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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1909. FUNERAL IN STATE TO BE GOVE BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF WASHINGTON'S DECEASED GOVERNOR HIS ONE AMBITION RNOR Uf - ; 4 jW7 1 'I . . - kcW&s' fill 1 I HE oresent is emnhar- f ife!!ir HOUSE WEDNESDAY dovernor Cosgrove Will Be Buried at Olympia With I Military Honors. CAPITOL DRAPED IN CRAPE Funeral Train Will Be Met by Guard .of Honor in Portland Tuesday j ? ight and Escorted to Olympia. j Flags Are at Half - Mast. OLYMPIA. Wash., March 28. The fu neral of Governor Samuel G. Cosgrove, who died this morning at Paso Robles. "will be held In this city "Wednesday at 2 o'clock, with full military honors. The body will be met in Portland Tues day e-enlng by a military escort. Gover nor M. E. Hay, state officers and a com mittee from the recent House and Senate. The funeral cortege will reach Olympia early Wednesday morning, and the body of the late Governor will immediately he taken to the Capitol, where it will lie in state until noon. Funeral Services in State House. Services will be held In the House chamber at 2 o'clock and interment will be in this city. All companies of the National Guard stationed in Western Washington will be called out and will participate in the services. Governor Cosgrove was a member of several secret orders, and each of these orders will send delegations to the cere monies. ' Lieutenant-Governor Hay, who has been Acting Governor since January 27, and who tomorrow will take the oath of office as Governor, has issued a procla mation requesting, all public offices to be Closed Wednesday, and that memorial services be held throughout the state at the hour of interment. All flags in the city have been at half mnst all day. and will remain so for 30 days. The State Capitol has been draped in crape. Train Due at Olympia Wednesday. The funeral train will leave Paso Kobles Monday morning, and is sched uled to reach Portland at 11:15 Tuesday night. If connections are made the funeral party and escort from Olympia will leave Portland at 11:30 Tuesday night in special cars at tached to the regular Northern Pacific tp-ain to Tacoma. These cars will be Switched at Tenlno to the Port Town sond Southern tracks, and brought to Olympia by special engine, arriving here about 6 A. M. Wednesday. ; Prom 7 A. M. Wednesday until In the afternoon the remains will be In state in the Capitol building in the rotunda on the main floor. The funeral serv ices wll be held in the House chamber : iii the Capitol, beginning at 2 P. M. Wednesday. Rev. C. E. Todd, pastor df the local Methodist Episcopal church. Will officiate. The desks will be re moved from the floor of the House and Chairs placed to accommodate the spe cial delegations who will be present, representing the G. A. R., Masons, Odd fellows and other fraternal orders of Which the late Governor was a promi nent member; state officers and friends Of the family. . Interment in Masonic Cemetery. Mrs. Cosgrove and other members of the family left all arrangements to Howard Cosgrove. who, after consulting wTth Governor Hay and friends 6f the family here, tonight agreed to the plan above, and also decided for a milicary fUneral. , , Interment will take place at the Masonic Cemetery in this city with full military honors. .v.'.I'lst of Honorary Pallbearers. ..The following have been selected as honorary pallbearers: Ex-Governor John H. McGraw". of Seattle; ex-Gov- ernor Albert E. Mead, of Belliagham Justice M. E. Gose. of Pomeroy; Judge H. D. Crow, of Spok;-; Senator J. R. Stevenson, of Pomeroy; Senator Alex Poison, of Hoqulam; Senator John-L. Mair. of Friday Harbor; George H. Woardman. of Tacoma; Representative Oliver Byerly, of Ostrander; Repre sentative W. H.-Thompson, of Cen tral la: Jesse Retd, of Tacoma; W. H. WiSCOmbe. Iif Wnnlf Qtin- IP a X i , ----- - - j-v. iiairi- tlne. of South Bend; Daniel Bush, of . ueiiaiiB: ueorge w. Tlbbetts, of Ort in: Samuel Vestui nr . - . , - gene Lorton. of Walla . Walla," and vj' luuiii, ol aeaitie. The House committor t . i funeral train will consist of Speaker L. O. Meigs, of North Yakima, and Representatives John A. . Fancher of u , c , - ia -aiKins, or KUens burg; John A. Wh alley, of Seattle Frank H. Renick. of Seattle; W. H. Thompson, of Centralia: Oliver Byerly, of Ostrander: H. C. Krouse, of Pome roy, and T. J. Bell, ,of Tacoma. . Son to Meet Train at Ashland. Howard Cosgrove and hi eiat.o Mrs. Roy J. Klnnear. of Seattle, leave here tomorrow morning to meet the funeral train at Ashland. On the Capitol, the city schools and from flagstafts at many residences flags are flying at half-mast here. All day men have been busily .engaged draping- the Capitol building with somDer Daniurs of crape. Crape shrouds each of the several entrances to the building and the same token of mourning in rosettes are fastened to the doors of the executive offices. The Senatorial committee which will act as a guard of honor to meet the remains of Governor Cosgrove at the state line will consist of President Ruth, Senators Stevenson, Poison, Fal coner, Blair and Potts. A number of other Senators have also announced their intention of acting. i" " ' f ' - ' I f - , - - - I - J - i'-'Jl I f " - : ; j "i v "s , -54- ' I Samuel Tuscarawas 'County. Ohio, Fall of 1S63 Samuel g. Cosbrove. G. Cosgrove, late Governor of "Washington, was born in County. Ohio, April 10, 1847, and reared in Defiance on a farm. He enlisted in the Union Army in the in Company E, Fourteenth Ohio Volunteers. P. I., and was discharged in July, 1865, at the close of the war. He - entered Ohio Wesleyan University in 186S and graduated in 187S. He then read law and was admitted to the bar in 1876. He worked his way through college and his law coarse. In his early life he taught scjiool. Ho was a life-long Republican and a resident of Pomeroy, Wash., since 1S82. Mr. Cosgrove was a member of the State Constitutional, conven tion and was a McKinley and Roosevelt elector. At the time of his election as Governor he was a regent of the State University, an ap pointee of Governor Mead. He was prominent in Grand Army and lodge circles, being a member of a number of secret orders, includ ing the Masons, Elks and Oddfellows. In addition to practicing law, he farmed for the last 20 years, belng'the Vwner of a 1400-acre farm in Washington and Idaho. He leaves a family consisting of a widow, two sons 'and a 'daughter. . ' Elected After 1 6 Years' Strug gle, Cosgrove ' Dies as ' Goal Is Attained. BORN IN OHIO IN 1847 Enters vl'nlou Army at Age of 16. Graduates From Oliio Wesleyan University, the Far and West Starts for in 1880. WORDS OF rOSGROVE BHEN HE TOOK OATH AS GOVERNOR. - "There are some little matters of legislation I should like to mention to you now. because i may not be with you again. I would like to see a rood, strong local-option law enacted In this state. . .1 have not writ ten you a message; I have not dona anything, and I do not expect to be -able to do anything." HE8VS SHOCKS SON Had Cheering -News From His Mother Only Day Before. POMEROY GRIEF-STRICKEN NOT DUE TO OSCULATION Tonsilitls at Wells College Can't Blame Girls' Kisses. NEW YORK, March 28. Experts on tonsilitls and other experts on kissing appear to be unanimous in the opinion that the epidemic of tonsilitls at Wells College is not due to any undue or un usual brand of osculation. "Unless there la something peculiar about the Wells kiss." . declared one "expert." "the explanation sent out by the college is untenable. If there was anything new about the Wells kiss the world would have known it before this. The demand to have the institution converted from a woman's college into a co-educational school would have been irresistible. Why, if kissing caused tonsilitls there could be no education. The col leges for women couldn't last one term, and it wouldn't be worth while to open the co-educatlonal Institutions at all. Kissing Is a safe as wine or airships." Home .Town Feels Keenly Losa of Man Whom They Ixnred to Honor. Walla Walla Opponents Had Become His Friends. SEATTLE, Wash., March ' 28.-Howard G. Cosgrove, eldest son of the late Gov ernor, and his father's confidential man ager during the primary and general campaign, was with John H. Perry, in his rooms at the Hotel Washington Annex nfien news of his father's death reached him. Immediately on receiving the intelli gence over "the long-distance wire from Paso Robles, Mr. Cosgrove went to the home of his sister, Mrs. Roy J. Kinnear. He took the afternoon train for Olympia and last evening and was in conference with Governor Hay and other state of ficials in regard to funeral arrangements. "The news of my father's death," he said yesterday, "was entirely unexpected and came as a severe blow to all of us. All the news from Paso Robles has been optimistic', and all of us believed that my father would return to Washington and become Governor in fact about May i. My mother has written frequently, and her letters, have contained accounts of how my father was gaming; ; One week he gained a pound a day. The last let ter from her was written Wednesday, and reached "aie yesterday afternoon. It was a cheerful account or the Governor's convalesence and from its contents I am sure that his death was as unexpected to those about him as it was to me. Walla Walla Is Shocked. "The report that seems to be cur rent that my father sold all of his Pomeroy property. Including his home, is without foundation. A few days ago Mr. Cosgrove sold a small ranch, but the rest of his property remains in the hands of his estate. The sur viving relatives' of Mr. Cosgrove are my mother, Mris. S, G. Cosgrove; my brother, Elliott E. Cosgrove, of Seat tle, and my sister, Mrs. R. J. N. Kin near, of Seattle. Two of my father's brothers and three sisters survive him. They are: Lincoln Cosgrove, of Ge neva, O.; Frank Cosgrove, of Fort Thomas, Ky.; Mrs. James Worthley, of Helena. Ark.; Mrs. Mary Maynard and iuiss jan cosgrove, both of Ney, O. A special from Walla Walla says: "Nothing could have -more surprised and shocked- the residents of Walla Walla or Pomeroy, his home town, than receipt of the news of the death of Governor Cosgrove. "Favorable reports had come from Southern California, and it was be lieved the man's indomitable will would pull him through, and he would realize the ambition of a life time and be , Governor. In fact, his fight for life had changed all senti ment against him. and those who op posed him in the election were his ardent supporters and well wishers. "Pomeroy, his home town, was as tounded when the news came of the passing away of .' Washington's most prominent citizen, for the people of that little town loved the old man and had followed with careful attention the course of his illness and then his gradual recovery of strength. Iioved hy HisJTownspeople. "Governor Cosgrove lived in Pomeroy for the last Quarter of a century and knew every man, woman and child in that section. Governor Cosgrove waa a lawyer and a farmer, but he also possessed the faculty of getting close to the people and counted most of his acquaintances ae his personal friends. In his early political career, when Governor Cosgrove announced that he wanted to be 'Governor, Pomeroy and Walla Walla supported him, as It did all through his career. Governor Cos- grove's ambition to be Governor caused him to brush aside all other proffers of office made by men desiring to prevent him reefching his goal, and Pomeroy and this city agreed with him in his resolutions. The two cities backed him in, his fight for the Gov ernorship and when it was known that he had . won he was given a mighty reception. "Eugene Lorton. probably the closest friend of the dead Governor and the man who brought him out as Governor and won the fight for htm, is almost heartbroken, and stated tonight that the death of a member of his own family would affect - him no more deeply than the news of the Governor's demise. Mr. Lorton left tonight for Olympia to help make Arrangements for the funeral. "Not since' the death of President McKinley has the city been so affected. The city took as much pride in Gov ernor Cosgrove as if he had been a resident of Walla Walla." BIG GAME LIKE COWS DANA ESTES BELITTLES SPORT OF ROOSEVELT IX AFRICA. Says Animals' Are so Tame They Do Not Raise Their Heads' as Trains Go By. NEW YORK, March 28. In the opinion of Dana 13s tee, the Boston publisher, who arrived here today after a journey of 2,000 miles in Europe, Asia and Africa, ex-President Roosevelt will find hunting big game In East Africa 'like shooting cows in a back yard." "Antelopes and animals of that kind are so tame," he said, "that they graze along the railroad and scarcely look up as the train goes by. I saw thousands of zebra, antelope and other animals a few hundred yards from the train and most of them never even so much as lifted their heads as It went by." Mr. Estes visited Uganda. His travels In Africa took him inland as fax as Vic toria Falls on the Upper Zambesi. SELLS LIQUOR TO INDIAN Steven Basas, of Vancouver, Admits Guilt When Arrested." VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 28. (Special.) For selling a half-pint of whisky to Joseph Tuorish on Sunday, Steven Basas, a Greek, and proprietor of the Newport Restaurant, on Wash ington street, was arrested by Officers McFarlan and Mullane at 8:30 o'clock this evening. Being unable to put up a $100 bond, his partner being at' a dance across the river, Basas was lodged In jail for the night. Tuorish was caught Vomlng out of the restaurant and was threatened with arrest himself if he did not tell and he Informed the police -who sold him the liquor. Basas admitted his guilt. SPOKANE,-Wash., March 28. (Spe ciai.) Orovernor Cosgrove frequently stated that for 20 years his consuming amDition was to be elected Governor. Always a receptive candidate, he never showed strength sufficient to make him a prominent factor until J. M. Frlnk was nominated by the Republi cans 12 years ago. Cosgrove would have been nominated had the south west counties, pledged to him, voted for him in convention. He was talked of during the campaign preceding tie nomination of Mead, and was ready to make a race in convention until, the nomination was settled in secret caucus. Wins After Long Fight. After the struggle of 12 or 18 years he won, but was Governor in fact only two days, his trip to Olympia from uantornla in the dead of Winter, to take the oath, undoubtedly shortening his life. Mr. Cosgrove was carried from Pom eroy, Wash., November 12, of last year, and reached Paso Robles, Cal., three days later. He recovered sufficiently to start for Olympia January 22. of this year, but his private car was delayed by storms, and he did not reach the State Capital until January 27. He was sworn in the same day in the presence of the Legislature and state officers, insisting upon making a public appear ance, instead of taking the oath in the car, as had been planned. Friday, Jan uary 28, he began his last trip, having been Governor only two days. S. G. Cosgrove was born in Tuscara was County, Ohio, April 10, 1847. He grew to manhood in. Defiance County, Ohio, where- he enlisted in the Union Army in 1863, at the age of 16. He served throughout the rest'of the war, being honorably discharged In 1865. ' " The following year he entered Ohio Wesleyan University, where he was graduated' in 1873. Among his class mates during his college career were Charles W. Falrbcnks, ex-Vice-Presl-dent, and James M. Vernon, now post master at Everett. Cosgrove earned his own way through college. After leaving college. Cosgrove stud ied law in an office in Woodfield, O., being admitted to practice in 1875. He left Ohio in 1880, and went West, first to Nevada, then to California, then to Washington, settling in 1882 at Pom eroy. Upon his first arrival in thi state he formed a law partnership with M. M. Godman. After 1896 Cosgrove practiced law alone until two years ago, when his eldest son, Howard, was graduated from the law school of the State University and entered liis fath er's law office. Mr. Cosgrove, by frugal living and good business management, acquired 1400 acres of farm lands In Washing ton and Idaho, which are farmed under annual leases. Took Active Lead in Politics. ' He was an active ami mor nr prominent mernber of the Oddfellows, worKmen, Masons, EIRs and Grand Army of the Republic. He served one term as-divlsion commander of the G. A. R., and at the National convention of that body at Louisville, Ky., was appointed junior vice-commander-in- chief of he Natibnal order. Mr. Cosgrove became an advocate of state regulation of railroads, and took an active part in the political contest for the establishment and exercise of that power. For three years preceding his election as governor, air. cosgrove was a mem ber of the Board of Regents of the State University, holding that position by vir tue of an appointment by Albert E. Mead, against whom he was a candidate in the primary campaign for the nomination for Governor. Governor Mead received his nomination at the hands of the faction of the party which opposed the faction of which Mr. Cosgrove was a member. When the call to arms- was sounded from the party headquarters, Cosgrove buckled on his party armor and went forth to fight his party's battles. As he himself has explained it, he "marched when the party ordered him to march, halted when his party ordered him to halt, and when his party ordered him to stand on guard he stood on guard." . When he entered the raee for the nomi- JUDGE ALLYN VERY LOW Well - Known Tacoma Democratic Jurist Near Death. TACOMA, Wash., March 28. (Spe cial.) Judge Frank Allyn is lying very low at his home in this city, and it is not .believed he can live until morning. Judge Allyn served one term as Superior Court judge and some years ago was an active Democratic politician and well known throughout the state. Of late years he has de voted his time to his law practice. - Change Teachers Convention Date. 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V 1 . :: C0PTK!CMT .130 fi 1 liiiisilifcS 1 1 111 ll1 nation for Governor, Mr. Cosgrove noti- nea trovernor Mead of his willingness to resign from the university governing body, but Governor Mead Insisted upon his retaining his position, which he did. When the agitation arose in Washing ton for the enactment of a primary nomination law, Mr. Cosgrove became an ardent champion, and when the passage of the law was assured he made it known to a few of his friends that on the first trial of the new law he would make a campaign for the Gubernatorial nomina tion. He began his active campaign with the nomination, as early as August, 1907. first publicly announcing it at the encamp ment 'of the Grand Army in Ballard. From that time forward he devoted all of his time and energy to the canvass. visiting every county in the state, and spending from three days to three months in every city, town and village. 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Established 1865. Portland, Or. test. He organized also in that city ' a Cosgrove club. Early in July, at a meeting of the Washington State Press Association in Vancouver, an effort was made to induce that organization to indorse Cosgrove's candidacy, but, failing in that, an organ ization of newspaper editors was organ ized in his behalf. This organization started out with some 50 newspapers, and at the end oi the campaign -the Cosgrove press serv ice was being regularly supplied to and published by not less than 150 publica tions. Meanwhile. Cosgrove, Sr., had so far recovered from his illness as to be able to enter upon a stump speaking tour, which thoroughly covered King. Snoho mish, Skagit, Whatcom and other of the Puget Sound counties. When the date came for the primary election he was' completely exhausted, making it neces sary for him to return to his home in Pomeroy. Wins by Seconds Choice Votes. He won his nomination on the second choice vote in the Republican primaries, receiving a total of first and second choice votes of- 67,667 as against 49,402 cast for Mead, and 47.794 cast for ex Governor Henry McBride. In his own county Garfield his popu larity was demonstrated by a. vote on first choice of 290 as compared- with 58 for ex-Governor McBride and 25 for Gov ernor Mead, his two leading opponents. In Asotin County, which bounds Garfield County on the east, Cosgrove received 270 flrst-choice votes, as compared with 6-4 cast for Governor Mead and 62 for ex-Governor McBride. If precedent is followed, Lieutenant Governor Hay will serve out the full term of Governor Cosgrove, or until January, 1913. A general election intervenes be tween this date and the close of ths. present term, but a similar instance arose when Governor John R. Rogers died,.- in December, 1901. -after serving less than one year. Lieutenant-Governor Henry McBride served out' the full term as Governor. 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