Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-08-15
NO ONE OF
COMPANY A
IN HOSPITAL
: Stomach Trouble Worst Ailment
of Bismarck's s Soldiers at
the Front.
REPORTS OF BITES BRING
DA1NT1Es FROM HOME
Suggest Newspaper Men Refrain
From Telling Folks at Home
Stings Are Not Dangerous.
1y Ewjno Lewis

Mercedes, Tex, Aug. l4.-Captain
"A. B. Welch has Spanish garden in
front of his tent, graced with as many
palms as church wedding. Lots OF
landscape gardening talent was dis
covered in Co. A when the men got
down to the border and they have
been experimenting with Spanish bay
0net, palms, cactus and lots OF plants
which no one knows the names Of
Spanish bayonets line the company
street. They are not only ornamental,
as Sergeant Ferris Cordner pointed
out today, but they are useful as bur-
glar alarms. Any night prowler is
likely to pinion himself on one of the
bayonets and rouse the camp with a
yell Of pain. ...l....
The men of A company were wiser
than the soldiers from Indiana and
Nebraska, quartered three miles to
the west at Llano Grande. The men
at Llano Grande transplanted hund-
reds Of fine palms from the woods to
their company streets, but they did
not take the trouble to dig them up
by the roots. They are already look
ing like a corn field in November, and
officers have ordered details to go out
into the mesquite woods and bring
back palms with roots.
~. Letters OF Shells.
Il cannot get over the idea that a
big palm is worth twenty-dollar
BILL" said Arthur Brown. Every
time ! dig one up think how tickled
my folks would be If could carry it
home and start, conservatory" :,
A Minnesota officer who admired
Capt. Welch's new ''door-plate," cum.
ningly vmade of shells, told how his
men had made similar work of art,
but unfortunately used live snails and
the letters crawled off during the
night. ""o
William Carrick was the first man
Of Company "A to be stung by scor-
pion. No guardsman from the north
feels really acclimated on the border
until he has received the attention of
one of these little dagger-tailed in
sects. The sting is not serious if it
is treated at once, and the soldiers
hold the Texan scorpion in no more
awe than a bumble-bee at home.
'.-:Posner Bitten.
owen Posner was bitten by a cent?
pede and the wound made an ugly
swelling. Centipedes, scorpions and
rattlesnakes were the only residents
in the suburbs of Mercedes until the
troops came, and some of the old set
tiers have apparently decided to stay
with the newcomers. But most of
them have retreated into the chap.
paral, and call on the soldiers only
occasionally.
1t is still subject of dispute in the
camps from Harlinger to Mission
whether a7tnewspaper correspondent
ought to admit to the people up north
that a scorpion or centiped wound
isn't a very serious matter. Sympath-
etic kilograms and large consign-
ments of cakes and preserves were
sent to the first victims, and the men
who were wounded later feel that
they should be treated the same way.
A New York artilleryman at Mission
told me that when he wrote home
that he had been stung by scorpion
his sister sent him, in care of the
hospital, two suits of pajamas, five
pounds of cake and enough maya
zines to last him two weeks.
Not Man in Hospital.
There isn't Co. A man in the hos
pital and with the exception of a few
cases of stomach disorders, the
health of the company is perfect. The
boys declare that it isn't much hot
ter in the day than at home, and at
night they are famed my sea breezes
as cool as people travel to Atlantic
City for. There have been no cases
of heat prostration since the arrival
of the first infantry. The Texans
here will tell you that no one is every
overcome by the heat on the border.
A number of heat cases, however.
have been treated at Llano Grande
camp, three miles away, by the hos
pital stats of the Indiana, Minnesota
and Nebraska brigades.
Mercedes Likes Them
The boys are rapidly getting ac-
quainted in Mercedes, and Mercedes
likes them. The four band concerts
a week draw crowds to the city park
which, with the railroad, divides the
Mexican quarter from the American
side o. town. The Dakota boys loll
under the palms and oleanders, en-
joying the music, and looking proper
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