The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-07

'fOrders war department.
Entire Fifteenth infantry proceed
to Fort Sam Houston with least pos
sible delay
This order, signed by General Will
liam C.. Schuyler. commanding the de
partment of the Colorado, and now III
command at Fort Sam Houston, San
Antonio, Texas, received at 10 o clock
last night by Colonel W. S. Scott, COM
mandiDg the Fifteenth infantry Mt
Fort Douglas, threw, fguratively speak
ing, a bombshell into the ranks of
officers and men alike.
While the command came like bolt
from cloudless sky, none of the
officers having received the slightest
intimation III advance of the plain,
terse direction TO move with the least
possible delay there was no waste
of time. Within ten minutes the order
had been transmitted to every COM
pany commander, the officers assembled
at headquarters within ten minutes
more. and the work OF preparation was
at once under way.
BY Tuesday night or Wednesday morn
ing the famous, beautiful post Will be de-
serted. save for one officer left in charge
u
takers
Make Ready Quickly.
I'VE could get ready within an hour
said one of the officers last midnight.
1.-The preparation to move Is matter OF
no consequence. 1t is only the question
OF transportation that causes even the
slight delay Transportation is being ar
ranged through the quartermaster' OF
ice in Denver, and l cannot say yet
whether we will be sent over the Denver
necessary trains will he available oy
Wednesday morning at the latest and we
will be all ready TO move long before
then"
While the orders make mention of no
intent on the part of the war department.
in thus rushing the garrison here 10 fort
Sam Houston. 1t is taken as matter OF
course that the purpose is 10 preserve
the neutrality laws along the border be-
tween Mexico and the United States.
There Is no intlmaton as TO when or how
the companies will be distributed after
their arrival at tho Texas post.
More Stringent Measures Needed,
The assembling of a number OF regi-
ments on the Mexican border is taken
10 indicate that the patrol system here
tofore adopted by the United States gov
crnment has failed, and that more strln-
gent measures are necessary to preserve
strict neutrality, Ii has been indicated.
with more or less directness, by the dis
patches from the disturbed sections That
the boundary line has been successfully
passed by Americans and that large
number of soldiers OF fortune from this
country have succeeded in crossing the
line and casting their lot with the insur-
rcclos. II is the presumption that the
war department. has come 10 realization
OF the incffectiveness OF n mere patrol
and has determined to put it's foot down
upon any contra band, either of men or
On account of the lateness of the hour
at which the command To move WAS re-
ccived, the enlisted men were not otfi-
cially notified last night but the news
yet spread by magic through the quar-
iers of the companies, and before taps
was sounded at ! | o'clock many OF the
soldiers had almost completed their
tions for the journey, although
not commanded To do so.
Most of the men received the news
with the customary phlosophic stoicism
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