The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-19
AT The CAPITAL.
Old Friends Of 3. T. Ware Talk
About Him.
One Of the Survivors Of Famous
Powder River Campaign.
HE is THE RIGHT MAN.
So Says Ex-Congressman Van
VOOrhis, Of New York.
Congressman Scott Says PEN
sion Office is Well Managed.

washington. april lS.--'CapI. Eugene
F. Ware. of Kansas. who has been APP
pointed to succeed Mr.. Evans as PEN
sion commissioner. was an officer in the
famous Powder river Indian campaign
of 1866" remarked Capt H. z. Palmer.
of Omaha, Neb., who is at the New
Willard. Captain Ware and were
two Of the officers who engaged in that
campaign. We fought over the same
ground that General Custer covered
eleven years later and had a number
of fierce fights with the Sioux, the
Arapahoes and the other Indians who
We're warning at that time. They all
joined against our forces and made life
very interesting for US.
I'VE were engaged a. number of times
in the vicinity of where General Custer
and his men met their terrible death.
Our forces were much more limited
/ than those of General Custer, and it is
almost miraculous that We escaped
death. Only five of the officers who
} were in the Powder river campaign are
now living, and Captain Ware is one
of the most gallant of that number.
He has a war record of which he may
! well be proud. am sure that the
G. A. r. men of the United States are
! pleased with his appointment, and they
| have reason to be. A man who round
ed out his civil war record by going on
the frontier and facing. such dangerous
old chiefs as Red Cloud and Black Bear,
deserves recognition at the hands of the
president"
Il have known the new commissioner
of pensions, Mr.. Eugene +. Ware for
the past thirty years" said ex-Con-
/ gresham Van Vo0fhis, OF Rochester,
n. 2, at the Arlington.
I'm my opinion he is the right man
! for the place. do not think the presi-
dent could have made happier selee~
1 ton. Mr.. Ware Is a lawyer OF the very
/ highest ability, and he viii bring all the
legal acumen and elearness' of intellect
essential to their fulhllment.
He is. moreover a man Of fine lit
erary attachments and has written some
/ very enjoyable poems. The country can
1 be congratulated upon his appoint
ment-"
Mr.. Scott. of Kansas. has been maxi
| ing some genealogical researches, or
rather has been helping one of his
| cousins out along that line, and therein
m ade a discovery. The best managed
bureau of this government declared
/ this Kansas editor enthusiastically is
| the record and pension Office in the war
! department. Ny cousin out in Kansas
! is looking up some of her Revolutionary
/ ancestry. I suppose she wants to join
! one of the patriotic societies, and she
asked me to get for her the record of
some of our ancestors who participated
/ in that struggle. ! wrote a letter to the
/ record and pension Office in the morn
/ ing. That very evening received a re-
ply giving the records in full. and, in
one instance, quoting paragraph from
a book acknowledged to be standard
/ authority in such matters, enforcing the
] information contained in the official
! records of the Office. call that pretty
! efficient work"
Charles L Marlatt, of Manhattan, as
| sistant United States enIomologist re-
/ turned to Washington last week after
an absence OF over a year in Japan,
| China, Philippine Islands, Sumatra,
/ BorneO, Ceylon, Egypt, and other cOun-
! tries. He was visiting those countries
/ for the department of agriculture and
! some of the knowledge which he gained
/ has already proved beneficial to the hor-
! tlcultural interests of our country. At
| Singapore he met another government
| explorer, David G. Fairchild, also of
/ Manhattan. Neither knew of the other
/ presence in that part of the earth. Mr..
/ Marlatt's wife accompanied him on his
/ long journey
Mrs. Emma Wall, of Lawrence, ma
tional president of the Ladies of the
/ Grand Array of the Republic has visit
| ed encampment headquarters with the
| officers of the citizens executive com
/ mittee. Her visit was for the purpose
| Of ascertaining the rates upon the var
| iOus passenger lines and to arrange for
a suitable hall in which a reception can
| be held for the ladies of the G. A. R
| Mrs Wall estimates that over II 600 la
dies of that organization alone will be
in Washington. The number attending
the reception win be such as to require
| the use of one of the largest auditor
iums in the city and arrangements will
be made on that basis.
Captain william A. Green, of Fort
! Scott, is here expecting an appointment
] in the army. He was lieutenant in the
| Twentieth Kansas and afterWard a cap
| tain in the Eleventh volunteer cavalry,
| and was in the Philippines two and a
/ half years. He saw many years Of ser
| vice in the Kansas National Guard be-
fore the late war came our way. The
| congressional delegation have endorsed
pointed, but the president recently made
a statement that the Rough Riders and