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apart, and the heads and feet alternate.
One mans head is opposite the next
mans feet, and in sleeping quarters the
mems heads must be at least five feet
apart.
Officers Sign Food Pledges.
II pledge myself to use the practical
means within my power to aid the
United States food administration in its
(effort to conserve the food supplies Of
the country, and as an evidence Of my
support wish to be enrolled as volun-
teer in the United States food adminins-
tration.' . The officers are taking steps
to do everything in their power to save
food. The order issued recently re-
curing all men to clean up their plates at
mess has been strictly enforced, and
the men have learned to take no more
than they actually require upon their
plates. 81
Great Hospital at Fort Des Moines.s
For many years the war department
has had an investment of several million
dollars at Fort Des Moines, five miles
southeast of the city. It was the home
of the 18th cavalry regiment under"
Gen. Morgan until trouble on the
Mexican border projected itself during.
zTaft's administration when the regiment
was called south. The Fort has since
been idle until the beginning Of the
present war. Last summer it was "a
training camp for 1900 co1ored men
preparing to become officers. Last fall.
thes e were removed and then a medical
training camp was instituted. Now the
order has come to convert all of the
buildings into hospitals together with
all of the. barns. In addition to this
Major Butler has been commissio ned to
procure 800 men and erect a building
for the hospital base costing $50, 900.
It is planned to make room for 5000
wounded men who will be brought here
from the battlefelds Of France. The.
wounds Will be Of nature that will re-
quire unusual skill and time in making
the best possible recovery. Surgery has
reached an unusual degree Of proficiency
in this war, especially as it applies to
bone grating.
Y. M. c. A. Reminds Boys to Write
Home.
New soldiers at Camp Dodge have no
excuse for not writing home frequently.
They are sufficiently reminded Of this
duty. Half dozen signs scattered
about the Y. M. G. A. tents remind them
of it. The Western Union Telegraph
Co. now has added it's bit of persuasion
by pasting stickers urging the drafted
men not to forget mother, on every
telegram that is delivered.
More Men Are Sent to Prison.
To be sentenced to the penitentiary
for six years for stealing pair OF army
shoes and inaugurating a conspiracy to
steal six other pair, valued at $3.50 each,
was the fate Of Sergeant LeVerne Straley,
of Saltwater, MINI. Gen Getty re-
duced the sentence to three years. The
two specifications under the 96th article
of war charged that he attempted to
conspire with Sergeant E. F. Callahan
and Sergeant X. w. Brown, both of
truck company No. 346, to steal six pairs
of shoes and some government lumber.
Besides being found guilty of stealing
one pair of shoes he also was found
guilty by the general court martial of
a conspiracy with Sergeant Callahan to !
steal half dozen pair. He was found
not guilty of conspiring with Sergeant
Brown to steal government lumber.
T. j. Rogers, of Minneapolis, was SEN
fenced to the disciplinary barracks at
TT. Leavenworth for three years for
claiming to be sick. He was watched
very closely by physicians and hospital
attendants for several weeks and it
was determined that there was nothing
the matter with him and so he was turned
over to the court martial and was ac-
quilted on the first count but was con-
Vcted of not obeying the orders Of Lieut.. 4
u. B. Holmberg. On retrial he was
found guilty Of both charges. Private
Burdett H. Christie, Hastings, Mich, a
student in the school for bakers and
cooks, has been sentenced to two months
in the division guardhouse after being
found guilty by general court martial
of being absent without leave for two
days. z.
Members Of the Minnesota Bar As
Esociation expect to take up the charges
against Attorney Albert Pfaender and
consider them at hearing to be held
in st. Paul Thursday Of this week.
Some Of the members Of the Association
in the furry Of patriotism" that
swept the state last summer brought
charges of MISCONDUCT against Mr.,