| Show N H 1 l U a 3 MORE FUNSTON STORIES R I I Episodes EPI In the Strenuous r nt at tho timo ot of 2 AguInaldo 5 5 S From orom his lila boyhood days day Fred 1 red Funs Funston Funston I ton has been a fighter lIe He was born horn In J Ohio In 1866 but his father tather B Fl II H Funston 1 soon moved to Kansas where he ime become becam a congressman and was las known as ns Foghorn Funston say the Chicago Tribune His first public no ap I was made when he ho was about 16 years ears old at nt a 11 i political meeting at Fort 1 ort Scott ott Ian Kan The political meeting i happened to bo ho opposed to his Lath fath fathers ers ors candidacy but that made no dir dlf 1 to young Funston In fact tact it was WM the reason renson for tor his hits being there thele iii After Alter all nil the speaking was over oer and Foghorn Funston had been pretty well torn to pieces the tho young fellow rellow got gut up took the tho stage and said ald that he had lud a tow fow ow remarks to make He lie proceeded to tomake tomake tomake make them In the face of ot strenuous ou ott position q but when the time audience pres presently discovered that he was a n nood sout story atory on hit his father tather It quieted 4 down He lie finished that story and amid then thon 4 another anti and then began to tell toil what E r f of a man Foghorn Funston who t had bad been the time butt bull of ot go so much ridicule really was WILlI tin ln In ha vain did the tIme organizers of ot the thene thea a Lost ne howl for tor or adjournment the tIme hay boy now had lila his audience with him and by bythe b br byr r S the time Uma he lie had finished u a brief but bu butwell t list well put statement of ot the political sit situation sita a 0 Q 0 It was 1 ii audience and the tho effect of ot his was evident on arm election day rice I V Two Iwo years rears Inter later Fred Funston en ent the Kansas State etem t University where he was a II classmate of ot William Henry White who made mude himself fain fam famous g a 0 ous by his big Inquiry the time Matter With Kansas White pals gays that If It It itI I W been ben for tor himself Funston would I tI t have stood at the foot of ot the tho class and andin I In oven even ns as It was It was a close race He lie tie tells telu this story ot of the young follows fellows t f C college lIege career carper N lie He Is II not nol afraid of anything that can cnn d 1 2 1 walk Once the towns bad negro ne ro tried mci to 0 run nut over Funston The Time darky Lii II t weighed pretty nearly pounds anti and was a scrapper with n a razor record was about five the feet teet three Inches and weighed about He lie blurted bluffed the time colored cohered col red brother to 10 a n standstill and went ent for tor a II warrant and anti marched the boss bORS bully through time the main streets of or Lawrence ut lit the point ot of a n gun sun Owing to the tho difficulties which he ex ox with some of ot time the text book he did not graduate but In 1887 became city editor of ot the Fort Smith Tribune a stanch upholder of 01 local Democracy A few tew lays days before b toro the election the edl edi torin went away awny leaving the time pa paper paver a per ver In hands He hint had been getting pretty weary wear of the Demo Democrate crate who had hall been b ell conducting cO their th lr campaign on a II basis of anti and In and Isle hIs first act when ho Ito was put Pitt In III control was to write an nn edi etli editorial tonal stating ilia his opinions with n Ii de tie degree degree gree of ot frankness ss which left lert no room for Cor misunderstanding This TItle engaging dil not appeal to the worthy citizens of ot Fort Fori Smith who wim set about showing the tho young oung editor the time error of ot his hili ways by burning down the Tribune building Funston gathered his hili staff about him anti and prepared to defend the place but the tIme hastily returned In answer to telegraphic tel summons from his hili friends and 1 appeased the wrath of ot the time Democrats by II a hasty Issue I ue ex explaining editorially what t had hlll unopened Naturally young Funston Fun ton did lilt riot not re retain reo lain tain his job Jo There was imas talk of antI feathering him before bet are he could coull Ret cot et away awny from tram town but ho evince any an haste In leaving When Wh n a n friend asked ked him why he lie hail haa haaso hailo so o foolishly thrown away his hili situation by printing such an nn editorial the young man maim said briefly I 1 tired of the tho rotten politics and tired of the time rotten town lawn anti and tired of ot tho the rotten sheet heel anti amI ready to go anyway to so I 1 thought I J might ns as well wake the tIme place Un On and let em cm know I Iwas Iwas was WIlS alive before 1 I left heft For a time ton was out of 01 a n aJob ajob Job Then he drifted Into Inlo the railroad business and became n a conductor on the Santa Fe Fc line |
