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

next morning Company F's incinerator
isn't red any more. 1t is beautiful,
snowy and distinctive white!
Company F had slipped one over on
the other companies of the Second
Idaho in artistic decorations-also on
the lead mule of the wood wagon the
first time he saw it and mistook the
whitewash for salt and licked a large
red spot on the incinerator's end before
he found out it was hot and that lime
wasn't good for mules to eat anyway.
Now Company F's chef keeps one eye
on the immaculate incinerator and the
other on the "yun boat" of beans he IS
baking for dinner and when stranger
or a mule comes along calls out in
deep. hollow, Captain Kidd voice;
Stranger beware! TIL first DANCED
mewl that ticks tn whitewash off that
incinerator an tn first dad hinged
stranger, or otherwise, that splits to-
b;.cco juice on that incinerator dies
miserable deatl at sunrise-will be ia
tally executed in tn pale peep of an
Arizony dawn. Stranger, beware tn
wrath of Company F."
That's the reason so many of the boys
say they have quit chewing tobacco
Company rs nice white incinerator IS
an almost irresistible temptation to
spit a large yellow smear on its voup-
tuous bosom! So to avoid a riot they
have chucked the chewin!
If there is ny bunch of soldiers on
the border that earn their money it IS
the Second Idaho infantry. Somebody
high up in command is constantly
springing something surprising and
original for the Idaho lads to do.
There is so much efficiency, evident
ly, in the Idaho regiment that the sur
plus is scattered around in various
ways all over the military reservation
of Camp Stephen Little.
When we first came down here the
Idaho bunch was so healthy and the
Idaho surgeons so efficient that they
were drafted INTO the physical exami-
nation of the other militia organizations
sent to this particular edge of the Dor
der. Then Lieutenant Henderson was
put over at the Twelfth and turned
into q ''reg'lar." Then Lieutenant
Krengle was called" as chief of con-
struction of all the kitchens etc, in
the whole mobilization camp. Then
Lieutenant Hummel was ordered into
the base quartermaster's department to
help handle the big supply and distr-
button problems Then a lot of our
men were told to come OH down town
and be NJ P. s-military police-and
keep things straight around the streets
of Nogales. Then the first state troops
to be sent ou- on the lonely Titcomb
hill guard and over to the pumping
station and up to the reservoir and
other ticklish places along the Mexican
line was the Idaho regiment. Then the
regiment to take the first long slim
hike-to set the pace-to Fort Hua-
chuca was the Second Idaho. Then
well, that's the way it has been going
ever since the arrival of the men from
Idaho.
Now we are assigned the delicate
and refined task of looking out for
prisoners-"guard house angels"-from
other regiments.
Fourteen prisoners" are bileted on
the Second Idaho. They come from the
California camp. Lieutenant Hughes
was placed in charge of the visitors"
Before he had been on duty an hour
he picked a nice wet bottle of booze
out from under the shirt of one of the
sentenced" bunch.
Really, Lieutenant" the culprit re-
marked as Lieutenant Hughes gathered
. in the bottle of 100-proof q didn't aim
for you to see that. l figured you
wouldn't notice that and-and-well,
Tn sorry you found it," Naturally.
But the lieutenant found it and now
the lad will have to serve out his SEN
tence in arid discontinue.
1t is reported the Second Idaho has
been named. by General Plummer as
ready and fit for any duty. This IS
the status of the Idaho troops at Cen
eral Funston's headquarters.