Only One From Newton
Only Two Colored Men
Enlist Here, and the Other Is From Arkansas
Doctor Boyd
recruited two colored men late this morning.
Only one was from Newton, while the other is a native of Arkansas,
having lived here but a few weeks.
Frank Childs' son,
Charles, is the only one to save Newton from oblivion. He is 22 years of age, is 5 feet 4-1/2 inches
in height, and weighs 140 pounds.
The Arkansawyer is
William Andrew Brown; he is 32 years old, is 5 feet 6, and also weights 140
pounds.
They showed up but a
short time before No. 6 pulled in, with the result that they didn't get to the
train in time. They started for the
train on a double quick, in command of Dr. Boyd. One of the men carried a musket, while the
other carried a big valise. The doctor
waved an American flag frantically at the train, but while the Santa Fe
officials are patriotic they have no provision in the rules for recognizing an
American flag as a railroad signal. No.
6 accordingly got away without them.
Lieut. Hudson came
up from Wichita with a car carrying twenty-four recruits from Wichita,
Winfield, and Arkansas City. The balance
of his men, twenty-five in number, went to Topeka on the Rock Island. The two from Newton will be sent to Topeka
this evening and will be taken in tomorrow.
They will be put in what will probably will be the Twenty-third Kansas.
The Evening Kansan,
Newton, Kansas. Friday, July 8,
1898. Page 1.
