The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-30
BANQUET AND RECEPTION
Will Be rendered the Montana
Regiment by Oakland.
THE BULLET-TORN FLAG
Will Show That the Promise Made by
Colonel Kessler Has Been Kept.
Regiment viii! Start for
Home on the 18th.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
San Francisco, Sept. 29.-The Mon
tana regiment will turn in their arms
on the 4th of October, be mustered out
on the 18th and go home on a special
train provided by the state on the 18th.
That is the programme as now ar
ranged. The officers whose promotion
was forecasted yesterday received their
commissions to-day. Second Lieuten-
ants James M. Croft and Joseph Crosby
have been made first lieuterants and
battalion adjutants; First Lieutenant
Samuel Hilburn has been made cap
tain; Second Lieutenant Miles Kelly
has been made first lieutenant; Ser
geant Charles Wissage, Sergeant A. w.
Sweeney and Corporal King have been
made second lieutenants; Lieutenant
William Brown and Lieutenant George
E. Kumpe have been offered commits
sions as first lieutenants in the 45th in
fantry They have both accepted and
after being mustered out of the Mon
tana regiment will be mustered in the
45th.
Arrangements are now under way to
give the Montana regiment a reception
and banquet under the willows OF
Fourth of July, 1898, the Montana SOL
ders gave Oakland the most unique
independence day celebration ever seen
in this state. 1t will be remembered
that on that Fourth of July morning
there was a big parade. Dinner was
served at the noon hour; in the after
noon there was a sham battle on Adams
point, which the largest crowd that
ever gathered in Oakland assembled to
witness 1t was a celebration never
to be forgotten, and when 1t was over
Mayor w. p. Thomas, on behalf of the
city of Oakland, presented Colonel
Kessler. for the regiment, a fine flag.
In accepting that beautiful piece OF
bunting Colonel Kessler's remarked
that it would serve to inspire Montana
men to fight for the principles 1t repre-
scented, liberty to ALL He promised
that it should never go down to defeat
and said that when 1t was carried back
to this country it might be pierced with
bullets, but 1t would not be dishonored
by a single man of Montana's regi-
ment Closing, Colonel Kessler remark
ed that when the regiment returned
and the war was over 1t would give
him and his men the greatest Of pleas
ure to again visit Oakland and show the
people of this city their flag which had
marked the advance line Of American
troops.
Inc cOmmlttee tndI Hau CHdrsc ol tHc
Fourth OF July celebration propose that
Colonel Kessler shall be given an OPP
portunity to keep his word by inviting
him and his men to visit Oakland
again. A number of the committee
have been seen and all favor the plan.
Chairman John Mitchell will within a
few days call the committee together
and arrangements for raising the nee
essary funds to entertain the Mon
tana regiment will be perfected. Among
those who were on that committee and
are interested in the matter of giving
the Montana men a reception are SUI
pervisor John Mitchell, ex-Mayor w.
p. Thomas, F. M. Farwell A. H. Breed,
J. w. Sobst, John Britton, r. M. Glenn
ent and Councilman Frank Mott.
1t is intended to land the Montana
men at the foot of Broadway and to
have a parade up Broadway and down
Twelfth street to the willows, where
lunch will be served, after which some
speechmaking will be INDUCED in.
Colonel Tom McTague and Adjutant
General English left for Montana on
to-night's train. They will join Gov
| ernor Smith at Portland and continue
their journey home with him. The
| genial colonel has had a hard time
| getting away from his friends here,
who accompanied him to the ferry and
even then were 10th to say goodbye.