Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1916-08-25
AMBULANCE FUND
GROWING SLOWLY
SMALLER TOWNS SHOW MOST IN.
TEREsT-TRooPs NEED
AUTOMOBILE.
INTERESTING NEWS OF STATE

INTERESTING NEWS OF STATE
Important Items From North Dakota
State Institutions and Officials
With Live Letters From Flick
ertaiI Guardsmen at Border.
The fund to purchase an am
bulance for the First North Dakota
infantry grows slowly but steadily
The smaller towns are showing more
interest than the larger ones. Bis,
marck has raised $500, Mandan 1925,
Van Hook $3.50 and Dickinson $50.
A subscription list is out in Minot
and in Williston. Very few contribu-
lions have been received from Fargo.
Grand Forks, Jamestown or Valley
City.
1t is planned to purchase White
ambulance at a cost of $1,000. The
regiment is greatly in need of an auto
Mercedes, Tex.
Finest Regiment on Border.
In letter received by Deputy Coun-
ty Auditor John Nelson from his
grandson, Cyril Dyke Page, sergeant
in the machine gun, N. d. N. G., and
son of the late Mrs. Alice Nelson
Page, conditions in the North Dakota
camp at Mercedes are excellent, and
there is no cause for complaint. Mr..
Page says in part:
Conditions in the North Dakota
camp are excellent and everything is
as clean and sanitary as only a man
like Mr.. Frame would have it. An
inspection was made recently by
General Funston, who declared that
the North Dakota regiment was the
finest on the border, physically, NOR
ally and from a soldiers standpoint.
Notes Absence Of Sickness.
There is a remarkable absence OF
sickness in the North Dakota regi-
ping westerners in the camp, have
ment, and the large number of strap
caused much comment on every hand.
The little city in which we are To-
Gated is little piece Of old Mexic
itself. 1t is so close to the border it
has absorbed everything that is Mex
lean, including architectural ideas, GUS
toms and everything that is quaint to
the Dakotans.
First Shot Is Fired.
CAS- far as any border excitement
is concerned, things are as quiet here
as in North Dakota. The troops are
evidently down here simply for the
moral effect, the military training and
to form nucleus of greater and
larger army"
Some excitement was caused In the
camp when a blank cartridge was &C.
cidentally fired. It was the first shot
fired by the North Dakotans on the
border.
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GEL N.w Equipment.
New equipment has been given the
First North Dakota infantry regiment.
Latest regulation shoes, socks, un-
derwear, shirts and hats were given
to the men, but the Nerth Dakotans
were disappointed when they learned
that they could not receive the khaki
breeches they ordered.
Khaki breeches were distributed this
week to the Minnesota and Indiana
regiments and the supply was ex-
hausted. The North Dakotans must
swelter in their heavy olive drab
breeches until the next issue of cloth
ing is received from the government.
Greater Marching Distances.
Marching distances are being in
creased and next Friday the North
Dakotans will tramp to the Rio Grande
and back, total distance of IL miles,
carrying canteens and haversacks.
BY the end of the fifth week in
camp the North Dakota soldiers will
be making hikes in heavy marching
order.
A party of North Dakotans made a
trip to the Rio Grande and saw many
Mexicans on both American and Next
can soil.
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Dakotans Win Praise.
The Third battalion of North Da-
kota's First regiment of infantry pass
ed thru in review before General Par
ker of the regular army and dress
parade was held by the entire regi-
ment.
Regular army officers have nothing
but the highest praise for the North
Dakota regiment as result of the
showing made.
The North Dakotans are rapidly be-
coming acclimated and seasoned for
the work they may have to do in this
part of the world. Long. marches and
gruelling drills are toughening them
in splendid shape.
The general health of the regiment
is rapidly improving and the hardi-
hood of the North Dakotans is assert
ing itself.
More Births Than Deaths In State.
According to the last bulletin Of the
state board of health, covering the
months of April, May and June, births
in Cass county are far in excess of the
deaths. In April there were 50 births
and 80 deaths, in May there were 70
births and 30 deaths, while in June
there were So births and 81 deaths,
making a total of 2O4 births and 100
deaths for the three months. The
same rule holds good over the state at
large, there having been 1907 births
and 1920 deaths.
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Officials Stop Circus.
Hearing the report of three new
cases of infantile paralysis at Bill