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Show MANY RESPECT ANDREW8. Veterans Gather at Services for Citizen of Experience and Much Usefulness. Special to The Tribune. j SALMON. Idaho. April S. Tho body of W. H. Andrews, who died in Los Angeles last January, was brought to Salmon, and tho funeral services were hold on Sunday afternoon. Mr. Andrews was t'4 years of age at the time of his death. In 1852 ho crossed the plains to California as captain of a train of ox teams. Later he returned to Minnesota, and enlisted in the First Minnesota regiment during the civil war. In IS70 ho came lo Sulmon to Join his son. who wus one of tho earliest sot- j tiers here. Fdr the past forty-three years W. II. Andrews had been Identified with thc progress of this district. Among other oth-er public offices, ho served hu county commissioner, com-missioner, postmaster and school trustee. trus-tee. For twenty-five years he was engaged en-gaged In the mercantile business and was for a tlmo In tho employ of hlu stanch friend, the late Senator Shoup. Fifty years a Mason, his funeral was in charge of thc members of the local lodge, assisted as-sisted by tho local Grand Army post. The honorary pallbearers Wero all old-timers old-timers J. H. Hockensmlth, F. B. Shnr-kcy, Shnr-kcy, James Horton. E. S. Edwards, William Wil-liam Peterson and T. Dore. |