Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-06-21
The Last of the Iowa Regiments
Under the First Call Have
Left the State.
ALL ARE EAGER FOR ACTION TO BEelN.
Patent Medicine Fakirs at Work-Ex-
Gov. brakes Hes.lth-Busine II
Improving-site for the Historical
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sentatives of the army in Iowa are the
recruiting officers and recruits sta
toned at different places in the state
to secure recruits to fill the regiments
to their full strength of 1926 men each.
This will take 402 men for each regi-
ment. Volunteers are offering them
selves at the recruiting stations and
there is no doubt that plenty of good
soldiers will be promptly secured to
make the Iowa regiments as large as
those from any other state. All at
tempts to secure change in the order
of the war department, so as to give
Iowa another regiment, have been aban-
doned. The war department directs
that the battalions shall be filled from
the locality of their residence, SO the
governors apportionment by counties
cannot be followed. One recruiting
party, in charge of commissioned Off
Ger, has been detailed for each battalion
of four companies. The Fifty-first reg
iment was the first to get its recruiting
parties at work, probably because that
regiment is going to the Philippines
and needs TO be completed first.
Gone TO Florida.
The Forty-ninth regiment, under the
command of Col. William G. Bows, Of
Cedar Rapids, started last Saturday
morning for Jacksonville, Fla, under
orders to report to Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh
Lee, commanding the Seventh army
corps. The regiment was mustered in
May 80 and could have started within
two days, but it did not receive any or.
ders from the war department until
Thursday. June 9. The regiment is in
good condition as to equipment and
health, though it left six men behind,
sick with measles, mumps and pneu-
monia. 1t is completely uniformed, but
lacks ordnance equipment, as all the
Iowa troops did when they left the
state. This regiment has All guns,
where it should have had $50. The boys
were supplied with $4,000 rounds of ball
cartridges, however, and each Iowa reg
iment had the same. The ordnance
equipment, which includes arms, belts,
haversacks, canteens, knapsacks, knives
and forks and spoon, ETC., will be
promptly supplied when the troops
reach the camp in Jacksonville.
Eager for Action.
The Fiftieth Iowa volunteers, the
first regiment that left the state, is still
camped in Jacksonville, where the
northern men are becoming acclimated
before being sent into Cuba. Many let
tcrs are being published from the boys
at the front, and they all speak we'll of
the treatment they are receiving, while
no complaints of any kind are heard.
They are all eager to getinto action and
the Iowa soldiers are much pleased to be
placed under the command of Gen. Lee,
because they feel sure it will take them
into Cuba as early as any of the yolun.
teers and that his knowledge of the
island will be of great value in protect
ing them from mistakes growing out Of
ignorance.
Given "a banquet.
Brig. Gen. Lincoln has been ban
quoted by the college at Ames and by
the Lincoln Hussars, of Des Moines.
The latter is a troop of cavalry which
Gen. Lincoln has instructed for some
months; the members presented him
| with fine sword. The students and
faculty of the agricultural college in
Ames, where he has been military in
structor for IA years, gave Gen. Lincoln
an ovation that touched him deeply. He
will probably be one of the first to be or
dered to Cuba, for the reason that he is
a native southerner, has had the yellow
! fever and knows how to deal with 1t,
He will serve in the Fourth army corps
with headquarters in Mobile.
| Camp Mckinley Abandoned.
Camp Mckinley has been abandoned
Maj. ii. II. Martin, of Fort Dodge, who
succeeded Gen. Lincoln as camp com
mandant, was relieved from duty as
soon as the Forty-ninth regiment had
| gone and the camp was cleared up, and
there was no further occasion for keep
ing the camp open. The state has moth.
| ing whatever to do with the recruiting
for the regiments now in the field. The
/ work is entirely under the direction OF
the war department. Adjt. Gen. Byers
and his clerks will be kept busy fol-
months making up the record of the Al
days existence of Camp Mckinley, from
| April 26 to June II. The bills are moi
| all paid and the account with the gov
| eminent is still to be made up. Includ
ing clothing and other equipment fur
/ nished, the state has invested nearly
100000 in the war, most of which viii
be refunded by the government. Iowa
was one of few states to pay her troops
when they went out.
Medicinal FalSirs.
The state is ove1run with patent medi
cine fakirs, who travel around in wag
ons through the country working of
worthless compounds on the farmers
under the claim that these vile decoc
lions will cure every human i'll. The
usual plan is to leave a supply of diff
ferent kinds of medicines, for man anc
beast, on trial. Each bottle has lins
on it, about an inch from the top, called
the "trial mark" If the stuff is uset
below this mark, it must be paid for
The agent will not come around AGAR
for six months probably, and I'M tn,
meantime. the medicine being handy
1t has been largely used as emergencie.
arose where it was said to be etiicacious.
So the farmer has to pay for it. Some
times he thinks he has been benefited
by it, and occasionally the medicines
have merits, but for the most part they
are worse than worthless. These
agents are supposed to pay license OF
500 a year to the state, but many OF
them avoid paying it until arrested by
the state pharmae y commissioners, who