Show CARNIVAL OF CRIME Portland Or Is in Hands of Thugs nnd Robbers Portland Or July 17 Despite tho fact hat tho police are making n special effort ef-fort to apprehend tho band of thugs that iro making Portland their rendezvous tell cases of holdups burglaries und rob bones were reported today Upon returning homo from work tonight to-night M Kline n laboring man found that his trunk had been broken Into the contents scattered and his savings amounting to 10 stolen Fred Schlogel of Spokane was robbed of a 5 0 check nnd two 2 gold pieces Ho accuses a girl In a variety theater of the theft o I Masked men attempted to hold up a baker early this morning nnd a man report re-port an attempted holdup as he was crossing tho steel bridge at about tho same time tmn Five dollars In cash was stolen from ho I feed store of Lynch Brothers which wn < ntcrd at tho back door Thin thief showed h remarkable amount of daring Two men In the Northern Pacific depot report that their rooms were broken Into and a suit of clothes taken from each A pickpocket attempted to rob a man named King tonight near tho entrance of tho carnival grounds As King turned toward the man ho ran Into tho crowd and disappeared Besides these a largo larceny number o attempted reported burglaries and petty |