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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-12-22

Knox williams was up today from
MIllican.
J. w. Hicks of Kurten was In the
city today.
A. b. Candy was In today from
Rock Prairie.
A. w. shelton was today from bis
home In the bottom.
Mrs. J. l.. Hensarling OF Wellborn.
was visitor 10 the city today.
Mrs. II. w. Moehlman went to Nava-
sofa this afternoon for visit TO rela'
tives.
Place your orders for Christmas
turkey with s. w. Buchanan. Dressed
or alive. IA
LOsT-on streets OF Bryan leath-
er back purse containing about 500.
Information or return Of purse will be
rewarded. Apply at this office. IL
Miss Merle Calhoun went TO Naya-
sofa this afternoon TO spend the holt
days with relatives.
Beginning with tomorrow. the two
fast trains known as the Hustler
win carry mail TO all points where
they make stops.
Mr.. IIaroldt Techau Is In the city
having arrived yesterday from Europe.
Prof. Techau was director OF piano
in the Texas woma,s copese last SEES
sion. W
The many friendsTf Mrs. ID. ID. Daw-
son will regret TO learn that she was
right painfully hurt yesterday. She re-
ceived hard fall on the Ice and broke
one OF the bones In her wrist.
All OF our goods are fresh and Of the
latest patterns. no old dingy stock to
close out. Our cut glass Is OF the
finest quality and pretty designs.
which>>we are selling very close In
de& Caldwell. The Jeweler. Is
Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. o. Chance have
returned from South Hampton. Mass.
where they visited their little son
James Otis. who is attending school
there. Mrs. Chance spent several
months with him and Mr.. Chance
went up a few yeaes'sso to aec0mDa-
ny her home.
Maj. O. w. Durant Of Houston. Is
spending the holidays with Capt. and
Mrs. p. II. Dawson OF wellborn. and
will also visit Bryan while he Is here.
Years ago Mai. Durant was a promi'
nent merchant and cotton buyer OF
this city. His many friends here will
be glad TO see him.
All the green vegetables the market
affords. Fresh shipments every day
Extra fine celery. cranberries. cauii
flower, new potatoes. head lettuce. to
matoes. parsley. beets. carrots. sweet
pepper. okra. Bermuda onions. etc. and
fresh fruits. Howell a Newton. IL
We have lots OF pretty things such
as collar and cuff boxes, shaving sets
Gillette raysors. toilet sets. manicure
sets. music rolls. stationery. hand mir
rors. pictures. that we have red tagged
in our Clean EN- out" sale. Come and
see them. Emmel a Maloney. II
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-12-22
ATTENTION ELks.

There will be n meeting OF the lodge
tonight promptly at s o'clock for the
transaction OF regular business and
for purpose OF initiation.
Wilson Bradley.
Exalted Ruler
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-12-22
HORSE LOST.

From my lot In Bryan last Saturday
night. He il an iron gray, unbranded.
in fine condition and was raised near
Zulch. Finder please return him or
notify me and get suitable reward. A.
W. Kinnard. i3wio
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-12-22
THE WEATHER

New Orleans. La. Dec. 22.-Tonight
ard Thursday partly cloudy and prob
ably unsettled veather-Cline.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-12-22

| The best inventive talent on both
sides the Atlantic is constantly used
TO improve Singer Sewing Machines
thus they are always up4o-dste. Only
the best materials are used In their
construction. Phone 1o5. T. A. Sat
{ rwhite. DIFF
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-12-22

Mound City Paints may cost tri-
fle more. but, Z. J. Jenkins. n
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1909-12-22
NOTICE.

I have moved my insurance office
10 the District Clerks office at the
court house and consolidated the Off
ces. c. +. Boyett IL
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Rob Grave to Steal Relics.

Robbing the grave of an Indian
girl in order to steal the relics and
valuables buried with the cody is the
crime which it is believed has been
committed ic lonely spot near EN-
pire, one of the Coos Bay cities. A
skull and other bones of human
body were found and reported to the
coroner who made an investigation.
Many Indians have been buried around
Empire and it is the custom to put in
the ground with the body trinkets and
valuables of different kinds. AS tie
bones had oharred appearance it is
thought that the grave was robbed
and that the thief in order to hide
his ghoulish crime attempted to cre-
mate the body. Some years ago a
man was sent to the penitentiary for
robbing the graves of Indians and
every effort will be made to find the
criminal in this case.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
WA|TsBURG HOTEL FIRE FATAL
Three Men Cremated and others Flee
In Night Clothes.

Three men were burned to death in
Waitsburg, WASH, fire which de-
stroyed the Farmers Lodging House
at O'Clock Sunday morning. The
men were sleeping in upper rooms.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
AT l O'Clock the little girl of Dan
Nail, proprietor of the houss, awaken
ed her parents saying there was fire
in the house. Pieces of wooden CELL
ing were then dropping through, and
in second the place was ablaze and
all had to flee in their night clothes.
A woman with a sick husband put
him through a window on the lower
floor several feet from the ground.
The dead men are:
John Frey. Cottage Grove, Ore.,
member of the Forresters of America.
Waitsburg officials are instructed BY
the secretary of the lodge to hold the
Eody for instructions.
George Burkhardt. of Redmond
Ore, German; no relatives in Amer
lea. Ehret Brothers, of Redmond, say
he has mother in Germany. has pro.
perty in Redmond, and asks the city
officials to write to the mother.
The other man was selling solder
ing fluid for M. Green FIevert Com
pany of Spokane. No papers of any
kind were found to give bis name or
address.
The burned building was owned by
Maurice Land, with no insurance. A
small building on the south, occupied
by D. E. Martin, as shoe shop, and
the ladies' library building on the
south, used by the band boys for prac-
tioe also went up like tinder within a
few minutes.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
BIG LAND SUIT IS DECIDED.
Judge Bean Reverses Ruling of the
Interior Department.

A decision. regarded as of farreach-
ing Importance, has been handed down
by Circuit Judge H. ]. Bean. in case
involving reservation lands. The de.
cision is considered important because
the point at issue was identical with
that involved in the famous Umatilla
land cases in which Colonel J. H.
Raley and number of other promin-
ent residents of Pendleton are involv-
ed as defendants. A direct reversal
of recent departmental rulings is also
contained in this decision.
The aase decided was that of J. H.
Lawrey versus Charles Hanna. So
called grazing land" upon the Una
tilla reservation was purchased by
Lawrey in 1908, in compliance with
the provisions of the famous Fulton
act, the price per acre being $l.95.
Following the purchase, Lawrey's
entry was contested by Hanna on the
ground that the land was agricultural
and that Lawrey had never lived upon
it. The Land Office ruled with the
contestants, as did also the Commiss,
ioner- General of the office and the
Secretary of lse interior. TheIeupon
Lawrey brought suit in the Circuit
Court of the state to establish his
claim to the land. The basis of his
plea before the court. as it was before
the land department. was that the sale
made by the Government was an
absolute sale and that the Government
could not 60 back of this sale TO en-
tertain a contest.
In his decision Judge Bean reverses
the previous rulings of the department
and upholds the contention of Lawrey
throughout.
The land involved in this single
case is not of great value. but the
greatest Importance attaches to the
decision because of its bearing upon
the so-called "Umatilla land frauds
cases." In the demurrers to the in
dictments against the Umatilla county
men. the same plea was made as in
the case just decided. Should Judge
Wolverton allow this contention, the
cases now pending will likely be
dismissed by the Government.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
OREGON CAVE IS MONUMENT
Marble Halls" of Josephine County,
Southern Oregon,

The President has just signed
proclamation making National Mon
ument of the Oregon caves of "Marble
Halls" of Josephine county, in South
ern Oregon. These natural wonders
are located in the Siskiyou national
forest about thirty miles south of
Grants Pass in Cave mountain.
The caves are in marble and other
limestones and consist of innumerable
oaverns, corridors and passageways of
various sizes, all of them decorated
beyond description in crystallized era
Donates. They have been explored to
distance of two miles or more, the
lowest of them being at a depth of
about 1900 feet below the summit of
Gave mountain, the highest being
some seven or eight hundred feet
above it. There are many passage
ways and rooms which have never
been opened. and with these distant
and unexplored openings the magni-
tude Of the Oregon Cave is practically
unknown.
These natural wonders were dis
covered in 1874 by Eliza Davidson,
while bear hunting. and the greater
part of the exploration work was done
by +. M. Nickerson, of Kerby, Ore,
in 1877. when four floors of levels
were partially opened. Many of the
ladders used at that time are in use.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
GOVERNMENT WINS
Utah Fuel Company Pays Cash and Re.
stores Valuable Coal
Lands.

The prosecution of the Utah Fuel
/ company by the federal government
| on the charge of illegally having
secured certain coal lands in Carbon
county Utah by the use of dummy
entrymen was practically ended by
the dismissal of two suits and the
payment to the government of $4,000
for coal extracted. The Utah Fuel
company further agreed to reconvey
to the United States 500 acres of land,
valued at $4,000. The total amount
paid the government by the Utah Fuel
company the last four months reaches
the sum of $275.000. In addition, the
government has recovered coal lands
valued at 100000.
Promising new prosecutions if the
Investigations now in progress shows
that other coal lands have been illeg-
ally acquired, Attorney General Wick
ersham gives out statement concern
ing the district court equity suits
instituted against the Utah Fuel rom :
pany. The statement isued at the
department of Justice says:
A few months ago the Utah Fuel
company, subsidiary company of the
Denver q Rio Grande Railroad COM
pany, pleaded guilty in the district
court of the United States for the dis
triot of Utah to an indictment oharg-
ing it with having conspired to de.
fraud the United States of 144O acres
of coal lands and was fined $4,000. 1t
also reconveyed to the United States
those lands, which are appraised at
upward of $4,000, forfeited the
origial purchase price and paid to the
United States tile sum of $192, 900 in
settlement of its claims for coal taken
from other lands which could not be
reoonveyed owing to the fact that they
were mortgaged to secure issues of
bonds outstanding iu the hands of
bona fide purchasers.
subsequently to such settlement the
agents CT the government became sat
isfied that the Utah Fuel company had
illegally acquired title to other coal
lands of the United States in Utah and
after examinatio of their report the
attorney general directed the suits
in equity be brought to annul titles to
such lands. Shortly after the com
menoement Of these suits the represen
tatives of tho company opened negota-
tions for settlement, which resulted in
an adjustment agreed to by the attor.
ney general and the secretary of thu
interior, pursuant to which the Uta.
Fuel company pays to the government
1878, 900, reoonvey to the United States
500 acres of coal lands now appraised
at value of about $4,000, besides
forfeiting $14, 400 paid to the govern
ment at the time patents were issued
on the lands.
In view of the settlement and upon
payment and reoonveyance as above
mentioned the attorney general has
discontinued the suits. Only the
lands described in the suits discon-
tinued were EN- braoed in the settle
ment. Further Investigation is being
prosecuted and in case other coal
lands prove to have been illegally ao-
quired suits at once will be instituted
to assert the governments interests
therein"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
KLEMME WANTS: OFF
Athena School Principal Has Been
Elected to Chair In the Ellens.
burg Normal.

Prof. E. ]. Klemme. recently of the
Walla Walla high school and elected
principal of the Athena high school
for the coming year, has been offered
a chair in the Washington State
Normal School at Ellensburg.
While no contract was signed as
between Mr.. Klemme and the Athena
school board, Mr.. Klemme accepted
the position here at $500 per year,
the same salary he received at Walla
Walla, during the three years he was
at the head of the high school there,
and the board felt seoule in the be-
lief that Athena was fortunate in
having selected its school faculty
early in the season, and considerable
advertising was given the school, as
a result.
OF course there yet remains the
names of number of good men for
the position, but Mr.. Klemme's re-
quest to resign, coming this late in the
season, considerably frustrated the
plans of the board. and throws on its
mem bers the task of again filling the
position.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
GUARD SHOOTS TWO CONv|CTS
Killed John Allen and Wounded Joe
Reed, Who Were Fighting.

Shooting to separate two convicts
who were fighting battle to death
with scissors, Fred staff, a guard in
the jute mills of the Walla Walla
penitentiary, instantly killed John
Allen. The bullet penetrated his
right breast. Joseph Reed, alias
Alex Bene, Aliens antagonist, was
wounded in the right forearm. The
tragedy occurred at 1885 Monday
morning. The officer used 80 cali
ber Winchester life.
The fight started in the toilet of the
iute mill and from all Indications it
was battle to death as the oonvicts
were armed with SCISSORS which they
used with telling effect by jabbing
and stabbing each other in the face
and on the body. The scissors are
used by the men in the mill in the
manufacture Of grain bags.
The guards attention was called
to the bloody duel by another convict
waving bis cap to him. indicating
there was fight in the toilet. The
guard who is stationed in an iron cage
above the men in the mill, shouted to
the men to cease lighting, but the
warning was unheeded The men
grappled with each other aud fell
to the floor of the building and it was
while down both men were shot.
Officer staff fred two shots. The
bullet which killed convict Allen,
which is thought not to be his right
name, struck him in the right breast.
The bullet which wounded Reed
lodged in the arm near the elbow
and was afterward taken out by DR..
Warner. the peniteDtiary physician.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Fails After FortY-Two Trials.

That Kate Powers was not born to
die of her own hand is the conviction
OF the San Francisco Emergency hos
pital staff, who treated the woman
last night after the 42d attempt she
had made on her life during the past
three years. The record established
by Mrs. Powers is declared to be
without equal. Her favorite method
OF attempting to end her life is the
chloroform route, which she has tried
35 times: four times she has waded
into the ocean. only to be washed up
again, sound as ever, and thrice has
tried to hang herself with equally
poor results. The 42d attempt was
as futile as the others and it is believ-
ed that she will abandon the chloro
form method as ineffioacious.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
HE READ HIS MAN.
Lincoln's Rebuke to a Visitor Who
Would Not Meet His Gaze.

Lincoln's Rebuke to a Visitor Who
Would Not Meet His Gaze.
AS | came up to the railing in front
Of the president he was reading a pa
per that had just been presented to
him by a man who sat In the chair
opposite him and who seemed by his
restlessness and unsteady eyes to be
Of a nervous disposition or under great
excitement.
Mr.. Lincoln, still holding the paper
up and without movement Of any kind,
paused and, raising his eyes, looked
for long time at this mans face and
seemed to be looking down into his
very soul. Then, resumlng his reading
for few moments, he again paused
and cast the same piercing look upon
his visitor.
Suddenly, without warning, he drop
ped the paper, and, stretching out his
long arm, he pointed his finger directly
In the face of his vis-a-vis and said,
"What's the matter with you"
The man stammered and finally re.
piled, Nothing"
"Yes, there is" said Lincoln. "You
can't look me in the face! You have
not looked me In the face since you
sat there! Even now you are looking
out that window and cannot look me
in the eyew
Then, finglng the paper in the mans
lap, he cried: "Take 1t back! There Is
something wrong about thisl / will
have nothing to do with itg' And the
discounted Individual retired.-T. b.
Bancroft in McClure's Magazine.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30

Walla Walla valley are to be improv-
ed. The farmers of the county have
been asked to save their straw this
fall, and it will be hauled by the
county for distribution on the public
roads. Usually the straw is burned.
STRAW Day" is planned. when all
farmers will lay off and help. There
is $4,000 in the county treasury avail
able for moving straw. and the first
step in the elimination of the dust
will soon be taken.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Furniture Store Fire,

A loss of between $1,000 and $40, 900
was suffered at IN early hour Sunday
Morning by the Graham Furniture
store at Pendleton. The damage was
the result of fire of mysterious ori-
gin, which started in the basement.
Fortunately, says the East Oregonian,
both the building and the contents
were insured so that the loss will fall
upon the insurance companies instead
of upon W. r. Graham, the proprietor
Of the store, or Joseph Basler, the
proprietor Of the building.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30

viction grow that this long neglected
section is at last to have trausporta-
tidn. A much more optimistic atti-
tude is apparent in the general con-
dition of the public mind, aud all are
waiting-with aroused hopes-to see
if larger crews will not soon be put
at work rushing railroad into CEN
trail Oregon. We have waited long
and more or less patiently. Let US
pray that the day of deliverance is at
hand.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Gilbert VIII Not Vault.

al Gilbert, the greatest pole vault
in the world and winner of the event
at the London Olympia contest. will
not be member of the Multnomah
club track meet at the national cham
pionships next month at Seattle. Gil
bert has written that he has settled
permanently in New Haven, being on
the medical staff of one of the hospit-
ais. He will not be able to come
west this year and give bis services
to the club, of which he is life
member, says Portland paper.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Wheeler County Schools

According to the report of County
School Superintendent H. J. Simmons,
bot b the attendance and school popu-
lation of Wheeler county is on the
decrease. The attendance last year in
Wheeler county was 651. this year it
was 626. The population a year ago
was 888, this year 875. Thirty eight
teachers were employed this year
against 80 last year.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Growers Should Spray.

Now is the time for all apple''grow-
ers to make the third spraying for
Goblin moth, according to communi-
cation received from County Fruit
Inspector s. J. Campbell. He says it
has been discovered that the second
brood is now Matching out and that
the fruit should be sprayed between
August 2 and August 10.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Home Furnishings at Cost

Davis Kaser's of Walla Walla have
just inaugurated Great August
Clearance sale. Everything in their
$3.50. 600 stock of home furnishings is
reduced to factory cost aud less. 1t
will pay you we'll to make trip to
Walla Walla during this sale. II
you can't 60 write for particulars.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Central Oregon Hopeful.

Bend Bulletin: AS each days re-
ports reach central Oregon of con-
tinued and increasing activity in rail
road building along the lower De-
schutes, more certain does the con-
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
The Doctors Orders.

Mrs. O'Harrigan-Phoy have ye stuck
this empty flask under tn baby? Mrs.
Carey-Th' doctors ordthers. He told
me Old have to keep tn baby on a
bottle!-Judge
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Hogs Make New Record.

Hogs advanced to 80. so per hundred
pounds in the Portland stock yards
Tuesday, the highest price ever reach.
ed. IL beats all previous records by
IS oents.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Ripe oid rye.

Little Willie-Say, pa, what is q ripe
old age? Pa-It's the age, my son, at
which a man Is willing to admit that
he's not the only dried apple in the
pantry-Chicago News.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30

Not to outshine, but to shine upon,
his neighbors Is the successful mans
mfssion-Towne.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-07-30
Will Straw Roads.

After months Of discussion and
seeming inactivity the roads of The
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-12-23
DEED OF A MADMAN
RANCHER KILLS WIFE AND Chill
DRFN.
G. G. Chenvront of Fresno Uses Hntch-
ct 40 Deal Death and Then
Throws Himself I'm
der Train.

Fresno, Cal, Dec. 22.--Stricken with
sudden insanity, C. @. Cheuvront. a
rancher. killed his wife and one child
wounded three others and ended his
life under the wheels of railroad
train a few hours later.
Mrs. Cheuvront =.was preparing
breakfast when her husband entered
carrying a heavy Ratchet Without a
word he split her skull with one blow
Leaving her. he entered the bed room
where his children lay asleep. In
rapid succession he struck George,
aged IA; claud. aged IL; Gladys, aged
10, Rnd an infant daugter, Nellie,
while sleeping in their beds.
claud is dead and Gladys Is dying.
The others will recover.
As he left the house C. M. McClung
step-son. aged 10. met him on the
porch. The man Immediately struck
at his stepson's head, Evading the
blow, the young man struck his step
father heavily on the jaw. The blow
stopped him and the hand that held
the Ratchet fell to his side.
without speaking. the rancher ex-
tended it's handle to McClung and ran
to the railroad track. A posse orga-
nized by McClung found his dismem-
bered body beside the track.