The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1917-03-01

Houston with her children to avoid the
approaching hot weather there.
His Picturesque Career.
Genera Funston was born In Carlisle,
Ohio, in 1866, and was reared on q
kansas farm. He had q remarkable
|reer before he became a soldier. Few
people knew that his first work was as
q scientist with q bent toward botany.
AS an agent Of the department of agri-
culture in 1891 he o part In the
Death valley expendition; then he ex-
plored Alaska and the British north
west and crossed Alaska to the Arctic
ocean and Travelled from Mckenzie river
to the Bering sea a journey of about
$500 miles. He camped in the Klondilke
during the winter Of 1893 and then
alone floated down the Yukon In q
canoe, a journey Of hundreds Of miles
through wilderness, without seeing
another living soul. Soon after that he
resigned from the department Of agrj-
culture n travelled in Mexico.
When the last Cuban insurrection
broke out Funston applied to the revo-
~lutlonary junta in New York for service
with the rebel army, but the Cubans
suspected him of being a spy or an
agent of the United States running
down violators of neutrality laws.
Finally he convinced them of his inten-
t1ons n for many weeks in rooms on
an out of the way street In the lower
east side of New York Funston In
strllcted recruits in the handling Of ma
ignorant. % afterward he was taken
into the Cuban army with a commits
sion.
He Never Knew Fear.
AS a student at the University of
Kansas, when he weighed less thar 100
pounds, he conquered a 200-pound bad
man" VINO threatened him with q razor.
70 d to the giants humiliation.
Funston marched him through the
streets at the point of a revolver, to a
police station.
A few years later, while city editor
OF a paper in Fort Smith, Ark, young
Funston stirred up intense feeling by
attacking editorially the publications
w political party leaders during the
absence Of his editor in chief. Many
threats are said to have beer made
against Funston and the newspaper
property, but he remained on guard un-
til his superior returned and then
turned over the plant unframed. In
c1dentally, Funston also resigned.
Along the Santa Fe railroad they still
recall how Funston, al a passenger
train conductor, threw a drunken cow
boy. off a train and later, when he
hurled a rock through a coach win
! doW. pursued hin several miles on foot
Iwntle the train waited.
escapes Deaf as Spy.
Funston's first experience on the fir
ing line came in Cuba, where he COM
manded General Gomez's artillery with
remarkable results. After engaging in
20 battles and being wounded three
times he resigned his command because
30 guerrillas who had aided the Span
iards We're executed against his wishes.
Captured by Spaniards on his way to
Havana, he escaped death by swallow
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which would have proved his identity.
While a colonel Of the famous Twen-
tleth Kansas volunteer infantry in the
Philippine a Funston performed
feats of bravery that brought him he
title of brigadier general. His capture
of Aguinaldo and his fording of the Rio
Grande riyes at Columpit under fire
featured his work.
Funston has been described by his
superiorS as absolutely fearless. Eve
ready to plunge into danger, he cared
little whether his force equalled that Of
his opponent. One day, the story goes,
when it appeared certain the Filipinos
Would destroy three companies under
Funston's command. Gen. Harrison
Gray Otis inquired of the colonel how
long he could hold his position.
Barred from West Point.
Until I am mustered OUT" Funston
replied; and he made good by repulsing
the E1l1plnOS.
When the volunteers were discharged
Funston retained his rank as a membe
of the regular army. AS a regular he
made a mark by maintaining order in
San Francisco during the disaster of
1906. Temporarily in charge of The
troops at the Preside, when the dis
turbance came he quickly declared
martial law and set about obtaining ac-
commodations for the homeless, keep
ing down the cost Of food and arresting
trouble makers.
The ambition Of Funston's youth was
to go to West Point, but he failed in an
entrance examination. In later years he
repeatedly outranked West Pointers
who were in school when he failed of
| admission.
Physically, Funston was one Of the
smallest men in the United States
army. He was barely S feet and 5 inches
tall. and usually weighed less than 100
pounds. In civil life he was modest n
retiring.
Burial at Preside.
San Francisco, Cal. Feb. 20.-Definite
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