Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-07-06
COMPANY A LEAVES
FOR CAMP Tonight
THE BOYS EXPECT TO REACH
DEVILS LAKE ON FRIDAY
AFTERNOON.
Some Interesting Figures and Stats.
tics Regarding the Personnel of the
Local Military Organization.

Local Military Organization.
The officers and members of com.
pany A, FIRST infantry, North Dakota
national guard, assembled at the ar
morT Thursday afternoon 1T 100 fer
drill. Drill will also occur again to-
night again at 10000 o'clock the CON-
pany will board the special car and
remain entrained until the arrival of
No. 6 at 1907, which will whisk the
boys away to their annual encamp.
ment on the Rock Island military res.
ervation about seven miles sout hof
Devils Lake.
Camp will be reached about 400
o'clock Friday afternoon and the var
lous companies of the regiment will
nave to pitch their tents and get set.
tied down in their new quarters be-
fore taps" is blown that night. The
regular camp routine will commence
Saturday morning and for the ensuing
ten days, the military reservation will
present war like appearance. In
company with the national guard
forces of the state there will also be
encamped at Camp Burke. as it is
known, the first battalion of the Four
teenth United States infantry. The
regulars will be under the command of
Major Albright. Major Albright, by
the way, is the officer who mustered
in the North Dakota volunteers at the
time of the Philippine insurrection,
so he has many friends among the Of
tlcers of the state troops.
Company A of the militia is distinct
ly North Dakota company and Bis
marck organization. TWenty-seven
OF the forty-six members on the roster
were born in North Dakota. Hence
So per cent of the entire company are
native sons" OF this number, 16
were born in Bismarck-33 per cent of
the company. OF the remaining 10
men, IS are American born and one a.
foreigner
A glance at the birthplaces of the
IL Americans reveals the fact that
most of them came from the states
which contribute the most new set
tiers to North Dakota. Four were
born in Minnesota; three were born
IN Iowa, two were born in Wisconsin,:
two in Illinois,; two in Ohio, and the
other five, one was born in Pennsyl-
yania, one in Montana, one in South
Dakota, and the other two represent
the eastern and western extremities
of the continent, one having been born
in Boston, Mass, while the last was
born in Pullman, Wash. :.
The total height of the company is
263 feet inches, or an average of
feet IL inches. The total age of
the company is 1893 years, or an av.
erage of % IL years. The tallest
man in the company is feet inches.
The Oldest man is 80 years of age,
and the youngest just past IS years.
If the members of the company de.
sired to start newspaper they could
easily do so, for among their number
may be found one reporter, two print.
ers and two pressfeeders, besides a
bunch of other fellows who ought to
be able to hustle about the streets and
sell the papers. There are two steno
graphers, two liverymen, seven driv-
ers and transfers, seven students one
banker and insurance agent, eight
clerks, one bookkeeper, one travelling
salesman, one postal clerk, one bar.
Der, one engineer, one steam filter,
one plasterer, one painter, one tele.
phone man, one farmer. one land clerk
one drug clerk, one railroad foreman,
one railroad fireman and one plum
Der.
None of the companies at the camp
this year will be so large as wear
ago, as there is a tendency among the
members of the company get "cold
feet" when the state troops go to
Devils Lake. They are all willing to
go to American Falls. WASH, or down
to Wyoming, or to Wisconsin, every
alternate year when they can get
free trip away from home at the cx-
Dense of the state. Hence MANY of
the companies will be small this year
and will be filled with recruits. How
ever ten days drill at camp will make
a rookie" think that he has been y