Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-18
WORK FOR The BOYS
Returned Soldiers of the Fifty.first
Finding 1t Easy to Obtain
Profitable Employment.
Many Old Employers Have Kept
Places Open For Them-Pen-
sion Problem.
The Case Of Captain Burton-T The
Des Moines Blue Laws Caus.
ing Comment.
special to Times-Repub,ican.

Special to es-Repubiican.
Des Moines, Nov. 1S.-The boys of the
Fifty-first are not having any trouble
to get jobs. Many of their employers
have kept places open for them all the
time they were gone, and the soldiers
can return to them whenever they are
ready. Naturally and rightly. they
want little rest before they go to
work, and here is where the states lib
erality in paying their transportation
expenses from San Francisco comes in
to help the boys. They have few dol
lars in their pockets now, SO they do
not have to worry for a few days at
| least. They can rest and visit with
their families and friends and find the
best place to go to work. Most of them
are ready and eager to get back into
normal living again. OF course there is
a sprinkling of buns and dead-beats.
| just as there must necessarily be in any
| 1000 men that can be got together.
These Will take Judge Given's advice
and demand that the public shall fur
nish them living as their right.
| This old soldier business is coming to
the front pretty soon in another form
and it will be a big problem what to do.
All Mexican war soldiers We're pen
stoned at the age of e.. 1t will be Very
4 few years, not more than three or four
| till soldier of the civil war under g.
years will be extremely hard to find. OF
course they will not all demand pen
sions, but movement to give all of
them pensions is sure to be set going in
some way.
The Bonaparte dam case, that was
Judge Eichelberger at Ottumwa will
be heard Nov. 81. 1t was postponed be-
cause the jury business will last till
that time and this case is to be tried To
the court. so the judge wanted to get
the jury out of the way first.
Capt. Burton, of the villisca COM
lpany in the Fifty-frst Regiment. is
trying to get the state. through Adjt.
3IGen. Byers, to pay the expense he in
cured in going from San Francisco to
lOgden on the fast train instead of the
lsolder train. The fact is, he hardly
dared TO ride with his company, SO he
| went back at the last minute to see to
some baggage and missed the train" "
He Travelled in style and he wants the
state to put up about $50 for his ex-
penses. He Will get nit" A few
! friends of the captain are defending
him at home, but he is not allowed q
participate in any of the receptions or
| honors rendered the company at home.
| How far a man may miss his chance.
There is no position that offers better
opportunity for man to make himself
'lloved by lot of hearty fellows than
that of captain in the army on hard
campaign, such as that the Fifty frs
went through.
Three companies in the Fifty-first,
those at Shenandoah, Red Oak and
i IGlenwood, have already made applica-
tions for entrance to the National
lGuard when the regiment is reorgan-
l'tZed as a part of the Iowa National
|Ciuard. as it will be before many
months. The boys are not tired OF
military duty and want to keep theil
organizations together This they car
best do in the guard. Their knowledge
will be of great value in inspiring and
guiding the future work of the newly
organized regiment, which Will OF
course contain many, probably half
new men.
Col. Dows. it seems, is not yet can
ldidate for speaker. So said Csrenus
Cole and Will Boyd in Des Mones yes
terday. They say the Fifth district
we'll pleased with it's record of electins
4 every republican legislative nominee, is
awaiting developments. 1t is good
position in which to be.
The school children of the state con-
tributed s1.S65 toward the Lafayette
/ memorial, to be erected in Paris next
year.
The Des Moines blue laws are caus-
ing this city TO be made the genera
butt of ridicule the country over. Al
the New York papers having live cor.
Z respondents here ordered good stories
Iabout the performances of the city
council in passing them. 1t is by then
made crime. punishable by fines anC
Iiail sentences. to be on the street after
IL p H., tHfoW q pdidLd shiii ol eilt
street. spit on the street. run a slot ma.
chine, go in swimming, make a lou6
noise. or do one of several other like
things 1t would be we'll if most o.
these things could be done. but the,
can't. The anti-spitting ordinance will
it is hoped, be enforced. 1t is an awfu
curse, this street-spitting habit. TIL,
Slot machines have abounded in De!
. Moines by the hundred, some giving
cash prizes-the worst kind of gam
bling. They will have to go, and the,
. ought to go.
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