Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-09-24

Will have behind him all the scattered
soldiers of the new revolution--giving
him force sufficient to quickly con-
quer the defacto government.
This week the Second Connecticut is
doing part of the guard duty at No
gales. The Idaho regiment furnishes
guard for the pumping station and pro-
vost duty down town. but the Connecti-
cut lads are covering the government
warehouses, Paradise Gulch," the
later just below the Idaho camp and
enormously reported to have been
cleaned out"
1t is possible that some time in the
past l have spoken of the absence Of
amusements at Nogales. Indeed there
seems to be lingering memory tucked
away somewhere in my mind that in
one letter there was a remark about
the scarcity of entertainment in this
neighborhood.
If such a remark was ever made I
take It all back.
Nogales is as full of entertainment
as the happy few, chosen at the Idaho
primary a few weeks ago are full Of
joy-and dread. This unique hamlet
astraddle the international line is a
perpetual fount of entertaining sur
prises.
1t is as uncertain in what it will
spring next in the amusement line as
Jack Noonan or Comrade Pratt or
Jolly" Curtis. the custom inspectors,
are of what they will find under the
seat or behind the cushions of the next
q a ha thnt
A few days, or rather nights, ago
there was an exhibition sprint from the
''ranchito.' over the other side of the
Quartet in Nogales, Sonora, to the lee
side of monument No. 1872 in Nogales,
Ariz., pulled off by truck driver for
the benefit of the thrilled and breath
less populace. He made excellent time
so excellent in fact that his hat and
coat and shoes were unable to keep up
with him. They all were left at the
starting post.
When he was able to talk he conf
dentialy informed me that it was the
merest miracle his trousers were not
also
But speaking of trousers, overalls,
pants, etc, weird and uncanny thing
occurred on the streets of Nogales,
fAhItllNt ySSitIdeN. III d SOOu many
years rambling around I have never
seen anything quite so strange.
Most of these letters are written in
a room down on Morley avenue about
a hundred feet from the Mexican line
and directly in the heart of the business
district.
The room is upstairs over restau-
rant and faces the street. Just across
l,o i, II
disc store.
Up and down the street surges, all
day long, crowds of MeXicans, Ameri-
cans, Indians-'most everything
1t was about 10 o'clock in the morn
ing l stepped to the window for a
breath of air and to watch the people
always interesting.
Lieutenant Colonel Crow was in tho
hospital a few days last week suffer-
ing from return of an old trouble
brought back from the hardships OF
the Fort Huachuca trip. 1t is probable
he will have to undergo an operation
and may possibly be off for some time
on disability leave of absence.
Tho Nogalcs Herald recently had a
double jointed editorial spasm because
of my story about the apparent ambl.
ton of this really beautiful and inter
esting little city to have people from
other places do the protecting along
the border"
The Herald thought I was real cruel
to mention the fact that the town had
furnished only one recruit for the First
Arizona infantry and justifies the alb
sence of other Nogalians from the
pheasant pastimes of latrine building,
ditch digging, etc, and the SIS month
of the militia camps by the naive re-
mark that: The people of Nogales.
when they answer the call of duty
want to fight. They saw no indication
of a fight if they joined the militia;
but at the same time a proba bility that
they would be sent to Roosevelt dam,
Ala, or some other inland place, whore
they could do nothing but sit around
and guard some irrigation dam. or
such matter"
How cunning! Probably the men OF
Idaho, when they answered the call of
duty never dreamed they We're going
to anything but a nice pink tea or some
other highly aesthetic la Franc rose
affair." Surely, the boys from the high
cool hills of Idaho-the rampsing,
devil eating savages from the Idaho
Falls War Bonnet" the hilarious,
hoop-la dill drivers from Occur
d Alene, the untamed lumberjacks from
the pine forests of the Panhandle, the
breezy nifty guys from Bull and Twin
Falls and Weiser and Caldwell and
Nampa and Emmett-yes, from the
glorious hills and valleys of Adams
county, were merely joking when they
enlisted for border or foreign service.
The Herald doesn't think for a mo-
ment that they, the men of the Sec
ond Idaho, answered the call to fight"
The boys from Idaho and California
and Utah and other states had in
mind. no doubt, when they started for
the border, "a probability that they
would be sent to Roosevelt dam, Ala
or some other inland place where they
could GO nothing but sit around and
guard sone irrigation dam, or such
matter''-which is entirely too slow and
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