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"TrshoultiT Patronize ST. Johns review The IKlTVnhn1! i city " " MJUOHNS REVIEW Devoted to the Interests of tlio Peninsula, the Atnnufacturlng Center of the Northwest VOI,. I ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1905. Advertise in The Review Its circulation Is genu ine nnd It covers the field. Its better than 11 daily in the field. IT WILL REPAY YOU NO. 45 rXOOOOOOOOOOOOC Keep Your Eye on St. Johns L)oooooooo OOOOOOOO OO 000 You had better get your STOVE WOOD before the "Oregon Mist" sets in. Our Telephone Number is East 1846. Acme Lumber Company P. S.--We are selling cull lumber for wood sheds. Have you seen the grade? ACAE LUMBER COMPANY i. 1 i if OUTRAGEOUS I Non- Doing Action of City Council Great Damage. Those, who assert that no harm is being done the city of, St. Johns by this unparallelled squabble have certainly taken tio effort to inform themselves. They have not con versed with the business men of the city or else they have miscon strued the feeling of every man financially interested in the city. Daniel Brccht, owner and pro prietor of the St. Johns Lumber Company, says: "It is ridiculous that we have to put up with the condition that has existed for the past two months! There is needed legislation which we cannot get and, mote than that, our situation has gotten abroad, greatly to the dctrimuit of St. Johns. I am greatly interested here but I cannot stand it much onger. "1 have been trying to iret cer tain mouied men interested with me here in rebuilding my plant. My plans mean a greatly enlarged industry a magnificent mill that will employ a large force of men and will be a credit to the com munity. Hut my associates, view the city's status with alarm and fear to risk their money by an in vestment where so apathetic a spirit is manifested as shown by those who seem to wish to block pro gress." Mr. Hrecht said that all with whom he had talked were disgusted with the non-action of the council and he believed that it would require mouths to recover from this condition. W. V. Jobcs was seen nt his flouring mill and was asked if he considered . the present condition of GREAT GRAFT? Who Is It Being Paid For Booming' J The Road Mouse? J So flagrant has become the sup-1 J port given the road house across the river by certain citizens of this'Js conimniiitvtlmt Tint IliciMiiwiliwuiid i it right to no longer keep quiet re- S garding the matter. It has been I J; the aim of tins paper to suppress this case of graft because it was believed that all differences within the body of the council would be quickly healed: and it is unques tionably the better plan to suppress St. Johns Park publicity where any wrong is apt to be quickly and wholly repaired. In view, however, of this con 4 5 ! s No. 2, tinned struggle in the city council,! J and in view of the fact that there W. II. KINO, President. M. L. IIOLI1ROOK, Vlce-Preildcnt ST. JOHNS ABSTRACT & TRUST COMPANY Abstracts of Title carefully and accurately prepared. Charges Reasonable. Office! King's Building, Jersey St., St. Johns EDMONDSON CO., Hardware, Tinware, Plumbing Tin Roofs, Gutters, etc. WM Scott 4065 ST. WINS, Or COMING OUR WAY. Will Quickly Commence Work On Bridge Spanning Willamette. Tint RKVIKW has leen in n position to know for several weeks 'that the Northern Pacific would cross the Willamette at St. Johns and that work would commence as soon as the Secretary of the Interior had approved the contemplated work. Last Friday Tint Kkvikw secured a special wire from Wash ington stating that the Secretary of the Interior had approved the elevations, proliles, plans, lines and full details of the bridge, c-rrtredtj",touncil an naVautageous one. "No, sir, I do not," was the reply and there was no uncertainty in his tone. "I think it is a dis grace to every man in the town. I have nothing against any member of the (ward crsoually: in fact, I think they arc all right when they are all right. Hut this matter has now been growing so long that it I has become a nuisance. The actions arc becoming child'splay and the business harms the city to a great extent. I'd be in favor of each side naming Ave men and letting them act as an arbitrating board. Still, I don't know as that would amount to anything because the factious are stubborn, and it is likely the arbitration board also would be stubborn. "If the one side would count Mr. Edwrfrds out and the other would allow the criminal charges against the matter 4 S a steady under-current in certain ' 21 circles which nruvents every uffnrti toward settlement, it has now be come public property that someone is being paid to aid and abet this quarrel. This sentiment is well- founded. There is no doubt of its being a fact and there are many acts which tend to show that more than one person is being "touched" by money. If .So long as the city council of St. ' Johns is in a deadlock just so much ! is-the trade of the house across the J river upon the increase. It is trade that place desires and that traffic is.! gained by placing this city where it cannot legislate is a known fact. I It may le noted that whenever $ there seems to be a strong xssih!lity i of an amicable settlement of ouri local difficulties some of our cople hie themselves to a business place on Fourth street, in Portland, mid there, seated beside the shrewd manager, suggest ways and means to prevent a settlement mid con tinue the strife. The men who seek to promote strife and continue this infernal trouble are known to le haud-iu-glove in collusion: and, as there can he no future emoluments for their labors, it must be pieseut and ever- useful cash which influences Lots 50x1 06 ft. With a 1 6-foot Alley back of each lot. Prices " $200 and Upwards Terms 1 4 j $5 Down and $5 per month I strain-1 them to drop I supiiose could be arranged: yet I don t see and the work Is now assured, that the criminal charges have any There is to be on expenditure of thing to do with whether Ed wards about ten million dollars by the is a member or not. But the Ed Northern Pacific and the money j wards matter no doubt led to the for the entire work is now on! making of the charges. I'd say deposit in fact, it has been for two drop all the contention: declare MULTNOMAH ELECTRIC... COMPANY.. INCOBrOUTEt Electrical and Gas Supplies We (astall Llfhtlur and Power Plant! and repair Motor and Dynamo. House and Dtll NVIring a specialty. .PHONE I EAST 4540 SI3 WILLIAMS AVENUE, PORTLAND, OREOON W. M. KILLINGSWORTH THE PIONEER REAL ESTATE DEALER OT HE PENINSULA . . . defect.1 ' re8idenCe P' Walnut Pari- nfr, it . . , ,6'e homo ciT . l" mosi oesir- sod 1fr,it-reeu,graded' loU c"Bber of Comm.rr. vua tH44Ht THE CENTRAL HOTEL I Mfs- L. Tyner, Proprietor Flrt CUm Hoomt Culilne ExceUeat JOHNS, OKEQON W.J.PEDDICORD REAL ESTATE Ijoo Lot 50x16, near station. $400 Pour lots in Point View, comer, S400 Lot 50x100,6 n e river vie w, half cash 350 Lot 50x100, close inj fi$ cash. Installment. j-room bouse 12x28, small barn, a few bearing trees, lot 50x100. I550 2-roora house, lot 54x183; $135; installment. I675 4-room bouse, lot 50x100, sightly, close to station; adjoining lot may be bad. I900 7-rooin house, good well, cistern and city water. Terms on part. 1 1 050 5-room house, plastered; nice lawn, lot 50x100. 1 1200 5-rooui bouse, wood-fiber; lot 50x100, near station. I1250 6-room bouse, lot 50x100; fine lo cation, Boulevard. J1625 6-room house, river view, lot 50x100. f2ioo 8-room house, near station, plenty of fruit, lot 100x100; fine home. One 5-room house for rent, river view. Also a i-room bouse. "For Rent" and "For Sale" cards for sale at this office. Bring us fi and we will send the Review to your friend for a year. weeks. For some time this railroad system has contemplated an aban donment of the ferry at Goble, and of the various routes to enter Port laud and there has never been a doubt of the crossing at Fessenden z the St assistance given. It is known the world over that money talks but ; Jj in this case the cash is singularly ' J; uuiet: in fact, one fit. Johns man passed the before-mentioned office J several times while waiting for the departure of another St. Johns 1111111 '! who was presumably UH)ii thelJJ same errand. ' Those who are innocently con-'S tribtiting to the continuance of the,; deadlock in the council by their words of encouragement should hesi-; tate a bit and investigate. There is but one logical conclusion to reach ' when the matters are fully con- . sidered. It is as plain ns actions Jj and results can paint that someone ; is in the pay of outside partlrs: that there is an object in view in pro-; noting disseutiou and preventing ' any settlement. Money will buy, some tieoplc even against their j! principles; and money is playing an Jj imwrtunt part in this cise. And some men of the best inten tions are allowing themselves to le duped I 4 ' Tlicse4ols tire located on Jersey street, three blocks from car line nnd Near the Great Weyerhauser Mill Site. Don't pay $350 and $oo for building lots only 100 feet deep, and without alleys, when you can get ex tin sized lots with 1 6-foot alleys, all high and level, and in the best locality in St. Johns for $200 and upwards, Let us show you this property, We eau sell only the fust fifty lots at these prices. This is done to ad vertise the property. When these are sold prices will advance 25 per cent. Within one year, when the great Weyerhauser mill is in operation, these lots will be worth double the pres ent prices. St. Johns Land Co St. JollllS I'I'onc Union 3101 OregOII Branch Office and Agency 011 (he Ground. IJdwards out: drop the legal end of the charges: and do business -but I presume those who have leeu assailed would not call that fair. This trouble is causing a loss of business all over the city: every business man feels it: and it is street, here in bt, Johns, 'I hist making a disgraceful place out of paper made the assertion more than ! what was, until recently, a wonder three months since to this effect fully nice city." and it has never lost faith in the Thus it goes with every citizen protect. Since that time complete ' in St. Johns: whether it is the man soundings have been taken of the laying brick or the man Willamette at tliat point, aim day team; the man witn tue suovel or after day watchmen were on duty the man in the store; the man in j at all hours to count vessels passing, the office or the man with the axe; in order to secure figures to average the man in the factory or the man ' for the opening of the drawbridge, in the mill; there is universal con However, a high cantilever bridge , demnation and the strong, very will do away with a drawbridge. 1 strong asertion that the city is Every combination of circum-, being harmed and its interests de-1 stances has shown that Tin; Ri;- predated by this blocked condition. view was correct in its prophecy j Because it could not secure proper regarding this railroad work, legislation regarding a sewer an Crossing the Willamette, the road j industry with a weekly payroll of Will i UU WttUUJjU 44fcW W444IW . )VSV UUIIVU w X.V .. MlltJIMV.T.ll t 11 lift 1 and veer sharply to the south to ' Had the council been in its normal ,nU ",tMre surveys and datum there- its newly-acquired terminate; thus i condition the sewer proposition placing St. Johns directly upon a ' could have been quickly handled through Hue of road and largely , and the plant would have continued augmenting the shipping facilities , business. As it now is the plant Itench Marks Needed. City Kugiuecr V. V. Goodrich lias decided that there is dire need of bench marks at several Miuts in , the city, in order to facilitate getting the grades at any future time. The ) following communication will be, nrcscntcd bv him at the next meet- n with tliel"K f cy cowncll: e shovel or "Gl5NTl.ii.Mi5N: There should be set, aim ai as cany (line as mei council will so order, bench marks at Jersey and Fessenden, Jersey and Philadelphia, Jersey and Richmond, Hayes and Fessenden, Hayes ami Ilurliugtou, and Hayes and Rich-, inoiid streets. , "These said bench marks should Ik- of concrete, eight inches in diameter, eighteen inches deep, and twelve inches under the grade, with a center tack set in the cement, for to. "This same action will save for all time a needless exjcuse in locat- REMEMBER! Strictly Fresh Goods at the Right Prices is Our Aotto ! COUCH & CO t of this city. This will be good news to our people because it will largely aid the progress of this city. Building a Shop. W. C. Adams is now building a shop, corner of Burlington and Ivanlioe streets, which he will use as a carpenter shop and draughting room. He intends to do proper advertising and build up a good business. lias simply quit because it Had no means of securing a waterway for its used w iter nor did existing conditions indicate any relief, Those who assert that the city is not !eing harmed may consult the taxpayers and draw their inference from what they may learn. This tale is not fiction it is absolute truth. ing surveys, etc. ! "Sincerely, "WlI.UAM W. GOOOKJCII, "City Engineer." At This Office, Neatly printed books of notes and receipts for sale at this office. Quick Work. , Last week W. C. Adams finished a five-room cottage, on Hayes street, near the home of C. W, Potter. The house was only one week in construction, the occupants moving in eight days after the commencement. It is a very pretty and complete little home and the owners are pleased with it. J. J. KADDERLY Hardware Of all Kinds. Sole Agent for Universal Stoves and Ranges j Do not fail to see the Universal Steel Range before purchasing 141-143 Firtl Sfreel, Odd Fellows Building, Portland, Oregon. Phone Main 1382 O l i $ h S i h t ( t ( ( t ( i I ( h