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St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

The only reason that the tax levy
in St. Johns is ~ mills is that it
was placed to clear the city of all
debts. It has been frequently argued
that a portion of the debt should
have been left so that future resi-
dents could assist in its payment,
but the people believed in the
policy of paying as you go.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

During the discussion Of the char.
ter question at the council chamber
Tuesday evening Il was the concen-
sus Of opinion that the chair was
too abrupt in ruling Attorney Per.
kins out Of order when he attempt.
ed 10 read aud explain the new law
now awaiting the Governor : sig
nature. Even II council was will
ing To stand in its own light aud re-
fused To listen To the eNpounding
of the new doctrine, the citizens as
semhled had a right To know the
proper course To pursue IN getting
the proposed new charter before
the public. Too much knowledge
is seldom injurious, aud when
man labors as long and as faithfully
as did Mr., Perkins on a thankless
job like the reconstruction of the
charter he has a right to an audi
cnce even before such a dignifed,
august and arbitrary a body as the
city council.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

The passing of the Thaw case
will see the passing of Jerome.
This particular disciple of Black
stone is altogether too savage and
merciless for enlightened civiliza-
ton.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

If it had not been for Gov.
Chamberlain there is no telling
where the extravaganza of the leg
islature would have ended. And
the governor is a dyed-in-the- wool
democrat at that.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

Slowly, but surely the farmers
are organizing to eliminate III,
greedy middle men who have all.
sorbed their legitimate profits for
years, With a farmers trus,
thoroughly organized and properly
oilicered the boost that will he Civ.
en prices of all farm produce is
something awful To contemplate.
AS !, is now the exacting middle
or commission man gets what be-
longs To the producer. and IL is to
cut of this graft that the farmers
are organizing 10 protect them
selves.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

Portland knows a good thing
when she sees it, and wants to
annex St. Johns. How modest
But not this year, grandma.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

Champagne water is said to have
flowed broad and deep at Cazadero
Tuesday.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

After forgetting many of their
obligations 10 the people the state
legislature adjourned last Saturday.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

The newspaper stories Ia the
effect that the stamps ISSUED to
presidential post offices were To bear
across their face the name OF the
city 10 which they were issued have
been spoiled by an order just issued
by the postmaster general saying
that such step would cost too
much. "As matter of fact, how.
ever, no action has been taken 10y
Postmaster General Cortclyou to-
ward carrying out this recommend
alton. No arrangements have been
made Ia print the name of post
Offices upon any stamps, and for
the present nothing OF the kind is
contemplated. "
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01
St. Johns Investment Co.
Rooms II and IL, Holbrook Bldg.
Phone East oo97.
FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY.


Seven-room house near Marine Iron
Works, rents at fIS per month, fsaS
cash, balance tII per month.
$1,000 buys half block with buildings
that pays more than 10 per cent in
terest.
Lot SoxIoo in Point View near car line.
Full corner IooxIoo in central part Of
city, all street improvements made.
This property is bargain.
t3,Soo-SSno cash, balance Sac per month,
buys q II-room modern board and
lodging house, furnished complete /;
net income $50 per month.
An old firm with new ideas. II you
want TO reap the benefit OF these ideas
give us a list of your property. II you
want to invest either in business OF resi-
dence property do not fail to see us.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

Willie Wagtail, the youth who
furnishes the ST. Johns news for
the Portland Journal, ought to he
given medal, As distorter of
facts he is past master, Extend.
eel every courtesy 10y all he recipro-
Gates 10y publishing anything aud
everything but the truth about the
city. To mislead the readers of
the Portland paper he has even
attacked individuals, This has been
tolerated for month or more on
the supposition that he had been
misiniormed, The prominence
given his oulburst OF last Saturday
cannot be overlooked, and il the
misstatement of facts continues,
that continuously increasing circu-
latlon of the Journals will receive
a severe JOLT. The managing editor
OF the Portland paper will do well
TO call the ambitious young fellow
To account.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01
White. House
EUROPEAN HOTEL
Best equipped rooming house in St.
Johns. Brand new house
and furniture.

Electric lights. hot aud cold bath.
large wash rooms with hot aud cold
water on both floors; toilet, reading
room with all latest magazines and
all daily papers; free use Of tele
phone. This house is built and
equipped ESPECIALLY for men that
want ALL home comforts. Men
that haven't got the money and can
give a satisfactory order on their
employer can have rooms the same
as those for cash. Dom let money
stop you. Rooms from sI.oo per
week up,
Phone Scott 4o6s.
St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1907-03-01

Some kind friend at Superior,
Wis, sends The Review cartoon
clipped from The Duluth News
Tribune labeled Contrasts in the
Weather, Two scenes are repre-
scented, The upper one is a picnic
scene with the dinner spread on
the ground under the trees, and is
supposed 10 represent the weather
conditions in Duluth in February.
The lower one pictures a man heav-
lily mantled plodding through the
snow drifts in Dixie. Under the
cartoon the West Superiorite writes,
Can Oregon beat Duluth wealth
err Can duck swiml With
the grass as green in Oregon right
now as IT will be in Duluth next
June we must say yes. Put ON
your climbers and puff up the hill.
Miss West Superior and gaze on
the tons OF ice and the whalebacks
frozen up in the harbor, and then
imagine the ships steaming down
the Willamette and the tulips
blooming on the ST, Johns lawns
and draw your own conclusions.
Yes, Oregon weather has the Du,
luth article beaten a mile, Wait
until next July and then you will
he enjoying February weather in
Oregon in the Zenith city.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
MILLARD'S CANYON HOME
FOR REST AND STUDY
Presbyterians to Be in controI-Di-
rectors Now Want Name for
: Resort-To Meet Friday
Evening
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, Aug. 6.-Directors and
stockholders of~the new resort to be es-
tabished in Millards canyon will meet
Friday of this week to consider arrange
ments for the organization of Bible
school and for the erection of tents and
cottages on the grounds.
At this meeting an appropriate name for
the place is to be selected. The idea of
the resort is that 1t shall be a retreat for
Christian people at all times, and the
home of an undenominational Bible
school, The articles of incorporation call
for a majority of Presbyterians on the
board of directors but other denomina-
lions will be represented.
A tract of go acres of land has been
purchased. The plan announced is to
divide the canyon and the place made
into a quiet resort for study and rest for
those who want to separate themselves
for awhile from business and social life.
w. f. Mcvay, Giles Kellogg, Dr. r. A.
Harris. D. A. Steele and Rev. j. NJ
Newell have been chosen members of the
board of directors.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
TRIPLETS ARE BORN
IN AN AMBULANCE
MOTHER GIVES BIRTH TO ONE
BOY AND TWO GIRLS
Little Ones Are Named Julius, Julia
and Juliette-Their Father Is
Captain of an Ice
Barge

Special to The Herald.
NEW YOnK, Aug. 6.-As the sequel
proved it was no wonder that Captain
Chris Larsen of the ice barge New York
appealed for help to the police of the
East One Hundred and Twenty sixth sta
ton Thursday. Lieutenant Walsh thought
another murder had been done when Lar
sen ran painting into the station and it
was some time before he grasped the sit
uation and sent Policeman McManus
away with the mariner.
They got to the ice barge, moored at
the foot of East One Hundred and Twen-
ty-eighth street, about the same time that
an ambulance from Harlem hospital
reached there in response to call sent
in the meantime.
1t was none too soon, for a baby boy
arrived before the wagon and carried
Mrs. Larsen two blocks.
Half an hour later Larsen was admitted
to the maternity ward and asked how the
boy was getting on.
'Fine!" was the reply, land so are the
girlsr'
While he was still gasping he was ush-
cred in and lusty trio of voices gave
him filial welcome. The girls had made
their appearance only a few minutes
after their brother
"Achr' exclaimed Larsen. 81 didn't
know was going to ship such crew all
at once"
AS he and his wife had agreed on
Julius" if 'ft'' was a boy, and Julia"
if a girl, the names of the newcomers
will be Julius, Julia and Juliette.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
NERVY WOMAN STAYS
SNAKE IN COAL PILE
Special to The Herald.


AUBURN, Mo-, August 6.-Mrs. Rosilla
Atkins of this city is living in peace to-
day for the first time for upward of three
months, for the reason that she sue
ceeded in killing monster snake, which
she believes and which from her descrip-
ton undoubtedly was rattlesnake,
which has been living in her cellar since
early in the winter
About three months ago Mrs. Atkins
discovered the snake on top of her coal
bin in the cellar. The snake was coiled
up with its head raised and on seeing her
she says it gave a sharp rattle. Instead
of fainting or running away, she struck
at the snake with her shovel. 1t struck
back at her, leaping forward to the
length of it's COLL but failed to reach her,
and then turned and disappeared in the
coal.
She has seen the snake nearly every
time she has been to the coal bin since,
and has made frequent attempts to kill 1t.
Nearly every time she saw the snake it
was coiled with its head and tail raised
about a foot. On each side of the tail
were lunches and the tail itself appeared
fattened. On seeing her it would rattle
viciously.
When she approached it the snake was
coiled as usual and struck at her as she
annroached. She struck back and one
fine of the fork pierced its body. She
mined the reptile to the floor and held
him there until he had exhausted his
strength and then threw him into the
furnace. She says he was five feet long.
Rattlesnakes are unknown in this state
and the presence of this one in her cellar
can only be accounted for by the suppos~
sition that it was brought in the coal.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
GIRL AND
MAN GONE
ELoPEMENT7 ASKS LONG BEACH,
Aeoe
"HE HYPNoTIzED HER," DE-
cLAREs FATHER
Miss Lila Palmer, Daughter of Prom-
inent churchman, Thought to
Be With F. w. King,
Married

Special to The Herald.
LONG BEACH, Aug. 6.-Has Miss Lila
Belle Palmer, daughter of L. B. Palmer, a
leading churchman of this city and COM
mander Of the local post of the G. A. r.,
eloped with Fred w. King, a married
man and the father of two children?
Such seems to be the case, and as a
result society here is all agog.
she Is hypnotized," says the girls
father.
King, who has been employed by the
Pacific Electric, left the city several days
ago. Yesterday Miss Palmer left her
home, ostensibly to take up her pro-
Angeles.
Her father said this afternoon that she
had told him she was engaged to King
and would marry him.
my daughter has refused to admit that
King was a man of family" said Palmer.
HE boarded at our home large part of
the time and he protested to my daughter
that he had been supporting his brothers
wife and her children.
Mrs. King came to me one day, having
noted what was going on, and made clear
to me that he was her husband. l then
forced King to leave our house.
MY daughter seemed, however. to have
been hypnotized by the man. She re-
fused to believe what her mother and
told her, and listened only to King We
tried to induce her to go to Pasadena to
visit her sister.
Saturday she said she would go to Los
Angeles and study nursing. At our
solicitation she remained at home over
Sunday She disappeared yesterday how
ever, and we fear she has joined the man
who had such a strange influence over
her"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
SITE Is SELECTED
Arizona Capitalist Donates $12,5oo
Toward the Building on Condl-
ton That Trustees Raise
an Equal Amount

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, Aug. 6.-Work was be-
gun this morning preparatory to the
erection of large buildings for the
Throop grammar school. E. s. Gosney
acting for the trustees of the school,
has purchased a large lot at the south
east corner of California street and
Catalina avenue from w. e. Kellar. 1t
fronts 213 feet on California street and
73S feet on Catalina Hunt e. Gray Of
Los Angeles are the architects for the
buildings. 1t is stated that the imme-
date erection of buildings is made
possible by the generosity of Mr.. Cos
ney, who is a banker and lawyer of
Flagstaff, Ariz. Mr.. Gosney offered to
give one-half the $4,000 required for
building provided the other half is
raised by the trustees.
Joseph Giddings and James w. Cor
win, two Pasadena youths, leave
Thursday of this week on a fresh
water journey by boat to New York.
Their boat is canvas covered and
weighs seventy-five pounds 1t is
novel trip the young men have under
taken. They are to go by way of the
Columbia river. the Spokane, Yellow
stone, Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio
rivers, Lake Erie and Erie canal and
Hudson, carrying or pulling their boat
on wheels over the portages from one
water course to another. The trip is
expected to occupy four or five months
time.
City Librarian Miss Nellie Russ made
her report to the library board today,
showing a substantial gain in circula-
ton over July 1906. Total registra-
ton at the city library at the end of
July was 22,341 persons. There are
just a few less than $4,000 volumes in
the library
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
M00NHEAD SHARKS, WHALES
AND CR0AKERS AT BEACH
FISHER SLEEPS WITH AN ALARM
CLOCK LINE
Many PlseatorlaI Tales Told by Desert
Vacatlonists at Long Beach.
Pier Crowded Every
Day
special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
OCEAN PARK, Aug. 6.-Fish of Won
derfu size and amazing shapes are re-
ported as having been seen in the waters
of the bay during the last few days.
With the exception of a whale which
Innis Kinney and a companion tell Of
having run alongside of while fishing
from the yacht Aimee, all of the stories
of startling character appear to have
emanated from among visiting fishermen.
Accounts of ''moonhead" sharks, which
local fishermen say must have been sun
fish, are being related by several desert
,vacationists who spent yesterday after
noon fishing at Playa del Rey.
From all of the piers come tales of re-
markable catches both in size and
character.
Today the first fish of unusual interest
to be exhibited at Venice this season,
was caught from the pier near the ship
hotel, by L. NJ. Horton, a photographer
of 500 South Broadway, Los Angeles.
Horizons catch was a croaker of 101a
pounds, the heaviest specimen of the
species that ever was taken at Venice.
At the Bristol pier, Proprietor Fieber is
hanging out of his bedroom window On
his windowsll he has the line caught in
an alarm attachment that causes a bell
to tinkle on a fish becoming hooked.
The Horseshoe pier and the pier at
Playa del Rey are at the present time
crowded every day by the fishermen.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
FIGHT OVER MALIBU
RIGHT OF WAY DROPPED
Armed Party Crosses Ranch Without
Opposition From Rindse Estate
EmpIoyes-Gates "Forced"
Peacably
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
SANTA MONICA, Aug. 6.-Teamsters
coming down from the vicinity of Malibu
reported this afternoon that there had
been no excitement attending the fore
ing of the gates at Malibu rancho by
parties who left here this morning
obstensibly to court trouble.
The invaders, the teamsters said, were
allowed to pass through the Mallbu lands
to their homesteads without any OPP
position from the Rindge employees.
NJ Decker, manager of the Collyer
sanitarium, is said to have led the tres
passing party which consisted of three
men who admitted that they were heavily
armed
The recent announcement that the
courts had upheld the contentious Of the
homesteaders that they are entitled to
cross the Rindge estate in passing took
and forth between the city and their
holdings, appears to have had the effect
of causing the Rindge people to drop the
fight
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
LocUSTS ARE DUE, SAYS
THIS MISSOURI PROPHET
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
VANDALIA Mo-, August 6.-Frank
Barnett Vandalia's forecaster, observer
and philosopher, says this will be locust
year. The locusts, he says, are of the
thrteen-year species. while in other
countries the insects appear every seven
teen years. >.
1.-THE first locust crop L ever saw" said
he, was in 1872 The next were 1856, 1868,
1881 and the last in 1894
"Often grasshoppers are termed locusts,
but there is a wide difference between
the two insects. Locusts never eat any
thing while they stay on top of earth,
while grasshoppers eat continually as
long as they live. Another difference is
that locusts move but a short distance,
while grasshoppers travel over wide
range.
81 know next to nothing about ento-
mology, but 1t seems to me that the hab-
its of the locust are the most wonderful
in the insect creation. Think of it,!
Thirteen years ago there was deposited
in the small twig of a tree mite OF an
egg. 1t stayed in the twig a few days,
when life developed and it dropped out
onto the ground and disappeared to re-
turn thirteen years later"
Barnett says the locust will stay forty
days. 1t is the male locust, he says,
which keeps up the incessant cry or
pharaoh" as long as the little insect
has strength to make sound.
Long ago." said the prophet, "it was
believed that the locust would sting on
rare occasions and that the sting was
fatal, but it is certain now that they are
perfectly harmless"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
SPANIARD INVENTs NEW
AND ECONOMICAL ENGINE
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.-Pedro PUG
janer. am engineer of Barcelona, Spain,
has invented and submitted to practical
trials rotative steam engine which, it is
asserted, will cause revolution in all
countries where steam power is used, ac-
cording to report received from Consul
Ridgley at Barcelona
This engine may be applied to all pur-
poses for which steam power is required,
whether on land or an sea- it Is claimed,
and consumes but one-fifth the coal per
horsepower that ordinary engines con-
sumo. 1t is stated that ship burning
800 tons of coal day with the ordinary
marine engine would burn only 100 tons
with the new invention. Besides, 1t oc-
cupies only one-ffth the space occupied
by an ordinary marine engine.
The ordinary 100 horse power engine.
weighs fifteen tons; this one but three
tons. Being much smaller the cost of
1t is much less.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
HUSBANDS HOUR" TO AID
WOMEN POLITICALLY
st. Louis Club Leader Advises
ThouehtfuIness as Means to
Secure Indirect Voice
at Polls
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
ST. LOUIS, Aug, GA husbands hour
will accomplish as much as woman's
suffrage, Is the opinion expressed by
Miss Anna l.. Clarke of Boonville MO-,
one of the prominent club women Of the
country. st. Louis clubs promise to take
her advice and make husbands OF the
club women the best fed and the most
petted in the land.
81 have always liked Longfellow's idea
of the children's hour" said Miss Clarke,
but husbands hour is an absolute ne
cessity. Have your husbands slippers
ready when he gets home, give him good
dinner and then take your John to one
side for cozy chat, tell him just what
you want politically and you can get any
thing. A husbands hour is as good as
equal suffrage and you don't have to
wait a lifetime to get results"
Miss Clarke is chairman of the civil SER
vice committee for general federation of
womens clubs. She is also the leader in
work for civil service reform in Missouri.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
WOMAN RECEIVERS FROM
RESULTS OF INJURIES
THOROUGH EXAM NATION RE-
vEALS ONLY BRUISES
Husband of Woman Killed by Stepping
from Car Arrives from Cata-
Ilna--Inquest to Be Held
Today

Special to The Herald.
LONG BEACH, Aug. 6.-Miss Henrietta
Shrake of Indianapolis, who, with her SIS
ter, Mrs. A. L. Furgason of Redlands,
stepped from a swiftly moving Pacific
Electric car at Fourth street and Ameri-
can avenue last night, has almost re-
covered from her injuries, which consisted
of severe bruises.
The body of Mrs. Furgason, who died
from her injuries while being taken to
the Long Beach hospital, Is at the Cleve-
land & Harris morgue, where an inquest
will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Her husband, who went to Catalina yes
terday morning on a pleasure trip, re-
turned to this city tonight at o'clock.
He FASTENED to the morgue to gaze upon
the face of his wife
Mrs. c. c. Brown of Redlands, sister
of Mrs. Furgason, and Miss Shrake ar
rived in this city about noon today. No
arrangements for the funeral services of
Mrs. Furgason have been made
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-07
PARK ELEPHANTS ENJOY
THEIR ANNUAL MASSAGE
Keepers Use Twenty Gallons of Meats
foot OIL to Give the Big
Animals Beauty
Bath


Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Aug. 6.-Twenty gallons
of neatsfoot oil were used to give the
annual massage to the two elephants in
the Central park zoo yesterday, Jewel
and Hattie Their hides had become
rough, discolored, and thick with surplus
growth of skin.
"In a few days the rough skin will scale
off by action of the oil and will become
smooth and soft" said Head Keeper Sny-
der.
Hattie the trick elephant, gave the
keepers every assistance in applying the
oil by lying down, kneeling and sitting
down with her fore feet raised above the
keepers' heads. She trumpeted with de-
light when Keepers Snyder and Horton
began to apply the oil with brushes.
Jewel was not so docile, and the oiling
had to be done in her room. When the
oil began to sink through the great folds
Of outer skin and gently sting and tickle
her, she looked at the keepers In surprise,
trumpeted loudly, and, putting her trunk
around Robert Horton, lifted him to one
side. Snyder talked to her soothingly and
made her drop on her knees, and the work
was finished before she again became un-
easy. Once or twice she picked up trunk
fuls of hay and tossed it upon the keep
ers. to the great amusement of the spec
tators. Today the animals will have
bath of cold water.