The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1916-08-03
With Our Soldier
Boys i'm Camp
By Sergeant H. r. Hlboune Of Company E.
BY Sergeant H. r. HiIbourne Of Comnanv u

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httlng the national guards by stren-
uous drilling and coaching, for eff
cient service should the call be made
ior active duty across the information
al line. consequently" continued
this officer, "the Idahoans will most
ilKely be the first militia regiment to
get into action should an order for in
vasion come. Not only are the Idaho
troops better equipped than the ma
Jorlty of the militiamen throughout
the country, but their discipline, their
personal and their spirit are all of a
superior character, and these are what
count in the line of efficiency"
ms Is certainly some compliment,
coming as it does from one of the
most competent regular army drillmas-
ters at Nogales. When we add to this
the statement of another officer that
Co E of Grangeville Is right at the
mead of the efficiency procession among
the Idaho contingent, Idaho county
mas nothing to be ashamed Of in her
quota of troops. In fact, Just about
now, with less than thirty cents In the
entire company, we feel like a smoke
at the expense of the folks at home"
ON the strength of the favorable adj
vertising received, might be in order.
Pass the Ell Vagos; or, in the language
OF the immortalized Irishman-"give
me the loan of yer knife, poip and ta-
bacca, Oh hiv notch of me own"
Constant drill and routine camp life
are palling on some of the boys who
are camoring for action, and who
want to forever wipe out the stigma
tizing title of "tin soldiers In real
active service for their country. This
they feel that they are prepared to do,
If given chance. However, the drill
ing and camp dicipline are greatly
needed and in preparing them to give
better service when called and to be
able to better care for themselves
should the emergency arise, this emer-
gency, according to the opinions of
some of the officers very quietly and
carefully expressed, is not improbable
at any time, due to the friction be-
tween the pickets and forces now align
ed on either side of the international
line. There have already been q num-
Der OF unpleasant incidents which
tend to make the relation more Strain
ed" and there is no telling when this
strain may reach the breaking point.
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California, Utah and Connecticut re-
giments have lost large numbers of
men, due to their inability to pass
the physical examination, 107 men
from the latter regiment having been
sent home in one bunch, while the
colonel and a fourth of the enlisted
men from California have been turn
ed down, this includes 26 men of the
regimental band.
Idaho has lost no men from physical
defects, but will soon lose a number
under the ruling of the war depart
ment who have families at home de-
pendent upon them.
As it looks at this time, the Second
Idaho and the two regiments from Con-
necticut will soon be formed into a bri-
gade with such others as may be
necessary to complete the larger unit.
A portion of the Utah cavalry has
been quarantined on account of infan-
tile paralysis, but the surgeons expect
to soon have the disease well in hand.
Work is being rushed ON a military
base hospital about five miles from
Nogales, where facilities will be pro-
vided for the accommodation of some
1000 patients. A Y. M. G. A. build
ing is also being constructed all of the
work being done by the soldiers.
According to reports brought In by
Earl Wayland Bowman. war cores
pondent for the Second Idaho, who
has just returned from a trip into
the heart of Sonora at the risk of his
life from sniping and starvation,
thousands of Mexicans are on the point
of starvation in that war ridden coun-
try. Cactus fruit with a few grains
of corn occasionally constitutes the
principal articles of diet to about nine
ty per cent of the inhabitants The
land in Sonora is fertile and very pro-
ductiye in many parts, but is allowed
to lie idle because the poems are never
allowed to reap the fruits of their toll
their crops being taken by the soldiers
asking leave of the laborerS and with
no idea of making returns for the
same. This has been the case during
all the years since Diez was deposed
as president, and open brigandage be-
gun.
Mr.. Bowman estimated that we saw
10000 Carranzista troops along the
Mexican Pacific road between Nogales
and Magdalene, most of them moving
towards the United States border
What the purpose was he does NOT
know They all armed with Mauser
rifles and plenty of ammunition, but nc
tents or field equipment They had
their wives and children with them
and herds of scrawney cattle which
they replenishtd by raiding the country
through which they passed.
1t is reported that there are 20aN
Mexican troops over the border III .he
state of Sonora, which is about one
mile from camp.
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