Evening star., 1916-08-22
TWeIve-Year-0Id Washington
Miss Intercedes for Court
MartiaIed Troopers.
EVERYBODY WORKING HARD
IN THE CAMPS IN WARREN
"Bad" Horses Gradually Being
Tamed-Battery Members Strike
Snag in Rounding Up Burros.
BY j. CROSBY MCCARTHY.
staff Correspondent Of The Star

Staff Correspondent Of The Star
DISTRICT NATIONAL GUARD CAMP,
WARREN, Ariz.. August 17-Pauline,
. little twelve-year-old miss living
somewhere in Washington" has writ
ten to Maj Charles H. Bowker, COM
manding Field Hospital No l, o. NJ
d. c.. begging him not to shoot those
heroic six who crossed the border and
nearly got betwixted." She cautions
that IF you shoot them you will have
six less and then you will be sorry
when you need them
The six referred to by the majors
fair correspondent are the Field Hospital
men who strayed across the interna-
tional line at Naco several weeks ago,
were arrested by Mexican authorities.
escorted back into United States terri
tory. court -martialed and who aren now
in "durance vile" serving their sentences
Maj. Bowker was the family doctor"
in Pauline's household prior to being
called to the colors, and in his com
mand are two uncles of the little girl.
Pauline heard of the escapade of the
Field Hospital seXtet and felt it her
duty to intercede for them since she
had "a friend at court" Her letter
indicates that she is not willing to
concede that the six actually did cross
from Missouri" and has to be shown
before she believes thing. She starts
her appeal by saying:
"Consider Poor Muvvers."
"I read in the papers (but / hope 1t
II not so), that six men of the Field
Hospital are to be court-martialed for
crossing the border into Mexican terri
tory, but I am sure they did not know
they were crossing the line. 1 sup
pose they are scared stiff. but you
ought to try and help them out of their
mess. 1 bet they would be glad to
bath in it II you would help them out.
Please Maj. Bowker consider their poor
muvvers and dads. I tell you 1 wouldn't
like my son to be shot.
IF you shoot them you will have six
less and then you will be sorry when
the time comes when you will need
them. those heroic six who crossed the
border and nearly. got betwixted
still II you don't put them in the
graves. Give them my regards. Tell
them to keep good guard and you may
not kill them after all
Hoping you are having good time, /
Your little girl,
MAI. Bowker has written to Pauline
stances will he shoot those heroic
six; that II would be a waste Of six
perfectly good men to shoot them. He
has impressed upon Pauline that in
stead Of being sentenced to be shot the
men have escaped with but thirty days
confinement to camp, doing policing
duty and other manual labor. The $40
Ane assessed against each Of them has
been remitted.
Everybody Hard at Work.
Everybody Is hard at work these
days in the camps of the o. NJ. D. c.
units here in Warren. With the men
of Battery B the work of getting their
camp in ship-shape condition is their
chief activity. The Field Hospital men
are receiving lots Of good training
handling hospital cases from the 22d
Infantry. and the Signal Corps men
are in the field the greater portion Of
each day learning how to ride and also
teaching their horses how to be ridden
Capt Wilson. commanding the bat
tery, now is going through an ordeal
which the commanding officers Of the
other two units have about finished
that of getting his camp made in ac-
oordance with regulation requirements
and attending to the thousand and
one details. paper work and other
wise. which federal service necessi-
tates. The officers who have come
litia units have had a lot to learn.
They have had to deal with forms,
lists. acquisitions and vouchers. the
like of which they did not know exist
ed heretofore. Many of the official pa
pers which have passed through the
Offices of the District guard units have
even been puzzling to those officers as
signed TO the camps as instructor-in-
spectors. Some of them are new, and
even the regular army officers have not
had an opportunity to familiarize them-
selves with them.
Every morning the Signal Corps men
are taking their horses into the fiat to
the south of here to exercise and train
them The purpose Of these trips is
chiefly to get the horses acquainted
with the men. Prior to coming here
they had been IN corrals in large num-
bers. and as the result at first they
were very shy when any of the men ap
preached them on the picket line. They
would rear up and break their halters
and bite and kick at the men. Now they
have become quite docile. and very lit
tie trouble is experieEced in handling
all but a few of them.
Among the lot of horses there are
several bad guys" that try to run
things their own way, but after they
have been put through few more stiff