The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-30
KANSANS GO HOME.
The Twenty-First Receive Warm Re
captions From Their Friends.

ceptions From Their Friends.
every outgoing train yesterday carried
! Kansas, who mad been given thirty days
/ turlough. Nearly all the boys were out
/ in getting transportation to their homes.
1t is the opinion among many of the Of
! tered out at the end Of thirty days but,
/ with the Twenty-second Kansas, will be
I kept here in winter quarters until spring,
unless services are sooner needed. Mem
| bers of the Twentieth regulars a Fort
LeaVenWorth do not anticipate any mus
tering out, but expect to see more fighting.
The tents of the Twenty-hrst are to have
plank flooring, which indicates long
kilograms from Topeka announced that
Governor Leedy would pay the expenses
of the hospital train which bore the sick
LeaVenworth to their homes. This is err
roneous, although it is being worked in
the Interest of the fusion governor and
Major Augur. commanding at Fort Leav-
enWorth, stated that neither Governor
Leedy nor the state OF Kansas paid or
would pay one cent for taking these men
the united STATES and it Was tSe ngtonai
government which was defraying their ex-
Pital train; The major seemed to resent
the idea that any but the national gov
eminent should pay for this train.
Hutchinson, Kan, Sept 3O-Company E
was met at the depot by fully 10000 peo-
the country were here 10 receive ti s-' them.
Such demonstration has never been wit
the Commercial club met the train at
Newton. When the train pulled into the
be moved back from the track. A big
banquet was awaiting the boys at the
marched, led by Holidays Military band,
Company 2 has lost only. two men since
Hutchinson and Albert Atkinson of Ell
Ta both Rr11y a Word came from on,
boys had not money enough to come home.
The Commercial club wired $500 for rail-
way 1are;, so that none should be left be-
Tough.
Garpett. Kan Sept 8O.-lneutenant Col
0n@I SnaF re MG&rum WIth thirty-three
nent, has arrived home. The friends of
out en- masse. procession was was formed formed
with the band in the lead and marched to
decorated and the boys were given a royal
reception.
EmPoria, Kan, Sept. -S0.-Erwin DiIley,
who lives here, returned home from Lex
Va{e IN the T %ngTe a faS 1een as Prl
YER In talking over his treatr9yent in the
hospital at that place he said the sick
soldiers We're given the best of food, the
best of everything. While DiiIey was
there Secretary A1ger came to the hospi-
tai and. going among the sick, spoke
after the boys comfort. Dilley added:
while the fever was on was given three
baths a day, as were all the soldiers sick
with the fever. We We're brought
through on a hospital train and every
comfort and care was given US"
MI. Dilley says that none of the boys
in the hospital has any complaint to make.
Wellington, Kan, Sept. 9O-Company L
Of the TWenty-first Kansas, Captain J. P
Grimstead commanding arrived in the CITY
over the Santa Fe from Fort Leaven-
worth, the entire company having 30
days furlough prior to their muster out
They were received with an enthusiastic
DEMONSTRATION. large crowd of citizens
headed by AnselFs drum corps, escorting
them from the depot to the Arlington ho-
tel. A number of the boys will re-enlist
in other regiments.
Ell Dorado, Kan, Sept. 8O-Company H.
Twenty-frst Kansas, arrived home and
was met at the epOt by several thousand
people, given a grand ovation, escorted to
the armory hall by the G. A. r.. w. r.
c. and citizens, where welcoming exer-
cises were, held, after which a banquet
was served.
Major Armstrong. in charge of hos
pital train, arrived this morning. Five
sick soldiers and the ma or got off
here and the train passed on to Winfield.