TITE MORXIXG OREGOXIAJT. SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1014.
S
BQ5SEN IS INDICTED
FOR WIFE MURDER
Lane County Grand Jury Is
Told of Poison Found in
Dead Woman's Body.
SISTER'S STORY DAMAGING
$5000 Insurance Policy, Changed
Ia y Befpre Death, by Timber
Cruiser Is Pointed To, as
Possible Motive.
EUGENE, Or.. May 29. (Special.)
Andrew Bossen, charged with deliber
ately murdering his wife, the mother of
a 9-months-old baby, must stand trial
in the Circuit Court in Eugene proba
bly next week. The motive is said to
have been for the insurance money or
because of love of his pretty sister-in-law.
He was indicted today after the
Brand Jury had heard the testimony of
the chemist who examined the stomach
of the dead wife, whom the coroner's
Jury stated had died from poison, and
the testimony of pretty Dollie Levins,
the murdered woman's sister.
The grand Jury, before be
ing dismissed, held Thomas Rus
sell, of Glenada. for trial, charged
with attacking M. W. England, a neigh
bor, with a knife with intent to kill.
At the time of the arrest England was
not expected to live.
Slater-In-La-w Wa Embraced.
Bossen was arrested and placed in
Jail March 26. six days after the
death of Mrs. Bossen. The evidence on
which the warrant for his arrest was
based, was contributed partly by Dolly
Levins, the 21-year-old sister of the
dead wife. She testified before a Coro
ner's Jury that her brother-in-law, in
whose house she lived, had embraced
her and that she had been obliged to
repulse him and his attentions.
"How can I disbelieve what my
dying sister told me?" she said to the
Coroner's Jury, saying that she awoke
early in the morning to find Mrs. Bos
sen deathly sick.
..."I'm Poisoned," Dflns Woman Said.
""I'm dying. I've been poisoned. An
drew poisoned me," were the words
which the dying wife said, according to
the sister, for love of whom the Dis
trict Attorney believes the man poison
ed his wife. This dying declaration,
it is stated, was heard by Mrs. Hol
land, a neighbor, and by Marie Hen
dricks, a 6-year-old girl.
According to the testimony, Bossen
worked over his sick wife all night,
but made no effort to call the others
in the house until they were awakened
y noises. Just before she died. The
District Attorney also caused Bossen's
arrest because Bossen is said to have
had $5000 insurance changed to his
f (wife's name a day before she died.
Bossen maintains his innocence. He
declares that the woman took an over
dose of medicine. He states that he
also gave her whisky earlier in the
night, when she complained of sick
ness. Bossen was a timber cruiser and
had been married for six years. The
couple came here two years ago from
Klkton, where the Levins live.
LEBANON SCHOOL DAYS END
Buccalaurcate Sermon to Begin Com
mencement Exercises Sunday.
LEBANON. Or., May 29. (Special.)
Commencement week for the Lebanon
High School will begin with the bac
calaureate sermon in the Presbyterian
Church Sunday.
Tuesday evening, June 2. the senior
class will present the play. "The Pri
vate Secreetary," at the Opera-house,
under the direction of Miss Ruth Peter,
of the high school faculty. This play
was recently shown with great sue
cess in Eugene. The graduating ex
ercises will take place at the Meth
odist Church Friday evening, June 6,
when a class of 20 will receive di
plomas. This Is an increase of 50 per
cent over last year.
On this occasion the winner of the
Garland medal . will- be announced.
This medal is presented annually by
8. M. Garland to encourage the use
of better English in the public schools.
NOTABLES AMONG MISSING
Laurence Irving and Sir Henry
Scton-Karr .Vidcly Known.
NEW YORK. May 29 Laurence S. B.
Irving, who was a victim of the Em
press of Ireland disaster, was an actor,
author and manager. His plays are
widely known. In 1908 and 1909 he
presented sketches of his authorship
in England and America. . On May 3.
1910, Mr. Irving addressed the Equal
tiuffrape League at New York.
Sir Henry Seton-Karr Is a son of the
late George Berkeley Peton-Karr. In
1906 he was defeated for member of
Parliament In the general election. In
1910 he attended a dinner to Colonel
Roosevelt at London.
M. A. Ross Post, Grand Army of the
Republic, located at Gresham. this year
will not hold special memorial serv
ices. A detail will be sent to the
neighborhood cemeteries to decorate
the graves of old Boldiers.
This post has held 17 annual reunions
at the grounds at Pleasant Home at
tended by as many as 2000 persons,
before electric carlines were running
there.
Among the speakers were: George
C. Brownell. M. L. Pratt, J. H. Acker
man, A B. Cordley, J. C. Moreland, F.
B. Coulter, Mrs. Abigail Scott Dunl-
way. Rev. R. C. Rockwell, John E.
Mayo, General Owen Summers, General
W. H. Compson.
Although, numerically, the post was
the smallest in the state, it maintained
these annual reunions. The death of
the few men who managed the gather
ings caused them to be discontinued
and the post was moved to Gresham
several years ago. Jiles Stephens, the
man who made the reunions possible,
died five years ago. Robert Poole,
another, died in Portland, a little more
than a year ago. None of the old
members are living. "Memento Mori"
is a poem written by Ii. L. Thorpe
inscribed to the dead of M. A. Ross
Post.
INITIATION ENDS
WOODMEN
CANVASS
Head Consul Boak Present at
Portland Camp Celebration
of Campaign's Close.
350 MEMBERS TAKEN IN
ADMIRAL SENTTO PRISON
JAPANESE COURT MARTIAL ACTS IN
BRIBERY SCAJVjDAI
Captain Also Punished, bat Commander
I Acquitted Case Had Caused
Cabinet Fall.
TOKIO. May 29. A courtmartial to
day sentenced Vice-Admiral Matsu
moto of the Japanese navy to three
years' imprisonment on charges of ac
cepting bribes in connection with na
val contracts. Captain . Sawasaki was
condemned to one year's imprison
ment, but Commander Suzuki was ad-quitted.
The existence of corruption in the
Japanese navy was brought to light
through a lawsuit in Berlin in Janu
ary this year and eventually led to the
fall of the Japanese Cabinet.
A confidential clerk employed in the
Tokio office of a German armament
firm was prosecuted for selling docu
ments. At the trial a letter was read,
showing that several high Japanese
naval officers were receiving a per
centage on contracts allotted to the
firm.
When the news reached Tokio an in
vestigation ensued and several officers
were arrested. Questions in the Jap
anese Parliament led to violent scenes
and the resignation of the government.
RALPH DE PALMA IS OUT
AH" Arrangements Completed for
Great Race Meet Today.
INDIANAPOL.IS.7May 29. Ralph De
Palma will not start in the fourth an
nual 500-mile automobile race here to
morrow. De Palma, who had to push
his car to the limit to qualify in the
speed trials, said that it vibrated so
much that his engine would not stand
the terrific strain.
De Palma left tonight for New York,
whence he will sail Tuesday for
France. His place in the race will be
taken by Gilhooley in an Italian car,
thus making six nations the United
States, France, Great Britain, Germany,
Belgium and Italy contending for
the prizes totaling $50,000 in addition
to a number of special prizes.
Bookmakers are doing a thriving
business, with the betting favoring
Goux, winner of last year's race, and
his teammate, Boillot. -Other noted
drivers who will start are:. Oldneld,
Wilcox, Tetzlaft, Guyot, Christiaens,
Duray, Burman, "Wishart, Bragg, Mul
ford, Anderson, Dawson, Friedrich and
Grant.
Tetzlaft predicts that the winner will
have to ' travel close to 90 miles an
hour for the whole -distance.
NEPHEW AND NIECE LOST
Salvation Army Major Receives Xews
at Revival in Salem.
SALEM. Or., May 29. (Special.)
Major Galley, of the Provincial Revival
Brigade of the Salvation Army, who is
conducting revival services here, re
ceived a telegram from his wife in New
York tonight, informing him that his
nephew, Thomas Jones, and probably
his niece. Captain Violet Hudson, were
lost on the Empress of Ireland. Both
lived in Toronto and were bound for
London to attend a convention of the
Salvation Army.
Major Galley, who has charge of the
revival work of the Salvation Army in
Oregon and Washington, was much af
fected by the news. His nephew, he
said, was secretary of one of the Sal
vation Army majors in Toronto and his
niece held a prominent place in the
work of the Army in Canada.
Uniformed Degree Teams March to
Official's Headquarters and Sev
eral Accompany Rose Queen's
Retinue U Depot.
The close of the three months cam
paign for 10,000 new members by the
Pacific jurisdiction of the Woodmen of
the World was celebrated by the 14
Portland camps of the order last night
at the hall of Multnomah Camp, No. 77,
112 East Sixth street, by the Initiation
of 350 candidates procured during the
campaign. Woodmen camps of Mil
waukie, Salem, St. Johns, Oregon City,
Hood River, Albany and Vancouver,
Wash., were represented by delega
tions. The meeting was further made note
worthy by the presence of Head Consul
I. L Boak, of Denver, who is making a
tour of the nine states of the Pacific
jurisdiction, attending as many of the
initiation ceremonies in celebration of
the 10.000 campaign as possible. There
will be about 40 meetings in the nine
states, and Mr. Boak will be able to
attend possibly 20 of them.
Drgpe Teams Parade.
The uniformed degree teams of the
local camps marched to the Hotel Ore
gon. Mr. Boak's headquarters, last
night, from their temple at 128 Elev
enth street, and at 7:30 P.M. having
given him a. rousing official welcome to
Portland, they marched to the hall of
Multnomah Camp, headed by a band. At
the west end of the Morrison-street
bridge several of the degree teams fell
out of the parade and joined the tri
umphal procession that escorted Queen
Thelma of Rosaria and her princesses
to the depot for their departure on
their tour through the West. One of
Queen Thelma's maids is Miss Llna
Ostervold, who will represent the
Woodmen on the tour.
Head Consul Boak delivered an ad
dress as his part of the initiation cere
monies, in which he told of the high
aims and purposes of the order and of
its growth, touching particularly on
the membership campaign which had
just closed, which he termed "the
greatest undertaking ever carried to a
successful conclusion by any fraternal
organization."
Deputy to Join Tonr.
Accompanying Head Consul Boak on
his tour from Portland south, which
will include the cities of Eugene and
Medford, in Oregon, will be Deputy
Head Consul E. P. Martin.
The work of initiation was exempli
fied by the degree teams of Webfoot,
Prospect and Multnomah camps, the
official positions in the ceremonies be
ing filled as follows:
Past consul, Frank Marsh, of Pros
pect Camp; consul commander, O, W.
T. Muellhaupt, of Webfoot Camp: ad
viser lieutenant, J. H. Bennett, of Mult
nomah Campr banker, H. W. Grable, of
Arleta Camp; escort, C. M. Bequette, of
Portland Camp; watchman, H. L. Baker,
of George Washington Camp: sentry. O.
E. Nordstrom, of Rose City Camp;
clerk, L. W. Oren, of Sunnyside Camp.
A banquet in honor of Head Consul
Boak concluded the ceremonies.
"I have traveled through the West in
this work for the past 25 years,'' con
tinued Mr. Boak, "and never have I
seen so many evidences of progress and
substantial development as on the pres
ent trip. To you who live here there
is nothing remarkable, perhaps, about
the growth of Portland, but to me,
after only a two-years' absence, it is
nothing less than marvelous."
BECKER IN DEATH HOUSE
Sentence to Die Week of July 12,
" However, Stayed by Appeal. -
OSS1NIXG. N. Y., May 29 Charles E.
Becker today passed for the second
time into the deathhouse at Sing Sing
prison to await death In the electric
chair for instigating the murder of
Herman Rosenthal. Justice Seabury in
New York had sentenced him early in
the day to die in the week of July 6.
The prisoner's counsel will appeal,
however, and this will serve as a stay
of execution. In his former appeal
Becker won.
QUAKE AGAIN ROCKS ALASKA
Severest Shock Since Katmai Awoke
Vvlt at Fairbanks.
FAIRBANKS. Alaska. May 29. The
severest earthquake since that of June
1, 1912, when the sleeping volcano Kat
mai broke its bonds and scattered
ashes over half the area of the world,
was felt here at 6:03 o'clock this morn
ing, accompanied by a rumbling of the
earth.
The shock today was the fifth in 48
hours.
POST DECORATES GRAVES
Dead of Gresham G. A. R. to Be Re
merabcred but Services Xot Held.
GRESHAM. Or. May 29. (Special.)
PYTHIANS AT CONVENTION
Delegations From Other Towns Go
to Lebanon Gathering.
LEBANON. Or., May 29. (Special.)
Over 100 persons were present at the
district convention of the Knights of
Pythias Lodge, which convened here
last night. Frank S. Grant, chancel
lor, and L. R. Stinson, grand keeper of
records and seals, of Portland, were
present from Albany, Corvallis. Scio
and Brownsville.
Elaborate plans were made to enter
tain the guests, by the local lodge and
after the session the visitors were
served with strawberries and cream.
OLD SOLDIER IS STRICKEN
Death Comes as Areteran Begins Sle
morial Day Address.
SEATTLE, Wash., May 29. Henry
Fry, an aged Grand Army man. dropped
dead of heart failure today while about
to address a Memorial day meeting in
one of the public schools. He had spok
en in one room of the school, telling of
the rapid mustering out of the old sol
diers and his premonition that his own
name would be called soon.
He fell forward lifeless Just after be
ing Introduced to the second' audience.
Ten i no Schools Have Exercises.
CENTRALIA. Wash., May 29. (Spe
cial.) The eighth-grade graduates of
the Tenino schools were awarded their
diplomas tonight. The class numbered
ltf. . The diplomas were awarded by
L. A. Kibbe. Tuesday night a class of
five was graduated from the Tenino
High School. C. A. Sprague. assistant
State Superintendent of Public Jnstruc
tion, delivered the commencement ad
dress. The members of the class were:
Laura Taylor, May Rose. Mary Forey,
Isabel Ogle and Donivan McGonigle.
Expedition Seeks Primitive Horse.
NEW HAVEN. Conn. May 29. To
seek more primitive forms of the horse,
an expedition will set out from Pea
body Museum at Yale University next
month for the bad lands in the Rosebud
Indian Reservation in South Dakota
and later it will move to the big bad
lands farther wept.
OAKS TO HAVE 2 CONCERTS
3icElroy Baud to Oive Programmes
of Patriotic Music.
A special programme of patriotic
music will be given TtHh afternoon and
evening by McElroSand his band at
the Oaks Amusement Park. The final
number of the afternoon programme,
"Tone Pictures of the North and
South" will be repeated at the even
ing programme, as it introduces all the
old-time war melodies of the blue and
gray.
The afternoon programme follows:
March. "Stars and Stripes Forever," Sousa;
overture, "America, Tobani; suite. "Amer
icana," Thurban, (a) "The Tiger's Tale";
(b) serenade, "When Melindy Sleeps": (c)
"The White Melon Fete" ; characteristic.
Blue and the Gray," Ualby; comic inarch,
'Ragtime Soldier Man," Berlin; Rrand
American fantasia, "Tone Pictures of the
North and South, Introducing Old Favorites
of the Blue and the Gray Bendix.
COURTHOUSE IS CLOSED
Sheriff, Constable and IMstrict Attor
ney to Have 3eputies on Iuty.
For the transaction of general busi
ness all the courts and offices at the
Courthouse will be closed today and
general holiday hours will be observed.
because of Memorial day. However,
Sheriff Word, Constable Weinberger
and District Attorney Evans will have
a deputy on hand to attend to any
emergency criminal work that may
arise.
Closed doors, though, will not mean
that all the officias about the Court
house are away enjoying the holiday.
Routine work is htavy in many of
the departments and a day off means,
an accumulation of work on the fol
lowing day, for which reason clerks
will be at work in almost, every department.
GfcEAT EXPOSITIONS SALE1
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WASH DRESS FABRICS
On Monday, June 1st
We Announce the
Inauguration of
The Greatest Sale of
Wash Dress Fabrics
Ever Held in Portland
Thousands of Yards of Novelty White
and Colored Summer Fabrics
at Astonishingly Low Prices
NOT A YARD EVER SHOWN BEFORE
cMerchandiso oo Merit Ony
JUNIOR HEAD IS PICKED
PRJSNTISS BROWN, OF LEBANON, IS
CHOSEN CLASS PRESIDENT.
ELKS TO DECORATE GRAVE
Memorial Is Planned to Woman Who
Platted Vancouver.
VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 23. (Spe
cial.) The grave of Esther M. Short.
wife of Amos Short, who took up the
original townsite of Vancouver in 1846
will be decorated by a committee of
Elks tomorrow.
Esther M. Short platted the townsite
and gave to Vancouver the beautiful
city park and the public levee. It is
proposed to start a movement to erect
a suitable memorial to her.
Seaside Gets X'cw Garage.
SEASIDE. OK May 29. (Special.)
Work, has been commenced on a gal
vanized iron garage, 50 by 90 feet by
the Seaside Garage Company.
The format report of a fire marshal on a
fire which destrowed a barn in Houston
Count, Minnesota, states that a sparrow
carried a coal from a bonfire to its nest
with tbe idea of m arming It.
Clara Helaaler, of Portland Wins Race
for Secretary by Close Vote Over
Charlie Kenton.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eugene,
May 29. (Special.) Prentiss Brown, of
Lebanon, was chosen president of next
year's junior class at the regular
sophomore election held today. Brown
won by two votes over Cleveland
Simpklns, of Salem, while Robert Bean,
of Portland, was only six votes behind
Simpkins.
The class secretaryship, conceded to
the co-eds, developed a close race be
tween Clara Heissler and Charlie Fen
ton, both of Portland, Miss Heissler
winning by a vote of 56 to 48.
The sophomores introduced the plan,.
new in class elections here, of main
taining polls and using the Australian
ballot. A total of 104 votes was cast.
The 'junior presidency is considered
one of the highest honors within the
gift of the students. It involves much
of the responsibility for the underclass
mix and junior week-end, two of the
most important events of the college'
year. Prentiss Brown, the president
elect, possesses the unusual accom
plishments of being both a debater and
football player.
Today's vote follows: President,
Robert Bean, 30; Prentiss Brown, 38;
Cleveland Simpkins. 36.
Vice-president, Claire rtaley, 94.
Secretary, Charlie Fenton, 48: Clara
Heissler, 56.
Treasurer; Charles Collier. 100.
Sergeant-at-arms, Sam Cook, 98.
MILWAUKIE B0NDS SOLD
Lumbermen's Trust Company, of
Portland, Bays $20,000 Issue.
MILWAUKIE, Or., May 29. (Spe
cial.) The Lumbermen's Trust Com
pany of Portland was awarded the
$20,000 water bonds by the Milwaukie
Council last night, the bonds going at
nearly par. Several other bids were re
ceived. Attorneys of the successful
company will pass on the legality of
the bonds. The bonds run for 20 years
and bear 5 per cent interest.
The money will be used to lay a
pipeline to connect with the Portland
Bull Run system and lay mains in
Milwaukie.
The improvement of Front street
made by Montague-O'Reilly was ac
cepted and an ordinance making the
assessment was introduced. The im
provement cost $43,000, and is a hard
surface pavement.
$3,000,000 ESTATE IS LEFT
Late Stanford Treasurer Gives Sam
to San Francisco Societies.
SAN JOSE. Cal, May 29. Disposing
of an estate valued at about $3,000,000
and providing for San Francisco socle
ties a sum aggregating $23,500, the
will of tbe late Charles G. Lathrop,
treasurer for Stanford University, who
died Sunday, was filed in the Superior
Court here today lor probate.
The real and personal property Is
left, with $600,000 in specific bequests,
to the members of the family.
alloon
Tonight
The second reproduction of the famous Parisian
novelty "Balloon Night" will be held tonight in the Arcadian
Garden from 10:30 until 12 during after-theater supper.
Everyone is invited to enjoy the fun and excitement of this bizarre at
traction and a good time is promised. If you are down town Saturday evening,
don't fail to drop into the Arcadian Garden at this timt.
Other Attractions Are l.eddy and Poay Slaters, Entertainerat
Countesa dytae Von Mayer, Operatic Soprano; John Lynch,
Irish TrnffV, and Heller's Orchestra.
No danger from balloons, as they are being filled with air instead of gas.
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Seaside Delegation Going to Flavel.
SEASIDE, Or. May 29. (Special.)
A Seaside -delegation is planning to go
to Flavel next Wednesday by special
train with a band to assist in the cele
bration of the commencement of actual
construction work on the railway and
steamship terminals at Flavel and
Smith's Point,
Route of the All-Steel Trai ns
FROM
PORTLAND and All Other Points in the Northwest to
Boston $110.00 Minneapolis $ 60.00 St. Panl $ 60.00
Buffalo 92.00 Montreal 105.00 Washington 107.50
Chicago 72.50 New York 108.50 Winnipeg 60.00
Proportionately reduced fares to Many Other Points in the Bast. Return
through California at slightly higher fares.
Special Selling Dates May 16, 18, 19 and 20 to Chicago, Only
FINAL RETURN LIMIT. OCTOBER 31, 1914
Liberal Stopover Privileges. Choice of Routes Returning
TWO ALL-STEEL TRAINS EAST DAILY
The OLYMPIAN" 'The COLUMBIAN"
For additional Information, call on or address
E. K. GARRISON,
District Freight and Passenger Agent
CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY
Third and Stark, Portland
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