The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-11
Prominent Men From All Over
State at Albaugh Funeral.
Home of Dead Political Leader
damned This Morning.
DEMOCRATS JOIN MOURNERS
Leaders of All Political Parties
at the Cemetery.
Family Receives Hundreds of
Messages of Coincidence.


every section of Kansas were in To-
! peka this afternoon to pay final trib-
ute to the late Morton Albaugh, clerk
of the United States district court. In
honor of the memory of the former
| political leader, the state house closed
for an hour during the funeral and
/ Governor Capper, supreme court JUS
tees, state officials and department
heads attended the funeral. Services,
conducted by DIR. Edmund ]. Kulp,
were held at the First NJ. E. church
| at 2:30 O'Clock.
| All trains into Topeka during the
| morning and early afternoon brought
A1baugh's former associates here for
i the funeral Men who in a genera
| ton have gone up and down the polit-
ical ladder with Albaugh in state poll
tics came to Topeka to drop a tear
and speak kindly of the yesterdays
| when Albaugh was in the midst of
every political battle in the state.
Such men as Chester 1. Long, Willis
]. Bailey, Del Travis, Orrie Morse,
Lew Pettijohn, Judge Pollock and
Doc" Moore-all men who have
fought side by side with Albaugh in
many hard and bitter campaigns
were here to pay final tribute.
Pollock a Pail Bearer.
| At the Albaugh home, 1881 Harri-
son street, scores of men and women
came to pay final word of respect
for the department warrior. The
body lay in state Sunday and until
noon today.
| Federal departments closed during
the day and Judge John C. Pollock,
with whom Albaugh had been inti-
| mately associated during the IA years
Judge Pollock has been on the federal
bench, was a pail bearer. In the hotel
lobbies we're many men who but two
weeks ago had conferenced and coun-
selled with Albaugh concerning the
| coming political campaign when they
met for the annual dinner of the
Kansas Day club.
Nor was the gathering of Albaugh's S
| friends today confined to party lines
Such prominent Kansas Democrats as
Dan Callahan, president of the federal
farm loan bank; Fred Robertson
| United States district attorney; and
James w. Orr. prominent Atchison
lawyer, were here for the funeral
A telegram also came to the bereaved
family from Senator Bale P Wag-
| state politics, but one of Albaugh's
| warm personal friends and ardent ad-
mirers.
Many Prominent Men Here.
Special seating reservations were
made for the out-of-town friends. In
cluded in the prominent kansans who
came for the funeral were Chester L.
..
| senator; Willis J. Bailey, Atchison,
former governor: Judge John C. Pol
lock. federal jude, Kansas City; L. J.
Pettijohn, Dodge City, former receiver
land office; w. Y Morgan, Hutchinson.
lieutenant governor; j. L. Bristow
Salina, chairman public utilities COM
mission and former United States sena-
tor; Dan Callahan, Wichita, president
federal farm loan bank; Del Travis.
Wichita, former state fish and game
| RI t-I,r,
E. Davis, Salina, former state auditor;
| Charles F. Scott, lola. former con-
gresham; DR.. Ernest Philblad, presi-
dent Lindsborg college: Charles A.
Jones, Kansas City: ]. c. o. Morse,
Hutchinson; George Beatty, Salina
| Jack Hupp, Dorsey Dunn. A. NJ.
| Cowan Wichita; John Simmons,
| Hutchinson; Miss Lizzie f. Wooster,
| Salina; Frank Ryan, Kansas City;
Fred Robertson, United States district
| attorney, Kansas City; James w. Orr.
Atchison; Steve Walker. Columbus;
Clarence Price, Pittsburg; Fred C.
Trigg, Kansas City: Horace F'inney,
Oskaloosa-
Many Messages of Coincidence.
| Messages of coincidence came to the
family today from Bale P. Waggener.
Atchison; John S. Dean, Washington,
D. c.; P. B. Gillett, Kingman; j. r.
Burrow, San Antonio, Texas: Noah
| Moser. Long Beach, Cal; Paul S.
Woods. k1nSman; Thad Carver. Pratt;
William Allen White, Emporia;
Mayme Albaugh,s Portland, Ore;
Perry Albaugh, Shoals Ind; Arthur
Fulton, Kansas City: F. NJ. Davidson,
Ward Magill, C. H Magill. Wichita;
Eugene Davis. Springfield, Kan; A l..
Berger, Kansas City; Myra Albaugh,
Kansas City; Alfred NJ. Landon. Inde-
pendence; J. B. Adams. ElDorado; J.
n. Tincher. Medicine Lodge
Pallbearers at the funera, included
A1baugh's political, court and Red
Cross associates. They were Judge
John c: Pollock. Kansas City; H l.
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