The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-08-04
CALDWELL MILITIA BOYS
ARE BECOMING
ACCl!MATEO
Camp Stephen, Little.
Nogales, Arizona.


July u. 1916.
Every afternoon between 2 and 3
o'clock clouds gather to the north of
the camp and sometimes we have a
little shower to cool the atmosphere.
Yesterday the program was kept from
becoming monotonous by the clouds
gathering all around us. Every minute
the darkness became more threatening |
and the impending storm more omni- |
nous. Suddenly someone seemed to
cut the pickering strings and down
she came. Lightning which made the
Idaho product look like a rank sub
stitution lit up the scene in man
ner which made good Christians out
of several doubters. The rain was tor
rental
One of the boys in a neighboring
company who is considered an ex-
ceptionally "hard case" implored his
comrades: Don't swear boys, don't
swear" while the wind howled and
ruthlessly torn down every mess ten,
and every kitchen fly. The big pyra-
midal tents in which the men sleep,
rocked like drunken sheep-herdcr
and made funny little jumps, trying to
go UP and away on a trip of adven-
| ture.
Jack Thorpe, leader of the band,
saw his cot rise up in the air after
his tent had been blown down. The
cot sailed up and up, over the Colonies
tent and away down into the draw.
Some of the regiments camped in
the valleys about suffered some dis
comfort from water and lieutenant
in Kentuck regiment is reported in
jured by lightning.
Captain Dannemiller. U. S. A., who
was formerly connected with the reg
iment as Inspector Instructor at Boise
is responsible for the Second Idaho
having the splendid camp site they
have He has been appointed In
structor here and says he is fully salts
fed with the progress we are making.
You wouldn't know the boys that
left Caldwell little over month
ago. They are brown, straight, hard
as nails, and drill like regulars. Stand
ing in line there is never a movement
while at attention-they stand like
craven images and execute the COM
mands with a regularity of cadence
that brings words of commentator
from the regulars visiting u.s.
. The boys are becoming acclimated
. which means that about 10 per cent
of them are in the hospital every day.
, We have difficulty in providing the
proper diet for those in hospital but
are gradually getting into shape Milk
sells for Zoe a quart-when you can
get any.
The most noteworthy activity in
I camp is that of sanitation. Go where
you may not scrap of paper, not a
particle of food, not a single thing
that might become menace to health
can be found. More than an hour be.
: fore mess a fire is built in the com.
pany incinerator and as the men hnisl
their meals, the scraps are thrown or
: the blazing fire and burned.
"How Long, Oh Lord How Long"
d The question as to the length o
S stay here is unanswered. Each man.
S guess is as good as another's. From
e being established guess of 81,
: months is safe, From careful re
d view of facts and conversation will
: Mexicans from different parts of tn
It country, one would guess that 81,
e years would be somewhat nearer tn
# truth.
Every bluff of Carranza and of tn
other Mexican authorities has bee,
It made good. The flag was not saute,
y at Santa Cruz-and on down the lin
k until you find that U. S. soldiers NOV
g ing to the south were fired upon &C
d cording to threat Villa has not bee
5 captured nor have conditions change
in Mexico except for the worse. Mex
leans Of culture admit freely that the
have no confidence that Carranza ca
control the situation unless he ca
raise large funds; yet they do nc
- want the U. S. to step in.
This morning ammunition is bein
issued-what for? Thousands of boy
are undergoing actual hardship in b,
coming Injured to 1.-THE climate of til
south when they could be drilled q
well elsewhere-why? Uncle Sam
spending hundreds of thousands {
dollars here keeping troops on til
border-why?
The wise ones declare that we wi
go over the line sometime - the
don't pretend to say when.
John Toothman, formerly instru
tor of manual training at the hig
school, is now Sergeant Toothman-
Mess Sergeant too, so it pays to r
member his rank.
Private SANDY" OLIVER found
baby centipede under 1t Church
cot this morning and the lieutenal
has not been able to get his hair
stay down since.
1t. Webb is active in baseball. +
has team which is beginning
make sensation here. They play,
last Sunday with the California bo
and defeated them by a score of
to 3. The champions of Nogales a
the boys from the 18th u S. Infantr
The Second Idaho will play the II
Sunday afternoon.
The mail man arrives about no,
and the boys watch eagerly for
etter from home" There is not