The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-01-07
and Walter c. Eggleston, of Mime

the state are:
C. F. Macdonald, st. Cloud; C. A
Gilman, ST Cloud; c. l.. McNair, Clio.
ouet: A. G. Weiss, Duluth; Martin
O'Brien, Crookston; L. L. Brown
Winona; Albert Pfaender. New Ulm
p. NJ. Ringdal, Crookston; A. P.
Pierce, Redwing; John B. Galarneaul
Aitkin: Charles Helweg, Fulda; DI
w ]. Mayo. Rochester,; P. H. Ran-
lily. Lake City. Byron j. Mosier
saltwater; Fred A. Du Toit, Chaska
t. O'Connor, Renville: Jay Lu Due
Luverne; T. p. eastman, Owatonna
Julius A. Collier, Shakopee; c.. R
Donaldson, Stewart Raw G.. Earring,
ton. Ortonville, n. Il. Shirley, Brock
enridge; Judge G.. A. Nye Moorhead
NJ. p. McNally, Chokio; J. A. Flittle
Mankato.
An cid friend Of Governor Ham
mond. Lewis Sharpless, SO Royalstor
avenue, Minneapolis, was at the throt.
tie of the funeral train carrying the
body to St James today Mr.
Sharpless, a veteran Omaha road en-
gineer. asked to be permitted to p,lo'
the train.
mcUy WCUt uGHkdtO.
Hundreds of people gathered at the
depot this afternoon to witness the
passing Of Governor Hammond's flu
neral trs in, which was expected to ar,
tive in Mankato about one O'Clock
The train was late, and did not ar.
rive Until almost two, but the people
patiently waited As the train pulled
v hush went over the crowd for {
moment as they viewed the purple
draped car which drew the casket con.
tanning the remains of the late gov
ernor of Minnesota. The BODY wa
escorted by full military guard. an(
lodge delegations, and was joined here
bv the Mankato knights Templar /
full regalia, and a number of mem
bers of the B. P. o. f. About one
hundred and fifty Mankato peopl'
joined the mourners here and pro
ceeded to ST. James to attend thu
funeral. the train only making shor
stop in this city.
Make up of Train.
The make-up of the trai' was as
follows: E'eine, baeg9pH car anr
o"is w. Hills private caa' with tn
body Coach No. / was reserved fo'
the soyc"~or's relative and close
friends: No. 2. the hon"ra pallbear-
ers: y, 3 the Cove IRIS staff: No
4. the sta c"icer~. No 3. members
and former mel "~s of the legisla,
tyre; No. 6, city and county offic ais :
No. Z. state employees; coaches num-
bers, s. 9 and ten were for the gen.
eral public.
Major w. H. Hart of Genera
Woods staff went to st. James las
night to confer with the citizens COM
mittee there relative to the arrange
ments for the reception of the funera'
~arty on the arrival of the train a
the governors old home.
Eight sergeants chosen from the ma,
tional guard served as pallbearers
bauer. G.. H. Tipler, R. II. Snure. r
". Reed. !. J. fireman, R. A. End
ling and H. J. Downey.
The guard OF honor consisted of
Captain +. r. Krembs. Captain Rob-
ort K. Alcott Captain Fred l.. Baker
CAPTAIN A. w. Johnson and Lieuten
ants Phillip J McCaulev, G.. A. Rus
sci. A E. Moe and John H. Schoon-
maker.
SIX members of the former COVER
: or's staff from Duluth arrived in st
Paul late last night and were at the
"nint Paul. They attended the funer-
81 at st. James. They are: Colonel
wy. NJ. Grasser Major Fl. E. Boyle
Colonel John U. Sabenius. General
John Dran, Colonel Gust Carlson and
NJ. Chisholm. Major M. w. Hing,
o1ey of Floodwood. a staff member.
also arrived yesterday.
New UIm Represented.
New UIm Mimi, January g.
The citizens and military crganiza-
tiGns OF New Ulm. We're represented
at the funeral of the late Governor
Hammond today. Colonel John Busch
ers of tnn Second Infa~ try in COM
mand of Company A and the machine
sun company, accompanied by the
Second regiment band went to ST.
James by special train. Members of
Damolay commandery, Knights TEN
plar Of this city. of which the cover
nor was member also attended in o
body. Flags are at half mast on the
armory, court house and federal
building.
Burnquist Unable to Attend.
Governor j. A. A. Burnquist was
Unable to attend Governor Hammond's
funeral on account of illness. The
new governor has been suffering from
an infection of the nose and his Ply
sicians have advised him not to ex-
pose himself to the outside air. 1t
s expected that the new governor vii
tomorrow issue a statement in re-
oard to his governmental policies
This statement is in preparation to
day Governor Burnouist sent mes
age of coincidence to the late gov
arnor's half brother, Milton Hammond
at St James.
Columbian Knights at Funeral.
A committee Of fifteen represented
the state organization of the Knights
CT Columbus at thu funeral of Cover
nor Hammond. Those on the COM
mittee were John A. Burns, John E.
Barry, D. w. Lawler, H. NJ. Kali
scheuer, M. j. Ryan and A. j.
Schmitz of st. Paul; Neil M. Cronin
Lewis P. Chute, w. j. Meyers and
Faul Tracey of Minneapolis; George
w. Atmore and j. S. McKenna OF
Duluth; and w. j, Stephens of Mel
rose, NJ. F. Fisch of Austin and John
H. Hohmann Of Mankato.
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