The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-07-03
THE GALLANT THIRD.
Nearing the Close of This Years En-
campment---A Report of Yesterdays
Competitive Drill and Games.

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Houglton is to be congratulated upon
the ability that he has displayed both
as an organizer and ali executive officer.
That he has been ably assisted by his
staff and the ofScers of the various COM
panies goes without saying. The MEM
bers of the Sd regiment are as proud of
| Col. Houghton as he is of the regiment.
! Only three companies entered for coln-
petitive drill. These were G company
of The Dalles, d company OF Hood
! River, and X company of LaGrande.
At the close of the drill protest was
entered against company for having a
man in their ranks who belonged to A
company and who had not been prop
! erly transferred. The protest having
been sustained by the officers, COM
/ pany was ruled out and the: regimental
plate was awarded to d company OF
Hood River. The following is the score:
| G company, 81 per cent; ID Dcompany,
So per cent; K company, 40 per cent.
In the 440 yards race the second, third
and fourth heats were run off and Priv
ate Ryan of F company, Private L. d.
Estes of company, and Private Nc
Curry OF K company were the respect
i've winners.
+ Company ID OF Hood River has been
declared the winner of the challenge
plate in the competitive drill, yesterday.
! We congratulate the Hood River boys
on their success, and we prophesy that
it will take hard work between this and
d. IL f,,,.
other company to get possession of it.
Some fifteen or twenty of the boys were
put in the guard-room yesterday for
trespassing in a field of oats on their
way back from bathing in the Columbia.
As no intentional wrong was committed
the Judge of the field court promptly dis
charged them.
(! The CHRONICLE today heard gen
tleman from Portland, who is taking in
the pleasures (Pl of camp life at Camp
Chenoweth, seriously advise the drum
major to by no means take a bath till
the camp is over. He said, ''Look at
me, / took a bath Yesterday. l had to
:, use q jack plane to scrape the dirt off me; (;
but got it OFF and now | look like Il
those of a scare crow =
Ordinance Sergeant Fritz, had his feel
ings badly lacerated yesterday morning.
Adjutant Haworth gave him an order
which read as follows: "The ordinance
sergeant is hereby detailed for duty in
the First Infantry band for the day,
and willreport at their quarters at guard
mount and at battalion drill.
By order of Col. Houghton.
J. F. Haworth, First Lieut. and Adgt.
Visions of trip to Portland with its
accompanying pleasures were rudely
dashed to the ground when the sergeant
discovered that it was to the Third regi-
The CHoNIcLE made a slight mistake
, the other day when it said that company
E contributed to the furnishing of a
horse for Major Lucas. The facts are
company E generously offered to con-
tribute, but company H as generously
, refused to allow any one to contribute a
dollar but themselves. They have fine
sense of honor, these cowboys have, and
: finer lot of all round manly, generous
4 material out of which to make soldiers
does not exist anywhere.
Company A desires, through the
CHRONICLE, to thank c.. E. Haight the
restaurant man, for box of fine cigars
$ Now while this thing is in fashion ii
somebody would give the CHRONICLE a
$ chance to do some thanking on its own
g account, of a nature similar to the above
we would do it up in great shape.
A pleasing incident of yesterdays
, camp life was picnic given by a num-
Der of Dalles ladies to the officers of the
third regiment followed by an informal
officers reception of their entertainers
n at the officers quarters. The following
ladies took part in the entertainment:
+. Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Barret, Mrs
Fish, Mrs. Grove, Mrs. Houghton, Mrs
e Hollister, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Sampson
d Miss Lang, Miss Bessie Lang, Miss
e Michel, Miss Rose Michel, Miss An
d nette Michel, Miss Ursula Ruch, Miss
9 Louise Ruch, Miss Maize Williams, Miss
Virginia Marden, Miss Florence Lewis.
f and Miss Matilda Hollister.
}, 1t is admitted on all hands that
n G company if the best drilled company
k of the whole regiment. That D company
d or any other company, shonld have
# carried off the challenge plate is ac-
e counted for solely by the vital mistake
g of transferring man from A company
e to company in the field without due
|, authority. Just who was to blame fol