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Evening star., 1916-07-21
FIRE ON MOUNTAIN
ALARMS D. c. men
Troops on Border Thought 1t
Signal of a Mexi-
can Spy.
SaLY TWO SOLDIERS
CAUGHT IN A STORM
Scare Vanishes When Party Climbs
1000 Feet and Finds Pair of
Regulars Coming Down.
BY ]. CROSBY MCCARTHY.

DISTRICT NATIONAL GUARD CAMP,
WARREN. = Ariz., July 16-The state
O. mind of the District of Columbia
militia men with regard to the possi-
.Liltties of a clash with a force from
south of the border was made evident
< an incident which occurred at the
c mp last night.
Just about sunset the skies began to
eIoud over flashes of lightning were
r>en behind the hills to the south and
cast of here and there was every in
Gication that a storm was about to
break The flashes became more vivid
end the claps of thunder that followed
them were deafenng. The wind began
t. blow and the tents were thrashed
about in a manner that was alarming.
Without warning the four tent flies
Constituting the mess tent for the men
went down with a crash.
The militiamen made for their tents,
drove down the tent pegs as far as
possible and then piled rocks about
them to make them even more secure.
II the midst of the excitement a light
appeared on Mural hill, a mountain to
the north of Warren. 1t was close up
toward the highest point of the noun
tn in. and apparently came from fire
s1ch as q pile of brush would make.
Second Light Is Seen.
Some ore made the remark that who
ever had started the fire had certainly
picked out rough night for 1t. and
ro further thought was given the light
Until a few minutes later when sec
c1d light appeared This one was on
the very top of the mountain, at a
point where there is sheer drop
from a cliff of solid rock that caps the
mountain. Both lights burned bright
L.: It was quite evident that the fire
from which they came was being kept
well supplied with clumps of bear grass
or other kinds of the scrub vegetation
found in this country.
Those lights were lit for purpose"
remarked one militiaman, NO one
Climbed to the top of that mountain
Just foc the fun of starting bon
f-e''
Il wonder who could have started
ITEM rena rked another militiaman
eli then sill another wondered" and
SO it went throughout the camp until
soon everybody was talking about the
lirhts
Then some one with a vivid ina gina
ton made the prediction that the lights
were signal fires: that they had been
lighted by some one to signal to some
force south of the Mexican border
TIL bet it's some Mex spy who's keep
Ing tab on the movement of the troops
IN this section, and that those lights
Ia ve an important meaning to some
one below the border"
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Visions of a Midnight Raid.

Tho militianen stood in the company
streets and gazed toward the mountain
top. Visions of midnight raid by an
unknown enemy were rampant in the
camp. The storm which threatened
tc break at any moment was forgotten
Every one had his mind fastened on
those lights and their possible signifi-
cance and nothing else.
Then some one asked one of the
militiamen IL he thought he could hit
man at 100 yards with his pistol
Then some one else asked IL a bullet
from one of the automatics would be
effective at a distance of a mile Then
still another somebody wondered why
ri2sc we're not issued to all branches
OF the service. 1t was not difficult to
Imagine just what was occupying the
minds Of everybody.
The lights burned for more than an
hoC- and then were seen no more
Soon tattoo" sounded and then taps
and the lights in the camp also went
OFT
Bright and early this morning the
milit:anlen were talking about the
IShts again and at breakfast several
o. the men decided to climb the noun
tain ard ascertain something about
thsrs. They studied topogra phical
n p and found that the mountain peak
vas about 1.500 feet above the eleva-
tirn Of the camp and at least five miles
distant The thought of a ten-mile
mountain climb did not faze them.
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Fire Started by Infantrymen.

shortly after noon the party from the
north returned and their campmates
gathered around them to learn the full
account of the news about the fire.
The vision of Mexican raids were
quickly dispelled when the explorers
explained that two fnfantrynen Of
Company K of the 22d had gone to the
mountain top to spend the night They
Thought 1t would be great sport to
.light a huge bonfire. II furnished them
light. and also toole or the chill. for 1t
; was quite cool on the mountain top.
which has an elevation OF about 1000
feet above sea level. While tho militia
men were climbing up the mountain
side they met the infantrymen de-
scending.
The strangest thing about the Tight
on the mountain" incident Is that the
District militiamen were not the only
ones whose curiosity was aroused by
the lights. ofncers OF the 22d Infantry
also were somewhat at q loss to under
stand their origin and meaning. They
started an investigation, which brought
out the fact that two men from Com
pany x OF that regiment had obtained
pernession to stay away from camp
YsEbkA5 An0e,,ha4 saphs0. t3 the
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Party Sent to Investigate.

= order that they might convey the
r-s of the solution of the light mys-
to their campmates as soon as
possible. the mountain ciimb bing party
carried with them wigwag flags and a
ksllograph outfit. Included in the party
we're Sergts, Hall and Lansford and
Prfates Morris. Lawych, Campbell,
Moore. Schmidt. Tanning and Brashears
O. the Signal Corps Company
They started forth about o'clock and
b. means Of field glasses their camp
pot.s followed their course up the
rts,. tain. As they neared the top they
J 20 me lost from sight. having entered
y ravine so to get to a point
= they could climb up the sloping
p5 the rock cap OF the mountain.
-- Il few minutes they were seen
- tacir way along the ridge and
long they had reached the crest.
ne flash OF the heliograph was
The message concerning the mys-
The light was short but to the
.'Lss what the wording was only
Who can read continental
o. one m.litiaman who had de-
.. cd the message relieved the sus-
a. when he turned to his comrades
: y said:
'Taint nothing"
Fo- more than an hour the hello
graph was kept al work. and messages
were exchanged between the party on
Mural hill. to the north of the camp,
and mountain to the south, where a
party had set up position. Wigwag
messages also were exchanged.
Evening star., 1916-07-21
mountain top. and that they had light
ed the fires.
Camps in Good Condition.

From the sanitary standpoint, the
camps of the Signal Corps and Field
Hospital units here at Warren are "A
No. l. This is the verdict of Capt A.
D. Parce, Medical Corps, L. S. A, who
has been assigned for duty as sanitary
INSPECTOR and instructor for the militia
camps in this locality.
Capt Parce is greatly pleased with
the efforts the District militiamen have
put forward to make their camp as
sanitary as possible. Since the day OF
their arrival at Warren the men of the
two commands stationed here have
shown a desire to keep their camps
spick and span, and have done the
camp policing in manner that mas
made them the recipients of eompli-
ments from many quarters.
Capt Parce has made suggestions
for remedying certain conditions affect
ing the sanitation of the camps which
cannot be altered until supplies ordered
from the division quartermaster at
minor Importance. the commanding ofi-
GERS of the two units having attended
to the essential things the day follow
ing the making of the camp.
Praise From Medical Officer.
| Capt Terry of the Signal Corps has
received special praise for the manner
| in which the members of his company
have policed their camp. Realizing
that the rainy season is just beginning
in this section, the Signal Corps men
have dug deep bitches about their
tents in readiness to carry off the tor
rents of water that dash down the
mountainside following a hard shower.
With an abundance of rock on hand
they have built borders around these
trenches to make them more substan-
tial.
A rock-filled trench has been built
to carry off the surplus from the three
hydrants which supply the camp with
| water These hydrants are in row.
The one at the highest point supplies
| the cook tent and it is here that the
men usually obtain their drinking
water.
About seventy-f1ve feet farther down
| the hill there is second hydrant.
From this water is obtained for wash
ing purposes ia bles on which to wash
clothing and benches holding wash
| basins being nearby Still farther
down the hill is the third hydrant.
from which water will be obtained for
! the horses and mules the company ex-
poets to receive from Fort Sam Hous-
! ton, Tex, in a few days.
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High-grade skirts of imported
white gabardine, with pleat down
front, fancy lapel pockets, and belt
Gathered back All sizes, % to 30
5 Tailored for trim fit and long serv-
ice.
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There have been number Of promo
tions to non commissioned officers in
A Battery. Sergt. Herman K. Stewart
Evening star., 1916-07-21

Cook John Kelley of Battery B en-
tertains the members Of this command
every night with his singing.
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On Discretion.

There is no talent so useful toward
rising in the world, or which puts men
more out Of the reach Of fortune than
that quality generally possessed by
the dullest sort of people, and is in
common speech called discretion, a
species of lower prudence, by the as
sistance of which people of the mean
est intellectuals, without any other
qualifications, pass through the world
in great tranquility, and with univer-
sal good treatment, neither giving nor
taking offense. Courts are seldom I'M
provided of persons under this char
acter, on whom, IL they happen to be
of great quality, most employments,
even the greatest, naturally fall when
competitors will not agree; and in
such promotions nobody rejoices or
grieves.-Jonathan Swift.
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bert's name figures twice whereas
she only mentions the wounded sol
diers once in the letter and once later
when Mr. Van Rensselaer-Zwlebel
kicks that he has got to pay bill for
five hundred newspapers and she says
amt he got no heart on account she
is doing IL all for them poor wounded
soldiers, Birsky."
'Don't say word" Birsky said,
tapping the fingers of his right hand.
"Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bublick, which
is kin to my wife's brother julius, has
got daughter Miss Bertha Bublick.
Zapp, which she has been taking voice
production for years already, and
every time she opens her mouth, Zapp,
II goes through you like knife.
Three times already on account of
that woman my wife drags me to bene-
fit concerts for them poor wounded
soldiers. tell you, Zapp, it brings
the war pretty close home to you.
amt suffered so much with my ears
since 1 got mastoiditis that time with
private room in Doctor Eichendor-
fer's sanitariuIn."
sand people has the nerve to say
she's kind hearted too, Birsky," Zapp
said. IL don't suppose that woman
wishes them poor wounded soldiers
any harm, Birsky, but bet she hopes
the war would last anyhow through
the concert seasons of 1867 and
1917-1S. Yes, Birsky, before these
here war sufferers concerts was
pulled off the only chance such a sing
er would got to figure in the newspa-
pers is in case the Board of Health
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be pasted to the bottom OF the hat and
the car returned tn the company upon
the presentation of such number with
in twenty-four hours after the close
of the bazaar and that this agreement
shall apply to and bind the parties
hereto, their heirs, executors, admin.
istratOrs, successors and assigns. Yes,
Zapp, FIVE thousand people may be
taking chances on that oitermobile,
Zapp, but the OitermObile company
amt, you can bet your sweet life"
"Well, If the common people was
more charitably inclined" Zapp said,
'there wouldn't be no necessity for
bazaars. Former times people used
to was charitable just for the sake of
being charitable. The way they fig
ured was that IL they wouldn't be
charitable, understand, maybe they
would be Jonahed with a little bad
business or they would break a leg
oder something, but nowadays when
everybody knows about cost book
keeping and reckons the overhead and
loading, understand, you couldn't
fool business men that way no long
er. Either they want merchandise for
their charity like rotten cigars and
other stuff, or you must give 'em pub
lefty"
"Sayw Birsky exclaimed, at don't
harm a business man that his custom
ers should see his name down for ten
dollars or so In the annual report of
an orphan asylum or a hospital"
"Sure, know" Zapp agreed. eff a
business man gives to charity he ex-
poets to get an order from a custom
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MICHIGAN GUARD NOTES

A new home has been erected for
Lieutenant Phillips in place of the
one recently burned.
Captain Larned, Company A ODE
troiD, has promoted Privates Williams
and Kornefell to corporals.
Major Walter Rogers, Michigan
quartermaster general, and Colonel
John II. Bersey. state adjutant gen.
eral, arrived Saturday to inspect all
the state troops for Governor Ferris.
Captain Hobart Hill, Company H.
Thirty-second has seen granted leave
of absence to return home and be in
stalled as county clerk OF Kent county,
to which office he was elected Tues
day.
Major Samuel Pepper, Judge advo-
cate of the Eleventh division, has
been notified he will be granted leave
of absence for 80 days, commencing
December /, to allow him to prepare
his annual report as assistant attor.
ney general.
Through a committee appointed
by officers Of the Thirty-third regi-
ment, arrangements have been made
for serving Thanksgiving dinner in
a downtown hotel for all officers OF
the regiment and invited guests.
Quite a number of other parties are
being planned in other regiments.
The Thirty-lrst band, which was
depleted at one time to only two mem
bers. Bandmaster Harold Todd and
Sergeant Tom Bowler, by the action
of the dependency clause is rapidly
assuming its former status. 1t now
numbers 20 members. When the call
for musicians was made enough to
equip three bands responded
Private Straub, Thirty-third regi.
ment, Owosso, is to be discharged
because of an affliction to one OF
his eyes. The orb was injured in
Austria two years ago and has since
troubled him. Surgeons at Fort Bliss
advised the removal of the eye, but
Straub believes it can be saved and
he will return to Michigan TO consult
physicians there.
The attention OF the supply depart
ments of the Michigan brigade have
been called to general order 80, which
provides that all companies shall be
equipped with the necessary material
for the action in the field and specify
ing the equipment, and supply officers
have been invited to go through the
companies of their regiments and as
certain what is lacking.
Regardless of testimony that the
shooting of Jesse l.. Taps, an ex-
soldier, was accidental. Lee F. Bran
dell, Company II. Thirty-second regi.
ment, was held to the grand jury on a
charge of murder. Branded was act
ing as provost guard when Taps was
turned over to him by civilian police.
Taps attempted to escape and Bran
dell fired shots to scare him, accord
ing to the testimony. Branded is out
J on bail.
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Beating the Shifting Sands.

Confronted by the task of building a
highway over a desert of constantly
shifting sands, which in a few years
might cover and render useless a road
bed of macadam or concrete. the Cali
fornla highway commission has intro
duced type of paving which Is port
able, so that 1t can be easily moved to
conform TO the changing topography of
the country. Popular Mechanics Maya
zine describes the paving as made of
plank, built in sections II feet long
and feet wide, and hauled by wagons
to the points where IL is needed. This
unused thoroughfare extends six miles
across portion OF the desert
lying between Yuma, Arlz., and
Holtville, Cal. The plank sections
are built on by 6-inch stringers. The
units are bound together by iron
strips placed over rows of spikes, one
either side and one along the center
of the road. Roundheaded bolts rum
ming through the planks and stringers
are used to hold the strips down. The
latter, In addition to joining the units
together. keep the spikes from working
out Of the lumber.
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1912 it was impossible to visit this
wild country save under heavy guard.
At the very gates of Europe Epirus
was less known. more shut off. than
the Congo.
The French Consul Pouqueville
hardly dared to go out Of sight Of his
home, all barred with iron. Not a
week passed that there was not a
bloody murder on the highways. The
Greek inspectors of schools founded
by wealthy Epirotes took their lives
in their hands when they came on
their trips, which were kept secret.
Travellers within the last few years
had to be especially guarded if they
would pass through alive.
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UT SEEN Is. Sipkln tnis morning
getting out of new twin six. "
Louis Birsky the real estater
said to Barnett Zapp the waist manu-
facturer. "That Teller goes from a
pushcart to a ottomobeel in less than
five years."
LESS than two years, you mean"
Zapp said. "What was the price ticket
business before the war started, Bir-
sky? And since then he's been work.
ing day and night manufacturing
tags for Tag Days. He told me he
could of sold twice as many tags If 1t
wouldn't be that it's so hard to get
red ink for putting red crosses on
EN-"
"The war amt been so bad that
way" Birsky said. "It's done good
deal to make people give to charities"
"War charities" Zapp corrected.
Charities oder war charities" Bir-
sky said. "What's the difference"
There's a whole lot of difference"
.iapp replied. "a business man which
gives away his money to charity may
oser care nickel whether the flood
victims ever dry out or not, just so
long as the newspapers don't spell his
name so badly that his customers
couldn't recognize ii, understand. AT
the same time, Birsky, he's got the
satisfaction of knowing that he amt
helping out the Teller which caused
the food and who has got plenty OF
money to assist the flood victims If ii
wouldn't be that he is saving it TO buy
dynamite for blowing up more dams.
Yes, Rirsky, giving to some war re-
lief funds means relieving them gov
ernments over in EurOpe from the ex-
pense of caring for their wounded SOL
diers and widows and orphans, so that
they can use the money they ought 10
spend that way in buying ammunition
TO make more wounded soldiers and
widows and orphans for the Americans
to raise relief funds for"
"Well, anyhow, a Teller that gives
money for war charity is just so kind
hearted as a Teller which gives money
to charity" Blrsky said.
"That depends on his intentions,
Zapp replied. "There is some French
er-Americans and COMMUNICATIONS
which has got a pretty good idee that
war charity is a matter of bookkeep-
ing, and you couldn't call 1t kind
hearted exactly If such n Teller would
incose with his check a letter saying :
Gents: Inclosed herewith please find
check for five hundred dollars for
wounded soldiers. Would be obliged
if you will transfer the sum of five
hundred dollars from your hospital
account and credit same to your liquid
fire and gas account and Oblige yours
truly"
"In that case" Birsky commented
"if such a teller thinks he's going to
make hit with the recording angel
| understand, he might just so well
save his five hundred dollars and get
the same amount of credit by black.
lacking n couple of perfect strangers
on q dark night"
"Them fellers amt looking to make
hit with the recording angel" ZapI
ontinued. They'll be perfectly sat
,fied with Double Cross Of the
egion of Honor or a Red Eagle OF
lie Second Glass, q Blue Eagle of the
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Ford Guards Get Jobo Back.

Ell Paso. Tex.-Attorney Dean Luck
ing of Detroit is in Camp Cotton inter-
viewing all the employees of the Ford
Motor Co. who are serving an National
Guardsmen on the Mexican border
and informing them that Henry Ford
will guarantee them their old positions
or one equally as good with the COM
pany on their return. Mr.. Lucking is
inquiring in each case whether there
are any dependents that are not being
cared for There are "a Ford men
soldering here. Three of them are of.
ficers-First Lieut.. John A. Chapman,
Co. c. First Lieut.. John j. Ostrandar,
and Second Lieut.. George c. Sheffield,
Co. Z.
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refused TO pay any attention to the
complaints of the other tenants in her
apartment house and they carried the
matter to a Magistrates Court"
"Sure / know" Birsky said. There's
many a Teller has sit through one of
these here benefit concerts thinking
of them poor wounded soldiers laying
comfortably in hospitals sOmewheres
in France and has said To himself
after all what is it so terrible that
Teller should lose leg or an arm.
Am l right or wrong?"
Listen, Birsky, you are talking
now from concerts" Zapp said, "aber
the time when you really begin to
figure that maybe if you'd stayed in
the old country you'd of been whole
lot better off even reckoning Zeppelins
and liquid fire and everything, Birsky,
is when you go once on war benefit
bazaar. What some kind hearted
ladies will do in the way Of making
change for the sake of them poor
wounded soldiers would be consid-
cred already rough work by Coney
Island waiter"
"Don't 1 know it," Birsky said. ''If
der lieber Colt would of took my
wife's sister cousin by the name
Mrs. Gyornik seriously, understand,
they would of been obliged to call the
police reserves, on account she stands.
in the middle of Madison Square Gar
den the day before the war bazaar
closed and says she should never stir
from that spot If it was five dollar
bill l gave her. So what could / do2
I took the cigars she sold me and
change for two dollar bill, and /
assure you, Zapp, l would as lieve
have smoked the change. Some OF
them rough stOgies which they sell by
tobacco and cigar booths In war bene-
| fit bazaars acts like they were fuses
manufactured for the Canadian Shell
Committee and timed to light in thir-
ty sixty and ninety days"
"Them cigars was probably donated
by the Makers" Zapp said. IF a
Teller donates merchandise TO war
relief bazaar, Birsky, he don't take 1t
so particular that it's good. up-to-date
stuff. When / was on the donation
committee of the Fifth Grand Annual
Fair of the /. o. NJ. A., Birslky, /
thought 1 done wonders to get hun
dred decks of cards out of Lurie the
stationery jobber. / even bought them
from the sporting goods booth myself
at FIVE dollars for the lot, Birsky, and
every deck was perfect excepting for
a couple of missing high spades and
the joker So you could take IL from
me, Birsky, II some one donates
cigars to a Charity bazaar. If they
amt exactly freproof they're anyhow
of slow burning construction. and in
trying TO smoke q boxful you could
take off couple pounds in weight
principally around the cheeks"
''Even So" Birsky said, "a Teller
stands better show to get his
moneys worth by buying articles at
bazaars as by taking chances on
things. / bet in my time I've took
chances at bazaars on everything from
oitermobles down to pianos, and It's
my opinion, Zapp, that before the
oitermobile company allows the car TO
be put on exhibition at the bazaar the
donation committee has got to execute
n surety company bond in twice the
amount OF the list price of the car
that the winning number 31416 win