Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — Pay for Civil War Mules. [ARTICLE]

Pay for Civil War Mules.

Butte, Mont. —"A war settlement warrant” for $986, signed by Secretary of the Treasury W. G. McAdoo, is in possession now of the heirs of Samuel H. Pipes in payment for 15 Missouri mules which the government requisitioned from him in the Civil war. Efforts to collect for the mules had been made by Pipes for 40 years, according to attorneys for the claimants. Pipes died here six years ago.