The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-16
MISSOURI
boy CADETS
IN REVOLT
Ninety on Strike teT Alleged
Grievances and Establish
l0suTTsctO Camp

(By Leased Wire)
RioonviIe. Mo-, Mar lJ.-Ninasy
boys, who four days ago were stud
enis at Kemper Military academy
here. are hoping that the weather will
not turn cold again in a hurry The
ninety have been camping two miles
west OF BoonyilLe Provisions have
been brought here TO feed the camp.
bui the real hardshlps OF war In the
shape OF short rations have struck
the camp now.
It is an insurecto camp that the
cadets have established. They struck
because two boys, who refused to
sign a pledge for their future good
behavior, after staying away from
the school the night Of March Z, were
expelled. The ninety demanded their
reinstatement and were refused. The
superintendent Of the school refused
to treat with the Msurrectos as a
body at all although he offered to
talk over anybody's individual griev-
ances with him, If that would help
any. 1t wouldn't, the boys decided
and they took % the hills and lived
on sardines and canned baked beans
just TO show the authorities what
VISA what So far the authorities
have refused to be shown.
Sleep in Barn.
The boys have been sleeping in O
barn loft ard two large hay stacks
They have been cooking their meals
BY a campfire.
Everything went along all right AZ
long as there was money TO buy food
for the ntsurrecto camp. But at Ken
per a fellows board Is paid In ad
varce, and he has only small
amount OF pocket money. It didn't
take long for the grocers and delica
lessen yenders OF Boonville TO sc
most Of that The credit OF the In
surrectos is being worked FOR all
! II Is worth but the fact remains tha
the campFls getting hungry
The telegraph offices are doing /
rushing business--al, collect, however
The insurrectos are wiring to tnei
fathers for money. Some OF then
say they're going home wcen the.
\ get it. Others quote that talk o
Grants about fighting 1t out alonl
this line II II takes all summer. Blu
ievery young man of the ninety Il
agreed that he'll starye out there il
the woods rather than go back to /
warm bed and plenty of food at tn,
/ military academy-unless those tvs
boys are reingtated.
| their Fathers are Stern.
The replies that have been c0mnl
to the insurrect0 camp In response (
appeals for money for provisions ant
railroad tahe are bot encouraging
Most of the Msurrectos fathers hay,
not a Bit OF sympathy with the strug
/ gle their SONS are making agains
/ tyranny as represented by the occu
! pants or PROFESSIONAL chairs All Mem
per, The messages from home ar'
brief and to the point, for the mos
! paart, an dthey urge the revolution
lists TO go back 10 school, The ex
1 hortations are phrased In as viril,
language as the telegraph companies
i are allowed % transmit
OF course, ones sense or humo
Is apt to be bmnted as one grows old
eF and ii doesn't seem to appeal t
mist OF the fathers at all TO have
| paid for board an dtuition only tC
have their sons learning how TO be
boy SCOUTS in the woods west of Ken
per Some OF the parents say they
viii come to Boonyille right away
| and have a conference with the boar,
OF strategy OF the insurrecto camp
A Board OF Strategy.
The board OF strategy Is having It's
difficulties, too. these days Chic
among them is the troublesome ques
tion OF how to get plenty of good food
for nothing. But the boys aren't hav
ing bad time OF il at that, The
camp Is patroled by pickets, and ev
cry hour the plckets are changed. NJ
hostile forces from the military acad
emy have made any attempts to
storm the camp so far, but then it's
best to be prepared
Six small boys deserted last night
The prospect OF sleeping anoJset
night on the ground. added to The
probability OF incurring wrath from
home If they didn't obey telegraphiC
distinctions. was too much for them
/ The insurrectos are learning loI
about war and foraging and the harc
ness of the ground as a place on
which TO sleep.