The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-18
COFF|ELD IS BETTER
He Successfully Undergoes a
Surgical Operation
Something About the
Boys at Frisco.

j. G.. Coflield had telegram from
Ernest Jordan Wednes lay, stating
that Lewis had undergone the suIgi-
cal operation for which he has been
waiting and that he was now on the
road to recovery. \ months confine-
ment to the hospital will do the rest
and he will be in shape to come home
with the regiment.
The writer had the pleasure Of vie
iting the lola boys in san Francisco
about a week ago, and spent two
days very pleasantly with Coflieldr
Will Rumbley and Ernest Jordan are
also at the Presidio and three are
rapidly recovering from the hardshils
of war and are all getting fat. The
| sick are expected to remain pretty
! close in camp and so a little "diplo-
Macy was necessary to enable Cof-
field to get out and do the town with
| the REGISTER reporter He told the.
high mogul at the hospital that his
sister and mother had come out from
Kansas ito see him, and leave of alb
sence for two days was quickly grant
ed and he and the reporter, who rep
resented the mother and sister, had a
nice visit. The three lola boys, and
all the other Goth Kansas men at the
Presidio. wear picuously the sun
flower sent out by the lola ladies, and
they are marked men in a town full
of soldiers. Nearly everyone on the
streets turns and looks at Goth Kan
sas man and talks about them and no
opportunities are lost of taking the
boys aside and having talk.
san Francisco Is full of soldiers,
some ten thousand being quartered
there and regiments are continually
arriving from or departing for Manila.
The city welcomes each incoming
regiment and prepares IA big parade
and reception and dinner. The sa-
looms there are only about thous
and are all very patriotic. When II
regiment is expected, each saloon has
n large banner placed over the door
which reads: Headquarters for the
} Volunteers. Welcome Brave
Heroes ~ And it is a sad fact that
while the men receive on an average
of betw cen fifty and hundred dollars
pay when they are mustered out, half
of them leave Frisco busted. Nc
wonder the town il anxious to have
the soldiers all mustered out there.
The lola boys are all reported az
= well and all ready to come home.
They have great story to tell, but
the only way to get any satisfaction
from the telling is to take one of them
out in the brush and start him to talk
ing. They decline to talk for publ
cation about the conduct of the war,
but after they have been mustered
, out the privates at least will tell
I some things which may materially
change the reputation of some OF the
men in high places.
The boys all get fat as soon as they
reach this country and they are in eX-
celleut spirits. Several people COM
mented, however, on the change
which the war has wrought in mos t
( of them. Going out they were reck
, less, careless, and full of the Old Har..
ry. They come back with a look on.
their faces as If they had seen some-
thing and they P-e quiet and medita-
2 tive instead of DO sterous. AS Cofiield
put it when he saw the Morgan City
! departing with 700 volunteers:
They'll know blamed sight more
/ when they come back. You couldn't
give me money enough to induce me
. to take another year like the past one
but you couldn't give me money
enough to induce me to give up the
> experience of the past year"
All over the west men brag that
they know soldiers belonging to the
! Goth Kansas and every member of
the regiment is AN unanswerable
, argument to the westerner that there
is nothing the matter with Kansas.
Sunday School Picnic