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St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04

The area devastated by fire in
San Francisco approximates 10, 1000
acres or about IS square miles. In
the burned district were 4s3 city
blocks, and il is estimated that the
number of buildings destroyed is
90, 600.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04

Ten dollars in gold is offered by
the Portland Ad Mems League for
the best essay under the title "Bene-
fits Derived from Patronizing Home
Industries"
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04
Administrators Sale.

T., ,A -.
~ ~, W,anss nas.s' ~ she ss'a'e oi aphef D.
N,;o moosy, ae,essea,
Noa.e hei.oy sNsh py tue under
s,sneu s,,ii'his'Ia'ot .nn 'ha' pursuant TO an
oIue. o' .he county court ior Muilnomah
a.y, nv ~, p,skon' niaas and entered on
Sae uh',u uay % May; 100 IN the matter
u. ~ saiu ss,a'e, ne VIII, as administrator
1ns.s'', ,n.a ' On a ana ai's, hs ioar'h day OF
Juhe iy'o, pioeeeu 70 sell al private sale
n1 io,lo~ins ,dsse,lned real property
Tyhnsns Th ~ ssu @ ss's.s, o,wn
l.. ne "o,'h'wes' ohs'hali OF lot No, B.
h,s ~ v'ok ~ :, 20; 50, anu she northwest one,
he so,,hsas, a ~ 20, ~ anu
uhe soSshsasl one-nali Oh LOT No, ,, In
o'.s 10 3s' al Va yames lohns addition
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04

Smoke 81. Johns cigar-best Ioc
cigar on ,ie market-the white
Crow"
Seven room house for sale on Rich
mond street. Inquire at S2S Bruins
wick street, Point View.
The juveniles were out in force
Tuesday evening hanging May bas.
kels.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04
Notice Of Stockholders Annual
Meeting.

To the stockholders Of the St. Johns
Sand and Gravel Company:
You are hereby notified that there
will be a meeting Of the stock
holder Of said company on the I2th
day of May, 1906, at o'clock p.
M, for the election of officers and
the transaction OF such other busi-
ness as may legally come before the
St. Johns Sand and Gravel Co.
BY y. c. Rogers, Secretary.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04

The made in Oregon" button
is suggestive. One bearing the
inscription "Buy Your Goods in
ST. Johns ought to be productive
of results locally.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04
SATURDAYS Bargain Sale.

a consignment OF bed springs
sI.oo each. Bamboo stands, aSc.
Chairs, soc. Mating ISc per yard.
Kitchen treasure, y. so, McClave
Furniture Co, 2oS Jersey ST.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04

They do say the scrap for the
office of sheriff of Multnomah coun-
ty will be interesting in more ways
than one.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04

The Oregon branch Of the
Department of Agriculture has
decided to discontinue the issuance
of crop reports, and will send oil,
the weather reports instead.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1906.

Combat the merchants of the
larger towns with their own weapon
advertising.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04

DreSsmaking done by Carrie
Wood, 6IS North lvanhoe street.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04
D. c. ROGERS
Real Estate and
Insurance

ss2S-l.otS In South 81. Johns. Finest
residence property IN 81. Johns. No
shantics there. All lots Soxioo.
A7S-Lot ioxt5o, alley, four blocks from
post office.
f9oo-Two lots on Willamette boulevard,
SoNi5o, with river view that can
never bc obstructcd.
siooo-Quarter block on Tacoma street.
si,So-Business lot on Jersey street;
close In aud very desirable.
A7So-Quarter block on Jersey street.
business ON next lot, aud the very
best buy for increase In value In 81.
Johns.
Phone Scott siol. 81, Johns.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1906-05-04
ORDINANCE NO 81
An Or. nance Providing for the
Appointment Of Night Po Ice
AMI Fixing Ills Salary.

The City of St. Johns does ordain as
follows:
Section I. The Mayor shall by aud
with the consent Of the council appoint
a night policeman for the City OF st.
Johns TO serve from and after the first
day Of May, 1900, from eight O'Clock p.
m. until eight o'clock a. M.
Section q. The salary Of said night
policeman is hereby fxed at sixty dollars
per month, to be paid monthly as other
salaries are paid.
Passed the council May 1. 1866.
Approved May {, 1905.
II. W. VALENTINE,
Attest Mayor.
W. l.. TuoRsDyRg,
Recorder.
Published Ia the 81, Johns Review May
4, 1000,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21

caster, General Grosyenor, can be IN
duced to guess the result in that state.
Nobody knows because nobody can
measure the new divisions and new in
fluences that have sprung into activity
in the last two years. The New York
election is simply unfathomable in
these campaigning days, and nothing
short of the returns will show where
the populous and pivotal state stands.
1t goes without the saying that the
election of Mr.. Hearst would be felt in
every section of the country. Both
parties and both platforms Of the two
great parties would be modified by
such a result. But let US not anticl-
pate the hazardous and positively UNI
certain. When the returns from the
November election are spread before
us, we may not know where we are
at, but we will at least have soma
definite facts to go on when we try to
discern a trend in public sentiment.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
November Ballots.

In two weeks and two days ballots
will fall like snow fakes in many
states. All states but three elect
members of Congress. Oregon held an
election in June, and Maine and Yer.
mont in September. All the rest are
November states, and nearly all of the
forty-two hold elections for state Off
GERS on the first Tuesday in Novem
Der.
On few of them, however, Is the
public interest of the country concen
trated. A few may be watching Gov
ernor Cummins tariff revision cam
paign in Iowa. others are languidiy
anticipating a flop to the democratic
party in Missouri; some take an in
terest in the impending overthrow Of
the Penrose machine in Pennsylvania
and here and there a man wonders
what the radical Mr.. Moran will be
able to accomplish in Massachusetts
The New York campaign is the ma
tional cynosure. 1t monopolizes public
attention, and keeps all a-guessing
Mr.. Hearst, democrat, is pitted against
Mr.. Hughes, republican, but party
lines count for but little in New York
this fall Both parties are rent AMI
torn until they are almost indistia-
guishable. Even in the upstate agri-
cultural districts of New York a dis
tressing percentage of independentisIa
is suspected if not proven.
For this reason no one is willing to
risk his reputation as prophet by at.
to forecast New York's cleo
ton. Not even that professional fore
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
BUYS ORE LANDS.
Southern Steel Adds Valuable Tract
of Brown Deposits.

From the New York Herald.
Southern Steel company has acquired the
Georgia Iron and Coal company, which
holds valuable brown ore bodies contain
ing deposits of ore estimated from 10000,
600 tons in sight to 100000 tons. The
company owns $1,000 acres of coal and
iron lands, and the acquisition rounds out
the essentials which will make the South
ern Steel company a self-contained prop
erty.
The purchase of the Georgia Iron and
Coal company by the Southern Steel conf
pany was financed partly through an issue
of 1000, 900 per cent bonds of the for
mer company, which are guaranteed by
the Southern Steel corporation, and part
ly by cash and note payments extending
over period of years. The new acqusi-
ton possesses a furnace having a ca
pacity of 200 tons a day.
The Southern Steel company has rap
idly been completing its plans for an ex-
tensive development in the iron and steel
trade in the south. Within the last few
months it has acquired the Lacey-Buels
Iron company and the Chattanooga Iron
company. They have a capacity OF $50 tons
a day. The acquisition of these properties
was financed through stock issues The
capital stock of the Southern Steel COM
pany was increased after their acquis-
ton by 100000 preferred stock and So
COX, 600 common stock The capital is now
S10, 900, 900 preferred stock and $15. 900 900
common stock. In addition it has $1,000
600 per cent bonds outstanding, s1,10O,-
600 bonds of a subsidiary company and
the self-supporting but guaranteed bonds
of the Georgia Iron and Coal company.
Heretofore the Southern Steel company
has been in the habit of buying its pig
iron but the several acquisitions have
now placed it in a position where it pro-
duces all its requirements. and, in ad-
dtion will be in the market as a seller
of pig iron. 1t was estimated yesterday
that its daily pig iron capacity will be
800 tons within a few weeks. and when
its improvements are completed it will
have daily capacity of 800 tons of steel.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
In StatuarY Hall.

Many newspapers continue to dis.
cuss the recent placing in Statuary
Hall of beautiful effigy OF Jabez La
mar Monroe Curry, who, though born
in Georgia, was an Albanian by adop-
ton and years of active work. He was
a Confederate officer of distinction,
and his subsequent life was spent in
the cause of education, in diplomacy
and in the making of books. The
statue in question was executed by
Dante Sodini, the distinguished Italian
sculptor. 1t is of heroic size, and all
admit it has the artistic merits de-
manded by the high standard of our
new hall of fame.
1t was during the civil war that the
former chamber of the house of repre-
sentatives was designated as "Statl-
airy Hail. and for its enrichment each
state was invited to send "the effigies
of two of her chosen sons in marble
or bronze to be permanently placed
there" The Alabama legislature ot
1908 decided to place therein statue
of DR.. ]. L. M. Curry, and the decision
of the state should be and undoubted-
ly will be conclusive. Under the law
of 1864 each state was left free to de-
termine who should representa- in the
national hall of statues.
Objections were made to the selec.
ton by Wisconsin of Pere Marquette.
He was a Catholic, and the statue to
his memory represents him in the
robes Of a priest. But little attention
was paid to the objections, however.
When West Virginia sent to the cap.
ital statue of John E. Kenna objec-
lions were again heard. He had serve
in the armies of the Confederacy. The
objections were not needed on the
ground that West Virginia's son had
won distinction in the Senate afteY
the close of the war. DR.. Curry was
an aide ON the stats of Generals
Joseph Wheeler and Joseph e. John
ston. He was a cavalryman who won
fame In the war. but he won fame In
fields of peace after the war, and the
effort to debar the statue sent by Ala
hama to his honor will doubtless be
fruitless. He lived to be 70 years old
and all the years of his active life
were crowded with works of deep i'm
portance to the country. On the ped
estal of his statue was rightly placed
the words, Statesman, Educator, Pa
triot, Orator"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
Upton WAS THERE.
Tea Drinking in Tea Rooms Feature
of Chcago's New Theatre.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
The New theatre, the first subscription
play house in America to get into action.
waiting stage life and art Monday night.
when 700 of the fashionable set and the
connoisseurs packed the house to hear
three plays by as many dramatists. The
plays were Sahara" a Japanese comedy
in one act, by Mr.. Ernest DHervilly;
Engaged" comedy in three acts by Mr.
w. S. Gilbert and "Marse Covington,'
by Chicago's own humorist, Mr.. George
AIDE.
Among the conspicuous attendants was
Sir Thomas Upton who was the guest Of
Mr.. Alexander Revell. Others in attend
ance at the premiere were Mr.. and Mrs.
Warren Fairbanks. Mr.. George Barr Nc
Cutcheon, Mr.. Arthur Adds, Mr.. Martin
Ryerson and Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Chat
field-Taylor
Between the acts and the plays there
was tea drinking in the tea rooms a fea-
ture of the new house which is likely to
add to it's popularity The snug little
house brings players and audience into
such close relationship that one thinks of
big family enjoying private amateur
theatrical performance. That was the
apparent attitude toward the players to-
night and the effect was heartening to
everybody.
Citizens of Chicago have subscribed
about $4,000 TO insure the success of the
new venture. One-third of the seats have
been taken for the season. The other
two thirds will be held for popular sale,
the purpose being to encourage and spread
love of higher dramatic art. The out
look for the season is bright
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
Steiner Brothers Here.

B. Steiner and his brother, Sigfried
Steiner formerly of Birmingham but now
of New York are here. 1t had been some
time since Mr.. B. Steiner visited his old
home and he was warmly greeted yester-
day by many friends. A few years ago he
was the president of the Commercial club
and it was generally conceded that he
made one of the most publlc-spirited
presidents in the history of the organiza-
ton.
Speaking of the great prosperity of the
country Mr.. Steiner said 1T is indeed
phenomenal and is almost too good to
last forever. New York and Birmingham
are so prosperous that they need no
boosting. Birmingham has made wonder
full strides since l was here and it is now
as prominent and as favorably talked
about as any city In this country"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
Direct Southern Immiuratien.

A liner dispatched from Bremen by
the North German Lloyd on Thursday
is now on the seas loaded with Belgian
immigrants and headed for Charleston,
S. c. Upon the success of this effort
much depends. and the state of South
Carolina and its enterprising citizens
are behind it. No pains will be spared
towards placing the incoming Bell
gians where they will find remunera-
tive employment, and a return cargo
of cotton, lumber and naval stores
awaits the arrival of the ship. This
means that monthly sailings will be
inaugurated, and permanent service
between Bremen and Charleston pos
sibly established.
South Cardinals commissioner of ag-
riculture selected and solicited the i'm
migrants that are coming across the
sea. He did this because he knew
what kind of immigrants his state
needed and because he had planned to
land them at Charleston, instead of
landing them in New York where they
would be assailed by western agents
and where they would find a congested
city.
1t should be remembered that the
federal law permits a state to do what
an individual or corporation cannot do.
The state of South Carolina is acting
in this matter directly. and all that has
been done or that will be done will be
within the federal laws, and 1t is be-
lieved it will subserve the interests of
the incoming immigrants. If this
should prove the beginning of diver
sion to the south of a portion of the
stream of immigration, to South Caro-
lima will belong the credit for she
filed the steerage of the liner with
Immigrants and she will land them In
Charleston, and doubtless she will see
that they are started in their new life
in her cotton mills and other plants 10
their satisfaction and contentment. 1t
is a fine effort. finely planned, and let
us hope it will be finely executed
throughout.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21

and animals. The meat food supply
IL thus placed in our hands to a great
extent. We grow the worlds CONNER
oial crop Of cotton, and always will.
This gives us a favorable balance of
trade In all years, We thus clothe the
world. Our production Of coke is rap
idly rising, and In few years we will
doubtless be as strong In coke produo-
ton as we long have been in corn,
coal and cotton. We stand second to
Pennsylvania alone in coke production.
The south stands ready to produce
coal, corn and cotton and coke in
abundance. Alabama buys no coal from
other states, no cotton, no coke, and
probably she will not this year buy any
corn. She should buy no corn in any
year. Our corn bill will not in any
event be heavy, and we can pay 1t so
long as the other C's are produced
tere up to all demands.
Coke Is by no means the least in
rortant of the four C's. 1t makes the
production of pig iron and later pei
haps of wide variety of finished steel
products possible, and it may prove In
the long run to be the most valuable
of Alabama's endowments. A state
that produces the four C's must neces-
sarily become a rich state. No other
state north or south produces the four
C's. Alabama stands alone in that re.
spect, and the time will come when
Alabama will be perhaps the richest
state in the union, simply because no
other state turns out in great abund-
ance coal. corn, cotton and coke.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
Truth Is truth
To the end of Reckoning.
Measure for Measure.
North As Well AS West.

The enterprise of the Southern rail-
road in putting on an early morning
train westward opens to the people OF
this city a wide district to which they
can now go in the morning and return
home in the evening after transacting
a days business. 1t will hereafter be
possible to reach not only Columbus,
Miss, but also West Point, Aberdeen
and numerous other cities in that state
before monday.
At Parrish the new train will be met
by a connecting train on the North
Alabama railroad, and this connecting
train will render accessible the coun-
ties in the northwestern part of this
state. All the delightful valley about
Sheffield and Florence can then be
reached readily from Birmingham,
and The Age-Herald takes pride in its
efforts to bring about this development
and convenience. The new train will
carry The Age-Herald into northwest
ern Alabama and northeastern Missis-
sippi ahead of all competitors, and a
thousand new subscribers doubtless
will be Forthcoming. All business men
should endeavor to render the new
train profitable from the very outset
1t has long been needed, and the
amount of business offered to it viii
demonstrate that need as nothing els;
will
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
REPUBLIC PRosPERs.
Makes Charges and Deductions and
Carries Forward Surplus.

From the New York Herald.
In the seventh annual report of the Re-
public Iron and Steel company, issued by
John A. Topping, the president, yester-
day, figures are presented which indicate
that the company is sharing in the great
prosperity of the steel trade. The report
follows the style set by the United States
Steel corporation, and sets forth in de-
tail many interesting features.
Net earnings for the year amounted to
$3,574,374, to which s203,027 can be added
from income on investments. Gross sales
showed an increase of $4,007,59 over those
of last year, when the total was $s2,1SS,-
SAB. The gross profits for the year amount
ed to $4,75O 476, The company, taking ad-
vantage of the increased business, was
liberal in the matter of depreciation and
charges, as compared with the policy in
former years. The usual charge for de-
probation and repairs amounted to $97S,-
eco for the year, but this deduction was
supplemented by an extra deduction OF
$3.50. 900. For reconstruction and renewals
an additional charge of $200,9OS was made,
together with $97,3OS for exhaustion Of
mineral lands
After making provision for the various
charges. including the preferred dividend,
surplus of 81, 3O9,37 is reported. Adding
the previous surplus of s4,O10,S29 total
surplus Of s., ,707 is created. Out of this
sum, however, various charges for back
dividends and depreciation in investments
and the discounNpn the sale OF $loOoO'ooo
bonds, were made. leaving a surplus car
ried forward of $3,133.2s3.
Mr.. Topping says that his company en-
ployed during the year 1865 men, and
that 81, 1856, 9O2 was spent in wages On
July l last the company had orders to the
amount of 81, $40 tons on its books. The
company estimates that 1t owns OO0
tons of Bessemer ore and 49,04,S0O tons OF
non-Bessemer ore. For the twelve months
ended June 30 last the company produced
that when it's new furnaces are in blast
It will have furnace capacity of 100000
tons in the northern district and 100000
tons in the southern district. Last year
the company mined 97o1O6 tons of ore.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the company yesterday the retir-
ing board of directors was reelected with
the exception that Tracy NJ. Guthrie was
elected in the place of Charles s. Guthrie,
deceased and James B. Duke and H. S.
Black were elected in the places of A.
w, Thompson and Harry Rubens, respec-
lively.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
The Advance.

The Alabama souvenir edition of Ad-
vance, which was issued during Home
Coming week, is a fine publication and
a credit to the state. The cover design is
extremely handsome, being broad band
of red ribbon tied in the center in bow
on a BACKGROUND of white. The Alabama
state seal in dull gold also appears on
the ribbon, while the name of the maya
zine is printed in dull gold on a crimson
band The entire effect is in perfect taste
and could not be improved upon. The con-
tents of the magazine offer great va
riety of reading matter from local sub
jects to questions of national Importance.
Apparently, The Advance is prospering
and its many friends In Birmingham,
especially in the newspaper fraternity,
note its progress with pleasure.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
Coal. Corn, Cotton and Coke.

The four C's stand for heat, food
clothing and metal, and the United
States is well endowed with all oil
them, even with coke, which is this
means and basis of the great CONNER
cial metal that all countries must have
Our national growth and develop
ment rests on rock bottom, and a
glance at the four Cs will convince
the most skeptical. We mine one
third of the worlds coal production,
exceeding the output of Great Britain
every year by more than one hundred
million tons, and doubling Germany's
annual supply We almost hold a
monopoly of the corn production, and
corn is food for both human beings
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Habit Of cheerfuIness.

The habit of eheerfulness is one Of
the most beautiful and one of the most
comfortable in the catalogue of human
virtues, and yet it is one that too many
of US neglect" said thoughtful gentle
man last night
I'VE are all a little prone to complain
without reason at times and l know
Just scores of people who seem to delight
in finding fault with everything and
growing about every condition that sur
rounds them. They often complain Of
being i'll without cause; the weather
never suits them, and every season but
the one then prevailing is the most de-
sirable. They never reach the ideal con-
dition.
THE complaints and the expressed dis
content of such people casts gloom
over everything and everybody about
them and makes life uncon Portable for
even those who are practieing the habit
of cheerfulness.
ION the other hand the cheerful man or
woman brings sunshine and gladness into
every day. however cloudy. and into every
life with which they come in contact.
"Cheerfulness. like discomfort, is con-
tagious and since life at best is full of
sorrow and disappointment, It is duty
that we owe to ourselves and to our
neighbor to be happy and practice the
habit of cheerfulness.
The greatest man on earth is he who
smiles in the face of disaster, whistles
amid the crash of battle and sings a
song OF hope in stormy weather"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-10-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
Sometimes a man cusses just to keep
from forgetting how.
What a woman likes about being mar
ried is thinking how much better she
could have done.
In politics either you get rid of all your
money or the public gets rid of some OF
theirs.
Generally you can tell what a woman
means by guessing the opposite Of what
she says.
There may be no marriages in heaven.
but there must be dressmakers or there
will be trouble.