Fort Wrangel news., 1898-09-21
AR. ". B. NEGILLIGAN .
An Old Citizen of Fort Wrangcl
 Passes Away.
A FUNERAL IN ALASKA.

Last Thursday N B. Mcgilligan, an agpd and respected citizen of Fort Wrangrl, paid the debt which all owe and must pay sooner or later. He had a stroke of paralysis in November, ls16, from which hc ueyor fully recovered. The funeral services were held last Saturday at o'clock ?. m. at the Opera House, and were conducted by Rev. Thwing. the Presbyterian missionary located here. \ death, except among the natives. is a rare occurrence in our city, and such things as uudertakers, hearses and funeral directors, are un- known quantities, yet the friends of the dead man-Ae had no relatives here made every effort to perform the last sad rites in a becoming manner. \ coffin was made of boards and covered with black sateen, or something of the kind, and some neat easket handles were procured. When the time came for the funeral klondike sled furnish ed the means of transportation for the corpse, from the home of the deceased to the Opera House, where it was taken ill charge by six members of Go. H., llth Infantry, who acted as pail bearers and carried into the hall and placed on d pedestal which had been provided. \ select choir, consisting of Mrs Dr. C. Thwing, Mrs. W. G. Thomas, Captain Wilson and MT. Roundtree, furnished the music and opened the exercises by singing, "Oh, Think of the Home Over There" Rev. Thwing then read from the Scriptures the truthful words. Man born of woman is of few days etc, after which he led in prayer. The choir then sang "Onc Sweetly Solemn Thought following which Rev. Thwing again read from the Bible part of the closing chapters of Ecclesiastes, and from the Presbyterian burial service, and delivered a short address, during which he remarked on the brevity of our abode on this earth and the prepa- ration We should make for death and the judgment of the certainty of pun. ishment for wiekedness and sin, and the rewards for good Again the choir sang Shall We Meet Beyond the River" and then Rev. Thwing prayed that blessings might fall upon him who had fought so valiantly for his country's flag. \ song -"Rest! Soldier, Restr'-foliowed and then the benediction. Capt. Wilson an- nounced that the burial would take place at the cemetery across an arm of the bay, and that mum Der of boats had been provided. The soldiers took their places at the side of the coffin, and slowly and solemnly the little company wended it's way down to the McKinnon wharf, where the boats were in waiting There was something solemnly sad about the whole proceeding, as the thought came to each one, that while friends may sorrow, there was no wife, no brother, no sister to bid him fare well, but he goes thus sacrifice to pic neer life and work.
 Mir Megilligan was born in the State of Delaware, and at the beginning of the war enlisted in the service of Uncle Sam, being then but Is years of age. He lived for time in San Francisco Cal, and came to Fort Wrangel in 1886, where he has since continuously resided.
 The Car of all the Russias, who has been looked upon as the very imper sonation of the warlike spirit, and, to use homely phrase, ''spoiling for a fight" has surprised the world by com ing forward with d proposition for the disarmament of the powers in the in terest of universal peace. Assuming that the CZar's proposition is made in good faith-which of course it must be, coming from the ruler of so great na- tion-and that the powers decide to consider it, the chances are that they are more likely than otherwise to come to blows over the terms of the agree ment.-Gaylord (Kan.) Herald.
 The kickers and howlers seem to la bor under the belief that because sol der is killed in battle or sick in camp and unprovded with all the comforts of home, somebody has committed grievous wrong. We venture to say that there has never been war in the history of the world in which soldiers I,,.l m nI hnnn Sn