DAILY CAPITAL JOUItaAL, BALKIu, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1000.
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HUNDREDS OF BLOCKS
STREET IMPROVEMENTS
ARE DEMANDED AND NOT A YARD OF DIRT MOVING CITY
HAS NO EQUIPMENT AND CONTRACTORS
ARE NOT PREPARED
Hundreds of. blocks of streets nro
asked to bo Improved. Tho city Las
nlmor.t no contracting firms to do tho
work. Vory small equipment to car
ry on tho operations.
That Is tho situation In tho Cap
ital City that perplexes tho street
department, Petitions nro In for
hundreds of blocks of street Improve
ment. In South Salem, North Snlom,
nnd Bust Snlom tho unlvorsal cry Is,
wo want tho streets graded, gravel
ed, of finished with crushed rock.
All kinds of specifications nro asked
for. Tho street commlttco Is swampod
with applications for work to bo
done, Tlioro Is hut ono rock crush
lnp plnnt oporatcd by tho Gonoral
Contracting Company, that Is haul
ing In crushed rock with a fow
teams for tho bltullthlc contracts.
Thoro In ono gravol contracting com
pany furnishing unscrooncd gravol.
Tho situation Is not favorable to get
ting must street work do no. Thoro
Is said to bo a gravol trust under
whloh all tho available gravol sup
plier nro monopolized.
Tho city linn not paid for work
dono on two streets in North Salem,
and tho contractors nro vory much
dlhsntlsllud, and sny thoy do not wnnt
nny moro city work iindor tho presont
systom.
Tlut City's Kqulpmoiir.
Kor street work tho city has ono
rovoislblo road machine, nnd has ac
sopted a bid for a gravol bargo thnt
Is to bring gravol from Mlnto's Is
land, but as to tho lognl right of tho
city to sccuro gravol for contractors
that Is called In question. What Is
STORY OF
STAYTON
ROBBERS
LOST THEIR NERVE
BUT MADE GOOD
GET AWAY
A Moutlotimn down from Stsyton
Inst night say theie was u lively
tlmo In Htnyton when the attempted
bunk robbery was made there Wed
nesday. It suoiiitf that when tho rob
hers entered the Imnk V. u. l'reree.
cashier or the bank, wn sitting
down with hie feet on tho table
reading a newspaper. Ills brother
was standing behind the counter,
and Mltm Harold, nn employe, wum
nt her desk. Hand out the monoy,"
said one of the men, ouiphmIiIiik his
remark by pointing h big atullMg"
Ht I FrQru. Tliet lentleHWH's
feet were already himh the table, bet
ho luanwiKhl the bull movement b
putting up hie hmiuIh when required
to do ho
"Come lit gentlemen uud help
)OHrlve, lil Kreree ihiMuk hi
cilger nnd holding the uMpur h
had been reading up hi the sir
Mtinmnim
Don't Forget
Wo have everything in new
and second-hand furniture
stoves, etc We pay the
highest price for high-class
second hand goods.
O. L. McPeek
rhoc 1233
needed badly Is a power screen that
I tilll 4n1A llm unmninii flvar crrnvnl
and soparato it Into nbout four
grades, tako out tho sand and dirt,
and then it would bo pretty fair ma
rolled subwny, with n twolvo-ton roll
bnn strcots. That Is bolng dono at
Eugene, UoUo and other places. Hut
so long aa tho grnvol contractors can
soil unscrooncd river gravol for stroct
work thay will do It. And whon thnt
Is put on a street right It will mako
n fair ntroot.
Street Roller Xmled.
For tho purposo of making streets
that will stand traffic, tho spcclflca
(tons on rcsldonco strocts called for
rolled subway, with a twolco-ton roll
er. Tho rond roller Is nn Indispen
sable factor. Tho potltlon from
North nnd South Snlom call for rolled
stroots, No contrnctor nt Snlom owhb
a ntroot rollor. Most cltlos to got
work dono aro roqulrcd to havo a
troot rollor. This city cannot get
Its stroetn built without buying ono.
Thon tho city would own a gravol
supply, a bargo to bring It ovor, a
road machine and a road rollor, Thon
tho city would bo In a position to
builds troets. Tho rond rollor will
pull tho road machine Two men
and n road tnnchlno will grndo a mile
of stroot In a day. That Is, thoy sny
can do It. So far nothing hn been
dono by tho city, hut mako surveys
and drlvo grndo stakes. Tho tlmo
has como to go to work It any strcots
aro to bo built this yoar. Streot
work Is absolutoly at a standstill.
Tho city owning tho rond machine,
tho gravul supply, nnd tho rond rollor
Tho pollto Invitation was not ac
cepted, as tho would-be robbers
Muomed to bo frightened nt tho sud
dun dlsappuarunco of I'oto Fruros un
der tho counter. Tho uncertainty as
to whnt ho was doing seomud to mp
sot (hair pinna, for In a moment 0119
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of this." an opinion the other at onco I
m-iiiiiimi in urn uitmiirtiiiiH, tmnur
Miss Harold or l'ete I'rere. preesed
the burglar sunn, with which the
InuliioMi houses are connected, ami
I .mi frvm1 Mini until muii lit.
iww ,,r II,. low... rumiiii -J
once The rubber dstihtKl out of
the bunk the musks still on thlr
fsces, NN,i their kuiw In their Imnds.
ran down tho nmlu street south, one
block, thence wt h block, and t
tills miltit Hiirvnr llrnil n ahnr ni
them, but only hit the door of (lit I
ten's store. The robbers then rn
south Hiiother block to the Umwni
HHwmlll. and then turned Most, run- ?
ulug about four blocks before turn-'
lug urhIu south Into the thick brush '
along the SniUIriu flvor. '
In the TnoMiiwhllo, (! lover, who
drives the Turner stage, uho was
uuhltohlug his hursoM, Jumped on a
horse, us soon as he eauld get a gun '
and, with Kdltor Connolly, of the
Stnyton Mull, who had also procured
a home, started In pursuit, Con
nelly tiring n shot at thorn Just bo
fore the robbers left the rod T)i
nuswerwl Couuelly's shot with th rev
or four pistol bullets that wvut slug
lux over their pursuers' heads, and
then took to tho brush. The) were
' followed for H mile or more. I. tit the
dens undergrowth fallen timber
laud uneven ground were In their fa-
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170 S. Commercial St.
would be In a position to do stroct
work on Its own account. In fact,
thoro Is not much uso in tho city
furnishing all tho machinery and
equipment and thon turning It over
to private contractors to mako tho
monoy out of tho abutting property
owners who want streets built.
A Moiv Vigorous Policy
Tho streot dopnrtment must bc
oomo mighty 'hctlvo If thoro nro to
bo mllos of strcots graded bofDrc
tho dry souson comos on, whon all
such work will bo dono only nt great
oxponso nnd vory unsatisfactory. In
tho no.xt two months nil tho street
grading must bo dono thnt Is dono
boforo fall. Tho Fair Craunds bou
lovard should haw boon planned and
all under construction boforo this
tlino. Indications nro tlioro will bo
no bonlovnrd built. A llttlo tlnkor-
lug may bo dono on tho old Fair
Oround road. Tho first thing tho city
ncods Is tho stonm road rollor. Noxt
a supply of matorlal thnt will por
mlt mllos of streets to bo finished.
Tho city has nolthor n crushed rock
nor a gravol supply. Tho city hnB
no rond rollor, Thoro must bo no
tion and action at onco If anything
Is to bo dono to moot tho demnnds
of tho pooplo for Improved streets.
The city government Is awny behind
tho pooplo In equipment or mator'al
to work with. I'rlvnto capital will
not go Into gravol and scrcons nor
Into rock crushers nor road rollers
What Is to bo dono? Tho petitions
for stroot Improvements aro piling
up and beyond publishing advortlsc
monts and making city surveys tho
city Is doing nothing,
vor, nnd thoy mndo good their os
enpo.
Since their disappearance nt hut
point absolutoly nothing lino bcon
hoard of thorn, though many rumors
have boon given currency.
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May ('! i' Turkey.
VImihr. April 1 0 A veritable
c,v war ln Turkey u lreUlctMl .n
?ovMBmnt circles today. The opln-
lon wn vunt
"f wir lAany Tiirkl-h province, would
Bem, lU,d tl,nt "lKorlnB powora
would tiegm "grnmrnK inutwrimi-
,mtol' ,,U of lho territory that Is pos
gtlle to annox.
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It Is reported hero thnt Alblna has
established n rovolutlonnry govern
ment and that rebellions havo boon
Btnrted at other placos. Thcso re
ports havo not boon confirmed.
Declare War on Christian.
Constantinople April 1C Sixty
Armenians, a Gorman and an Inter
preter at tho IJrltlBh conBiilnto woro
killed today at Adaun, a city of 24,
000 population In ABln Minor, by
fanatical Mohammedans, who have
declnrod war on tho Christians, Tho
Mohammodnu uprising Is bolitfVod to
be tho nwult of tho revolt nt Con
stantinople. It Is bellovod that Gor-
many and Kngland will Intorfore In
behalf of the Christians as a rult
of tho assassination of their sub-
J. ,
Many houses a Adana wen. pi
aged and burned during the out-
nroHK inero w rimuiuiiuuu umnj
of the lighting which began wter
dny. and which was orroueouslv re
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slnu. Tho war Is rapidly spreading
throughout Asia Minor.
COUNTY OFFICIALS
WERE "STUNG"
ll'nltfil l'romi I.cnswl Wlre.l
San Itafuol, Cal,, April 1C. Coun
ty ofllolalB and employes In tho court
homo today nro making liberal ap
plications of soothing lotions follow
ing tho Invasion of tho sovoral o Alcoa
by a swarm of bees yostorday after
noon. After clearing tho court houso
of Its ocoupants, tho busy insects
mndo tboir way Into nearby offices
and storos. Stuto Sonator E, D. Mar
tlnolll was driven from his office
whon tho boos took possession. Many
officials and clerks woro severely
stung.
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