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THE OREGON v DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 25, iS03. m ill EWSPAPEBS Some Up-to-Date ETidence That Even the 3Iost Crit ical Among Us Are Likely to Make Mistakes Some times. ; ' KEYS, LEAD TO PKISON - 1 . . - .'. " (Continued from Pag-a One.) property : and tha pawnbrokers . .. 1.om nothing. - , William' system in room-robbln was to wane into an apartment nouie, knock on t ha door of a room, . and If there was no answer, to fit hia skele ton ker Into tha Jock and walk Inside. Their own room vras at 1S8 Weat Park. Mr. Williams la atarln with friends near waut - wana. , - Williams . aaia no was born in GuelDh. Canada. "I tried the.. Jock of the room neit to mine Just to aee If tha skeleton key would work. I had no idea of ever stealing- anything, but when I found that skeleton key would unlock any door I just got started somehow. "This is the first time I have been in trouble. I have worked at the printing Speaking- of arrow In newspapers which some of The Journal's compet itors profess to occasionally flndV this morning- was a nerve-racking period for the highly intelligent and veraccurae staff of the Oregonian. The Oregtmlan, eo infallible, so self-contained and with' all so brilliant, rot off on the wrong foot last night and In following to the letter the leased wire report or ine dear old Associated Press" published tliis On its front page mis morning: "AXTCEOKS AT JSTEW X.OVBOV --.?; ' - -- Tacit Mayflower Bring Presidential ;:; Party to Boat Kacss.'.' "NEW LONDON, Conn., June i4. The Presidential yacht Mayflower, on board of which are President and lira. Roose velt, which left Oyster Bay this after noon, steamed into me lower naroor ana anchored off the Fort Grlswold House shortly after 10 o'clock, tonight. It Is understood that in the. morning Mra Roonevelt and the children will be trans fnrred to the Sylph, which will anchor abreast or the nnlsn or tne races. The eve of the Harvard-Tale- rowing race tomorrow finds the city awaiting the event with keen expectancy with the varsity eights more evenly matched than In many years before and with the vanguard of the great throngs expected tomorrow already Here. i ; BUaappUeA fllgo Had The Journal's ponderous but well intentioned contemporary read The Journal as carefully for the real news as it does for the little errors that it alleges sometimes -creep into ,,in-journals columns, it would have learned last evenlny that President Roosevelt postponed his trip on the Mayflower and announced -his . intention of going to Princeton to attend the funeral of the late Grover Cleveland. - The president was not at the Harvard races, nor was he on board of the Mayflower, end that dear old Associated Press fell into a prievous though somewhat harmless mistake. Other Hswspaper Errors. Now that The Journal la on the sub ject of "errors in newspapers," it begs pardon for calling attention to the two stories of a Spanish coast shipwreck, in which 100 persons are reported to have been drowned. They are Identical and grace columns three and four of our modest contemporary's front page. - Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota was not a very good third In tha Rer Tiublican primaries yesterday. In col umn two of the front page of that fault ing friend in the tall tower the tory of Hansbrough's defeat is printed. But just to rub It In a bit, apparently, on the poor leiiow, me same rory ii ww told in column one of page five. But, after all. most newspaper are susceptible to errors, and v even the -most sedate, politically pure and ab solutely self-contained" publication the world ft as ever Known oumcumeB -- mu from grace, because it is human to err, wliUs to lorgive is divine. , , FEESIDEXT HAS -NOT LEFT HOME rr nltMl Prei Leased Wire.) . " Oyster Bay, I I June 25. President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt will leave here for Princeton tomorrow afternoon at 1:40 o'clock. They will go on a spe cial train to Long Island City. A boat will convey them from there to Jersey City, from which place they will con tinue the Journey on another special. J IJC K 1 I ' ' ; 1 1 V I n I, nut k.uv. " ..... - near the Mayflower, as reported In the Associated rress aipaicne. IIOXOKS m BOTII EACE8 (Contlnuefl from Page One.) v - V :,: ; - J t V ; Charles Williams, Who Owned ' the Skeletoa Key. . on account of the death of former Pres ident Orovsr Cleveland. . , , The - felted Stales cruisers Olympla and Chicago and the monitor Arkansas entered the harbor this rooming, t At the same time, the Svlph, with Assistant Becretary of the Navy Newberry, came in. The trim little Svlph took up a position - of vantage for . viewing the race, j ('" ; There la much disappointment among the Sarvard men at the enforced ab sence of President Roosev.lt. to wiom they jooked - for great enoonrsgament. They had bean cheered by the though that , his f appearance In the : crimson ranks would more than offset the ex pected presence of Becretary Taft in the r - The broad river 1 filled "with yachts of all kinds and there are hundreds of puffing and : chugging launches, all decorated in the colors of the competing crews.- The sight is the most beautiful ever witnessed here, as there are more boats and a greater profusion of decor ation. -. -v .All last night and todar the trains nave f: been - bring thousand of visit ors here to give this sleepy old New England town its annual awakening. Tickets tor the observation trains on both, sides of the river are- In big de mand and hundreds of visitors have gone up the river to get the beat po piilons at the finish lino four miles above the starting point. . -" ' This the forty-second annual ' race. Tale has won twenty-three and Harvard . eighteen. - Yale holds the record, hav ing covered the four mllea in 18S8 in ,20 minutes and 10 seconds. ' TEAINED NTJESES "WANT SPECLiL AW ENACTED (R'poIbI Dlmatrh to The Joqratl.) -Tftcoma, June 25 Trained nurses of Washington, are holding their annual convention here today, there being about 100 delegates -present- from- different jarts of the .state. The nurses want the legislature to pass an act providing lir a commission or examining board to license all trained nurse who pass a Failsfactory examination. They claim Koch an act is necessary to protect th f-ublif! from imposition by nurses palm- intf tnemfeives on as trainee nurses, but who have never attended or grad iinied from a' nurses' training school. 'i he act will be framed by a committee jiainert during the convention and aub- jiiiitea to the next legislature. , - United Commercial Traveler". rnltf4 Prow Leased Wlre.l - rolumbus. Ohio. June 25. The twen- tv-first annual session of the supreme rouncll of the United Commercial Trav eiers boan at tlie headquarters of the orennUiitiOB In mil city louay. jsu-rr--me Counselor J. C, Hunt presided. More' than 10 delegates were present, n ; resenting many states. V h orOnr, which has now reached Its t . -ntv-f list V"r. win incorporated in ivs. with cIk Ut dinner -members, all of m ere commercial travelers. The - voumI rfport of Sufri:no Becretary t V.nir O. linnlel liliows that its present .-.!.,.n'.m is the most proaperooa of any i tji in its entire existence. The order r r 1 in claims a inn its formation V 1 1 . . J ..WYl-rt.'sVrlvr.tfi t. sfrTVv- ,-frH-ri-f r- raw f CtEiLHiJD Edward Wilson Is Making Death Mask of Former President . mich Will Show That He Failed Ter- ribly Before Death. E. D. Ferguson, , Lookout for Room v Thieves. trade and have been - time-keeper for several mills. I have known Ferguson for a long time, for wa were school mates. I guess I led him Into this, for I had that skeleton key. . - "We came here by way of ' Spokane ana ueattie. mo, air, we oian t- ao a thing In Seattle. ' I never thought of doing anything until,! found thai skel eton key would unlock the door of the next room here in Portland.' . And Williams gulped again. - The articles stolen by 'Williams range in value from a $50 watch to a cigar ribbon sofa- pillow. They will undoubt edly aggregate 11.000 In value. In one house Williams entered nine rooms, and he almost Invariably tried more than one in every house he visited. ; Following are the houses entered by wininms: naton jourt, jsieventn ana Vsmhltl; the Elms, 174 Fourteenth; Waldorf. Thirteenth and Alder; Glad stone, 174 Thirteenth; the Morrison, 633 Morrison; the Roycroft, Twelfth and Yamhill; the Shelley, 42JH Morrison; 167 Eleventh street; the Kingston, Third and Taylor; Harrison Court, , Fifth and Harrison.-- - v ;.' The Kingston was the last house to feel the. effects of the skeleton-key man J:-;v'- :?. . , . Williams was of- course repeatedly seen by those who did not suspect his errand , until it was too late. Conse quently the descriptions: furnished the police varied widely. Detectives Tlche nor and Jones fitted the description to gether, made up their minds just what kind of man was wanted and went out to look for-him. Williams confessed soon after the arrest, and though Fergu son has hesitated somewhat the case is practically complete. ' In view of the tact that all the property has been re covered it is expected that the sentence will be light.; J f Read closing out sale ad of the "An nex' in today's paper. - It will save you money make your dollars go twice as Jar as usual. (United rress taaaad Win.) ' Princeton, N. J., June 25. The funeral services of former President Grover Cleveland will be held t o'clock to morrow, afternoon, and will be tmple( every wish of Mrs. Cleveland In this particular being carefully carried out. The line of the cortege will be roped on both aides and gurded by special po. lice to prevent the crowd In the streets from breaking through and Interrupting thlrprocesslon. It has been arranged for the cortege to pass down Bayard street to Nassau street, and then through Main street past the buildings of Princeton uni versity. Detailed plans as to the serv ices will - probably be announced ' this evening. '- Edward Wilson, the sculptor, today la making the death mask of the former president. It shows that he failed greatly since the latest pictures of htm were taken. It la feared that the mask will not present a very great likeness to Cleveland as he was known by his friends. The mask will form a part of the collection presented to Princeton university by the Jate Lawrence Hutton, author. - Messages -of sympathy continued to arrive air day. The following list of Sallbearera was announced today: Paul lorton, former secretary of tha navy; Commodore E. C Benedict, New York; Dr. Henry Van Dyke, Princeton; John Hibben, professor ot logic. Princeton; Professor Andrew West, dean of the Graduate college at Princeton: Pro essor John Flnley, of the college of the City of New York. - The choice of the minister lies be tween the Rev. I C. Baker, the Rev. Sylvester Beach and Dr. Van Dyke. , ' A message of condolence was received this morning from Baron Takahlra of Japan. ;;-;;.v-; ' . !;-. ., . ;i- , ' Washington June 15. - Orders were telegraphed today by the army and navy departments and the postof fice depart ment, to all army posts, navy yards,1 commanders - of fleets and detached ships and postal - stations throughout the world for the nroner recognition of death to ex-President Grover Cleveland. - Ail nags win remain at half mast for 10 days. , Tomorrow during, the funerar Of - the former president each army post will fire SI guns at Inter vals of one minute, and the same salute to the departed president will be paid by the guns of the flagships of the navy and the navy yards. , Independent ves sels win lire guns every hair hour from sunrise to sunset on the day of the funeral. . - The officers of the army and the ma rine corps' will wear a badge of mourn ing on the left arms of their uniforms and on the hilts of their swords for 30 days. SAYS LARSON IS A WON- Taooma Kan Corroborates. 01 alms , of the Teleoonl Expert How Beoelvtnf ; Patients at the Hotel , Oregon, la ,i Portlaad. , .-, The world Is filled with skeptica Nearly every man, and woman, for that matter. Is from Missouri, and must be shown. James Austin Larson, the Tel ecom expert, now at the Hotel Oregon, in Portland la a student of human na ture as well ss a great success la the practice of the science of vibration in the curing xt human Ills, and be lieves that In showing the people that he is doing what he claims lies the secret of his success. , Within a few days Mr. Larson will cause to be published in Portland, such an Indorsement of his work In Tacoma, Seattle and elsewhere In the practice of Teleoonl, that the most skeptical Missourlan will be shown and con vinced. He has ' been promised an In dorsement that will conclusively dem onstrate that he has made no claims of cures effected by Teleoonl 'which have been at all exaggerated. .-Watch the newspapers for Mr. Larson's strong Indorsement .,-.(..? .,.- , . Auction! Auction! Friday, 2:S0 and 7:80 p. m.. Saturday, 2:30 and 7:80 p. m., entire stock of Fashion Cloak and Butt house, consist ing of new spring suits, coats, skirts, waists, ladles' bags, umbrellas, wash suits and lingerie dresses, will be of fered at auction. 'Also fixtures,, con sisting of sewing - machine, tables, chairs, desk, etc., at the Fashion Cloak and Suit house, 141 Sixth street, corner Alder, opposite Oregonian building. J. T. Wilson, auctioneer; J. E. Goldstone, trustee. RECORD CLASS IS GRADUATED Siity-One Receive Degrees- Portrait of First U. of 0. - . President Unveiled . (Special Dispatch to Tha Josrsat) University, of Ore eon, Eugene, June J6. Sixty-one University of Oregon students, the largest-: class ont. record, received degrees yesterday afternoon at the hands of President Campbell and tb board of regents. Fifty-eight were for B. A. and B. S, degrees, two were for Master of Arts and : one was for tha degree of Mining Engineer. : y Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard nniverslty delivered the comnfncement address.' He told the students that tha world needed practical men, some ape ciallsts, some broadmlnded organiaers. But above all they must be men thai others will have confidence in. '. The last thing on ths program was the. unveiline.of the nortralt of Preai. dent Johnson, the first" president the university or uregon ever had. The canvas wea painted by Goodwin, a New York artist. x,- Thos. receiving degrees were: ' ' Master of - Arts Klrkaaan : Kanaari Robinson, Lon Leo Swift. Mining - Engineer Theodore Plckel Holt. , Bachelor of Arts Allle Beatrice Beebe, Jessie Murray Bell, Walter Matho Berry, Ernest Joshua Bertsch, Paul Gartner. Bond, Cora Columbia Cameron, Edna Jane Caufleld, Clara Madeline Cau field, Jessie Emily Chase, James Cun ning. Elsie Davis, William A. DHL Mary Foshay, Oscar Furuset, Winifred Had- ley, &ena inoseue Hair, Charles Bolton Hambis. Richard Alden Hathaway, eBn jamln Huntington Jr., Lilla Lydla Irvin, Frederick C. Jackson, Grover John Kest Jy, Bessie May Kidder, . Webster Lock wood Kincaid, John Eberle Kuykendall, Irene Lincoln, Roy Dell McCarty, Lena Inea Miller. Leslie Phelps Miller. Gor don Chamberlain Moo res. .Erank Reld Mount, Emily Muhr WilllSn Bartle Neal, Elmer DeWltt Paine, Bert William, Prsecott, William Oscar Hampton Pros ser, Floyd Cleveland Ramp, Ward L. Ray, Evelyn Helens Robinson, Claudius Carrol Robinson, Mary Ellen Scott, Har rison Kuhn Shirk. Agnes Stevenson. William Ray Taylor, Mabel A. Tiffany Claire Edmund Travllllon, Agnes Belle VanDuyn, Miriam VanWaters, Wesley Mstthew Wire. ' Bachelor of Science Albert Jackson Elton, Curtla Allen Gardner, Harvey Al len Houston. Joseph Wllber McArthur, Walter Jacob Moore, 'George Eugene Sullivan, Don Stevenson, Charles Roy Zacharlas. ' Special honors for excellence of theses were granted as follows: Allle Beebe, "Socrates, the Moralist"; Cora Cameron, "The West In American Poetry"; Jessie, Chase, "Death In the Works of the Women Novelists"; 'William Dill, "Treasury Balances and the Debt and Interest Funds"! Oscar Furuset, "The History of Railroad Building In Ore gon"; Mary Foshay. "The Social Inter est In the English Poets: Goldsmith to Wordsworth"; Grover Kestly, "Evolution of the Oregon Tax Code"; Bessie Kidder, "The Hof tlle Criticisms of Shakes peare"; Webster Kincaid, "The Emolu ments and Fee System of the State Of ficials of Oregon''; Irene Lincoln, "Ore gon's First Monopoly: The Oregon Steam Navigation Company"; Dell Mc carty, "Th Development of County Or ganization In Oregon"; Leslie Miller, "Training Institutions for Rural Teach ers"; Walter Moore, "Testa on Concrete Containing Clay"; H.- K. Shirk. "The Problems of the Country School"; Wes ley Wire, "The Religious Element In American Poetry"; C. - R. Zacharlas, "Testa on Concrete Containing clay.'' : MILL OILER LOSES 1 ARM IN MACHINERY (Special Dlapatch to The JooraaL) - -IToqulam, Wash.. June 25. Frank Ward, an oiler employed by the National Lumber & Box company, had his left arm crushed and torn from Its socket while at work In the mill Monday. He was standing on a box oiling a friction wheel when the box upset - suddenly. Ward instinctively threw out his arm to save himself and It was caught In the gearing, which crushed the bone. The weight of his falling body pulled the arm out of place. He retained con sciousness and, holding the bleeding stump in his right - hand, walked to where fellow-workmen were standing. He may recover. ... COIMEL MAUS MAY BE MADE BRIGADIER .v , . ., f -. j i . f v-; r. : (United Praia teased WlreJI San Francisco, June 25. Word has been received here that Colonel Marlon P. Maua, commanding the Twentieth in- fantrv at the Presidio, has been desig nated by the war department to taka temporary commana -or ine aenartmeni of California when Brigadier-General Frederick Funston - leaves for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, August 10. There is a scarcity of brlgadler-arenerala in the army at the present time and It is pos sible mat oionei iwaus may oe pro moted in rank and be given permanent command of the department of Call fornla. - . :.-.' WsrX V oteT - U THAT EILERS OFFICE BOY AGAIN Can He Get a Trade Drawn or ; . Maybe an Lxasneratcd Bildg. V-'v'.'v 1 '; .--;( -:,,:,.-'. v. . Portland, the 22nD, June, 08 , t Dear Chlrt r - ' Before I forget it I'll TeLL you about the FUN friday. A A lady comes to get a CHEEP Piano for the:BEaohM,JR. MCCorraick he shows her a new $128Klnde She goes to Git the MOnEY. But in. Meantime the "Cost Sale Fellers" they tells her huSband i about their genuine Mahhoggnny worth $250 kind and all that ' t kind of guff and he takesone for $137. Cost Ml- ' When they gets her huMe, and theysees it s NotHIng but . :-': : i, . , b. Popular wood; grain- 4 ! ,T - - . i i.. .nil lti,. ' r ODDOLTO Dooaa.o cononn CQntrhn ' f 1 our teoVWiO t jJj, ed red, and. Bum keys which has sPLinters on en, well, then they decides to get a . -good one and Mr, - MCCurmick he takes in the bum box off. their hands to help pay for an Kimble T a little, ' : - Then .we puts ' the bum box in -the window al onGsiDe , ' our new $128 kind. and honest it makes the ,"$250 ma Hoggany1 f look like a bawl o1 strings longside a league ball. You cant make , a pixture -of that kin you? . , Ennyhow, if YOu caint then mabbe you should make a drawn says Mr. Hoffman whos ; Just cum back from CALLif, of the Bldg, " whioh1 they are BraggINg ABout , which-the Dow, Estate is build-, ino fur em. They makes her out a whopper but she looks like a woodshed says he alongside the corner one. That corner is a . . planO store too, and which la the next largest to Eilera in San Fran, and , even then you kin lose the whole thing blGG as it is below the gallery floor of our new Frisco store, aint it so? Allthesame it 11 be a good pixture. because folKs will know when you exaj J errates about a building whiCH All kin see it a shure a zynch they is exaJJeratin' about their pianos which are a bum lot at best and the price so high even, as they say they is selliN' at cost. I've got to get spokkaness mail. out' now. so ong. IS CC-ffi , '.iuSV'.' Xf7 7 W&iCB.epfc P. S.-Them new;Mardoni Talk Records are sellin great I and ay tnem new $128 kinds is veneered" sure enuf . mahhoggany, - r. Special Picture " FOB BALANCE OF WEEK There arc some special Picture bargains in the Art Department, on the Fourth Floor, that ought to interest lovers of art. Five tables are completely filled with them. These pictures are all framed and have glass and back. They are just the thing for fitting up the bung& low, summer cottage or houseboat, and they include many by Christie, Remington, Harri son Fisher! Russell and others. ; There is also a nice assortment of genuine Pastels, Car bons, Photogravures and genuine Etchings. They have been selling' for nearly double what we ask, but we are going to close them out. Values to $4.00 for the balance of the week at . . .25S 50?, $1.00, ?1.39, ?2.00 Wc Do Artistic Picture Framing Homeopathic Medicine Cases No home is . com plete or safe with out one. It's often necessary ' to re lieve some slight ailment Wtih one these little cases filled with a few- pleasant quick-acting remedies one may often ward off seri ous illness. Cases of Morocco Leather, Horschide, Pigskin and Monkey Hide for. . 50f to $4.0O. They hold from - four to twenty-four bottles, each. fjiO - - ' - ?.: of PUD0D0R Kills Body Odor It is a liquid deodorant, has a pleasing odor and is a sure preventive of ex cessive perspiration. One great ad vantage it has oyer powders is the ease with which it mav be applied. It leaves no stains.- Bottle. . . v. 25? WE TAKE CANADIAN MONEY AT FULL VALUE irTJ' n entire'y new Une Candy Thermometers, 380 deg.. , .$1.25 ' V 'jS ' of ,T h e r m o m e- Brewers' Thermometers copper case. $2.50 -f lX ' e r an SarQme Cold-Storage Thermometers . .$1.25 'frfvWCT$ as ccn re" Self-Registering Thermometers $2 to $3.50 ff Iceivel, and we now Thermometers ' and Hydrometers II V?TVx lff3 iannounce complete for mechanical, analytical and scientific pur- ' VViyV line,' including every- poses; Hydrometers for testing spray solu- , J thinS from the small tions , ,75 to $1,25 ;S Fever , Thermometer" Aneroid Barometers, ' indicate weather 24 . 7Sssrssaii to the large Aneroid hours ahead . . .... . , ; . . .$2.50 to $25.00 - ' i-v .Barometer.. . ; Chandelier Thermometers. .$1.25 to $2.00 Fever Thermometers ; .'. . . .$1.00 to $3.0O Art Thermometers . . . . .10$ to 25 Oven Thermometers v t.........$1.25 Bath .Thermometers .....25 to 75? Exchange li Home A6171 AAA Fourth and Washington 3
