Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-05
.N.G.C. TO REACH
BIG CAMP TODAY
ARIZONA BATTALION ARRIVES
AT ATAScADER0
MILITIAMEN coMPLlM ENTED FOR
QUICK WORK
California Officers Arrive and Call on
Colonel Maus-Great Activity
Scheduled in Joint Prac-
tice This Week
rBy Associated Press.l

CAMP ATASCADERO Oct. A
battalion of the Arizona national
guard under Colonel James H. McClin-
took, the first of the militia organiza-
tions to reach Camp Atascadero,. ar
rived today. The Arizona force, COM
posed of companies l., Captain James
A. Park; c, Captain Paul Reisinger;
d, Captain e. M. Lamson, and II. Cap"
tain II. H. Donkersley, left Phoenix
in a special train Friday night and
reached Atascadero about 10 o'clock
this morning. Tents were up and
camp pitched within an hour.
The soldierlike qualities and the ia
miliar manner in which Col. McClin-
tock's forces went to work making
camp brought forth many compliments
and remarks alike from officers and
men of the regular troops who stood
about watching the newcomers.
detailed to give the Arizona officers
any assistance and advice, found but
little to do.
Colonel McClintock, the commander
of the Arizona battalion, was a cap
tain in President Roosevelt's Rough
Riders during the Spanish war and
was severely wounded in the battle of
San Juan hill. .
The arrival of the Arizona militia
and several staff officers of the Cali
fornia national guard was the only IN
cident of an otherwise uneventful quiet
Sunday in camp.
Church services at the headquarters
of the army men of the Young Mems
Christian association. which is in
charge of General Secretary Arthur
Rudman, were held in the morning
by Chaplain Moose of the Twentieth
infantry, and tonight by Captain Lutz
of the Eighth. The services were well
attended.
During the afternoon Colonel c. l..
Heartwell, aide de camp to Governor
GiIlett; Colonel Arthur H. Bradbury,
assistant adjutant general of Califor-
mia; Major A. V. Keesling. brigade In
spector: Major Josiah r. Howell, COM
missary officer: w. G.. Amweg. chief
engineer; Colonel Winslow Anderson,
chief surgeon. and Lieutenant Colonel
Theodore Rethers, assistant chief sur
geon of the California national guard,
arrived in camp this afternoon and paid
their respects to Colonel Marion P.
Maus. the commander in chief.
The quiet of today will be followed
by as great activity this week.
At daylight tomorrow morning three
regiments of California militia will
arrive. While they are making camp
during the day the entire brigade OF
regulars VIII move out INTO tne ueiu
early in the morning under the CON-
mand of Lieutenant H. B. Moon of the
Twentieth for the first concerted ma
neuvers.
| During the past week the infantry
artillery, cavalry and hospital corps
acted as individuals, but tomorrow
there will be a combined maneuver tc
solve a given battle problem. The va
rious colonels will take turn in as
suming command of the entire force
1t will be the first field movement t.
be personally observed by the com
mander in chief.
Governor IGillett will arrive at Pasc
Robles Wednesday evening and corn'
to the camp Thursday. when he will
review the combined force of rsgular'
and militia.
Mrs. Gillett and Mrs. Maus, wife o
Colonel Maus, will reach Paso Roble
tomorrow. Mrs. Moon, the wife of tn
commander of the Twentieth infantry
and other officers wives are alread.
there. General ]. B. Lauck, adjutan
general of the state. and Mrs. Laucl
reached Paso Robles today.