The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-05
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2 b GEE. FRED FuEsT0N 70
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After O. lapse OF nearly sixteen
years our. friend, Gen. Funston Is In
the limelight again and will ssay
there unless Huerta accepts Presi.
dent WILSON'S tcrms and duly apelo+
gizes for his general devilnrent. Gen.
Funston. you remember is the man
who put an end to Aguinalio, the
Filipino leader. His history makes
good reading, at least while there is
rumor of war in the air. The follow
Ing is his record: ..4,.,
Fighting Fred Funston Is the senior
brigadier general OF the American ar
my. although he Is now only forty
name years old and did not enter tho
service OF the American army until
1901. He came into the regular es-
tablishment with the rank he now
holds, his commission having been
given by President Mckinley In an-
probation of his remarkable feat In
capturing almost single handed, En-.
lilo Aguinaldo; the Filipino insurrees
tor leader. 80 i i.v,
Funston had been in the yoluntaee
service from the outbreak OF the SpanS
ish American war, when he recruited
the Twentieth Kansas from the game
kind OF men forming the backbonesof
the Rough Riders. Before he became
engaged in the enterprise he had bSsa
for about two years soldier In She
Cnban army or liberation, and so BIZ
O factor was he In the warfare tiihk
Butchers Wesley, the Spanish gEstiS
eralissimo. set price upon his head.
Funetons Is product OF the untwsE
sisy OF Kansas. After his student days
he. became q newspaper man, then he
entered the services OF the United
SSts5sestss Ss5s.asss nenaetmenA ef Agriculture and
was sent to Alaska to study the fiofa.
He showed, the STUN from which No
was made by: q floating dcwn tie Yt-
hon alone In canoe iH S93.
He was wounded ten tinles In battle.
During his Cuban engagement ne took
mart In twenty-five battles and he kept
thot pace after entering the American
volunteers. Once he was arrested ifl
Chba by the Spaniards while he was
trying 10 reach tho sta coast. lie
80 i ;::!s fs ass;=t :Tsiiss :i
the patriot army, having swailoweh
his passport, which indicated his rhn,e
He was condemned TO death hui, eyenr
tuaiIy was liberated aiid rot "a eies to
tais country 7aa 80 S'ss y
His Kansas regiment was assigned
60 Ffiillipine duty and lonS hisAWay die
met ands married shis preasnts wife sin
Sen Fran cisco. FIa soiIsed, C era lIei-
ritt before Manila, = which he Il idnd in
reducing LIsad ling the burAeit cf AgE
ssisin1 do SsH Il 96s BE "a ne s AIlffiltIa
river on the other side OF Which SFils
|aHcoaBiderRble force OF She enemy TiiS
bridge had been destroyed, but Fun
stom with twfItE ,of, ltis. ~ en- sylla vof-
unteered, swan the river. drove the
hpStiles back and captured geighty
prisoners.
A few days later he crossed the Rio
GFande at. Calnmpit on reft and
arexe the enem5s $500 strong from Af,
iutsoleired pohiGnp. FMS fea1 won the
hEigadiee generaishipi of Yui5intesfs.
|. Il lE WAS In 1al1 that he made his uIR
IsIafkas From his hiding nlaca In the
sis7ssE Sc & sssI se..a : & &;::sata he'd
called the Insurgents .td- FehheVous
near htaf headqlarterS, Funston icapg.
iugea the nisssBngeE who Carried this
IsnlnnlaHd. 6 He and several or His
Eeommalld made, their way through the.
MacabeheR, iWll9 ip9sseti na insurRent
5Tagalogs who had. captured the
Americans. We NJ was sent 10
AguinaidD and OiseFs were given for
the prssenerH TO be- Drought to him. 5
. Before the strategy sS,as suspected
Funston had entered the rebels house
and taken him priaoner. That oct
broke the neck OF the insurrection ana
peace rotations were at once, be-
slFuslston IS little man, with q limp,
"a .menantO of severai, wounds! He
possesses q hpbbling sense OF huninr
He lis now coTauandiRga Il the n, Secotifi
| Division OF the army. with !iieadauar-
ters at Texas City Texas, In tho heart
iof the country, that Will be affected iP
the Constitutionalista take ap Huerta's
fight, 81. sss 5.,3.4l,is n. 4. ''5.'
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