The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-10

is planned. Late this afternoon mem
bers of the organization were still ar
r1Ving- This morning was spent at
the hall, 322 Kansas avenue, in yarn
swapping and music.
Wednesday the Big Day.
The more important features on the
program will come tomorrow. In the
morning the elimination rifle shoot in
the state house basement at the state
range will be held. Guns and am
munition will be furnished by the ad-
Jutant generals office. The members
attending will be formed into COM
panies from which will be elected
presidents cup. Wednesday noon
dirner will be served. The business
meeting and election of officers will
be held at O'Clock. The windup of
the meeting will be the annual BAN
quet and smoker at o'clock Wednes-
day evening.
Turnout today there was a recalling
OF the episode of the regiments ca
reer in the fair grounds, the vicious
maneuvers On the sands of the Pa
cific, the trip across the Pacific to the
Philippines where the Twentieth re-
ceived its baptism of fire and blood
at the hands of Aguinaldo's dusky
warriors
Roster Is Short.
Where all the 1900 men who
marched out of he fair grounds here
are now is a story that cannot be COM
pleteIy told. The roster of the Twen-
tieth Kansas ass ociation contains only
between 300 and 400 names, and not
all of those live in Kansas. Thirty
four members of the Twentieth were
killed in battle. Thirty-three died of
disease, in the Orient. Two hundred
were wounded. Some were discharged
in Manila when the regiment sailed
for home and remained there
Eighteen Twentieth Kansas men are
on the border, again with Funston
The remainder are scattered to the
four corners of the nation.
The Twentieth Kansas was officially
mustered into service May 10, 1888,
altho the members had been in train
ing month prior to that date.
Despised Camp Duties.
They fairly despised camp duties,
especially in a sea of mud, but forgot
that tiresome occupation when orders
came to go to Frisco and then to the
Philippines, where they did the state
proud in the field.
The Twentieth men began real war
and went on the firing line on the
night of February 4, 1899, when they
were aroused from slumbers to make
dash of two miles to repel an attack
of Aguinaldo's forces on American
outposts, strung along the north boun-
dairy of Manila. Today is the ami
versary date of their arrival in San
Francisco, homeward bound. The re-
ception they met there, their reception
in Kansas and the gratitude of a state
since has completely wiped out the
resentment in the memory of the
mobilization and the governments
accommodations therein.
BOltwood Never Misses.
Members of the Twentieth, already
here, were on the lookout for the ar
rival of Capt Edmund Boltwood, the
of f1lnr
tain Boltwood is q veteran of both the
Civil war and the Philippine cam
paign He has not missed a reunion
since the Twentieth was mustered OUT.
AS drillmaster, Captain Boltwood
won considerable recognition in the
Oriental war. His command Com
pany K of Ottawa, was one of the
crack companies in the islands
Friends of John M. Padgett of To-
peka today began pushing him for the
presidency of the organization, dur
ing the ensuing year. Padgett IS
claims and publicity manager for the
Mckinley corporations here. James
A. Lewis, 1121 W edward avenue, is
the president this year.