The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-03-21
STANFORD REMAINS
ARRIVE IN FRISCO
Every Flag in the Harbor of San Fran.
cisco at Half Mast While the Ala
media Was Coming Up the Bay

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21-The steamer Alameda
bearing the remains of Mrs Jane Stanford arrived from
Honolulu this morning.
The Alameda met at the Golden Gate by two reve
cutters with representatives of the Stanford university
and relatives of Mrs Stanford on board.
AS the Alameda passed up the bay the flags all the
vessels in the harbor half -masted
AS soon the quarantine officials finished their Gus
tomary task the Alameda locked and the steel casket
containing Mrs. Stanfords remains taken off and
placed special funeral car which bore to the South
en Pacific depot where it placed on a special funeral
train and conveyed to Pao Alto.
Detectives Reynolds and Cullandan, who were sent to
Honolulu to assist in the investigation the cause of
DEATH were passengers the Alameda and brought with
them all papers in the case gathered in Honolulu and
portions of Mrs Stanfords organs which will be Analysed
The detectives met board by the chief of police
captain of detectives and attorney for Mrs Stanford
and a conference was Immediately held
Unusual precautions taken to prevent newspaper
men from interviewing Bertha Berner and May Hunt
the deceased womans secretary and maid respectively
No allowed to board the Alameda until the vessel
had locked, but the carefully secluded in
lower cabin the approach to which was barred.
Professor Jordon and Attorney Wilson were noncom-
initial beyond saying that statement completely
ing the had been prepared but they did not know
when it would be made public.
One OF the detectives remarked, significantly that the
criminal aspect of the not yet closed Detectives
Reynolds and Cuundan declined to utter word regard
ing the Their reports will be turned to their
superiors this evening.
Great crowds gathered at the dock it
learned that the Alameda had been sighted and for almost
two hours awaited in respectful silence for the docking
of the steamer and the bringing ashore of the caske 1t
nearly before the casket brought from the
hold by six stawart and amid silence and gen
era bowling of heads the remains placed hearse
heaped with flowers. Several bystanders, both men and
women, sobbed aloud and until the hearse drove by to
make for the carriages hardly word spoken
After the hustle reaction stirred the crowd and they
thronged the gangpank to the Misses Berner and
Hunt descend No opportunity given newspaper
to speak with either. Both women surrounded by
several and hustled into carriages which Immediately
drove away.
In Miss Bemer's carriage her brother and De-
tectves Culludan and Reynolds. This perhaps is the
most significant fact brought out in the days of deeply
yelled events Questions regarding the for the in
yasion of Miss Beners privacy and whether not she is
under surveillance remained unanswered.
The funeral arrangements changed at the last
moment nasmuch the electric funeral dispensed
with and the funeral cortege wound it's way slowly along
the water front The hearse anked by double lines
of foot and mounted police At the depot the body was
placed aboard the funeral train, which left almost i'm
mediately for Palo Alto
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