The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-05

after the mail, he got lost. the canister
of water gave out, his horse fell under
him, and for twenty-four hours he walked
without food or water with the thermome-
ter registering 10 and the sun beating
down on him.
HE dared not lie down and rest and
his mind began to deceive him. but he
found the road and kept straight on in
spite OF the calling voices in the air,
and booming Of imaginary cannon and
the gurgle of deceitful water
Two days afterwards he wrote me a
letter and devoted less than three Inns
to the eaccident, and it was only by prod
ding and questioning that I ever got the
truth out of him =:
After coming back from Death Valley
Funston went to Alaska, still working
for the government, collecting botanical
specimens. After fifteen months he re-
turned home and equipped himself for
another expedition which today is a re-
cord breakers for all Alaska travellers.
I'm April. 1872, Funston left Chilcoot in
let, and with a party of miners went over
the divide to the head of the Yukon river
the mouth Of the Porcupine river; he
tackled his boat, the Nancy Hanks, up
the Porcupine to Rampant House. and
abandoned Hudson Bay company trading
post. There he and a missionary started
to spend the Arctic winter.
The monotony Of the thing palIed on
Funston, and with a single Indian he
started for an evenings walk 10 the Arc
tic ocean. Funston and the Indian got
lost. One day they came across a party
OF Indians going to a whaling feet in
the Arctic ocean. Funston and his In
dian joined the party and came up 10
the feet, which was frozen n the ice.
where he was told the news Of the presi-
Dental nomination in 1892 and OF the cleo
ton of Cleveland.
He started back to Rampant House
and get there Just as the morning OF
spring was drawing. He had made a
journey of 900 miles In the dead Of night
Of an Arctic winter Perry's famous
journey in Greenland was only 400 miles,
and 1t was made in the light Of mid-sum-
mer
famous. Leaving Rampant House he
But Funston was too busy 70 get
went down Porcupine river and on down
the Yukon TO its mouth alone in an open
boat. a Journey OF over thousand miles.
He made his report, quite the government
service. and went 10 Central America,
where he tried to establish q coffee plan
tation and failed
Then he showed up in the Cuban army
where he served under Garcia. enlisting
as a private and coming out as lieu
tenant colonel ard chief OF artillery n
that division II the army led by Garcia.
His rank IS higher than that 81 any other
American Officer IN the Cuban army.
He was wounded three times. once
through the lungs. once through the ann
and once through the thigh. lie lay
three months OF buH-hide hammock
II the Cuban hospital. fearing every mo
ment that the gusrillas who slaughtered
the sick might come and end f's misery.
The story no other American who has
lived in the last halt ~ the nineteenth
century has 50 much adventure ard 70
nance in 4 as this brief story n Fur
ston The love ~ the romantic = 81
strong IN the people that when the
young Kansan comes bark q MS peo-
Die he can have any of5ce within their
gift.
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efficient servant"
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era Funston.
The military operations n tts Phii.p-
pines have rroe1red - more cocEDicI-
sus s9ure than colonel Fuast9a q The
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