Show FUNSTON DROPS deho DEAD IN IK HOTEL COMMANDER commard ER OF SOUTHERN DE OF U 8 ARMY FATALLY STRICKEN het hero of Phiip philppine pine war elih illness lil while I 1 alti a child death being almost instantaneous I 1 san ban antonio texas major general Freder frederick lck funston c commander i of the southern departments depart department mento united states army atrice february 1915 died suddenly at a hotel here monday night a few minutes after habad he had fini finished slie d dinner he collapsed while seated in I 1 the lobby of the hotel ial talking king with friends aud and was waa playing with little ines iniez silverberg Sll ot of des dea bl olnes iowa v a guest with her parents parenti at tile the hotel when he fell unconscious veath death was almost crip instantaneous general funsinn was vas si ai yeas years old 4 i not until 1896 when the cuban insurrection i wasat was at its did frederick funston become known throughout the united states is as a first class fighting man but his friends in kansas where he spent his early manhood long had so classi classified fled him aa aad a stu deiA at the university ot of kansas when he dr less than pounds he conquered ft a pound badman bad man who threatened him with a razor ta add to the giants humiliation Fin funston marched him through the streets of lawrence rence 7 kan ni at the point of a revolver to a polle police stylon station A few years later while city editor edito r of a paper jn fort smith arkansas young funston stirred up intense feeling o by attacking editorially the publications licati ons own political varty leaders during the absence of his editor in chief many threats are said to lieve have veen been mado made against funston and the newspaper property but ife he renial remained ned on guard until his superior returned and then tu turned arned over the plant un I 1 harmed banned incidentally funston feaston also resigned aloi along ng the santa fe railroad they still recall how blunston Pu Flu as a passenger train conductor rond threva threw a drunken cowboy off a train and later when he he hurled burled a rock through a coach window pursued him several miles on foot coot while ille tho train irain waited eon first il rs t experience on the firing line came la in cuba where he commanded general gomels artillery with remarkable remar kalle results after engaging ln in twenty two iio battles and being wounded three times lie he resigned hl his a command because fifty guerrillas who had aided the spaniards were executed against ae enst his wishes captured by spaniards on his way to havana lie escaped death by swallowing a letter to the president of cuba which would have proved his identity while 6 6 a colonel of the falc famous lus twentieth kansas volunteer infantry regiment ent in the philippine war funston performed teats feats of bravery that brought him the atla of brigadier general his capture of aguinaldo Agul naldo and his fording of the rio grande river at Colum colompit pit under jirs fire featured his work when the volunteers were discharged funston retained his rank as Ls a member of the regular army As a regular he be made a mark maik by maintaining Ingord order erAn in san francisco during the disaster of 1906 temporarily in charge chara of the troops at the Pre presidio when the disturbance came hersuick he quickly declared martla law and set about obtaining fo for r the hemele ho mele ling down the cost of food A t ting troublemakers trouble makers it was VMS ati h was in command of th the 0 troops at vera cruz in 1914 that he was raised to the rank of major general ile he then was 49 years yeara old |