Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1899 — A Remarkable Cremation. [ARTICLE]

A Remarkable Cremation.

A most remarkable cremation will take place when Joaquin Miller, “the poet of the Sierras,” dies. He has built a great' funeral pyre on his property at Oakland, Cal., in the form of a cube, nearly ten feet each way, made of bowlders set in cement. On the top of this body will be placed and burned, and the ashes will then be flung to all points of the compass, If the provisions, of his will are carried out