The Saint Paul globe., 1899-08-03
BEING PROPERLY ClRED FOR
GOV. LIND RECEIVES ANOTHER
LETTER FROM COL. AMES
AT SAN FRANCISCO
The Mem Had Some Trouble at First
Securing Necessary OvercOats and
Blankets, but Are Now Supplied
Ccst of Railroad Travel

Gov Lind yesterday received a letter
from Col. Ames, at San Francisco which
indicates that the Minnesota boys in the
Preside hospital are being well cared
for. The letter was written last Friday,
and, among other things, Col Ames says:
Your telegram asking me to write if [
needed help for the sick received, and |
hasten to answer. When the Oregon
regiment arrived here they were dressed
in very thin clothes, and had no others,
and were marched to the PreSidiO where
the cold sea winds and fOgs became de-
cidedly dangerous to the health of all
the men. After Col. Summers had made
q vigorous appeal, OVercOatS were loaned
for guard purposes and blankets (extra)
loaned the men, and then these were fur
nished by the state guard authorities
after they We're guaranteed from loss
by the examiner You can readily un-
derstand that the men did not want to
draw these articles and have them
charged up to them just for the short
two or three -Weeks-they We're to be here
] made up my mind if | could not get the
government authorities to issue thin un-
derclotheS and stockings, and also cloth
Ing, such as was needed to protect the
boys from the fOgs and cold winds,
would purchase them myself, for | did
not propose to have a Minnesota man
suffer In his own country, after having
undergone the hardShipS and priVatiOnS
wounds and sickness that they had in q
foreign country, and I so notified you.
| found, however, that these articles
could be furnished, and the men are all
drawing them at very small personal eX-
penSe to each man.
Kindly notify me of your plans regard
ing the return of the sick so that l may
not hold out false hopes to them, and
then be obliged to disapDOint them. They
will have little enough, poor fellows
after receiving all that is allowed them
by the law.
None of our sick and wounded boys is
seriously sick, and quite a number of
them are well enough to be discharged
from the hospital and have told me that
they would like to be discharged and sent
home as soon as possible. But, as I said
IN my former letter this will take a lit
tie time, and [ tell them to be patient.
One matter which I wish to call to
your attention is the fact that the al
roads here make no concessions to the
soldiers who have to pay their own way
home home l think it is too bad that the
that [ have been able to secure 1 know
of excursion rates having been made from
San Francisco to Minnesota many times
to everybody.
I wish to assure you again that I will
DO all In my power for our boys, and
when I can't get Justice in any other
way l Will call upon our kind and in
fiuential friends in Minnesota.
Gov. Lind has in mind a plan for the
return of the Thirteenth that will, if
successfully carried out, be very salts
factory If the government could be
prevailed upon to bring the boys to Port
land, Or, 1t would be a comparatively
easy matter to bring them home from
there, as the Great Northern and North
ern Pacific could be relied upon to make
a fair rate from that point. Then, too,
the governor believes that as soon as the
men are mustered out of the federal
service they resume their places in the
national guard, and in that way are en-
titled to travel pay from the state as
guardSmen.