The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-20
THEY MAY GET IN TO-DAY
Montana Volunteers Are Now
Due at San Francisco.
PLANS FOR RECEPTION
Refreshment Committee in Anaconda
Decides to Serve Lunch Imme-
diately on the Arrival of
the Boys at Home


home. To-day may come the news that
the transports Valencia and Zealandia
bearing the regiment has reached San
Francisco. These two transports carry
the 100 members Of the regiment that
are coming home, together with 400 men
of other organizations. They sailed from
Manila Aug. "a for San Francisco via
Nagisaki. According to government
calculations they should reach San
Francisco to-day but it is possible that
adverse winds and rough weather pc
culiar to September on the Pacific may
have delayed them two, three or even
four days.
There was a large attendance last
evening at the meeting of the refresh
ment committee of the returning vol
unteers' reception committee, which as
sembled in the parlors of the Montana
hotel. The meeting was presided over
by the chairman. Mrs. J. e. Young.
The most important business dis
cussed was that Of the dinner to be
given the soldiers on their arrival in
Anaconda. 1t was decided that the re-
freshments should be served in the
Turner hall Immediately on the arrival
of the boys in town. 1t will not be an
elaborate dinner. but good things will
be served and there will be plenty of
them. The refreshments will be do
mated by the ladies Of Anaconda, who
will be called upon to contribute. Mrs.
w. B. Webb and Mrs. j. M. Kennedy
were appointed as chairman of the west
end and east end soliciting committees
respectively.
Mrs. l.. G. Smith, Mrs. Merrill and
Mrs. r. r. Williams were appointed as
committee on arrangements.
The names of Mrs. ]. M. Sigh and
Mrs. H. Nuckols were added to the list
of the members of the general refresh
ment committee.
The meeting was adjourned until next
Tuesday evening.
Other Volunteers Coming.
Next week those sections of Montana
that lie along the lines of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific railway
lines will see some returning volunteers
go home. These are the two battal-
ions or eight companies that went to the
war to represent North Dakota and
were on the ground in the Philippines
at an early date. The North Dakotas
will be mustered out at San Francisco
Sept. %. There are only 400 men in the
command, not quite half of the number
that went out. Many of the regiment
re-enlisted in volunteer organizations in
the islands, while others live in states
other than North Dakota. The two
battalions will proceed in a body by rail
to Portland, There they will be divid-
ed, half the force going by way Of the
Northern Pacific and half by way of the
Great Northern.
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Craig of the Northern Pacific is on the
coast arranging for the transportation
Of volunteers over his road.
The 18th Minnesota, which is to be
mustered out Oct. 3 at San Francisco,
is the next regiment to come this way.
The Minneapolis Journal staff CORE
spondent, in wiring the date of the mus
ter out to his paper. adds:
Nevertheless, the regiment will in
all proba bility, not reach home till Oct.
", the day set for the presidents ar
rival It Is going to take longer for the
special trains carrying the boys to reach
Minneapolis than anybody supposed. 1t
would take six or seven days in the
natural course Of events. But the route
Is lined with Americans eager to shower
attentions on Minnesota's brave SOL
diers; and the 18th, anxious as it is to
get home, will not be able to say them
nay. Already word has been received
that Portland and Helena want day
apiece. In Portland are many of the
Oregon comrades, with whom the boys
served in the Philippines. Their hospi-
tality cannot be refused, nor is there
any desire to refuse it."