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ALICE. NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS: APRIL 27, 1899.
No. 22
Professional Cards.
L. F\ Layton,
PHYSICIAN ami SURGEON,
Alice, Texas.
Calls promptly mU'ouIciI to
DAY OR NIGHT
WONDERFUL ADVENTURES
OF COL FUNSTON.
Ti'ulb Sfpqqgep T‘L}qq Ficfioq.
A. D. McCt.be,
PHYSICIAN,
fiurQeon and $coouaheur.
Subobhy and Diseases of Women
Speciality.
Teeth cleaned and tilled.
Down town Office, Engle Drug Store
Alioe, lexas.
Culler &
PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS
Special Attention Riven to Surgery
And Chronic Pleases.
Will visit any part of the County
in Consultion or to perform any
Surgical Operation.
Phpne, 32,
CORPUS CHRIST/, TEXAS.
HEM i II.
—OCULIST AND AURIST—
Office Hoars: 9. to 12 a. m
-3 to 5 p-Jft-
CORPUS CHRISTI TEXAS.
V. C.Overtoq
P. H. G. & M. D
Physician & Surgeon
and General Pectin* of Medicine.
Also specialist'In disease* of Chil-
dren, Qenito Urinary diseases and
Diseases of the skin.
Calls promptly attended to Day
or Night.
Office, Opposite Post Offiee
Alice, Texas
J.
C- Crisp,
ATTORNEY AT LAW',
Office over First National Bank,
Beeville, Bee county. Texas.
Civil pr*tl<!* attended toin all the courts. Land
tltloi especially. Complete ahstraotsof titles to
all real estate In Bee county. Abstract* al*»fur-
iiislied from adjoining countie* Prompt and effi-
cient attention giving 10 collection*, loan*, real*
estate, and all bu*inc*» intrusted to my care In
the and adjoing cnunflei. Deposition* carefully
taken. Notary, stenographer and typewriter in
Office. German spoken. Have safe deposit vaul:
defences furnished on request.
Business Cards.
F- B. NAYER,
HEAL ESTATE AGENT AHI
NOTARY PliHLlG,
Alick, Tkxas.
Conveyancing, Collecting and
all business intrusted tome
promptly aud careful-
ly attended to.
F. B. Nayer.
i[. B. Spiqelli,
Attorney at law,
— Abogado —
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS
Co!. Fre»! Fun-don, Twentieth
Kansas Volunteers, has dimmed the
glory of ma n v of I lie brave knights
of romance. In atmosphere and set-
tings us thrilling as any with which
fiction glorifies its iie.oes, lie lias out-
shone hi exploits of lore and daring
the most fascinating characters of
fancy. A soluier under two Hag-, he
reserved to Old Glory such deeds of
valor as make new American history
impel ishableaud American manhood
respected by all mankind.
And to the glories of war he has
added as a capuheaf the laurels of love
And in love as in wai lie exhibited
the same qualities of knight-errantry.
lie faced Spanish bullets to help
Cuba to her iiideupeiioe. He shed
his blood on her soil to help wash in-
to forgetfulness the memory of her
oppression. The cry from the Maine
was a call fur his services under tlic
Stars and Stripes. He volunteered
to the Governor of his State, Like l
Roosevelt, he saw in
West—boys who can ride and slioot-
the ideal men for war. The Twen-
tieth Kansas was organized and the
regnneut was ordered to Frisco.
Then came weeks of weary waiting,
with the dull routine of the bivuac
on the Presidio. lie chated under
the restraint as news of active light-
ing iu Cuba reached him. But one
da) there came to the Presidio field a
sweet-faced visitor who listened like
Desdeuiuua to his oft-told tales of
war and adventure. Curious interest
at tirsl ou her part; then love. The
browned soldier of Cuban battlefield
capitulaed to Cupid.
They did their courting between
bugle calls, with the long swell ol
“tups” as the paring good-night.
Gen. Merritt at Manila was asking,
for immediate reinforcements; the
troopships lay at the wharves;the
Twentieth Kausas was ready for the
call. The next day wab set for sailing
That evening after “colors” had
been sounded and echoed across the
bay they were married. But no wives
were to accompany the officers. Or-
ders from Washington. But strategy,
which won him victoiies iu war, ser-
ved Col. Funston iu love. They
should not lie parted, orders or no
orilers. A plan was hastily evolved.
Funston was schooled against sur-
prises in the Cubau jungles. The
bride should become a trooper;
should wear the blue of the Twen-
tieth Kansas United States Volun-
teers. She went aboard as a bugler
the following day. aud every volun-
teer sailed for Munila with a lighter
heart knowing there was a bride a-
board.
But l lie houeymoon was brief A
slow trooptbips can’t outfoot a swift
liner even for love. Oen. Otis, briga-
de commander, beard of the incident
soon after the regiment sailed. He
con id n’t overlook the breach of army
discipline. Orders were sent by the
first steamer which would overtake
he Twentieth Kansas at Honoululu
to send l he bride back. The Colonel
and his bride were parted, but she
followed him a few days later in a
sailing vessel. She reached Manila
before the fighting.
And with ihe sweet-faced little
woman iu Manila watching, nay, in-
spiring him, Col. Fmistou went on
and performed exploits of valor
which made him the great lighting
hero. It was he who swum the
Munlao River under heavy fire, and
with twenty volunteers put the re-
bels to fight. It was he who was
the first American into Malolos.
No such story of love and daring
has developed in the campaigns of
war. The details which tollow are
facts that are stranger then fiction.
HISTORY nos- being rapidly
made by the gallant nephews of
Uncle San presents io the attention
of all rerdert of contemporaneous
.. . j chronicles a hero vested with all the
the boys of the 1 , . ...
• dash and daring of a knight-errant
and a lover who challenger the atten-
tion of ihe roinatfu And this lover
is Col. Funsioii. of ihe Twentieth
Kansas now fighting beneath the
Stars and Stripes at Manila.
His age? Thirl)-three.
His height?Five feet four inches,
llis weght? One hundred and
fifteen pounds.
His deeds It would take a volume
to relate them.
How m my battles has he fought’
Only twenty- three bloody bailies
in Cuba and six in and near Manila.
Has he suffered a wound? His left
arm has been rnutilaled by ihe
fragments of a shell; his lungs have
been pierced by a Mauser bullet; his
thigh has been crushed by a horse !
falling on him in battle and he lias |
suffered the tortures of the Cuban
fever .
Has he ever been near unto death
He was sentenced to death When
a prisioner in the hands of the
Spaniards he wrestled with death
in the icy waters of the Yukon
River and afterward almost perished
of pneumonia within a short dislase
of the Arctic Circle.
Has he ever been in love? Yes
short and decisive his love making
He met her at San Fjrnoisco on the
eve of his departure forMadilo won
her defied the red tape of the War
Department made a steed of the
troopship and carried her off to
Manila a la Young Lochinvar.
What was his last explot? Only
this: When the enemy burned the
bridges across the Marilao River
on March 20 with twenty volunteers
he swam the swift muddv current
fought his wav to the opposite bank
and captured eigty rebels. That’s
only in was a swim that outswims
Leander! Trulv, a picturesque per-
sonage. this Col. Funston of Kansas!
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Alice, tkxas.
Livery Stables
J. B. RAGLAND’S
First-Class......
Teams,
Stylish......
Rigs,
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Drivers,
Day or Night.....
Terms Reasonable.
....ALICE, TEXAS
Stockbuyeis’ and Drummers’ Rigs
a specialty.
Single or double turn-outs at any
hour, night or day.
W. A. HINNANT, Alice,Tex
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RICE & ALLEN,
Keepers of First-0 lass
Livery Stable.
GOOD TEAMS
Wate and Careful Drivers at all hours.
Drayage Solicited.
Alice, Texas.
CITY
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COOL ROOMS.
CLEAN BEES
Table Supplied with best the
Market affords
—Hath and Sample Rooms Free —
The patronage of the public
solicited.
Next door to G. W. Newberry.
Archie Clark, Proprietor
ALICE
TEXAS.
Adam’s is the place to
fresh groceries.
get your
Central Shop.
S. P. sawyers,
BLACKSMITH k WHEELWRIGHT.
Horse Shoing
A Speciality.
Guns, Clocks, Pistols and Sewing
machines Repaired
Stockman’s Home
One Dollar Per Day
Board with or without Lodging.
Near Tex -Mex. Railroad,
Alice, Texas
Las dos'
Hair Cut, 15 c
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Booth, D. S. The Alice Echo. (Alice, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 27, 1899, newspaper, April 27, 1899; Alice, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1111136/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .