The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-16
IT COMES HIGH.
viii Cost Over $4,000 for
X. n. 6. Encampment.
Adjutant General Hughes Sends
in Estimate.
UP TO UNCLE SAM.
Will Decide if Kansas Soldiers
Will Assemble.
State Is Sending Out Practice
UP TO UNCLE SAM.
State Is Sending Out Practice
Ammunition to Companies.

Adjutant General J. W. F. Hughes,
Of the Kansas National Guard, has
completed and forwarded to the war
department his estimate on the ex-
pense OF taking the entire National
Guard to TT Riley for the joint
manoeuvers this fall. The total esti-
mated expense for a ten days en-
campment with the regulars is 81. IS.
1t is divided as follows:
Pay for troops. ....-............s13 . 2s9. 80
Transportation ..-..... .......- 6,Oee-4S
subsistence .-........ ..-.....-- 2,4241S
It now remains to be seen whether
the government can stand this expense.
Every National Guard organization in
the country is to participate in the
joint manoeuvers, and there are seven
different points Of rendezvous. The total
amount which the government will have
at its disposal for the purposes of the
affair is 500, coo. It can be seen that If
1t costs as much to take care of the
guards of all states as 1t costs for
Kansas. the fund will be insufficient
and there will be nothing for transport
ing the regular troops to the selected
forts of rendezvous. It may be that
the government will divide up the
available funds pro rata, and each state
can either supplement the fund out OF
its own resources, or send only a por-
lACAA VI Lie S4dA0 haASao WILL OCA40
the whole guard to FIT. Riley if it
sends any part of it.
1t is likely that the Kansas regimen
tai competitions, to select the rifle team
to represent Kansas at Sea Grit, N. J.,
this fall will both be held at Fit. Riley
this year. Permission for such an ar
rangement has been sought from Col.
Godfrey, commandant at TT. Riley
The Riley rife range is the best in
the country and the officers nf the
guard are favorable to having the regi-
mental competitions there if possible. In
these competitions, the best shots from
each company are present. The vari-
Gus companies are now holding their
own competitive shoots, to select their
best shots.
Last. year one Of the regiments held
its competition at Ft. Riley, and the
other did not.
The Topeka company is doing it's
shooting on the rifle range at Martins
Hill. Thus far Topeka marksmen have
not been able to get place on the
Sea Grit team.
Ammunition is now being sent out
to each company in the state for its
target practice. Each company will
get 5000 rounds OF 22-caliber long
ammunition, for use in the Krag-Pope
rifles for all distances up to 300 yards.
The Krag-Pope gun is merely a %
caliber Pope barrel mounted on
Krag stock. The shooter gets the same
practice with the gun that he would
with q regulation Krag-Jorgense and
the state saves q lot of money in am
munition. The Krag-J orgensen cart
ridges cost S35 per 1000, while the %
caliber ammunition costs only 81. The
state has a certain sum available for
ammunition, and by using the 22-cali-
Der ammunition for shorter distances,
1t is able to do lot more shooting
than it would if it used the Krags ex-
clusively. Each company is provided
with one of the Krag rifles fitted with
a Pope barrel
John H. Pritchard has been appoint
ed recruiting officer at Fort Scott for
the purpose of mastering in the new
company at that place. The muster
rolls of the company show that a total
of IS men have signif1ed their willing
ness to join the company. This list
will be sifted out by the medical ex-
amfners, and the men who can pass
the physical examination will be adj
mitted into membership In the new
Fort Scott company.
During the joint maneuvers at Fort
Riley, the Kansas troops will receive
very good wages. The regular pay for
privateg in the army is 43 cents a day,
but the state adds 81 cents to this, and
thus each private gets q dollar a day
for his services. If the private has
been in service a year or more, he gets
10 per cent increase, and this ap-
plies to all noncommissioned officers.
Corporals and musicians VIII get
S1.20 per day, sergeants $40 and first
sergeants, hospital stewards, company
quartermaster sergeants, and company
cooks $3.50 per day. Captains get SIS
per day, and higher ranks in proper
ton, UP to the brigadier general, who
gets S15.85.
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