Arizona sentinel., 1917-01-11
NOTED NEWSPAPER MAN
 ON FUNSTON'S TRAIL

Close on Gen. Frederick Funston's
 heels came Floyd P. Gibbons, noted staff correspondent of the Chicago
 Tribune, and thereby hangs a tale.
 General Funston travels in his own
 private car," while the famous staff correspondent travels the same as an
 ordinary citizen. But he is "on Fun ston's trail," with instructions from
 Chicago to Ego the limit" which means that he has the privilege of using the telegraph lines as freely as I use the columns of the ARIZONA SENTINEL.
 He rarely permits General Funston to get out of his sight. If he does he knows exactly where to "pick him up" at his pleasure. He keeps track of everything the General does, knows his every move, and keeps the readers of the great Chicago Tribune posted as to exactly what to expect the next day. That it costs the Tribune "a world of money" Floyd Gibbons doesn't care a tinker's darn. He is simply living up to instructions" and those who have worked on the great metropolitan papers know what that means.
 When it was announced through the Associated Press that General Fun ston was about to start out on tour of inspection of all the army posts along the border Floyd Gibbons wasn't within a thousand miles of San An tonic. He was instructed by telegraph to "get on Funston's trail," the result being that exactly two hours and half after General Funston arrived in Yuma Floyd Gibbons stepped from the next train. He was Ion the job" from the moment he got here until General Funston left, the General in his "pri- vate car," coupled on to the regular passenger, and Floyd Gibbons occupy ing a Pullman on the same train. He is to remain "on Funston's trail' until the General returns to his headquar- ters in San Antonio I had the pleas ure of being with him much of the time while he was in Yuma and filled him full of information about Yuma and Yuma Project.
 I learned from MT. Gibbons that practically all my old-time newspa per friends of Chicago are no long CT in the game, Gene Fields, George Rabbit, Tommy" Thompson and sev- eral others of my closest friends have long since written "30" after their names, for they have gone where all good newspaper men go-to better and more appreciative world Floyd Gibbons in those early days was wear ing knee-breeches, but Time has a habit of changing all things. He is now a great, big, strapping six-footer, with an eye like an eagle and a nose for scenting news as acute as the scent l ing powers of a bloodhound. For sev- eral years he was detailed with Vil- | la, had his own private car, and kept | on Villas trail just as he is now | trailing Funston" He was with Will l la in three of the latter's most famous | battles, notably at Leon, where Villa | received his first defeat at the hands | of General Obregon, the latter losing | his right arm during the battle. He has no love for Carranza, referring to him invariably as "Carranwhiskers." He is firmly of the opinion that the United States ought to intervene in Mexico for the purpose solely of sav- ing Mexico against herself. Further than that he would not go.
 MT. Gibbons was quite favorably i'm pressed with Yuma, especially with the vast possibilities of our project irrigation system. He was more than amazed at our orange grove, and de- lighted with the landscape view from Prison Hill and Fort Yuma Indian School All in all he left Yuma with the idea that it isn't the town that has always en pictured to him, and I will be surprised if he doesn't say good many nice things about our city and the surrounding country in gen. eral.