Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-22
STATE GUARD TO
MOVE TODAY FOR
LINCOLN CAMP
Nebraska Troops Ordered to Mo-
bilize at State Fair Grounds
and Activity Is Visible
Everywhere.
ASKING BIDS FOR SUPPLIES
Major Hawkins, of Kansas City
Asks Estimates of Amounts
Needed.
CAPITAL CITY GETS READY

lfrOm " Std1l
Lincoln, June 2l.--(Special Tele-
gram. Notwithstanding press dis
patches this afternoon show that the
Nebraska guard would be mustered
into the United States service at Ash
land, a message received by Adjutant
General Hall at S o'clock this evening
from General Barry at Chicago orders
the state troops to mobilize at Lin
coin.
The fair grounds will be the scene
of mobilization and drill until the
troops are ordered to Mexico. A part
of the troops will be quarierec IN the
buildings. Headquarters of the gen.
eral staff will be in the Administra-
ton building.
Men Will Move Today.
The movement of companies will
begin Thursday morning, the hospital
company at Lincoln being the first to
reach the grounds. Other companies
will be brought in as fast as possible:
General Hall and his staff will spend
the entire night getting ready .or the
arrival of the companies.
Major c. E. Hawkins of Kansas
City, in charge of the quartermaster'
department, has wired General Hal
asking for an estimate of the amount
of funds it will require for the support
of the guard and to pay the men ur
to June 80. He has also asked fol
bids for the purchase of mules ane
. other needed supplies, the bids to b'
opened June 26 at the Kansas Cit,
headquarters. He desires any part,
having mules to sell to furnish hin
such information, ..,
/ Ask Bids for Supplies.
: Bids will also be asked for suppplie
|, for the Nebraska troops while il
camp here, and it is requested tina
packing houses and other firms deal
ing in the supplies wanted cemmuni
. cate at once with Major A. 6. Fal
coner, quartermaster's department
Lincoln.
= Among some of the supplies tina
E will be needed is 1862 pounds o
: fresh beef, 4,l87 pounds Of bacon, Il
} 900 loaves of bread, 2,625 pounds o
5 flour, $3.50 pounds Of beans, 1868
: bushels of potatoes, 3,287 bushels Q
: onions, 4,200 pounds of sugar, 65
S pounds of butter, l,470 pounds of col
y fee and CSC cans of evaporated milk,
e The rations are for ten days.
e From now on things will take
: lively turn about the fair grounds an
: a warlike appearance will be observed
). Chief of Police A,ries visited til
t quarters of General Hall today t
" ascertain what would pc expected {
e the city in the way of extra polio
force.
While not anticipating any troubl
of serious nature frou ,Ne soldier
! the chief is of the opinion that tn
= mobilizing of the troops will bring
large number of people to Lincoll
/ He also thinks traffic will be il
y creased to such a degree that moi
II traffic police will be needed on ii
main streets.
- All But -Four Report.
d All but four companies of the N
in tional Guard at 8 o'clock tonight h;
II reported the number of men enlist,
D and ready for duty. While son
% which reported yesterday were n
II UP to the standard of sixty-five M,
lie it is expected by this time that mo
of them have reached nearly til
ut number.
II Where companies have not secur,
lg the required sixty-five the first lie
e, tenant of the company with det
:" of two men will remain at the hon
S. station until the required number a
ne secured and send them to Linco
n. as fast as enlisted
as Company X of the Fourth infantr
IN with sixty men, will reach Lincoln
al 7 a m. Thursday; B of Nebraska Cit
Fifth infantry, sixty men, at 3 a. II
the fourth and fifth sanitary corr
Bennett and Fremont, entirely +
n cruited, or nearly so, Ill the afternoo
n, All field and medical officers duril
az the day.
ar Adjutant General Hall will ha
or charge of the camp until the troo
al are mustered into regular service
so Lieutenant P. G. Wrightson and Ca
W. tain Herschel Tupes of the regul
"a army.
d.
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