The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-08-03
SN|PER SHOT At
TWO IOWA BOYS
MEMBERS OF co. M OF 1sT RECT.
DRAW MEXICAN FIRE.
THIRD REGIMENT IN lST PARADE
General Funston Takes Rap at News.
paper Correspondents With the
Guard-He Says They Are Send
ing Out False Accounts.


Guard-He Says They Are Send
ing Out False Accounts.
| Brownsville, Tex, Aug. 2.-LeonarG
e. Greenfield, corporal in Company M
of the First regiment, and Roy Bryan
a private in the same company, both
of Fairfield, were shot at from across
the border. They heard the whistle
of bullets about their heads just be
fore they shattered the branch of q
mesquite tree ten yards away. The
men ran back to camp about zoe
yards distant badly frightened
They had gone to the river without
leave. Corporal Greenfield said he
noticed a Mexican across the river
who was watching them intently. He
vent into shack and Greenfield paid
no more attention until the shot came
over their heads.
The First battalion of the Third
'egiment, holding its first parade last
evening was cheered by two battalions
Of Virginia troops, which had reamin-
I'd to watch them. The Clarinda band
played "Dixies" and Colonel Perry of
the Virginians said, Boys, let's give
hem three cheers for Iowa." and they
did
The parade was beautiful and Maj
or Worthington received congratula-
tons from the Virginia commander.
Watermelons and cantalopes had
such devastating effect on Company B.,
Third Regiment that Capt w. A. Ora
ham forbade their being eaten. Pop
also is barred. Five men went to the
camp hospital as the result, Graham
said, of too much melon and many
others in the company are not fit for
duty.
Goes After Correspondents.
San Antonio, Tex, Aug. 2.-General
Funston last night sent to the war de.
partment a telegram announcing his
Intention to rid the various guard
camps of newspaper correspondents
who send out false accounts of condi-
lions in the camps. He referred to
such correspondents as pests, and
said he had endured them as long as
he proposed to.
An order has been sent to all dis
trict commanders along the border
covering future action against news
paper men sending out dispatches
which may be classed as untruthful
In each instance the offender will be
tried by a special court of militia Of
ficers from his state. If found guilty
he will be ordered from camp.
The generals telegram said: 81
wish to call attention to the war de-
partment to the carnival of lying be-
ing INDUCED in by many of the CORE
spondents who accompanied the state
troops to the border. have never
never seen or heard of anything that
approached it for sheer maliciousness
and shamelessness."
Factory Handa Dissatisfied.
BY William G. Shepherd, United Press
Staff Correspondent.
San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 2:--Mili-
tia companies, which contain men,
bers who left factory positions expect
ing to fight, are in rife discomfort. The
letting go of men who had dependent
families and the college students who
will soon return, is working unfavor-
ably in respect to factory hands.
In the street of Company e, Sec
ond Indiana Infantry, are found TWEEN.
ty men digging. You want to know
why we joined the militia?" one ask
ed. 1--WE are blank blank FOOLS, he
said. We quit jobs in Munsey fac
tories to come down here and fight
and they turn us into section hands"
said another.
Another dozen men shouted excit-
eddy, "if there is going to be no war,
we want to go home. 1t is a blank
shame to take us out of factories and
have us doing work like this" We
said that this was soldiers life and
wasn't bad. This isn't 1ad?" said
one soldier, Come into this tent" In
the tent was Sargent Jones OF Muncie,
member of the brotherhood of rail-
road firemen, lying there sick II
have been sick As hours in the stom-
ache. MY name is v. l.. Taylor and l
live in Muncie. I am foreman in the
Warner Auto Gear machine shops and
I had 7S men under me. The food
here has been bad and poorly cooked .
Mexicans Cross the Border.
FL Paso: Aug. 2-On a report that
$50 Mexican bandits crossed the Rio
Grande at Furley. Texas. eight miles
west of Fort Hancock. two troops OF
cavalry. motorcycle crops and ten
truck loads of infantry rushed from
Fort Bliss today to Fort Hancock. I,
Is reported the raid Is in retaliation
for the -four Mexicans killed there
Monday.