Bisbee daily review., 1907-02-20
ARMY OFFICER |S VISITOR IN
 B|SBEE
Captain Wright Has Charge of the Recruiting Station at Fl Paso and Auxiliary Station May Be Established Here.

Captain Edmund $. Wright. First United States Cavalry. accompanied sy Corpog d Burgess. arrived in the slty last seniug from ki isaso. after spending ths day in Douglns Cap tain Wright has charge of the U. s recruiting station at icl paso. which has been established little more than "a year
 When seen at the Copper Queen ho, tel last evening Capt. Wright talked about the recruiting service of Uncle Snm's sD.ondld army, fin an entertain. ing manner and stated that hls visit to this section al this time was in line with his general duties, aB El Paso was tho nearest recruiting sta. ton for Arizona, Los Angeles being the next geisSi point.
 The work of recruiting good men for service in the United States army goes on steadily yoar in and year out. said the captain. "on an average twenty thousand men are retired an- nuallS and one hundred recruiting stations are expected to fill this quota. The average number of re cruits who enlist at each station Is eighteen per month, although natur- ally, this number is large in the great cities. Indianapolis. Ind. fur. nishes more recruits for the army than any other station"
 Captain Wright described In an in- teresting manner the life of theaam- erlcan soldier from the day he ef sts and stated that never before in the history of tEe army was the standard of the enlisted men higher in point of intelligence and moral character. The United States government does not use any efforts to drag men into the army. preferring that men who desire to enter the service come of their own free will and accord. There is no 'button-holing" Of men on the streets and th2 reclthtinE ItaToni are more for the purpose of informing the intending recruit of army condi. tiops and makine the necessary eX. aminGtions.
 Captain Wright stated last night after looking the field over. in this section. of Arizona, It might be ad. yisable at sc/o -'utur2 date to es. t-blish aH auxiliary recruiting station either in Bisbee or Douglas as a number of recruits who have entered the service through the Fl Paso re- cruiting station have come from this vicinity.
 AccomDanied by Corporal Burgess
 Captain Wright will leave this morn inr for Tombstone and from there will 90 10 Tucson. returning to Fl Paso via he Southern Pacific route. ! Captain Wright is not stranger | in Arizona, as he was at one time stationed with his troop "A" at Fort Huachuca, in this county, and partici'
 pated in several campaigns against the renegade Apache Kid" He an. ticipates the pleasure of meeting | many old acQuaintances during his present visit to the territory and will . go to Fort Huachuca before return | ing to Fl Paso. Captain Wright was stationed at Fort Huachuca when the | Spanisb-American war was started
 and went there with the first troops
 to land on Cuban soil. He participat' ed in the first fight with the Spanish troops at Las Guasinas when Captain
 McClintock. of the Rough Riders, was
 shot in the ieg and when Col. Brodie was wounded in the arm
 The captain remembers many trips | through the Sulphur Springs valley years ago, long before Douglas had ever been dreamed of. He was en'
 gagged in making a typographical sur yey of good portion of southern Ari' zona while he was at Fort Huachuca