The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-27
BUNKS FOR ALL.
Accommodations for All Sol
diers at Chickamauga.
Provisions Made for the Mill
tary Park Opening.
IN CAMP BARRACKS.
Every Veteran Can be Taken
Care of There.

WASHINGTON, May 27.-The follow
ing circular sets forth the plan devised
to enable those who contemplate at
tending the September dedication of
the National Military park and may
not be otherwise provided for to OBJ
tain comfortable quarters:
War Department. Chickamauga and Chatta-
nooga National Military Park Commission,
Washington May 5.-The Chickamauga Park
Commission party gives notice that while there
is no appropriation to which free quarters can
be furnished camp barracks will be erected at
Chattanooga under the direction OF the c1t1-
zens' exec utive committee for the accommoda-
ton of those men contemplating attendance at
the dedication of the National Military park,
who may not otherwise be provided for, and
who desire such quarters.
Those who send 81 to Capt. Charles F. Muel-
Ter, of the National park. Chattanooga, Tenn,
at an early date will receive in return ticket
which will entitle the holder to comfortable
barrack bunk for the entire time of his stay at
Chattanooga, including safe storage for bag
gage and toilet accommodations It will be
necessary for each person to bring his own
blanket and towels.
Tie barracks will be constructed upon the
plan used at the last Grand Army encampment
at Washington city, whore very large num-
Der OF veterans were housed in barracks
These structures will be erected in Chatta-
nooga within convenient distances of reStau-
rants, where meals and lunches may be OBJ
arrangements for furnishing meals at the bar
racks. Communications addressed to Capt.
Mueller, who has been selected by the citizens
committee to take charge OF this work, will re-
eeive prompt and reliable attention.
j. s. FULLERTON,
Chairman of Commission
IMPORTANT PENSION DECISIONS.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Assistant Sec
rotary Reynolds has decided that in
the absence of conclusive evidence
showing the dependent or nOn-depend-
ent condition of mother at the date
of her soldier sons death her claim
cannot be rejected solely upon the
grounds that the soldier did not con-
tribute to her maintenance.
Secretary Reynolds also holds that
the legal representatives. of a deceased
claimant for bounty land warrant may
prosecute for the benefit of the claim
ants heirs or legatees, his claim for
such warrant pending an appeal at
the time of his death; that the act OF
February II, 1s47, applies only to
soldiers who were living at the
date of its passage and were
then in the enlisted service, those
who thereafter enlisted and the
family or relatives of such only; that
the act of March 5, 1855, applies to
those soldiers living at the date of its
passage and to widows or children of
those who had died prior thereto; and
that a certificate or warrant issued
jointly to several co-warrantees may
not be recalled or cancelled after the
death of any of them.
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN REPUBLICS.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-New treaties
of far reaching Importance have re-
Gently been made between Nicaragua
and Honduras. and officials copies have
just been received in Washington.
The treaties have been under ne
gotiatiOn some time and were finally
put into effect by proclamation on
the 18th of last month. They are the
first practical steps toward the forma-
ton of Central American nation out
of the several small republics, Near
aqua, Honduras, Guatemala, Sal
vadOr and Costa Rica. The first
treaty forms defensive alli-
ance in case of foreign war, and
offensive alliance against common en-
enies. 1t Obliterates commercial from
tiers so that foreign goods once admit-
ted to one country are free to enter the
other An express provision is made
against the possibility of war between
the countries by an article requiring
differences to be adjusted by arbitra-
ton by some government on the Amer
lean continent