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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
Hermiston Canal Breaks.

A special to the East Oregonian from
Hermiston says: Thousands of dollars
worth Of damage was done to property
Monday through the broaking of the
feed canal mile east of Hermiston.
The break it is believed was caused by
a badger hole and was discovered Ey
James Bowers. who was patroling the
ditch. He attempted TO stop the
leak and had narrow escape from
drowning when he jumped into the
canal in an endeavor to place some oh
struotion in the hole through which
the water was rushing. F. W. Whit
ing is the heavisst loser, his five acre
orchard icing practically ruined by
the water. Two acres Of trees were
completely destroyed aad vast
amount of damage has been wrought.
As soon as possible the water was
turned off at Echo but not until 20
miles of water bad rushed out of the
broken canal. In many places tie
water was 10 TO J5 feet deep. Govern
ment employees are repairing the dam
aged canal.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
"oId NassAs..

In the history of Princeton universi'
ty is found the following entry after II
had been decided to seat the college In
Princeton:
'It was the desire of the trustees TO
name the new building after the pa
tron and benefactor Of the college
Governor Belcher, but with rare mod,
esty he declined the honor, requesting
the board to call the edlfice Nassau
Hall as expressing the Honour we re-
tain, in this remote Part of the Globe,
to the immortal Memory Of the Glorl.
GUS King William the Sd. who was a
branch of the illustrlous House OF
Nassau This request Was complied
with In the following terms:
"'Whereas his Excellency Govr. Bel
cher has signifed to US bis declining to
have the Edifice we. have lately erected
at Princeton for the Use and Service
Of New Jersey College to be called aft
er his Name, and has desired and for
Good Reasons that 1t should be cairo
after the Name Of the illustrious
House Of Nassau: 1t is therefore yot-
ed, and It is hereby ordered that the
sd. Edifce be,in all time to come eaiied
and be known by the name or Nassau
Ballt"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
BUY JUTE CLOTH IS PLAN
Believe Method Would Result in Sup
plying All Sacks Needed.

A special to the Walla Wslla Union
says:
Senator d. A. Scott of Walla Walla
fathers a joint resolution under which
the board Of control hopes ultimately
to have the prison jute mill turn out
sufficient grain bags to supply the
farmers of the state of Washington.
The resolution will authorize the
board of control to use $50. 900 Of the
money appropriated for running the
iute mill in the purchase of jute clofh
instead Of raw jute. II this method
Of making bags proves satisfactory the
output Of the big factory vii! be in.
creased to several times what 1t is
now.
Under this scheme most OF the
men employed in the bag factory could
be used building permanent roads as
1t would require cut few mon TO run
| the machines which cut the jute cloth
for the bags. A hundred sacks are cut
ont at time and all the work 10 done
by machinery. A different class OF
lahor would be employed too 80 thaI
nearly all the husky men would be
used on the roads.
| II this plan works out, much the
larger part of the jute mill would not
be used, but 1t would bs Kept intact
for emergencies. The disagreeatle un-
healthy part Of manufacturing the
bags would also be done away with.
The board through the resolution Is
simply asking authority to experiment
along these lines and il the experiment
proves successful little or no raw jute
will be bought in the future. This
plan works in with the Sharpstein law
reducing the profit the state can make
out of the sale of sacks. And il car
ried out successfully. 1t is expected to
result 10 greatly loweriog the price OF
l bags in the state.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14

A learned English Judge asked O
woman to marry him because she,
knowing his weakness. had mixed a
salad so artlstlcally that he declared
he could not live without eating an.
other. The Judge soon repented of
his folly. The lady had foolish ma
ture and temper which so tormented
her husband that he would prolong
the sessions of his court far into the
night. "Gentlemen," he was accus-
toned to say when counsel or jury
murmured Mt the lateness of the hour
"as we must be somewhere. we can
not be better anywhere than we are
here"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14

Lafferty, with whom the article In
question dealt to some extent.
Now comes Lafferty, who apparent
ly takes umbrage at being labeled in
the phyz. of man of eminent quail
tiles and of the Press criticism of him
as land attorney, and requests that
bis letter. giving his side of the mat
ter, be published.
The letter follows. In its publioa-
tion there is given another phase Of
the state land matter, in which Senat-
or Chamberlain and Governor West
are made to appear in an unenviable
light. Thus Lafferty:
Editor Athena Press:-The article
appearing in your issue of February
81, 1918, reoiting that patent had
just been issued to the State of Oregon
for 1000 acres of land, which reflect
ed great credit upon West and Cham
berlain, and put me in doubtful light
because the Evening Telegram, when
Cham berlain was candidate for Sem
ator, quoted me in critioising part
of Chamberlain's state land policy,
was received by me this morning.
"Besides being just the opposite of
the truth in every statement therein
contained, the article in your paper is
accompanied by photograph labeled
CONGRESSMAN Latferty.' which photo
graph is that of an entire stranger to
me. 1t looks like the picture of some
train robbar, but it may be that of
some distinguished citizen, for all
| know.
"The only criticism that ever
made Of West and Cham berlain's land
policy am ready to back up today,
and did hack it up in letterto Sem
ator Chamberlain, published in the
Congressional Record of August 26,
1919.
"The criticism I made of West and
.Chamberlain's land policy was not
that they attempted to secure title for
the State to 1000 acres, but that they
deliberately relinquished the States
claim to over twice that number OF
acres Of fraudulently selected lands to
Frederick A. Kribs, A. d. Daniels,
O. A. Smith and others. The records
prove this statement to be true. and
West and Cham berlain have never de.
MED it and never will. This was in
the spring Of 1904 just before Heney
commenced the land fraud prosecu.
tions the following autumn and before
land frauds became unpopular in Ore
gon. When Heney began his prose.
cntions, West and Cham berlain. a,
usual, jumped in the band wagon.
II request, as matter of justice and
fairness, that you print tLis letter II
full and / am ready to back it up OF
any and all ocoafions.
livery truly you're,
"a. w. Lafferty." Z"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
Elk Arrive i'm Wallowa

Game Warden Averill has retu rned
from Joseph, Wallowa county. where
be left the carload of elk brought
from Jackson's Hole. Wyoming, where
they will be turned into the state
game preserve. The manner Of Sc
curing the elk is somewhat unique.
Driven to desperation by hunger the
elk In droves of several hundred will
follow load of hay into q big corral.
The fences surrounding this inclosure
are low enough to ena BILE the foil
grown animals to leap out. hut is suf-
ficienty high to retain the younger an.
imals. which experience mas demon
strated are more easily transferred to
other states. The entrappe'd animals
are next crowded into small er eorraIs
and by means Of chutes ere l9aled
into crates built on sIeds on which
they are hauled 40 miles over the fam.
Gus Teton pass to the rail read az
briggs. Idaho. There they are trans
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
COUNTY WILL BUILD ROAD
Pendleton and Walla Walla to Be Con-
nected With Macadam Highway.

Within short time Pendleton and
Walla Walla are to be connected with
a maoadam road.
At the recent session of county
court at Pendleton arrangements were
made to put in a maoadam road from
the city limits of Pendleton to East
land station during the coming year.
Including the cost of strengthening nut
some bad curves and making the road
wide in some of the narrow places,
the expense is estimated to be between
$40, 900 and $4,000.
This road will probably be extended
next year from Eastland to Athena,
which, with the work already com
pleled will then give macadam sur
face for all traffic from Pendleton to
Walla WaIla with the exception oi
about ten miles between Weston and
Milton.
There has been lot of talk atout
bonding the county for $500, 900 for
the purpose of bull ding roads, but in
the opinion of the county court. the
better way of handling this matter is
by tuilding JO-mile section each
year until the county is properly sup
piled with roads.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
Hotel for Pendleton.

A 5000 hotel for Pendleton is not
only possibility but a probability,
says the East Oregonian. A move is
already on foot to construct such
bull ding in the city and it is under
stood that $4,000 has already been
subscribed to that end. The men
who are tehind the movement have
been working quietly hut earnestly
aud. while they have not proceeded
far enough to disclose their names OF
plans, they are willing to announce
their project and to declare their in
tention of putting 1t through If pos
aihle.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
CONDITION OF THE
GROWING GRAIN
A 10000 BUSHEL POOL SOLD
AT WALLA WALLA.
Prospects Good for a Good
Crop In Northwest Is Con-
census of Opinion.

Says the Walla Walla Union: Con.
servative dealers estimated Saturday
that 95 per cent Of last years wheat
crop has now been sold and now the
question of next years crops Is the
subject of the wheat market. Prices
remained steady all week and several
small lots were sold, but the passing
of the Vincent Hoffman Elliott pool
week ago and the 10000 bushel
lot of R. Fl. Thompkins we're the last
big lots in the hands Of the farmers.
Local warehouse companies state
that there ia considerable wheat yet
in their houses In this valley but the
commission meu state that much Of
this is sold and ia only waiting ship
ment. There is no shortage Of cars
now and last week thousands Of bush
els of wheat were shipped TO coast
oenters. Over q hundred carloads
were ordered out Yesterday alone.
Prospects for bumper crop next
year were never better in the opinion
of leading farmers and business men.
O, T. Ccrnwell, president Of the Farm
ers union, has predicted mammoth
harvest next fall and President J. O.
SCOTT of the CONNER rcial club echoes
the words.
Farmers everywhere state that the
ground is in the best Of condition and
that the acreage in this year is fully
as large as last years IL not larger.
There were approximately four and
a.half million bushels raised in
Walla Walla county last year, and 1t is
estimated that the figure will creep
over five millions this fall.
Many of the wheat sales during the
past week were for seed purposes and
from now on business in this line will
increase. Many farmers who have
owned extra good grades Of wheat in
small lots have held on to their wheat
for no other reason than to command
good prices for seeding.
This has been especially true In tht
/ harley market. There was larg'
amount of barley in the northwest
this year and the prices were Low
most of the time. This caused many
to abandon their plans of Ieplantinl
that cereal and therefore the wis'
farmors look to a scarcity next year
the same policy being used as in tht
potato market, This does not Away
work out, according to several farm
ers. who state that the majority of the
growers are beoooming SO accustomed
to shor tage after an oversupply thai
they all raise the long crop next veal
aud cause auother over supply.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
THE new RULES
GOVERNING MEET
ADOPTED BY UMATILLA COUNTY
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION.
Hayward's Splendid Lecture
Will Serve to Inject Spirit In
Local School Athletics.

New rules have been adopted by the
Umatilla County Athletic and Orator
ioal Association, which will hereafter
apply to athletic meets of the assooia-
tiou in Athena. The new rules are as
fellows:
mo student over 81 years of age
shall beper mitted to participate in any
High School athletic contest
2--No student shall participate in
any High school athletic contest who
shall not have been in regular attend
anoe for weeks previous to the con-
test.
3--Any student par ticipating in any
game between secondary schuol teams
in which any player is not eligible
under these rules shall rauder himself
ineligible to represent his school, for
the remainder of the year.
4--No student shall participate in
any contest who shall not maintain a
standing of 75 per cent in each Of at
least three subjects as shown by re-
port cards for the preceding report
period which must be submitted to
the faculty representatives Of the con-
testing teams prior to each game.
5--Students shall not participate in
High school athletics for more than
four years.
6--Hieh schools offering less than a
four years course will be permitted
to play any eighth grade student who
is carrying the prescribed course With
an average Of 80 per cent and is other
wise eligible under these rules.
ALI questions of dispute shall be
referred to an executive commission
which shall consist of the president,
seer etary and treasurer Of the Una
tilla County Athletic and Oratorical
Association.
Professor "Rill'' Hayward. the
greatest developer of athletes in the
Northwest, athletic director Of Oregon
University, delivered an inter esting
lecture at the Dreamland theatre yes.
terday afternoon to large and appre.
ciative audience comprised of students
from the schools and citizens. As
q result of the lecture. school athletes
have been imbued with desire fol-
thorough training, which will un-
doubtedly have much to do with Ath-
ena's success in the coming track
meet.
The trainer spoke of the purpose of
athletics in the high school or college,
averring that it 10 to equip the student
with strong and healthy body. 1T
is we'll known scientific fact, " be
said, "that good Eody is essential for
good mind and it is in recognition
of this fact that so much emphasis is
laid upon athletics by our schools. "
Mr.. Hayward placed particular
emphasis upon the necessity of clean
living and the absolute abstinence
from the use of tobacco aud liquor.
The lecture was illustrated with
stereopticon views of scenes at the
1919 Olympic meet at Stock holm
and of the annual intefseholastic
meets held at the University of Ore
gon.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
Praise Enr tha erowlars.

"The GROWERS" says n Georgia phi
losopher, "are the boys that keep the
world moving, for when folks are
growing all the time the world stops
to ask the reason and straightway
finds remedy for the trouble IL the
world paid any attention to the opti,
mists things would be at standstill
Taking 1t for granted that everything's
o. X. is the end of progress. ATLANTA
Constitution.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
ferred to the cars and the remainder
OF the journey is accomplished with
more comfort to the auimals.
Fir emen Injured.

Assistant Fire Chief GuthIide Of
Walla Walla is reported to he suffer-
ing with badly wrenohed knee re-
ceived during the Hanger & Thomp-
son fire last week, when he stumbled
over some boxes on the second floor
Arthur Olson ia almost minus thumb
and Auto Driver William Kolb is
nursing bad out on his right hand,
caused by piece of flying glass.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
To Divide Adams Estate.

John r., Walter, Pauline and Helen
Adams have commenced suit against
Henry A. Mitchell and other heirs of
the estate of the late Henry q. Adams
to compel the sale of the real prop
elty of the estate and division Of the
proceeds. H. O. Bryson is attorney
for plaintiffs.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
Woodmen Are Active.

Athena Camp, Woodmen Of the
World, held rousing meeting Sat-
urday evening, when class of thir-
teen new members were initiated iuto
the order. The degree work was put
on by the Pendleton team. A sump-.
tuous banquet was enjoyed and oou-
pie of head officers made addresses.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14

Once upon time an Irishman was
walking through lonely cemetery
and stopped before an imposing look
ing monument bearing the following
inscription: II Still Live"
Pat reflected soberly for moment
and then said. "Well, If Oi was dead,
begorra, ORD own up to itl'-E Exchange.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
[AFFERTY COMES
BACK STRONG
TAKES EXCEPTIONS TO CRIT
ClSM OF THE PRESS.
Takes a Crack at State Land
Policy Of Sen. Chamberlain
and Governor West.

In an article relative to the issu-
ance of patent to the State OF Ore
gon for 1000 acres Of land, appearing
In the Press of recent date, the "make-
up by mistake substituted the por-
trait of a really distinguished person
age for that of Congressman A. W.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
DIR. Swinburne Dies.

DR.. e. r. Swinhurne, formerly a
we'll known physician of Pendletop,
died Monday evening at the home Of
his son in Seattle. The remains were
taken to Heppner where inter ment
took place Wednesday.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
Two Divorces Granted.

Judge Phelps Monday issued two
divorce DEGREES, one to Addie M.
Green separating her from her bus
band, Dossie E. Green, and one to
Maggie La Brache severing the tie
which bound her to Louis La Brache.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
Knights of Columbus.

With elaborate ceremonies. Pendle-
ton Council K. Of @. was organized
at that city Sunday. Fifty. three
Catholics were initiated into the
order.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
a Grand Army Score.

A golfer playing his first game Of
the season reported downtown the next
day that he had made a Grand Army
score-he went out In 01 and came
back In O5.-Chlcago Post.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
Would Feel Easier.

Caddie Master What sort of caddie
do you want. sir? Nervous Novice
Well-er-I'd like boy who knows
very little about the game.-London
Sketch.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
practicsd What He Preached.

Hills-Gruet says that he believes In
keeping in touch with his fellow meh.
Mills Well. there aren't many Of them
that he hasn't touched
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1913-03-14
For a Rainy Day.

Mrs. Exe--My husband has soms-
thing laid aside for a rainy day. Mrs.
wye-I know tiny husbands uin'
brellaI
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-02

Oci11S pan.
She had come to know the routine
of Blair's daily life. Every evening
at six o'clock he would lock his door
and go out to the cheap restaurant
where he ate his supper. The rest of
his meals he cooked in his studio, but
the supper hour was unvarying. AS
he became used to her presence he
ceased to notice her at all. And one
evening long-hoped for event hap
pened. Blair left his door unlocked.
That was Delia's opportunity. He
would not return for an hour, and
one can do a great deal in an hour.
Softly she crept in, armed with a
broom and duster She was going
to tidy his room for him.
When she had entered she looked
round her in amaZement. She saw
the bed, without sign of linen, in
one corner; in another a little gas
stove and table, with couple of
chairs. And the floor was a perfect
rubbish-heap of broken glass and
paints and varnishes. She did net
know that all these fragments of
glass were the unpieced portions of
the great window.
First she sorted out the cans and
placed them in orderly array against
the wall. Then she gathered the
glass fragments together and put
them in a heap upon the floor. Then,
taking her buster, she mounted a
chair and began to wipe the cobwebs
from the walls.
All the while she was listening in
tently for step on the stairs; yet
so busily did she work that she did
not know how time was passing un-
til the sound of Blair's tread two
flights down startled her She lost
her balance, tried to regain it, and
toppled down with crash upon the
pieces of glass. |
Panic-stricken, she picked herself
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-02

loud exclamation, heard the door fly
open. And there came hannmering
at her own. Della waited, breathless.
silent. He would not go away: He
raped louder. In terror she spran;
to her feet and opened. Blair was
standing outside, red with anger. In
his hands he held the broom and
buster.
"Are these yours?" he demanded.
Eyes, 1 see they are, and have to
thank you for making bears garden
of my studio and destroying the work
of weeks" he exclaimed, in tones that
Della had never heard addressed to
her before.
IL wanted to help you," the girl
stammered. 81 thought"
7 But how could she tell him what
she had thought-that he was as
lonely as she, that he had no one to
care for him. The tears came into her
eyes, and finding it impossible to re-
strain them she put her handkerchief
to her face and sobbed.
Already disheveIed by her long
work in the studio, she felt that her
hair was loosening, and, putting her
hand to her head to make it secure,
only succeeded in letting the whole
auburn mass tumble about her Shout
ders.
There was a long silence. Della
dared not look up, but she dared not
go back into her room, for she felt
that her crime was too deep not to
need requital.
Suddenly she felt two hands on her
shoulders. Mr.. Blair had actually
done that; he dared to swing her
round so that the light from the hall
window fell upon her face. ..-
"You are wonderful" he ex-
claimed.
s'Mr. Rlairp' said Della Indignantly.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1913-05-30
THE DIFFERENCE

There is a distinction and a
difference, sonny, between an
Organization" and a ring. A
machine " is one thing. 1t is
an organization-a necessary,
inevitable result of all govern
ments, from the smallest Office
up to the largest. When a com
pany is formed, society organ
lied anywhere for any purpose,
with any number of officers
large or small, a machine" is
at once started. How could it be
otherwise? But a ring" is a
different thing altogether, and
rings there are have always
existed wherever an organiza-
ton existed. A ring" is com
posed of men in the organization
whose aim is to control the
organization for selfish purposes.
1t readily appears therefore,
that a man who kicks" the
ring should not be classed as
an anti-machine, or anti-or-
ganization man. Right here
there is much confusion arising
from a failure to discriminate
between an organization and a
ring. One, the organization, is
elected by the people. The
other, 1.-THE ring" is generally
a secret organization or club on
the inside, whose purpose is to
manipulate the organization for
personal and selfish ends. Now,
opposition to a ring does not
mean opposition to the organiza-
ton necessarily. A man or news
paper is not anti-machine nee
essarily because he is anti-ring.
1t seems to US that these distinc-
tions, if kept in mind. would
help out.