The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1917-12-13
LETTER FROM CAMP DODGE

der at Camp Dodge, made a
cross country run of II miles
without a stop. Young Cox, who
was a student athlete at the I'm
iversity of Louisiana, started on
the run to the camp at 2:O5 and
reached his destination at ago,
covering the distance in 2 hours
and Is minutes. He wants to
get into the aviation service. He
enlisted in the regular army at
Memphis, Tenn, last June. He
is a member of the medical de-
partment Of the Three Hundred
and Thirty-eighth field artillery.
The trenches being dug west
of the camp site are nearing
completion and classes will be
held in the trenches with condi-
tons as nearly like those on the
western front in Europe as is
possible. Instead of using reg
ular steel bayonets and rifles,
the combatants will use strongly
made wooden guns, the exact
length of a rifle, with bayonet af-
fixed. A tennis ball is fastened
upon the point Of the bayonet
that no injury may result. The
combatants are instructed to
withhold no energy and to strike
with a vim similar to that which
they expect to use with real
weapons in the trenches. For
some time the classes will be res
tricted to officers of the rank of
captain or higher. AS the in
struction of these men is COM
pleted they in turn will instruct
lieutenants and the enlisted men.
Passes good for four days are
to be issued to the men who de-
sire to 90 home for a short holi-
day visit.One half of the men
are to get passes for Christmas
and the other half for New
Years. 1t is argued that passes
are more attractive than fur
loughs.
Col. HARRISON has announced
promotions for a number of mil
itary police.
First company:
First Private Forest B. Clax-
ton of Fayette, Ia, to be SER
genat.
Corporal Charles w. Hartman
of st. Louis, Mo-, to be sergeant.
First Privates Fred A. Berg
lund of Grand Forks, N. d., Cor
don Day of Garrison, N. D., Guy
l.. Dickinson of Decatur, ILL.,, Add
Goodhart of Carydon, Ia, Oscar
Hanson of Harlan, Ia, Mare F.
Koenig of Rock Island, ILL.,, Jos.
McSwiggin of South Whining
ton, ILL.,, and Private Chef. T.
TIoss of Decatur, ILL.,, all to be
corporals.
Second company.
Private Michael Eetina, Rock
dale, ILL.,, Sherman G.. Fox, Glad
win, Ia, Albert S. Kelly, Streat-
or, ILL.,, Collins Paxton, George
town, ILL.,, Hugh S. Robb, Sector,
ILL.,, Oscar Lindgren, Moline, ILL.,,
John F. Pawelski, Minneapolis,
F. T. Mcclure, St. Paul, Paul j..
Kaous, Bantry. N. D., and Hen
ry j. Ashley, Rapton, N. D., to
be corporals.
To show how it is possible for
the government sleuths to follow
a fellow who is attempting to
escape military duty the case of
Elmer Kepler, of Macomb, ILL.,, is
interesting. Kepler was drafted
in Macomb but registered at
Kingman, Kan, where he was
working. He left Kingman the
same day however and spent the
next three days in Jail at Con-
way Springs, Kan, while the au-
thorities looked up his registra-
ton. He then went to Kansas
City, spending two days thefe.
From there he went to Sioux
City, for a couple of days and
later worked successfully at
Vermilion, S. D., Daisy, N. D.,
and McHenry, N. D., in the har-
vest fields. He was captured by
United States soldiers at Dew
ills Lake, N. D., and taken to Min
neapolis where he was held in the
Hennepin County Jail until a de-
tail of soldiers from Fort Smell
ling brought him to Camp Dodge
late in December when Kepler
and his three companions land
ed in the guard house. When
placed on trial all three OF the
men declared their WILLINGNESS