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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
HERM|STON PLACE SELECTED
In All Probability Experimental Sta.
tiOn Will Be Established There

@. A. Barrett attended the meeting
held at Pendleton Saturday night for
the purpose of discussing the PROPOSE
tion to establish government ex-
perimental station in this county.
President W. J. Kerr, of the Oregon
Agricultural College, and several ex-
perts wero present at the meeting
which was attended by numbe of
Umatilla county men. Hermiston,
where the government has reserved
40 acres of land under the reclamation
project. appealed to President Kerr
and others present as the most desir-
able location for the station, inasmuch
as that section of the county is arid
and the class of production expected
from the soil will require expert at
tention in order that settlers who are
making homes there will be started
into the work of reclamation in the
proper way.
TO secure the station, the county
must provide the equipment, inolud-
ing buildings. It is estimated that
from $4,000 to $4,000 will be required
for the purpose.
With the station equipped by the
county, the state and federal govern
ment will furnish experts to carry on
the work.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Bids on Cello Canal Work.

The contract to excavate and build
concrete walls for $4,000 feet of the
Cello canal will in all probability go
toa Spokane firm. Caughren. Winters,
Smith & Co., says Portland item. 1t
will take some time to ascertain which
with certainty is the lowest bid, but
hurried investigation indicates that
the Spokane firm has the inside track.
Bid on the work were opened in the
Office of Captain James MaoIndoe,
United States engineer corps, and be-
sides the firm mentioned above the fol-
lowing submitted bids: North Amer
loan Dredger company. johnson P.
Porter, Cello Construction company,
Robert Wakefield & Co., and Tuohy
Bros. The contract provides for the
completion Of a section of the canal
and will involve the expenditure of
approximately 100000.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Sucked Poison From Bite.

Last week Fay Barton, while out
hunting on the Imnaha with two COM
panions, Perry aud Earl Warnock,
was bitten by "a rattlesDake. The
boys had flushed covey of grouse and
Fay was walking along keeping the
birds in sight. when suddenly be felt
sharp prick on the shin. He looked
down aud there was rattler just il
the act of striking him. He jumped
back and shot the snake with his .22
grouse rife. He Immediately buckled
a strap as tightly as possible around
the his leg above the place where the
snake had bitten him. One of the
Warnook boys sucked the poison from
the wound. d.-Joseph Herald.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
HAS STICKY FINGERS
Ad Winters Has a, Liking for Other
Peoples Money, and Finds
Himself in Jail.

Ad Winters, young man who has
been employed in the harvest fields
in the Athena neighEorhood was be-
fore Judge Richards Monday charged
with stealing $22 from a man named
Sutton, employed in a wheat ware
house at Hillsdale and the theft of
So. so in cash, so cents in stamps and
pair of suspenders from John Martin,
a farm hand employed by Joseph Ber-
gevin.
1t is alleged that young Winters
while "bucking' wheat with Sutton.
with whom he slept in the wheat
warehouse, took the $22 from Sutton's
pocket while the latter was asleep.
Sutton finally accused Winters of the
theft, when Winters also said some
one had taken his money. The fellow
was searched by the warehousemen,
but no money was found OH him, ard
he quit work at the warehouse.
Leaving there. Winters ended up at
the Bergevin place south of town,
where he committed the second offense
SO it is charged. Mrs. Martins evil
dence went to show that young Win
ters was in tent occupied by her and
her husband for an hour Friday even
ing, and also Saturday morning when
he changed his clothing before coming
to Athena.
She had occasion to go to her trunk
after Winters departed and found
that Sc. so cash and 80 cents in postage
stamps which was in the trunk Friday
had disappeared.
Suspeoting Winters, Mr.. Martin
followed him to town and had war
rant issued for his arrest. In the
meantime. Sutton had come to town
and seeing Winters on the street. told
him to dig up the. $22 he had stolen
from him or be would give him a
threshing. This had the desired effect,
SO far as Winters resources went, for
he forked over his watch to Sutton and
was trying to borrow money with
which to further settle with him,
when he was arrested on the Martin
complaint.
Winters several times got himself
into the unsavory predicament of con
tradiction during his hearing in the
justice court. He was bound over tc
the circuit court and was taken to jail
| b y Constable O'Harra.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
THE FIRST week OF SCHOOL
One Hundred and Seventy Pupils
Enrolled For Work.

The Athena public schools opened
last Monday. The greater part of the
work this week has been given over
to very careful organization and
classification of the entire school.
Owing to the fact that Prof. Lester
Miller of Eugene, to whom the school
board had offered the assistant prin-
cipalship, did not accept, it was neo-
essary to begin with only five teachers.
This makes heavy work for those
teachers present, especially in the
grades below the ninth.
The present total enrolment is ap.
proximately, ITO. The teachers in
charge are as follows: Prof. T. D.
Miner, Portland, principal, grades o
and 10; Miss Blanche Orswell. Eugene
grades z and 8; Miss Edith Orswell,
Eugene, grades and S. Miss Velma
Wilkinson, Athena, grades and "a !;
Mrs. E. Lane Walker, Huntington,
primary, grades aud 2.
1t is the earnest desire of the school
board. of Professor Miner aud of all
the teachers to develop three year
high school course sufficiently, so that
work done here will be credited in the
higher colleges aud universities, with
the idea that when that is the case,
our students will prefer to attend
school at home rather than away, and
that strong. patriotic school spirit
will spring up in which the name.
Athena, will be the key note.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
OLD MAINE SLASHED
Republicans Carry Yankee State BY
the Narrowest Margin in
MANY Years.

The republicans carried Maine
Tuesday by about 5000 plurality as
against 28,816 in the last presidential
year and 1904 in 1906. Returns for
governor from 468 out of SIG cities,
towns and plantations give Bert M.
Fsrnald. republican, 72,117, Obediah
Gardner, democrat, ga, 993.
Same places in 1904 gave Cobb,
republican, 1884; Davis, democrat,
49,416.
The missing towns, which are small,
four years ago cast 1880 republican
votes and 730 democratic.
The democratic vote increased more
than $4,000 over that of 1904, while
the republican vote fell off about
2.500. The republican plurality is the
smallest recorded in a presidential year
in % years.
The two parties split even in the 20
cities, each capturing ten. The vot-
ing was particularly heavy in the rural
districts where the democrats, largely
through popularity of MI. Gardner
among the farmers, made great gains.
Although the republicans came off
victorious in the election the demo-
Gratis had the satisfaction of seeing the
normal republican plurality out to
less than 10000 votes for the first
time in presidential year for NOR Q
than quarter of a century.
All four republican candidates for
congress were elected and for state
auditor. Charles p Hatch of Augusta,
republican. defeated his opponent.
The republicans we're on the defens-
i've throughout the campaign, seeking
to hold the state by the usual plural
ity by answering the various demo
cratic arguments which were mainly
for resubmission of the prohibition
law, taxation of the wild lands and re
form in administration methods.
The republicans strongly defended
the so-called Stu,g gis law and invited
the voters to support its stringent
methods in the enforcement of thu
cause of prohibition. Nearly 140.00(
voters went to the polls, numbe
which was within a few thousand O
the record for the state.
The democrats gained over fou
years ago in nearly every county ant
city, although some of the municipal
tiles which went democratic two year,
ago returned to the republican fold.
Congressman Allen Burleigh, John q
Swaysey and Frank E. Guernsey, re-
publican, are elected.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
A Swell Company.

The Dalles Chronicle says of the
Walters g. Christ company, which
appears at the Opera house Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday night of next
week: tFrom start to finish, the
drama Dora Tho1ne' was we'll por-
trayed at the Vogt last night to an
appreciative audience. Every oharac-
ter was so well taken that it is not
possible to say which was best. The
play is full of heart interest and thrill
ing situations that were carried out
with vim and rush, so there were no
dull moments. Every actor had his
lines letter perfect and each one SEEM
ed specially fitted for the part taken.
The play was we'll given in every de-
tall
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Ministerial Appointments.

At the annual conference of the NJ.
E. church held this week at Wenat-
chee, Wash, Pendleton was taken
from The Dalles District and placed
in the Walla Walla District. Rev.
Gabriel Sykes will serve as superin-
tendent of the Walla Walla District.
In the appointments made by the con
ference, Rev. O. W. Griszler comes TO
Athena; Rev. John Evans goes to
Asotin; Rev. Baker to Charleston; Rev.
Israel Putnam to Pataha, and Rev. A.
w. Roberts to Grangeville, Idaho.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Brush Up at Anaconda.

Fay LeGrow's racer, Brush Up, is
showing the way to the fast ones at
the Anaconda race meet. Since leav-
ing the Butte track, which is hard,
for the soft track at Anaconda, the
little mare ran winner iu two 5-fur-
long races this week. She won out
Tuesday in :O2 1-2. A peculiar fea-
ture of the Butte track is that on the
home stretch the running is made on
a down grade with very had surface,
the balance of the tack being soft
and springy.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Lightning Strikes at Weston.

During the severe electric storm
Monday night. lightning struck the /.
E. Sailing residence at Weston and
caused considerable damage but for
tunately no fire resulted. couple Of
chimueys and the oupola were demol-
ished. and the effect of the shock was
felt in all parts of the dwelling. Mrs.
Sailing. who was alone at the time, es-
capped injury.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18

true that the grain can be grown any
where. The -four making qualities
Of the wheat are unknown for the rea-
son no'official test has heen made.
Experts say that if Adams claims
were true the wheat farming industry
would be revolutionized. but since he
has failed to make good his assertions,
the discovery of an agricultural mar
vel is exploded, and is, in fact, with
out foundation.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Gus a Candidate.

Waitsburg Times: Did you notice
how our fellow townsman, Gustav
Vollmer. candidate for nomination as
a representative in the 18th District.
ran in this city and iu bis home pre-
oinot of Washington? Out of a total
of SO republican ballots cast in this
in his precinct, be received SO votes,
and then several voters neglected to
vote for representative. In Washing
ton precinct Gus received 81 votes out
of 32 republican ballots cast. Mr..
Vollmer is justly proud of this show
ing made among his neighbors, who
know him best.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Electric Line Opened.

Capitalists and officials Of the Spo.
kane & Inland Empire Electric Rail
way System will compose the operat-
ing crew of the first train to he sent
over the newly completed electric line
from Spokane to Moscow, Ida. the
morning of September 23. when the
1906 club of Spokane will give its
annual excursion. The crew will be
headed by Jay P. Graves, president
Of the company. as conductor. and bis
son, Clyde NJ. Graves, as motorman.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
QuarreIed Over Sheen.

Word has been received at Burn
that John G. Midland shot aud killed
a Spaniard named Lorenzo 2. Rames
on Stein mountain. The men quar-
relied over the mixing OF two bands Of
sheep. Two DAYS later Rames whipped
Midland in fist fight. Midland rode
to Diamond valley and purcbased'a re-
volver. and, it is alleged announced
be would kill Rames if there was any
more trouble. Returning to camp
Midland shot Rames three times.
Midland alleges selfdefense.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Milton Wheat Crop.

According TO the Eagle the whea.
crop in the Milton neighborhood this
year averaged higher than grain in
other sections of Umatilla county.
-Four hundred .acres on the foot bill
ranch, owned by John McEwen aver
aged 40 bushels per acre, and the
Eagle says many other fields averaged
35 to 40 bushels per acre.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Protecting the Quail.

The Walla Walla county game war
den has had printed and placed in
the county auditors office for free
distribution among the farmers
large number of notices printed on
glazed muslin, prohibiting hunting.
shooting or trespassing on the land
whereon these signs are posted. He
is very desiIous that the farmers when
they are in town stop at the office and
procure two or three of these signs to
tack up on their premises. BY means
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Bifed the Autocrat.

Central Illinois Methodist Episcopal
conference by unanimous vote adopted
resolutions condemning the action of
Speaker Cannon in refusing to allow
vote on the Littlefield bill" and sug-
gesting that "suoh representatives as
lack elements of craftsmanship should
be.retired to private life" The res
ulotion concludes: eve urge upon
the people the use of all lawful means
in securing the defeat of J. q. Can
nou, speaker of tie house of represen
tatives.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Family in Dire Distress.

J. r. Shew of Milton died of blood
poisoning Sunday evening at the Wal
la Walla hospital. The deceased is
sur yived by wife and four children,
the wife being bedtast at the hospital
with blood poison in her hand which
became infected while she was caring
for her husband. Mr.. Shew and
family recently moved from Indiana
to Milton. Mr.. Shew was "a years of
age.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
40 Bushels of Alaska.

Authoritative reports have been
received in Spokane that the claims
made by Abraham Adams for the So
called Alaska" wheat grown on his
ranch near Juliaetta. Idaho, are Dot
justified. The average yield is about
80 bushels the acre, instead of from
100 to 222 as he asserted, ard it is not
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Bard Leaves Walla Walla.

After being rector of st. Paul's
Episcopal church of Walla Walla
for 10 years, the Rev. Andreas Bard is
soon to sever his connection with the
praish there and will leave with his
family within the next few weeks for
Heidelberg, Germany to take a course
of lectures for six months.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Wet For Utah.

A plank favoring the passage of
local option law was defeated in the
committee on resolutions of the repuE-
lican state convention which met at
Salt Lake Tuesday. and the matter did
not come up on the floor of the con.
vention.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18

Kodol will, in very short time.
enable the stomach to do the work it
should do, and the work it should do is
to digest all the food you eat. II makes
the stomach sweet and it is pleasant to
take. 1t is sold here by Palace Drug
Company.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
'.Blind Pig" Cases.

The cases of the twelve men arrested
at Pendleton Saturday night on the
charge of selling Intoxicating liquor
have been deferred until tomorrow at
10 O'Clock, when each of the men.
who are under $3.50 bonds will have
their hearing before Justice Parks.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
Editor Turns Rancher.

Bert Huffman, editor of the East
Oregonian, has purchased section of
wheat land near Calgary, Alberta, and
will plant 400 acres to spring wheat.
Mr.. Huffman but recently made his
land purchase, which was from the
Canadian Pacific 90.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18

Kodol will. without doubt, make
your stomach strong and will almost
instantly relieve you of all the symp.
toms of indigestion. Get bottle of it
today. 1t is sold here by Palace Drug
Company.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18

of this prohibitory measure Mr.. Whit
ney hoxaas to prevent the killing of
many quail until the legislature meets
and laws can be passed prohibiting
their killing for number of years.
Failure to heed these notices provides
fine of $40, half of which goes to
the owner of the land whereon the
trespass is committed. Union.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18
For Sale.

Mrs. May Jorgenson offers 80 acres
of fine reservation land for sale at 800
per acre. The land description is N y
of N w d sec. II, Up. 3. 30 Il W M.
Inquire of II. s. LIE Grow, Athena.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-09-18

DeWitt's Little Early Risers aree
small pills. easy to take. gentle and
auEe. Sold by Palace Drug Co.
The state herald., 1908-10-16
COUNTRY NEEDS A REPUBLICAN
CONGRESS.
President Roosevelt Points Out I'm
portance Of Electing Legislators
to Support Taft.

President Roosevelt Points Out I'm
portance Of Electing Legislators
to Support Taft.
President Roosevelt, In n letter 10
william Il. Mckinley, chairman OF the
Republican Congressional Committee,
appeals to disintcrested citizens to Join
with the National Republican Commit
tee and the Congressional Committee In
movement TO elect william II. Taft
as President and Republican Congress
to support him, saying, IN part:
1T is urgently necessary, from the
standpoint OF the public interest, TO
elect Mr.. Taft, and Republican Con.
rrcss which will support him: and they
seek election ON n platform which sIe-
officially pledges the party, alike In It's
executive and legislative branches, to
continue and develop the policies which
have been not merely Introduced, but
acted upon during these seven years.
These policies can be successfully car.
red through only by the hearty cooper
alton OF the President and the Congress
In both Its branches. and II In therefore
peculiarly important that there should
obtain such harmony between them To
fail TO elect Mr.. Taft would be n calam.
ity TO the country: and II would be
folly, while electing him. yet Mt the
same time TO elect Congress hostile
to him. n Congress which under the In.
fiuence of partisan leadership would be
certain TO thwart and battle him on
every possible occasion. To elect Mr..
Taft, and nt the same time TO elect n
Congress pledged TO support him, ls the
only way In which to pcrpctuate the
policy OF the government as now car.
rlcd on. feel that nil the aid that can
be given to this policy by every good
citizen should bc given; for this is far
more than a merely partisan matter"
The state herald., 1908-10-16
BRYAN UNLIKE LINCOLN.
Attempt to Compare Continuous
Candidate to Great Statesman a
Miserable Failure.

The present canvass shows again
the folly OF the ass that put ON n
lions skin. The managers OF SIR.
Brynn's press bureau ARE attempting
10 conJure votes for him by the USE
OF the sacred name OF Lincoln. Aesop
declared that when the ass lifted up
his voice and brnyed, every one knew
him and his owner came up and gave
him a sound cudgcllng The warning
falls on deaf ears, The partisan who
tries tho same tricks inyitcslike shame
and punishment. The nudacity OF the
device may capture some OF the un'
wary. Insofar ns he has a party be
hind him. Mr.. Bryan is tho candidate
Of those who mnligncd and ridlculed
the first nnd greatest President thu
Republican party has given 20 the mn
tlon. Mr.. Bryan relies for support on
the forces which nt every step opposed
Lincoln, which obstructcd the mcnn'
urcn OF war and peace ~ that savior
or the union. nnd pronounced the proc
lamation ~ emancipation monstruus
crime."-Nlcr Presidential Candidate
Sherman nt Rock Island. III.
The state herald., 1908-10-16
ANSWERED "PREsENT." /"
When Democrats Had Chance In
Congress to Vote for Bryan Bank
Deposit Plan They Dodged

When Democrats Had Chance In
Congress to Vote for Bryan Bank
Deposit Plan They Dodged.
In recent interview Judge Walter
l. Smith, Member OF Congress, said:
"At the last session of Congress a
currency bill was introduced by Mr..
Jno. S. Williams of Mississippi, leader
of the Democratic side of the House
and Democratic Senator-elect from Mis-
sissippi.
This bill not only provided for the
cure Of all the Ills of our currency sys-
TEN, but contained provision for the
much lauded national guarantee Of
bank deposits. On the 9th day of last
March Mr.. Williams arose in the House
and stated that he had been furnished
with advance sheets Of an editorial to
appear in Mr.. Bryan's Commoner, com
menting upon this bill and asked that
these advance sheets might be printed
in the Record, and leave being granted
they were SO printed. lsl.
''In the editorial slight criticism was
made upon triiling details Of the bill,
but upon the whole II was declared to
be an ideal measure that ought to re-
ceive the support of every Democrat.
II was also stated that the bill had been
prepared after conference OF the lead
ing Democrats of the Senate and House
at which Mr.. Bryan was present.
when the Republican currency
measure was brought up in the House
IT was provided by the rule that 1t
should be in order to move TO substitute
this bill OF Mr.. Williams. which. 1t
should not be forgotten. contained II
provision for the national guarantee of
bank deposits.
''As the time drew near for the close
of the debate and for some reason no
Democrat offered the bill, Mr.. Kahn OF
California moved TO substitute the
Williams bill for the Republican bill.
Immediately there was great confusion
on the Democratic side of the chamber
and hasty consultation as to what
should be done. Finally six Democrats
voted to substitute the Williams bill FOR
the Republican measure, 30 Democrats
voted against 1t and 02 Democrats vot-
ell present without being paired.
"The question was not on the adop-
iion OF the Democratic bill, but was
whether the Democratic bill, containing
the national guarantee of bank deposits
was nrefprnblp to the Renublicau meas
ure, and on that question only six Dem
ocrats voted Yes 20 Democrats voted
NO and 92 Democrats without being
paired voted present. In other words,
about three-fourths OF all the Demo
Gratis had no opinion whatever one way
or the other as TO whether their bill
with the blessed guarantee OF bank de-
posits in IT, was better or worse than
ours"
The state herald., 1908-10-16
r., raft aud the mig s,iet.

To the Editor Of Tho World;
because Of the present condition OF
our government we mus, have q man
with the ability OF Mr.. Taft to keep
the wheels OF progress turning. 90 that
more respect shall be shown on the
part Of Europe.
our government has been progress
ing ever sine, It's birth, The Monroe
Doctrine will b. IN great danger In
stead Of Japan being our friendly
nrishbor II will become our foe. There
fore all parties should unite In elsctipf
Mf. Taft by big majority. and with
the "Bir Stick" he should carry out
President itoo.s,slts policies,
LOUIS SHAPIRO.