The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-20
A Visit to Camp Leedy.

ment, u. s. V. had orders to move
Monday morning to San Francisco,
thence to Manila Prompted by de-
sire to see the boys once more the
writer, in company with Col. Whit
aker, Claude Culbertson and John
Foust took the noon train to Topeka.
The "plug" which runs from Holiday
to Topeka pulled out before our train
reached there and rather than wait
four hours in Holiday we went on in
to Kansas City where we amused
ourselves at different vocations until
train time. We found Otis Hodgson
who is working for the Townley
Metal Co. aud he assisted US greatly
in passing away the time.
We arrived in Topeka about twelve
o'clock and acting upon the advice of
a certain knowing young member of
our party went to certain hotel??
During the night we had numerous
calls for action and one of the enemy
engaged Culbertson until the next
morning when one of the soldiers at
Camp Leedy picked it off his coat.
The sold iers were inclined to accuse
Culbertson of being crummy and
threatened to blanket him, but as q
matter of fact the enemy consisted of
very plain bred bed bug which he
nj M nxy I'D
from our stopping.place Of the night
before. Whether he has additional
specimens of this breed is not known
to the writer
At 4:0l we got up and dressed and
started for Camp Leedy on foot, IL
being too early for street cars and
hacks. A tramp of mile and half
brought us to our destination where
the grand sight of 1915 soldiers in
camp greeted us. Approaching the
first guard we inquired for Company
l, Goth. Regiment but had to repeat
the performance number of times
before we received satisfactory ans
wer. After trudging around through
three inches of sticky mud we found
our boys. They were nearly all up
and were not only greatly, but pleas.
antly sur prised to see us. After IL
minutes of question answering in re-
gard to parents, friends and best girls
we were given chance to ask then
what their orders were. None o.
them knew accurately until we found
Hull who repeated the orders to us
The orders are to go to San francisco
where they will be reuniiormed il
brown for probable trip to Manila
A bout s O'Clock an order came fo
them to cook idlnner and prepare t
move. Thfs caused q great deal o
hustle in the camp but it was welcom,
news to them for they were getting
very tired of Topeka treatment an(
Leedy mud. BY noon all the tent
were down and the companies OF
their way to the depot. After stand
ing In line half hour or so they weI
marched to their cars. Only 80 wer
allowed to go in car, leaving a full
seat for each one. Company l. wa
? the third in line and had to wal
in the cars and near them unit
o'clock before the rest of the com
panies were in. During part of thi
; time Burr Conley and Hayes Bal
amused themselves by cutting off
lock of hair, with pocket knife, from
the head of a pretty Olathe girl.
, Our boys are all well pleased will
, their transfer from the Fort Scot
crowd to the Paola and Osawatomi
crowds. They have been we'll treat
ed, getting Hull for first lieutenan
and Smeltzer, Grey, Conley ant
Christian for sergeants.
Hull was appointed quartermaste
for the regiment on this trip anC
Christian was selected as one Of Lieu
tenant Colonel Little's orderlies, ant
rides in q palace car.
Company 10 the best appearing
company in the regiment. Sixteen o
its men are over six feet tall, making
the company show up splendidly
Herbert Whitaker is the baby of the
regiment, and all of our boys have Ap
pointed themselves o committee Of on,
to zee that he never gets HE worst o