Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-02-20
GEN. FRED funston
DIES SDDDENLY
Stricken While Playing With
Child After Dinner With
Friends
BURY HIM SATURDAY
WITH HIGH HONORS

BY The United Press.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. fpD. w.
FlaKs hulf-mast and every khakl-elaa
man mourner. the body of the late
Major General Fred FUNSTON was
In Fort Sam Houston today Tonight
the remains of the "hest two-iisted
fighter in the world for his inches
viii be transferred 20 San Francisco.
There he will be buried with full
military honors at the preside.
Funeral arrangements have not been
completed.
Few men were more popular with
officers and men of the ranks than
the short Fighting Fred A prodig-
Gus worker. army officials said today
his place viii be q difficult one TO
hll 10 was this tirelcssness IN WORK
and close application 20 ms duties
that caused the generals doath. lie
had become greatly weakened by the
steady grind Of details OF the forces
under him. but Il was ike me heh',
ing Kansan to make no complaint ana
60 stick out his work just the same
Major General Pershng. Just. PACK
from Mexico. assumed temporary
charge of tho southern department
TODAY i'm place OF his late chief
Though only 8 feet 3 inches tall
and weighing about 100 pounds, Major
General Funston was fighter by
birth and breeding. but not by train
ing for he was not graduate OF
West Point A descendant OF Daniel
Boone. the beloved hero OF every
schoolhoy. Funston's career was
equally as picturesque as that OF
fhone. Despny. as we'll as desire,
seemed 10 have marked him as
fighter. and ever since the spanish
American war he WAS 10 be found
wherever there was trouble
Born IN Ohio in 1865. Funston was
more OF n Kansan than n Buckeye
boy. as his father moved TO farm
noar lola. Kan. when Frederick was
only four years old Never an eX-
tremely apt pupi. he got through
the public schools. but could stand
only two years at the Kansas Uni
verslty al Lawrence. His most nota-
hlo exploit there was not In the line
az his studies II was his conQuering
OF n 20O.pound "had man." who
threatened him with a razor Only
half his assailants weight, Funston
went for him. and when he had re-
duced him to subsection. added to his
humiliation by driving him through
the streets to a police station ahead
OF a revolver.
Newspaper work claimed Funston
when he left college. and IN 1887 he
was employed as city editor of the
Tribune IN Fort smith, Ark. 10 was
Democratic i'm politics, and Funston
was a Republican. So when the edi.
tor-in-chief absented himself for a
period. Funston amused himself by
doing what ne thought WAS right
and Just and attacking the Demo-
cratic leaders OF the region. SUM
nioned home by telegraph. the cdi'
tor-in-chief arrived just In time 10
save the building and plant from a
mob
II didn't like my Job and I didn't
like the town. said Funston. "but
thought 7 might Just as well let them
know ] had been there before ! quit
A trip on a government botanical ex'
petition which took him through Death
F. Valley and involved hardships that dis
sblod more than halt the members of
tho party next furnished Funston with
the spice Of danger which for him con
stituted the chief charm of life.
lie was next sent TO Alaska ON ~ col
lectinr expedition. "Ihere are lot Of
U|ANNNH WHO NNNW NNNiE N'WhN hWN"iN1
than Fred Funston said tho head O
the bureau who recommended him, "tha
nobody will come nearer getting wha
he goes after"
After going through Chilcoot Pas
alone In a blizzard. being capsized in
oanoo in rapids that had claimcd score
Of victims and enjoying many othc
hazardous adventures, Funston cam
hack from Alaska with the finest co
lection Of botanical spcciment that eve
came out of II.
Along the Santa lie railroad the oil
residents still recall how Funston, as
passenger train conductor, threw
drunken cowboy of a tain and late
when he hurled rock through a coae
window. pursued him several miles O
foot while tho train waitcdh
A mere resume of ttnstOn's exploit
will show that he was one OF the mos
strenuous and picturesque men Of moo
ern America. Here are some OF his spe'
taeular accomplishments;
Served as commander OF Gomezi
artillery in the Cuban revolt, his frs
military work. and in twenty-five bat
ties was wounded three times.
Became colonel of the Twentieth
Kansas Volunteer Infantry at the out
break OF the Spanish-American War
Swan the Rio Grande River in the
philippines under FIRE before the bat
Tie OF Columpit.
CAPTURED Aguinaldo. the leader OF
The Philippine insurrection. bv a
nne'y-miie march through mountain
Gus country without the loss OF a
~ man
Directed the work Of relief al San
Francisco after the great earthquake
Commanded the American exnedi
ton which landed at Vera Cruz 1vhs,
81 Huerta refused to salute the Amori
lt can colors
VI Commanded the American troops o.
the Texas border when the aititud
OF Carranza threatened TO provok
war.
WOOD SHOCKED BY NEWS.
b BY The United Press.
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