Thomas Allen Cullinan, who was city marshall of this city for more than thirty years, died in University hospital, Kansas City, Mo., Saturday night at 11:05 o'clock. His death was the result of a complicatno of diseases. Mrs. Cullinan was with him at the time of his death.

Two weeks ago, Mr. Cullinan went to Kansas City to have an operation performed with the hope of getting relief from sufferings with which he had been afflicted after an illness of the grip late last winter. For several months his failing health was very perceptible and after his illness late in the winter he performed little duty in his official capacity as city marshal. He spent much time in Excelsior Springs with the hope of recuperating his lost strength and took treatment from the best physicians. A few weeks before he went to Kansas City for the operation he returned to this city from Excelsior Springs apparently on the mend but the revival of his strength was for but a brief period and the operation was resorted to as the last means of giving him relief. When Mr. Cullinan left here he little expected to return alive and in this connection it may also be mentioned that before he left he gave instructions concerning his funeral to memebers of the one of the fraternal orders to which he belonged. He was in the hospital at Kansas City several days before the physicians throught he was able to undergo the operation, and at no time while he was there had they any hope of his recovery

This history of Mr. Cullinan's life is strange and varied. Few men have lived their allotted three score and ten years, and passed through as many dangers and hardships. That he was a brave man who never showed the 'white feather' any of the oldtimers of Junction City will vouch for. And many was the time when his unflinching nerve was needed! In the early days he was a border character who rendered much valuable service to the government and the nature of this service and the ventures he made in the west when it was its wildest brought him to be considered in the same class of frontiersmen as Kit Carson, Maxwell, Bent and others.

Mr. Cullinan was born in Ireland of parents who were landed property owners and who were estimable people and well-to-do. At the age of ten years young Cullinan left home and enlisted with the British man-of-war as cabin-boy. While thus engaged he took part in the Crimean war and for a long time was with the English and French while they besieged the Russians at Sebastapol. After his seafaring days that lasted a number of years he landed in Canada and secured employment with the Hudson Bay Company as trader with the Indians. His duties as a trader took him into all parts of Canada, the Northwest Territory and even as far as Alaska. He and the company of men who were engaged in the trading traveled much of their journeys on foot and they encountered hardships and dangers constantly.

After several year's service with the Hudson Bay Company, Mr. Cullinan who was by that time a young man, moved south into Wisconsin where he took employment in the pineries as a rafter at Fond-du-Lac. That not being entirely to his liking, he drifted west-ward and when the gold fever became epidemic with the adventurous spirits he was among the first to be allured into Colorado by the stories of rich mines at Pike's Peak. When he landed in the vicinity of the place that was supposed to be a gold field he promptly turned miner and he and four others, one of whom was Dan Wagstaff, who at present is police judge in Salina, filed on claims. The location of their claims is in the heart of the present city of Denver and the magnificent Tabor Opera house is situated on the land which Mr. Cullinan had preempted as a mining claim. Mr. Cullinan and the four other men tried hard to retain the ownership of the land but they finally lost it and they drifted off to other mining camps.

For a number of years that followed his experience of prospecting at Denver and Pike's Peak he continued to prospect in Colorado, Arizona, Mexico and New Mexico with varied success, but at the end of his experience as a miner he was little better off than when he started. He then turned scout and in that capacity performed much valuable service for the government. It was then that he became associated with Kit Carson, "Wild Bill" Kickok and many other noted frontiersman. For a time he and Carson were superintendents for the cattle king, Maxwell, in New Mexico.

When the Civil War broke out, Mr. Cullinan enlisted with the Federals and gave meritorious service throughout the war as a scout and spy. His service with the army took him into Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri, and the operations of the branch of service he was engaged with gave him much hazzardous work, work for which his experience in life up to that time had eminently qualified him.

At the close of the war he went to Leavenworth and in 1866 he came to Junction City, which continued to be his home from that time until he died. For a number of years after coming here he was engaged in the occupation of beef contractor for the government. He supplied a number of military posts in Montana with beef, and for several years also furnished the meat supply at Fort Riley and at old Fort Harker. When the Missouri, Kansas and Texas railway was built from this city to Parsons he was the beef contrctor for the construction gangs.

In the early '70s, he served several terms as city marshal of this city. In those days the city marshal led a strenuous life here. It was fashionable with many men to carry firearms both concealed and exposed and it was not infrequent that the city marshal has to face the muzzles of these weapons in the discharge of his duties as a peace officer. Gun or no gun, 'Tom Allen' was no 'quitter', and in those days when he was in his prime, few men ever had the chance to boast that they escaped from him. He ruled with an iron hand when needed. He served as city marshal continuously since 1878 with the exception of two years when he was in Kansas City working of the Metropolitan Street Railway company. Altogether he served here as a police officer for more than thirty years. He gave the city good service.

In addition to being city marshal, Mr. Cullinan was under sheriff of Geary county all othe years that he was a city official. For many years he was also the chief of the fire department and in that capacity, as in everything else, when there was dangerous work to be done, he was the one who did it or lead in its execution. An instance of his heroism in this connection is recalled by older residents. Fire broke out in the James Ayres drug store which was in the same building occupied by Loeb & Hollis at present. The whole basement was ablaze and the crowds stood back expecting every moment to witness a terrific explosion by the fire coming in contact with the great quantities of various chemicals stored there. The only thing that could be done to save the building was to stop stop the fire in the basement and it was 'Tom Allen' who did this. He went into the hole and extinguished the flames, but at the end of his work he was completely overcome by the smoke and heat. He was rescued by firemen. This is only one of the very many acts of bravery he performed here while city marshal and chief of the fire department.

Mr. Cullinan was honest and good hearted in his dealing with all. He was rough in his ways, yet kindly. He detested shams and displays. Altogether he had many admirable qualities. For many years he took a pertinent part in fraternal orders here. He was a member of the odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Tripple tie. He was a member of the Odd Fellows for more than a quarter of a century.

The remains arrived from Kansas City on Sunday night. They were accompanied by Mrs. Cullinan and her three sons, William, David and Bernard Harvey, and Mesdames, Bernard and David Harvey. The body was met at the depot by the odd Fellows, who marched in a body accompanying it to the Cullinan home on West 2nd Street. Many citizens and soldiers were also at the depot when the remains arrived.

The only known relative that Mr. Cullinan had other than his immediate family is a brother who is a mine operator at Park City, Utah.

The funeral was held from the home on West 2nd street this afternoon at 4 o'clock and the Odd Fellows had charge of the services at the house and at the cemetery. The business places of the city were closed from 3 to 6 o'clock.