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Show WIS TRIBUTE ! IS P IJMUISTOI Salute of Thirteen Guns Fired When Funeral Train Reaches EI Paso. " EL, PASO. Texas, Feb. 21. A warm winter sun smiled clown on the funeral train bearing the body of Major General Frederick Funston to San Francisco late tody as it slipped into the union station sta-tion yards one month after General Fun-eion Fun-eion was here upon his return from an inspection trip of the punitive expedition expedi-tion in Mexico. A battery of artillery planted on the heights overlooking Mexico fired a major general's salute of thirteen guns, as I he Twenty-third infantry band played a funeral fu-neral dirsre. . - Major General John J. -Pershing, commander com-mander of the southern department, stood with bared head as the funeral car passed the place where he and his general staff were standing at attention. The Twenty-rhird Twenty-rhird infantry was drawn up in double files along the track and presented arms, the Eighth cavalry troop presented sabres, sa-bres, the regimental colors dipped and thousands of civilians stood 1 with, bared heads. Similar observances were held in all armv camps here. Captain Fitzh'ugh Lee. aide de camp tn General Funston, appeared at the door of the car and conferred vith General Pershing, Per-shing, then returned to the side of his dead chief while two orderlies placed wreaths of flowers, remembrances from the citv of E! Paso and the Daughters of the Confederacy, upon the fla-draped casket. The casket was In the observation end of the little private car, "Texas," Ip which General Funston made frequent trips to the border here and In which he lived during the Scott-Obregon conference confer-ence here last May. After remaining here ten minutes, the special train departed for the. west at 4:49 p. m. ' |