St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-08

THE REVIEW is entered at post Office
In Saint Johns, Oregon, as mail matter
of the second class under the Act OF Con-
gress OF March 3, 1879.
onciai Newspaper Of the CITY Of g. Johns.
Phone East etee.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1907.
Put away your little hammer and
get out and boost.
St. Johns is full of brigadier gen
erals, but the man who wishes TO
carry musket is hard to find.
The scoring that the recent legis-
lature is receiving from the press Of
the state would melt a mountain of
lead.
ST. Johns has nearly 1000 people,
and individually and collectively
they are the warmcst bunch that
ever came down pike.
The Oregonian says the PROPOSE
ton to annex ST. Johns TO Portland
was canard. II Is for the best
that il was. Both cities will make
better progress to let we'll enough
alone.
One of these days, and IL is not
far away, the best aud richest min.
ing camp in the world will be in
southern Oregon. Then some Of
us will wonder why we did not get
in OH the ground floor.
The charter commission did not
contract To deliver a guaranteed
to.be.perfcct charter TO the people
OF the council. They have met
weekly for several months aud
revised the charter carefully section
by section, and Il is now up TO the
people for correction.
There is well defined suspicion.
says the Jefferson Review, that
brewers are largely using chemicals
instead Of hops. The increase IN
the demand Tor hops is not nearly
80 great as the increase IN the con
sumption OF beer. The Use Of
chemicals also enables brewers to
keep hops at very low price.
The ship subsidy bill lapscd into
an agoniling sleep at Washington
last Monday. The millionaire
forces will apply rcs,orativcs aud
rcsufrcct Il at some future session.
Men will be elected To congress
who will vote for the huge steal
and Il will he passed, aud the
people will he compelled to pay
tribute To the robber monopoly
which will reap the benefits.
II is TO be hoped that the recent
advance IN wages granted the street
car employees will have the effect of
securing better service TOT the pa.
irons OF the ST. Johns line. OF
late Il has been a sort of "A catch as
catch can proposition 10 do business
in Portland, 81 irregular has been
the service, Before the strike
there was little, il any complaint,
Without comment we print the
following from the Dallas llemiler.
Perhaps some OF our 81. Johnites
Fan sympathile with the Dallas
victims; We are in receipt of
copy OF the Board of Trade Journal.
10 which many OF the business men
Di this place subscribed money a
,ouple of months ago Tor writeup.
We reproduce the portion relating
10 Dallas aud Polk county. The
print is So bad in the Journal as To
make Il entirely valueless as an adj
The proposed new charter for c
he city OF 81. Johns, as revised by a
he charter commission, has been ]
cad To the people at the assembly I
iall at the school house during the /
'ast week, The meetings have not $
'een as well attended as they should
lave been, While the revised $
harter is not all that could he p
Wished for, It is generally admitted 4
hat II is an improvement over the
present one. II will be passed up
N by the council and referred back
O the commission for correction
nd then submitted To a vote of the ~.
'eople, n n
In another column we print a @,
etter from NJ. l.. Holbrook defend- G,
NJ the work OF Deputy Assessor il
North in fixing the valuations of l.
i, Johns property, and criticiling G,
he article which appeared in The II
review last week in relation there h,
D. Our information was not all ID
ecured from the books in the asses n
or 5 office, and we do not accuse :
he assessor OF being malicious in
ne matter. lie should, however,