The copper era and Morenci leader., 1917-06-08
LAST TRIBUTE IS PAID BUFFALO
 BILL

DENVER, June 3.-Last tribute was paid today by a vast assemblage to the memory of Colonel William F. Cody Buffalo BilD when the body of the famous scout and plainsman was laid to rest in a grave blasted from the solid rock beneath the thin earth on top of Lookout mountain, 20 miles from Denver
 More than 10000 people went from Denver to Lookout mountain by auto mobile and electric train. For four hours before the ceremony at the grave there was steady procession of automobiles winding up the noun tain side toward the summit, far above the plateau on which Denver is situated. More than 200O persons, it was estimated, who had gone by trol- ley to Golden, at the foot of the noun tain, climbed steep trails or trudged along the automobile road to Wildcat Point, where the burial was held. i The ceremony at the grave was not elaborate. only the masonic ritual be- l ing used, and was under the directin of the Golden Masonic Lodge A dele gation of Knights Templar from North Platte, Neb., where Colonel Cody held his membership, acted as an escort for the body at the grave.
 i As the last shovelful or earth was thrown into the grave buglar cound- ed taps. When the last note had died out battery fired a salute of thirteen guns. AS the last shot ceased rever- !berating among the mountains the Stars and Stripes broke out from a flagpole at the grave and the burial ceremony was ended.
 ! For an hour and a half before the services began the thousands of per sons who had made the journey to the summit of the peak where Colonel Cody often had gone to view the broad plains of Colorado. Nebraska, Kansas and Wyoming and the snow-capped peaks of Colorado--all visible from | the spot chosen for his last resting pidCe-pdSSeu III Sleduy Stredn on either side of the coffin for last look at the face Of the old plainsman With barred heads they passed by-men, women and children-and then the cof- Beside the scouts widow, his two sisters. Mrs. Julia Goodman of Cody, Wyo.. and Mrs. Mary Cody Decker of Denver, and other relatives of Buffalo Bill, two of the scouts companions of 1 frontier life were present and added d picturesque touch to the scene at the l grave. They were Colonel J P. Boggs, who came from Mattoon. Ill.,, for the occasion and Michael Russell of Dead wood, $. D.
 ! Among the floral pieces received from organizations and friends of C.. lonel Cody was one sent by the Canton ! O., commandery of the Army and Navy Union.
 The day was perfect A bright sun
 lighted the mountains and the broad
 stretches Of prairie below Wildcat
 Point and the assembled crowd pre- lsented something of holiday appear
 ance.
 There was not room enough on the
 eminence where the burial was held fo a tenth of the people who made the journey to be within hearing or seeing distance of the ceremony. Hundreds departed after viewing the body with out waiting for the services. So great
 was the crowd that men and boys perched on every available limb Of the Iscraggly trees on the peak in an effrt to see what took place. So heavily were the trees laden with their human
 burden that the police ordered them cleared But no sooner was one group
 compelled to descend than another
 clambored into the tree tops The DO lice were kept busy in efforts to pre- vent an accident.
 \ Despite the enormous crowd and the heavy automobile traffic on the noun tain road. only one accident, a minor one. was reported
 ----e--- Mir. and Mrs. Geo. Carlton left on , Tuesday morning for Fl Paso where