BENO MAKES THEM CRAZY.
Philippine Booze Racks the Brain of
Government Troops.
A train from the West brought in twenty-three regulars in the United States army yesterday who were being taken to the government hospital for the insane in Washington, D. C. The men were from the Philippine islands. Corporal Mills said that their insanity was probably caused by drinking beno. He stated that while he was in the islands he was detailed as a guard for thirty men who were brought back to this country and whose insanity was directly due to beno, the cheap liquor of the islands.
Five prisoners who had been sentenced by court-martial for various military offenses to the federal prison at Leavenworth passed through Kansas City yesterday on their way to Leavenworth. They were from regiments stationed at Jefferson barracks at St. Louis. Corporal H. G. Mills was in charge of the prisoners.
Two cars containing navy recruits for Norfolk, Va., pass through Kansas City every day. Already eight cars have passed, and the railroads know of four more cars on the way.
