Published in February 1900 in the Idaho Statesman out of Bosie ID
CANNOT FORWARD BODIES
OF UNCLAIMED DEAD
Portland, Or., Feb. 3 – There is a hitch between Governor
Geer and Colonel Long at San Francisco over shipment of bodies of unclaimed
Oregon dead to this state for burial. Governor Geer today telegraphed Colonel
Long asking him to send all bodies of Second Oregon volunteers in his charge,
and unclaimed by friends, to Portland in care of General Summers. The governor
assured Colonel Long that the state of Oregon would bear the expense if the
government would not.
The governor received a reply from Colonel Long stating
that, under his instructions, he could not comply with the request as he had
been ordered to bury at the Presidio all bodies not claimed by relatives of the
deceased.
The governor sent a dispatch to Secretary of War Root
stating that the state of Oregon desired permission to receive and inter the
bodies of Second volunteers now in San Francisco and asking Secretary Root to
telegraph Colonel Long instructions accordingly.
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