The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-30
ARE GETTING HOME
Fifteen of Wichita'S Company
are Back.
ON A MONTHS FURL0UGH
Boys Rather Sore on Their
General Treatment.
ON A MONTHS FURL0UGH

About fifteen Of the boys Of Company C.,
Wschita's company Of the Twenty-first
came home last night on a special train
which carried also nearly all the members
OF the Kingman and Wellington com
panass. and the Hutchinson company as
far as Newton.
AS soon as they began to strike the plat
form they threw up their hats and yelled
and cheered and yelled.
They were lined up at Leavenworth yes
terday morning and given a verbal leave
Of absence or furlough for thirty days, Or
until October %
The boys are sore. They are all sore
A great many of them came into town
broke. Some of them borrowed money
from their officers to pay for their tickets
here. Some of them couldn't get here,
and some Of them came On the proceeds of
the canteen. That is, they took what was
left of the last round OF rations in the
way Of tobacco, provisions, ETC., and sold
It in Leavenworrh for money to come
home on They had not drawn their
months pay, but many of them anticipat-
4ng what was TO happen. saved their
money and had enough to get here on
from Leavenworth.
A number of the boys, however came
here last night without a cent to get sup
per or any place to sleep. Charles Guyer,
of the Occidental, took every one that
came and gave him a place to sleep,
though the boys were turned away at
some Of the places.
Wichita is the only place in Kansas
that had a company in the regiment that
didn't send the boys anything" said one
of the boys.
1t was suggested that two boxes were
sent from here.
well, it didn't reach u.s." he said. 81
didn't know that any boxes had been sent
but know nothing reached US"
They all had a grievance but asked to
be not quoted personally until after they
were mustered out The thing that most
of them were maddest about was that
they thought the officers worked to keep
them in the service after the order came
10 muster them out.
They said that they got up a petition
some months ago asking that they be al
lowed TO go, but they never had heard of
1t since 1T was sent up.
One of the boys last night gave a gun
drill and the crowd gave him a quarter
TO buy his supper. Mr.. Guyer had already
given him a place to sleep. They came in
about $3.50. fand others will arrive some
time today. Captain Ezra Beard had tele-
graphed and borrowed $500 which he used
to secure transportation for Company X,
of Kingman- The company and resi-
mental officers will probably arrive here
some time today also.
A Leavenworth dispatch says:
Colonel T. Ct. Fitch states that he has
no orders from the war department ex-
oept to grant the men thirty days fur
Tough. If the muster rolls can be made
up, the verbal furloughs will be issued
this evening and the men allowed to de-
part for their old homes. The camp will
be in charge of Adjutant H. w. Parker
during the time the men are away on fur
Tough, and only five men from each COM
pany viii be retained on guard When
asked about the desire of the men TO be
mustered out, Colonel Fitch said:
The order of the secretary Of war for
the Twenty-first to be mustered out made
the men anxious to return to Kansas and
gave them an opportunity to see home
and relatives. Most of them are very
anxious 70 see their home people. There
IS nothing in the reports that the officers
wanted to keep the in the service l have
no knowledge what viii be done at the
end of thirty days. but the officers and
men will be ready to cheerfully obey all
orders
Another dispatch from Topeka says:
W. L. Brown. junior major Twenty-first
regiment, made arrangements in Topeka
this morning to have the four Pullmans
carrying the eighty sick men OF the regi-
ment hauled over different branches of
the Santa Fe 80 that all the sick can be
taken direct to their own homes, except
those of Company I, Of Hays City, and
company D, of Smith Center. These men
will be taken to Christ's hospital in To-
peka and kept there until we'll 1t Will
break up and be hauled by regular trains
west and south Major Brown says there
are 800 men of the regiment sick on fur
Tough or otherwise disqualified for duty.
There were twelve men so Ill that 1t was
necessary 10 leave them at Lexington,
Ky. Regarding the treatment this regi-
ment has received. Brown said:
'It does not become me 10 talk about it,
but the Star has lost no friends among
the soldiers on account Of fits position"
Major Brown says that while there was
great disappointment in the regiment
when Secretary Alger said he would not
muster It out, there was no disturbance.
The men photographed Governor Leedy and
CONGRESSMAN Curtis. who wired objections
20 the war department. He says that
Leedy and Curtis saved the regiment
from being held for garrison duty.