Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1907-07-20
LAKE KAMPESKA
MAY Be CAMP FOR
FEDERAL TROOPS
Excellent Grounds There May
Be Selected for Perma-
nent Use.

Watertown. S. d., July 15--The pres
nnt encamprnents OF the South Dakota
National Guard here increases the
probability OF Lake Kampeska being
made concentration camp for federal
kroops The south Dakota National
Guard encampment grounds are COM
ing to be recognized as ldeai
IN nearly every respect lhe
lew rifle range has been de-
tlared by United States army officers
10 be the best one west of the Missis-
sippi river, and II is not yet completed.
The location OF the camp on the shore
Of one of the best and purest bodies OK
water in the northwest is factor mat
counts heavily IN itt .avor. The acces-
siDility of the grounds TO railroads is
another strong argument, for within
three miles of the camp are the depots
OF the Northwestern, the Chicago, ROCK
Island and Pacific, the Minneapolis and
St Louis, and the Great Northern sys-
TENS.
General Englesby has been pushing
this concentration camp proposition
and is OF the opinion that the federal
government will shortly designate lake
Kampeska as one Of its national milf
tary redezvous.
The Fourth regiment, South Dakota
National Guard, Is now In camp on the
east bank of Lake Kampeska. For the
first time in the history OF the state
every company is represented In the
encdmpment. The Black Hills com
panies have heretofore held separate
maneuvers owing to the great distance
by rail between that section Of the
state and the eastern part.
Before the arrival OF the companies
the camp had been laid out by the
board OF survey composed of Major
George w Carpenter Major j. G.. Nc
Farland, Captain G. X. Snyder and
Captain Il. G.. Yeamons.
Captain G.. c.. Maxwell, the purchas-
ing officer, has been on the ground for
the last week. He is the officer I'm
charge Of the commissary stores and
supplies for the officers mess in ad-
dition TO these duties he will have
charge of the dining hail and will be
authorized to furnish meals to visitors
at 35 cents per meal making a de-
tailed report TO the adjutant general
at the close of the encampment This
order win be a popular one with the
public
United states disbursing officer, Cap
tain Henry NJ. Hanten is here with
the federal funds available for encamp-
mcnt purposes. Major j. E. Platt is the
state paymaster.
The camp this year is In charge OF
the adJutant general himself. Colonel
commanded, having resigned lately
and removed to Chicago.
The rifle range, on which the federal
government has already expended
some $4,000 and expects 10 put I'm $751;
900 more, Is pronounced one Of the finest
in the west Since last summer ten
new national targets have been add
ed These are made in duplicate. so
that while one is in position for firing
the other Is down in the pit where the
men In charge note the record of the
last shot and telephone the result TO
headquarters on the firing line each
target pit being equipped with a tele-
phone. The entire lake shore bank at
the northwest corner OF the camp
grounds has been cut away for the pits,
which are protected from the firing line
by a heavy dirt embankment backed
by a solid eghteen-Inch concrete wall
II takes an entire company to man
the pits. The range is so arranged as
TO permit firing at any distance from
ECO uD TO 900 Yards