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Show LA WTO N AT REST. Uctualnn of Ideal Soldi, i- Intoi -tul In Ha-tiouul Ha-tiouul Cemetery. Maj.-flerj. Henry V. Lawton wai buried in the national cemeteiy at Arlington Ar-lington February (i. It was a national tribute to a national hero, and the sorrow sor-row of a whole people was expressed when America added the chaples of cypress to the brow that so long- had i worn the laurel. The burial service beneath the leafless trees at Arlington was preceded by services in thefObureh of the Covenant on Connecticut avenue, at which every department of the army and navy within the reach of Washington was represented. Law ton, to the great built of Americans, Ameri-cans, had been the incarnation of the fl mericau soldier, lie had made his mark in the Civil war from the Jlissis-i Nippi to the sea, and in the interval of potential peace it was he who had beaten at his own game Gevonimo, the frrealest master of desert craft and mountain fighting that the West had ever known, and who, in the new problems prob-lems tw... ,.. i 1 - ..J ........ u v'vjji , tii , iimi iiuvi;u iii. most daring and resourceful of all the pe.nerals in the field. It was in tribute to tliesc qualities that the Law ton fund had in a few weeks been swelled past all the expectations of its originators, for America knew Lawton, being a soldier sol-dier first, inil only had left to those who loved him no heritage save his 6 word and a spotless name. gave more information than that regarding re-garding Whittaker and that what he told the police may lead to further arrests ar-rests in the neighborhood of Richmond, Rich-mond, Madison county. |