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Show Lone Postmaster ' :.t . Rigid in Salute 'fW BOARD TUB HARD1NO FL'NKRAU TRAIN , AT VALMT. Nev, Aug: 4 t By A. P.) On very ship and at every ahor station of ths navy, and at every . fort and poet of th army, guna boomed a aorrowful salute and flaga were everywhere hslf -raaeted today In honor of tha nation s dead, bu all the tribute wre no greater than that paid by a Nevada postmaster. post-master. J Before a little frame shack In the deeert town of (lelconda, aa the funeral train allpped ejuietly through. h postmaster, an elderly elder-ly man. cam to rigid attention and aaapped to aalute. He atood there In the broiling sun until the laat car had gono by and then turned again lo hm werk. . He had honored hi chief aa best h could.. , ' |