The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-05-01
WILL GIVE ORDE RS
Brief Sketch ofWichita's New
Military Officers.
ALL WELL QUALIFIED
To Serve Their Country With
Honor.

A short sketch was obtained yesterday
of the officers of the new volunteer com
pany which was mustered here on Fri
day night The captain, DR.. V. l.. Ever
EFT. is q young man of sterling worth and
lust such a man as will serve Uncle Sam
with untiring energy and endurance. AT
/ the first call from President Mckinley
Captain Everett started to enlist men to
! 90 to the front, thus showing at the very
outset his patriotism. He has by his man
! " bearing, unassuming ways and profess
sional honor won many friends who are
confident that the new volunteer company
under his guidance and command Will
make a record that will be a credit to
Wichita Captain Everett was born in
Wisconsin at the end of the civil war.
and is consequently 80 years Of age. He
attended school at Clyde Ohio, and later
was admitted to the Iowa college at
Grinnell, Iowa, where four years later he
graduated with honor. He was in the
Iese. He came to Wichita in 1891. where
he has ever since practiced the profess
sion of medicine with success.
Captain Everett was first enlisted as
private in company !. Sixteenth resi-
ment Ohio National Guards, at Clyde.
Ohio, in August, 1883. With his company
he was called to Cincinnati in the great
Cincinnati riot, where the company was
under orders for five days. During the
IrFIJ
Captain Everett then returned to his
Iowa home, where he enlisted In the Iowa
National Guards serving four years. He
was given his discharge because of re-
moval from the state. Shortly after com
ing to Wichita he enlisted in company A,
x. n. G.. where he served about year.
Brigadier General Hettinger appointed
him on his staff as first lieutenant and
aide-de-camp. When at Newton IN 1884,
attending battalion camp, he had his leg
broken by his horse falling on him. This
terminated his military experience until
the governor called for troops.
First Lieutenant Harry Hume is a
young man OF % with practical military
experience. he having served as a pri-
vate in troop c Of the Fifth cavalry in
the regular army for years. He enlisted
before he was Of age and was discharged
on July IA, 1895. He carries letters from
all Of his officers of the highest COM
mendation as to his ability and charac-
ter. He has been living for some time In
Clearwater. where he has made many
friends. He is reticent to a degree, and
was elected strictly on his merits, not
having asked one Of the men to vote for
him. He is master Mason and is thor
oughly posted in all that pertains to Ma
sonry up to the third degree. His friends
say that he has a most remarkable MEM
Dry and can read a piece of poetry of ten
or twelve verses once and repeat ID YER
batim. His experience in the regular
army viii be Of untold benefit to the raw
recruits. Lieutenant Hume while with
the regular army served at Forts Nc
Kinney and Sill.
Second Lieutenant William H. Bell also
served with the regular army, having
given five years to the service He was
born thirty-one years ago in Efhngham
county, Illinois, and enlisted in troop D
Of the Fifth cavalry at St Louis when
only II years Of age having received the
consent OF his parents to do so. From
st. Louis he was sent to Jefferson Bar
racks for three months and was mustered
out at Fort Niobrara- Neb.. in July, 1884
He was given an honorable discharge in
July. 1889. after which he went to Den
yer and learned the trade of stone cut
ter. He stayed there four years, and
then went to Empor1a, where he resided
another four years. working at his trade
Last January he moved TO Newton and
on the call to arms he came to Wichita
and enlis ted. He is thoroughly qualified
for the position 20 which he has been
elected. Not another company probably
In the state is as well fixed for officers
and to the qualification of the men both
and mentally as is the volun-
teer company from this city, Many OF
the privates have served from one to
seven years IN the militia, and one man
served three years in the German army.
The company VIII leave Tuesday morn
ing over the Rock Island for Topeka,
where they will go into camp Immediate
" and begin drilling ardently under eff
ctent officers. Two special coaches have
been secured for the troops, II is now
more than likely that enough men from
this city viii toin to make up the def
cheney in numbers.