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Newspaper
Athena Press
Location
Athena, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1907
Page
1
Governor Chamberlain warned Treasurer Steel he would press criminal action if deposits of state school funds placed in Title Guarantee and Trust Co were not adequately secured. He insisted the laws were violated and pledged to act, though reluctant for political reasons, to enforce them.
The Oregon Gas and Oil company has drilled a Payette gas well to 785 feet and suffered several blowouts from pockets of gas. Experts believe a steady flow will soon be found. A second well 14 inches in diameter will be started to tap oil below the gas and operations will be cashed on this well as rapidly as possible.
Members and guests enjoyed the Panic Party with Miss Maud Gholson winning best costume and Mr Fred Kernbaw best gentlemen's attire. Refreshments followed as officials, including Mr I Wilson, announced fines for various misdemeanors ranging from gum chewing to ticket issues and attire concerns.
The W G Adams ranch near Odebolt Iowa famed as the old Farmer Wheeler place will be divided into forty quarter sections and sold at ninety dollars an acre. Adams holds the mortgage, plans to keep corn priced high, and expects about 7000000 to swing the deal. The northeast quarter near Odebolt includes over 25000 in improvements, while other sections also have substantial improvements. The community believes forty farms will boost business more than the large ranch. Also noted is an $8000 Poland China hog named Voter, bred by W Dingman of Clay Center Kansas and Smith Bros of Alma, winner at the Illinois state fair as the top Poland China of any age.
The Oregon Society offers public school prizes for essays on the War for Independence. Awards 20 15 10 and 6 dollars for top essays on Washington the Great Leader The Flag of the United States The Boston Tea Party and The Treason of Benedict Arnold. Essays limited to 3000 words must be hand written on one side with teacher certificate and writer signature. Submissions due March 1 1908 to R Eckerson Portland Oregon. In judging originals are valued for originality accuracy treatment and orthography.
The Chicago club, winners of the championship game, receive 60 percent of the prize money totaling $82,700.04, while the Detroit club gets 40 percent amounting to $21,074.26. Chicago players share $9,089.09 each, and Detroit players split $1,945.96 each after gifts from club presidents.
Ed Robbins of the Robbing Transfer Company Everett arrives in Walla Walla to organize a liverymen association. Local liverymen reportedly favor the plan to seek state legislation and protection for livery services. Wheat moves from Walla Walla valley toward Portland Tacoma and Sound points with good demand and high prices anticipated. Barley prices in Dayton and nearby rising with food and weed markets reported at about 2 dollars per 100 pounds.
Floyd Huffy, indicted under the new state law against selling liquor to Indiana residents, faces prosecution per District Attorney Phelps. Chief Guardance arrests him amid suspicions of aiding a depot robbery involving three Yakima Indians, Minthorn, Mitchell, and Corbett, alleged to have received whiskey from Huffy. Penalties under the law range from one month to a year in jail or a fine up to 500 dollars, or both.
A long idle tract southwest of Bebo, 2 to 12 miles away, attracts early settlers now filing on 100 acre tracts. The land, among the best in Uma tilla county, promises to yield some of the region’s finest farms. Previous occupants planted poplar trees and prepared to settle but soon abandoned the claims seeking better opportunities.
Professor W D Lyman, head of the History Department at Whitman College, is preparing a history of the Columbia River. The work is part of Putnam's The Historia Riverian of America series, tenth in the set, about eight hundred pages with a hundred illustrations. Completion will take over a year. his selection reflects his authority on Northwest history.
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