New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-05
Officer Fires On MeXicans
in Chase After Thirteen
Animals Are Stolen.
FUGITIVES RETURN
SHOTS AND ESCAPE
Day of Big Headache at NC
Allen Is Postponed Because
Pay Is Late.
Nv ROBERT II. ROHDE.

Headouarters Sixth Field Division,
L. S. A.. McAllen, Tex, Aug. this
was to have been the day of the big
headache. but thanks-and thanks Is
the word-to the fact that red tape
held up the Guardsmen's pay, there
wasn't a headache in camp. Hester-
DAYS sunshine was not enough 70
make parade grounds lit for drilling
and roads dry enough for practice
marches and maneuvres. But the sun
rose red and hot again to-day from
cloudless sky, drying the mud in the
forenoon and in the afternoon bring
ing back the rough and ready routine
and that, in this climate, is bad
enough for men whose heads do not
ache.
Headquarters order 10 the. contrary
notwithstanding, no one in authority
really believes there will not be con-
siderable beer destroyed by the $4,000
militiamen here encamped when
money is jingling in their pockets-the
first money many of them have seen
for weeks.
The saloon keepers, Of whom there
are upward of twenty, have laid all
sorts OF willy plans to circumvent the
order that no Guardsman shall enter
places where intoxicants are sold.
They have arranged with storekeepers
and dwellers near by TO act as agents
and have employed runners TO SOLICIT
trade and make deliveries.
New style of Game.
Although the day is postponed, it is
not for long Lieutenant Colonel
Henry S. Sternberger, chief quarter
master of the division, is now in
Brownsville, Strengthening out the pay
rolls with the regulars. When he re-
turns, the money will be in his wake.
Star semaphore men of the 7th In
fantry met this evening in style OF
athletics which is not yet popular in
collegiate circles, but is quite as
strenuous as the fastest baseball.
Fourteen teams of four men each com
peted for prizes of $40, Sc and 81, sub
scrbed by officers Of the regiment.
The men were deployed in lines 400
Yards apart When they were sepa-
rated, sealed envelopes were distrib-
uted. In them were messages. First
this bulletin was flashed from one end
Of the field to the other: Outpost
commander, 7th Infantry: Reports in
dicate enemies patrols two miles
northeast your position. Send strong
combat patrols to drive them in.
FISK, Colonel"
And then the answer was wig
wagged back: Colonel 7th Infantry:
Have not patrolled northeast. viii
send combat patrols at once as direct
ed. MAZET."
Animals Are Stolen.
II was n race with speed only Sec
ond to ACCURACY, and since accuracy is
a word that includes even punctuation,
the three majors who constituted the
board of judges held over their de-
cision.
Company NJ went into the contest
badly handicapped. Its best soma
phore man, naval veteran, worked so
fast no one in the company could read
his messages. He was, perforce, left
on the bench.
Early in the morning there was
much excitement in the camp of the
seth Infantry at Mission. Nine mules
and four horses were discovered miss
ing when a census of the picket line
was taken. Lieutenant william Ken
needy and a detachment took the road.
Racing westward, the lieutenant out
stripped his men and was lost to view.
Those to the rear heard shooting.
Presently Kennedy returned with a
sorrel mare in tow.
Fires on Mexicans.
az came on the mare about a mile
west" he said. Just as | caught her,
three Mexicans rode into the brush. |
called on them TO halt and opened fire
when they didn't. They fired back as
they escaped"
The rest Of the animals were rounded
up at daylight. The halters Of some Of
them had been cut.
Next week will be big and welcome
change in the routine. Reveille will
be al $3.50 o'clock, as in the regular
army, instead Of at $50. The change
has been made because the days al
ready are shortening.
On Monday the I'd Brigade will be
reviewed by General Dyer. That means
that Major Flores will cross the Rio
Grande again, and have filing Gringo
meal. The next day the brigade will
90 on practice hike TO Pharr and back.