Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-08
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to pull down the coin. Day after to-
morrow he will be good for nothing but
as hay consumer
But Captain Eaton and his men say
otherwise. No horse is shipped unit
kept in camp until he is found TO bs
sound, and then he goes to South Afri-
ca with thru bill of lading.
The transport Honorius expects t.
carry away 1000 mules Wednesday,
Taken from the South American trade
it's decks have been refitted with cas-
ings of Georgia pine and two false
decks sandwiched in between. In each
fifteen feet Of space six mules will have
to stand up until they are unloaded at
Cape Town. The last trip the vessel
carried horses. They require more
space. Out of $50 carried forty-siS
died on the trip over.
But mules are different" said Chief
Officer Williafs. I'VE won't lose more
than dozen of these critters out Of the
thousand.
The charge that muleteers are car
ried across and then compelled to en-
list because the transports will not
carry them back to this end of the
world is vigorously denied here.
kitchener stopped all that" said
Officer Williams. Until he went over
there the muleteers were carried over
on the contract that they would get
about $40 apiece for the trip. When
they got there, II they wanted to come
back, they were given the chance of
shipping again and cleaning up ship at
pay of so cents day for real working
days. The English army seemed to Of
fer better chances and so many of them
put on the uniform.
But now there Ia none Of that. Lord
Kitchener has enforced his rule that no
one not an English subject, who has
less than $500 In his pockets, can land.
They don't want these people in the
way. Patrols see that no one gets off
the boat unless he is British subject
or has $500 slowed away in his pocket.
Then, too. they are paid IS cents day
until they are brought back here to
New Orleans. So there are no enlist
ments. There is nothing but trade
matter"
On the other hand William M. Brown,
Lie cAlSlhCGL wiz "ShS W ASOueAA 49,
ca to investigate the muleteer matter.
says he is certain that the English are
using Chalmette az base of supplies
and that they are maintaining re-
cruiting station there.
"This," he says, has been going OH
for the last eighteen months, and 1t will
be surprising to learn the number Of
men who have shipped from this port
with signed contract for enlistment in
the British ranks upon their arrival In
some South African port"
There were sixty-f1ve men who
signed as muleteers on the Devona,"
says Mr. Brown. ION board was Lieut..
Stent, ostensibly in charge of the load
ing of the mules, but in reality an Eng
lish recruiting officer. On the way down
the river he called the men and told
them that they would not be allowed to
go on shore after the ship landed un-
less they were enlisted as soldiers for
the army. Many complained at this
treatment, but were told that II they
attempted to get on shore without be
ing enlisted they would be arrested and
put in prison. There was nothing to
do but obey, and out of the sixty Ave
muleteers forty one Of the number had
signed as enlisted soldiers for the Brit
ish army before they had reached the
mouth of the Mississippi river"