Show f MORE dORE MOJE FUNSTON STORIES STORIS Episodes piso es in n the Strenuous Career of the Captor of Aguinaldo Chicago Chic go Tribune From his boyhood flays days Fred Funston hue u been a fighter He was born in Ohio In 1866 but his rather father fter E H Fun Funs Funston ton soon moved to Kansas where he became a congressman and anti was known as a Foghorn Funston His first public appearance was made mide when he was about about 16 years year old at t a political meet meetIng meetIng Ing at Fort Scott Sott Kan The he political meeting happened to be opposed to his fathers lathers candidacy but that made no difference to young Funston In fact it was the reason jeason Jeson for his being beIng there thereAfter there thereAfter After all aU the die speaking was over and Foghorn Funston had been b en pretty well wel torn to tp pieces the young fellow got up tip tP tot k the stage and anI said sId that he had a afew afew afew few remarks r to make He proceeded to tomake tomake tomake make them in the the face fae of strenuous opposition but when the audience pres presently pres presently discovered that he was Wa telling a a good r on his father it I quieted down He finished that story and then the another and then began to tell tel what kind ki of ot a man nian Foghorn Funston who no h the butt buttof of so much ridicule rIdicule really realy was 3 0 00 S SIn In vain did the organizers r the meeting baWl 1 for fOl adjournment nt the boy now had hal his audience with him Mm and by bythe the fow time he had finished da a brief ref but butwell butwell well weli Puti Pu t or of he tilt sit situation J It iWas was vas a Funston audience and t t f his ta I vas fiS lS evident t ton O on election day aay Two years later Fred Funston en LJ t t e r the ther t e eI Kansa I a s state st t f l ty where vier he was va r a classmate of William Henry White who vhO made himself ft f j by his ls inquiry the he mat matter matter matten ter ten with Jh Kansas Karisa asa White V Ue says sa that thi if It an been ben for fr himself Funston would Shave have st at the f fot ot ot of the class claS and eveh as It 1 was it was a aloSe loSe close race He H tells this story of the young fellows college cater career carer He Is in not afraid of anything that tu t can Cn walk wal Once the te towns bad nero nope tried tp to run tun rn over Funston The darky weighed pr pretty t y nearly pounds And t was wa a a scrapper with a razor record Funston Fu sLOn was about five feet three Inches and weighed about abo bo t lve pounds He bluffed blufe the colored d brother to a standstill and len jent en for fora 1 a warrant and an marched the the boss bully bUn through h the main man streets street of Lawrence at the t gun gunlOv lOv r t 0 Owing to the dl which he ex experienced p rie ced with wl some of he tot text he le did not graduate but in became be ame city editor of the Fort ort Smith Tribune a stanch upholder of local Democracy A few days before b ore the election eleton the leaving the paper In n hands He THe had been getting gett pretty weary veary wear of the Demo Deno Democrats cents who had been conducting their th ir campaign CI on a basis bf Of bribery and in intimidation 11 and his hiR first net act hen he was nut put in control was to write an andi di l stating his opinions with wih a degree degre of f frankness s which left lef no room for f misunderstanding r This engaging eng ing did not appeal to the worthy citizens of Fort Fot Smith who set about showing the young 3 editor edior the error of his Is wa ways s by burning down the Tribune building Funston ghere his staff staf about him and prepared to defend the place but the hastily returned ret red in Inns answer ns r to ta 0 telegraphic summons from his 1118 friends fri nJ Js and appeased ed the he wrath of pt the thu Democrats by a hasty Issue ex explaining explaining explaining editorially what had happened Naturally young Funston did not re tain tam his job There was wits talk and feathering him before he le could get m town hut but uth he evince any st in leaving h ing ingV ingI S Sa When V a a fren asked him why he had hadI so o foolishly thrown away his situation by printing such alt all editorial the young man man ma said brielly I r was tired tred of the rotten polities politics and ind tired thed of the rotten lot n tawn and tired of the th rotten coten sheet heet had and ready to th t trea go anyway so I thought h I might as well wel wake the place up and let em era know I 1 alive before I left left For F r a a time Funston was waR out of a j Then he drifted into the railroad business bU and became beame a conductor condu tor Uro on the tle t e Santa Fe line |