INDIAN FIGHTER
HONORS TAYLOR
H. M. Booze Pays Tribute
to Pioneer Farmer,
Freighter and Mixer.
COLFAX, Wash., Oct. 22.—(Special.)
-H. M. Boone of Dayton, Wash., who served in the company of which James S. Taylor was lieutenant in 1877, when settlers rushed into Colfax for protection from an expected Indian raid, gave a eulogy at the funeral of Mr. Taylor in the Colfax Congregational church yesterday afternoon. The Rev. Paul Sprague, pastor of the church, read the obituary and spoke briefly.
Honorary pallbearers at the Taylor funeral were W. J. Davenport, Spokane; William Goodyear and James Holt, Pullman; H. M. Boone, Dayton ; E. K. Hanna, Jack Arrasmith, Alex Hickman, Henry Hickman, Arthur Cox, James Rock, H. H. Wheeler, and George P. Howard, Colfax, all Whitman county pioneers with Mr. Taylor. The active pallbearers were B. F. Manring, William Sutherland, H. G. DePledge, D. Millgard, LeRoy La Follette and P. M. Price.
Mr. Taylor came to Whitman county to make his home in 1871, after having crossed the plains in 1895 and had been in California, Oregon and Idaho, mining and freighting for 12 years. He was 89 years of age at the time of his death, October 18.