Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-18
FIFTEEN CENTS A WEEK
ON THE MARCH.
The Clarksvilie City Guards I'm
Route to Coal Creek.
They Are Ordered Out to Fight Riotous
Miners and Are Compelled to Pay
Their Transportation.


vile City Guards. the local military
company, received orders to hold
themselves in readiness to leave for
the scenes Of the mining troubles iu
East Tennessee at u moments notice.
The company was soon summoned to
the armory, and later in the evening,
after the train had gone north, they
received orders to march. This or
der created much excitement both la
military and civil circles. Fathers
and mothers did not like the idea of
their boys leaving for the wilis Of
East Tennessee to- be made targets II
for the riotous miners. Duty called
them, however, and 1t was plain that
they must 20. The company re-
mained at the armory all night and
at O'Clock this morning the line Of
march for the depot was ordered.
They reached there in time to catch
the train for Guthrie. Following
Is a list Of the men who boarded
the train. 1t may not be complete,
bat II is nearly so:
Captain Clay Stacker, Lieut.. Col.
Morris X. Clark, First Lieut.. r. @.
Dibble, Second Lieut.. j. n. Wilson,
First Sareeants p. Slattery, Second
Sergeant Jas. Slattery, Orderly Sar-
geant ]. L. Hodgson, Officer OF Conn
missary Department Gus Blackman
(volunteerI, Walter Atkinson, Chas.
McManus, Nelson Cofiman, @. *.
Barnes, Geo. Dye, Burnett Howell
Substitute for Claude Tarpley), Sam
Lyman, Stratton Coulter, Arthur
Moore, Sam Swift, Ohas. Kincannon,
Jno. Dugan. Percy Jackson, d. Far
mer, Walter Thomas, Henry Belote,
Lewis Neblett, CASTOR O'Brien,
Malcolm Smith, Ben Emmons, j. g.
Buchanan, William Pettus, Kit
Rawles, Ewing Rollow, Walter
Neblett, Dinah Blackman (volun-
teer), F. g. Wake (volunteer), @.
Daniel, George Leigh.
When the company reached the
depot they encountered trouble that
they were not anticipating. The
message ordering them to march
stated that the agent here had been
notified to furnish transportation for
the entire company to Nashville.
The agent, however, had received no
such orders and they were all called
on for their fare. The boys had
made no preparations for anything Of
this kind and had not Captain Stack.
er come to their rescue they w0uid
not have gone. He, however, gave
the agent check covering the fare
for the entire command from
here 10 Nash vile and the train pulled
out.
This action on the part Of the au-
thorities In calling out company
and ordering 1t to scene OF riot
hundreds oi miles distant without
making arrangements Tor their trans
.portation, Is just about as consistent
ss was the sheriff who hung mur-
derer after making him (the murder
er) pay for the rope. 1t is hard
enough for company to put itself
up as a target for blood-thirsty
miners, without having to pay Its
way on a train, TO have the pleasure
d doing such thing. This, how
ever, IL in strict keeping with the no.
tcrious incapacity OF the administers
tion.
MILITARY NOTES.
About 10 o'clock last night the boys
were ordered to leave here with two
days cooked rations. A grocer had
to be awakened before provis ions
could be had. After everything had
been procur, d Jno. Stewart did the
cooking, and they went away well
supplied.
tial Bailey, colot ed, went along
with the boys and said he would
stick to them through thick and thin.
Hal will come very near doing 1t, too.
Only one member Of the company,
Frank Rousey, refused outright 10
go, and he could not he found this
morning or they would have taken
him along too. The LEAF-CHKoN-
IcLE ventures the assertion, that no
company In the State came ss near
taking all CT It's men as did the
Clafksville City Guards, and there II
no better company when It comes
right down 10 patriotism.