The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1905-03-25
pRESfRvERS or PEACE
SemeiAins About nc Soldiers snt psn.
GERS Stationed N Texas.

There are more United States soldiers
In Texas than / thought were here.
On our visit TO Laredo we went
through Fort Mcintosh which is stu
ated in the suburbs of that place.
Three companies OF troops are sta
toned there. Fort Ringgold is To-
Gated at Rio Grande City one hum
bred and ten miles up the river.
Two companies are stationed at that
pest. At Eagle Pass twenty miles
above Fort Ringgold another COM
pany is located. This place IL called
Camp Eagle Pass. Fort Clark is
near Brackettville and the town Ia
a few miles north OF Spofford juno
ton on the Southern Pacific. A
large number of troops are located
there. There are eight or ten COM
panies at Fort Bliss near FL Paso.
Six or eight companies are located
at Fort Sam Houston near San Anto-
MO. Then a number OF companies at
Fort Brown at Brownsville, which |
have heretofore mentioned in my let
ters. In ali there are seven govern
ment posts 10 Texas with several
thousand troops. As we came back
from Brownsville TO Corpus Christi
/ met on the train DR.. Birmingham,
the chief surgeon and sanitary in
spector OF the military department
OF Texas He said the Texas depart
ment also included several posts In
Arkansas. Indian Territory and Ok
iahoma. Dr. Birmingham was re-
! turning from Fort Brown where he
had been TO inspect the sanitary con-
dition of the post. He said il was
his duty TO visit each post In the
Texas department twice a year and
carefully inspect the health condi-
tion Of the troops. These posts are
all spiendidly built. The large quar-
ters for the soldiers and the homes
for the officers are pretty and com
Portable, and IL Is certainly a great
boon 10 any town or city 10 be so
fortunate as ia have a government
post located near 1T. Private soldiers
get SIS per month and the Officers
rank. Captains and lteutenants re-
eeive over sle0 q month aud all.
or moss OF their salaries. from pgi~
Yates nps IA blown tn In the towns
and cities where they happen 10 be
located. All along the border az
Old Mexico these posts were estab-
lished In the early days when we
were having trouble with the Next
cans They ara located on healfhfal
sites and iu a fine climate, and ia
aH probability will keep intact
as they ara aaw I talked TO a great
many ct the soldiers az Laredo and
at Brownsville and they said thelr
companies were changed from one
past 10 another frequently The
Texas rangers are asso numerous
gloun the RIO Graude border
have met several rangers Capt.
Brooks. whose com pany rs stationed
at Laredo. spent day or twu
Nights here THIS week. He has been
ln the ranger service tweaEy-four
years aad seventeen years of This
time be served as captain of a COM
pauy. Re Is q clever. popular man
with everybody All the fingers Of
his left hand have been shot off leav-
ing only h}s thumb He has other
scars oa hts body made by bullets
and be- is still a hale and hearty man.
His life has bad many close calls
during his long service as a ranger,
lie said, among other things, that
the scene of desperate deeds was rap
ldly changing and instead Of the border
there were more calls from East and
North Texas for rangers. At Madi-
souyille several rangers have been
busy for some time holding down the
waFlike factions ia that East Texas
county. Capt BROOKS said that
since the discovery OF oil at Beau
mont the OIL fields have been the
most desperate places for lawless-
ness he had ever Witnessed in Texas.
Part OF the ranger force IL constant
lv on autg az the different oil fields
There is 40 doubt about the faCt
that the rangers sire stu needed In
this state TO help he sheriffs and con-
stables maintain order These rang
ers are paid by the state and there
fore are not hampered In their ac-
Iions Ia putting down disorders a.
are local sheriffs With the custom
house officers. many of whom ride
up and hoNn the border armed. the
United States saldiers. the rangers,
sheriffs and CoHstAhles this country
has been changed wlfn the LAST few
fsars ff0m e daFk ana hioudF ground
"a s land ~ peace and order The
Aexssaus seem 20 hs very laiei and
peaeeabie people 20 Use among. and
greet mans Qf chem are weIl err
MANY II them SIRE sell educated miee
and refined
4 brother Ia Mrs klnE ~ O..
Cham lsElatn. whu IL a prominent
ettlEwu at Laredo married Mexi-
can and has large family This
man Is also 4 bFolher "a Hon Edwin
Chamberlain. ths zig Insurance TRAN
It san Anfonio A sreaf maag ~
gtsse Spanish Americans are aA fair
and gossa looking a. are Americans.
aud her SO fnoFe associate Ntfh oafns
mon MextFana than w~ 30 wtth
a*Erues They are m~aFiF All cAthn-
lHcN and heir eAarches are handsome
IS hultf aud eieKantfy furnished We
seat thFoneh the ekareh a MAta~
Hn0g1s and the wtatahry and csestiy
fnrnlshinNs ot that magnificent halid.
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