| Show FUNSTON DROPS DEAD IN HOTEL BOTEL COMMANDER OF SOUTHERN DE OF U 8 AS ARMY M Y FATALLY STRICKEN hero hera of philippine war seized withe ili ea s while k A playing with a C child h 1 id death being almost instantaneous 1 S san antonio tas T as major general felick frederick funston commander ot of thor south southern rn depart department ment united state army since february 1916 1915 died suddenly d an IF at a hotel here ber 0 monday night a tew few minutes it n c to hotali after let he had drics dinner er ho he collapsed while seated in the iha lobb lobby y of the hotel talking with mends friends and ad waa we playing with little inez inee silverberg of des dea moines iowa in a a guest ganet with her parents at the h hotel to 1 when he fell ar unconscious nasi death won was almost instantaneous general pension was waa 51 years old not until 1896 when the cuban insurrection la off we was at it its height did frederick P funston 0 net be bacomo known throughout the united states as a first class clans man hism but his friends in 1 kenn kana as where here he spent his early manhood long lang had bad so no classified him As an a student at the university or I 1 kansas when binm he weighed in less the than pounds he conquered a pound bad man who threatened him with a razor to add to the giant humiliation fansto funston marched mai him through the streets of lawrence kan at the tha point of of a revolver to a police ill station A few years later white while city editor billion of a paper in fort smith arkansas young at stirred sit up intense feet feel ing 19 by attacking editorially tonally edi the pull pub li cation a own political party lenders leaders during the absence ot of his editor in chief many threats are said to have chief be been n made A against funston and the news dap er property party but lie ha remained on guard until u til his superior returned and it then I 1 turned over the plant unharmed hour ried incidentally furst funston also resigned along the santa pre fe railroad they till still recall low how funston fut as a P asle get ger train conductor ahr threw or a drunken MAJOR GENERAL FUNSTON 1 5 t t it s ase M major alts ge general ta frederick Fin funston who died n in lob lobby b y of a so san anto antonio hotel was one of the most noted fig urea ores of the army cowboy coby off a train and later where he hurled balled a rock through a coach window puts pursued ed b him several avaral miles in on t foot while the tram train acted Ti a first expert experience use on the tha it ring firing line came in cuba where here ha be omma commanded com manned ad general gomeka A artillery with remarkable mark abl results result alter after engaging in in twenty two battles battle and being wounded three times he resigned his command mand been because A as fifty guerrillas guerrilla whoa had aided the spaniards were executed against his hie wish wishes Clia captured by spaniards sard on his we way to hv havana ha be escaped death by swallowing a letter to the president 0 of cuba which would he have proved his identity zile while a colonel of the famous twentieth kansas volunteer infantry regiment in the philippine war fun too performed tests teats of bravery that thai brought him the title ol 01 1 bizadi brigadier get gert eral I 1 his capture of aguinaldo Agul naldo anil andl his fording f ding of the rio grande river at ca pit under fire featured his work wh when the volunteers were discharged funston rati retained fined his rank as aa a amb member r of the regular army As a re regular gular he made mad a mark hy by maintaining order in san francisco during tie dia disaster tor of 1806 1906 temporarily in c charge h go of the troops at the Pre presidio adio when the disturbance mine came he be quick ly IF declared martial law and set act obtaining ace om mod at ions tor for the homeless keeping down the cost of food and arresting trouble lemk makers it vs was while he was in command of tile the troops at vera vale rion in 1914 that he ha wan waa rolled raised to the rank of major general B A he then was sax 49 years old |
