The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, August 02, 1908, Image 15

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Newspaper Page TextIS l.l I $7.50 Dinner Sets, $2.9$ 50c a Week linoleum NowYol 49c Here is a sensational Linoleum special that will set the "hot-air merchants" wild with envy, because they cannot begin to match the price. It i.s "D" grade of J A Printed Linoleum, the regular J&1.00 value, and the special price for Monday These are fine 50-pieee Semi-Porcelain Dinner Sets, with fancy floral decorations, selling reg ularly at $7.50; special for Monday and Tues day, only Will soon pay for these fin Anti-Trust Sowing Machine!. You are not asked $65 for thesa machines, but only ana luesaays euing wiu De oniy, yara THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1008. 411- iLWtfaatfefc ' r r rr- J3.JrS STfy L On Theae Easy Terma They will do the work of a $65 or $75 machine. We buy them direct from a manufac turer who is fighting the Sew ing Machine Trust. No agent'a commissions to pay. Peninsular Fine Steel ii Th celebrated makt, by the largest manufacturer! m the world. SOLD ON EASY PAYMENTS We will place one of these Sterling Steel Ranges in your home on the payment of titan TCP n virN atove 7 SPM And then you pay the same amount -$1.00 PER WEEK Scotch Brussels Rugs, $7.50 These rugs are imported from Scotland, are very carefully woven, and will wear, hold their color and give you sat isfaction. Room-Size Rugs, ONLY $7.50 $2 Fine Silk Floss Mattresses, $7.50 Theae Silk Floss Mattresses have fine art tickeig, and are thoroughly well made of perfectly sanitary materials. "Hot Air dealers' ask $9.00 for these same matrres es. Big Eastsiiie Store price Only $7.50 A Big Gas Range Special This Beautiful Dresser Only $8.75 Just as much room in these draw ers as the costly kind. It is well made, has three drawers, large mir ror, golden oak finish, and will last for years. The cheapest dresser made, and the Big Eastaide Store price is only $8.75 SS5 MpnrnaiH ssbjhi . a, "IB.. 'tlWTVTiiJt- iitiU Nickel Alarm Clocks 75c Regular 95c Values Easy F ayment: Will Furnish Your Home Here S virO o Your Credit Window Shades, 3x7 ft, all colors, only 25c $9.50 A $15.00 Dangler Gas Range for Only .... No. 217 This is a two-burner Dangler, with oven, and is fitted with the patent gas-saving burners. It will save your gas bills save its cost in a season. Come in and see these great bargains. This Is the Cash Price $9.50 JIB! IroiOnlyWll Five pieces in the set, including han dle regular $1.50 values, for only90 GEVURTZ BROS. Don't Mistake the Place! E. Burnside and Union Ave. i g f Ess Solid Oak Dresser Like Cut Only $17.50 No. 264 These are very handsome quarter-sawed golden oak Dressers, with beautifully hand-polished cases, genuine French bevel plate mirrors 24x36-inch size, tops 22x42 inches. Very fine furniture pieces. The reg ular price in other stores is fully $35. The Big Store special price now is only $17.50 SOW MR. BRYAN AND THE COMMONER AS A JOURNAL ..MAN FOUND THEM j. By Tlendrlck. (Special Correspondent of The Journal.) Lincoln. Neb, July aT The city of Lincoln and Us suburb, Falrvlew. are decidedly on the map. Lincoln and Falrvlew both owe their present debt to the' thrice nominated William Jennings Bryan. Of Bryan the orator, of Bryan the citizen, of Bryan the lecturer and of Bryan the politician, the country knows much. In fact, it Is more In timately acquainted with his personality In these directions thnt even with the personality of his Republican opponent. But of Bryan the editor, the country la coTriparatively uninformed. It knows hLs paper principally as the mouthpleco for Bryan's proclamations. It does not. know that the Commoner la operated on nighly Ideal linos and that It is one of the most successful publications In the United States. The announcement just made that Mr. Bryan will con tribute the profits of the Commoner to the Democratic national committee as hie contribution to the campaign fund, makes the paper of particular public In terest at the present time. In a aliened letter in the paper this week Mr. Bryan makes publia this Intention of making the paper an earning power for the Jjemocratlo oommittee. Mr. Bryan founded the Commoner and has been Its active editorial head since the paper was started. He has written many of his editorials while on lec ture tours through the country and it has been the chief organ for voicing his personal views on natural subjects. For aome time, however, the routine of the work has been delegated to others. Bemoves Sim Another Step. The fact that Mr. Bryan's third nom ination removos him another step from the editorship of the publication, has given rise to the Inquiry as to the probability that the Commoner would pass out of existence In ea.-o Mr. Bryan Were elevated to the presidency. Just one of the Interesting tilings about the Commoner Is the fact that this possi bility has been anticipated with a hlsh ly Idealistic "reserve fund," which pro vides employeM and stockholders with Insurance against loss of time or profit during" such a period as tho distiugu lahed first citizen of Lincoln may oc cupy the White House. This and other interesting circum stances are related in a ourrent Issure of a newspaper publishers' organization In the following graphic paragraphs: "The Commoner does not occupy pala tial quarters, but the two llitlo editor ial rooms present an Interesting- pic ture. No money has been -squandered In furnishings and decorations. Well worn oilcloth covers the floor of one room, and a faded old rug witn iHy d edges does Its best to ornament the other. Two battered and worn desks and a table, all littered with news papers and clippings, are the principal articles of furniture. Dusty sheafs of old newspapers are piled in corners of the rooms, and the ilinxy. yellow I walls show marks of thousands of I journalistic wounds. Several heavily constructed chairs and a typewriter about complete the equipment. The rental of the offices is understood to bo only $1,200 per year. "Nevertheless the Commoner's sanc tum looks like a real workshop and, says tho New Tork World, 'studying the preambled interior, one naturally thinks of Mr. Brvan in muddy overalls, feeding his chickens at Falrvlew. The picture fits the editorial office, home ly, rough and ready, earnest and de cent.' "The little business office of the Com moner, downstairs, shows up to better advantage. The desks are modern, tl e woodwork bright, and the girl clerks who tand at the tiny windows are de llKhtfully polite and attentive. It Is no trouble for them to look through great idles of old newspapers In search of Utile items asked for or to meet all the countless requests that pour Into a newspaper office. "They never ask If the applicant Is a subscriber. It Is quite enough for them that he is In search of Informa tion which the Commoner can give him. i an ousmess manager or the Com- and is regarded in Lincoln as being the faytst night of the year. In addition he Commoner gives a picnic every sum mer. The girls furnish the luncheon and the management supplies the spe cial train and the Ice cream. Mr. Bryan always goes along and plays first base in the ball game between the editorial and the business staffs. Himself a Publish. The fact that Mr. Bryan la himself a publisher and therefore Is familiar with the necessities and demands of the newspaper correspondents. Is evi denced by the arrangement made at Falrvlew for the comfort and conven ience of newspaper writers who have been attracted to Lincoln and Falrvlew by the Bryan rencminatlon. A larse tent has been erected on the Kalrvh w f rounds to bo used as headquarters fcr hese correspondents and they find It highly advantageous This Is one of the innovations which Mr Bryan lu- perfected through his able secretary, Robert F. Ko?e. Mr. Hose was the As sociated Press correspondent assigned to cover Mr Bryan s tlrst campaign: After that brittle he became secretary to the pubilsner of the Commoner. Now he is on the Job at Falrvlew doing- the heavy work. Mr. Rose himself occupies a small tent immediately In the rear or ine uryan residence, v.ere ho sleeps with his boots on. Mr. Brvan is unquestionably the leading cit.sen of Lincoln and probably the lead ing citizen or rsetTBSKa. He has bevn VI MAKES MS fust get my Unceremonious Exit of Scion of Famous Family From New York. . . Drj.n, oroiner i.. i mn l,nn,ri1 vlth th. ntl. ''.'L, ""m f,'i.r.yan' and he employes. r,f 'th fading private citizen of thai 'r rl. 7h.U.iH-. sienograpners, anq failed Ptates Although Lincoln does f T H, , .5 rora'.'"1b" t,out r.nt always vote for him for president u -J, ,r ? ? V ,'ontCommon,,J vet it honors him greatly and he Is a Is said to be about ll80.000. some Of ihtni1l n.r, nf It. eommnnltv lit. - m . 1 . W 3stJesMt8?y 7 ' " -V . ft , I J ' 1 -' " - ;--" . .'i - I A:. 4' Cfce ' 1 Wkrt"Th ComnjoaerV Work la Don. Photo Exclvaalejiy tor Th - - JovraaX scrlptlons at the rate of 11 a year, but ire uuia or it is in the club class, at a lower rate. "What becomes of the annual profits derived from the Commoner is a pui ile. In view of Mr Bryan's surprisingly small share. 110,000 salary as editor anil publisher, but it is explained tbAt a ce--tain portion of the profits, a big one. Is rut away annually to swell a 're tiring funJ ' This fund is destied to meet any emergency which mifent call for a suhfxenslon of publication. For lnstan -e. If Mr Brvan is elected to the presidency, the probability Is that tie Commoner would n... rut r,t existence, in which event the 'retiring fund' would settle all obligations and provide for the employes whe now de pend upon the Commoner for a living Varying estimates place the amount of this fund at from Jio.000 to 1100,008." Paper's Xarniaf g. A r-ewspsper writer recently esti mated Mr Brran's earnings fretn the "mmorer alone at about 1200 000, and th" r-t'lshfr. who Is said to hare neen d-er,y annoyed, prepared to make pub il a full "h-lu!e of his Intotni and fort inf. but Trends persuaded him not to do so It 1 -j"ertnod. howsT-er. that the publisher t f the Commoner estimates Ms wealth to Include the following ltms House. IJA.0C9: fsrra lard If noo. Vn!'-d fates rv.nds. ti&.OOO. In vestments. Ilr. 008 and tr.uranc, rlo to matjrity. which will bring the total to l!i:.nor. In add'tion to the 1100 salirf whk-h Mr. Bryan from fa paper, he esrns money by working for ethor periodicals mr.i br lctur1ng, for which he gets on an average about llil In Jancarr of each rear every per son man. woman. Ikt or girl on the Cofnnixxr pevroi) "Ibs tn tse rrT'l numury ertHn. wmeB rwnrttow usually u leld at Mr, Bryan a botae newspaper la operated on thoroughly businesslike lines, and yet the organi zation Is highly ideal. MAKES PROPOSAL "-BY WIRE, ACCEPTED (PperWl rttrt to Tb JocraU. I S e North Taklma, tVash.. Aug. 1. 4 4 Georgie Oclden, the fiancee of 4 Walter T l'rlne. the day West- 4 en Union operator here, ar- 4 4 rived this afternoon arid they 4 war married immediately. They 4 separated in Danville a year and 4 4 a haUf ago. He came west. He 4 4 advertised for her three weks 4 4 ago sad she answered from In- 4 4 dlanapoils last Tuesday, where 4 4 she was living He proposed by 4 4 wire; she answered "Yea" He 4 4 wired transportation and shs 4 4 start! r.eit day 4 4 4 OompaNaj I. to AmrlcM Lake. Pendleton, Or, Aug 1. About 41 mitilr of Ccrpsnv U O N O will lTe 8unl right fcr American Iake, under the leadership rf Captain Smrtb. where they wtil er.Jr tel annj sam wier ertrstnipfnent an4 Jointly partlrlpate tn military maces vers wHh tie rfguUr am. (tTnlted Press Leased Wtre.t New Tork. Aug. 1. How Alfred Van- derbtlt was aided to escape from the Lexington avenue apartments of Mme. Mary Agnes O'Brien Rulso through the servants' quarters and back yard, while the house was besieged by reporters, was revealed today In connection with the appointment of a referee to take testimony la the divorce eult The name of Van.ierlult. however. Is not mentioned specifically in the com plaint filed by Senor Antonio K. Rulse. the scion of a wealthy Cuban family, who Uvea at the Waldorf. The co-respondent is referred to mereiey as "an unknown man. Attorney George Young rtauclile, rep resenting the husband, said that the name and facts would be brouKtit out in the hearing Mr. Vanderbllt had not been called as a witness. The remarkable sioiy of the young millionaire's esiapo at an early hour from the apartments of Mine. Rulse came to light through an examination of the servants in the Lexington avenue house. Attorney LancMe probably will use at leit one of theS3 servants in the hearing before Referee GoOige A. Wy re. According to the stories told by the house servants, the plan to get Mr. Vanderbllt away from the house with out pusslns a battery of cameras was engineered By the Janitor. This scheme was reo;te1 to after th- millionaire had abandoned an earlier attempt to c-ish into a waiting taxlcab ami take a chance with the cameraa. The presence of a second taxlcab hired by the newspaper men caused him to give up that Idea. The only rear exit to the building in which lime. Ruise JJve.t was reached through living-rooms occupied by the ) n 1 1 o r To reach these quarters, however, a fire escape from the apartments of the lsdy, with a drop into a dark alleyway, was used. After the young millionaire sports msn tad dusted himself off he was se creted in the quarters of the Janitor until the latter made a hasty recon noiter and accounted for each of tho newspaper reporters and photographers V hn their whereabouts bad been as certained Mr Vanderbllt was guided out Ir.to a bark yard wMrn la surround ed with an e;gM-foot board fence, very difficult to sraie According to th story related to-lay. as g ajned from the boue witnesses, tie brond bark of the Janitor came into ue he-e and with a b:g "boost Mr Vandert'Jt was able to eai the fence There was rm-re trouble, also more bach, yards ahead. Fortunately a bouae d" or burrlAr alarms wer eticoun-, tr4, and atar scrambling vr anara EDITOR OFFETI DIES SUDDENLY 8UIII0IIS FIRE AT ISLAHD CITY Flames Consume $120,000 Worth of Property Xo "Water Obtainable. (United Preae Leased Wire.) New York, Aug. 1. Samuel E. Mof fett, editor of Collier's Weekly, and well known as a writer and former Jour nalist, died suddenly today on the beach at Normaiulie-by-the-Sea. near Sea Bright, N. J. His death was due to cerebral hemorrhage, brought about by his being buffeted In a heavy surf while bathing. His brother-in-law, E. V. Tallman, with a life guird was with him and suddenly saw htm throw tip tils hands and let go tho ropes aa though in distress. The life guard plunged in and brought him to shore while Mr. Tallman summoned several physicians who were at the hotel. He was detul when mey reached the beach, however. Mr. Moffett was born In St. Louis In IStin and educated in the University of Missouri at Columbia and the University of California. lie was connected at va- I rious times with the Sin Francisco Examiner and the New York Journal, a ivell us other prominent newsDaners. i a.,,4 urai t h a oiithnr nf mnnv work on 1 t6S political and social science. He had I Ferry's store, where the fire started. been connected with Collier's Weekly contained a stock of 11.200. fully cov (Spectu! Dtatfstch to The Journal.) La Grande, Or., Aug. 1. Last night at lt o'clock fire broke out In a small general store belonging to W. C. Parry, at Island "City and spread to the bit Implement house of the M. A M. eom pany. from there to the flour mills, owned by th came firm, thence to a butcher shop and three dwellings. The total loss will reach 1 120,000. Tha M. & M. company's warehouse is a 'total loss of J60.UOO with Insurance of tllj 00". The loss on the mills Is 160,000. It Includes 80,000 barrels of flour, wheat, etc. The Insurance Is about $10,000. other losses will approximate 110,- alnce 1804. FISHEKMAX DliOWXS IX THE COLUMBIA (Bpetlal Dispatch to The JonraalJ Astoria, Or., Aug. 1. Kurt Pekurt, a Kuxsian Finn boat puller for Captain Ziolunder. who is fishing for A. Booth Co.. was drowned this morning oppo site the Clatsop mill. They were re turning from a successful night's fish ing. While aprpouchlng th cannery Pekurl started to lower the sail and the boom swung around, knocking him overboard. The body has not been re covered. The deceased was a native ot Finland, aged S3, ana has resided bar for th laat six years. EUGEXE SCHOOL BOY DIES AT SEATTLE Eugene, Or . Aug I. A telegram wakf within a few days. received here this afternoon statin that Walter Francia. son of I. M. F rea cts a former Msh school football star, died In a hospital at Baattl from in juries received in a logging camp na? there several days ago. Th father, who went to Seattl Immediately after th accident, started with th remain fcr Eugen tonight. Th dec-eased had piaved on the Eugen high school foot ball team several years. H waa en of th bat players tb school ever turned out. He was VI rears aid. He leaves his parents aad Mvarai broth era and sisters. fences and thrwaati h!f a dsn r ri val yards th m u)wur raachad Park v u aad snad tl getaway, wh.,e th reporters wer left ta wait another near or s V prasa Urea, ered bv Insurance. The M. & M. com pany will rebuild the mill at one. The La Grande fire department re sponded to the appeal for aid. but water was not obtainable for hours. RAILWAY ENLARGED TO HANDLE CROWDS (peeUl Dtspatrk te The JearsaLt North Taklma. Wash.. Aug. 1. Ia OS dr to handT th crowds which ar anticipated hera when th atata talr commence . September It. th local streetcar company ts building a mil and a half extension from th buiU ness part of town ta me iir irounua Additional passenger car ordered and a hava beta ejcpactad to arriTS Further measures ta iMsra handling th several thousand s-eopl will b taken up with the Chicago. Mtlwauke Jr Ft Pal read. A loronaotlv and a strlrg of flat cars will b operated n th track of tha streetcar aoia pany. SEATTLE MAX GETS . ' PUOET SOUXD DOCK Washisrtoa, Aug l C. J. Tr'-kan, a cor tract or of fceatl, Vaeh i) r. tract a aew weval dr?d at t sb4. Wsshu tf ' a-w-rtrr er - ' ajifiim a i assist "a i - to-lay fcr tti hlf tf the I , ' eoTietrr "on. tir. li. kui i s Xer l.t.