Show MAY SOON BE MAJOR OWN GENE GENERAL RAL brig gen frederick funston corn com mander of the department ot of california who at anytime any time may be promoted to major general to Is one ot of the tight ingest little men in uncle sams army and a general who was not turned out in tho polishing pill mill at west westpoint point he jumped into the fighting game from the be seemingly quo calling of a government botanical 11 ll explorer and made good 4 fred funston Fu neton tho the captor ot of aguinol Agul nal do and the conqueror of the philippines comes of a fights lighting ng family being the son of edward hogue funston ar ft a captain in the union army during the civil war and ann elizabeth mitchell funston a descendant or oi daniel boone the older puns fauston ton served three terms in congress was for many years a kansas legislator and speaker of the house ai the son of this hardy kansan left vl his ha fathers farm in hla his teens and went LW to mexico there he picked up spanish and sufficient american dollars to come back home an and d enter the kansas state university in his bis early twenties |