Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13

ter was laid to rest yesterday after noon. For the second time in the short space of one year, the summons of the unknown has been needed and husband joins wife in the silent city of the dead.
 family is held was proven again yes terday like it was on that December afternoon when his wife preceded him, and in the sorrOwful cadence of the funeral cortege as it wended its way to the summit of the hill few hundred yards away, the past was vividly recalled in the life of piO- neer the present generation knows not in the struggle that met these intrepid men as they advanced to hew the way for the others to follow. The gen erous response that was in evidence to this man was attested in the large coneourse that followed his body to it's last resting place and as the grave of his beloved wife was again the scene of the sad duty of Obeying the will of the almighty, the tender sym pathy of the hundreds only the more feelingly attested the solemnity of the day.
 No better tribute to this man could have been asked than what was prov en in the large number of carriages that followed him to his grave. It was due him, for in his earlier life no man was more generously inclined and none proved a better citizen than he. He was striking character and when he passed away he carried the reeol- lections of a day that few know. He was the last Arizona survivor of the famous Walker party, and in his ad- vent to this land away back in the dark and gloomy days of 1863, he was the youngest member of that ex- petition. But one man of over thirty in that memorable day of blazing the trail is left, Dan E. ConnOr, in his declining days, carrying that distinc- tion. On entering Arizona in that Hateful period, Mir. Miller had hardly passed his majority, but in his youth those who know him best, say that he was a zealous and courageous path finder and later this was proven in many instances and where "nerve" was the only avenue left to the white men that invaded this land.
 Believing that it will be of inter est for the present to comprehend what the era was burdened with in MT. Miller's younger days, the follow ing tribute to the Walker party is reproduced from the West Coast Maga- zine, written over one year ago by a resident of this city. It is in this instance of the closing of MT. Mil ler's earthly career especially of note worthy interest as he was a central figure of that day ad one of it's main supporters:
 Walkers Famous Expedition.
 Not excepting the entry of the gubernatorial party and the organiza- tion by them of the territory in 1863, is there a more noteworthy event to chronicle in the history of Arizona than the entry of the famous little band of intrepid men under Captain Joe Walker.
 In the lore of frontier doings, the trite expression of today is applicable this was "going some" This ex- petition will go down in history as the most notable one that ever graced western annals, and no exception will be made and no ground given to place notch of American enterprise and ex ploration. In 1861 the formation of this party was accomplished, and Joe Walker was selected as its leader. Keyesville, Cal, was the point of rem dezvous, and from there nineteen men started on their long journey.
 Twenty years or more before Cap tain Walker had visited Arizona with Carson and Weaver His observations were conclusive and, returning, he moulded his men into a unit. His conception of the land was that of game there was an abundance, of wood and water there was plenty, but above all other things, surface indi- cations gave him the fondest hope that placer gold and quartz veins of gold and silver existed. With such tidings to allure the adventurous, ev- cry man of the party got into the saddle, and, with the wild elation that seizes men to make history and to