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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04
No Such Thing as Luck

We sometimes say men who have
acquired fortunes are lucky. If you
should inquire closely into the facts,
you would in all probability find that
it was not mere chance that brought
their wealth, but their advancement
came about because they put them
selves in a position to make money and
kept persistently at it, andswith few
exceptions our wealthiest men began
with small savings.
This bank will help you to get
start. We will allow you 4 per cent
on your savings account compounded
semi-annually and give 1t our prompt
and careful attention. Meanwhile
your earnings are where they are I'M
questionably safe.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04
Cured of Long Trouble.

''It is now eleven years since had
a narrow escape from consumption, +"
writes O. o. Floyd, a leading business
man of Kershaw, s. @. II had run
down in weight to 1876 pounds, and
coughing was constant, both by day
and by night. Finally began taking
DR.. Kings New Discovery and COZ
tinued this for about six months,
when my cough and lung trouble were
entirely gone and was restored to my
normal weight. ITO pounds" Thous-
ands of persons are healed every year.
Guaranteed at McBride's drug store.
SOC and $1.OO. Trial bottle free.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04
Had a Close Call

"a dangerous surgical operation,
involving the removing of malign-
ant ulcer as large as my hand from
my daughters hip, was prevented by
the application of Bucklen's Arnica
Salve," says A. G. Stickel, of Mile
tus, w. Va. Persistent use of the
salve completely cured it." Cures
outs. burns and injuries. 25c at Nc
Brides.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04

The taking of testimony in the
famous water rights suits was contin-
ued again yesterday, most of the day
being consumed with testimony con-
cerning the streams. Engineers aud
other irrigation experts were among
the witnesses examined. The case has
hardly started yet.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04
Wise Counsel From the South.

81 want to give some valuable ad
vice to those who suffer with lame
back aud kidney trouble" says J.. R.
Blankenship, of Beck, Tenn. ~ have
proved to an absolute certainty that
Electric Bitters will positively cure
this distressing condition. The first
bottle gave me great relief and after
taking few more bottles was COM
pletely cured; so completely that it
becomes pleasure to recommend this
great remedy" Sold under guarantee
at MoBride's drug store. Price Soc.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04
Range AlIotments Made.

A Washington special says: The
secretary of agriculture today sane
toned the apportionment of stock
made in the eastern division of the
Blue mountains forest reserve, as
follows: Cattle and horses, 1890;
sheep, 100000. To the western divi-
sion of the reserve $4,000 horses and
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04
MELTING SNOW MAKING HIGHER WATERS

west of Hood River is under water
and the local ticket Office received in
structions this morning not TO sell
tickets to points west of Hood River.
In the Cascade region rain aud snow
has been falling almost constantly for
the past week, aud indications point
to a high stage of water in all streams
flowing into the Columbia.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04

Torrents of water rushing down the
mountain sides, caused by melting
SHOWS and warm rains is again inter
fering with railroad traffic. The
Walla Walla .Pendleton special did
not arrive on shedule time this morn
ing, owing to washout of the road
bed east of Spofford station.
The main line of the .. Il. 81 N.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04
The Right Name.

Mr.. August Sherpe, the popu!sr
overseer of the poor at Fort Madison,
Ia, says: CDR. Kings New Lite Pills
are rightly named; they act more
agreeably, do more good and make one
feel better than any other laxative. !"
Guaranteed to cure biliousness and
constipation. 25c at McBride's drug
store.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04

"To enjoy freedom from chilblains, "
writes John Kemp, East Otisfeld,
Me-, II apply aBucklen's Arnica Salve.
Have also used it for salt rheum with
excellent results. Guaranteed to
cure fever sores, indolent ulcers, piles.
burns, wounds, frost bites aud skin
diseases. 25c at McBride's drug store.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1907-01-04
Accounts Must be Settled

The firm of Cox s. McEwen having
dissolved partnership, all knowing
themselves indebted to the firm must
come forward Immediately and settle
in full. Accounts due the firm must
be settled by January /.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
HARTMAN SLABS
At THE PRESIDENT
ACCUSED ROOSEVELT IN LETTER
OF ASKING FOR $25oooo FOR
CAMPAIGN.
PRESIDENT MAKES DENIAL
CHARACTERIZE CHARGE AS DE-
LIEERATE AND WiLLFUL UN-
TRUTH.
PRESIDENT MAKES DENIAL

New York. April 4.-What is osten-
sibly a private letter from E. H. Harrl-
man to Sidney Webster of New York,
embodying serious implied charges OF
bad faith against President Roosevelt,
was made public here yesterday. Re-
duced to plain terms, the letter
charges that just before the election
Of 1904 the president asked Hartman
to raise big fund particularly to help
the Republican party in New York;
that Hartman undertook the task
with the distinct understanding that
Depew was to be disposed Of by nam
ing him ambassador to Paris, and
that later the president repudiated
any agreement or understanding TO
this effect. It is also insiauated that
there were contributions from insur-
ance companies in the fund raised by
Hartman, and that the president
must have known this fact.
Mr. Hartman protested vehemently
against the publication of this letter,
threatening to prosecute any New
York paper which used it.
President Enters Denial.
Washington, April 4. - The presi-
dent was prompt to enter denial OF
the charges made in the Hartman
letter to Webster. He issued lengthy
statement, in which he made public
letters written to Representative
Sherman of New York during the cam
paign Of 1906. Every point made IN
the Hartman letter is covered IN
minute detail. Sherman, during the
1906 campaign, had repeated to the
president the Hartman charges,
whereupon the president wrote the
letter made public yesterday. line
charge that he had asked Hartman
10 raise $25O,000 to be used in carry
ing New York for the Republican
party in the election of 1904, the pres
ident characterizes in his letter 10
Sherman as "a deliberate and
WilIful Untruth.
BY right it should be characterized
by an even shorter and more ugly
word. | never requested Mr.. Harri-
man to raise a dollar for the preslden-
tial campaign of 1904"
The presidents reply is believed to
be stronger, as letter to Sherman,
bearing date of last October, than II
prepared to-day in consequence OF the
Hartman charges.
The president showed how he re
CARDS the whole matter by saying to a
group of newspaper men yesterday
when he gave out the reply denying
Harriman's charges:
81 feet particularly fortunate in nav
ing been attacked within the last few
DAYS by both Former Senator Burton
Of Kansas and Mr.. Hartman.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
]. ]. HILL RFTIRFS
AS PRESIDENT
LOUIS w. HILL SUCCEEDS HIS
FATHER AS HEAD OF GREAT
NORTHERN.
SHIFTS BURDENS TO HIS SON

st. Paul, April 4.-James J. Hill re-
tired as president of the Great North
ern Railway company at special
meeting of the directors in st. Paul
yesterday, retaining the Craftsmanship
Of the board of directors.
Louis w. Hill becomes president of
the company and Frank H. Michigan
first vice president, the other officers
remaining the same.
The changes went into effect imme-
diately.
Il don't retire." said Mr.. Hill yes
terday afternoon. Instead of two
mems work / shall now do one. The
company's business has doubled in the
last five or six years, which renders
necessary the increase of the operat.
ing staff"
Mr.. Hill. as president of the COM
pany, has been chairman of the board
of directors, and the organization is
enlarged by the election Of chairman.
Will Remain Power.
Mr.. Hill, as chairman Of the board,
will remain power in the Great
Northern. But having reached the age
of nearly sixty-nine years Che will be
sixty-nine in September), he has de-
cided to shift some of the burden he
has been carrying to the shoulders of
his son.
Louis w. Hill, first vice president,
has practically been in charge Of the
departments of the road for about
three years, but with his election to
the presidency he becomes vested
with more executive power, taking off
part of the burden which has been
resting on his fathers, shoulders.
Mr.. McGuigan, formerly fourth vice
president of the Grand Trunk, with
headquarters at Montreal, Canada, is
given direct charge of operating mat
ters.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
PeonIe Talked About.

Daniel Y. McDonough, veteran
Democratic member of the Illinois leg
islature. died in Chicago after long
illness.
Henry Clay Barnabee. the veteran
comedian, who for years was the head
of the Bostonians, received $lO,0oO as
the result of a benefit in Boston.
Judge Samuel Ryan, eighty-three
wears old. the oldest editor in Wiscon-
sin and one of the oldest members OF
the Odd Fellows, died at Appleton.
Attila F. Mallory, brother of United
States Senator Mallory, was found
dead in his office at Pensacola, Fla.
Mr. Mallory's father was secretary OF
the Confederate navy during the Civil
war.
Thomas Edwin Orr, widely known
As writer and lecturer on farm topics
end reputed to be the most expert
poultry fancier in the United States,
died suddenly from heart failure at
Beaver, Pa.
Alexander Beaubien, said to be the
first white child born in the city OF
Chicago, died in that city after long
illness. Beaubien was born in Fort
Dearborn, which was at that time the
name of Chicago, on Jan. %, 1922.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
FOREIGN.

The Russian evacuation of Manchu-
ria is complete. The last battalion OF
Russian troops has left Hardin.
A Russian squadron arrived at Spit
head. England, last week. This is the
first visit of Russian warships in Eng
fish waters since before the Russo
Japanese war.
DR.. Jollos, editor of the RuSskl We
domsti. was assassinated at Moscow
by an unknown youth, who shot MN
with a revolver as he was leaving MS
residence. The murderer escaped
The famine-stricken Chinese nave
been practicing cannibalism in local.
ties where the distress is most acute.
The spread of fever continues, and the
heavy rains are increasing the general
misery. Spasmodic rioting has occur
red but the outbreaks have not Deen
serious.
While Marie Pia, the dowager queen
mother of King Carlos and Prince
Alfonso, brother of the king, were go
ing to the theater at Lisbon in an auto
mobile the car ran over woman car
rying an infant. The child was killed
and the woman dangerously injured
The dowager queen was overcome
with emotion and Wept.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
Floods About New UIn.

New Ulm, Mimi, April 4.-The Min
nesota river is ON a rampage and has
been steadily rising for the last week
at the rate of a foot every twenty
four hours. The lowlands and roads
leading into the city are flooded.
Travel from Nicollet county has
been completely cut off, and farmers
are compelled to board the Minneapo-
lis & ST. Louis trains in order to reach
the city. In some places the river is
over a mile wide. 1t is about twelve
feet above low water mark and is ex
ceeding the flood of last year.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
DULUTH WILL GET
BIG STEEL PLANT
STEEL CORPORATION MAKES OF
FiciAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF
IT'S DECISION.
BIG THING FOR MINNESOTA

st. Paul, April s. The United
States Steel corporation yesterday de-
cided to establish an iron and steel
plant in Duluth, according to official
advices received from New York. The
plans are not fully developed, but they
will probably include blast furnace,
six open-hearth furnaces, blooming
mill. rail and shape mill, two bar mills,
by-product coke ovens, coal shops, &C.
ment plant, etc., and will invest some
thing like 100000 or $6,000,00O. The
members of the finance committee
were unanimous in their action.
What II Means.
This means a great step forward In
the prosperity and development of Du-
luth, Minnesota and the Northwest.
For Duluth it means the immediate
employment of several thousand men,
the increased population represented
by their families and the large bust
ness incidental to furnishing them the
comforts and luxuries of life. For
Minnesota there is the beginning OF
great manufacturing center in a city
already one of it's jewels. For the
Northwest it promises cheaper mate
rails for it's railroads. shops. homes
and farms.
The iron from Minnesota mines will
be made into manufactured articles on
Minnesota soil.
Northwest VIII Benefit.
The investment Of five or six mill
lion dollars in plant to change ore to
iron will be the beginning of manu-
featuring center, where many more
millions will he invested in plants
which in turn will change the iron into
the various forms for human use. And
iron enters into almost everything
except food and clothing. Iron for use
in the shops, homes, fields and forests
of the state and the Northwest Will
not be taxed with the double carrying
charge of being sent east as ore ana
then returned west as the tnlsned
product. While Duluth and Minnesota
reap the first benefits from the new
enterprise, it's influence must extend
over the Northwest and bring profit TO
every portion.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
SUBMITS TO MENTAL AND PHYSl-
CAL EXAMINATION FOR TWO
HOURS.
IS EXTREMELY CONFIDENT
COMMISSIONS WORK NOW COM.
PLETED AND IT is BELIEVED
TRIAL WILL GO ON.

New York, April 4.-The Thaw luna
cy commission completed it's work
last night and will report to Justice
Fitzgerald to-day.
Thaw underwent a private mental
and physical examination for more
than two hours yesterday afternoon.
In this last crucial test he was alone
before the commission, even the dis
trict attorney and his own counsel be-
ing barred When the three members
of the commission had completed their
examination, they shook hands with
Thaw in a most cordial manner. He
went hack to his cell in the Tombs
with a light heart and declared later
that he felt the commission would
surely declare him sane.
Attorneys Optimistic.
The attorneys share their client S
optimistic view. District Attorney Je'
rome would not commit himself III
anv way. Thaw's counsel declared
Shey were ready to proceed with the
case and believed that Mr.. Delmas
might begin his summing up address
before noon In that event, they
said, Mr.. Jerome would address the
Jury Friday and a verdict might pc
expected before the week end.
The last public session of the COM
mission was held yesterday morning
to hear the testimony of two more
alienists, DR.. Allen Rose Dletendorf
for the prosecution and DR.. Charles
G. Wagner for the defense. DR.. DIE
fendorf gave purely academic deer
sion, based upon assumed facts ana
writings of the defendant, and de-
clared Thaw was incompetent.
No Evidence of Unsoundness.
DR.. Wagner said he had talked WITH
the prisoner almost daily for two
months and had been unable to ma
anything upon which to predicate an
opinion of mental unsOundness at THIS
time. When the commission began
it's private examination OF the defend-
ant. the members questioned him par
ticularly about the deluSlOns from
which it had been testified he was sui
fering at the time he shot and Killed
Stanford White. DR.. Putzel OF the
commission conducted the brief physl-
cal examination to which ThaW was
subjected, using all Of the standard
tests of the re1eXes. the pupils OF the
eyes, the Romberg test for evidences
of locomotor ataXia, etc. ThaW is
said to have undergone these III
thoroughly satisfactory manner.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
CASUALTY.

Walter Carday and Elecey Farmer
were killed by lightning while WORKING
in q stone quarry at Bowling Green
Ohio.
John Gordon, six years old, fell I'M
der the wheels of clay cart at 10
eansport, Iowa. His right leg was
ground up.
A great gas well two miles east OF
Sapulpa, I. T., that caught ire last
week is still burning furiously. WORK
ers in this field are terrorized-
Two men were killed and three 9TH
ers were wounded as a resU.r OF a
bailer explosion at the Brazos Hard
wood Lumber company's plant at Mar
lin, Tex.
A brick building used to manufac-
ture muriatic acid at the plant OF the
General Chemical company on Buhalo
river. near Buffalo, N. Y, was destroy
ed by fire The loss will be close 10
100000.
Edward Roberts of Lake Linden was
killed at Sandusky, Ohio, while Work
ing on a dock. A girder at the top OF
an eighty-foot derrick broke and he
was hurled to the ground, meeting in
slant death.
Mistaking a gasoline jug for vine
gar Jug, Mrs. Sarah Emery of Sioux
CITY, while preparing dinner, poured
gasoline into a pot on the stove. I'M
mediately she was enveloped in flames
and she died later.
spark caused by blow from a
hammer ignited a quantity Of set
nieces in the finishing room of the Con
so1idated Fire Works company at Gren-
Vile. S. l., and in the explosion one
man was torn to pieces, a boy and two
girls were probably fatally injured, and
seven other persons were burned.
A steel girder slipped from the top
of a power house under construction
for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com
naav in New York and carried away a
scaftolding upon which dozen men
we're working. Two of the seven men
injured will die.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
HussE is MAYOR OF CHICAGO.
Defeats Dunno by Safe Majority
Settles Street Car Question.


Settles Street Car Question.
Chicago, April 4. - Chicago's post
master Frederick A. Busse, the Re
publican candidate, was elected mayor
of the city yesterday, having a plural
ity of 1921 votes over Mayor Edward
Dunno The total number of votes cast
for Mr.. Busse were 164,839, and for
Mr.. Dunno 151,71S. The Prohibition
candidate polled 5,S75 and the Social
lists 13,459. Two years ago, When
Mayor Dunno was elected to Office he
polled 1884, votes, and John M. Har-
Ian, the Republican candidate 1851.
The Socialist vote the same year was
over 10000, and yesterdays vote was
a great disappointment to the leaders
Of that party.
The new mayor will have the city
council with him, but it is very close,
as the makeup of this body shows 80
Republicans, "a Democrats and 1 In
dependent Democrat.
The ordinances settling the street
car question were carried by good
majority. The total vote on this cues
ton was 165,S46 for and 132,720
against.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
MINERS DRIVEN OUT BY GAS.
Many Are Overcome in Homestake
Mine-Fire Burns Fiercely.

Lead, S. D., April A. - For the first
time in it's history there is not one
man in the Homestake mine on the
Lead side, and only the Anxious mill in
this city is running. The Star and
Homestake mills both hung up their
stamps yesterday. An extra force of
men has been put to work on the open
cut, where it is hoped to secure
enough ore to keep the Anxious run
ming.
All the workings on the Lead side
are choked with carbon dioxide fumes,
so strong that no man can live in
them. 1t was even found necessary
yesterday afternoon to abandon the
pump on the .1,100-foot level. The
company, however, is supplied with
skips which they will use for bringing
up the water as soon as it reaches the
] ,250-foot level. The gas reached this
level at / o'clock yesterday morning
and swept down like a strong wind.
Men were overcome almost instantly
and fell to the ground insensible. Only
the immediate arrival of a rescue
party prevented a number of fatal
ties.
The fire is burning fiercely in a tim
bered slope, and there is no POSSIBLE
ity of checking it soon. 1t has now
been burning eight days.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
MAKES HIS VERSION PLAIN |
REPLIES TO JUDGE PARkER'S
CHARGES ABOUT sCoNTRl-
BUTTONS.

Washington, April f. President
Roosevelt discussed with number of
his callers yesterday various features
of the controversy between Mr.. Harri-
man and himself growing out of the
publication of the letters between
them. He made it plain that his YER
sion of Mr.. Harriman's visit preced-
ing the election of 1904 was that Mr..
Hartman wanted assistance from the
National Republican committee to
help Chairman Odell in the New York
state campaign towards whose ex-
penses he (Harriman) had raised
raised 100000. The president prom
Used to communicate with Messrs.
CorteIyou and Bliss to see what could
be done.
Did the Same Before.
He did in this case, he declared,
just what he had done in other in
stances where he had been appealed
to for aid in state campaigns. To
some Of his visitors the president re-
ferred to the statement made public
Tuesday night by Judge Alton B. Par
ker in Albany, in which he said that it
has never been denied that $15O,000
was turned over by the Equitable, Mu-
tual and New York Life Insurance
companies to Mr.. Cortelyou's commit
tee, and that congress had refused to
investigate the corporate contribu-
tons of 1904 or to pass law prohib-
iting such contributions in the future.
Presidents Statement
The president referred to a state
ment which he made Nov. 4, 1904, in
which he said in part:
That contributions have been made
to the Republican committee, as con-
tributions have been made to the
Democratic committee. is not the ques-
ton at ISSUE
MIR. Parker's assertion is in effect
that such contributions have been
made for improper motives, either in
consequence of threats or in conse-
quence of improper promises, direct or
indirect, on the part of the recipients.
But there is not one particle
of truth in the statement
Contributions Returned.
Neither Mr. Parker, nor his support
ers, the president declared, have been
able to traverse or question the state
ments in that answer. The president
said that to his own knowledge about
a dozen constitutions offered by cor
porations had been declined by Chair
man Cortelyou, but the others had
been accepted. The president assert
ed that none of the corporations that
contributed to the campaign fund in
1904 had come to him for favors,
either directly or indirectly.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
NEW PLAN FOR CANAL WORK.

Panama, April 4-According to a
new arrangement the isthmian canal
commission will henceforth have
power to solve all questions relating
to the canal without referring them,
as heretofore, to Washington. The
members of the commissions VIII re-
side on the isthmus and hold weekly
meetings. The work is to be distribu-
ted SO that each commissioner has
charge Of a certain department Tor
which he will be responsible.
Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1907-04-06
NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington.

Harry H. Schwartz of South Dakota
has been appointed chief Of the special
field service division of the general
land Office.
The remains Of Gen. T. ]. Whit were
inferred at Arlington cemetery IN
Washington with full military honors.
The controller of the currency mas
issued a call for statement OF the
condition of national banks at the
close Of business Friday, March ~.
Plans and specifications for the two
new battleships authorized by the last
session Of congress will be ready tor
competitive bidding about April II
the present plans of the naval con-
Btructors are carried out. Bidders WILL
also be given an opportunity to SUP
nit plans of their own.