Butte semi-weekly miner., 1888-08-22
THE TENTED FIELD.
PREPARATIONS F0R zHE E6CAHP-
MENT AT HRLEzA.

The Butte Companies Ordered to Assemble
at the Armory and Take the Special
Train on the Montana Central-To be
in Camp Three Days Who Will be
There.
The members OF the local militia who are
able to get away from Butte this week, to
accompany their regiment to Helena to at
tend the militia encampment ordered by
the Governor, are full of pleasurable an
ticipations Of the three days. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, under canvas.
To most Of the members it will be no
novelty to put in time in this open-air
fashion. as nearly every one has at some
time or other been member OF a hunting
or fishing excursion and passed days and
nights in the woods by the banks Of some
fayorite trout stream. But to all it will be
novelty to be a denizen Of tented city,
in which none but the sterner sex are resi-
dents, and in which all their comings and
goings are .ordered by strict discipline,
where one man is master of the lives and
liberties of all, and where regular hours are
enforced under martial code. The militia
men who have any ardor for the art of
war can look forward to something new in
he way of field maneuvres, some
thing that they can only gain
an linking of by being brought
inte Nose contact with the other COM
panleB OF the regiment assembled, as at
Helena, in one place. The regimental drills
which they will there be exercised in are
exhiiarating in the extreme and will give
the participants faint conception OF the
art oi war, though only in a mimic way.
Inree days are a very short time in which
TO gain any experience in military
man@uvers on a large scale, and the MEM
bers OF the First Regiment and the others
VINO attend the encampment will have only
pegun to get an insight into the duties of q
soldier when ordered out for active duty
by the time the three days are up. But a
beginning must be made some time and if
the encampment is made regular annual
occurrence it will in time effect great i'm
proyement in the military knowledge of the
mliitial of the Territory. The MINER has
made arrangements to receive daily
bulletin from the camp which will keep
relatives and friends here apprised of the
events OF the boy 8 in camp.
AS far as at present known, the following
companies OF the First Regiment will leave
here Tomorrow afternoon ON the Montana
CentFsi: Company B, Captain Branna-
gan, with about so men; Company F,
Captain Kessler, with about SO men; Com
pany g, Captain Shoemaker, with about
40 men; Company D, of Virginia City,
Captain Henry Filing, with about 40 men,
and Company E, of Dillon, Captain r. J.
Moore, with about 35 men. The regi-
mental officers are Colonel @. F. Lloyd,
Major D. Lamont, Adjutant L. E. Holmes.
Reglmental Quartermaster j. F. Loeber,
Sergeant Major G. F. Marsh.
The following general order was yester-
day issued by Colonel Lloyd:
HEADQUARTERS FIRST REG. N. G. N.
BUTTE, MONTANA, August IS, 1885,
General Orders No. 3.
1. In compliance with General Orders No.
z, Adiutant Generals office, dated August
l, 1888, Cos. B. F. and G. of the First Reg
iment, N. G. M, will assemble under arms
at their respective armories promptly at 1
O'Clock p. No., August 20, 1888. The bat.
TALON will form under command of Captain
Brannagan in front OF pavilion on Granite
street, and proceed to the Montana Central
depot, en- route to Helena.
2. Officers and men will provide them
selves with necessary bedding, ETC., and de-
posit same at the armory not later than 1
p. m. All bundles will bA plainly marked
with owners name.
3. The regiment qua artermaster will pro-
vide transportation for baggage to the de.
pot and the transportation for the troops
from Butte to Helena.
By order of