Show Double Funeral raJ Rites Held for 1 j Pi Pioneer n r Couple CoupIe Ida Aug Aug uS' uS 20 J AP I IrIo rIo Double j funeral n r t se services 8 held held fierce yesterday in ih the Community ch church for Mr an and Mrs Bill nm Kruse survivors rs of Indian massacres lJ during during dur dur- In ing the thc nineteenth century Mrs Kruse 84 Sol died Monday at a sanitarium in Blackfoot Three TI hours later her husband who nho was was was' years al old died lied at his his' camp amp forty miles north of hero here Just h before be be- fore a messen messenger messenger arrived arrived to tell fell him orthe of the death of of- his Itle wit wife Tho The co couple plo had lived In the amas prairie region glon t for r thirty years carlS Kruse in charge chargo of ot Ousters Ouster's ammunition train was stationed station cd pe near pear the tho scene of the Cuter Custer mlis- mlis mas- mas but escaped His Wife vICe evaded death during the Indian massacre at Fort Union N. N M. M After tho tim tragedy she and other cr survivors walked to the tho Idaho city in 1862 Mrs Kruso Kruse w was was married married to ChrIstopher Christopher Chris ChrIs- Gieske Gleske fn In 1864 and l la is b be believed be- be t to to- have been the first first- white woman to take the nuptial vows in Idaho Cit City She J mb ried Kruse ruse in 1889 Kruse had spent much much- of 1 his ls time in this region prospecting and mining Mrs I Kruse lue us Is Is' survived by ta a son and nd a n. daughter J |