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MORE D. c. men OFF /.
FOR BORDER TODAY
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Battery today so as to check up on
the, personnel. Every man answered
called. and all of them appeared. most
eager to get aboard the train.
seven passenger cars and nine
freiEht cars Will be used In transport
OF recruits. Tho officers will ride in
q standard Pullman car. while rattan
upholstered tourist cars have been
provided for the enlisted men.
los Hours Of Travel.
One hundred and I'VE hours travel
Will be necessary for the soldiers to
reach their destinataton. They prob
ably will arrive at Bisbee Friday. and
: number Of stops win be made along
ercise themselves and the four draft
horses which they will take with
them. Horses for the guns and Gals
sons Of the battery have already been
shipped to Bisbes by General Fun
Lieut.. Joseph Hodge, who has seen
eighteen months service in the Euro
pean war. will accompany the battery
as veterinarian. Lieut.. Lyall c. White,
Wandered by Pancho Villa In the prov
tnce Of Sonora last fall and winter,
cal officer.
A large crowd of relatives and friends
OF the departing troops Is expected to
visit them at the kosslyn yards. and bid
them good-by. The batterymen expect
to be kept on the border at least three,
and possibly six months.
Tho getaway preparations Of Battery
B today made the members Of Battery
4. Troop A. Fsrst Separate Cavalry. and
the Third Regiment all the more eager
to get started for, the border. -
There II persistent report through
out the mobilization camp that every
body Will be out OF here by August
Is" That date seems TO have been fixed
by practically all tho officers and men
order them to entrain for the border.
Members Of Troop A are particu-
larry anxious to get to the border.
Capt. j. II. washburn says more than
the minimum number Of men and prac-
their horses have been obtained. Bat
terry A needs about twenty-five men,
and Captain Vogt said today he ex-
pected to have them before the end Of
The commanders OF Troop A and Bat
terry A said they expected to take their
organizations to the border early next
week. possibly Monday night.
Third Needs Thirty Men.
The Third Regiment, according to
Youngs adjutant. needs only thirty
men to bring It up, to minimum
strength. He said there were good
prospects Of Colonel Young being able
to report the regiment up to minimum
strength the latter part of this week,
and expressed the hope that all of the
infantrymen would be ordered to the
border a few days later.
Large details of militiamen were
sent to Washington today by Colonel
Young for recruiting duty. The
members OF the details were told that
ten recruits for three consecutive
days would NIL up the regiment, and
they were ordered to make every ef-
fort to get that number of men to en-
Three battalions of the Third Resi-
ment engaged In another battle near
Virginia Highlands today. As usual
the militiamen had blank ammunition.
and the reports of their rifles were
heard for several hours along the
Virginia roads and hills.
Major Wallach McCathran and the
Second Battalion was on the defense.
while the Offensive forces consisted OF
the First and Third battalions. COM
manded respectively by Major Joseph r..
Hodgson and Major Alexander Sum
mers.
Tbs health Of the militiamen at the
mobilization camp was reported today
to be excellent. Out OF the 1,5O0 men,
there are only seven cases In the hos
pital az Fort Myer and five Of these
are msn suffering from minor injuries
received about the camp.