The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-19
MAY co TO CHINA
Twenty-0ne Recruits Left for
Preside, CAL, Last Night.
FOR FOREIGN WAR SERVICE
Destination Lies Between Phil
ippines and Chinese Orient.

Twenty-one recruits who enlisted at
the station here since its establishment
twelve days ago, for foreign service in
the regular army, left last night for San
Francisco over the Santa Fe road. The
recruits were secured for infantry and
light and heavy artillery service. The
detachment was in charge Of William
Croddy, one of the recruits who will take
the party through to the Pacific ocean.
The party will remain at Preside about
six weeks, where they will be drilled and
trained and prepared for regular service.
after which they will either sail for
China or the Philippines. Mr.. W. P.
BeltZ, who has charge of the recruiting
Office, informed reporter for the Eagle
yesterday that the recruits enlisted for
a term of three years for foreign service
and that it was not assured that they
would not be sent to China, as some of
the regiments TO which they will be as
signed will sail for China about that
time. 1t is not likely that all of the
troops will be transferred from the Phil
ippines to China and this is the reason
that Officer Beltz believed that some will
join the allied forces now making it hot
for Ii Hung Chang. 1t is discretionary,
says Mr.. Beltz, with the government to
send them to either country.
Out of the twenty-one enlisted men a
number of them were harvest hands who
had just finished their work in the wheat
fields and were returning home. All of
the recruits were in good spirits when
they left and while most of them did not
relish the prospects of being sent to
China some expressed themselves as being
anxious TO get into the ARRAY. The fol-
lowing is a list of those who left and
their original homes:
Robert Bruce, Topeka, Kan; Roy
Shields, Tarkio Mo; William E. Haw-
thorn, Benton, Kan; Fred c. Burchard,
Gainesville, Tex; John NJ. Mills, Benton,
Kan; Arthur G. Spaulding, Derby, Kan;
]. w. Ruble, Greenwich, Kan; James
Morton, Horton, Kan; Ira H. Chandler,
Clearwater, Kan; George L. Devore
Greenwich, Kan; James A. Charles,
Clearwater, Kan; Arthur Silkwood
Clearwater, Kan; Oscar W. Olson, Nc
Pherson, Kan; Elmer Montague, Tucson,
Mont; Albert w. De Graffenreid. Wich-
ita; Lon W. Downing, Newton; Charles
r. Wilson, Wichita Sam E. Webb
Greenfield, Mo-; Thomas J. Pitcher,
Greenwich, Kan.
During the time that the recruiting
station has been open there has been
sixty applications, forty-two of which
number took the examination. Out OF the
fOrty-two but twenty-one passed. When
asked how long the station would be
open for recruiting purposes Sergeant
Belts, who is in the recruiting service
Exclusively, said that he did not know
exactly, that it depended largely upon
the activity of application. So far but
little difficulty has been experienced.
I'm view of the present situation"
Continued Sergeant Beltz, ''the govern
ment IS DESTROYS Of getting as many as
possible and as long as there are any
here who will enlist the station will re-
main open"
Headquarters have been established at
the office of DR.. Fordyce in the Getto
building and he has been selected as the
examining physician and surgeon.