The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-10
THIRTEENTH SAILS SHORTLY
WILL BE BROUGHT, WAS LOAD
ING YESTERDAY
Will Not Reach st. Paul Much Be-
fore Oct. - Muster Ont of Col.
Ames VIII Occur With the 9th
ers.

The Thirteenth Minnesota will soon be
steaming tOwrad San Francisco. The
following cablegram was received at the
governors office yesterday, having been
sent by Lieut.. Col. Friedrich:
Regiment starts for home on the
steamer Sheridan about the 18th. Load
ing today"
1t is expected that the regiment will
reach San Francisco about Sept. Q or 10.
and it will probably be three weeks later
before the mus ering out can be COM
pleted. 1t will probably be Oct. before
the boys reach home. If the rolls are
prepared and as many other details as
possible completed on the way over from
Manila. the work of mastering out will be
much shorter than with the regiments
brought home from the South.
The physical examinations to which
each soldier is subjected at the close of
his service will require time, however,
and, if all possible haste is made it IS not
expected that the boys can reach St Paul
before Sept. 25.
So far as known last night Col. Ames
has made no move toward asking for the
appointments of a court of inquiry Sew
eral of his friends in this city have ad-
vised him by wire that such a course
should be pursued. All he has asked of
effort to prevent his muster out before
the return of the regiment The Mime
apclis men succeeded in having Congress-
man Fletcher and Senator Davis wire the
war department asking that Ames be not
mustered out until the regiment arrived.
In their messages they asked no more
than this, making no reference whatever
to the charges against the colonel In
reply the following dispatch was received
from Washington yesterday:
Washington, Aug. 9.-Muster out of
Col. Ames Thirteenth Minnesota. has
not been ordered and will not be unless
governor especially requests it, which he
has not done. H. G. Corbn.
Adjutant General.
The whole question is therefore once
more I'D to Gov Lind, and as he has
washed his hands of the entire matter,
Col Ames is secure in the colonelcy of
the Thirteenth Minnesota until the regi-
ment is mustered out. Even though he
should demand an investigation, however,
it is not probable that anything could be
done prior to the arrival Of the regiment
at San Francisco, as a number Of the wit
nesses called would undoubtedly be OIL
GERS and men of the regiment.
The veteran members of Company A.
of the old First regiment, n. G. S. M.
now the Thirteenth Minnesota volun-
teeds. propose to stand by Col. Fred
W. Ames. Thirty. eX-members of the
company, who were associated with Col
Ames when the company was under com
mand of Capt. John L. Armory, prior to
1889, adopted the following resolutions at
a meeting held last evening at the ar
mory:
1--WE, the undersigned. honorably dis
charged members Of Company A, First
regiment, MIG. s., M, at a meeting held
Aug. ., 1897 at the armory in the city
of Minneapolis, would most urgently re-
quest that our citizens withhold their
verdict as ia the7 guilt or innocence OF
Col. Fred W. Annes, of the Thirteenth
regiment. Minnesota volunteers infantry,
of the various charges made in the press
and otherwise, until the matter can
come before the proper authorities in or
der that both sides may be heard and
fairly represented