The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-01
ANACONDA NEWS.
RECRUIT IN ANACONDA
Effort to Be Made Here to Raise
Men for New Regiment.
MONTANANS ARE WANTED
First Lieutenant Green OF the Thirty
Fourth Volunteer Infantry Arrives
to Open Recruiting Office
In Anaconda.
MON TANANS ARE WANTED

First Lieutenant John V. Green of
the 34th United States volunteer infan-
try arrived in the city yesterday to re-
cruit men for the new regiment. He
will open offices to-day and proceed
with the work
& Lieutenant Green was second lieu
tenant of Company M, I'd Wisconsin,
during the Spanish American war and
served in Porto Rico. His regiment
was mustered out last November and
he was recently appointed to his pres
ent rank in the new volunteer army.
Last Thursday he reported to his COM
manding officer at Fort Logan, Colo
RADIO, where the regiment is being
raised, and was Immediately sent
north on recruiting duty. His orders
were to report to Capt. George A.
Detchmendy of the 22d infantry, the
regular recruiting officer at Butte. He
did so Sunday and was Immediately
sent here to open an Office.
Captain Detchmendy will be here
Wednesday," said Lieutenant Green
last evening, 'and at that time the re-
cruits will be examined by him. 1t is
impossible to say how long l shall
stay here. 1t may be week or may
be month. My duty will be to re-
cruit men for the 34th volunteer in
cruits for the regular arm of the serv-
ice also, but the particular duty is to
get men for the new regiment.
1.-THE Saith is a regiment which firm
ly believe will be the best of the vol
unteer army. We have the Rocky
, partment of the Colorado and the De-
partment of Dakota to recruit FROM
Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico.
Utah, Arizona, Montana, North and
South Dakota, and / believe Minnesota
will contribute to the regiment. Many
of Roosevelt's rough riders from the
Southwest are enlisting in the regi-
ment. Can you ask for better men
than these states produce?
THE regiment is to be organized
and equipped at Fort Logan, Colorado,
where it's present headquarters are.
Its field and line officers are of excel
lent material, some of them men OF
more than national fame. The regi-
ment is to be armed with the Krag-
Jorgensen rifle and there will be an
abundant supply of ammunition for
target practice before we go to the
Philippines. In every way the regi-
ment is to be equipped in first class
style.
This Is an excellent opportunity for
a young man with military tastes to
enter the army. The opportunities for
advancement will be many. In the
first place all the non mmlSSloneu OF
ficers will have to be selected from the
men we recruit. Then, when Vacan-
eies occur among the officers by rea-
son of death, disability or resignation,
promotions will be made to fill them.
"I have no definite knowledge of the
matter, but it is my belief that the 10
regiments now being formed in this
country will be held here until after
the rainy season in the Philippines,
perhaps until October, and will then
be forwarded on to the islands for the
coming campaign. By that time they
will be in excellent condition.
THE enlistments for the regiment
are to be for term of two years. The
pay is the same as in the regular
army, namely $13 month for the Or
binary private, with 20 per cent. war
pay added, making a total of $3.50 a
month Non-commissioned officers as
they rise in the scale get constantly
increasing pay"
Lieutenant Green is resident of
Madison, Wis, and a graduate of the
University of Wisconsin law school of
the class of 1896. He was at that in
stitution with Deputy Prosecuting At
torney Casey and Attorney John w.
James of this city. On the breaking
out of the Spanish-American war he
was commissioned a second lieutenant
in Company NJ, I'd Wisconsin. That
regiment reached Chickamauga May
Is, last year and remained there I'M
til July 6 when it left for Porto Rico
via Charleston, reaching Ponce July
81, the first troops to land at that
point The regiment became a part
of General Ernsts brigade in General