The Red Cloud chief. [volume] (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923, 1916-07-20
WILL GO TO BORDER
ORGANIZING TROOPS OF CAVALRY
FOR SERVICE IN THE
SOUTH.
teens Of General Interest Gathered
From Reliable Sources Around
the State House.

to organize n troop OF Nebraska cav.
airy for border service Is the asser.
ton OF a member Of Adjutant General
HALLS staff, who was left behind when
the government refused to muster In
members OF the adjutant generals de-
partmsnt. General Hall, he says, 10
determined to 60 to the border. TWEEN
" Lincoln men have already promised
TO Join in case the troop 10 organized.
Ninety are needed.
STAFF officers left behind will check
IN the accounts at each company's
home station, after which II Ia said
that they will resign and get to the
Nebraska troops on the border IN
some manner. General Hall presum'
ably will be made captain OF the troop.
II organized, as he was deprived OF
his once as captain OF company II OF
the Fifth regiment by the orders OF
the war department. Endeavors will
be made, according to the STAFF mem.
Der, to recruit for the cavalry when
the officers visit the various towns
to close up company affairs. He said
that little trouble In getting the men
was expected.
Temporary structures at the fair
grounds erected for the convenience
Of the suardsmen during their late
encampment are being dismantled,
and soon every vsstise OF their pres
ence will have disappeared. with the
exception of the srass.worn company
streets. Sheep have already been
turned back into the grounds.
Biggest Camp on The Border.
The Fourth Nebraska under Colo
Ad George Eberly and Lieutenant
Colonel william Baehr. dstrained at
Llano Grande, Tex. In terrific
rainstorm and Immediately set about
pitching camp.
Many delays were encountered
along the last ono hundred miles Of
tho journey. Mercedes had been Sc
lected for the concentration camp.
but a suitable tract large enough to
encamp all the soldiers expected
could not be obtained and the camp
was moved three miles west. II 10
expected that this will be one OF the
biggest concentration camps along
the border.
Find Mlsbranded Patent Medicines.
State Food Commissioner c. =. Har.
man reports that his inspectors found
1,%a2 packages OF patent medicines In
stores between June 10 and July
that were misbranded because they
bore on the label the word "cure" and
other false claims. The packages were
ordered OF sale. which means an in.
voice 10 taken and the druggist ordered
not to sell the packages unless he
supplies new labels or returns the
O0ods to the factory or destroys them.
This Ia done to prevent loss to the
dealer who Is supposed to have unin.
tentionally violated the law.
The number of automobiles regis.
tered in Nebraska jumped from So eco
in one year to $4,000. The latter num-
Der was registered one day last week,
at the office OF Secretary OF State
Pool He has run out OF number plates
$4,000 with manufacturers. During a
period OF eighteen months. ending
July Z, the Office fees received by sec
rotary Of state amounted to S210,'
882.27, not including a fee OF IS cents
for each automobile registration. The
expense OF his Office during that period
was $l5,591.50.
Lieutenant George Hushley OF ON
aha has been In charge OF the hospita
work at Camp Llano Grande until tn,
arrival OF the field hospital with tn,
Fifth regiment. While It has rainet
almost continually since the Nebraska
boys reached camp, the men are suffer
ing no discomfort.
Almost 100000 rounds OF ammuni
ton have arrived at Mercedes, Tex
for the two Nebraska regiments.
The Nebraska Patriotic league ha
started funds for purchasing regimen
tai standards for the Fourth and tn
Fifth Nebraska regiments, now sout
for border duty.
Organization OF the proposed Sixtl
regiment OF troops for Nebraska ha
not been abandoned according to job,
q. Maher, but is still going on. MI
Maher states that an election has jus
been held, resulting in the choice @
these officers:
Colonel. John G. Maher, Lincoln
lieutenant colonel, Mr.. Steele, Omaha
majors, Allen G. Fisher OF Chadror
L. II. Warner of Geneva and probabl
l.. w. Colby of Beatrice.
The war department has not as ~
authorized the formation OF this reg
ment.
The special muster blank whic
would permit Captain George !
Beecher OF Hastings to so with tn
Fifth regiment as chaplain arrive
20, X" and he was mustered In
time to get with the regimental sta
In the first section II was four