The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-01-16
OLD SCOUT DIES
GAME TO FINISH
Buffalo Bill, Idol of Young America,
PasSes-FamOus on Frontier.


fought death as he often did on the
plains when the West was young.
Col. Cody was brought here to the
home of his sister on January 5, Ge3-
perately i'll, and since then had b Ell
lowering between life and death.
AL during his illness tie IDOL OF
Juvenile America accept bis fate
Ike stole, laughing and Flay;ss
cards With his family as long as ne
was conscious
Col. Cody returned from his sea-
sons show work last fail much ex-
hausted He went to his ranch al
Cody. Wyo.. to rest and on his return
to Denver, about four weeks ago. con-
tracted severe cold This was fo.-
lowed by complications so serious tha:
the colonel's wife and daughter were
called to his bedside.
Col. Cody soon showed improve
ment and On January went to Glen
wood Springs. Col. to recuperate. On
January 3 he suffered a nervous col
lapse and his PHYSICIANS hurried him
back to Denver. For years he has
been an inveterate smoker. His physi,
clans said tobacco had affected his
heart seriously.
Funeral service for the noted scout
will be held Sunday afternoon when
the body will be placed in receiving
vault in Denver cemetery, but the
burial will not take place until next
spring, probably Decoration day. Then
the body of one of the nations most
picturesque characters will be inferred
IN tomb hewn Of solid rock at the
top OF Lookout mountain. near this
city. To add to her appreciation OF
What the West owed him, the State
of Cororado will receive the body into
the capitol Sunday, there to lie in
state for four hours Plans already
are on foot for the erection of suit
able monument at the final resting
place.
Federal troops will escort the body
from the capitol to the Elks' home
for services Sunday and other federal
troops will march in the cortege.
kilograms of coincidence have been
pouring into the home Of Col. Cody's
sister today. They include messages
from friends throughout the country.
one from President Wilson and others
from Gen. Hugh l.. Scott, chief Of
staff, and Gen. Nelson A. Miles.
Col. William F. Cody ("Bufalo
Bll"), hunter sokdier. scout and
Snowman, was for many years known
to nearly every man. woman, boy and
girl in America through his Wild West
show with which he toured this coun-
try and Europe. He was a pictur-
esque type OF the pioneer frontiers
msu and lived to see large cities built
where ne once hunted the buffalo
and fought Indians.
Col. William F. Cody was born in
Scott county, Iowa, February 26,
1916. His ancestral stock was Span
ish, English and Irish. His parents
moved West and took up claim near
Leavenworth, Kan, then a frontier
Indian post, when Cody was Ave
years old At ten years of age he
found himself the head of the family
owing to the death Of his father who
was killed in an encounter growing
out of dispute over the negro slave
question. Young Cody's first employ
ment was as courier between the
freight wagon trains operated be-
tween the Missouri river and the
Rocky mountains. In turn he became
wagon master, trapper, hunter, pony
express rider and stage coach driver.
all giving varied experience in a
school the graduation from which left
the scholar an adept in every possible
line of frontier activity.
An exciting experience in the Union
army as a soldier and subsequently,
as a confdant and scout of his com
manders in the desultory and guerilla
warfare of the Southwest left him
at ith finish well known as an all
around frontiersman, competent to
advise. to guide and to lead. These
qualities soon brought him to the at
tention of such distinguished COM
manders as Gems. w. T. Sherman
Phil Sheridan, Crook, Custer, Mer-
ritt, Carr, Royal, Miles, Dodge ann
others and secured his appointment
as chief of scouts in the United States
army during its numerous Indian
campaigns in the West.
His career in this line identified
him with the great fighting epoch be-
tween the red man and the white
man waged by Gen. Sheridan after the
War of Secession that temporarily
ended in 1876, but was effectivelg
finished in the Gnost Dance war in
the decisive battle OF Wounded Knee
in 1S9O-91 campaign with the North
ern Sioux.
During the construction of the
Union Pacific railroad young Cody at
tached himself to camp of United
States troops protecting the laborers
and won his sobriquet Of Buffalo
Bill'' by taking contract to supply
the entire force with fresh buffalo
meat for a certain period killing un-