The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-11
WILL co OUT TODAY
Wichita Soldier Boys to Be
Mustered Out.
ALL BURROUGHS EXPIRED
VIII Be Nearly a Month Be-
fore Their Release.

TIE Wichita soldier boys are in Leaven-
worth and will be mustered out today. A
dispatch from Leavenworth says:
The members of the Twenty-first regi-
1nent " i'll have all arrived at Camp War
ties tom orrow. On that date their fur
coughs will expire and they will assemble
for the Enustering out of the regiment.
A few of the soldiers have been coming
in during the last few days and by the
last Of the week all will be in camp.
The firm of Wolf and Green that mad
the contract to feed the Twenty-second
regiment also has the contract TO feed the
Twenty-first duris< its stay here, and
has already completed the moving of the
cook house and is now at work laying
IN the supply of food for the feeding of
the volunteers which viii begin next Fri
day.
The cook house at Camp Warties is To-
Gated il 1he middle of the camp and the
soldiers who are now at the camp say
that they will be glad when the new
ARRANGEMENTS have been made and their
food will be prepared for them.
There has been but a few Of the mem
bers Of the regiment present during the
past month and according TO the stories
told by them there will be sorrow among
those who return this week As it is now
arranged those who remained in camp
have Jared very well so far as tent room
and plenty Of clothing goes, as thet have
had plenty of room, the use of what was
left by the absent members. but it is said
bnr in fu1
force it Will be crowded for tent room
and that there viii be many blankets and
other property missing.
One company on leaving for their fur
Tough left sixty blankets packed in a box
which was securely nailed up. Now,
however. the box is empty and The blan-
kets are all gone. They say they cannot
he accounted for IN the camp and have
been appropriated by some miscreant
who probably sold them.
Another story is told OF a lieutenant
who left his sword boxed up in the camp
but now the box and all are missing. A
large number Of other articles which were
left by the soldiers have also mysteri-
ously disappeared from the camp.
Rations which have been left Unguarded
have heen stolen. The purloiners Of this
kind Of Uncle Sans property showing an
especial fondness for sidemeat and canned
corn as great raids on the camp larder
have been made lately and the articles
carried away.
The tents in the camp which are of the
large Slbley variety are insufficient TO
shelter all the members of the regiment
the men say, so that when the remainder
OF the regiment arrives it will be neces-
cary to put twenty or more in tent.
IA present there is not a hundred men
in camp and but two officers. Quarter
tIas:er Little and Lieutenant McCarty.
The cooking for those who are now here
Is Done IN common and as each man re-
ceives his rations he retires to mis- tent
and his meal
As soon as the firm which is 20 feed
thu men begins its work the members of
the regiment viii turn in their cooking
Utensils. ii is expected that this will he
done next Saturday. Il is proposed TO be-
gin the work of mastering out the regi-
ment at once but sit will take nearly
a month. Il Il not expected that all viii
b. able 10 ieaVe before the 1st OF Deem
Der
Take DIR. Bulls Cough syrup for all
those dangerous affections-severe colds.
pleurisy and grippe-which fail and winter
hiring along. 1t IS the greatest cure for
bronchitis and all throat and lung afTec-