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started to drag the teamster toward
the Preside gate.
Jack the teamster made it the bus
lest dragging that any of the MEM
bers of that provost guard had ever
been called upon to do. He fixed up
six of them for the hospital long be-
fore they got him anywhere near the
Preside gate. Re-enforcements were
summoned. and it took about a bat
talon of artillerynen to land Jack
the truckman in the Preside clink.
Jack was an inmate of the Preside
mill for more than fortnight before
his case was Strengthened out. 1t took
about half of the big Presidio guard,
with fixed bayonets, to keep Jack from
razing the guardhouse to the ground
with his naked hands.
The whole Preside command failed
to get any work out of him. At fatigue
cali, every morning for week or so,
the guard attempted to prod the team
ster out of his cell to the front of the
guardhouse, to step in line with the
other military prisoners bound for gar
rison work under the eyes of sentries.
But that scheme had to be abandoned.
The sick list became too heavy for the
surgeons liberation.
The teamster would tackle the whole
guard, every morning they tried to
start him to work. with chairs, benches,
stanchions pulled from beneath the
guardhouse veranda, the guardhouse
stove used as a battering ram, doors
wrenched easily from their hinges, any
thing that first came to the huge paws
of the unjustly confined truck driver.
At length the mans pals let up on
him and sent word to the Presidios
commanding officer, Colonel William
Montrose Graham, of the job they had
put up on their friend. When he re-
ceived this word Colonel Graham stroll
led down to the guardhouse to take a
look at the man who had put about
one-half the members of every days
guard for a week in the surgeons
hands.
Look here, my man. said Colonel
Graham to the teamster, after telling
him that he was at liberty to go back
to his truck, I'D like TO have you in my
command. You'd better take on with
us. 1t beats teaming. Get a uniform
on you and I'll see to it that you get a
square deal"
well, you've got a fine way of
IIldhlHS IeCTQllS-IIldl dll L We got 10
say" replied Jack Barnes. but he ac-
cepted the Coloners invitation to join
his command. all the same. and slept
that night in barracks. There are
still in the American army any num-
Der of oldtimers with cauIiflower ears
and bent noses who remember Jack
Barnes and the queer way he entered
the service of Uncle Sam.
The Cl1par "a ca of he MIlrul1xr
kept an American man-o'-war in an
acute state of bother during the early
part of a China station cruise owing
to a desertion mix.
One of the Murphy twins. who had
been in the navy eight years, reaching
the rating of bo'sun's mate, first class
for a swell sailorman was this same
Murphy-jumped his ship at Mare
Island, owing to a crouch which he
had conceived against the service be-
cause his shore liberty had been re-
stricted and hid himself away in
Vallejo, over the way from the Mare
Island Navy Yard, until the ship
should proceed on her cruise in far
Eastern waters.
The cruiser dropped down from
Mare Island and anchored in front of
San Francisco to take on some addi-
tional stores before steaming out of
the Gate Chinaward. A group of
shore visiting officers from the ship
came upon the twin of the deserving
| Murphy on Kearney street, this civil
ian Murphy twin being a decent and
prosperous milk dealer in San Fran
cisco.
| The officers summoned a policeman,
and the milk dealing Murphy twin
was swooped upon from the rear. He
had TO be conveyed down to the Clay
| street wharf in a hurry wagon, and
| he gave the four policemen attached
TO that vehicle all that they could at
tend to before they LANDED him there.
The Jimmy Legs from the cruiser was