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ST. JOHNS REVIEW IT'S NOW UP TO YOU To ubr Ibe (or The Review. J( All.lhe newt while It l newt ii tf our motlo. Call In and enroll I i GET IN THE HABIT 01 idvcrtlslng In The Review and you'll never ft pel II. Uc lln at once and keep rltht at It Devoted to the Interests of the Peninsula, the Manufacturing Center of the Northwest VOI,. 3 ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1907. NO. 44 DRAG NET CAPTURES SIX Raid on Gambling Dens of the City Results in Arrest of Several Business Men. WOOD AND IRON ENTERPRISES NO WOMANJNTHE CASE Vacation Adventures and Misadventures of St. Johns Young Man in Neighboring State. At the Inst council meeting the city attorney scored the police de partment for laxity in their duty, criticised the council for permitting such crimes as had been of frequent occurrence of late. The mayor was induced to put on another policeman. Wednesday evening of last week the cops made a raid on 113 Burlington street nud arrested John Bunn and Frank Heck for gambling. At Al Harris' old stand another grab was made and Mr. Harris, L. E. Walker, R. D. Jackson and a man who answers to the name of Gregory were captured on the same charge. These gentlemen were permitted to go on depositing bait of $20 each, with the exception of Mr. Gregory, who gave leg bail in the confusion incident to the depos iting of the yellow metal with the recorder. Mr. Gregory, too, has evidently left the country for the country's good, as he cannot be found anywhere. The time of trial was set for Thursday at 2 p. m. at which time John Dunn and Frank Heck appeared nud plead guilty. As they were being tried under the provisions of the city chnrtcr which makes the minimum flue $20, in view of the fact that these gentlemen htm hereto fore borne n good chnrnctcr, this being the first time they had be mi arraigned before the court, the judge was disposed to be lenient with them, fined them $20 and remanded half the fine. Messrs. Harris, Walker nud Jnckson not having appeared the court adjourned, after having declared their bail foifcitul, ordered bench warrants for their urrest, continuing the cases until Friday ut 2 p. m. Messrs, Walker and Jnckson met the municipal judge just us he entered his ofliee mi l explained thnt they hod come just as soon as it was pos sible for them to do so and that they would be on hands promptly the next day nud for this reason their bnil was returned to them when tiicy nppenred for trial. On the dny set for the trial at 1 p. in. Messrs. Walker and Jnckson appeared and plead guilty nud the court nsscsscd $15 for cnclt. Mr. Ilnrris dH not nptcnr in person, but sent in the pica of guilty, nlso, by Mr. Walker: ns the law requires the personal attendance of the party clime- tl with any crime, the declared his bail forfeited and assessed him $15. The last three casts, Novel and Ingenious Machinery in Shops of Douglas & Son and J. T. Murphy Excites Interest and Admiration Industries That Help Make St. Johns Flourish At the foot of Pittsburg street is located the wood working establishment of Douglas & Sou. Here they have n fine little building for their business 40x100 well equipped with up-to-date machinery consisting of a "sticker." Why it should ever have been afflicted with such a cognomen is more than wc can tell, for it is a fine little machine capable of turning out an endless variety of different kinds of moulding nud other ornamental work for finishing the Inside of houses. In addition to the sticker these people have two lathes, n band saw, a universal wood working machine mm one ot the largest rip saws In use on the coist, in fact there is but one other like it, located in one of the Portland mills. The universal woodworker is nn ingenious machine with a tilting table nud n number of cutting I blades which can be put on the saw arbor with which they enn cut gains, tenons nud dozens of other things tic dent to the manufacture of articles from wood. They nlso have n most ingenious boring machine with which they bore mortises for sash pulleys, nud n cut off saw arranged on u bench so marked that material may be trimmed instantly any length desired. The power is furnished by a is-horsc jxwer electric motor. Messrs, Douglas & Sous have been overcrowded with work all during the dull season nud when the rush of building comes it is hard to tell where they will land. They will have to do like the rich man in the old story, tear down and build larger" most likely. They have n fine stock of finishing stuff on hand nt nil times, n most convenient thing for our contractors nud builders. when they fulled to appear under the city jurisdiction, the court placi-d the matter in the justice court and made state cases out of them which gave greater latitude as to fines, the maximum b'.-ing $500 nud the imum nothing. Just a block north on Bradford street is located the machine shop of J. T. Murphy. This machine shop like Douglas & Sou's establishment is obliged to work overtime in order to keep up with their work and then cannot do it. Mr. Murphy has n small building, in fact, too small, nud is expecting soon to erect n lamer one to nccommodntc his constantly growing business. He lias in his shop n io-foot power screw court I cutting lathe with a 24-itich swing with reversible gear, nud while it is ns good n lathe ns money will buy for its size it is too small to accommodate n great tieai 01 tne uusiuess turn comes to nun, ami lie 11ns neeii obliged to order n larger lathe. He nlso has n Steptoe simper with n capacity of 25 inches, a iower drill with n 26-inch throat, n jwwer saw tor cutting iron, torgc unti vices ami n line set ot tools necessary lor tioing a 7-liorse power upright engine, the replaced by a io-horse power electric Mr. Murphy nud his employes are to do almost nuythiug in the mutter mm" ! expert work in his line. The powor for the present is furnished by steam being furnished by nn upright boiler. 1 hese nrc soon to be 1 motor, nud other machines will be added ns the business demands nir n c r 1 j 1 u expert workmen nud turn out it fine class of work, and nrc prepared nOITlt! meDllOne LO. IU jUUII CXlcllU LHlC HclC. of repa r tin ami duiuiiiik 01 macnines. IIUIIIC ICIcpnuilC ,v. IV JUUII LiAlvllu uiit utit. . irile rie of tie iiie wm Interest the behoklcr ixsrlinps more than that ol any machine in the shop. A bar of round iron or steel is placed in this machine and n cutting tool in the head is brought in touch nt n point where the size is to be reduced to fit a collar or the opening in the center of the wheel which is to work on the shaft. The lever is thrown over, putting on the power, nud the cutting tool takes off n steel shaving 1 which curls tin in ringlets much like those on the head of your sweetheart, except for color. When the general manager of the company, who cutting tool reaches the end of the cut, another lever is thrown lo nnothcr point, thus reversing the travel bend every effort to get into St. Johns nt 0f the tool carriage nud the tool going back smooths up the work. This operation is rerouted until the When in Portland last week wc called nt the headquarters of the Home Telephone company to see what we could learn of the pros pect of thnt most excellent phone system getting into bt. Johns. We met Mr. Tctro the IOO0OOOOOOOOO0OO Are you going Hop Picking? Are you going Camping ? Are you GOING VISITING? IF SO, SEE THE- Portland Suburban Express Company About Your Trunks and Baggage. Prompt and efficient service. Rates right. In formation for travelers at office of agent. Get our rates before shipping. Call us up. Phone Main 358, Portland office. STEARNS Phone Woodlawn 81 3. Agent at St. Johns. tOOOOO W. E. COON Manufacturinf Confactlonar Fresh Candies made daily No stale goods. Cigars, Tobacco, Ice Cream, etc. Jersey Street Stop on car line. LEROY H. SMITH V CO. REAL ESTATE, EIRE, LIFE AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE Phone M 2025 Offices; Cochran Block, St. Johns 408 Abington Dldg,, Portland ! WILLIE MAGOON DEAD ' Father Fails to Reach Bedside of Dying Son at San Jose. I We announced in last week's issue that IJ. 0. Magoon had re ceived information of the danger ous illness of his son in California and his departure for San Jose. Friday we received a copy of the San Jose Daily Tinits with the , following account of the death of his sou before Mr. Mngoou reached him. Mr. and Mrs. Magoon have the sincere sympathy of all their friends; I A large concourse of sorrowing friends and playmates attended the 'funeral yesterday afternoon, Sep tembers, of Willie Magoon, the ' 1 3-year-old sou of Mr, and Mrs. ,15. 0. Magoon, who passed away in this city Sunday afternoon after a brief illness of a few days. The services were most impressive and many beautiful floral pieces were in evidence as a token of the es teem in which he was held. Services were conducted at the house, 230 North First street, by I Rev. Gresham of the Episcopal church, after which the cortege proceeded to Oak Hill cemetery, where the interment was held. At the grave several boy companions of the deceased rendered appropri ate songs, followed by the regular ritualistic service. A pathetic incident in connection with the boy's death was the fath er's vain endeavor to reach the bedside of his dying son before the visit of the grim Reaper. The father is a business man in Port land and wlien not 1 tied ol ins son s serious illness he instantly boarded a train for San Jose, but in the race with Death he lost, arriving after the spark of life had fluttered. The mother, who resides in San Jose, tried in every available man ner to reach her husband by tele graph, but owing to the present strike of the operators, she was unable to notify him. A telephone call iinally reached mm in fortlanu and as soon as he received the sad message he started for San Jose, but arrived too late. Willie Magoon was a native of Fresno and was in bis thirteenth year. He was a student at the Longfellow grammar school and his teachers aud playmates speak of him as a studious scholar with a bright future. Besides bis grieved parents he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Frank Heath and Roma Magoon. If you know auy news tell us. informed us that he would the earliest moment, and that he was as anxious to get into this city 'shaft is of the desired dimensions. as we could -possibly be to have them here. He also stated that! The hhaper is operated much the same way, except instead of the material revolving as in n lathe, the they were crowded to the limit on orders already ahead of us and ' tool carriage moves over the surface of the plane cutting it nwoy until it is as smooth as the side of 11 board that he could not state just how soon they would come, because he coming from the carpenter's bench. would not make a promise he could not make good. Until the con- structioti department put the line in here, he said he was in their hands. Mr. Tucker, the manager of that department had just re turned from an extended trip in tile Hast aud he has not yet had an opportunity to speak with him, but he took a note of the matter nud said he would consult him about it at the first opportunity. He told us to say to the people here thnt he would get here just as quickly as possible and when that time came would put in a system that would give satisfaction to the most exacting. PUBLIC FOUNTAIN I CUT ALL TO PIECES Location in Front of City Hall Mas Been Suggested. Who? Why? Haven't You Heard About It? That drinking fountain been placed in evidence yet Ima tint and many of our citizens are wondering. Just a word or two as to location right here might not be amiss. Do you know that the location which has been favored by many will not be a desirable one? Just think what it would be if located in the center of the ojK'ii space at the junction of liurliugtou, Philadelphia and Jersey stree's when these business streets become ns congested as First, Sec- The butchers in St. Johns, Ports mouth and University have decided oiid aud between would simply have to be removed, that is all. Then why not place it in a situation where it will never be necessary to remove it? There is just such a place, a much more appropriate place, one that will add much more to the beauty and reputa tion of the city property. We refer to the park in front ot the city hall. The old city hall is to be removed, the ' to cut the prices of meats down so I.OW that the people who have been, cannot afford to continue ; going to Portland and being bur- (leued with carrying from one to fifty pounds of meat home with 1 them. 1 Some people ask; "Why can't the St. Johns butchers sell meat as cheap as those two large meat mar Ikets in Portland?" Why don't 1'hird streets of Portland I they? Stop aud think! Because Pine and Morrison. It Vou do not imtronue them. If all you CITY buyers would buy nt HOMK aud PAY the CASH for it the same as you IIAVK to do in Port'aud, our business would be large ciioukIi to enable us to better compete with the Portland markets and sell you meats cheaper. Re inembir the more trade we have the clieaer we can buy and sell. It would surprise you at the nuin park graded and put in the finest of ber of business men, property shape and there is all kinds of room there for the drinking fountain. It will never be congested by traffic and commerce as the location first referred to is bound to be in a very few years aud the fountain in front of the city hall will be an ornament to the city property there, every cit izen of the town will be proud of. To us it is the only logical position for the fountain and our city fathers will most certainly do well to con sider this before the location is named, and if they are wise they will keep this open space at the junction of the three streets named entirely tree for the operation of the business that is as sure to come to St. Johns as the sun shines. We from owners and laboring people, who expect and want St. Johns to grow into a large city, uud at the same time do nearly all of their trading in Portland. Watch for our price lists. Thanking you for being kind and patient enough to read these few lines and hoping you will give us u call and sec for your selves, we remain, Respect fully yours, St. Johns Butchhks. Grangers on Easy Street. The following resume of the financial situation is to the point nud should make the heart of the ti.lfl a rrl'ifl fn MMr frfim nlir people on the subject. Our columns ; granger swell with pride: are open for brief expressions from The man who wrestles with any one on the subject. The Oberg, Ingledue and Hunk ins families, all of Modoc street, are in the hopfields in the neigh borhood of Newberg. Mrs. O. H. Learned is at an Astoria sanitarium, where she went after visiting at Skamakowa. Mrs. Alice Learned has been visit ing her this week at Astoria. Mrs. C. N. Braasch an1 daugh ter Hattie, from Kstacada, have been visiting numerous friends aud relatives in St. Johns and Portland this week. the cow aud learns the calves to suck; who casts the corn before the swine, is now in greatest luck, for .butter is on the upper grade; veal's higher than a kite; fresh pork is climbing up the seal: and beef is out of sight. The eggs he gathers every day are worth their weight in gold, and we are in the soup. His corn brings fancy prices, it is rising every day, and he rakes in all kinds of cash for half a ton of hay. The farmer's in the saddle, and when he comes to town, the rest of us by right should go way back, and then sit down. Nebras ka exchange. George Butt and Dick Armstrong, two of St. Johns' popular young men arc having the time of their lives in the wilds of Washington, hunt ing nud fishing. Our first notice of their vacation was the following clipped from the Vancouver (Wash.)Columbian, recounting Mr. Butt's first adventure in the land named for the father of his country: A young man by the name of George Butt came into the county auditor's office last Monday. The genial deputy county auditor, Carl Quarnberg stepped up to the counter aud politely asked the gentleman what he could do for him. From his experience of several months in issuing passports to bliss to n lnrge number of young men, nud those not so young ns they once were, Mr. Quarnberg had sized up his man nud concluded he was one of those who had decided to enter the Bene dict order. The deputy auditor was sure that the gentleman he was about to wait on had all the distinguishing mnrks nud looks nud attitude and hesitation and shyness and witlinl Cupid-stricken countennuce of one nbout to enter the stnte of matrimony. In nnswer to his inquiry the answer enme thnt a license was wanted. The kind of license was not expressed very plainly, but the deputy wns used to hearing young men stumble over the fatal or blissful (as the case may be) word, and ot once proceeded to make the preliminary entries in n marriage license. When he came to the blank to be filled in with the lady's name he looked up and modestly requested th: name of the charming bride-to-be. "The name of whom?" iuimircd Mr. Butt. "I want n huntimr license. and don't see what a lady's name has to do with that." The deputy auditor was floored so to speak. He hurriedly issued the hunter's license, but he could not help feeling there was n mistake somewhere, nud that some fair damsel was being cheated of her dues, though he was conscious that he had done his best for the unknown fair one. Further inquiry elicited the cheery information that the ndventur- ers were still in the business. The next inorniuir after renclilinr the point where they were to pitch their head camp in the wild and wooly fastnesses of Copcr creek, they were hunting through the woods admir ing the stately moiiarchs of the forest, aud keeping an eye out for n like tree to mount should the exigencies of the case demand a hastv refuge from the Ire of n wounded bear or other denizen of the woods, when suddenly Mr. Butt's eagle eye caught sight of what he took to be n grizzly. Instantly his trusty rifle came to his shoulder and at the report a the imiii n big Southdown with n bna-nn turned n bnck somer- snult nud kicked his Inst. Away up there they have no rock idle or Kelley's Butte for delinquents to exercise their muscles while doimr jK'iinuce ond it became necessary for Mr. Butt to do n two-days' stuiit in a nearby farmer's liny field to souare his account with the rural owner of the "grizzly." Later rerorts from the gentlemen ore to the effect that thev having 0 fine time fishing along Cnpcr Creek and will do Mount Helens either this week or next. The Review registers herewith order lor 0 generous near steak or venison roast. Ole Mndison, son of Osmund Mndison of Richmond street, is visiting his parents. Ole has been In Alaska for the nast eliht venrs aud comes home to see his parents and net acquainted with St. Johns. We trust he will bring one of the biir irold mines down nfter he has squeezed all the dirt out of it and invest the good, clean, yellow metal in bt. Johns projerty. ore St. nu 8 Al. I.. IIOMIKOOK C. II. BAILEY St. Johns The Largest and Oldest Real Estate Firm in St. Johns. East St. Johns The center of the great development now taking place on the Peninsula. We have only a few business lots left on Columbia Boulevard, which for a short time only will be sold at present prices. Some fine residence lots still on sale. 1 ' t Choice manufacturing sites adjoining the 0. R. & N. railroad for sale on reasonable terms. Holbrook's Addition We have some choice lots in the vicinity of the new $20,000 school building now in course of construc tion, Call at our office for prices and terms for cither of these desirable tracts. St. Johns Phone union 3104 Oregon i . I ZELLER-BYRNES CO. Undertakers Embalmers 0 I,ADY ASSISTANT Phones: Main office, Fast 1088 Branch office, Woodlawn 232 203 JERSEY ST. Remember the Gresham Fair. Clark & Wilson Lumber Co. UNNTON, OREGON Lumber Manufacturers fj PRICKS QUOTKD ON APPLICATION 0