Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1916 — INDIANA DISCHARGES AT FORT HARRISON NOW [ARTICLE]

INDIANA DISCHARGES AT FORT HARRISON NOW

Soldier Must Make Trip Home in Day Coaches, Since Mileage Has Been Cut Off. —— "V— —-— _ ■’ ■*“ * •■ 1 ‘ t Mercedes, Texas, August 12. The war department has issued another order relating to the discharge of Indiana soldiers who have dependents. Heretofore the soldier was discharg ed at Llano Grande camp. By the new order he must be discharged at Fort Harrison. When discharged here he received mileage and could travel back home any way he pleased and ride in chair cars or sleeping cars. Now the war department pays his way to Fort Hafrison and he must make the trip in day coaches, his mileage being cut off. This is no partcular hardship, but it is much more pleasant traveling in a Pullman than in a day-coach for a distance of 1,209 miles. , Captain Payne has detailed private New to find the horse that disappeared from Battery A corral a few nights ago. Every morning private New fills his horse’s nosebag with oats, fills his own haversack with . three rations, arms himself with fifty rounds of ammunition for his revolver and for his rifle and starts out. Captain Payne is satisfied that the horse can be found on a certain ranch that is inclosed with 45 miles of fencing, and private New is riding that fence. An Indiana farm with a 45 mile fence around it would be worth some money. It’s not worth much down here. Lieutenant Dawson, when on a hike with Battery A, inspected a Mexican s camp and found a lot. of- property that had been taken from the Indiana national guard. When the tall lieutenant demanded the property, it was

given up without a protest. It was just after pay day in Battery C that private Kopkey appeared with a cot that he had bought. Seeing a game of pinochle going on, kopkey set down his cot and joined in. When the game was finished the cot was gone and Kopkey saw private Clarence Johnson lugging a cot into his tent. Kopkeydashcd after it. JohnSQ n__declared the cot was his own property and he had not seen the Kopkey cot. Kopkey was trying to take it by main force when Lieutenant Nisley rushed in. He took the cot to Lieutenant J. C. Doyle and asked him to settle the dispute between Kopkey and Johnson. “In ancient times, a long, long time before we came to Llano Grande, said the ibig lieutenant, “there was a chap named Solomon who settled a dispute about a baby by offering to cut it in two and give each woman claiming to be its mother one half. That was good logic. We will just cut this cot in two halves and give one half to Kopkey and the other halt to Johnson.” The division has not yet been maae, but Doyle says it will be unless the two privates reach an agreement. Dengue fever4s making its way up the Rio Grande valley, having started at Bronwsville. When the folk baJj home hear that dengue is found among the soldiers from Indiana, they need have no alarm. Brigadier-Gen-eral Lewis, who, by the way, has had it four times and is one of the huskert men in cam#,' i. and says there is no doubt but that the Indiana soldjers will have a touch

“It won’t do any harm,” the general said, “but it is uncomfortable. Major Frank W. Foxworthy, chief surgeon of the First Indiana, had an experience with it in the Philippines and in Cuba and he says that it can be expected in the camp any time. “There are no fatal results fr° ni dengue fever,” explained Major Foxworthy, “nor does it ever leave any bad consequences. Up home it wou d be called a very bad cold or a mild touch of lagrippe. There is som fever, possibly a high fever, just as there is fever with a bad cold or a mild case of lagrippe, and a few doses of calomel and quinine restores the patient to health. Therms considerable pain in the joints and a fellow feels rotten, but there is nothing to worry about. He soon gets well and when the fevdr comes to'this camp, as it will come, the home folk need have no concern about their friends and relatives down here, so far as dengue is concerned.” “What causes it?” Major Foxworthy was asked. “The bite of a mosquito, and not the kind of a mosquito that breeds yellow fever. It is a complaint that is common to the tropics, but which in Spanish is the equivalent of the English word ‘dandy.’ So, when a, fellow has dengue fever he is. really having a dandy time,” laughed the chief surgeon. x Colonel Roosevelt will make his first campaign speech in behalf pf the candidacy of Justice Hughes m Lewiston, Me., bn August 31.