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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-23
FINANCES OF INDIANS
Order Made at Agents Request Giving
Red Men Right to Handle
Own Business Affairs.

Through the efforts of Agent Mo
Partridge of the Umatilla reservation,
the department at Washington has
made the following order:
Washington, April 9.-Arthur E.
McFatridge. ESQ.,, Superintendent
Umatilla Indian School. Pendleton,
Ore. Sir: Hereafter when in your
opinion an Indian is competent to
manage his own affairs. and suoh In
dian has funds deposited to his indi-
vidual credit, over which the govern
ment exercises control as trustee, you
are authorized to turn such funds over
to the Indian owner, and this letter is
your authority for SO doing. In order
to accomplish this you are directed to
have each Indian draw check to the
order OF the cashier of the bank to be
countersigned by you in the regular
way. which check will serve as vouch-
er to your accounts.
When the checks are received at the
bank the present accounts of the In
dians should be closed and new ac-
counts opened with them, which will
not be subject to the usual restriction
regulations. Each regular designated
depository in which you have placed
trust funds belonging to the Indians
should be furnished with copy of
this letter for its information.
You will be expected to confer with
the Indians and advise them that the
Office, in pursuing the course herein
indicated, believes that it will be for
their best interests. 1t will be your
duty to counsel Indians in all matters
pertaining to the individual accounts
and to impress on them the benefits
that will accrue to each depositor,
both financially and morally, from a
conservative use of the funds the gov
ernment has placed at their disposal.
When. however, an Indian has been
given fair chance to show his abil-
ity to properly care for and manage
his affairs, and the superintendent is
convinced that such Indian does not
measure up to the standard which in
his opinion would Le for the pest in
terest and protection Of such Indian,
the superintendent is hereby author
lied to place the Indian In the incom-
petent class. and thereafter his funds
will be distributed under government
al supervision. 1t will be seen from
what is said that the Office is desirous
Of giving a greater number of Una
tilla Indians chance to handle their
own affairs-to give them the same
opportunity enjoyed by their white
brethren.
Finally. I will be pleased to have
you inform the Indians that you, as
superintendent. have been largely in
strumental in procuring the necessary
action, which will lead to the removal
of restrictions from the individual as
counts now in bank to their several
credit, and that after careful consid
GRAFTON the procedure herein indicated
will be carried out for the advance
ment of their general and individual
welfare.
A last word of caution. This is an
experiment of the greatest value to
the service at large. Failure in it
will do 1rremediaEle damage; success,
unending good. Go slow and succeed.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) r. q. Valentine,
Acting Commissioner.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-23
Jefries win Fipht.

~ will fight Jack johnson. will
defend my title as the undefeated
heavyweight champion of the world"
Before an audience that packed the
American Music Hall, New York, in
which there were as many women as
men, James ]. Jeffries made this for
nal announcement.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-23
Midday Robbery.

While Agent A. s. Seeman of Kam-
ella was partaking Of hasty midday
lunch Tuesday noon, some hobo was
hastily helping himself to the cash in
the drawer in the ticket Office, says
the Tribune. When the agent Ie-
turned to the depot he found some one
had entered the Office l,y breaking open
the ticket window and after breaking
the lock to the cash drawer had stolen
the contents, &2b. 20,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-23

David Taylor, who belieyes the city
ia not receiving all the water the grav-
ity system is capable of furnishing,
this morning took three men, Dave
Stone, Virgil Willapy and Matt Lynn
mp to the source of supply and sunk
prospect hole, which in Mr.. Taylor's
opinion. shows conclusively that there
is water enough to supply the city.
He says the pipe was tapped below the
feeders and no roots were encountered.
A stream Of water was flowing through
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-23
Shea with Seattle

Danny Shea, the old Yellow Kid
catcher. has signed with Dugdale's
Seattle team. Shea was drafted by
Mobile, in the Southern League. but
refused to report there when the sea
son opened. Seattle gave Mobile 800
over the draft price, and secured the
scraEpy catohet's release. Willie
Fortier of this city, is also catcher
on the Seattle team.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16

in it's way. Mr.. Hartman has perhaps
yielded to public opinion no o
than necessity and prudence com
PEELED, but the INFINITE pains he takes
to ascertain its drift is a tribute to
his genius. Mr.. Hartman, like others
Of his class, has frequently circum-
vented efforts to secure concessions
to the public, but seldom IN recent
years has he openly fought an en-
trenched public opinion.
II Mr.. Hartman finds It useful and
profitable to keep a finger on the pub
lie pulse, it is certainly apparent that
the public must keep fully informed
as well as insistent and persistent.
The railroad managers may be de-
pended on to be alive to every situa-
ton and to take advantage of any
lack of vigilance on the other side.
Mr.. Hartman is not the only one to
recognize the potency Of properly d.
rected public opinion. for there has
been a ommon plea for getting to-
gether and for encouraging a better
understanding.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
PERSONAL NOTES.

The New York autoist who has been In
structed by a jury to pay $4,000 for the
pleasure Of joy-riding over a surprised ped
ertrian does not think the experience was
worth the money.
1t is one Of the humors OF our civilization
that many a man who is not quite sure as
to where his next weeks dinners are com
ing from has probably contributed hand
somely 20 the $4,000 with which a New
York hotel waiter retires to private life
Henry s. Dewey of Boston, alleged libel
and brought against his distractors a suit
for damages in SO, $50, 900, Of which amount
the Jury awarded only the ciphers. A Bos-
ton reputation is a precious thing, but 1t
seems that too high an estimate may be
placed upon IT..
Mrs. Charles Rounds, wife OF a farmer at
Harder, Mich, the victim OF
many chicken robberies, painted the legs
of her chickens red, and then kept close
tab on the market. She was not long in
discovering the poultry with painted legs,
and the Identity Of the fellow who sold the
poultry was easily ascertained.
A Kansas City police judge accepted the
word of q man on trial before him for
larceny because he had red hair. The
iudse said: Your red hair is your sal
walton. During the three years that !
have presided over this court l nave had
only six red-headed men before me. None
was found guilty. You may go"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
Conditions lie would Face.


~hAAH wa a 80 NAAAN'F'
But II Mr.. Bryan should see his latest
ambitions realized, he must be prepared
to face some conditions such as he has
no. been called upon to meet In recent
years. He will find hat memories cling
about the halls of the capitol very much
as Ivy clings to old towers, and that the
men gathered there have not forgotten
him since his salad days, when, as a
member Of the house of representatives,
he was widely famed as the boy orator
from the Platte. In all likelihood he will
have to take up the burden of statesman
ship again at about the point where he
left off in the early ~nineties. He will not
find in the senate, as he has found In the
political field and on the lecture platform,
audiences made up solely to hear Mr..
Bryan. The magic Of his voice will not
carry far with the men he finds there
unless It is backed with something more
substantial then tuneful sound. TO the
strong men who have sat in that cham
Der and made the country's laws for a
score Of more of years he would not be
the peerless leader, the oracle whose
tongue giveth commandments to the demo-
cratic hosts and sways multitudes to
exaltation with the wine and honey of
words. He. would be merely the now
senator from Nebraska.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
Federal or State Regulation.


That rate regulation has come to
stay is admitted by the railroad man
ayers and their principal concern now
is to secure a workable system. The
first endeavor of the railroads was to
make regulation ineffective, and as
state commissions we're thought more
tractable than the interstate commits
sion, railroad managers expressed
preference for state regulation. Prac-
tical trials demonstrate that state
regulation leads to confusion, and the
railroad men now turn to federal
control for relief from conflicting
state laws. They insist that state
and interstate traffic is so interviewer
that every state commission ruling
starts a chain of readjustments which
keeps the rate. clerks busy and ship
pers are confused. The federal courts
are to be appealed to to directly decide
the question Of state control, where
rates have an interstate bearing, and
the Nebraska law has been selected as
the medium for the test.
II the railroad contention were sus-
tanned, it would speedily result In leg
islation greatly enlarging the powers
of the Interstate Commerce commits
sion as a first step toward complete
federal control of transportation mat
ters. While this has been the trend
of both thought and practice, no such
radical innovation has yet been at
tempted as a decision for the railroads
in this case would produce. The
present powers of the Interstate Com
merce commission would be totally in
adequate to meet the condition and
it's administrative machinery insufl-
cient. A victory for the roads would
remove restraint temporarily, but that
exemption from state regulation would
be quickly followed by s~tricter federal
control. The ultimate result would
be to make the Interstate commission
the most important administrative
body of the government.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
Premature.

II anyone we're inclined to give
oredence to the circuitous announce
ment Of Mr.. Bryan's determination to
become a candidate for United states
senator from Nebraska next year the
words Of the oracle himself must be
taken to indicate that he is no more
of a candidate now than he has been
all the time, and that he will not be a
candidate unless he is satisfied ip adj
vance that the prize will be his for the
asking.
Mr.. Bryan was an avowed candidate
for United States senator in 1894 and
a covert candidate again in 1904. The
redeeming feature Of the oregon plan
Of choosing United States senators,
which has been transplanted to Ne
braska, is that It permits of no dark
horse candidates and that anyone as
piring to the se~natorship must come
out at least three months before
election and more than six months be-
fore the legislature casts its ballot.
Under this system no candidate Tor
United States senator can be drafted,
but he must take his gun in hand and
himself 60 out after the game.
or course the declaration by Mr..
Bryan that he is not now" a candi-
date for United States senator and
does not expect to be does not fore
close him from becoming a candidate
later II he thinks conditions warrant
His statement of his position with ref
erence to the senatorship is very much
like similar statements emanating
from the same source with reference
to the presidency, and although he
would say that he is not "now" a
candidate for a fourth presidential
nomination, It would not be safe to
wager that he will not try again.
The possible senatorial candidacy of
Mr.. Bryan must be kept in view by re-
publicans who think that Nebraska
should have representation in the sem
ate in accord with the principles Of the
republican party and who have no
sympathy with many of Mr.. Bryan's
peculiar doctrines. The Bryan candi-
dacy is to be like a sword of Damocles,
suspended by a thread over our heads,
ready to drop at any moment and yet
with no assurance of dropping al all.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
Investors Holding Stocks

The developments Of the specula-
tive stock markets show hat invest
ors learned a valuable lesson in the
1907 panic. When spectators we're
compelled to throw over gilt edge
stocks held on margins they were
rapidly absorbed at panic prices by
people who mistrusted the banks.
The distribution OF stock holdings
has been emphasized by every annual
statement OF the big corporations
since that time, showing a great in
crease in the number of share owners.
The course of the stock market of
late proves hat these stocks are not
held by the class that usually buys
during furries to unload when the
storm blows over and prices go up.
Neither bull nor bear raids have sue
ceeded in shaking them out and the
speculative market is largely stripped
of really gilt edge stocks. Such a
condition works for stability and is
an encouragement to the managing
heads to devote themselves to devel-
oping the properties instead Of max
ing them the football of speculation,
which has wrecked some OF the most
promising corporations in the coun-
try. Diversity and permanency of
stock holdings in the great corpora
lions is one of the o promising
signs OF the times.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
WORKSHOP OF THE WORLD.
Con tributions Of America to the UD'
lift Of other People.
Nroy, Vail DVorld

nft of other People.
New York World.
There could be no more fascinating
romano of international trades h is
contained in the overnment report on the
distribution of American manufacturer
articles. aF .
- American reapers and mowers now go to
seventy-five countries and colonies and
are in use from1ChiIl to the fields of Boaz.
The Turk, the Russian moutlk and the
New Zealander Rlse, tour ploughs and cui-
tivators; the French play billiards with
American billiard balls. How far our
candles throw their beams-llterally from
China to Panama. The Siamese and the
Dutch in the East Indies ride in our auto
mobiles. Our clocks keep time the globe
around. Our street cars run in fifty coun-
tries. The Haytian and the African raise
bread with our ba~king-powder. The
variety Of articles of luxury or necessity
with which we supply the world ranges
from fly-paper to false teeth, from cotton
cloth to cash-registers.
- From our $50, OOO,0 900 OF manufactured ex-
ports in 1870 to the $3.50 o 600 in 1908 is q
wonder-story OF industrial growth. Yet
with America now the worlds workshop,
with it's processes Of manufacture cheap
ened and economies Of production affected
and while the foreign consumer buys our
goods at prices below those obtained in the
home market, the manufactures pleads for
higher and yet higher protective duties.
His exhibition OF greed in the face OF I'M
precedented profits Is the blot on the
bright page OF American trade triumph
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
THE COUNTRY CHILD.

Katherine lyman In the Spectator
The country child has fragrances
He breathes about him as he goest
Clear eyes that look at distances,
And in his cheeks the widing rose.
The sun. the sun himself Will stain
The country face to his own red,
The red-gold OF the ripening grain,
And bleach to white the curly head.
He rises to the morning lark,
Sleeps with the evening prinroses,
Before the curtain of the dark
Let's down its splendor, starred with bees.
He sleeps so sweet without a dream
Under brown cottage caves and deep,
His window holds one stray moon beam
AS though an angel kept hts sleep.
He feeds on honest country fare.
Drinks the clear water Of the spring,
Green carpets wait him everywhere,
Where he may run, where he may sing.
He hath his country lore by heart,
And what is friend and what is foe;
Hath conned Dame Natures boob apart,
Her child since he began. to grow.
when he is old. when he goes sad.
Hobbling upon a twisted knee,
He keeps somewhat of Joys he had
Since an old countrypian is he.
He keeps his c%hildhood's innocencies,
Though his old head il bleached to snow,
Forget-me-nots still hold his eyes,
And in his cheeks old roses blow.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
SMILING LINES.

.-rbs, voune man at the city hall, they
tell me, Is something Of en- scrooauc mar
YES: they say he can even msse his
books balance. baltimore American
Visiting stranger-It's curious what n
strong hold this sport Of bassoah mas on
Fan-rt isn't a SPORT It's q Ions drawn
out agonyl-Chicago Tribune.
How do you recognize an infant In
Like most infanta." Answered senator
Sorghum, 1T is recognized BY. the amount
of noise II makes when IL FSentsA 10 pe
noticed. washington star
young man." said the merchant, u hear
you've been kicking because you've got 80
Wen yes, sir" replied the clerk; Il do
"H'mi wen have to give you 40 much
more to do hereafteT that y9H Wont have
Times.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ! knocked de
finest possum in Georgy Is time.
Better Half-Golly, Rastus, YOU ortah
send him to Mistah President TAFT,
'Rastus-Hannah, dab am a limit 70 h
fealty.-Judge.
- .
"I don't know what 10 do with this
poem" said the discouraged wooer OF the
muse. Even the magazine editors pro-
nounce Il slush."
"oid man, you're in luck. = replied the
horse reporter, Have II set to music and
start 1t down the pike as a popular song"
Chicago News.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
COMPLEXITIES of the Tariff.

The tariff seems so simple, but, in
fact, is the most complex problem in
fiscal legislation, for its effects are not
necessarily what they seem on the sur
face. A question in point is the much
discussed sugar schedule. OF the vast
importations of sugar, only 10 per
cent last year paid the rate. of duty
prescribed in the Dingley tariff bill.
Special treaties, exceptions and provi-
sions of law, meaningless to all except
experts in the trade. account for the
discrepancy. The rates from different
countries and for different grades Of
sugar are SO involved that the lay
man is lost in the maze, and it Is al
most impossible for anyone to state
Just what the rate Of duty paid on
refined sugar averages.
There is scarcely a schedule Of an
important article of import which is
not more pr less confusing for the
same reason. Wool. for example, in
which the west is interested, is as ON
pick as any, inasmuch as 1t comes in
such varied conditions of partial prep
aration for manufacture that even tar
If experts have been unable to frame a
law in the past which would maintain
a perfect ratio between the classes.
Mixtures Of dutiable articles in one
fabric OF manufactured product, each
bearing a different rate. often defeat
the object Of the law and to prevent
the practice rates on a minor consti-
tuent are often made excessive to pro-
tect the larger industry. In this COM
plication of conditions. it is no won
der that few are well enough posted
to discuss the details Of more than
one tariff schedule intelligently.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
End OF Hero worship.

SHlCdBO lilOI OCEdil NISpJ
MI. Bryan, the senator, would not appeal
so powerful to the imagination of people
as the Mr.. Bryan of today. He might be
a much more useful man. But the loss of
prestige would be great. In the senate we
would have the real MI. Bryan. Thousands
now see the mythical, heroic Mr.. Bryan.
We mean no reflection on Mr.. Bryan by
this. 1t follows from every one
knows of human nature. For years he has
occupied a position admirably calculated
to make him a striking, a dominating
character, He has had no chance to make
errors In public service. He has been able
to speak dogmatioally without being con-
tradicted by any one Of equal authority
in his party. He has had no rivals. He has
been the whole show"
In the senate the landscape would have
other figures. His admirers would hear
his u~tterances challenged by men equally
capable. What he said would be subjected
to the acid test of criticism. The very
qualities which max him a, great popular
orator might prove defects in the senate.
He would no longer be a single, striking
figure. He would be one Of several.
Could hero worship be expected to sur
vive these scenes? Hardly. The prophet
who discusses is lost, The idol that for
sakes its pedestal is broken. The figure
on the mountain top is lost in the dusty
level of the plain. The hero surrounded
by equals, buffeting and buffeted, changes
complexion.
Mr.. Bryan presumably will always have
a large reputation. But in the dry light Of
real public business the myth and glamour
would be lost. There would be little to
fetter the Notwithstanding to inspire
a popular demand for his leadership.
On the day that Mr.. Bryan becomes
senator the presidential stock of Governor
Johnson. Judson harmon and certain
other able and intelligent leading demo-
Gratis will take an upward shoot.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
Hartman and Public Oninion.

Some interesting s%idelights- on E.
H. Hartman are contained in an in
terview with Julius Kruttschnitt, one
of his chief lieutenants. According
to Mr.. Kruttschnitt, Mr.. Hartman
will be credited with maintaining a
nation wide clipping bureau of his
own charged with collecting and
briefing newspaper comment, inter-
views and speeches of public men and
every scrap Of information showing
the trend of public opinion on sub
jects OF immediate interest to him.
Most Of Mr.. Harriman's predeces-
sors either ignored or defied public
opinion. but their defiance vas a po-
tent cause of the awakening which
threatened to swamp those who stood
Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-16
POINTERS ON OMAHA.

Schuyler Free Lance: Mayor Jim Dahl
man is the biggest man in Omaha n re-
quires no argument to back up the state
ment. It's q little tough on Omaha, how
ever.
Grand Island Independent; There ap-
pear to be Omahans who believe that the
recent eclipse Of the moon about s o'clock
in the evening was the result OF the final
enactment OF a certain bill, to veto which
Omaha tried in vain to induce Governor
s~hallenberger.
Beatrice Express; II Cudahy builds a
packing house in Lincoln, as reported
likely, that city may become a real COM
mercial rival Of Omaha. And there is
room in Nebraska for more than one big,
rourishing wholesale center. There is
room for several, and Beatrice should be
one OF them.
Beatrice Express: The city council OF
Omaha has passed an ordinance fixing a
fine Of 500 to be imposed on anyone who
yields to a burst Of profanity while talk
ing over telephone lines. II a man wants
to treat another to sulphurous language
he should make an appointment with him,
and not be permitted to suddenly break
out through the telephone to the horror Of
central" And by the time he meets the
object Of his wrath he will have properly
cooled off and tanned down. II IL refresh
ing to note that Omaha is taking a few
steps toward the Improvement Of its char
acter.
Grand Island independents: The breth-
rem Of the Omaha press will unquestion-
ably waste no time in playing up the fact
that even the undertakers of the state,
although they are accustomed to all man
ner OF dead things, don't want to go to
Lincoln for the next state convention in
stead OF this progressive, live and pretty
little city OF Grand Island, even though
we might have a little touch of wickedness
here and there and are not as rood ali
over as some would like us to be. We
have it as a straight tip even from DR.. f.
Arthur Carr, that Grand Island isn't nearly
as bad as some people over the state make
it out to be.