The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1917-02-01
INFORMAL INVESTIGATION
OF CONDITIONS AT BOISE
BARRACKS CAUSES FUSS
Charles Moody Places Blame on Boise CONNER
cial Club Who in Turn Tags
Alexander

when the matter of investigating
the condition of the Boise barracks ard
the cause of the delay in mastering out
the state troops, was up before the
state legislature last week. @. s
Moody, former Adjutant General (and
VINO Is to be reappointed to the same
position when the legislative session
Is over) arose and denounced the move
ment. He stated: according to the
Statesman, that
TO make an official investiga-
tion would be an insult to the Unit
Army. You have listened to a lot
OF kilograms and letters that
nave come in here from a bunch
on long haired men and short
halred women who don't know
what they are talking about"
The Statesman further quoted
Mr.. Moody as saying:
The death of those two men at
the barracks is due to the Boise
commercial club, and--"
In order to get the few measly
dollars the boys had, the CONNER
clal club OF Boise tried to get them
here, and---"
Here the speaker of the house
shut Mr.. Moody off, declaring that
he was getting too personal.
Moody and his party colleagues final.
~ consented under the strong pressure
brought to bear, to have a committee
make IAN informal" Investigation into
the condition at the barracks, together
with the cause of the soldiers being
brought to Boise instead -of being mus.
tered out at Doukla barracks at Salt
Lake. This committee did make the
'nformar' inquiry, and then white.
washed the whole thing over.
The Boise Commercial club. however.
refused to rest under the charge made
by Moody that they were responsible
FOR the death of the boys which took
place at the barracks. A COMMITTEES
from the Commercial body headed
by Jess Hawley as president with III,
J. McGirr, Col. NJ. W. Wood and w. d.
Fisher have made statement to the
public refuting the charges made by
Moody and throwing the responsibility
onto Gov. Alexander. The committee
admits that 1t took action toward hav-
ing the Idaho regiment mustered out
at Boise instead of Salt Lake, but that
after careful examination of the
barracks, saw the rashness of such an
attempt and then used every effort
to stop the movement. Mr. McGirr
said:
Before the matter was finally set
tied beyond the possibility of change
the Commercial club committee called
on the governor and urged him to wire
TO General Bell to have the regiment
sent to Salt Lake
ITO be sure the club had taken the
lead in the movement TO have the reg
iment brought to Boise. ''We wanted
them here so that we could give them
a rousing reception and welcome them
back to Idaho, and we figured that
many of the men could get home to
neighboring towns for Christmas. We
had no thought of making money out
of their stay.
When the matter was well under
way Mr.. Hawley, Colonel Wood, Mr..
Fisher and i went to the barracks
and made an examination of the quar-
ters. We decided that there was not
room enough, and that if Boise had a
spell of cold weather during their stay
they would be anything but comfort
able and could not possibly maintain
sanitary quarters
Went to the Governor.
Accordingly the four of us called
on the governor and told him our
We said we had worked
diligently to have the regiment