The San Francisco call., 1898-07-08
WOODLAND MEN
 REFUSE TO ENLIST
One Company Assigned to the Eighth Regiment Decides
 to Return Home.

CAMP BARRETT, Fruitvale, July IT, Woodland and Yolo County will not be represented in the Eighth California Vol unteers. The members of Company F, Second Infantry, N. G. C., lately desig- mated as Company M of the new regiment, have refused to be mustered into the United States service because their cap- tain was not to continue in command, and tomorrow, disarmed and stripped of their accouterments, they will march out of camp and return to their homes.
 In adopting this course, they have acted upon the advice of their friends, and al though they may be dismissed from the State service, they feel that even this dis grace is preferable to what they consider would be assertion of their captain.
 In marked contrast to the action of the Woodland company Is that of the men from Bedding. They, too, have lost their captain, brave and efficient officer, and another has been appointed Tn hlS stead At first the men from Shasta and Siskiyou were inclined to adopt the same course as the others, but wiser counsels prevailed. Had Captain Smith said the word, his men would have stood by him to the last; but it was he who pointed out to them that they owed a higher duty to their State and to their country than to any one man. and finally they needed his words and resolved to answer the nations s call.
 Captain Smiths loyalty will not go un- rewarded, for he was given to understand tonight that he would receive hrst lieutenant s commission in the regiment, though 1t may not be with hls old com
 To-day's exciting events in Camp Bar rett have developed another man with pa triotic sentiments as lofty as those ShoWn by Captain Smith, and though 1t may be that the men from Chico are not given an opportunity to show their true worth on the field of battle, the State will know that in Private l.. Bond no truer soldier can be found. Bond came into camp holding a second heutenants commission in his company, but when the appoint ment of officers for the volunteer regi- ment was published it was found that his name was not included in the list. In stead of returning home Bond reported to his captain that he still desired to go to the front with his company, and so when the muster roll of Company A was hand ed to Captain Murray this morning 1t bore the name of Private Bond. He took the oath with his comrades and has laid aside his sword and officers blouse aIid will henceforth carry a gun.
 Captain Murray resumed his work of mastering in the companies at an early hour this morning, and while Companies l. and A were undergoing the transforma- tion from National Guardsmen to United States soldiers animated caucuses were being held in the streets and tents of Companies NJ and H, the Woodland and Bedding organizations. The members of whatever They were determined not to enter the service unless they were given Captain Ward, and nothing could change their determination. In this they were townsmen who visited the camp, and many messages from their homes all tended to show that the entire community indorsed the stand they had taken
 After a time the company was formed in line and Captain Ward addressed the men briefly. He then introduced Captain George B. Baldwin. who had been ap- pointed as his successor. Captain Bald