FUNSTON 



2350 



FUNSTON 



FUNGI 



Grape Mildew on 

 Grape Leaf. 



Coral Fungi, Edible. 



Slime Mold on 

 decaying board. 



Poisonous Toadstool. 



traveled from the arctic regions to the tropics, 

 in various capacities, finding adventure every- 

 where. Born at 

 Carlisle, Ohio, he 

 was successively 

 instructor in the 

 state university 

 at Lawrence, 

 Kan., a farmer, 

 train conductor 

 and newspaper 

 reporter. In 

 Alaska, where he 

 was sent by the 

 United States 

 Agricultural De- 

 partment to re- 

 port on the plant life of the country, he made 

 the longest trip ever attempted by a white 

 man on snowshoes. He paddled down the 

 Yukon in an open boat and absolutely alone, 

 a distance of 1,100 miles, and secured important 

 botanical specimens. 



In 1896 he joined the insurgents in Cuba 

 under General Garcia, against the Spaniards, 

 was wounded three times, and later captured 

 by the Spaniards. Upon his release, he re- 

 turned to the United States. At the outbreak 

 of the Spanish-American War, the "Fighting 



MAJOR-GENERAL, 

 FUNSTON 



Bantam of the Army," as Funston was called 

 (he was only five feet tall), became colonel of 

 the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers, and was or- 

 dered to the Philippines, where many daring 

 exploits made him the military hero of that 

 war. After the capture of Aguinaldo, which is 

 the most celebrated, although not the most 

 thrilling, of his adventures, President McKin- 

 ley appointed him brigadier-general. He was 

 placed in charge of the work of restoration of 

 peace and order after the San Francisco earth- 

 quake in 1906. When trouble with Mexico 

 seemed certain in 1913 he was given command 

 of the American troops at Vera Cruz, where 

 his varied experience again made him of in- 

 valuable service to his nation. In 1916, when 

 the United States sent an expedition into 

 Mexico to capture the bandit Villa, who had 

 fallen from his high estate as a popular leader 

 of the revolution, Funston was put in com- 

 mand of the situation. He did not accompany 

 the forces south, however, the immediate com- 

 mand being given to his subordinate, General 

 Pershing. 



On February 19, 1917, General Funston 

 dropped dead in a San Antonio (Tex.) hotel. 

 The cause of death was given as hardening of 

 the arteries. His body was conveyed to San 

 Francisco for burial. 



