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Show FUNERAL FOR LATE COL. KING First Volunteer for Civil War and Veteran Indian Fighter to Be Buricrd Tomorrow. St. Paul, Minn., Feb. 11. Funeral arragnements were completed today for Colonel Josiah It. King, civil war veteran and Indian fighter who died oC heart trouble at his home late yesterday, yes-terday, 84 years of age. Burial will take place hero tomorrow. , Minnesota historians assert King was the first to answer President Lincoln's call for volunteers for the civil war, enlisting promptly when he received informatian from a private despatch, sent it Minnesota by the state's governor, who was in the president's pre-sident's office when the call was signed. sign-ed. Known Throughout Country. Washington, Feb. 11. Major Nor-moyle Nor-moyle was lenown throughout the array and the country as the man the war department invariably called upon, when the government was confronted with bringing order out of chaos, In domestic situations of distress and disaster. dis-aster. In 1911 when floods in the Missis- , sippi valley had left thousands of I persons homeless in the district be- I tween Cairo, Illinois, and the mouth of i the river, Major Normoyle was sent to J work out the problem of relief. He organized a citizens' militia and assumed as-sumed complete control Pie was given giv-en credit for saving hundreds of lives. ' i. |