Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-14
First Leg Of Journey to Camp
Emmett Crawford is
BY Train.
BUSY DAY AT FORT DOUGLAS
Baggage and Men All Awaiting Order
To Move Tomorrow Morning
Colonel Scott in Command.

proverbial clock. no hustle or hustle, nc
hurry or commotlon, the Fifteneth in
fantry the larger portion of which liz
stationed at Fort Douglas, Is preparing
to move tomorrow. Early in the morn
Ing. soon after the reville and the
morning mess call. the regiment under
the personal command of Colonel wal
ter S. Scott viii leave the post, march
Ing to the Rio Grande depot. The regi-
ment will entrain at about . o'clock
and the evening will find it in Colorado
Springs, where the command will de-
train. After one nights camp In
shelter tents near Colorado Springs, the
soldiers Will take up their long march
to the camp grounds on the Grow
Creek forest reserve in Albany county,
Wyoming near Fort d. A. Russell.
The distance from Colorado Springs
to the maneuver ground is eos miles
almost due north. Portions of the
route are through mountainous country
and others are in more level stretches,
but there viii be enough grade to keep
the men climbing for a great part of
the long hike. The regiment will reach
the maneuver ground Aug. l, TO report
to the commanding general of the
provisional division. In camp, the
troops will remain for instruction 30
days. The return trip will be made
by train from Dale Creek and the SOL
diers expect to be at Fort Douglas
again by the first week in September.
CAMP EMMETT CRAWFORD.
The camp of instruction Will be
known as Camp Emmett Crawford. in
accordance with general order ~, head
quarters OF the department of the Mis-
souri,, promulgated by Brig. Gen. Nor
ton, commanding the department The
camp is 80 named in honor of Captain
Emmett Crawford, a captain of the
Third cavalry, who was slain by In
dams or greasers Just over the Mexican
border in 1890. Captain Crawford was
sent with q force of cavalry from his
station i'm Wyoming to suppress up
rlsings along the border in which In
dams. greasers and armed brigands
We're participating that year. A
treaty existed permitting United States
military forces to cross the border In
pursuit of the lawless marauders who
were infesting the country. 1t was
while on such an errand he was slain.
great deal of diplomatic correspond
ence followed the murder of the gallant
cavalryman. The United States gov
eminent accepted an explanation that
there was nothing worn by Captain
Crawford TO identify him as in the
military service This explanation,
while not generally believed In the
close an unhappy incident than 10 de-
termine the responsibility for the deed
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less attractive than the others fur
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for seasoning.
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Today at the post on the east foot
hills, the soldiers are busily preparing
for their departure tomorrow morning.
Each company has packed its official
baggage in neat packages and these
are i'm neat piles outside each COM
panys quarters, awaiting Transports
ton 10 the depot prior to leaving. The
men are prepared for whatfer kind
Of weather they may find. Along with
their baggage are to be found Sibley
stoves, funnel-shaped affairs used In
the conical wall tent generally known
as a Sibley Tents, bedding and the
hundred and one other things used
by soldiers are packed ready to be
moved. The inner man is to be well
provided for and on the back porches
of the barracks, cooks are busy all
day packing their mess boxes. These
mess boxes contain all sorts of good
things ordinary people do not believe
soldiers cat. Big ranges that pack
into wonderfully small space. and
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