The Leavenworth Weekly Times from Leavenworth, Kansas • Page 2

2 THE IAYENWORTH WEEKLY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 Q3 Veteran William McDermott Tom Madden who has been a member 181a widows decreased from 776 to where said soldiers have no legal heirs to their estate." This involves property left by members who have died during the past twenty years, and it is estimated will reach several hundred thousand dollars, some estimating the amount as nigh as half a million. While the educational interests of Montgomery county will be greatly benefited by this decision, the veterans of the Home regret it much, as they will necessarily be deprived of many comforts heretofore furnished by the post fund, which will now be sadly depleted." While, we have the utmost confidence in the curative powers of S. S. S. all blood troubles, yet we realize that in some cases causes unknown to patient often hinder the best effects of the medicine.

For this reason wo lave maintained for many years a branch to our business known as "Our Consultation Department. This depastment is composed of regularly graduated and licensed physicians who have made blood and skin diseases heir special study, and who are employed solely to advise and help, without charge, those who use S. S. S. Thousands of people have been cured of blood and skin diseases of every kind by the use of S.

S. and many of K.hose who, perhaps, at first did not find the results entirely satisfactory, vrote oar physicians a full statement of their case, and a little advice hastened the cure. We have nothing to sell you, and the only reason for want-ngT you to write to us is that we may use every effort to see that you get the est result from the. medicine. You can then help us by advising your friends to use S.

S. which you will know from experience is all we claim for it. You can write with the assurance that all correspondence is held in strictest confidence, and that our phvsicians will give you helpful advice without charge. JJIE 3WIFT SPEC! FID A TtA GAi Missouri Valley Bridge Iron Works LEAVENWORTH. KANS.

I of this branch on several occasions I The last time he was here he went out on discharge and was afterward re- I I I TT I admitted to the uavenworw- nomc i If it is the same Madden he is aa old- I timer in the Homes, his first aomis- 1 wuis 1868. He has been in and out on various occasions, circulating principally between the Leavenworth and Marion branches. Capt. Waterhouse, general inspector of this branch, has moved his ottice I in the headquarters building and is now located in the north-east corner of the Home hotel," formerly used as tne ice cream parior Adiutant Heislers morning re port for October 6th shows the fol- I lowing membership: Present for duty 1,477 Present on extra duty 5 33 Present sick 5X4 Absent with leave 1,47 Absent without leave 57 Total .4,052 From the number of letters that have been received from the old boys that were transferred to other homes the past nine months, it would seem as though thev were not satisfied with their surroundings, for one land all express a longing and a at sire for the "old home on the Miz zoo." and a determination to eet transferred back to "old Leaven- worth" as srnn a thev rmild. Now, boys, it is up to you to show Col.

Cooke that the confidence he has placed in you at these Sati urday inspections has not mis placed. The gates are open all the morning and you are at liberty to go and come until the hour of inspection, 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at which time you are expected to 1 a1 oe in. 1 our proper piacciniacwatu ilfX neeis. wnen you ku out odiurudy 1 A. C.i....J..

i 4.1 A ormgSK Jake a- block," but keep in mind the fact tnat you are just as gooa a man as leddy Koosevelt and just as prompt to answer the call of duty as you are the pay roll. The robber that Dan Lynch and Ben Warden chased out of barracks Thursday night, was over six feet high and weighed a ton. On the outside he the robber ran afoul of Ed. Strock of barracks, 'the. night 'watchman, who attends to the "steam and water pipes.

Ed. head- up onto Franklin avenue, where he cr i TI uppea on a coupie 01 mc numc pu lice force and the chase commenced, the quarry running south and down the hill between the chapel and Father Kinsella's new residence. Not a man in the party but what had a gatling gun, but each was afraid to shoot for fear the gun would go off and make a noise, thus disturbing the peace of the camp. Let that robber beware the next time. 'Old Whit" is going to leave us next Tuesday.

C. W. Kupp, mayor of Caldwell, Kansas, is, coming up -T- If home to tnat city. in. otner woras Samuel C.

Whitman, the old vet that fell out. of a third story window in the Grant house in Leavenworth last spring and was jammed almost to jelly, and who has been laying in the Home hospital ever since, being patched up and brought back to life, by some of the finest surgeons and most attentive nurses in the west, is about to come forth aerain. Not in all the "pristine vigor of an Okla homa Boomer, but in pieces arid narcels. as far as bone's and flesh is concerned and with his usual corn- plement of brains still in working order. "Old Whit" served in F.

4th Miehiaran cavalrv. and was, one of the first settlers that made the break for Oklahoma. When, the hands were first ooened. where he has been a most prominent charac- ter up to within a year or two ago. I hat tre npnn down that wav still topn him in memnrv i evident -J u.

f- thw ir conHmrr the- mayor of his resident city to bring him back so that they can get one more look at. him and hear. his Oklahoma "Yapp" before he crosses over the last divide. The Marion Chronicle of the 1st Snider, a soldier, who on July 26 last Soliders' home, todav pleaded guilty rr.nrt rhartr nlnin has roasted and ground the coffee in the Hampton Home almost con tin- uallv for ten vears. and Anthony 1 Aivcrs.

nrst assistant cook m. the Kitcnen, nas worked therein nearly 12 years and Samuel C. Con- raa, woo was lieutenant 01 mc gum eight years, is now a citizen and a tax payer of Newport News. The Phoebus Sentinel says that in present over 2,000 active and convales- cent veterans, and of these, about two-thirds carrv orivileae cards or nermit which entitles them to leave the grounds at will, between the hours of 7 p. m.V and 8:30 m.

mere are nearly 400 veterans under treatment in the hospital. Members present Oct. absent' 1,528. Total 4,052. 6th Joseph R.

Crowell of barracks returned from furlough yesterday. George W. Evarts of barracks is now in charge of the dump gang. Night concerts at the Marion Home have been discontinued until further orders. Mike Torpey has left his job in barracks and is now back in A com-I pany.

William J. Prater, A. Harrison county, Missouri, Home Guards, and Wllliam H. McLOUKhlin. I and C.

50m Kjmo mianiry, are new memoers assigned to barracks last week. David P. Sloan of barracks, has been discharged from the Home at his' own- request. D. S.

Myers, who was sick in the hospital, has- recovered' and trans ferred to barracks. ii.a, 1 1 compan; in A -riK. tr i i I Jt3 J-- VUiiti WWII Ul iVX UdUdtUd, has. gone work in the hospital this rnonth ATre Afarv A MmsU, Indiana, is matron of the Marion home. Pat Scanlon oL barracks went on extra duty in company last inursday.

William Camm, 14th Illinois in fantry has been admitted to the Dan ville home. Naw nensioners will nrnhahlv o-M tneir quarterly pensions-1 about the tr I 20th inst. John M. Stevens, sercreant. A.

40th Pennsylvania infantry, died in the nospuai uct. stn, aged 84. Stevens was admitted to the Home on the 26th of last month, from Eldorado, jvansas. Only seventeen veterans in camo Saturday applicants for admission to the. Home.

Seventy empty beds in the bar- racks and fifty in the hospitaL Fri-j day night. "Ifbspital Sergeant Edwards of the Danville home, has' gone to Hagers- town, Maryland, on a sick furlough. Ernest' Starkjohn, a former 'mem ber of barracks, has gone to work I in the hospital at the Marion home, i nomas Bowen, A. 28th and Philetus A. Wilson, E.

74th Illinois I intantry are new members recently admitted to the Danville home. I Jason W. Hastings, 18th Indi- ana infantry is a re-admission that was sent to the hospital for treats ment last week. William Ellis. H.

117th Illinois in- fantry. died in the hospital Oct. 4th. aged 63.. Admitted to the Home uec.

1591, trom Clinton, Mo. John -Hogan of barracks: lames rarreii 01 lonn sneenan ot A. I and Charley Folsom of are sick in the hospital. James Howard of barracks, has thrown up his job in the hospital and William Hock of I has accepted one in tne same institution. illiam F.

Callow, 4th Missouri vairy, state militia, was admitted to I cav the Home and sent to the hospital last rriday. xiamman. 1st batterv Iowa light artillery, died in the hos-. pital Oct. 4th, age-66.

Admitted to the Home Feb 3- 1003, from Webb Mo. William B. Reed and Joe Schneider, extra duty men ot also Andrew Stonebarner of have changed their sleeping quarters to company. WelL well, if old Mark Ridley isn't back here. Yes.

indeed, Mark H. Ridley. 2d Colorado cavalry, was re-admitted to the Home last 'week and ci cm tA tr hirri.l.. I Two new members admitted last week were assigned to barracks on Fridav. viz: Henry Hunter 12th Tennessee cavalry, and Rem'ford Wehr, 9th Wisconsin infantry.

There is much rejoicing among the I memoers 01 tne rlome that general I weekly -inspection has been changed irum ounuay mornings at 9 clock to I saturaar aiternoons at 2 clock. Vane Cammel, a colored veteran and a $30 pensioner who served in D. load colored troops, is a new member assigned to barracks last. Mrs. Mary E.

Farrar of av-vill I i I .1 I Hi A A A A AA A A AAArwA A AA AAA kinds, steel buildings, ste-1 piers etc application. 4. IVANHOE LODGE K. OF P. ENTERTAINS NOVEMBER 12.

From Tuesday's Dally Tlraea. Ivanhoc lodge, No. 14, K. of issued invitations to Golden Cross lodge of Atchison; Fellowship, Wideawake, Fearless and Germanic lodges of Kansas City, and the Tonganoxie and Morton K. of P.

organizations to be present in Leavenworth on the nighc of November 12th when classes will be put through the three initiatory ranks, that of page to be conferred in dramatic form. An invitation was also extended to the grand lodge officers. A special effort has been made to increase the Knights of Pythias' membership in Leavenworth and it is probable that the close of the winter will sec a large addition. The local order proposes that the meeting of November 12 shall be only the first of a scries of jubilee events and have accordingly planned to make it a great success. Sever j1 hundred members of the Kniohts of Pythias lodge should be present on that occasion.

Ivanhoe lodge will confer the rank of page upon a class of candidates Monday night. MR. CORY TURNED DOWN. From Tuesday's Daily Times. County Treasurer Cory appeared before the board of county commissioners yesterday and asked for an extra allowance of $150 for postage stamps for his office.

As this allowance is not authorized ty law it was refused by the commissioners. It is being talked of and this paper has it from good authority that Treasurer Cory made a proposition to County Commissioner Matt Kenedy to withdraw George Roc as a candidate for commissioner if Kennedy would agree to allow the countv treasurer extra allowances, the above $150 being one of them. George Roc is too good a man to allow politicians to jockey with him in this manner. "YANKEE" ROGERS TO WRESTLE HERE FRIDAY. Will Try to Throw Four Men in an HourThose Who Will Oppose Him on the Mat.

From Wednesday's Dally Times. In securing Yankee Rogers, who with Olson, wrestled Frank Gctch in Convention Kansas City, Saturday, for a match here Friday night in the opera house the local promoters have made a move in the right direction. Rogers, with the exception of Gotch, is the best wrestler in America, and he has agreed to throw four men in one hour. The contest will be in the opera house and among those who will go against Rogers are: Lawrence Ral-stad, the champion wrestler of the arm3'j Joe Lcvene, lie local favorite, who altho' pounds lighter than Rogers, is as quick as a cat and look ed upon as one of the best amateurs of his weight in the middle-west: John Miller, the heavyweight cham pion of the north-west from Minne apolis, and Billy Rhodes, our welter weight champion fighter. ALL RAILROADS MAKING IMPROVEMENTS HERE.

Are Repairing Their Bridges and Road-beds, Laying New Rails and Ties on Lines. From Wednesday's Daily Times. Ahout seven railroads here are mak ing extensive improvements 011 their lincs bri(Jges and road-beds. To accompii5ii mis work construction -vcry one fui a 111 111, inc liurnngion 13 completing at East Leavenworth; the Union Pacific is repairing the bridges and trackage along the L. K.

W. the Maple Leaf and Kansas City Northwestern are laying heavier rails along their line from Kansas City, to the Soldiers' home; the Santa Fe is installing new bannister beams on its bridges, as is also the Kansas City Western; the Rock Island is operating a work train on its line to Cameron and Beverly, and the Missouri Pacific is placing new piles under its bridges to Atchison. nri i REPUBLICAN PARTY IS STRONGER IN COWLEY. From Friday's Dally "The republican party, state and county, is stronger than ever in Cowley county," said George S. Marks, of Winfield.

yesterday. Mr. Marks is visiting his son-in-law. S. IL Herrin, of the Kansas City Western here.

"The voters in my neighborhood are all nocking to Hoch and very little sentiment towards Harris is heard From my own opinion and that of others in Winfield and Cow Icy counti'-s the entire republican ticket will be' nominated." Mr. Marks has been a republican voter of Kansas for over thirty years. A son has been born to Mr. and irr 66b. At the dose, of Jhc fiscal 'year there were 684,608,.

survivors cf the civil war on the rolls. The Home reporter in the -Pacific branch writes' to the Sawtelle Veteran "Jamcs Walker, a veteran Of the Civil war, was arrested' at the Home this week on a charge of baring assaulted John; Fannin, a iellow member of the Home inflicting juries that may prove fatal. Fannin is 72 years and the- Home records state that his was broken near the hip; bad fracture probably fatal case. Walker claims that Fannin attempted to strike, him with a cane, but those who Witnessed the trouble say Fannin did nothing of the kind." Lost of letters "remaining in National Military Home, Kansas post-office, unclaimed fweek endiner Octo ber 6, 1900: Blakely, A. Cf Butler.

Camuel: Diltz, A. Dampman, Han-nagan, Hart Harrison, Hess David Kinnev. John Yynn. Miller, J. Moore, George; McNeal, Martin.

"John: Napps, John, Orting, Ed. Lake; Parker, is. Kobmson. J. Robinson, J.

Reed Thomas; Smith, William, Smith, Conrad; Shank, Henry; Shaffer. Hettiej Sampson, George T- Troth. IL 1: Wil liams, George Yshems, Theodpre. in calling for the aboce please say giving. 3ate.

Tri-monthly reports tht Na tional' Homes, show the following membership, Sept.v30th; v. uayton fresent 4.3Q3; absent 1, 351- Total f4. T. A. P.

23. Leavenworth Present' absent 1,523. Total 4.054: T. P. 23.

Hampton Present 2,377: absent 069. Total 3446. T. A. P.

15. Pacific Present absent 1401 Total T. A. 14. Danville Present absent 022.

rotal 3,415. I. A. xr. 10.

Togus Present absent 659 Total T. A. P. 7- Milwaukee Present absent 447- lotal 2463. 1.

A. f. 13. Marion Present absent 600. Total 2,267.

T. A. P. 2. Johnson City Present 972; absent 20.

lotal 1. A. f. 12. The robber that' Dan Lynch and Ben Worden chased out of bar Thursday night, was oyer six feet high and weighed tori.

On the outside he the' robber fan Sifoiil of Strock, of barracks, the night watchman, who attends to trie steam and water pipes'. Ed. headed up britov Franklin avenue where he tip ped toff a couple of, the' home police and" the chase cbmmerfCe'd, the quar ry- running south and down tne run between the chattel "and "Father Kin sella's new Not a man in the party but' what had a gatling gun, but each was afraid to shoot for fear the gun would go off and make a noise, thus disturbing the peace of the camp. Let. that robber beware the next time.

Now, boysi itTs up to you to show Col. Cooke thati the confidence he 1 1 1 11 nas piaceu you ai inese oaiuruay nspections. has" riot been mis-placed. The-' gates a'resopeh alf 'the; morning and you' liberty to- go. tnd comeuntil the'hohr of inspection, 2 clock in the afternoon, at which time -you are expected to be' in your proper place in the ward and com pany to which you belong, unless otherwise excused.

Don't let your brains run away with your heels, when you go put Saturday -morning to take a "spin arounu the but keep in mind the fact that jrou are just as good a man as Teddy Roosevelt, and just as prompt to an swer the call of duty as'you are the pay roll. I We can't call it in the "old summer time of the sixties, but nev ertheless can't some of the old vets inthis Home calL to mind march that will beat the folio wing? -told by the Fort Riley -Guidon: "The th statioruect: at Fdtt Utah, -did some jta.ll hot footiug on its hike-from FortjD. A. Russell. where it was- for the summer's encampment at Fort Logan.

en- route to Colorado Sorings. to take part in the-Pike's Peak celebra tion. For seven days the regiment averaged twenty-one miles a day -carrying full field equipment. and outmarched the cavalry that -was accompanying it. On one day twenty-one miles were covered, in exactly hours." Enactment by the last National Encampment G.

"Post department commanders and past bost cpnimanders who may have removed to another department than that in which, tb- so served, and have there joined a Post upon transfer card. mav. by resolution duly adopted by the which they have been transferred, be entitled to the 'favors' and privileges of such obsitions in 'the Posts in the encampment "of that department, so long as they remain in good standing in. their Posts. The Posts to 'which such pafet officers belong are authorized to include their names in he credentials required to be forwarded ta The above enactment, and conformity thereto, restores to a commander the honors lost by taking his card to another department.

Thus cures a long delayed defect, and it is hoped many past commander will restore himself to his former stand ing. F. L. CUSHING. During the absence of Major Miller Dr.

James Mattison will be in charge of the medical department of the Marion Home, as acting chief surgeon. The Home reporter at Hampton says: "Of the recent appointments in this command, Sergeant Otto Kaatz was a lieutenant of the guard during the reconstruction era in this yicinitv. and Sergeant Samuel Selzer is a post Corporal of our present guard and also a. past cashier in the Home hotel." In the Marion Home James Hib-ben. a member of the guard, has.

been appointed sergeant, of barrack 3, vice Francis M. Caldwell, promoted to the command of barrack 3. There was a rumor in camp Saturday that CoL Chamberlain was to be our next governor. We hope not Lord we Taope not; we don't want any change Will this decision of an Ohio judge have anything to do with the legacies of -deceased members of other National Homes than the Central branch. tion as to what riietition Shall he Members present Oct.

8th ab sent Total James Conway; of barracks, has been transferred to company. Eighteen veterans in camp Monday morning, applicants for admission. Sixty-five empty beds in the barracks and 50 in the hospital yesterday. Charles R. Benedict, of I barracks, has been discharged at his own request.

Albert T. Bush has resigned as night watchman of barracks and is now in company. Members present National Homes 30th, absent 8,368. Total 28,693. James C.

Staton, 7th Missouri cavalry, is a'readmission recently assigned to barracks. John N.Adams, nth Kansas cavalry, has been re-admitted to the Home and assigned to barracks. No more transfers are to be made from the Marion Home until after the election in November next. A car load of the Val Blatz beer from Milwaukee, was unloaded at the canteen yesterday morning. Forty-five members came in from off furlough last week and fifty-five went out.

Jimmy Kearney, who is at. work in the hospital annex in barracks, has been transferred from company to the hospital. William II. McElroy, of company, late boss of the dfltli room in the general mess hall, is sick in the hospital. Since the first of October 13 veterans have been admitted; 8 re-admitted; 4 transferred to other branches; 14 discharged and 9 died.

1 September 30th there were 119 veterans present in the National Homes applicants for admission to the different branches. Louis Maillott, 21st New Jersey infantry, died in the hospital Oct. 7th aged 78. Admitted to the home Sept. 2, 1895, from Ogden, Utah.

John B. 'Minhardt, and" Wolfgang Fredrick, of the first ward of barracks, were taken to the hospital sick yesterday morning. Leander M. Chase has resigned his position as superintendent of the dump men, and can hereafter be found in I barracks. Col.

C. W. Wadsworth, assistant inspector-general, was at the Pacific branch during the last week in September. Lewis E. Baldwin, 46th Illinois infantry, died in the hospital Oct.

6th aged 79. Admitted to the home January 15, 1889, from Columbus, Kansas. Peter Bronk, 3d battery Iowa Light Artillery, died in the hospital Oct. 7th aged 79. Admitted to the home March 8, 1897, from Kansas City, Kansas.

The funerals of Peter A. Bronk and Louis Maillott, who died in the hospital last Sunday, will take place this morning at 8 o'clock, Chaplain Payne officiating. releasor 1. Koot, a lormer member of this home and boss of the Dump gang, is now chief of the Home police in the Pacific branch, vice Thomas McDowell resigned. Major Paul E.

Divine, treas'irer of the Johnson City Home, was married to Miss Lulu Milbum, daughter of Capt. Milburn, quartermaster of the same branch in Knoxville, Sept. 28. They will take up. their residence at the Mountain branch.

The last open air concert by the Home band in the' Togus Home, took place, the last day in September. This dosed the season and 'the band boys were givena week's vacation. Fred Elser, the bandmaster at the Pacific branch, who resigned last month, had held his position as Musical Director in that home for fifteen years, and is over three score and ten. Thhe Sawtelle Veteran says: "Liieut. F.

Henrii Greissenger, late bandmaster of the 12th U. S. Inf. stationed at Governor's Island, New York Harber, assumed charge of the Home band in the Pacific branch as its director, Oct. 1st.

The last day of September the Dayton Home had 18 empty beds in the barracks, and 26 in the hospital; Leavenworth 67-57; Hampton 32-47; Pacific 150-72; Danville 358-54; Togus 160-23; Milwaukee 39-42; Marion 150-20; Johnson City 524-73. Totals in barracks 2,037 hospitals 408. Shipman N. Holden, of barracks, who died in Marrietta, Ohio, Sept. a6lh, came here from Perry, Oklahoma, and was.

admitted to the home Jan. 12 1903. He went out on furlough. May 22d last, the day after that quarter's pensions were paid. He died from, diabetes.

During the last ten days of Sep-j icmoer, tne uayton Home gained 41 in merbership; Leavenworth Danville 10; Togus 12; Pacific Johnson City 15. Total 82. The losses were Marion one: Hampton 13, and 15. Total 2. Net gain Old Whit," is going to leave us next Tuesday, C.

W. Kupp, mayor of Caldwell. Kansas, is coming up here that day to take him back home to that city. In other words Sam'l. Whitman, the old vet that fell out of a third story window in the Grart House in Leavenworth, last enriner and was jammed almost to a jelly, and who has been laying in the home hospital ever since, beinz oatched uo and brought back to life, by some of the finest surgeons and most atten tive nurses the west, is about to come forth again.

Not in al! he "pristine vigor" of an Boomer, but in pieces and narcels. as far as bones and flesh is concerned, and with his usual comolcment of brains still in working order, "Old Vhit served 4th Michiean cav alry, and was one of the first settlers that made the break for Oklahoma. when the lands were first opened, where he has been a most prominent character up to within a year or two ago. That the people down that way still keep him in memorv is evident from thte fact that they are sending the mayor of his resident city to bring him back, so that they can get one more look at him, and hear his Oklahoma "Yapp" before he crosses over the last divide. Members present Oct.

10th absent 1,508. Total 4,048. Seventy empty beds in the barracks and 43 in the hospital yesterday. John Kelly, of A barracks, was taken to the hospital sick last Tuesday. Capt.

Robert Clarke, of barracks, has been discharged at his own request Twenty-three veterans in camp Tuesday, night applicants for admission. Albert Longwell, of barracks, returned from furlough the first of the week. Charles E. Folsom has been transferred from sick in hospital to duty in barracks. George C.

Howe, 6bth Massachusetts infantry, is a re-admission assigned to I barracks this week. William B. Snedegar and John Drum, are back from furlough and quartered in barracks. Newton Cobb, 84th Illinois infantry, was admitted to the home this week and sent to the hospital for treatment on Tuesday. 136th Ohio in fantry, who was re-admitted to the home this week is in the hospita sick.

John Daly, 13th U. S. Colored ii 1 rtniery, a patient in tne nospuai has been transferred from this branch to the Marion Home. Oscar Rankin. 14th Indiana in fantry.

of barracks, now absent on furlough at Terre Haute, has been transferred to the Danville Home. Bradly C. Shugart, 7th Illinois infantry, died in the hospital Oct. 8 aged 64. He was admitted to the home Dec.

22, 1892, from Caldwell Kan: While there are thirty absent with out leave at the Marion Home, and thirty-six at the Danville Home, our absentees without leave amount to sixty. Frank Greissenger, a member of the band in the Mariion Home, is a son of Lieut. F. H. Greissenger.

late bandmaster on Governor Island. Y. harbor, now director of the Home band at the Pacific branch. Mrs. Hattie Shaffer of Shawnee, Oklahoma, was up here this week on a visit to her Ezra Milks, of Shaffer was a former.

of Leavenworth county. Recent deaths in the' Pacific branch: John S. Parrott, 126th Illinois infantry; William S. Peters, nth Kansas cavalry; and Thomas Holt, 12th Indiana infantry. Isaac Ely, 16th Ohio infantry, died at Eureka Springs, Sept.

29th aged 68, while absent on fur-lousrh. Admitted to the home April 6, 1905 from Rich Hill. Ely went out on furlough right after pen sion day in August. The old boys in I barracks say there is a member in that company who. having got to be a corporal by "honeying around," is now "honeying around" to get to be sergeant.

Can this be a fact, and the assistant in spector in camp this week? According to the last report of the Pension Commissioners, the Kansas pension agency disburses the largest amount of money. Topeka, with $i-, 957,754 of disbursements; Columbus, $14336,601, and Indianapolis, continue to be the leading agencies for the payment of pension. Pittsburg disbursed $0,351, o01- i ne greatest disbursement within state ines went to Ohio veterans, wno a positive gataRRH bUKt Ely's Cream Balm quickly abMrted-. Gives Relic! at Once. It cleanses, soothes heals and protects the diseased membrane.

It cures Catarrh. and drives away a Cold in the Head quickly. He-stores the Senses of HAY FEVER TftBtn ami SmelL Fufl size 50 at Drug gists or by mail Trial Size 10 cts. by maiL Elv Brothers. 5fi Warran Strefii- New York.

Iron and steel bridges of all Estimates and plans furnished drew $14,835,000. Pennsylvania coming next with $13,225,941, and New York third with $11,835,000. The old friends of Andy Mc-Knight, Major Martin's trusty orderly in the treasurer's were surprised to. see him in camp last Tuesday. Andy had just come in to get his winter clothes, as he had to go back to Argentine, to attend on a sick daughter, Mrs.

Holden. who is not expected to live. Accompanying Mr. McKnight was his niece, Mrs. F.

C. Drake, of Winnipeg, Canada, who is visiting the United States with her husband, and who having fallen in love with our country have decided to become -true and faithful subjects of Uncle Sam. The Marion Chronicle says that Major George W. Steele offers a reward for evidence that will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the person who has maliciously cut a wire fence about his farm near the Soldiers' Home. The fence has been cut on three or four occasions.

George C. Howe, who was re-admitted to the home this week, is back in his old place in the drum corps, and has been transferred from I to barracks. Old members ot six to eight years ago will remember Howe, in connections with the old time drum corps when it was in barracks. The Home reporter at Hampton sends out this squib: "One of our institutionized angels who recently began worrying how he would get his shirt ort over wings after he reached paradise, received a humiliating jolt from one of our happy-go-lucky genials who sarcastically remarked that the real difficulty would be in finding how he could get his hat over his horns." Many of the old friends of Thomas Welstead, were sorry to learn the other day that he was going to leave us, for Tom is one of those old New York vets that clings to a comrade when he is in need, and who is al ways sauare and honest with every one. Tom served in A.

6th New York Heavy Artillery, and will leave a vacant bed in barracks, to take one in the Danville Home. The Leavenworth boys in that home will greet Tom about Saturday. 01 naaoxoo 'AvasaNaaAV A carload of sisal was received at the state prison yesterday from Yucatan by way of New Orleans. There Is so much of it on hand now that the officials have difficulty finding a plftO to store it. The twine plant is not in operation as yet as eoine new machinery ordered has not arrived.

Heavy enow In Minnesota and the Da-kotas is the direct caue of the cold spell which has struck Leavenworth and vicinity this week. A number of persons declared yesterday that they thought s. heavy frost was due in this part of the country for last night. While the men of Leavenworth are busy purchasing their winter headgear, the merchants and hatters are buying their next summer's stock of straw hats and light headgear. For seyeral days one of the salesrooms at the National has been filled with new styles and shapes' in' straw hats and the like.

and the sight of so many straw hats caused chills to run up the male pedestrians' backs. The hat exhibit was in charge of A. T. Ilines of St. Louis, representative of an eastern hat company.

The local railroads are still worrying over the car shortage question. Up to date the railroad officials have discovered While they 1 no relief from the famine. are handling as much freight as possible. possible. the stuff to be shipped is accumulating In the freight houses.

Charles A. Hparrow, the Insurance agent, met Frank Speffen, sn insurance adjuster, yesterday and the two went over the matter of securing the insurance to cover the loss to the home of T. T. Rey- burn which was destroyed by fire Monday morning. The two went to the office of the German Fire Insurrnce company and secured $3,000 on the house and Jl.Ow on the contents.

An Atchison man worried for a week over" a pain in his side, thinking he was threatened with appendicitis. He lay awake nights with it. His appendix kept growing in his mind until it was as big as a link of summer sausage. Finally he braced up, prepared for the worst and went to his family doctor, who, after making a carerui examination, said unfeelingly, "No. you do not have appen dicitis, and, after making this examina tion, I am not sure tnat you even nave an appendix." This made the man so mad he tad a notion to Jump on the doctor and lick him.

He had his mouth set for the good things his would bring in for him ta eat while he was convalescing and had expected to have a good time ordering. wife around waiting on Atchison Glot-e A num- bf-r- Of Leavenworth men have been troubled with this mysterious feeling of late. TV, U-- P.mwM fiinutar on (assault and battery and was fined $100 .1 cT iu- ot, LrfwH Tom Mayo, one of the best news paper men in the west and an old veteran, is back in the Marion Home. Tom thought he could -make a go "of it on newspaper work out side but like other old veteran journalists, he found it was time to stop that strenuousjty of other davs and take a to the old home that Uncle Sam gives-to his children of '61. From the number of letters that have bccn receiYed th ol boy inai wcrc 10 omcr- nomcs the past mne months -it-would seem as thouKh they were not satisfied with their surroundings, for one.

and all express a longing and "desire for the on the and a Jeierminaiioii iu gci transierrea nacK to "old, Leavenworth" as soon as they COUia Will this order have any effect as to tne Presnce of pension agents on the grounds ot the National Homes: A general order just promulgated by the war department positively prohibits the soliciting of pension or other claims acainst the TTnitrl Ion militarv reservations" or at militarw measures effectualH- to prevent such solicitation. Officers and enlisted men who give information with a view to aiding persons to solicit such claims will lav themlvAC UnKi. trial by courtmartial. Pension Commissioner VVamw ports that at the end of the fiscal vr Ttiti' tn iiivic were un tne pension rolls the names of 071 persons, a nci aecrease Ot I2.3.70 dur- ing the year. The total -rmmw J- the to-o-- pensioners stricken from the rolls numbered at as of whom death claimed 43300 There is still one Revolutionarl War widow tuJ T.ltll Vrm: Huiuucr ot war ot and her daughter from Tonga-1 posts, camps or stations, and com-noxie, Kansas, were visitors to the I manding officers are directed to take rlomc the past week.

Mrs. -Farrar is I a sister ot John t.C. Pace, a mem- ber of the. Home police force, and I as jonn is an old Colorado off ice holder in the republican oartv: thi I was the first time his sister Mary I iu corrai mm long I enough to have a chat. Mliiam K.

Irwin. A fitT -Tnrlii m- I tantry. has been, trantfrred front the trauYjuc orancn while absent on furloughs 'in speakin of To a harrarLc barracks who was. discharged from JS' nth at his Cwn re" "Marion asks: 'Wonder this is the sam.