THE MORNING OREGOXIAN. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1913.
1 ROBBER-MURDERER
ASAHEL BUSH DIES;
FUNERAL 15 TODAY
OREGON PIONEER AND MILLIONAIRE
SALEM.
BANKER DIES
BELIEVED CAUGHT
Highwaymen Who Held Up
Sunset Express and Slew
Montague Identified.
Death of Oregon Pioneer, Mil
; lionaire Banker at Salem,
: Comes Unexpectedly.
MISSING WATCH CARRIED
3 GENERATIONS SURVIVE
Passenger at Time of Crime Near
I'jDpIojcs In Bank Headed by Late
i Financier Will Be Pallbearer.
Career Devoted to Upbuild
ing of Ills Community.
Los Angeles Sees Man From San
Francisco Car Window Name
Given 'Jacques Bostlck.
i
SALEM. Or, Dec. 13. (Special.)
Asahel Bush, millionaire, pioneer bank
er, publisher and politician, died at his
home in this city at 12:40 o'clock this
morning; after an illness of about two
weeks. While his condition was con
sidered serious, awing; to his advanced
atre, death came suddenly and unex
pectedly, arterlo schlerosis being; the
cause.
, The passing- of Mr. Bush removes
ones of the early financial geniuses of
the West. Arriving; In Oregon with
little money in 1850, he began to amass
the nucleus of the great fortune which
he possessed at his death. Born June
4. 1831, in Westfleld. Man, of sturdy
Yankee stock, he early evinced a desire
to bo West.
When 26 years old. with a party of
friends of the same adventurous dis
position as himself, Mr. Bush sailed for
Panama, his principal possession on
the trip being; a printing; press. Cross
lins; the Isthmus, he came directly to
Oregon and settled at Oregon City,
then probably the leading; city of the
West.
Paper Started Early.
' "The Oregon Statesman was at once
started by the ambitious publisher. He
conducted the paper three years In
that city, moving; the plant to Salem
In IS03. and Increasing; - the size of
the paper.
The Ladd & Bush bank was a suc
ccs from the beginllng and the busi
ness gradually expanded until the bank
became one of the greatest on the Pa
cific Coast. Because of his banking
business in Portland, Mr. Ladd finally
determined to sell his interests here,
and in 1881 Mr. Bush became the sole
owner of the institution.
While a banker of the old school,
31 r. Bush remained the head of the in
stitution until the lust and the day
before he was stricken he was at the
bank attending to his duties as had
been his custom.
Buk Factor la Prvsreas.
It has been said of the bank that it
financed Salem and part of the county.
Pioneers say that it has been a great
factor in the building up of the com
munity, which was largely due to Mr.
tush's insight into the future and his
willingness to give financial assistance
to those in need.
While In the newspaper business Mr.
Bush took an active Interest in poll
tics, and soon after entering the mer
cantile business became the first Etate
I'rinter. He frequently was urged to
be a candidate for the State Legisla
ture. Mr. Bush and Miss Eugenia Zieber, of
this city, were married In 1854, the
wife dying in 1863.
He is survived by four children, as
follows: A. K. Bush and Miss Sally
Bush, of this city; Mrs. telle Thayer,
of Berkeley. Cal and Miss Eugenia
Bush, of Hartford. Conn. Two grand
children, Asahel Bush. Jr, and Miss
Eusrenia Thayer, and one great-grandchild,
Asahel Bush IV. also survive.
Children Prevent at Death.
A. N. Bush. Miss Sally Bush and
Asahel Bush, Jr, were with the banker
when be died.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock
tomorrow at the hotr.e on Mission
street, the Rev. W. G. Eliot, pastor of
the First Unitarian Church, Portland,
officiating-. The obsequies will be quiet
and friends are requested not to Bend
flowers. Announcement was made to
night that the pallbearers would be the
following employes of the bank: L. P.
Aldrlch. Harry Wenderoth. Chester M.
Cox. E. B. Millard. Roy Burton, T. L.
Williams, F. E. Frickey and Joseph
Baumgartner.
JOURNALISM DEFEATS LAW
Late Oregon Pioneer Expected to
Practice but Starts Paper Instead.
Asahel Bush was an Oregdn pioneer
of 1851. He came to Oregon from
Massachusetts, his native state, intend
ing to practice law here. Afler an
eventful voyage from New York by
way of the Isthmus of Panama and
San Francisco be landed at Astoria
and took a small boat up the Columbia
and Willamette rivers to Portland.
Instead of engaging- in law, how
ever, ho soon located in Oregon City
and started a newspaper there, which
lie called the Oregon Statesman. The
presses for the Statesman were shipped
around the Horn. Mr. Bush was editor,
proprietor and publisher of this paper
until 1S53. when he removed to Salem,
which has been his home ever since.
In that city ho followed the news
paper profession until 1861. In 1S$7
he became a partner of the late W. S.
lidd in the banking firm of Ladd A
Bush. He bought out Mr. Ladd's in
terest In 1877, the bank, however, re
taining its pioneer name. He was ac
tively Interested In the management
of this bank to the time of his death.
Mr. Bush had been a leading fact".
In" the development of Salem for 50
years. In addition to bis banking in
terests there, he was president and
stockholder In the Salem Flouring
Mills, which he and Mr. Ladd bought
many years ago. He was also Inter
ested In the Salem Woolen Mills and
was owner of the Salem Foundry. In
the davs of the old Oregon Steam Nav
igation Company, predecessor of the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation Com
pany, and the present Oregon-Washington
I:al!road & Navigation Company,
lie was an active stockholder.
He was a staunch Democrat in poll
tics. Besides serving as chairman of
the Democratic state central commit
tee in 1S93 he was a delegate to the
lvmoc ratio National convention at
Chicago. which nominated Grover
Cleveland for President.
He was offered the position of Sec
retary of the Treasury by President
Cleveland, but declined It.
Mr. Bush was not only the first and
only territorial printer of Oregon, a
position he held for eight years, but
he also wm elected as first state print
er In 1858. in anticipation of Oregon's
admittance as a state In 1859. He
continued as state printer until 1864.
In 1878 he was superintendent of the
State Penitentiary, making an unusual
record of economy. He was a member
of the board of regents of the Univer
etity of Oregon for many years, and
In 1963 was one of the directors of the
Lewis as Clark Exposition.
One of French "Immortals" Dies.
PARIS. Dec.' 13. Jules Claretie. one
of the French "Immortals. and admin
istrator of the -Comedie Francalse."
tiled today of Influenza.
V
ASAHEL
GOOD SLANG DEFIED
Professor O'Shea Says Re
porter "Handed Him Lemon."
"'SHE'S A PEACH,' IS FINE'
Salem Newspaper Man Slips Advo
cate of Figures of Speech, Oum
inonly Used, Entirely New One
lu "Getting the Gravy."
SALEM, Or, Dec 23. (Special.)
writ - .i 1 : i unnpAe whA minted
1DMIDO VOIUUl 1 1 1 a. 1 i. -.
him virtually as "just doting on slangy
lo some extent nanueu mm
- - t . ..... m mi t made hv M.
WttB lit I. A Shu.,.... - -
,r o. e... e eH,i.tirm In the
V . W .7 11 V IX. fiu.coou.
University of Wisconsin arid noted
philologist ana etymologist, wno uoouc
Bl inn uiecLiue " www ' o - -
Teachers' Association today. Professor
O Shea aoes oeiieve id D
words ana pnrases. out no itD' -
light to select them. n
"I must be my own censor of slang,
declared the educator, "before I am
,. lit- .,iiinj..Hn(F It Offen-
gi,cu vicun . w-...-e,
sive slang, ribaldry and rubbish I cer
tainly cannot commena. cut mere are
certain slang words and phrases which
are eiiecu v , m " ,
will become a part of our language.
lust as certain woras mai io
1 c.-Uak n-ar, tr n in the, H 1 A n C
U IS uuu 11 p. 1 1 i. --
category. Many words used by Shakes
peare were inconventionai in mo
but usage has put the seal of approval
upon them.
. ikl. . will ml 11 Tl f hi.
V nenstmie jiciouii , "
speech to the occasion the same as he
i,, wi- -i . -u7Hn with enmrnries
Will 11 1 0 Ul WW. " iii. ......
our speech would be called stupid if
we did not use woras in common, .u
i Kmui i r f l r a narlor. for In
stance, where there are ladies and
gentlemen it mignt oe wen to enciiow
slang.
Child's Speech strong.
. . l.i-i . ....awi. flinin. nf ,n,.rh
A CU11U DBl-9 BUU115 w- i
i i- tntia I unA when
which mc uiitwii . i. .11... .. i -
nfF.nivn itnrisfv the needs of the
young and are unobjectionable."
Asked to give siang woruu
.. -hinh h nnnrnved and disaD-
oroved. the professor said:
r . . . , . 1 I - T 111.. nn
"ot on your me is v.
the level" and "he's a good sport." '1
have a bid to a party- seems all right
to me. ...
" There is nothing wrong with sne s
a peach' or "she's a pippin." Take to
the tall timber" is a flue expression to
- ikl.1.1. . 'Put villi wlRA
my way ui uiiiini. - J -
and 'on the square" are expressive and
not Inelegant.
" "Guy" la offensive and should never
be used. "Jollying" has my stamp of ap
proval There's nothing out of the
way with "fade away." Don't forget
that forget If is first rate.
""Bats in ones Denry i nut
111.- -k. -in nt it too. bv
raijisr hud mo " q
George, but perhaps It Is out of rune
with our language, it uuo Bv.v.
swing though.
"No, 1 cannot approve pa
buck" It is not elegant; It Is offen
sive to the ear.
"New Oae Eneonntcred.
. "What do I think of "getting the
gravy?" Well, that's a new one on
n.i.. - ; . Tnnnine the
J11U. ITIIfll VI U 1.1 1 k M M a
coin.' eh? Another new one. 1 think
I disapprove both: tney are uarsu.
" 'Making good" has my sanction. "Go
ing back." In the sense of a person los
ing his efficiency, is fine and I like
'pipe' for see. but cannot approve "pipe
the guy," for "guy" is not in. my dic
tionary of slang.
" "Bonehead," Is offensive, while "solid
Ivory,' as applied to a dunce. Is good.
"Put It across" Isn't bad. and "lt'a a
cinch" Is strong. "We should worry'
will hardlv pass muster, but 'he's off
his trolley is great. "Stung" I like a
great deal.
There can be nothing wrong In
using slang words that we know will
be legitimatized by usage and then
there are slang words and expressions
which may be all right for the young
dynamic expressions which would 111
become older persons."
Professor O'Shea made no reference
to slang In his address to the teachers.
MRS. YOUNG IS VOTED IN
(Continued From First Pace.)
fled the chairman to silence him.
Those women do not represent Chi
cago. Chicago does not want Mrs.
Young just because a crowd of women
hold mass meetings."
Few of the arguments were intelligi
ble because of the number shooting
together.-
"Don't listen to the liar." cried Mr.
teb, of the Young faction, as Mr.
BUSH.
Sonsteby accused him of secretly vot
ing against Mrs. Young.
, "There's the chairman who Invited
me to join his monkey-shine club and
I refused to Io it," jeered Harding,
pointing at President Keinberg. "My
God! Will Chicago stand for these
outrages here today?"
. Woman lit Shouted Down. '
Mrs. John McMahon, trustee, tried to
get the floor.
"I know you are a woman and any
where else I'd remember that I am a
gentleman and I'd stand aside for you,"
exclaimed Sonsteby. "but here on this
question I will not yield to you."
Nothing was accomplished except to
get the principal objections of the anti-Young
faction into the record until
it came to voting on the resolutions to
unseat Shoop and elect Mrs. Young.
Then the trustees, explaining their
votes, get a chance to make themselves
understood.
. "Mrs. Young was kicked out," said
Dr. Clemensen. "She resigned to save
herself from being kicked out, but she
was kicked out just- the same. How
ever, she was out and I voted for Ehoop
as a good civil service move. He was
the next in line. ' We haven't come to
the point yet when only one person
can conduct our educational system. I
believe that Mrs. Young's usefulness
here is at an end. After this she could
not serve here and be of use. ' I vote
against her."
Rothman Admits Injustice.
"Mrs. Young got up and marched out
of here in a fit of pique," said Mr.
Rothman. "She would have been re
elected if she had, stayed for another
bartot. An Injury may have been done
to Mrs. Young, but it won't make
things better to do an Injury to Mr.
Shoop."
After Mrs. McMahon obtained a hear
ing for her motion to reconsider
Shoop's election things went quickly.
Shoop was declared out of office, Mrs.
Young elected and Shoop assigned to
his old place as assistant superintend
ent, all within IS minutes. Thirteen
trustees voted solidly for the motions
and seven refused to vote. There are
21 members of the Board. One was
absent. Mrs. Young is resting at
Tryon, X. C.
CHURCH NAME TO STAND
Methodist Episcopal South Vote
Proposed Change.
NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Dec. fc. The
proposal to change the name of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South to
"Methodist Episcopal Church in Amer
ica," has been defeated, according to
figures given out here today by the
Christian Advocate.
Thirty-two of the annual conferences
of the church opposed the change and
13 favored it. Three Mexican confer
ences have not voted. The balloting
showed 40A2 against the proposal and
1333 favoring it.
DR. HAZZARD MUST SERVE
Supreme Court Refuses to Review
Manslaughter Case.
WASHINGTON, Dee. 23. Justice Mc
Kenna. of the Supreme Court, refused
today to grant an application for a
review by tho court of the conviction
of manslaughter of Dr. Linda Burfleld
Hazzard, a licensed osteopath and
"fastist" in Kitsap County, Washing
ton. The woman was charged with caus
ing the eath of Claire Williamson by
withholding food from her. .
MISS WILSON AIDS FRIEND
President's Daughter Obtains Job
for Widow of Her Tutor.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec 23. Miss
Eleanor Wilson, daughter of the Presi
dent, is said to have been a factor in
the appointment today of Mrs. Effie H.
Anshutz, as postmistress at Fort Wash
ington, Pa near here.
Mrs. Anshutz is the widow of Thomas
P. Anshutz, an artist who for 30 years
waa a teacher at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts. Among his
pupils was Miss Wilson.
Girl Shoots Fiance and Self.
DENVER, Dec. 23. Lulu Edler. of
Seattle, shot and killed Frank Greg
ory, of Denver, in her room here some
time last night and then committed
suicide. The bodies were found this
afternoon. According to the Btories
Miss Edler had told acquaintances, the
couple were to have been married to
morrow. It ia supposed that they
quarreled. ,
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 23. Identi
fied by Arthur Colen, who had been a
passenger on the train, as the robber
who held up the Sunset Express near
Los Angeles, December 1, and killed
Horace Montague, a man giving the
name of Jacques Bostick was arrested
by the San Francisco police today.
Colen saw Bostlck as the latter was
walking down the street. Jumped from
the car on which he was riding and
pointed the man out to the police.
The prisoner carried at watch answer
ing to the number and description
called for in a standing notice carried
for some time In the Los Angeles police
bulletins. The watch is a Hamilton
movement, 21 Jewel timepiece, with a
gold filled case, bearing the case num
ber 1840397 and the works number
381431.
The Los Angeles bulletin asked that
any prisoner carrying this watch be
returned to Los Angeles, but did not
specify on what charge he was wanted.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23. The de
scription of the watch found on Jacques
Bostick, 'under arrest in San Francisco
on suspicion that he was the highway
man who held up the Sunset Express
near this city December 1. corresponded
to that which was taken that night
from F, J. Robin, the flagman of the
train..
After he was robbed of his watch,
Robin was forced by the highwayman
to stop the train to permit him to es
cape After he had been robbed, Robin told
the Los Angeles police that his watch
was-a 21 Jewel, Hamilton movement,
with a gold-fllled case, number 1840397,
and that the works number was
381 431.
Sheriff William A. Hammel got into
telephonic communication with the San
Francisco police and this afternoon de
clared there was no doubt that Bostick
was the man wanted in connection with
the train robbery and the murder of
James Montague, Southern Pacific
traveling agent.
"I shall leave for San Francisco to
night to bring Bostick back," said
Hammel. '
CLEMENTS IS RENAMED
GEORGIA MAJT RETAINS PLACE OA
INTERSTATE TRADE BODY.
President Sends In Nominations For
Minor Poaltloba at American
Embassies Abroad.
WASHINGTON', Dec 23. Judson C.
Clements, of, Georgia, was reappointed
today by President Wilson as a mem
ber of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, and his nomination was con
firmed by the Senate.
Other nominations today were:
Secretary of Embassy, Madrid, Fred
Morris Dearing, of Missouri.
Second secretaries Thomas Hinck
ley, of Washington, D. C, at Vienna;
Arthur Hugh Frazier, of Pennsylvania,
at Paris; George T. Summerlin, of Lou
isiana, at Berlin; Henry Coleman May,
Washington, D. C, at Tokio; Arthur
Mason Jones, of New York, at St.
Petersburg.
Secretaries of legations Hugh S.
Gibson, of California, at Brussels; Gus
tavo Scholle, of Minnesota, at Havana;
Francis Monroe Endicott, of Massachu
setts, at San Jose, Costa Rica; Marshall
Langhorne, of Virginia, to The Nether
lands and Luxembourg; Sheldon White
house, of New York, at Managua:
Franklin Mott Gunther, of Virginia, at
Christlania; James G. Ilailey. of Ken
tucky, at Lisbon; William Whiting An
drews, of Ohio, at Berne; .William
Spencer, ofPennsylvania, at Caracas.
Second secretary of legation Fred
erick A. Sterling, of Texas, at Pekin.
Secretary of legation and Consul
General Henry F. Lenna, of New
York, at San Salvador.
SCHMIDT HELDInSAHE
ALIE7TISTS SAY EX-PRIEST MUR
DERER IS A PARANOIAC.
Slayer of Anna Anmnller Believed He
Was Making Glorious Sacrifice, Ia
Opinion of One Physician.
x-n-Tir tnp w Tlpfi 23. Alienists
called by the defense testified at the
trial today of Hans tsnmiai, ex-pnent,
for the murder of Ann Aumuller, that
. i ..i.... tB a nuranniac Examina
tion of alienists will be continued when
the trial is resumed tomorrow.
Dr. W. A. White, of the Tnited States
xt it-.ii fn, ihn Insane-. "Washington,
said he was convinced the defendant's
insanity waa or tne paranoiac ope.
Schmidt, he believed, had a perverted
understanding of the nature of his act,
but looked upon it as a glorious sac
rifice, which he had been commanded
to make.
Dr. Henry Cotton, of the New Jersey
State Hospital at Trenton, gave testi
mony coinciding with that of directors
Jelliffe and White. He thought Schmidt
hd suffered from brain trouble and
was incurable.
That Schmidt was insane at tne time
of the murder was the opinion of Dr.
M. S. Gregory, of Bellevue . Hospital,
this city.
PRESIDENT AVENUE GOES
House Bill Drops Classic Same for
Sixteenth Street.
WASHINGTON, Dec 23. The Avenue
of Presidents, the fashionable boule
vard that extends from the White
House northward Into the suburbs, will
cease to exist by that name, if the
Senate allows the action of tho House,
which has just voted to restore the old
name of Sixteenth street. The more
classic name was bestowed a couple
of years ago as the result of a move
ment on the part of the well-known
residents on that street, who urged
that It should have a distinctive name,
like the Unter den Linden in Berlin
and the other prominent boulevards of
foreign capitals.
Representative Sisson, of Mississippi,
responsible for the restoration of the
old name, merely told the House that
the boulevard had been rechristened
Sixteenth street in the District of Co
lumbia appropriation bill to accord
with the original plan of the city of
Washington.
APPOINTMENT IS HELD UP
Eepublican Senators Charge Denlson
AVith Political Activity.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. Republican
Senators, led by Senator Smoot, of Utah,
prevented action today in the Senate
on the appoinment of Winfred T. Denl
son, of New York, as a member of the
Philippine Commission and Secretary of
Interior for the island government.
Mr. Dcnison was an assistant United
States Attorney when appointed and
had been Identified prominently with
the prosecution of customs frauds.
Delano to Head Monon.
NEW YORK, Dec 23. Frederic A.
Delano, ex-presldent and one of the re
ceivers of the Wabash Railway, was
elected today president of the Chicago,
Indianapolis & Louisville Railway Com
pany, known as the Monon, to succeed
Fairfax Harrison, who was recently
elected president of the Southern Rail
way. Open this
Evening
to accom
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your Gift
Selections
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LAST MINUTE SHOPPING
IS BEST DONE HERE
The broad aisles, purity and healthfulness of
the atmosphere account for the absence of
flurry and impatience usually observed in
overcrowded stores.
Our patrons have expressed their gratifica
tion because of the little courtesies we have
extended them during the holiday shopping.
To the last hour our customers are sure of
finding large stocks to select from.
This store is doing things on a large scale. It
would be surprising if one could see the vast
stocks held in reserve that are necessary for
good store-keeping. t
It is an enlightenment to the people of Port-
land to see the capacity of this store, to receive
and serve the great crowds of people and out-of-town
customers who are enjoying holiday
shopping as never before.
In marked contrast from the confusion, im
patience, hurried conditions one finds every
where, it is quite noticeable to everybody vis
iting us these days that there is . . J
No lack of accommodations
,No lack of merchandise
No lack of courteous attention
Above everything else, we desire that our
patrons be served quietly, promptly and sat
isfactorily. Your last-minute shopping is best done here.
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She would enjov nothing more than a set of
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nothing returning so much real, genuine value
for the money.
Llebes' Furs are sold direct from the
factory, and for this reason possess a
market value in advance of their initial
cost to you. In quality, value and style
a Llebes Fur is as good next year as it
is this.
COMPARISON OF QUALITY AND PRICE WILL
CONVINCE. ,
Inspection Invited.
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