Show POLICEMAN DILLON BURIED CATHEDRAL CROWDED AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES I I Numerous Floral Tributes from Friends of tho Dead Officer His Good Record as a Man and Officer I Seldom has any citizen of Salt Lake In the ordinary walks of life received such tributes as were paid to the memory mem-ory of Patrolman Dan Dillon who was burled from the Catholic church yesterday yes-terday afternoon I Father Keenan conducted the services ser-vices both at the church and at the I I grave in the Catholic cemetery The former was crowded with relatives and II friends of tin deceased around lie grave on the hillside hundreds gathered gath-ered I eredAll All three lodges and the Degree of Honor of the A O U W were represented I repre-sented these preceding the funeral cot tego to the cemetery in a couple of street car The pallbearers were Sergt Bur bldge Officers Hilton I Randolph Fiu maurlce Chase and Ilempcl SorgL I I Burbldge being In charge of the relief upon which the deceased had worked for several years I The floral designs were of the choicest The principal pieces came from the A O U TV Fire department j Police department and the Ancient Order Or-der of Hibernians but to these close j I personal and other friends added their offerings and the grave was literally I I burled under fragrant blossoms BeSIdes Be-sides nearly the entire police force aug i incnted by exChief Pratt who had I always held l the dead patrolman In the highest esteem there were about sev I cntyfive members of the A O U AV i Judge Timmony Cleric Diehl and other I city attaches present In his funeral sermon Father Keenan I Kee-nan feelingly referred to the steadfastness steadfast-ness of the deceased In the Catholic faith and deduced from this that he las virtually true In all things he undertook un-dertook Father Keenan said there was I one case In particular and ho did not need to repeat what that was but his I brother officers would remember it quite well And behind this lies a story which has not yet been told save In a quiet way and among his brother officers who respected him all the more for the stand he took Dillon was among the policemen who were sent to the northern north-ern part of Davis county to look after one of the sections of Coxeys army which was threatening to Invade the city and which it had been deemed advisable ad-visable to turn In some other direction If possible Being hardly prepared fOI as long a siege as it afterward proved to be the policemen one day were out of 1ood As a rule two of them messed together and it came about that Abe Randolph and Dan Dillon were made partners In their distress Each setout set-out to rustle for something to eat Dillon got hold of some eatables and Randolph secured a ham or as much of one as he could He hailed Dillon heartily when he returned but there was no response It was Friday and Dan was too conscientious to violate one of the rules of his church even though he was hungry so Randolph hod the ham to himself while Dillon contented himself with such other provender as was in sight No more conscientious man than Dan Dillon ever twirled a club on the police force hich Is composed of men of all shades of religious and political beliefs There Is another peculiar Incident connected with the life and death of the deceased A few weeks ago a Tribune Trib-une reporter was preparing some copy at noUce headquarters when the deceased de-ceased came Into the room At il as usual I see he remarked In the good old Irish brogue which everyone ev-eryone liked Yes responded the newspaper man who was at work on an obituary of a prominent citizen but to tell you the truth Dan I am growing a little weary of writing of the deaths of people whom I have known so well and so long Theres no telling who youll handle next weve al got to go sometime you may have to write mine he continued con-tinued jocularly but there Is one thing you cant do write your own |