Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-04-27
IS GREAT ACTIVITY IN
STATE GUARD CIRCLES
First South Dakota Regiment Filled
and Second Has Nine
Companies.
ARE REASONS FOR The HURRY
Must 80 Organized by june go In Order
to Get federsl Appropriation
Companies and Captains
OF the First.

Sioux Falls, S. D., April 23.-Unprece-
denied interest Is being manifested In
South Dakota IN military circles.
Within thirty days from the time that
s. j. Conklin was appointed adjutant
general he had filed the twelve COM
panies assigned to the First regiment.
and there are already mir companies
about filed for the Second regiment.
OF these nine, four are from the Black
Hills and five from east or the MIS-
souri, river.
IA soon. as uniforms and equipments
can be secured the Organization OF the
Second regiment Will be completed.
Assistant AdJutant General A. Is. SEES
sions OF this city Is receiving daily from
t~hirty-hve TO fifty letters from all parts
OF the state, and as the allowance for
clerk hire is not yet available, he has
reason TO regret hat the military spirit
IL so rampant.
The reason for the haste In the or
ganization OF the First regiment is
that II must be completed by Jun 20
In order to secure from the federal gov
eminent the IS, 900 allowed TO the state
regiments n the adjutant general
and the governor must certify that the
regiment Is complete at that time.
There are now at Pierre enough
" AAAo y a lNiN1 dlAh W. lliD " GIAAD
one regiment. The South Dakota rep
resentatives in congress have been
asked and will try to induce the war
department to anticipate the allowance
OF 81, 900 to the second regiment, and as
the war department Is seeking to
stimulate the organization OF such
regiments through the country there
is some reason 10 hope that the request
Will be granted.
Another Reason for Haste.
A further reason for haste Is tbs the
South Dakota regiments want to be
ready to participate in the division en-
cGmpments which are likely TO be pro-
vided by the next congress. In the
event OF a favorable report by the
commission now Investigating the mat
ter II Is thought likely that congress
will provide for a grand division en-
campment IN each OF the four military
divisions into which II Is sought to d.
vide the country, and as these en-
campments will be under the charge
OF a regular army officer and as the
field work Will be on a lcscc scale, the
South Dakota boys do not want to lose
the fur.
Company A, located at Eureka, has
already been mustered in by Gov. Her
I'D. This company aspires to be the
ack n OF the state, as II IL the gov
nor y nome guard, and mas the honor
Of carrying the first letter. Col. r.. c..
Orr will muster I'm Co. M at q date not
fixed. and Adjt. General Conklin will
muster in Co. G of Redheld. Asst. Adjt.
General Sessions will muster in the
others. Co. r. and Co. q Of Sioux Falls,
will be mustered In on Tusday and
Wednesday evening of this week, and
then the assistant adjutaut general
will leave to muster In the remaining
Companies and Captains.
The captains have not yet been Sc
lected but II Is likely that the places
will be bestowed as follows:
Company A, Eureka, no selection.
Company b, Sioux Falls, T.. d. Aldrich.
Company G., Sioux Falls, Il. f.. Hawk
ms.
Company ID, Mitchell, O.. w. Coursey.
Company +, Canistota, Arthur Lange.
Company III, Howard, j. w. Seney.
Company *, Milbank, II. II. Benedict.
Company l., Aberdeen, c. w. Hubbard.
Company NJ, Evarts, II. G. Orr.
About half the member of the last
company are Indians and Captain
Orr says the rest OF the fellows Will have
% look to their laurels when he gets his
ompany organized, as the noble red men
AXE great interest and promise him to
themselves speedily In the arts %
war.