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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
ADAMS MARSHAL SHOT INDIAN
Jim White, Full Blood, Was Drur
and Troublesome.

Jim White. dru nken Indian, was
shot twice by Marshal Owens of
Adams Monday afternoon and he
may die from the injuries received.
He was shot while trying to escape
arrest. One of the shots took effect
in the leg and the other in his back.
His horse was also shot by the
marshal
For several days past White had
been lying around Adams il drunk
en- condition. Monday morning the
marshal undertook to place him
under arrest and the Indian resisted.
he drew knife with which he start
ed to attack the officer. Thereupon
Marshal Owen hit him with his billy.
However the Indian succeeded in
getting away and was leaving town.
Securing an assistant in Fl enry
Brewster the marshal then took after
White again and found him just as
the Indian was leaving town. He
called to White to stop and when the
Indian refused he began firing at him.
The Indian then fell from his horse
and was taken. The horse was fount
dead short distance down the road.
White, although badly wounded
was taken from Adams to his home oil
the reservation, Tuesday. The Indian
is widely known as a rider of buckine
horses. and was one of the psrtici
pants in the contests in this city dur,
ing the spring picnics.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
STORAGE CHARGES
Pullman Farmers Take Positive Stand
Against Rates of Warehouse
Combination.

A hot fight in the warehouse busi-
ness is assured at Pullman, Wash.
when wheat begins to come in. Both
sides are preparing for it. On one
side is the Farmers Educational aud
Co.. Operative union. with member
ship of more than 5000 in Washing
ton and the panhandle" of Idaho,
and on the other side is what is COM
monty known as the warehouse COM
,pine," composed of the big warehouse
companies of Portland and the sound
cities, with warehouses throughout
the wheat belt of the two states.
That the old line warehouses will
charge the maximum amount allowed
by the ruling of the railroad commits
sion, 80 cents per ton for the first 80
days and 10 cents per ton per month
thereafter is assured. That will make
the charges to January |, from so
cents to 81 per ton, an advance of Is
to 25 cents per ton over the price pre-
vailing last year.
1t was claimed by many farmers
that the railroad commission had
made an order that the rate should
Ee so cents per ton for the handling
and storage of grain up to January l.
This had always been the customary
price until two years ago. Investiga-
tion shows tha5 the commission made
no such order, but made an order that
80 cents per ton would he the maxi
mum charge for the first 60 days.
The Farmers Educational and Co.
Operative union has more than 100
warehouses in Washington and north
ern Idaho. These will charge uni
form rate for handling grain, but the
rate is not yet fixed. A convention
of warehouse managers of the union is
soon to be held. Many are in favor
of charging so cents per ton to the
first of January, the ruling price for
quarter of century. Others are
in favor of charging so cents per ton
to January /.
Agents for the big exporting COM
panies having warehouses throughout
the inland empire are making threats
that they will not pay within cents
per bushel for wheat in farmers
houses that they will pay for wheat
in their own houses. Agents are
driving through the Palouse country
and urging farmers to store with the
old line companies, and are using this
threat to trighten the farmers.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
MYRTLE CREEKS LUCKY man
IsadOr Selig May Choose Valuable Claim
for T0wnsite.

Isador Selig, whose name was the
first drawn at the Occur d'Alene
Indian reservation land drawing has
been conducting billiard hall and
confectionery store at Myrtle Creek
for about three years. He was not
in affluent circumstances, his business
netting him only fair livlihood. He
is married and has son about years
old. Isador Selig is son Of Simon
Selig. an old merchant of that place,
and brother Of N. Selig, a merchant
Of Canyonville and Myrtle Greek.
Isador Selig's first chance to draw
homestead from the 1900 comprised
in the Occur d'Alene reservation
lands, Ill which are the choicest
claims is conser ervatively estimated to
be worth $4,000. AS in the case
of Oklahoma City, in the noted Chero
kee Strip rush. city of magnitude
will rise in the Coeur d'Alene reser-
walton as result of the influx of
thousands of settlers to that and the
Spokane and Flathead reservations.
Selig, by careful selection, may
choose O future townsite.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
WALLA WALLA MAN SUICIDE
Coroner Decides That Jacob Burger
Committed Suicide.

That Jacob Burger, Clutch Jake"
of Walla Walla came to his death by
self inflicted wound was the verdict
Of the coroner'S jury at Pomeroy
after investigating the circumstances
surrounding the death. The body
was found lying with rife by his
side. the left side of the face shattered
by bullet which had entered at the
lower part of the jaw ranging upward
and backward and passing through
the top of the head, within a short
distance of the smoldering ruins of
the house aud barn on the farm of Fred
Lauer, eight miles west of Pomeroy.
A coroner's inquest developed no
evidence Of foul play and verdict
was given that Burger shot and killed
himself. The shoe and sock had been
removed from the right foot, and it is
evident that Burger after placing the
muzzle of the gun under bis jaw, dis
charged it with a downward pressure
of one toe on the trigger.
He is supposed TO have set fire to
the house and barn. Partly burned
piles of straw in two small out build
ings we're found, indicating that an
attempt had been made to burn them.
Burger was 63 years of age. single and
lived alone on the Lauer place, of
which he had charge.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Death of Monroe Hicks.

Monroe Hicks, who died at Milton
last Friday as the result of blood
poisoning, had been resident of
Umatilla county for over 40 years.
He crossed the plains to Oregon
when but one year old. The family
first settled on the Umatilla river
below Pendleton. Later they moved
to Pilot Rock aud in 1881 the deceas-
ed moved to Weston where he resided
until last fall, when be moved to Mil
ton. He is survived by his wife and
three children. ranging in age from
two to IL years. He was not mem
Der of any lodge but was a life long
member of the NJ. T.. church.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
KILLED ON PAMBuRN HILL
Team Gets Beyond Control and Driver
Thrown to Ground.

A Yakima Indian named Lowe, was
killed on the Pamburn hill south OF
town Wednesday forenoon, when the
wagon brake did not hold and the
team be. was driving got beyond
control.
CThe Indian was driving four horses
to a load of wheat, which. he was
hauling for Dave Bonifer/ /9'he hill,
while not long one, is Quite steep.
Sam Pambuln. who witnessed the
fatal accident says the Indian held
the team in the road after the wagon
forced the horses into run, and he
leaned over as if to grasp the brake
to set 1T. At that instant he lurohed
out of the seat to the ground. striking
on bis head. The wagon passed over
one hand The victim died in about 4
minutes after the fall.
The wheel horses fell and were
dragged for a considerable distance,
one horse being badly crippled.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
SHE HAS TENDER CONSCIENCE
Miss Irene Holt Feels the Lord Calls on
Her for Apology.

BY letter the Press is requested to
assist Miss Irene Holt, a lady book
oanvasser. to get right with the Lord.
1t appears that while selling books in
Athena, Miss Holt INDUCED in minor
pretense, which did not set we'll with
her conscience. Hence the following
letter:
10 Whom II May Concern:
l feel that the Lord is calling me TO
make an apology to all those to whom
| showed the book, "Heralds of the
Morning." for which have canvass
ed in Athena.
On page 218 is shown the military
standing of the different pations be
tween 1869 aud 1902. Fearing that
it would be thought an old book
kept the date "1902" covered with my
finger when came to that page.
sometimes also drew my thumb across
the price of sample in the back that
was intended to show the sizs or back
of the book TO impress them with the
size without speaking as the sample
was somewhat wider than the actual
size of the book and did not wish to
falsiry by speaking. but the action
was Just as much fault as the word.
| also said in most cases that that
was the size of the book. but the
book is not SO large, quite These are
the things | wish to apologize for.
Yours very truly.
IRENE Y. HOLT.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Mormons at John Day.

Canyon City Eagle: The indica-
tions are that thb Mormons will ap-
propriate the John Day valley. In
doing this they show their sagacity.
For theil colony they have picked on
the very garden spot of eastern Ore
gon, and it is needless to call attention
to the fact that they will make il
bloom as nature intended that il
should. These people have many
characteristics worthy of emulation.
They are intensely industrious; they
are thrifty; they are sober, and they
attend to their own business.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Portland Fears Plague.

Dan McCarty, a garbage collector
who resided at the west end of the
Willamette bridge of the Northern
Pacific, at Portland where he owned
a duck ranch died Sunday after giving
strong evidence of having been at
tackled by tubonic plague. McCarty
had been engaged for some time in
collecting carriage in the city and liv-
ed not far from the huge pile cf
rotting refuse which adorns the
vicinity of the garbage orematory. He
was suddenly taken sick a few days
ago and died. DR.. E. P. Geary, the
county physician, was called, and
after an examination, decided that the
symptoms SO nearly pointed to bubonic
plague that he ordered that the re-
mains be cremated and every precau.
tion taken to guard against possible
spread of the disease.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
New Irrigation System.

A gasoline pumping plant to irri-
gate 70 acres of alfalfa, has just been
installed on the county poor farm
west of town, and is now in operation.
Water to irrigate for the first and
second crops is secured from Mckay
creek, but owing to the low stage OF
the water in that stream, it became
necessary to devise some means of
securing water for third crop and
the gasoline pump was Installed at
the big spring on the farm. The
engine is 12-horse- powder Alamo
and the six inoh cylinder pump has
capacity of 1000 gallons per minute.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Stanfield il Booming.

Stanfeld, located in the west end
of the county, now gives promise of
being quite little city. A new con-
crete bank building which will cost
over $4,000, is about completed. be-
sides numerous other business houses
and residences. The streets of the
town will be improved, concrete walks
b' built through the business district,
aud water works and sewerage pro.
ytdgd for.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13

fry. Shut all the doors and windows
aud bring in the patient and let him
inhale the fumes for an hour or more,
according to the severity of the case.
Toured very sore throat with that
method in FIVE minutes. For several
days the sensation in my throat was
delightfully."- pleasant. also cured a
severe case of sore throat in 6ne
calf own. The calf simply put its
nose in the can and seemed to enjoy
it immensely"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Died at Walla Walla.

Truman, only son of Mr.. and Mrs.
0. s. Barnes, mention of whose illness
was made in the Press last week.
died Monday at the hospital in Walla
Walla where he was taken for treat
ment. At the time of death the boy
was II years months and days.
The funeral was held from the Bap-
tist church in this city, Tuesday
afternoon.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Smut Explosion.

Smut was the cause of an explosi
and fire which destroyed the station
airy threshing outfit owned by Marion
Jack, Tuesday morning. The accident
occurred about IL o'clock on farm
about a mile south of Adams and
everything but the engine was burn.
ed. The machine was insured.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Chief to Washington.

Chief No-Shirt does not believe the
government has ordered highways
opened across the reservation and is
going to the National capitol, to
interview the great white father"
personally. No-Shirt will also in-
vestigate the reason why the Indians
have not been paid their apportion-
ment of Indian funds.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Diphtheria Cure.

A German lady sends the following
diphtheria remedy to the Portland
Journals
''Put equal quantities Of pine tar
aud turpentine in tin cup or equally
good receptacle. and place on the
sto We where 1t will slowly simmer or
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
NUMBER 33

the 0. R. q N. The cause of Walsh 8
resignation is not kiown. Neither
are his plans for the future. His
position, however, is to be filed Ey
William Connolly. formerly assistant
superintendent of the Oregon division.
j. d. Matheson, trainmaster at La
Grande. has been promoted to the
position of assistant superintendent
of the Oregon division.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Typhoid Kills Englishman.

John Robinson, a young English
man. died at st. Anthony's hospital
in Pendleton last Saturday. He was
stranger but had chum working
in the nearby harvest fields Efforts
are now being made to locate him.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Marriage Licenses.

The county clerks records show
that marriage licenses were issued
this week to Walter P. Reiman and
Miss Olive Jones. both of this county,
and to Andrew Boltezore of Walla
Walla aud Miss Mary Smith of this
county.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Mountain Sabbath School.

Last Sunday at the McDougalI camp.
Sunday School services were conduct
ed by Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Belts Of
this city. A class of over thirty at
tended the services.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Christian Church Announcements.

4 Regular services will be held next
Sunday. Sunday School at 10 a. IN.
Preaching and communion services at
II a. m. Preaching again at s p. m.
Don't forget the Lords house during
the buey season.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
Wa'si, Resigns.

The resignation of Thomas Walsh
as superintendent of the Washington
division is responsible for number Of
other changes 10 tue official list oi
The Dickinson press., 1909-12-04
BILL TANNERS wurHA DOZEN OF YE.'

BILL TANNERS WUTHA DOZEN OF YE."-
make chicken coops and it might be
would even have to plant a corn and
potato patch.
The thought, made permanent by
the persistent hints Of Cooner and his
father, had harassed him for days
past, and this morning, feeling the
need for absolute, unthinking rest, he
had come out to this sunny spot where
he could lie in his ~favorite attitude,
with his hands clasped under his head.
But alas for plans! AS the buzzard
foated slowly beyond view and the
%unthinking eyes following it began to
grow dreamy and heavy there came a
sudden rasping interruption. 1t was
Cooner admonishing his father.
II tell .ye," the strident voice was
saying, "this things goin' on too slow.
Fust we know somebody III be steppin'
In, an then where'l our two estates
be? Divided. There's that; Bill Tan
ner already comm up to see Bet an
she 'lowin' him.
"Pshaw! He'd be for carryin' her
way down to his cabin in the valley,
an likely g not they'd be for sellin'
my seven acres some day. I tell ye,
Nose, ye must be stirrin' up Gabe.
He's a good boy and won't never be
goin' off, an If he's got a single wick
ed habit I've " heerd on 1t.
It'll see the preacher this very day
an have him come up in two weeks.
Well have 'em ready by that time. I'll
have to get Bet some new shoes, an
ye must see about Gabe's gettin' his
hair cut. It's pretty toler'ble long an
untidy for a weddin'. An we'd better
be askin' all the folks to come"
= Gabe had forced himself as deep as
possible into the leaves, and he lay
with bated breath until the voices and
footsteps had died away toward Coon
er's cabin.
Then he groaned and removed his
hands slowly and despairingly from
beneath his head. He must think and
think quickly and hard or he would be
lost.
Bill Tanner was peeling bark in the
valley. He was a worker-not in the
ordinary acceptance of the word per
haps, but from the slope point Of view.
Gabe went to him there.
"Hello. Bill" he began affably. "Get.
tin quite a heap. amt YET"
BIZ nodded gruf1y. He had no OBJ.
jectia: to Gabe personal---very. that
The Dickinson press., 1909-12-04
Our neigbbors
: Interesting News from Thirty. five Slope
s Towns as Cleaned from Exchanges
; Newsy Items Briefly Told for Busy Readers.

Beach has organized q cemetery as
ISOLATION.
A third bank will be established at
Reeder. to be called the First National
bank.
The Standard Oil company has made
New Salem a distributing station for
its products, having installed two tanks
with a capacity Of IA, 600 gallons each.
! The young men of Hettinger enter
;tained at a ball and banquet at which
225 guests were present. many of them
coming from outlying towns
The Bowman County News is publish
ing letters from successful farmers. in
the vicinity of Bowman, who tell their
methods and experience in raising crops.
The team belonging to Rev. Hilstad.
near Bowman. were shot by some un-
known person. One horse was killed
and the other 50 seriously wounded that
it may not recover.
The fourteen-year-old son of Boyd
Hueeett, near Griffin, Bowman county,
was shot and killed by his little :bsothet
aged seven. The child got possession
of a shotgun and not knowing it was
loaded. pulled the trigger when only
six feet from his brother.
The Beach Chronicle claims that it's
statement that Beach would be the lare-
est primary grain receiving station in
the United States this year, has been
made good. The disbursements of the
three banks of that place on Grain checks
up to November 20. was $776, 821. 90.
A large amount of grain is still un-
threslled and quantities are being held
for better prices.
Schafer Record With the thermometer
registering zero and the ground covered
with three inches of snow bill" Green
ploughed up his stubble. He trad the
burrows. so say the neighbors, whistling
as merrily as though it were a blithe-
some day in May. What his horses
thought of the o ploughing job is yet
to be known.
Schafer Record - A. D.. Morrill, of the
Independent Thresher Co. of Fairview has
sent in the threhine record of thirty-one
bonanza farms on the Yellowstone. The
report shows that 43, $50 bushels of
wheat, SO. 1873 bushels of oats, 5.0O8 of
fax and 1. 1873 of barley or SO. 938 bushels
of grain in all were raised on an area of
4479E acres in the valley.
The Dickinson press., 1909-12-04
A CAPTAIN OF
INCIDENCE,
He Managed to Dodge Both Work
and Matrimony.
BY H. g. FRANK.

BY n. 8. FRANK.
Copyright. 1909. by American Press Asso'
ciation.l
Gabe was lying upon his back, his
hands clasped under his head, gazing
unthinkingly at the sky. He was TWEEN.
ty-1ve years old and barefooted.
Overhead a buzzard foated upon mo.
tionless wings, and .Gabe's eyes fol.
lowed it as far as they could without
causing his head to move.
II he had any thought that was strong
enough to be called IN ambition it was
to be a buzzard, for a buzzard was not
forced to flap its wings to fly.
Times had been going somewhat hard
with him Of late. For one thing be
had had to think. and the prospect was
that before long he might have to do.
Cooner's daughter was now Of age,
and the understanding between the
families had been that some time after
Mary Bet was old enough these two
should marry in order to save the
seven acres on one side Of the slo,e
being separated from the nine acres
Wnlcn joined u crept over and down
the other side,
Cooner was arbitrary. and Gabe's ia
Their, under the influence Of Cooner,
would be just as despotic.
Then Mary Bet was pretty-there
was no denying that--and more than
once Gabe's heart had thumped tire
somely in her presence. In that state
he had ever looked about her cabin
critically, it may be hopefully.
But Mary Bet did not like work. her
self. He had found the ak lying be-
side three OF four uncut branches her
father had dragged in and the seven
OF eight chickens pecking about with
out a. sign of coop or shelter.
BY that time his heart was again
beating TRANQUILITY. and he had viewed
the scene with dispassionate fore
thought. Married to Mary Bet he
would have to cut wood and perhaps
The Dickinson press., 1909-12-04
A Kick From tho Bachelors.

The sobranje Of Bulgaria has passed
q law imposing tax Of about s. q
year on all unmarried men who are
thirty years. old or older. At Tir-
novo, the ancient capital, it has been
a custom for many years to humiliate
unmarried men. On the first Monday
in Lent all manageable men who had
not selected life partners in the carni-
val season were beaten on sight with
inflated pigs bladders. The bachelors
always dreaded the day. while the girls
looked forward to it with pleasure.
Since the tax act has been passed the
bachelors have entered a formal pro-
test against the continuance Of the
practice. They say they will gladly
pay the tax. but want the chastisement
declared unlawful. ).
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1909-04-02
CRUSADER KINDEL's VICTORY.

According Chicago dispatch the proudest citizens of
the United F. Kindel
New Commercial whose eght-rate
determinations against points
section of the country
provoked coninentwide interest but
losing He fought
practically single-handed from the beginning.
Briefly, points certain railroad
lines Denver and other territory high
higher than from the same points to the Pacific and
this Denver manufacturer took
from the imposition like pulling teeth
fghand after they had
come in they inequenty fell
the DISGUST the The
sion the New York Commercial which
uary filed complaint nearly three
drag SLOW length aong and douragng circumstances
dtions confronted him at point
of illustration the freightates situation
tabsh manufacturing plant Cincinnati
through to the Pacific coast the
from Denver the Atlantic
from Cincinnati to that Kinde
his efforts his famous lease No 951
Denver rate only within
been moved with his issued an
order for reduction the Denver points east
Of the Missouri river and from Denver
points The victory is sweeping
score Of powerfu' railroad companies interest
him.
1t is said against railroads and for hold
ing the federal duty Kinde spent his fortune
early then ne appealed to shippers aid
This did fortune
and took up the battle again When anything
cardd the front of his place business epgams
looms dected against the railroads and wrote pamphlets
ing their injustice He sought publicity through
and ne got 1T generally and
# the section fight and for which
ne spent his money fails fully
easily belevab that Kinde his any
way and that can't be taken
Mr. Kfndels work should of arms"
in their endeav people this great
state should stand unit controlling rate
making the the time is not far
Instant When the railroad robbery shall have