Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-04-06

49, t'c capture OF Aguinaldo in the
WIGS OF North Luzon fairly tops off
me adventurous career of Frederick
funston, fighter. The story of the ca
fcor is wildly romantic. Sometimes il
- even preposterous. The staid read
q may well be pardoned alternate
VISIONS OF appropriate bindings in
muSty medieval leather and Of equally
hitting covers yellow as the Kansas
corn. In any event he will not be at
7 loss TO comprehend the comment of
| an old-tine friend who said that Fun
stem was sixteenth nero.
| porn four hundred years or so too late.
| who had ever since been seeking to
remedy the Chronological error of his
| Dlrth. It is not surprising to find that
| IN Frederick Funston's veins runs Gel
| tic blood. mingled with that Of the
| American pioneer. Ills paternal grand
| father. whose name ne perpetuates.
| was Frederick Funston. born in county
| Donegal, Ireland. in 1900. Brought 10
| America by his parents in 1906 the
| first Frederick grew up in Kentucky
ard Ohio. the old Northwest Territory
| Here. when he came to mans estate
| he married Julia Sta ford. also of pure
! Irish extraction TO them. in 1896 was
born Edward II. Funston. father of the
| present Frederick. He served in the
| Civil War as Il lieutenant of artillery.
| and before going to the front married
| Anne Eliza Mitchell. sister of his
! batteryS captain. Her father was
| born in Ireland. and her Sreat-grand-
mother was q sister of Daniel Boone.
| From this ancestry come the fighting
blood of the Captor of Aguinald norn
| NOV. .. 1867. the eldest of the six chill
drcn OF this marriage.
After the war the Funstons removed
to the Kansas farm. where they still
| r. side Ii is 2i2 acres of Kansas
prairie. Carlyle being the nearest post
office. and lola the nearest town of any
size. Here Edward II. Funston pros
pered agriculturally and politically.
since for eleven years he served his
district in Congress. the Kansas rec
| ord Here grett up as farmer
politicians son the present briSadier
general of volunteers. In the public
schools and in the state university
Funston had the reputation of being n
| bookish rather than studiouS youth.
Medieval romance. heroic poetry. and
above all. the lore of days when red
| blood ran redder in green forest or
he,lge-row held mis- attention often
| times to the exclusion of the pre-
| scribed curriculum. 1t was typical OF
the man who later ploughed through
hundreds OF miles of Arctic SHOWS and
| tropic jungles with Kipling's Null
yaney" and "BarrackR Baiiards
| in q haversack which was all too small
for the commoner necessities of life.
| IT was before he went TO the uni
lyersity. however, that Funston made
| his first inglorious attempt to- enter
tho army. AS an early friend of his
tolls the story. it was when Funston
| was a mere stripping. and when his
| father was Congressman. Fred
father" says this friend. had at ms
| DISPOSAL subject to competitive eN-
| animation. a cadetship, ana freu.
| after practising at Workmanship an"
sword exercise for months. went INTO
the examination confident. That's the
wav he is built. He thought that lrt
cadetship was a sure thlhs. ms
father thought so too, and no oouo'
beIped Fred along as much as possipie'
! Tn the examinations were half dozen
farmers sons among them Ieio"
named Charles Crawford. rms ora"
/ ford knew asthing or two himself. ana
had 4 much better all-round store oi
1 Lnow,edge than Funston possessed.
Vixen the papers were examine
IrYo Word was .f1nnd to be the winner
Ihv 4 haTidsonles margin. with FREQ
moor second n The DISAPPOINTMENT
neg rlys broke Funston's heart anu ne
uas. As savage as bulldog 1or mouths
4 affarwar6 Fred was named as ths al
Eternate. and he had CLEAN OF hope
4 .ha+s crawford would be killed In
c,-c1one or get struck by lightning or
-. crirn,ed in n railroad smashup'
Io,d that as alternate he would go 10
Wet Point after all. But CRAWFORD
Voc an unusually healthy fellow anu
won't to the Military Academy, "here
~ ,ras graduated we'll up in his class.
He accepted lieutenancy IN the army,
land in the Santiago campaign was
brevetted captain for gallant conuucl
under fire. He is now lieutenant III
the Twenty-frst Infantry.
Failing West Point Funston entered
tho university. AS a student his ad-
vanturous spirit manifested itself ID
the thousand and one pranKs MAJ
make undergraduate life worth living
and besides in not a few peculiar 10
| himself. III ~ I'tS9i'IC A'is'e
was further stimulated to unrest anu
craving for new things by the neces-
sitv of periodic wage-earning to con-
tinue his education.
II was at one of these times that runs.
| ION .'broke into the newspaper pusi,ess
I-and out The story is VarlouSlv loiu, :,
yarjouslv that some OF IL very likely :.
, ianocryphal bat it is too good to suppress
; | in the interests of mere facts Whch piop
| or allowance can be made ana Wfleh o,i'
cannot be certain that it is not all true. a
the story goes Funston secured a propa
tionary lob on a Kansas City paper. go
| a I1ckv scoop the first day. foiio"eu =
| IN fairly well, and was the man sen.
| in rcspOnsp to a request from n COUNT!
= daily at Fort Smith. Ark. for mrs,
class man to help run the paper. lnis
| the point where the story becomes ~
gated The least picturesque VeIs!J III :
| which in the case Of any other man tl,a ,
| Funston would be the safest to rely -. ~, .
| is that Funston took sides unWiseiH III
murder case pending before Judge -.
or the famous "hrnGing Judge Oh 70.
Smith, and that his honor In the cp .im
Of n resulting confidential conVersa ~" 1n
told him that Journalism was not ms Pr
fecsion and that the climate Of Arkun.s.-
was extremely unhealthy at that pala,i
Mar season. Contempt of court Is y ~.
Cus matter. even in Arkansas. ana II sua ,
hint was really given. Funston IT. III,
bovc taken IT, and the Kansas tram. ~;
other version--and it is CHARGER ~,