Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1901-03-29

cred casket holding the body Of ths;.
friend and leader borne to the
many of them were affected to tear -
marched slowly by with uncovered (.
and took up their places in the pfom..s
as the parade moved.
As the Parade Moved.
As soon as the members OF the
committee had reached their carriage, !,
order for the return march was given
headed by the state guard, marchin, ~
reversed arms and in slow time n L
music of the dirge played by the band Il E
parade moved slowly away. AT the M, 4
of the column rode Brigadier Genersl ~
Kee and his staff, commanding The AZ
division, which was composed entirelv !,
state troops.
The Pail Bearers.
The honorary pallbearers were Selects
as far as possible from members ii T.
President Harrisons cabinet. The ljst !.
announced by Secretary Tibbett is al ii
lows: Ex-Secretary of the Navy Benjamin
Tracy of New York, xPostmaster Gena,sl
John Wanamaker of Philadelphia, ex.At
torney General w. H. III. Miller of Indiana.
polls, ex-Secretary of the Interior John 1
Noble of st. Louis, ex1Secretary of ha
Treasury Charles w. Foster Of Fostoria, d.
General Lew Wallace of Crawfordsvills
Ind, Judson Harmon of Cincinnati, WIN
was attorney general under President
Cleveland and Judge William Woods q
indianapolis.
The active pallbearers are all from this
city and are men who were friends Of Gen.
eral Harrison for many years.
The services were conducted by Rev. Il
M. Haynes, pastor of the First Presbyter.
ian church.
DR.. Haynes delivered the principal ad
dress and DR.. Nichols read the scriptural
lessons and offered the invocation. The
music which was simple in character, wai
furnished by the full choir of the church
composed of 20 singers of the city.
At the conclusion of this service I'll,
funeral party left the church, going to tn,
Crown Hill cemetery. The services at thu
cemetery were simple and brief, consisting
of prayer and the recital of the word
usually spoken as the body is lowered int
the grave.
Later.
indianapolis, March 18.-In tn
center of a hollow square, with full
Is 900 of his fellow citizens present
the remains of Benjamin Harriso
were Sunday afternoon inferred i
the family lot in Crown Hill cemetery
Close by the grave were the member
of his family, President Mckinley an
other visitors of distinction and tn
more intimate friends Of General Hal
rison. Back a distance of so yards
behind ropes guarded zealously by
large force of police, stood with uncoN
cred heads the great multitude VIII
knew him not so we'll as did they VIII
stood beside the freshly upturne
earth, but who honored him and az
mired him fully as much. 1t is doub
full if any public man, at least in thi
generation, was borne to his last res
ing place among so many manifesto
tions of respect. There was no excel
| ton anywhere to the expression ths
the nation had lost one of it's ables
men, and the greatest man of his gel
GRAFTON in his own state.
By the grave stood the chief magi
trate of the nation and behind tn
ropes were all the street Arabs {
General Harrison's city-every grad
of human life in America, between tn
two, were represented in the crowd
and among them all there was but on
feeling-that man mad died who wa
honest at all times with himself an
with others, and whose ability an
character were such as the natio
could ill afford to lose.
The weather, like that of yesterda,
was indispensable, with bright sui
light--the warm breath of spring /
every breeze and yet in the air
touch of winter that brought the bloc
to the cheek and sparkle to the ey,
The services at the church an
grave were simple in the extreme, a
In most excellent taste, and like tn
proceedings yesterday, there was a
utter absence Of friction in everythin
that was done. All was we'll ordere
and we'll performed.