The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-12
little SPANISH BLOOD
That's What You Tell the Bar
keep il You Want Whiskey.
THE HUMORS OF THE WAR
Shooting Gallery Proprietors Dress
Their Targets to Look Like Spaniards.
Captain Stivers Rough Riders
Still Drilling Night and Day.

have offered themselves as recruits for
Captain Stivers' troop of cavalry are
beginning to realize that there is not
much play about being made soldiers
of. and Captain Stivers has reached
equally as strong an appreciation of
the fact that il is no boys play to
raise a troop of cavalry and prepare IL
for service at a few days notice. The
business end of the undertaking has SO
completely engrossed his attention
that he has never yet found time to
give a single command to his men. but
has been compelled to intrust the
drilling of the troop to his l~ieutenants
and civilians up in military tactics who
nave placed their services at his COM
mand. while he devoted his attention
to the executive affairs of the troop.
The men have been kept at drill al
most constantly since the troops was
accepted, and have already been given
a pretty good idea of what a soldiers
life and the discipline are like. al
though they have not been brought
down to any rations or the routine of
camp work. The arduous labors. how
ever, have not diminished the enthus-
iasm of anyone and ali are as anxious
for service as he day they started in.
The steady drill has brought the
troops to a degree of perfection i'm ma
neuve and tactics that was hardly
to have been expected in so short a
time. and barring the fact that the
horses will not have received as much
training as could be desired. the troop
will leave Butte well prepared to take
it's place i'm Colonel Griggsby's regi-
ment. Some little difficulty has been
experienced in securing just the kind
of horses desired. and to this is due
the fact that the horses will not be as
well drilled as the men.
Captain Stivers is still absent in the
Bitter Roc country securing horses.
He wired Lieutenant Wedekind yes
terday hat he had shipped 81 head of
fine animals. which will probably ar
rive in Butte to-day. The troop al
ready has about IS head of good horses
and another bunch of animals is ex-
pected in to-day, which Will give them
an ample number to pick from, and
everything will be in readiness for the
arrival of Lieutenant Ahern. who is
expected in Butte tomorrow to mus
ter in the troop.
Two platoons OF the troopers were
given mounted drill on the flats yester-
day afternoon by Lieutenant Bailey
and surprised everybody by the man
ner i'm which they went through the
movements. Last evening the whole
troop was taken out on the street and
given marching drill. DIR. Silverman
examined a number of recruits again
yesterday.
Those who have passed the prelimi-
nary examination and are ON the tenn
porary roll are as follows: Harry
Bryant. J. &. Collins. II. &.
r. Dooley. g. Connors. l.. +. Hansen.
l.. NJ. Dcsiardc, w. |. Wright, r..
Christensen, Peter Bruin. NJ. w. Re-
gan. X. q. Richards. l.. J. Dicrks. Jas.
c. sullivan. Wilbur J.. Boyee, John 5.
! Wolf. Ed NcRoberts, j. PAU Mitchell.
Paul Huddoff, John NJ. Tobin. James
w. chips. Joseph Cardona, William
Rankin, Thomas Casey. william De-
witt. Judson Brown. w. Z. Sanders.
Vincent Price. Clarence Langley, Thos.
j. Walker. Thomas II. Mathews. A. G.
Walker. II. Il. Darlington. Dell Ans
den. Joseph Fisher. William +. Maur-
er, G. y. Payton, James X. Wycof. w.
J. Weeks. J. G. Gillespie, r. :. Reeber,
William Leecher, ID. 4. Haldeman. \.
:. Price. John Chcnette. A. T.. Cun-
ningham. I'D Shey, Ed V. O'Malley,
W. s. Gillespie. John Dempsey. J..
Kahn, George Brown, Charles Nogles.
Richard Belliaviera, J. j. Hill. A. Il.
Gray, Robert Carleton. Fred X. Wind
man. NJ. X. Dunard. John Cameron.
James Lane. William Fay. Maurice
Flynn. William Gillette, William Tighe.
f. j. Ferguson. Dan Harley. r.. f.. Lee
Beau. :. Dunkel, Il. F. D~eloughery.
Robert w. Baker, James Roach. Frank
McGloin. Nols w. Pearson. John Har-
ris, Arthur Roberts. Frank Gregory,
Adolph Zeigler. Il. w. Simpson, Steve
McCarty. G. II. Kerr. T.. j. Kennedy.
w. +. Johnson, 5. Turnbull, Charles
Newman. A. koblnth.
y rather amusing joke is told at the
Expense of Attorney T.. j. Dierks. who
Is one of the most active members Of
the troop. One night the troop was as
sembling for drill at the armurv. Lieu
tenant Wedekind intended Filling in
the street and spectators had gathered
in the aTmoTy in such numbers that no
room was left for lining up the men.
Lieutenant Wedekind directed Attorney
Dierks. who was acting for the occa-
sion ar sergeant, to take a squad of
four n clean out the hall. Obedient
tn orders Mr.. Dierks picked four men
and. procuring broums. started in to
clean out in dead earnest. He accom-
plished Lieutenant Wedekind's purpose
i'm driving the crowd and the troop was
marched out into the street. After the
hall was clean Mr.. Dierks and his squad
swept out the armory and put things tn
rights i'm fine shape, and then started
cut To find the troop. They overlook il
as drill was about over. and when
Lieutenant Wodekind asked him where
he had been So long. the lawyer trooper
replied: Why, YOU told me TO clean
cut the armOry and ! did IL. We swept
the whole business from one end to the
other Lieutenant Wedekind said moth
ing. but smiled way up i'm his sleeves.
The Meagher guards. or rather the
Irish company organized with the
guards as a nucleus. has commenced
drilling to be in shape To be offered the
government should another call for
troops be made. Mayor Harrington has
given the use of the armory on
Wednesdays and Fridays and from this
time on drills viii be held regularly.
Yesterday afternoon those who have
signed the roll who work nights were
drilled by Captain T. j. O'Leary. and
the dayshift men turned out and were
drilled in the evening by John Cleary.
About $50 men participated in the two
drills. Up to date 164 miners and others
Of Irish nativity or descent have signed