The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-06
Soldiers Slow to Send in
Names.
Hundred Seventy-aYe
Checks Mailed Out.
BROWN GETS H MOST
Topeka Negro officer Receives
Largest Check.
Captains and Lieutenants Also
Get Nice Checks.

Only 275 checks for Kansas soldiers
who served in the Spanish war have
thus far been mailed out from the Of
nee of the adjutant general. The
vouchers which were sent out are
coming in slowly
About o~ne-fourth of the soldiers
who send in their names and adj
dresses are found TO have nothing due
them. If the man enlisted and was
mustered in on the same day, he is
entitled to no extra pay, under the
present plan. The $4,000 appro-
priated by the government for the
present distribution is double pay for
the soldiers between the time of en-
listment and muster in. The state has
already paid them once for this time,
but the government agreed to pay
them again.
The following postal card is sent out
to those who have no money coming
to them.
Dear Sir-RepIyirg to your inquiry
concerning pay due for service rendered
during the Spanish = American war,
would say, the pay allowed was double
payment from the date Of enrolment
TO date of muster-in, to the members
of the Twentieth. T-Wenty-hrst. Twenty
second and Twenty-third regiments OF
Kansas volunteer infantry.
The muster-in rolls show that you
were enrOlled--1S9S, and mustered
IN upon the same day; therefore, there
is nothing due you. having been mus
tered into the United States service the
same day you were enrolled by the
state Of Kansas"
The largest amout thus for paid to
any one man was S74.70 to Major j. M.
Brown of the TWenty-third Kansas.
Brown had $50 coming to him,and he is
one OF the few men who refused to allow
On nor rnnH rO he deducted from MS
check to pay the lawyer who collected
the money Brown thought 10 per cent
was ample, and he allowed $3.50 to be
deducted from his pay.
The captains and H-eutenants of each
coming 10 them. but the p~rivates don
get much Captains generally get from
S25 to $50, and lieutenants from $40 to $40
The privates have only a few dollars leLl
after their 20 per cent is deducted Oni9
two priVates thus FAR nave ~reiused tt
allow the 20 FER cent reduction. one
private Who had about a dollar coming
to him. wrote in and told the adjutani
general to give the whole thing to the
attorney, IS the sum wasn't WORTH
bothering about
addresses Of soldiers commenced to come
In, but since they arrived, a number OF
changes AT address have occurred, anc
the vouchers sent out 20 the a4afFssei
first given have come back unopened
Two letters have come back stampeet
&Addressee is dead" The next Of XIII
of eli soldiers in the Kansas regiments
are entitled to draw the money. in cast
Of the death Of the soldier at any tint
during or since the enlistment.
seven letters thus far have been sen
to "Box Q. Lansing" Box 2. Lansing. il
the address to which mail for prisoner
at the state penitentiary is sent The
kansas soldiers seem to have been con
tributfng rather more than their shar'
10 the penitentiary population
All the rate the $1,000 is being distrib
uted now. it will be a long time befOr'
ST IS all placed in the hands of the sol
dfers- only s2.O0O has thus far been hand
ed out in checks. and the $4,000 is uncalI
ed for It is likely that not over hal
of the $1,000 will ever be disbursed. FIJI
rest viii probably go back to the govern
ment.