The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-22
United States Trooper Who Rode Him Loses His Life
 in Mexico.
REFUSES TO EAT OR DRINK
Animal Almost Kills Trooper Who Tries to Take Place of Former Master-HoW the Drama
 Came to Columbus.

He's sound ill wind and limb, but he won't eat or drink, and he's slowly starving to death.
 When the Tenth regiment of colored troopers went into Mexico, Private George Hudnell of Troop c rode him And when stables" sounded on the bugle at the end of long, dusty hike, Hudnell was by the side of his mount. Hudnell cared for him as he might for a child.
 All the little intimacies that bind man and animal together were pres ent in an accentuated degree between the two. Hudnell carried sugar in his pocket. The horse nosed the pockets three times day. Hudnell went with out tobacco many, many times that he might buy from the troop cook the sweets the animal loved Nights when it showed in the Sierras, and Colonel Dodd's cavalrymen, with one blanket and orders against fire, shivered through the long hours, Hudnell slept on the picket line close up against the horses neck
 Other animals might kick and roll and bite on the line, but Hudnell's s horse was different.
 Then, on March 29, came the first brush between the Americans and Villa men. Hudnell and the horse came through safely. But two days later Hudnell was one of a dozen troops injured when a Mexican rail road train rolled down an embank- ment He died later.
 Nearly Kills Trooper.
 Hudnell's hoMe was assigned to an- other trooper, whose mount had been killed at Guerrero. The new rider, who knew how Hudnell treated the horse, tried to follow suit He carried sugar in his pockets. The horse quit eating sugar. One cold night the trooper tried to sleep on the picket line as Hudnell had done. The horse rolled on him, and would have tram pied him to death had not a stable guard interfered in time to drag the man away.
 Hudnells horse. formerly the ex- ample of every other troop horse in the outfit, became unmanageable.
 At first the horse was to be shot. A lieutenant pleaded with the captain, and the death verdict was withdrawn.
 If you can use him, take him." was the answer.
 So the horse was held until an am bulance corps went northward. On a halter, behind the jolting wagon, the horse went north, too.
 He's in the veterinarians corral now They try to make him eat. A nibble or two of even the best oats, and the horse stops. Sometimes negro troop CT approaches the corral. The horse bricks up his ears and trots up, expec- tancy in every move. But the ears drop and the brisk gait stops, and the thinning sides droop pitiably. The horse doesn't make mistakes and Hud nell is gone.
 I've known of cavalry horses that loved their riders" said the white haired veterinarian, but never this way. One of the officers believed that to call the horse by name might bring him around. But it seems that Hud nell used to call him Baby and we don't seem to say it like he did"
 How the Drama Came to Columbus.
 Theatrical records that will be handed to posterity should contain the name of Young Joe" German. Young Joe" has made name for himself in Columbus, and in the role of tank town Frohman has literally dragged the drammer' into the border country
 Not only did Young Joe" build a theater. but he imported perforated tickets, and, above all. company.
 When the soldiers came to Columbus there was a lone movie show to en certain them. It's hard to get good pictures down here. So Young Joe German started musing.
 "A girl show" he opined. would make money here.'
 First a theater was needed. An 1Sfoot board stage, benches and some corrugated iron slabs to fool the dead heads" quickly settled that problem Lo, Columbus had an "airdrome,' with the stars for a roof.
 Getting the talent proved more diff ficult. But here Dame Fortune, that capricious old damsel that continu ally smiles on her sons of fortune came to the rescue,
 A girl show" went broke in El Paso They managed to get to Deming, the county seat, where they went still broker. That made it fine for Joe.
 With his limited capital, he lifted the lien on the scenery and costumes loaded ten girls and four men of the defunct company on motor truck and started across the desert for Colum bus.
 Now Young Joe" German Is in 6 fair way to make a fortune.