The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-15
RECRUITING IS
STARTED TODAY
IN CAPITAL CITY
e. S. Government Sends Officer
in Hurry to Topeka.
Congress Passes Bill Adding
10000 to Army.
KANSAS GUARD AWAITS ORDER
Mobilization Within Week Is
Anticipated Here.
Corporal Sandusky Is Here
From Kansas City.
Congress Passes Bill Adding
10000 to Army.
KANSAS GUARD AWAITS ORDER
Corporal SanduSky Is Here
From Kansas City.

Upon orders from the war depart
ment a recruiting station for the reg
ular army was opened in Topeka to-
day with Corporal William Sandusky
of Kansas City, in charge. Temper
arily the station will be at the Oxford
hotel but within a few days it is the
intention to secure quarters on Kan
sas avenue between Fourth and Fifth
streets.
Corporal Sandusky came here this
morning from the Kansas City recruit
ing station with instructions to get as
many men as possible. He has hopes
of a hundred or more. The men who
enlist here will be sent to Kansas City
at once with transportation furnished
and from there will be given direc-
tions by Lieutenant Cole, in charge of
the recruiting in this district
Men of able body between the ages
of eighteen and thirty-five years are
wanted. They can't come too fast
for Corporal Sandusky.
Il haven't any important informa-
ton to give,' said Corporal Sandusky,
"alI know is that L am sent here to
recruit as many men as possible"
Here Last Summer.
Corporal Sandusky was here last
summer in charge of the station. 1t
was closed about four months ago.
The station at ST. Joseph was opened
today also All the stations in the
district under the jurisdiction of Kan
Sas City will be open for enlistment
after today
This action follows the adoption of
q joint resolution in congress calling
for an increase in the standing army
from $4,000 to 100000 men. Twenty
thouSa nd men are to be recruited i'm
mediately and orders have been issued
to numerous recruiting stations. The
order to the different stations. comes
from the adjutant general of the war
department.
Expect X. y. G. Order.
An edict from the federal depart
ment for the mobilization of the Kan
sas state militia may come any times,
according to an officer in the confi
dence of Adjutant General c. I. Mar
tin, who is now in Washington on
what is believed to be a conference
with high army officials.
Since the decision of the United
States to enter Mexico after Villa was
made militia headquarters have been
unusually active. According to the Of
ficer the guard can be modified and
concentrated at Fort Riley within five
days after the order is received from
the war department. Explicit instruc-
tions have been sent to each of the
twenty-eight organization comman-
ders in the state which tell them what
to do when ordered to mobilize.
Open Missouri Recruiting Offices.
ST. Louis, March 15.-Orders to re-
open the army recruiting stations at
Cape Girardeau, Mo, and Hannibal,
Mo, were received today by Major
George W. Goode. in charge of the re-
cruiting headquarters here. Major
Goode said that the recruits from this
section probably would be sent to the
training station at jefferson Barracks,
south of here, as heretofore, but that
the course of instruction would prob
ably be shortened so they could be
assigned to regiment quickly. Re-
cruiting in the last few months. he
said, has been below normal and there
has been no increase in the last few
days. He expects a marked gain,
however, as soon as the need for more
men becomes generally known
In Topeka and st. Joe.
Kansas City, March 15.-Recruiting
stations will be opened Immediately at
Topeka, Kan, and st. Josep Mo, by
officers of the United States army, ac-
cording to an announcement made
here today. Lieutenant Cole, in
charge of the army's recruiting office
here. today received aGvices from
Washington ordering a campaign in
this district to increase the army.