in glove with
half million others voters. Speeches
will be made In districts Of those men1-
.bers whom they will seek to defeat.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-21
S.ENsAIll|I !. | {. |. !
EPISODE | HEARD ! ].
OF IN ! WHEEL ING
Pittsburg Man
Got a Special z

WHEELING, July q IA sensation.
al episode in which a Pittsburg cou.
pie, Mr.. and Mrs. j. F. Burleigh fig
sured, is said to have occurred nere
last night. Mrs. Burleigh is said to
lave left Pittsburg and to have passed
through Wheeling en- route to New
Martinsvil1e. On the next train the
husband is said to have arrived In
Wheeling, but too late to catch the
Ohio River train, whereupon the story
goes, that he hired special train and
preceded to New MarttnsvtlIe, but was
Hnsuccessful in catching his wife, wno
said to have gone on to Paden City.
Is special train then returned to
heeling If was stated, too, that a
deelih 1tHcer accompan the hus-
Id. but this was denied by the police
partment, which however, lad been
ormed that tie events here chron-
ed had transpired.
1T the Benwood B. & o. yard Office,
was verified this morning that the.
scial train had been engaged last
bit, that it went to New Martins
8. during the early part Of the
hit, and returned al 2 o'clock. No
prmation as to the persons on tile
cfal could be obtained.
tr. Burleigh had not registered at
of the Wheeling hotels early this
ming.
ater it was ascertatned that Mrs.
leigh had left Pittshurg to visit
tives and friends at New Martins
and Paden City and that her hus.
j, who. 1t is stated. was somewhat
er the influence Of the good cheer
fnebriates. tolleEed her. and
tered the special train just for the
Of it. Burleigh is a son of Clar-
Burleigh, the prominent Pitts
attorney, from well known Pitts
family.
Is morning the reporter talked
the phone vita New Martins.
1t appeared that the special
arrived there at about 10
sk. Two men allghted from II
went to the Brast hotel. Both
intoxicated. One OF them regis
as A. Burleigh, of Pittsburg, Pa,
the other refused to register.
an hour after they had retired
phone call from in New Martins.
was received for Burleigh. He
red it and then went back to
nd both were there at 4 o'clock
on,,o,,rr,a,J their j1tantinns of
ing north in the morning. Their
returned to Wheeling about
hit.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-21
ROOSEVELT 9 H i; !. s nv =

= Is
Grand Army Pest IN New York Eleets
the President 70 IernhersI,tP.
NEW YORK, July re siueh MI
Roosevelt has been elected an honor
AIRY member OF tie Assoela Society
Of Farnsworth Post g A. ~
OF Mt. Vernon "a COMMITTEES yis'
it the President at Qyste Bay some
time next week and present to lii'il
a badge denotfng his llonprar mem
bership of the post.
In order to elect the iae1'ss
Farnsworth post had to tnnse aIl
amendment 10 It's one tin'o
ago President Roosevelt yFressed ~
gret that he was not sble 81 mem
bership in Ithe Grand Y army
= n ~ 3
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-07-21
he / Gear
iAs GONE COMPLETELY TO TIL
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
hdENT lfl N JLL G CONTROL.

So: PETERSBURG, July 21.-out 9
th chaos which has existed durinl
hes last few days, one feature Of til
situation has Impressed itself o
citizen. This is the fact tha
he goyernment, temporarily, at leas
ain comple letely dominates atfair
AID the react tionary influences, whic
haSe eadf fastly combatted revolutioE
prartiea1ly in complete contr9
sffoop ave cowed both the DouI
people into temporary sule1
ton and tine back-iown Of the DouI
IA aitsring It's appeal to the Natio
hts injured the reform cause
HE Czar has gone completely to thu
Ieactt tonaries