The Green Forest tribune., 1917-09-21
VOW CAPTiIH, 1N'SELL
 "3ROK. " IR10 TIE ARMY
Former Soldier in the Philippines Scratches Under Back Door After
 R. fused Admission
Harrison Headlight.

Scratches Under Back Door After
 R. fused Admission
 Harrison Headlight.
 Captain M. B. Russell of the Seventh Nebraska has been in Harrison the past week, on a leave of absence from Camp Funston, visiting his brother, J l.. Russell, of the Headlight
 Being native of the adjoining county of Carroll, and at one time for short while engaged in the news paper business in Harrison, associated with John Mason in the publication of | the Boone Banner Captain Russell | lacks considerable of being a stranger l in Harrison, and incidentally he had ! the pleasure of meeting a good many 1 friends of former days, during his so' | journ, prominent among whom was ] Captain Gordon Armitage, of Go. M., who was the devil in the Banner office at the time referred to. He also had considerable acquaintance among the members of Go. M., especi- ally the boys from his former home at Green Forest, which made his visit here a two-fold one in point of pleas ure. coming as he did just before the company took it's departure for Fort Logan H. Roots.
 The Captain insignia he was wear ing was a badge of recently acquired honor. he having received his com mission August fl, last. Captain Rus sell has had a harder task breaking into the army than many fellows are having or have had to keep out of 1t. Notwithstanding he had several years of honorable military service to his credit, he fell down when he applied for admission to an officers training school last June. on account of physi- cal defects. it having been his mis- fortune to be "shot to pieces in two accidents since his discharge from the regular army seven years ago. In 1911 he was run over by an automobile in Denver, Colorado, and left with his right leg broken in two places, be- sides various and sundry other wounds, and in 1915 he got his left hand chewed inti sausage by a press while engaged in the newspaper busi- ness in his home city of Seward, Ne braska. Failure, however, has always been thing with small terrors for him. His past experience in army tactics suggested another route, so he went out and came in at the back door. Three months later he had organized over 400 men, not subject to draft, under the Nebraska Home Defense Act. conducting a campaign close to hostilities itself. Seward county is hot-bed of Germans, hundreds of the population being foreign born. It is jockularly related of him that he whip ped as high as three disloyal subjects who butted into his work daily. by fist and skull, MarquisQueensberry fashion, during one of the most mem orabIe and strenuous campaigns ever conducted in that portion of the state.
 Taking an inventory of his men a month ago Captain Russell found near ly 100 anxious to be mustered into national service On August IA, with a blare of trumpets and gorgeous dis play of patriotism. with the governor and adjutant general of the state as the principal orators, the company was accepted. Captain Russell and all, his physical disabilities having disappear ed
 Few men in the country are better schooled in military matters or more tion than Captain Russell He served three years as volunteer during the insurrection in the Philippines. hay ing participated in twenty-seven en- gagements, prominent among whlrh was the battle of San Jacinto, in which General Lawton was killed. He served in the Islands with the regu- lars later under Funston and Persh ing, having gone with two separate expeditions, each time being discharg ed in that country. He worked at his profession as newspaper man in Manila and Shanghai and toured much of the far east, including China, Japan and Russia.
 Immediately upon being mustered into the service as captain, he was detached from his company for spe- cial service the nature of which he is not informed and will not know urtil he goes to Fort Riley, Kansas, a week hence to report for duty In other words, he don't know where he's go. ing but he is on his way-te France in all probability. The Nebraska Ma tional Guards are in the first division to follow the regulars.
 Parker
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