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TOE ST. JOHNS REVIEW Published Every Friday At 117 WoBt Burlington Street. DY A. W. MARKLE Tltn Rrvikw is entered nt tx In Saint John, Oragon, At mail nintter of the tocond claw wider the Act of Con- gri of March 3, 1879 Jeb Printlar Frli Pristine Bill lor Jo f U 7lr cf It. Jshn. la flu xttoUd tint .ml, dUTry. Subscription prloe $1.00 par year. Mr. Ii. C. Hurlbcrt, 111 reply to our sunirestioii nnd protwsitioii last week that he "fight annexation," declines nncl gives what might np pear to be plausible reasons for so doing. The first reason given in volves the rock crusher proposi tion. Mr. Iliirlbcrt says that Mr. Ncase can cease to furnish rock for the city streets now by forfeiting Ji.Soo. This we will not attempt to deny, because it is n fact. He further states that Mr. Ncase is a business man. This is also true. Therefore, being n business man ami a good one, he saw an oppor tunity of doing a stroke of business with the city ol it. joliiis. Jic made a proposition to the city council of operating its rock crush er and using its rock, which was gladly accepted. He agreed to fur nish rock for the "streets of the city of St. Johns" at a rate of 85 cents per yard with a rebate to the city of 2j4c per yard for use of the utilities. He ostensivcly made this very low rate because under the terms of his contract he could charge any price he saw fit for rock not used on the "streets of the city of St. Johns." Here is where his profit was to come in. He will tell yoti,ashchas told the editor nnd others, that some of the rock he furnishes to the city of St. Johns costs actually more than 85 cents lcr yard for production. While the city was operating the plant the average cost of production cr yard was greatly in excess of 85 cents. Mr. Ncase, however, is satisfied with the arrangement, be cause he can sec where he can dis pose of large quantities of rock ut prices much greater than received from the city. lie stated before the council Tuesday night that he was receiving $1.35 and Si. 50 per yard at the bunkers for rock for Flake, Dawson and Lombard streets in Portland. Therefore, so long us St. Johns docs not annex, it Is reasonable to expect that he will not throw up his contract and lose $1500 in cash, although he CAN do so. Hut if St. Johns is annexed to Portland there will be NO streets in the CITY of St. Johns. No court in the laud could hold that a man who contracts to furnish rock for the streets of the city of St. Johns must by virtue of the same is paid for "St. Helens rock," be cause Mr. Ncase, T. II. Cochran and others claim it is harder, more durable and breaks sharper. We have thus very conclusively proven that with annexation 85 cent rock will vanish from our midst. Mr. Hurlbart grew a little incon sistent when he states that Mr. Nease can furnish Portland with rock at $1.50 per yard until he has enough to offset the bond, and little farther on intimates Portland can get as good rock at a much less price. Certainly that city would pay Mr. Neasc 1. 50 per yard and pay ferry charges besides if it could get rock cheaper nearer home with no ferry ch arses to pay. The "head man" Mr. Hurlbcrt m:n tions, if he is on to his job at all, knows that the city engineer of Portland estimates all rock for street purposes at $1.50 per yard at the hunkers. As to the water question, why discuss it? Mr. Hurlbcrt knows as wc know that annexation will in nowise change the situation here for years to come, unless the local company desiws to dispose of its holding. And if it is making as much as many people imagine why should they desire to sell? They have a "cast iron cinch," and why "kick against the pricks? ' They only puncture deeper. Hut if dis cussed from a standpoint of com parison in rates, wc will certainly concede that the rates arc lower in Portland than St. Johns, if the lay ing of pipes by property owners and taxes for water bonds arc not taken into consideration. Hut when Portland had a dozen or more times the population St. Johns now has the rate was higher than It now is here. Wc might go farther to Vancouver, Wash. where with a population oi several times what we have the rate is today 20 per cent ligher than obtains in St. Johns. Hut what's the use? As to "if one is benefited all will be" proposition, it depends upon one's point of view. If wc pay one dollar per mouth for water, os wc are now doing for this office, from our paint of view we believe wc are benefited more by paying this one dollar per month for St. Johns wa ter mid using all we care to than if we were paving 50 cents per mouth for the inferior surface water of Hull Kun which we could get ac cess to only when the rest of the population is asleep, as has been the case the past .summer in many of the suburbs of Portland. Our neighbor might believe he was more benefited because he saved four bits per mouth 011 water. All a matter of opinion, the theory of "ratio and proportion" to the con trary notwithstanding. If Mr. Hurlbcrt will give our last week's editorial n careful perusal he will find that he is mistaken, not I 1 Council Proceedings Hi you ivvui irmwz ia. earn. ScTMudrnxltir city to the allowed on Add dignity, independence, safety, to yourself and to those who depend on you. Get out of that rut of living beyond your in come. Saving money acts on the mind like exercise acts on the muscles. It sends new ideas through the brain. Start that savings account now. We will pay you three per cent interost on the money you put in our bank and com pound the interest every six months. FIRST NATIONAL St. Johns, Oregon BANK ----e-i HEATERS HEATERS New Perfection oil heaters. Air tight wood heaters from 55-75 to $8.25. Cast lined wood heaters from $10 to $(3.25. Combination wood and coal heaters from lio to $14.50. Stove boards from 65c to $1.50. Florentine design. Wc will be pleased to show you our line. . Enamel ware and high grade tools. I Hendricks Hardware Co. 1 1 leeea For sale by Any Real Estate Dealer in St. Johns 50x100 foot lots for $5 cash and $5 monthly Water mains now laid to every lot in 1910 Addition. School house and carline only two blocks from plat. All streets graded at Company's ex pense. There are now 13 houses building on 1910 Addition. You can arrange for building material on monthly terms. Why pay rent any longer when you can own your home and pay for it out of your monthly earnings? For further information, phone Columbia 80, contract furnish rock for the streets of the city of Portland after the former has ceased to exist. If it could be so, could the contractor discriminate between any particu lar sections of Portland ? Certainly not. "Ratio nud proportion" would not permit it. If the streets of the city of St. Johns nlso means the streets of the city of Portland, one portion of that city has as much right to the same price as another. In that event after annexation Mr. Nease would be required to furnish rock for the entire city at 85 cents ler yard, and he would have no chance to make his profit by selling rock to Portland contractors, as is now the case. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Nease would be violating no provision of his con tract after annexation if he refused to furnish rock at less than It. 50 Ier yard, because he is permitted to charge as much as he pleases for rock for use on the .streets of Port laud. After annexation, of course, all our streets will be streets of Portland. Another paint: The city of St. Johns, by virtue of its contract with Mr, Nease, receives 10c per yard for all rock sold for other purtxxses than for its streets, and our city is now receiving ten ceuts for every yard of this rock that is being placed on Portland streets, iiieretore, Mr, rsease can and must refuse, after annexation, to furnish rock for our streets at a less price than he charges for other streets of Portland, because it would be discrimination and "class legis lation." Hut Mr. Nease. can hold his contract, unless the city of Portland repudiates all the con tracts St, Johns has enteral into. He stands ready to supply rock for our city streets at 85 ceuts, but when they become streets of Port land all he has to do to hold the quarry and utilities is to pay into the cltv treasury ten cents for every yard of rock taken out, and he can charge for the product as much as us. Wo did not state that the in dustries mentioned came here be fore St. Johns "was." We did state they were established here when "St. Johns was not on the map." This common expression means, of course, before a town or village has gained a place on the official map of the state, or is still obscure and has not attained to any degree of prominence. Mr. iiunocrt tuougiit tie saw an open iug here and he fell right into it. Because in this part of his nrgtt meiit he claims that St. Johns, even in those early days, had an "ituli viduality." This he denied last week. Consistency, thou surely art a jewel, but how few jrossess thee! Mr. Hurlbcrt says: "Some of our own city officials think that an uexatiou will help make our taxes lighter," and lit substantiation of this he quotes Councilman Davis: ' 1 ho reason the council did not provide a sinking fund was because they knew that sooner or later the city would be annexed to Portland, therefore thought it as well not to add the additional tax." Mr. Davis is aware that annexation is certain before the 20-year bonds become due, We also believe this. There fore, to avoid higher taxation, no sinking fund was created. This does not prove annexation will help make our taxes lighter, but does prove that UNTII annexation our taxes will be lower, unless it be later than 17 years hence in com ing. Better read this paragraph twice, Mr. Hurlbeit. You unwit tingly threw a boomerang when you used this for argument. Cheaper gas: Yes, cheaper will be the proper word. When you cheapen gas you cheapen the qual ity, naturally. We are now get tiug better gus than is Portland no odor, no smoke, no moisture. The gas here contains about twen ty per cent more heut units than their franchise requires. Ask the gas man if you doubt the veracity of this. Therefore, is there man among us with faith so sublime as to expect a corporation will furnish the same quality of gas at a 20 per cent cut? If there is we pity the poor deluded, benighted soul. Cheaper insurance: There is no assurance of this, and it is ever based 011 fire protection, class of structure and environments, Our insurance is less than half what it was when we occupied a wooden building with our plant. As to the free ferry proposition, Mr. Hurlbert knows as well as any one else that we can get a free ferry any time we desire to vote bonds for securing one. This we could not do if we were annexed to Port laud, because the entire city would have to vote upon it, and it would not be deemed a necessity by many at this time. Portland wants that trade from the Tualatin valley just as badly as we do. The very rea son we want a free ferry is the very reason Portland does not waut us to have it. In conclusion let us say that no man is so blind as he who will not see. We have shown aud conclu sively proven that this city will suffer a distinct loss by annexation on the rock proposition. Even the city attorney and the aldermen are at a loss to know how the low price of this necessity may be retained to this section after auuexatiou. Mr, Humbert's "gains" are all untena ble, chimerical and simply cannot be sustained. We are willing to present the case before three repu table lawyers, and even permit Mr. Hurlbert to be one of the three, and yet we would win the case. With the above facts before him and if he cares anything for his veracity, we will find Mr. Hurlbert fightincr auuexatiou henceforth. Very Liberal Offer The Telegram has made a yery liberal oner 01 M70.00 in casu iuum 10 us car riers, if they will hustle for new orders. ORIHJR3 ARK WHATCOUNT. The carrier getting the most order in a given time will get the first prize, the second highest aud prise aud so 011, Your order might be just the one need ed to win some boy a prise. Long vintcr evenings are approaching and you will certainly want to be All members were present at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday night-with Mayor Hen dricks presiding. After the minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved, a petition for an arc light at the cor ner of Oswego and Bank streets was read and upon motion of Coun cilman Dobie, accepted and ordered filed. A petition for an arc light at cor ner of Leavitt aud Gresham streets was referred to the light committee 011 motion of Alderman Davis. K. O. Magoon petitioned for saloon license to do business in the Woodhouse building when com pleted. Referred to the license committee. Claims against the amount of $5.55 were motion of Mr. Dobie. judge w. v. liolcoinu was present aud asked that a committee be appointed to confer with the city of L,tuutoti to ascertain if arrange mcnts could not be made to con struct a ferry jointly. On motion of Mr. Davis the mayor was em powered to select three citizens and request that they serve as a com mittcc in sccurlntr the rcnuircd data. wltich would include fire apparatus in connection with the boat for pro tcctlou of the river front nroncrtv. Attorney Collier volunteered any aid he might be able to render along this Hue. Ex-Fire Chief Holden and A. G. Long of Portland made interesting talks on the need of a fire engine in St. Johns, giving prices and other information. Mr. Holden told how badly St. Johns needed a fire en giuc and what a benefit it would prove to the city. As the cost is greater than the city can stand at present, 110 action was takcu in the matter, although Council man Downey believed there should have been. The engineer's acceptance of Tyler street was accepted by coun cil on a 5 to 3 vote, Aldermen Hil Icr aud Dobie voting in the ucga tivc. A bond in the sum of $500 as a two year 3 guarantee was required and received. M. G. Ncase asked for on cxtcu sion of his lease on the rock quarry and apparatus to ten or fifteen years if possible. He stated that they had invested $25,000 in equipment in audition to what the city owned. Referred to the attorney for written report next 1 ucsday night. Mr. Schcltcr, reprcscutiug the St. Johns baud, asked to continue to meet in the city hall Monday evenings as usual. Council tic elded if agreeable to the fire depart incut lucre would be no objection. A petition from the Wcyer hneuser interests for vacation of part of a street in their tract in ex change for right of way for the Maple street sewer was read aud referred to the engineer and street committee to check up as to de scription. councilman Downey gave a pas slonate dissertation on street light ing, and in 0 flowery manner de scribed what a great thing it would be for St. Johns if the business streets were decorated with a string of lights from one cud to. another. Council agreed with him so far as the beauty was concerned, but the cost seemed to them to be prohibl tivc at this time, as there is no money in sight to even buy the posts. A resolution to improve New York street from Willis boulevard to Hayes street was adopted 011 motion of Mr. Davis. A time and manner ordinance for the Improvement of North Jersey from Catlin street to Weyerhaeuser was passed on motion of Mr. Davis, Councilman Cook objecting, how ever. Calef Bros. Special A Quartered Oak Buffet Nearly like cut regular price $25.00 A Six-foot Extension Oak Table regular price 14.00 Four Hard Wood Chairs to match at $2.50 each - 10.00 Total - - $49.00 I 1 1 Ssf?re.off.er Only $33.00 net or $36.50 with $5 monthly, Remem ber the place Remem ber the place Our No. E Linoleums will be advanced 5c a yard November 1 1892 PURSPUN ALU w RE I I Mornm" to GHTEN Y kitchen Cares WARE .SAVES MON HCALTH, TIM AnDTTMPCH I Momm lo - . la nilboo iMDpr hotarwivn who hv I ( found kitchen ulii. iKtma in Ihc onlr dot Oul will not lUok, k-J oi run. touch k IT' UnDTUU nun i fr vi OUR MjNUM CY 7 rt in cooVinnl I tiouUct br ituowing .way you' oU lull, ing, cmroding aiwl Ktlinf iron, lio ih1 cntmtl uttaiiU. FU pl.ee thrm with 108X7 a... IT IS GUARANTEED FOR 25 TEARS HILE TO ON EXHIBITION Johns llardw. Co j0W 1 VEST.U3AT.E HEADQUARTERS' FOR Business Propositions and Homes, All Prices Building Lots, Houses for Rent, Mining Stocks Mohawk Miuing Co., Capital Stock 1100,00050 cents per share Gold Creek Miuing Co., " " $5,000,00035 " I have for sale 7000 shares of Gold Creek stock at 10c a share. Will trade 3 Swintou lots for Gold Creek stock. F. W. VALENTINE 204 North Jersey street W. C, T. U. Convention. At the regular meeting of Holmes lodge K. of P. last Friday night, a bunch of pleasant surprises was sprung upon the brave men who compose that fraternal body. A party of 15 or more Knights from trict credit for the order. We can assure you that the boy who get jouronter will appreciate it. Don't wait for boy to call for order, Kl). h. STOCKTON, Agent McKINNEY & DAVIS We Buy and Sell Installment Property, Real Estate Bargains the which The W. C. T. U. meeting at the Con gregational church was well attended Honuay evening, ana much Interest manifested. The delegates brought a lengthy and exceedliiKly iiiterestlnc re port from the state convention which : . 1 t - . ,. 1 . . sun. In, nu.. ,l-r,l t.. f, r menu oaiciu nc, wiicic mere ...hi .i i .. ; v: A.v . ' . were 130 delegates aim, luugine iroia ........ ev.w, v... uiniixi, me ternal visit. inis was surnrise lti, n v;ai, c,.i , .,,i,.,. Telegram fills the hill. It has full Asso- M0. 1. Then after the business of with them. For. althouch thev met in ciated Press Service and Is the best I Mi ovontner n rfomitntinn nf P.,(J.in I M, 15. church, the largest in the city. newspaper that money aud brains can Sisters were discovered in waltlnir . V " ".?"?.m Fmn urotluce. i. . - r .i.... -i-tflj. " 7" "P" cvcmiig, wuen Mrs. ft. n. Armor, " lUCUIIUU UUC Ul IUU3C UCULlUIlb lUUL'Il tllf llMmr it PIT ntli Ua tn cral ,..v v..v, ".v u es me tvnmnis icuow ana love sn went 10 uie we will Rive the carrier boy lu your i!i well. This was surprise No 2. im r. At.- 1 ...1 1 1 men, unci wic iccu, auiuuiaicu uy I to the door. tue ueiictous retresnmenis jurntsnea Mrs. Armor sneaks in Portland the by the good Sisters, Judges Hayes first time. Friday evening at the M. U. and Dimmick und Dr. Hoeye waxed church, Third and Taylor streets. Re- . 1 1.. r, member the Big Parade iu Portland Sat t . w-., ...w, unlay, uct. a J, at t p. m. Let every- der surprised notjouly the Knights body go and take part. Mrs. Armor will ami bisters present, out even them- speaK at Masonic Temple immediately selves with their fliehts of oratory. tl'e Pa.ra'le' Tfr ...Art 1. .. I .1 a. l W Uli JVHU, tJUM. 11 M ikki nni,uui ui tuia iuujjc wuu i airs. j. ocott, our grauiuac tor her tailed to put man appearance will efficient and untiring work, decided to be wishinc they had burnished their ?aiie ?fr aJ fe member to the state vr. . . , . . , rustv visors nnd been in the- frnv. . u ne uon ipeecn 10 JUeCiriC lime.. Ol, OUnS. Ure. rrr V, . ' . aua nonorea president, as wen as tue re- 11 a an ngiu whs time out uiey port from Salem was a suoula not let it occur again. "THE ADAMS'' i . lit Is Child's Play W. K. Deal is erectiutr a residence on Sweusou street. small Come into this batik today. Be a man. Make a start toward peace. digulty, freedom, independence. The First National Bank will sure ly give you a good welcome by compottudtug tuterest ' every six months. it o Saving money is a mental exer cise. it makes the mind strong; Save today with the First National Bauk which pays you 3 percent, it port from Salem was made by Mrs. Tall man. The delegates from all parts of the state, I am sure returned to their homes with renewed vigor and deter mined to work harder than ever to make "Oregon Dry in 1910." Press Cor. M. K. Church Sunday 10 a.m.; Preaching, 11 a. m. by the pastor. Theme: "Is the I.ord with us, or not?" Junior League, 3 p. m.; Epworth League, 6:30 p. in.: livening service, 7:30 p. m. Sermon by Rev. J. H. Leiner. AH are welcome. Rev. Frauk Sandi- fer, pastorT Save a little. of what you make: c ,11 n littlA We . 1. n .. way with Time Certificates of Deposit. it uegintosave toaay. Make tin yourmtna to it. Tbe First Na tional Bank issues Time Certificates of Deposit. it St. Johns Camp No. 773, will hold a social entertainment Wed- desday evening, Oct. 26, 1910. All neighbors, whether members of this camp or some other camp are espe cially requested to be present. Your committee is arranging a program for this occasion after which re freshments will be served, Brintr your families and enjoy a social hour. W. E. COON. C. C. W. SCOTT KEHOGG.Clerk. To run an "Adams" washer. It works so easy ou the ball bearings and then it only takes TIIRUR MIN UTES to thoroughly clean the clothes. Abandon the old method today and let us send au "Adams" washer on a three weeks free trial. The price of an ADAMS is only I9.00. $1 down aud fl a week. St. Johns Furniture Company "CASH or CREDIT," Subscribe for the atoning paper oa Kd Stocktoa. Telegram best tha coast. 8e