Arizona republican., 1910-03-06

Milan. at Winston. Mo- at the time the Rock Island train was held up and robbed. the defense tried hard to se- cure the services of the old attorney. They would have paid him a fabulous ly large sum, but being out of the practice and well along in years. he de cided that he would keep out of the case. The prisoner was easily acquit- ted, as the general predicted. Not only was il not shown that James was participant in the robbery. but an alibi was very nearly established.
 The general was not much of poli- tician. Aside from two or three terms of service in the Missouri legislature he held office but little during the active years of his life. l am i'm pressed. too. that he was as nearly neutral throughout the civil was as it was possible for d southerner. living in Missouri. to be. And when the strug- gle closed. his voice was for conserN-a- tism and forbearance on the enc side. and patience and a philosophic accept ance of the situation on the other.
 Our territorialy historian has dra- matically told in prose the story of his principal exploit during that famous raid into Mexico; and whether her fine poem. The Eagle of Sacramento which accompanies il, is a wholly au- thentic narration. or one partly true and partly mythical I am willing to accept it without question as entirely reliable
 One quatrain of the poem so well tallies with what know of General Doniphan's later habits that I would almost be willing to qualify as 10 the verity of the remainder of the verses. refer to the following lines: one knee around the saddlc-horn. half lounging in his saddle.
 Sat Doniphan and whistlcd as he
 whittled carelessl4:
 Shaping cedar splinted to a rough
 turned wooden paddle:
 With my compliments, to Trial for
 his pirate flag, said he"
 Many and many a day I saw him in the office of the Hudgens House, in Richmond, whiting a cedar stick un- til the shavings falling from bis keen bladed knife piled up around his chair in d fluffy red drift He read but lit- tie, and seldom played billiards, or oth- CT games. Whittling seemed Co be about his only diversion. MT. Hudgens told me that when his whiting timber was all gone he would go over to the lumber yard and buy snother red ce- dar poSt-always a red cedar post. This he would have taken to the hotel and after having it sawed into convenient lengths again resume his work of re- ducing it to shavings.
 His personality was pleasing. He was a southern gentleman of the old school. unpretentious and honest. courteous and chiyalric. His neighbors in west ern Missouri and eastern Kansas all held him in the highest esteem. The Sunflower state named q county for him. He was fond of children and sometimes his whittling bouts brought forth rather pretty cedar toys for the little folks: and when bevy of them called upon him he would often lay | aside his knife and go in quest of some candy or a bag of popcorn for their dclectation. Looking at this grizzled veteran and hero of the Mexican war, as he fondled a neighbours baby upon his knee. I could not help repeating to myself Bayard Taylor's lines:
 "The bravest are the tendefest;
 The loving are the daring
 General Doniphan died in lSs7 and was buried at Richmond. His funeral was one Of the largest and most impos- ing ever held in Missouri The people Of that state and Kansas seemingly turned out en masse to pay their last tribute Of respect and to do honor to one they had so long loved and trusted.
 A few years later move was made to erect a suitable monument to his memory. I do not know tha. it ever materialiZed. His remarkable military service surely deserved such recosni- ton at the hands of his countrymen. ANDREW DOWNING.