Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-11-29
PRINTER PAYS
HIS RESPECTS
TO Funston

General Funston, erstwhile Fred
dy Funston, with no pair on him
before the alleged scrap we had |
with Spain, is now out on the fir
ing line with a great grief story I
against the "bell-hops" of Kansas
City, his own dope house, for the
reason that they wear the uniform
of an army officer
1t is not so long ago that the
same Funston was bum" printer
or alleged to be so, down in the
Central American states, and l have
not yet heard him offer any excuse
for the same.
Funston is false alarm and
there is not any one of the boys
who ever fought under him at Pasig
river in the days when Funston
Swan the river" but what will say
that he is a four-flush, and that he
never did and never could
His position now comes from
few of the alleged advisory board
at Washington (and in the same
category is Leonard Wood, and a
few who are dead and not worthy
of mention) but when Funston be-
gins to explain why it hurts his
feelings to see niger in the uni
form of the United States, he ought
to ask what the Ninth did at San
Juan hill.
In the battle at Pasig, when the
fight came up and the boys had to
go over to the big thing, the boys
of the Kansas regiment went to it,
and who got the credit? Freddy!
And when they came home, with
everything to their credit-the boys
who did the real work-who got
it? Fred Funston, the false alarm
of the First Kansas.
And the big story comes off in
this manner.
General Funston recently left a
hotel in Kansas City, announcing
to the management that his reason
for SO doing was that he could moi
countenance the custom of dressing
their bell boys in the uniform of &
captain of the United States army
1T is understood that the officer!
of Fort Leavenworth fully indors'
the stand of General Funston, ant
will avoid that hotel SO long as thu
insult to the uniform is allowed t.
continue. Washington seems t
cordially approve of this action
When that bunch of hardy goo
fellows went over to fight the caus
of the great U. S. A., there was
noble crowd came from Kansas, an
with them came Funston. But h
was only small one, as far as h
went, and he got in the limelight
but did none of the work.
When the big thing came of
he was away back, and wasn't hear
of for quite while.
When the First Colorados, Idaho!
the Utah battery and countless 9th
ers of the bunch were takin
theirs, Freddy was communin
with the big thinks that fight q
headquarters, but his crew, tn
Fighting Kanses, and they wer,
believe me, at all times on the lin
to bounce back the charge and fiji
from across the river, the best
saw, after the Kansas boys wer
over, was the action OF "shine,
who, grabbing Colonel Funston b
the neck, said: Il sho. would liz
yo' to get yo' haid bove watal
cas- we got to swim"
1t doesn't seem right to me,
the light of after events, to hay
Funston call down the black BIO,
who helped make him, and the
have the gentlemen(?) at Fo
Leavenworth uphold him in his co.
tentions.
There are men buried over in Il
Philippines, men who took the bs
trip with Funston and his Kans
boys (and there were no bett
fighters than the Kansas bunch
who will rest easy when they kno
that some of that black bunch tn
pulled us out of the hole are st
in the land of the living.
But Funston and the officers
Fort Leavenworth, and also t
headquarters at Washington, D. {
approve of the action of Gener
Funston, and also of General st;
Chief Leonard Wood-God save t
mark!
If we have any more trouble
well. let's not have it!-Cars
News.