The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-15
WHO WANTS IT?
AdJutant General Hughes Has
81 400 in Cash.
Doesn't Belong to Him or the
State.
DUE TO THE SOLDIERS
twentieth kansans WhOHayen't
Called for 1t.
DUE TO THE SOLDIERS
Ninety Members or Their Heirs
Entitled to Money.

AdJutant-General ]. w. F. Hughes
mas on hand $4,000 which doesn't be-
long TO him, which he can't find an
owner for, and which can only lie IN
me pank without drawing interest for
anybody except the banker. when
governor Hoch goes out of office he
VIII turn this money over to Governor
1tuops OF Governor Botkin, and when
the term OF that governor is ont he
VIII turn 1t over to Governor Fred
Jackson or Governor John Schenck.
me $2,4OO seems to have come into
the hands of the state to STAY and
YET me state can't do anything with it.
Inns unclaimed pot of gold is what
remains of $4,000 which the United
SKATES government turned over to the
state or Kansas about two years ago
LOT the purpose of paying off a debt
which was due to the Kansas soldiers
VINO served in the Spanish war The
Joo OF 1ndlng the soldiers and paying
them off was intrusted by Governor
Hoch to Adjutant General Hughes. One
provision which the government made
was the $22, 900 should under no condf !.
lions be placed in the state treasury.
The government had had some experi-
ence with Kansas in the matter of put
ting money into the state treasury
which was intended to pay off the
frlce RAID claims, and 1t didn't propose
TO get into another trap of that kind.
SO Gov. Hoch turned the $4,000
draft over to Adjutant General Hughes
and General Hughes deposited it in
the Bank of Topeka to the credit of
Governor Hoch.
since then Governor Hughes has
been hunting up the soldiers who en-
nsted from Kansas, and sending them
checks. The smallest amount sent 70
any soldier was about so cents. 9th
ers drew as high as SIS. The checks
went all over the world When the
soldier himself was dead, the money
was paid to his heirs, when they
could be found
OF the famous Twentieth Kansas
there are still 80 members who have
money coming" to them. All efforts
to locate them, or their heirs have
failed. One of the missing is Captain
Christy, of Waverly, who has $40 due
ms Is the highest amount due and
unpaid to any one man. In the Tween
ty-hrst and Twenty-second Kansas
there are about the same number un-
paid as in the Twentieth. In the Tween
ty-third. which was the colored regi-
ment, the proportion of unclaimed
checks is much larger The coIored
soldiers seem to have dropped out of all
connection with their former associ-
ates to a remarkable extent.
1t is a peculiar fact that after Cen
with some of the soldiers, and sent
them the check for their portion of
the fund, the check came back un-
claimed, and the soldier was again
lost to sight.
1t is supposed that some of the
missing soldiers ars dead, and will
never claim their money. There is
evidence to show that others have
gotten into trouble and are locked up
in prisons under assumed names. They
naturally won't put in a claim for their
money, even if they know it is waiting
for them.
General Hughes also has on hand
about 40 of the medals voted to the
members of the Twentieth Kansas
These medals were presented by the
Grand Army of the Republic. A year