Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1921-11-18
UNKNOWN SOLDIER
HERO LAID TO REST
THOUSANDS PAY TRIBUTE TO
SOLDIER OF WAR-AMIDST
IMPRESSIVE SERVICES.
At OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL
Highest officer from President Hard
ing Down March Behind His
Bier-Ex-President Wilson
and Wife Also in Line.

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Laid to rest
with all the honors grateful nation
could pay. the unknown American
hero from France was bivouacked
among the gallant dead in Arlington
national cemetery.
The highest officers of the army
and navy walked beside his coffin;
none but the hands of gallant COM
rades of the great war laid hands
upon it, President Harding walked
behind his bier to do him homage;
former President Wilson made his
first public appearance in months;
General Pershing turned aside an OPP
portunity to ride and trudged beside
the body to the last resting place.
Representatives Of foreign govern.
ments reverently laid their highest
military decorations on his casket and
with soil from France where he fell
unknown, he was laid away.
Marine Band Out.
+ Minute guns at Fort Myer doomed
their continuous tribute as the funeral
procession was passing from the
capitol to the great marble amphi-
theater in Arlington where the cere-
monies were opened with the playing
of 1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" by the
marine band.
AS the body was taken to the crypt,
the last moment of the solemn cere-
mony was at hand. At slow, half
step to the dirge-like music of the
band, the casket was carried out to
the nodded stone work that sur
rounds the resting place. The band
played Lead Kindly Light" as the
pallbearers laid the casket on the
silver railing over the crypt Gen.
erals and admirals of the unknown
soldiers guard stood bare-headed.
Bishop Brent stepped to the casket
to read the burial service, and the
wreaths and flowers were brought
forward.
As the casket was placed the body
bearers gave place to the high Off
GERS headed by Major General Har-
bord and General Rodman, who low
cred it tenderly into the crypt
The last wreaths we're placed by
war mothers Mrs. Emmitt Digney
laid in place the token of American
mothers whose sons died in the war;
for British mothers, Mrs. Julia Nc
Cudden placed the treasured English
flowers she brought all the way to
lay at the bier.
Then the Indian chief, Plenty Coos,
in the splendor Of his tribal costume,
laid down his coup stick and the war
bonnet from his head, ON the tomb.
National Salute.
A crashing salvo Of artillery roared
out, Three rolling, laundering blasts
sounded while the long lines of troops
stood at present arms. Then taps,
the soldiers requiem, sounded, to be
followed by a quick roar of 81 guns,
the national salute.
Americas hero was at rest for
ever in his majestic shrine among
the quiet hills. He lies unknown, but
not unhonored nor unsung.
Soldiers Out Early.
Long before the rising sun broke
through a low bank of clouds, long
columns of soldiers, sailors and ma
rines began making their way to the
capitol plaza, there to receive into
their keeping Americas unknown sol
der and to accompany him to his final
resting place at Arlington National
cemetery.
The day promised to be clear and
sharply cool-an almost exact dupli-
cation of the first Armistice day three
years ago.
Just as the first of the suns beams
touched the Statue of Liberty sur
mounting the capitol dome, beneath
which lay the unknown soldier, sharp
commands began to ring out above
the capitol as portions OF the military