, 1908-01-08
BISHOP AT
SEE CITY
VISITS LARAMIE ON TRIP FOR
PURPOSE OF GETTING AC-
QUAlNTED WITH CHURCH
Orders Dear Bode and Family to Va
cate Deanery and Take Possession
of Bishops Residence, Finding
Home for Himself in That Building
During Visits to City.

Bishop James B. Funston of Boise,
who is in charge of the new mission
AIRY district of Wyoming until such
time as the house of bishops shall
have selected a bishop to take the
place of DR.. Reese, elected at Rich.
mond but who declined the position.
was in the city last evening, the guest
of Dean and Mrs. Bode at the dean
cry. He arrived from Rawlins on the
afternoon train and during the day was
a caller at The Republican office in
company with Dean Bode. The bishop
is a splendid specimen of manhood,
with a broad, kindly face, a joyial dis
position n a desire to get right to
the hearts of his acquaintance. He is
delighted with his visit to Laramie and
will make this city his headquarters
during his trips to Wyoming, which
will be at frequent intervals.
Dean to Bishops House.
Among the first thing the bishop did
upon looking over the local situation
was to direct the dean and his family
to remove to the bishops house, in the
same yard with the cathedral and the
deanery, and that building will forth
with be gotten ready for occupancy.
1t will be the Wyoming home of Bishop
Funston, and he will find his rooms al.
ways ready and awaiting him upon his
coming TO the see city. The deanery
will be vacated as soon as the bishops
house is ready for the dean and his
family. What disposition will be made
of it has not yet been determined.
Met Fellow V~ireinian.
Bishop Funston is a native of Vir-
ginia, n while visiting at The Re-
publican office had the pleasure of
meeting Hon. Thomas H.. Gibson, an
attorney of this city and also a Vir-
ginian by birth. But a moment was
necessary to discover that the bishop
had resided for a couple of years in
Mr.. Gibson's home town and that the
latter readily remembered him, being
himself a boy at the time, the bishop
then being in charge OF the parish at
Bristol, Mr.. Gibson'S town. The
meeting was a very happy one. The
bishop also met Mrs. Ivinson, one of
the first members of the cathedral,
during his visit to this Office, Mrs.
~Ivinson calling upon a matter of bust
ness.
Has Large Territory.
Bishop Funston is not a stranger in
Wyoming although ne has not often
visited Laramie. For some time the
western part of the state was attached
TO his diocese and he spent some time
N different cities in the western and
northern portions. He has some thir-
ty or forty parishes in Wyoming un,
der his charge, and the object of his
present visit is to get acquainted in
each. He went from here to Cheyenne.
but expects to pay this parish an &c
clesiastical visit shortly.
Department Convention.
The general convention of the sixth
department of the Protestant Episco-
pal church, consisting of the states of
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Min
nesota and Iowa and will be held at
Des Moines, Ia, Jan. 18th, but Bishop
Funston believed when he was here
that ne would be unable to be present.
as ruch as he liked. All the bishops
of the several dioceses of that depart,
ment are expected to be present. Con
siderable business of interest to the
dioceses will be disposed of.