Weekly journal-miner., 1917-10-17
ITS A GAY LIFE AT FORT RILEY
 SAYS ABBOTT
YAVAPAI COUNTY ROOKIE TELLS OF TRIP TO THE
 CAMP AND OF WHAT
 HAPPENED AFTER JOY OUS BUNCH GOT THERE.
Camp Funston, kas.,
 October s, 1917.


 October 8, 1917.
 Editor, Journal-Miner:
 Now that the Yavapai bunch which left Prescott on October 4th has reached camp and is being more or less comfortably settled, will take the opportunity to describe some of the events which transpired during our long trip.
 It was a noisy though peaceable party of fellows which left Prescott on the evening of October 4th, and al though our first nights travel was in terrupted to some extent by the ac- tions of a few of the boys who had done too much celebrating before | leaving home, we had a fairly good nights sleep. When our party was nearing Flagstaff next morning we decided that we would not make much of a showing at camp unless we had mascot, and a committee of three was selected to remedy the deficiency. A | few minutes after our arrival at Flag staff. the committee returned to the train bringing with it a dandy brown goat, a young wildcat and several specimens of the canine element, old and young. We were at a loss to select a mascot from the attractive array of animals presented, and set tied the matter by adopting the whole bunch. Well supplied with mascots we pulled out of Flagstaff, all hungry as wolves, and with happy visions oi the Winslow Harvey house floating in our minds The breakfast we re ccived at this place was as good as the Harvey chef could prepare, and we all felt fine after the session. It would seem that the entire popu- lation of Holbrook was at the depot | to meet our train when we got to thai place. brass band and an unusually pretty bunch of girls being the most attractive features of the gathering Most of the fellows were not slow to single out the handsome young wom- en, and most of the time was spent IT exchanging addresses and promising to write at some future time. We would liked to have stayed there 1 longer, but were forced to cut shcr; our visit at this hospitablc little place l
 and resume our eastward journey.
 We had another elegant meal wher we reached Gallup, \. M., and tho quaint and unusual sign, Saloon, held strange attraction for some of the fellows, and few renewed their old acquaintance with this form oi amusement. The result was that the 1 crowd was quite noisy when we pulled out of the city, although the boys were we'll under the infuenfe of tho officers in charge.
 When we got to Albuquerque that night we enjoyed another fine dinner at the Alvarado Hotel, the local liar vcy House. On Saturday morning we all got up early and anxiousl! awaited our arrivel in Trinidad, Colo. where we were to get breakfast. The boys all got a good sleep the second night. and were in high spirits when we reached the Colorado city, anc their only question was, do we ea' soon:" We did. ..
 At LaJunta we enjoyed a strol' about the town, this being our first opportunity to leave the train for any ilenpth of time. Dodge City, KaS. was the next stop, and when we ar rived at this place, we were agaln given our liberty for time. None oi the men in the contingent tried tc Dodge the City, but explored every nook and corner of the attractive little town, and used every available meth od of making all the noise they could The Dodge City folks arc now doubt less aware of the fact that the Arizona fellows now in the camp are about the noisiest set of youngsters who ever disturbed the peace of that place. During our stay there number oi the lads from the COW ranches gave an exhibition of their ability m hand ling the rope, each fellow selecting 2 pretty girl as victim of his efforts to put the rope on something" This furnished quite bit of amusement for the townspcoplc. Everything which was not nailed down was torr up and carried about the city m ar , effort to create some excitement, and , i've were considerably delayed in oul
 departure owing to the lack ot m
 clination on the part of some ot tho
 boys to get back on the train and cu
 out the rough stuff.
 At Abilene we were gwen oui breakfast in diner which was picked
 up somewhere in Kansas, and whcr | we had finished this happy ordeal, WI proceeded to annex few more mas ; cots. the livestock taken on here being in the form of bunch of chickens
 several white rabbits and a small pig . Looks now like we would have t' build special quarters at camp to talk : care of all of our menagerlc.
 5 We reached camp at ll:SO Sunda, .. morning, and we certainly received
 hearty welcome from the other av c apai fellows who had preceded us t' c the cantonmcnt. We were kept bus. a all day getting our equipment and be - ing assigned to our quarters for tn 0 night. Following this we received l. mart of the physical examination