Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1916-07-20
IIH0 REGIMENT IN CAMP ON
BORDER AT N0CALES, ARIZONA

mat Is one reason we are so Glad our
camp is high and dry.
Mess outfits are busy getting tables
and kitchen equipment ready for sun
per. Men are clearing the ground of
rocks and the scattering brush, digging
trenches, IN some places terracing the
slope OF the hill to make level tent
ground-everywhere there is speed and
clock-ike regularity. When the storm
comes If it does come it will find the
boys fed and sheltered and ready for if.
80 the long trip from Idaho-home-
to the border is ended.
The hot days of drilling and
maneuvering, the nights of sentinel duty
and maybe, very likely, months and
possibly years of service in the noun
tains of Sonora or on the deserts of
that or another Mexican state are be-
gun.
The boys were glad to get to the
border But at that most of them
reaize that this is not mere frolic.
They know that it is to be hard, tough
enlng, work not always entirely free
from bit of danger.
Was a Great Trip.
But | want to tell you more in this
letter of the trip from the time of the
entrainment at Boise and the splendid
God-speed'' of the home folks to the
stop in the Nogales yards than of other
things.
1t was great trip. Full of interest
even if sometimes sultry.
The same discipline is carried on
during a railroad transfer as in camp.
Meals were cooked and served to
supplement the lunches Boise furnished
the boys. The hospital service went
forward just as it did at the barracks
Those men who had not received all of
their "typhoid shots' got them when
they were due on the train. On each
train a miniature hospital was always
ready for any emergency.
Major Tukey personally directed the
hospital detail on the headquarters
train. 1t reached Nogales with every
officer and enlisted man physically
right. On the other trains the hos
pital service under Captain Pittenger
Conant and Wilson went right along
Only one man came into Nogales sick
That was Private Ellis of Company I
from Shoshone, who is in the field hos
pital with typhoid. His condition is
favorable. The disease had begun be
fore he left Boise or received the vac
cination.
1t was interesting on the trip tc
watch the cooks in the mess car. This
was baggage car set in the middl,
of the train. Stoves were set up ant
coffee made in giant boilers and othel
stuff cooked as if the train was stand
ing still. There was no. bread baket
enroute-plenty of this was supple,
from bakeries along the road. Wher
mess was to be served each man hat
, his kit ready and the food was Trough
to him at his seat. After each mea
the men washed and cleaned their owl
outfits.
No Liquor on Trains.
The strict enforcement of the orde
that no liquor be brought on the train
at any of the towns in Utah, Nevad
and Califronia-wet states-prevente'
lot of disorderliness. When a pri
vate or officer appeared at car wit
any kind of bottle goods that looke'
suspicious it was promptly confiscate
by the guard and on order from tn
commanding officer destroyed.
This strict enforcement of "probi
bition'' caused several amusing Incl
dents as we'll as numerous disappoint
ments. One incident especially wa
} funny and at the same time almost pa
thetic.
BY some means five bottles, pints, o
Sunny Brook whisky, found their wa
into the headquarters car on the frs
section. Ii was reported to Colone
1 Edelblute as having been discovered L
the water cooler-the five bottles tie
together and snugly hung on strin
down among the ice where their con
L annl an1 rQfrQSh
ing.
HSmash It'll" was the colonel's onl,
comment.
The order was carried out by Captain
Jeeters.
AS the bottles were one by one an,
nossibly with considerable reluctanc
{ thrown against the rail George, tn
colored porter, stood by and watche
the havoc:
> "My Gawd, boos, don It! Please don
, do dat! You 'se doin a powahful 81
) wastin' all dat! Oh, boss, please saw
one-jes save little bottle! Please
! bosslO he almost tearfully pleaded
But "orders are orders" and all wer
, broken.
{ In Dry State Again.
Safely past the temptations OF we
Utah, wetter Nevada and wettest Cal
y fornia, the Idaho boys are reasonabi
{ secure from the occasional impulse {
: tank up and rip things loose, generall
: for Arizona is as arid in booze wa
: as our own idaho. Climatically it is
] lot more so even if it does have ram
l season-in spots.
l Something / liked all the way dow
was the fine reception the Second ldah
3 troops got at the towns in which stop
{ were made. Idaho, of course, -gaV
o them a continuous ovation from Bols
: to the Utah line.
Salt Lake City seemed nightly il
4 terested in the clean, stalwart, appear
t ance of our boys and the hours spen
: there were pleasant. Hundreds TOO
Q advantage of the opportunity TO
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