The Alaska daily empire., 1916-04-14

cation have considerably disturbed the pack train {, masters, who have tried to spread rumors that the sportsmen were, at the least hostile armies. However, staff officers, af- ter investigation, found that neither the supplies of game or the team sters had been menaced.
 One of the infantry regiments went on rabbit drive Sunday near a camp. obtaining nearly a rabbit per man.
 This was holiday at the head. quarters camp. the men seeking re- lief in fishing. swimming and such other customary American recrea- lions as they could devise on broad and extremely dusty mesa, with small ice-cold river running through 1t, marking fits course by a frirye of trees. There was not fishhook in the entire camp this morning, but by night the supply of nails, pins and needles had been vislbly reduc- ed. having been hammered and twist ed into fishing tackle which really caught fish. The old reliable safe ty pin was found to make the best fish hooks, but there were only a few available. For lines the men used small rope or thick cord, and as all the hooks lacked barbs, each fish had to be yanked clear out of the water at the first bite.
 Not Dioeuss Expedition.
 During the rest hours in camp, among the soldiers. hardly a word of discussion about the significance of the Mexican expedition was heard.
 The officers. however, discussed the Mexican situation guardedly from many angles. but all of those in the camp here were outspoken about one desire, namely to hurry south ward and join the pursuit for Villa.
 Today at headquarters the men stopped using the creek water and obtained we'll water from shallow wells dug since the base was es- tablshed here. The change was not made on account of fears for the purity of the creek waters, but for convenience. The clear creek, with the rocks at the bottom showing beneath a considerable depth of wa ter. has been constant temptation to the men of an commands for swimming. Now each organization has been allotted Q swimming hole, where all day long yells induced by icy plunges are heard. and where there is Q constant line Of men doing their daily clothes wash. The drink Ing water wells were obtained by drilling few feet through what happened to be dry bottomless dust
 Censor Hard-Worked.
 The hardest worked nan in the headquarters camp is the censor There are some fifteen correspond ents with the outfits and each of these correspondents unveils an un- folding typewriter every day under Q tree and raps out anywhere from 1000 to 2,7OO words, 1t depending altogether upon circumstances. the imagination and the trend of the wind. If the wind is from the north west. news is apt to be running light. for 1t is almost impossible to stick a nose out from under a tent flap when the dust clouds are rolling across the camp. By candle light, by campfire blaze and in the feeble glare of oil lanterns. the newspaper men work, and their efforts are fi- nally turned over to the censor for approval The censor is staff of- ficer and he may be seen at all hours of the day or night with his hands filled with bundles of "copy
 censor Reads "copy."
 He reads this copy as rapidly as possible some times sitting on the ground in front of his tent scanning page after page as they are handed to him by the correspondents anN- ious to catch the next aeroplane north or to make the wireless on time.
 In the evening the commanding oi ficer of the expedition, or some other officer acting for him, holds an au- dience with the correspondents at the camp fire in front of headquart- CTS and answers questions and gives out whatever news that is to be per mitted for publication that day.
 The correspondents mess together and many of them live together in one large tent but nearly all have separate offices"