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Show TRIBUTE TO BUFFALO BILL. Ten Thousand See Body of Famous Scout Laid in Mountain Vault. Denver. Last tribute was paid on June 3 to the memory of Colonel William Will-iam F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) by a vast assemblage when the body of the famous fa-mous scout and plainsman was laid to rest in a vault blasted from solid rock on top of Lookout mountain, twenty' miles from Denver. More than 10,000 people went from Denver to Lookout mountain by automobile auto-mobile and electric trains. The ceremony at the grave was not elaborate, only the Masonic ritual being be-ing used under the direction of the Golden Masonic lodge. A delegation of the Knights Templar from North Platte, Neb., where Colonel Cody held his membership, acted as an escort. For an hour and a half before the services began the thousands of persons per-sons who made the journey to the summit sum-mit of the peak where Colonel Cody often had gone to view the broad plains of the Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas Kan-sas and Wyoming and the snow-capped peaks of Colorado all visible from the spot chosen for his last resting place passed in a stream on either side of Jhe coffin for a last look at the face of the old plainsman. |