Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-21
Many Would Serve With the
Volunteers.
ENLISTMENT HAS BEGUN
Recruiting Station Was Opened This
Morning-NO Dearth of
Applicants.

captain George II. Detcnmenuy, tHe
regular army officer, who was sent to
Butte to establish military headquarters
here for the enlistment of volunteers for
the ~Thirty-fourth provisional volunteer
regiment, hoisted his flag and opened his
recruiting station in the St. Charles hotel
this morning. Since the early morning
hours the station has been thronged with
men, eager to enlist, and there is no doubt
but that Montana's quota will be speed
lily filled. AT 2 o'clock this afternoon Is
young men had presented themselves for
enlistment, and are undergoing physical
examination. which is much more rigid
thar the ordinary volunteer examination,
this afternoon.
OF the men who presented themselves
for enlistment today, but few were out
of employment, and many were enjoying
good situations, which would indicate
that the martial spirit exists to almost
the same degree as it did during the late
unpleasantness with the Dons.
The captain says that the impression
prevails that Montana men are good
fighters, and quite a large proportion of
the Thirty-fourth will be enlisted in this
state. if possible. To this end he has
authority to establish branch recruiting
stations in Helena, Anaconda, Great
Falls M Bozeman, but Butte will re-
main military headquarters Of the state.
In connection with this matter, the fol-
lowing telegram was received from his
commanding officer this morning:
Fort Logan, Colo, July 21.-Command-
ing Officer z. s. Army, Butte, Mont:
Lieutenant Wilson g. Heaton, Thirty
fourth infantry volunteers. ordered to re-
port to you as assistant in recruiting for
his regiment, under telegraphic instruc-
toirs from the secretary Of war. You
have authority to send him to Helena
and Anaconda. Please acknowledge re-
ceipt Of telegram. Lieutenant Heaton
leaves Denver today. HOWE,
Colonel Commanding.
As soon as the lieutenant arrives he
will be sent to Helena, and later other
officers will probably be detailed to open
recruiting stations in the other towns.
The new recruiting station is somewhat
short of supplies, which will arrive later.
Among the other articles which the Of
does not possess is the regulation
weighing machine. When the would-be
answer the questions satisfac-
torily they are marched across the street
into a patriotic mercantile institution and
their a~voirdupois taken. They are then
back to undergo the physical eX-
which is conducted by DR..
AS fast as the volunteers are
enlisted they will be sent to Fort Logan,
near Denver, which has been designated
as the assembling post of the regiment.
Any that may desire to join the regulars
will be sent to San Francisco.
Captain Detchmendy is quite a distin-
guished officer, who has seen nearly a
quarter of a century of service in the
regular army. and has won his way to
his position by merit. A recent issue of
the Sacramento Bee comments on his be-
ing ordered to Montana as follows:
captain George A. Detchmendy. Of the
United States Army, who has been locat-
ed in Sacramento for the past four
months, as a recruiting officer, has been
ordered to Butte. Montana. While in this
city Captain DetchInendy has made many
friends. He is ~companionable and pleas
ant. and every inch a soldier. For twen-
ty-two years he has been in the United
States Army, and has worked himself up
through the ranks to the position he now
holds.
-"Detehmendy ran away from his home
in st. Louis, Missouri, in 1.77, when but
Il years Of age. He went to New Orleans.
where he enlisted in the army. AT this
time there were two governors in Louis
lana, following the election Of President
AAoS ~Ss ~''N iAAo' ooNSN as lIlCI Z
might ~ trouble, and troops might be
needed. The city of New Orleans was fill
ed with soldiers, and the young applicant
had no trouble in getting himself attach
ed to Company G, of the Third Infantry.
THE same year OF his enlistment,
Detchmendy took part in the Nez Perces
campaign, and in the following year he
took part in the Bannock ndian cam
paign in Montana and Idaho. For some
time he did scout duty throughout Mon
tana, watching Sitting Bull, who was a
renegade with a band of warriors just
across the Canadian Line. His next duty
was with the Army Sigma! Corps as a pri-
vate, and in 1888 he was promoted to
Quartermaster-General.
I'm 1896 D~etchmendy was promoted
FOrst Lieutenant of Infantry, and came
to California. AS FIRST Lieutenant he
served throughout the entire Santiago
c. campaign, in command Of a company.
His was the first company to advance on
the S~paniards after the landing on Bal
quiri, and for several weeks he and his
men We're with General Lawton's division
in the thick Of the series of actions that
followed. On July list, which was the day
of the heaviest fighting, he was posted
with his company as infantry support to
Captain Grimes battery ait FL Pozo.
His company was detached from the
regiment on this day, and vent from e,
Pozo to San Juan Hill with Genera.
kent's men. At this point Detchmendy
and his company remained under fire for
some time, waiting an order to charge uI
the hill. The order did not come, and
late thai evening the men were ordered
back, after twelve hours of work and
thrilling experiences. That night Detch-
mendy was detailed on special duty, and
went along the lines chasing men out OF
the tree tops.
Not long after the battles Of FL Pozo
and San Juan Hill, Detchmendy's nam
was sent to the senate as Brevet-Captain
in recognition of his conduct on the bat.
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