The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-26
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Just the drivers will be obliged to
carry the horse equipment mentioned
The infantryman is not forced to care
for nearly as much personal equip
ment.
Each man must wear an aluminium
Identification tag around his neck. 1t
will be the size of a half dollar piece
and will be stamped with his name,
rank, company and regiment
Reservation Notes.
James Smith of Topeka, a clerk in
the quartermaster's corps, was knock
ed down Saturday night by a stroke of
lightning. Smith was standing on
table during heavy rain that fell Sat
| urday night endeavoring to close up
| hole. His shoulder was against tele-
phone wire. The lightning struck
about twenty feet from the headquar-
tiers tent.
Wild rumors are afloat relative to
leaving First it is declared the COM
pany will return to Topeka, next it
will sail direct south to Tampico.
More than 200 recruits arrived to
join the Second regiment Sunday. Re
cruits are coming in more rapidly
from the western than from the east
ern part of the state. Battery A has
been temporarily attached to the Sec
ond regiment.
Capt Lutte Slower, lola, First infa.n-
try, has begun selecting sixteen men
for squad of mounted scouts. These
men will be at brigade headquarters
constantly and will undergo more dan
ger probably than any others.
There are 1,046 men and forty-three
officers in the First infantry and l.
276 men and 102 officers in the Sec
ond infantry.
Not only is Frank Brown, a Norton
newSpaperman, lieutenant in ma
chine gun company, two other men in
get an entirely new force before
starting for Fort Riley. If a censor
is needed for newspapermen, Brown
wishes to be the censor.
C. H. Sessions, Curt Myers, Maj A.
M. Harvey, J. L. Close, wife and
daughter, Mrs. C. I. Martin, DR.. J. H.
Rinehart and DR.. Lindsey were among
the Topekans who visited camp Sum
day.
Governor Capper is not expected be-
fore Tuesday now. He sent telegram
to General Martin offering to buy
American flags for the regiments.
General Martin says that the govern
ment will supply flags and has sug-
gested' Governor Capper head regi-
mental emergency<fund.
The commissioned officers from To-
peka, members of the quartermaster's
corps who will be obliged to remain at
nome unless detailed to a company are
Maj. R. Neil Rain, Capt. A NJ Mills,
and Maj. ]. c. Springstead.
r Smith, together with Kansas City
and Topeka newspaper men, suffered
further torture during the night when
the tent in which they are sleeping
nd
| their heads by very few inches. That
ended their sleep for the night They
spent most of the night endeavoring
to find their4clothes by crawling under
the canvas of the fallen tent.
! Order has been excellent. Not
sign of drunkenness has been noted.
Sergt- Frank D. Wilson raided a crap
game Saturday afternoon. The shoot
ers We're put on fatigue duty.
Archie farrell, son of j. Frank Jar
| rell, publicity man for the Santa Fe,
reported a stomach ache to First
Lieut.. c. c. Lull at sick call Sunday
morning. Inquiry revealed that ali
the contraband young farrell had
eaten at Junction City the night be-
Lore consisted of two ice cream sodas,
of chilli N-"ii
Capt ]. NJ. Hite has appointed the
special detail for reconnaissan and
esta blishment of a line of cornrnnnica-
tlon between the battery commanders
| headquarters and the battery in actual
service. This detail precedes the bat
terry on horseback varying distances.
| selects the site of battery and estab.
hshes either semaphore or telephone
| communication with Headquarters.
| Those on the detail are. First Sarp+
| r
and Carl Mcfarland and Privates T1d
Bell and Ed Kennedy.
From the standpoint of good looks
officers OF Battery A surpass all 9TH
ers, according to a remark made bv a
bunch of young girls who watched the
officers at mess.
| All chicken was the inelegant but
comprehensive description of a Kansas
lily g1ri IN referring to Capt. ]. NJ.
| Hite. Lieutenants W. P. MacLean,
Richard B. Porter, James C. Hughes
and A. c. Bartel.
| Approximately IT'S horses must he
curried and fed daily by Battery A
in actual service. At present the bat
| terry has six horses at its disposal
Whether the necessary horses will be
supplied to the battery before entrain-
ing or at the border is not yet known.
Ora S. Morris, a Topeka blacksmith
who endeavored to enlist in the Span
ish-American war, aid could not on
account of his age, was one of the first
to enlist at the armory at Topeka
Monday. He expressed a desire to
escape blacksmithing. Morris was
shoeing horses for Battery Sunday
morning.
Chief of Police Harvey Parsons
spent Sunday night with Lieutenant
Going of Topeka. Chief Parsons was
a pathetic figure early Sunday morn
ing as he stood in the chill air in
suit of light pajamas and ehdeavored
to explain to Lieutenant Going that
cold shower bath before brea- fast
wasn't necessary.
.sThis has been very uncomfortable
id Chief Parsons cot