Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-15
SECOND IDAHO ANN|H|-
LATES CONNECTICUT
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your eyes open and IL they show up
get out and do little defending"
! So Colonel Edelblute sent word back.
or might have sent word back, and
said;
much obliged for putting me on to
what the gang from down east is try
| ing to pull off. Go on back to bed and
get your sleep out--the Second Idaho
| will take care of things"
sTRATEGIsTs GET BUSY.
That was several days ago and night
before last the colonel and Major Will
lIins and Major Lewis and Major Oh
sen talked it over and decided there
wasn't any use waiting for the Con-
nectcut gang to come hiking down the
| long slim hill past the Utah camp be-
fore the Second Idaho got busy-any-
| way the men haven't been doing much
since getting back from Fort Huachuca,
| just drilling about seven hours a day
and digging and ditching and guarding
and doing little things like that be-
| tween times so they figured it would
kind of timber them up to march out
few miles and besides it would be
nicer to capture the Connecticut regi-
ment out on the hills somewhere where
there would be plenty of room for the
| dead men" to tumble and for the
theoretical rivers of blood that were
bound to flow in the "flercely contest
ed battle"
That's why. probably, after supper
the other evening Captains Jeeters and
Jones and Patch and Boies and Jeffries
and Travis and Banks and Shaw and
Kaeding and McRoberts and Biggs and
Allen and Duvall and Van Desteeg and
Conant and Pittenger and Wilson and
the rest of them had their men line up
and take their bed-rolls and pup tents
and guns and knapsacFs and a few
other little trinkets end stroll about
six miles out to Santa Cruz river.
TO END THE SUSPENSE.
You see they'd heard the Connecticut
men might be coming along that way
pretty soon and they wanted to be
handy to capture them and annihilate
them so they wouldn't have to be in
suspense so long.
Well, the Second Idaho stretched
their shelter halfs and put out their
guards and got to bed about 10 o'clock
or thereabouts, perhaps.
All night the sentlnes paced back
and forth. back and forth and not a
single solitary invading army showed
up. Finally about 80 o'clock in the
morning when the men were just get
ting used to sleeping with ants play
ing hop scotch up and down their
spinal columns the colonel walked up
and might have said:
I'm a SON ia gunl This will
never dol That fool invading army
ought to have been along a good while
ago and let us had it all slaughtered
up by this time! Guess we'd better GO
on over little ways toward Patagonia
and see what's keeping them"
PREPARE FOR INVADERS.
Then he could have called somebody
and told them:
Wake the regiment up and tell it to
have a slice and half or two slices OF
bacon and get its clothes on and come
on over toward Sonoita canyon and de-
stroy that invading army loafine
around somewhere in this neighbor-
hood"
Anyway someone walked the men III
and they got up and had the bacon
and rubbed their eyes and probably re-
marked:
"Goddlemighty! What time is it?
was just getting to sleep!"
So the Second Idaho picked up the
few little things a soldier carries on a
march and hit the hike. to use a weird
and uncommon expression often heard
about Nogales, up the canyon and ovol
the hills toward Huachuca.
Along after they had marched, may
be, a small matter of seven or eight
a nice smooth ridge with lots of gooC
shelter TO lay behind while you shoe
and kill invading armies and thing.
and spread out
THE enemy hove" in sight.
They came, little reckoning the thing
that was going to happen to them
bravely winding over the hill
HONORS FOR COMPANY I.
Right here's where Company /, Cap.
tain Shaw commanding, got In some
good work.
Major Lewis of the Third battalion
Second Idaho, knew the enemy wa!
coming-it doesn't matter how he knew
it-but he knew. besides what are
scouts for anyhow?
, So Major Lewis sent word over t.
y Captain Shaw;
"The enemy is coming! Engage
4 'em."
Captain Shaw scooted. yes that's thc
4 word, scooted his men-Company |
H down a ridge and up a ridge and go