Arizona republican., 1915-10-22
GUARDSMEN AT CLIFTON
 BECOMING REAL SOLDIERS

the troops here are under the command of Major H. H. Donkersley. He has only two staff officers. Lieutenant F. R. White is battalion adjutant and Lieutenant C. c. Wakefield is battalion quartermaster. Maynard A. Frazier, of Phoenix. is battalion sergeant major the highest ranking commissioned officer.
 Captain I. F. Huffman, of Tucson, is ,he medical officer of both camps. Un- der him are Is men.
 As stated above, the space at camp No. l is limited It was cleaned off pretty well before the first detachment of guardsmen arrived and little was to be done outside Of pitching tents. dig ging latrines and making fireplaces. When word came that more troops were on the way, the only reasonably level camp ground that could be To- cated was an old graveyard. The graveyard was on a hillside and was strewn with rocks ranging in size from great boulders down to small pebbles. , The coffins had been removed to some othcr spot several years before. Today the camp covers a space per haps three acres in extent. Inside that otdtt- one NOu40 nave ulItlCullN III finding a rock as large as a pea. It i has teen made fairly level, with the exception Of some old graves that have not been filled in yet. Through the center runs wide. deep ditch. to carry off the water that may fall from the l heavens any day or night. Each tent | has been carefully trenched to carry 1 off rain water.
 l., a ~, carries water from one of the city | mains to the camp. A little farther ! down the hill is a tent with a sloping | board floor and shower baths above | Incidentally it may be said that the men at camp No. l use the baths of | the county jail, So every national | suardsman in or about Clifton is in q | constant state of next-to- -godliness. All is as neat and trim as in any regular army camp. Comfort and rec reation have not been overlooked There is the Y NJ C. A. tent, with reading and writing tables Writing I paper. refreshments, sweet chocolate and newspapers can be purchased here ar at the 'canteen" maintained bN Company F.
 l Of course. the most important ques- | ton is: How are they fed? The news paper correspondents now stationed
 here have been entertained at dinner al both camps and they are unanimous 1T their burning desire to join tke nationa ! guard, for the food if for nothing else The ccOks-several of them are iron the regular army-are real artists, anC l they are given plenty of raw materia ] to work with. If the boys don't ge
 home safe and sound it will not be be
 cause they have starved to death
 A number of the guardsmen go t,
 school when they are at home Ther,
 are several university cadets, exceed
 ingly anxious to get back to Tucsoi
 and resume their studies. Others lief
 high school to come to War Capttil
 Holzwarth was a teacher for a numbe
 of years and he is now conducting
 night school for the high school stu
 dents. So not all the education beinj
 absorbed by the militiamen is alon
 military lines
 And now about that medical corps
 The people of Clifton think that thef
 city water is quite good enough fo
 anybody to drink, but Captain Huff
 man is not going to have any of tn
 men for whose health he is responsible
 tlklnS chances. He has given Stric
 orders that all water used for drinkin
 purposes must be boiled Even when
 citizen soldier gets leave to go dow
 town where there is plenty of water. h c2rries q canteenful of aqua pura tha
 has had the heat treatment.
 This is only one of many precaution , enforced under Captain Huffman
 orders As a result. not one man ha
 been sick. The only hospital patien
 that Captain Huffman has had was in
 Phoenix private who walked over
 bluff in the dark and sprained hi
 ankle.
 The men arc given at least two hour
 of stiff drill daily. Their training. q
 Tar as possible. is along lines that wi l, De practical in case there is actu;
 military service to be done here. Tn officers have invented several ne