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Show BODY WILL LIE IN STATE IN CITY HALL IN SAN FRANCISCO SAX FRANCISCO, Feb. 20. The body of the late Major General Frederick Fun-stone Fun-stone will arrive here Friday at 3:5 o'clock p. m., according to information received tonight at army headquarters, and will be taken under escort to the city hall, in the rotunda of which it will lie in state until Saturday, when the funeral will he held. The Southern department of the army, headquarters at San A ntonio, notified Major (ieneral J. Franklin "Bell tonight jthat the request of the Kansas legislature legisla-ture that the body of the dead soldier might lie in the state capitol at Topeka j for a day had been refused because the ! transportation plans could not be changed. Shortly afUT this message was received ! came a telegram from Kansas to Gen-', Gen-', eral Bell, making the same request. I General Bell replied that inasmuch as ! lie had no share in making the trans-j trans-j portation arrangements, he could not ! change them. The arrangements for General Fun-ston's Fun-ston's body to lie in the city hall here were made today after a conference between be-tween Mayor James Rolph, Jr., ami . one ; of General Bell's aides. The body ' will 1 be met at the ferry by a platoon of j mounted police and at the city hall a guard of honor composed of thirty soldiers sol-diers and a similar number of police will stand vigil oyer the remains. |