Arizona republican., 1910-09-27

the cavalrymen charged straight into the camp.
 Good boys" they yelled, when they were about the center of the camp. About that time the Arizona soldiers woke up and began to use their blank ammunition. Had the blanks been loaded with bullets those cavalry troopers would have been filled as full of holes as so many colanders. Disregarding all orders to halt, they went on through the lines at the other side of the camp. Of ficially they were dead. Doubtless they meant to show the guardsmen what they could do if they tried but the umpires did not regard their achievement as a brilliant one
 Somewhat angered, Colonel Mason of the regular army, who was in com mand of the reds, and his assistants placed company D on the two sides of the gate through which the cav alrymen entered The Mesa boys were ordered to stop all similar rushes at any hazard, but nothing more of the kind was attempted. A little later another outpost captured six more cavalrymen, making twelve prisoners for the guard house
 Some innocent civilian, motoring by night through the Atascadero val ley, has given all kinds of trouble He didn't know that he was running into an army and the first time a picket stopped him he thought that he was being held up by a highwayman. As soon as the picket was assured that the auto was not a spying device of the enemy, the civilian and his party. which consisted mainly of women were permitted to depart.
 But not for long did they continue on their way unmolested Before they passed through that camp they had been halted at least half a dozen times. The last time the driver, who was evidently the owner of the ma chine, had raised the amount for which he was going to sue the gov ernment to something like hundred thousand dollars. He was mad enough to chew the tires off a wagon wheel and only the guns and bayon- cts of the soldiers prevented him do- ing the whole red army physical vio- lence
 Early this morning the boys crawl ed out of their little shelter tents and ate their bacon and hardtack around roaring fires. The night was quite chilly and few slept well. The sleep ing accommodations of each man consisted of one blanket, half a tent and unlimited sand
 When the guardsmen marched to their nights camping ground they carried their own bed rolls and hay ersacks. This morning they were re- lieved of these burdens by the wag- ons It was known that they would be called upon to do much skirmish- ing and that they could not fight well when weighted down with equipment The New Mexicans, however. were not so fortunate and carried their until camp was reach ed, which was not until nearly two o'clock this afternoon.
 From the standpoint of the guards men the sham battle was one big fig gle. They got almost no chance to fight Each man was given thirty rounds of ammunition and they brought most of it into camp. The regulars, however, did quite a lot of Reports of big guns rev. erberated through the valleys and a pail of smoke hung over all Had the battle been a real one it would have been a bloody engagement
 Most of Sfightfng was done by the cavalry and the artillery. The guard troops were deployed as skir- mishers and did a lot of running. with but slight results. The cavalry got ahead of them and by the time they arrived the fighting had been transferred to some other point. Company B was given the steepest and highest hill in this district to climb. and the boys charged up like noble heroes. When they arrived at the top there was nothing for them to do but throw themselves down be- hind bushes and wait until some en- emy appeared. Finally they did get a chance to fire half a dozen rounds or so per man. After that they skirmished about a mile farther. Re