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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 1911, UNDER ST HONOR WE: BUM 3 ESCAPE; IUNDER0LDWAY.26 f. : ' Men Work Without Guards and "Deliver the Goods" With Governor's Scheme, ? Earners Pay the State ? . . ... n The Jmirnil.) . fi Thfr are 64 rX ; Tortin. about the state Histltutimns ' - j, . . .. .. Th men are dls SftuSS M touow-: Asylum. : o ih 7- tubercular sanl- ferlunT 11 : u fair grounds. 10; mute lariuiu, .. .,. their erh.001 10 puna " . , bonor.' Frank Meredith, secretary of th. Mete board of agriculture who ha r ... ohnrcf Of trie lair oeen in .....- 'men have done a mlhtr Rood Jobat the Oregon State y they have Just completed a . in 4u anrt an even aosen feet in diameter. These men. ow whom there has been no gum a. " t o'clock In the morning until 6 In the evening with an hour for lunch. They alept in a small .building on the fair grounds, cooked their own mean and worked entirely without guard. t ivea Chance, Don't Abuse It. t "Those boys certainly worked faith iully They required no one to watcn them' and they did a mighty good Job, too. A soon as I saw they were in earnest, and I had some doubts about vslng them on the fair grounds. I gave them every facility to live like men Who were free and I do not regret it. The work has been beneficial to the men and to the atate. I am sorry those oya will not be here to look at our how when it opens. They were a faithful lot and deserve a great deal or credit for the way they have stuck to the governor." '- pay Pro BAta, might on TJme. ' More remarkable, perhaps, than the conduct of these men working about the atate Institutions is the honesty and faithfulness of It trusty paroles Who are scattered over the atate work ing for farmers liverymen, hotels or in Other line of work. These men draw the customary wages for tho work in which they are engaged but pay over to the state a clear 60 cents per day. This every man has done on time. One of these men is in eastern Oregon on a stock ranch, some are In Salem, and Others In various counties. The reason for so trusting these men la generally to allow them an opportunity to con tribute to the support of families. Ap preciating auch opportunities they have .- been true in every Instance, i In contrast with three-escapes under the honor system, 2S breaks under the Old guard system in 1909 stand out on bold relief. After losing 26 men and having many bad tights between guards and convicts, the plan of working con victs outside of the penitentiary walls v. . aKmilonMl In 1909 and no outside Vrork "vas done in 1910. Even with the . i - Tt. ... v.c tt hMAltt In thtit vpflr the number of men worked on the outside Was much smaller- than the number worked out now unaer me nonor uym tem; in fact twice as many convicts : are now working in tne opera, unsuara kA a wnrkl4 nn th SUtsldS In 1909 yet the percentage of breaks Is only ene-nintn as great. How Xfew Parole taw Works. , I Somewhat related in principle to Gov- virnor West's honor system is the new parole law, which went into effect May 20. With this law the parole board came Into existence. This board has worked hand in hand with the governor. ' The distinction between thiH law and the West honor system is often con fused In the public mind. The honor system applies only to men who have not served their minimum sentences and frho are strictly in the prison. The parole board deals With men who have served out their minimum terms and 1 who are entitled to conditional release from prison. When men go out under this law they are required to report regularly and not to leave the state Without permission of the board. Only .one man out of 41 thus paroled has violated bis promises to the board. This was a colored man, Bert Lowe. Lowe left the state and went to Ta coma. He is nw in the prison for his folly. Jdhn Major, the negro now held t Dallas charged with criminal as sault was paroled ur.der the old law. His case has no bearing on either the honor system or the new parole law. j'i.lt!.!, L-U DOWIE'S WIDOW PLANS NEW ZION IN MICHIGAN STENOGRAPHER re JOB-AND TYPEWRITER A man claiming to be Charles W. Bently, secretary of th Coeur d'AIene mining company of Spokane, and Identi fied with F. A. Blaekwel!, the wealthy . Spokane lumber and railroad man, on last Saturday, is charged with bilking Miss Maud Gilbert, a stenographer, out of a new typewriter, and has caused her to lose a position she had Just taken, and considerable public stenographic work. ' On last Saturday Miss Gilbert, who was doing stenographic work for the Soger Hart Gibson company, rfrtjved a telephone message from this stranger, aaying he was at the Imperial hotel and wanted to see her about a position. He said he had known many people in Spokane for whom she had worked and they had recommended her for the place he was seeking to fill. When the appeared at the Imperial hotel, he met her and called her by name. The posi tion she was to take was a confi Initial One for the Idaho, Washington & Northern- Railway company of which Black well is president, and the salary was 1X25 per month. Miss Gilbert was to open a pub lic stand at the Cornelius hotel, o she made arrangements to give that to someone else. She also abandoned a large, amount of work ehe had. on hands and- prepared for irn Spokane trip, going as far as. to sen-1 her trunk to the depot. The alleged Bentlytook her type writer, saying he would hav-j it crated, and shipped and also offered to send her new mahogany desk which sho hed Just purchased. Miss Gilbert "was to meet Bently at the depot where he would hare a ticket for her. tflvi p ' peered at the depot, but Hently failed' to arrive, and Mies Gilbert, becuming suspicious, informed the police of the affair. She also asked at the hotel for the man and found that no such party had ever been there. The same man It believed to be responsible .'or another similar incident in which a ste'nograpner was bilked out of money and n watch. ' A -.perfect fossil of a huge aea tor. tolse has been found on a mountain near Loa Angeles, Cal 3400 feet above ui present sea leveL .... " S. k ).V1W 2 - I I x -i St. 4 & V 4 v -w s M - Kite Mf lit AUTO TO TACKLE ARCTIC REGIS "Bull Dog" Car Reaches Port landTour to Cover 100, 000 Miles. Mrs. Jane Dowie, widow of Joun Alex ander Dowie. founder of Zion City, who has announced her Intention or creating a new colony of the lowie faith at her summer home, Ben Mao Dhal. near Whitehall, Mich. Mrs. Dowie will be assisted by her son, Gladstone Dowie, of Detroit. She will dedicate her summer homo and 20 acres of ground to the cause of the new colony. Tax Exports at Richmond. (United Pri'M Leaned Wire.) Richmond. Va.. Sept. 6. Distinguished tax experts of the United States ajrid Canada are the guests of the Old Domin ion capital today at the opening of the annual conference of the International Tax Commission. In the first five months this .year the United Kingdom imparted 2,362, 600 bunches of bananas. Spattered with mud and dirt, the Abbott-Detroit "Bull Dog" automobile, Ip charge of Dr. Charles Perclval, edi tor of the Health Magazine of New York city, and his companion, George V. urown, arrived In Portland Sunday afternoon from Salem, where ho stopped to deliver a message from the governor of California to the. governor of Oregon on good roads. Dr. Perclval Is now on his fourteenth month out. having covered on the 100,000 mile tour 32,1)16 miles. The little machine Is on exhibition at the Portland Motor Car company's salesroom at Sixteenth, and Alder streets, and shows -agrvlce for the en tire distance covered. This machine has now covered eight-tenths of the distance around the border of the Unit ed States, and has been in 44 states since starting on the 100.000 mile trip. The present run Is being made under the auspices of the "EI Camlne Real" association and Pacific Motoring, the oldest motoring magazine of the Pa cific coast, and the idea is to perpetu ate "Kl Camine Real," or the king's highway, the old road built over 100 years ago by the mission priests. Dr. Perclval and Mr. Brown contem plate visiting Alaska and will try to drive as far north as parallel 64, and thus obtain the honor of having been the first automoblllsts to penetrate the Arctic circle and get near the North Polo. For this trip the Abbott will h equipped with front runnels in place of wheels, and special spiked tires on the rear wheels will give traction over the snow and Ice of the Arctic circle. From Alaska the trip will continue back to Seattle and across Canada to Mont real and New York city, thus complet ing the first automobile trip around the borders of the United States and Into every state. From New York the trip i will go to the Isthmus of Panama and , then to the sandwich Islands, Japan, China, the Philippines, Australia. New Zealand, Africa, Asia and. Kurope, it I being the Intention of Dr. Perclval to make a complete trip of the entire world, which, will It Is figured, take at least two more years. The idea la to make the entire trip, which is sched uled to cover 100,000 milee, with the same automobile, which wilt be turned over at the completion, to automobile engineers to be appointed by the Amor lean Automobile association, who will tear It down and render an exhaustive report, which will. It , Is hoped, 'prove Of great value to the Industry at large. The tourists, during their stay In Portland, will be the . gueeta . of . the Portland Motor Car company where the famous car will be on exhibition in the garage, corner Sixteenth nd Alder streets. V Sclo Swell! Pickers' Ranks. ' Sclo, Or., 'Sept. 6.- 'For the next three weeks . Sclo and vicinity will have the minimum population of the year. Each year a large number from here go to the hop yards, combining an outing with remunerative employment Hop growers claim they are able to get a superior class of workmen here and there is usually keen rivalry between the agents of the different growers to see who can sign up most pickers. School has been postponed until Sep tember 1. - ELLENSBURG CITIZENS ARE IN DOUBT BUT VOTE fftnerlHl to 1ha IminMl.l EHensburg. Wash- Sept. I. The hot test campaign for votes In the history of the city has. closed, and votera or BUensburg- today are- deciding whether they want to continue with the present water system owned by Mayor W. W. Seymour ,-of Taooma or ' whether they win rouow tne council s . recommenaa tions and build - a municipal plant, hav ing its source In wells near tha Yakima river, at a cost of flOMOO. : The fight on both sides has been bit ter. J. C. Ralston, formerly a Spokane engineer, and R. H. Thomson were ex nerta called in. Both sides have uaed newspaper space liberally In educating the voters, but so many conflicting statements have been made by persons In authority that the ordinary voter does not know which way te throw his ballot, and the Issue is In doubt , The greatest factor In favor of the IFTREEl Upright Grand Piano If iiiii .ISM I VUILI'.IUI 1 """ -ii'iii' n,TT-T. VMM IT AH 'ZZf ALCOHOL J PER CENT. AVcgetablelTeparaitonSrAs-slmllatingteFbodawlRedula- ting the Stomachs andliowclaf Will Fromofcs DigesHonJCkcrfls11 ncss and Restfonfalns neither Opiuni-Morphlnfi norMujeral NOT NARCOTIC. jncttfodiksinxjjmnx JUJtmm AmtSnd CtanMSImr' haBprm flmr. A nerfect Reme dv for Consfbi lion , Sour Stonkxh.Dlarrtoei Worms jConvulswns jevensir ncss and LOSS OF SUSP- TacSinuie Signature oT NEW YORK. j For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of ar a m m pJiL& ti As mvr tip Ladles' -Oold Watoh Sixth rrise. I S3f . .. II i e.M " - vi . FINE PIANO FIRST PRIZE. and Over $8000 in Other Awards Free to Contestants Who Solve the Great Teddy in the Jungle Puzzle This reat publicity contest conducted by the Graves Music Co. in conjunction with several of the world's largest piano manufacturers to ac quaint the people of Oregon with Portland's only complete music house and the pianos they sell. THE PRIZES ARE AS FOLLOWS: riXST PHJSE-; -Magnificent Up right Crrasd Piano, F. O. B. factory in mahogany; oak or walnut casa. 8ECOVO PRIZE Pine Marlolin and $150 cash purchasing check. TKTJUD) PBin Plus Salter and $140 cash purchasing check. POUXTK PBISB Pine Banjo and $135 cash purchasing; check. riPTK P&IZE Kanaiome Cnstt of Silver and $130 cash purchasing check. SIXTH PBIZB Lady's Oold Watch and $126 cash purchasing check. SEVEHTH PBIZZ Pine anto harp and $120- cash purchasing check. Then, In order of merit. SS spe cial advertising cash purchasing checks ranging in value from tha above down to $60. In Use For Over Thirty Years 1 til 1 Exact Copy of Wrapper. VMS esirraus eeMMNT, ntw vesa errv. BRSMG THEM IN of course you are saving Journal coupons for a Free Oiled Portrait You may bring the photograph which you wish to hare enlarged to Tho Journal portrait department, any time. The artists will begin work at onoe. Then when you have saved the necessary number of coupons, bring them in. By this means you will be able to obtain the life site bust, blaok and white oiled portraits earlier than If yon wait nntll yon have all the oonpona saved. Bring; In your photo at onoe, P 1 W"l A Special Portrait Coupon, will ap- I r ttIirin pMr ln Kl1 aJtlon ' Tb Journal A A wm oontlnue for twenty-five days only, commencing Monday, August 01, 1911, Cut the coupon out and after you have saved THE TWI STT-FITE (of different dates) bring them to The Journal Art Gallery and we will have made for you a beautiful llfe-slse bust, blaok and white oiled Portrait, from any photo graph, absolutely FEII. AZ.Ii YOU HAVE TO DO ZS TO PTTBOHABB A FRAME POB $1.98 VVOUt ACCEPTANCE OP TOTTB, POBTBAIT. More expensive frames may be obtained, if desired. BOTE Subscribers having subscription reoelpts oovering' the our rent month can present them In lieu of the coupons, FYTRAV Tb Jonrnal has made arrangements with its advertisers LiJ. IIYI. to give with each framed portrait a merchandise order "good for SOo ln trade, redeemable at any store advertising' ln Tao Journal. SAMPLES OP TXZ8 BZAXTTZPUZi WOSZ NOW OB BZ8PXAT XV OVM WZBTDOWS THE JOURNAL BKPKaiSS:- OB KOOM 208 (BBCOirS PXOOB) THE JOVSHAZ.' BTJHiDIB"0 CTTT ZCEXB 9 The Journal Special Portrait Coupon Jpf. 8 No. 16 These Coupons, presented, at The Jonrnal Portrait Department la ao- oordano with the terms of The Journal's free portrait offer, will entitle the boldje.to . r .' . A Life-Size Bust Black and White Oiled Portrait . Out then out each day until you have the required number. THERE ABB BIBB ABZKAZ.S IB SZZ OP DIRE3CTION8 Traoe out the lines of each animal on this or a separate sheet of paper, mark them 1, 2, 3. etc. The seven neatest cor rect answers will be given' the sev en grand awards mentioned above and others in the order named. Each contestant must abide by the. rule and the decision of the Judges wilt be final. In case of tie prises of similar value will be given to each contestant. Professional artists, TSXB PICTURE. OABf TOTT PIH TBUIaft music trade employes and winners of first prizes in our previous con tests barred. Answers must be con testants' own work. All answers must bs mailed or brought to Con test Manager, deak 1, Graves' Muslo Co.. Ill 4th St., Portland. Or., on or before 9 p. m. Saturday, Septem ber t, 1911. Be sure and write your name and address plainly and rush answer to us today. Everyone has an eo.ua! chance. Graves lVfustc Co. Ill FOURTH IT. STXSTTKIBQ IB MTTSIO POBTZtAJTD, OB. city's plan is that Seymour has some times railed to give tha city a good wa tor supply in tha 10 years he has owned the plant, and many voters are "getting" even' today, on the other, hand, the oost of $76,000. his pip lines extended and blf settling and filtering tanks Id stalled. -::i;''iyi':tfvki Vf'i,:'4il '" There are 48 horses to every 100 oer- Seymour . plant la being bettered at a sons In Australia." ' Absoluiafy Puro Tho only Baking: Powder made from Royal C rape Cream of Tartar WO ALUM, NO LIME PHOSPHATE Excursion Fares East Via jj ""saa Sale Dates September 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7 DURING THE SUMMER SEASON, 1911 From All Points on th O.-W. R. ft N. Co. To Chicago r f... Council Bluffs. Omaha I Kansas City . V...., St. Joseph . . . ( St. Paul . . . . ..) - St. Paul via Council Bluffs .. . Minneapolis direct Minneapolis via Council Bluffs. Denver, Cote Detroit, Mich St Louis .... Boston, Mass. New York. N. Y. Washington, D. C. Atlantic City, N. J. .feo.oo Stopovers going snd returning. Final return limit October 31, 1911 e One Way Through California flS AddTtVanal. Call at our City Ticket Office, Third and Washington streets, for any infor mation desired, also for sleeping car reservations, or sddress WM. M'MURRAY, General Passenger Agent. Portland. Or. OREGON HOTELS OREGON HOTELS Mew Perkins Hotel FIFTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS In the Very Heart of Portland's Activity Modern in Every Respect RATES $1 AND UP MODERATE PRICE RESTAURANT L. Q. SWETLAND. Mgr. C. H. SHAFER, Asst. Mgr. Have Your Ticket Read "Burlington" Better Train Service to Omaha Denver, Kansas City, St Louis The Burlington's through trains from the northwest via Billings, the direct and short line to the southeast, have recently been equipped with' the most luxurious and restful library, lounge arid Observation cars. Great Northern-Burlington Southeast Express Is a high-class, dynamo-el ectric-lighted, complete train of chair cars, dining car, standard and tourist sleepers, and compartment-observation car. It leaves the North Coast at night, Monday (for example); Spokane, Tuesday noon; arrives Denver, Thursday night; Omaha and Kansas City, Friday morning; St. Louis, Friday evening. , Northern Pacific-Burlington Mississippi Valley Limited - Leaves; Portland and Puget Sound, Monday evening (for example): Spokane, Tuesday morning ; arrives Denver, Thursday morning (63 y hours)!; Omaha, Thursday afternoon (70 hours); Kansas City, Thursday evening (75 hours); St. Louis, early Friday morning. It is a completely equipped, high-class, electric lighted trem of chair cars, dining car, standard and tourist sleeoers and librarv-observstion car with buffet. barber and bath. SJ Let me show yon bow well the various Burling ton main lines can bs used for divers routes ., through the east, v -' ' ' -w - PORTLAND HOTEL The largest and most magnificent hotel in Portland ; unsurpassed in elegance of accommodations or excellence of cuisine. European plan, $1.50 per day and upward. o. j. xAtmcAsnr, acinar c. THE IMPERIAL .Oregon's Greatest Hotel 350 ROOMS. 104 SUITES With Private Baths NEW FIREPROOF BUILDINQ MODERATE RATES PHIL METSCHAN & SONS, Props. THE BOWERS iraoiu Asm otnrcrjBMsirT STow Conducted on Amerloas and Sorotteaa Flan. & Riag-le Osntlemen. . Hotel Newly Furnished and Deeoratedr TSSU WOTS SSSSKfMT.MMM. BIMHl TABU SVOTI LUVOX .so tajsu bvoti stirinia....... ...fLoo Also a La Carfe Men. , slervlos ln Tea Boom Until la oTJlook P. K. 1 ' Kefresksaents Ssrved on Boot Oardsa Bverr Bvenlaf Private Dinner Parties, Luncheons and Banqusts Given Personal Attention. Perfect Borvlcs ln All Deoartments. v BOWSBS, Vres. and Xrr. 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