Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-07
CHAPLAIN BARNES IS A
VETERAN OF CAMPAIGNS
First Oklahoma Infantry Has
the Only Preacher of
His Kind.
Specinl to The World.

Special to The World
FORT SILL, July f-The first Ok
lahoma infantry has the distinction
of having the only chaplain of the
national guard service who has seen
active service as an enlisted man of
the regular army.
Chaplain c. II. Barnes of Uennessy,
Okla, who has been with the regi-
ment since May, 1915, was mustered
out of federal service at Manila in
1902 as regimental sergeant major or
the Sixth y. S. infantry, with four
campaigns and ten battles and skir-
mishes to his credit After being dis
charged he took the civil service ex-
animation and was appointed chief
clerk, bureau of prisons at Manila.
He resigned after more than n years
service. returned to the United States
and entered the ministry.
When the Spanish American war
busted loose" the chaplain, then a
student at the Kansas state normal
at Emporia, enlisted in Company II
composed entirely OF college men,
Twenty y-second Kansas volunteer in
fantry. With that outfit he infested
Camp Alger. Va. was on the great
hike from Alger to Thoroiarc
Gap and later trudged to camp
Meade, Pa. He served as he says,
''the entire time as a buck private"
During the great maneuvers along the
Susquehanna river, he was captured
by the enemy" but after the first
meal was released The enemy then
claimed it had rather fight him than
to feed him.
On Border Duty.
Chaplain Barnes sodiered with the
First infantry during the border
troubles and won the esteem of every
man in the regiment by his attention
| to duty.
And incidentally it is hard for any
officer of the outfit to stump" him
on regulations or anything pertaining
| to military affairs. He Is simply
there with the goods, and several Of
ficers who have attempted it have
done so to their humorous sorrow.
In connection with his duties as the
official spiritual consolation or the
regiment, the chaplain oversees"
headquarters mess. spots targets in
the rifle pit, drills little occasionally,
Just to keep his hand in" in ract
does anything Colonel Hoffman orders
him to do in the way of military
duties.
Likes n Joke.
|
crate Joker, but some DAYS ago he met
his Waterloo in frishtful manner
There was visitor to the messwno
had served in Tennessee reriment
| at Camp Alger alongside ~ the
Kansans. OF course the chaplain had
to start something. But he started
more than ne bargained for.
During a pause in his chin-chin.
the visitor said, well, chaplain, who
killed the cow"
The chaplain simply wilted SO
were in order.
A brigade Of Kansans. Tennesseans
and Indianians, regiment of each.
| led the great hike" to Thorofare
Gap mentioned above. During a tenn
porary halt, the college company"
slew n COW and had It partially dressed
| when orders came to move up peg"
The brigade moved forward Just
enough to bring the Indiana regiment
up to where the Kansans killed the
COW. It began to dress the carcass.
when another order to move resulted
in the Tennesseans taking the cow
"cutting 1t up and distributing II
among the leading companies. But
the provost marshal had seen the
Kansans do the killing. And accord
ingly they had to foot the bill.
| Standing Question.
"Who killed the cow" became a
slogan In the second army corps.
While 1t can't be proven now. It is
believed Chaplain Barnes, then Pri-
vate Barnes. assisted at the killing.
Capt. Mark w. Tobin. adjutant OF
the First Oklahoma, n member of the
brigade, says he saw some one who
looked surprisingly like Private Bar
ness "tolllng off cow" with a bundle
of grass 10 secluded spot near the
lines OF march.
The chaplain neither denies or af-
firms his connection with the Incl
dent of the cow"
blight Threatens Illinois Wheat.
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