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Show BORDER "SERVICE IS PROVING 1 BfflEFIT Utah Guardsman, Just Returned Re-turned From Front, Says Troops Are Happy. DO PATROL SERVICE Orders Received for Long Hike; No Prospect for Immediate Return. Corporal F. A. Timmcrman of troop A, First Utah cavalry, and a mem h or of The Trlhtme staff, who has received his discharge dis-charge from the service and has just returned re-turned from the border, say a the Utah guardsmen are looked upon with high, esteem es-teem by soldiers from other states. He made partial description of conditions on the border as follows: After more than two months of active ac-tive Mexican border service, the eftl-cieru-y and military standing of the Utah National guard has undergone a test seldom equaled since tiie call m 1SHS. with the result that the state has reason to be proud of its boys in khaki who so promptly answered the president's call In June and sacrificed everything to be anions the first to go to the front. Probably one of the best indications of efficiency is shown in tiie interest taken by other state troops along the border In the Utah guardsmen, for, without stretching thing a hit, the men from I'lah are looked up to as "the best soldiers" by other troops there. t Although a .soldier's life on the bor-der bor-der is far from being a continual round of pleasure and about 00 per cent of the time is taken up by strenuous stren-uous work. the. hoys have long ago realized that they were not sent there on a picnic and have adapted themselves them-selves to the conditions willingly and cheerfully. Receive Hike Orders. The one great question of "When are we going home?" was per ha ps settled for a month at least when orders or-ders were received for the Utah guardsmen to get ready for a 2n0-mile hike and to make the start some time tliis week. Although the exact route has not as yet been given out. it ia rumored that the line of march will be through Tucson, Bisby and Douglas Doug-las and ending somewhere in the eastern part of the state or in Texas. This will be a change from the rather rath-er monotonous camp life and is being be-ing looked forward to with pleasure by the troopers. The Utah boys had their first chance at actual border patrol about two weeks ago, when a troop was sent each day to Buena Vista, a point where the Santa Cruz river crosses the border line about eight miles east of Nogales. Their presence there was to put a stop to cattle rustling by Yaqui Indians, who, it is said, have been-running the stolen herds through the valley. Tiie stay there was uneventful, un-eventful, however. Of all the 15,000 guardsmen in the Nogales vicinity, undoubtedly the most popular was the Utah battery, wnose fame gained during the Spanish-American Spanish-American war is well known to the border people, when the entire Utah organization was out on maneuvers north of Nogales ranchers came from miles to camp to get a glimpse of the battery boys and watch them go through movements in mimic battles. Probably the least talked-of subject now among the troops on the border is Mexico and Mexlcnns. Upon arrival ar-rival at Nogale? the guardsmen would anxiously question each passer-by as to the number of Mexican troops across the line and at every chance w-on Id study the Mexican hills with glassps. However, now one would hardly know from the conversation of the men that Mexicans existed. Exciting Experience. The nearest thing to fighting the troopers have had happened on a dark night about a month ao. Three men succeeded in untving three troop A horses from the picket line and were about to make off with them when frightened away by the stable guard. The horses were recovered. Later in the evening shots were heard in the vicinity of the Santa Cruz pumping plant. Thinking that raiders were attacking at-tacking the camp, a call to arms was ordered by the officers and a few minutes min-utes later the sleepy troopers were . piling out of their bens. Ammunition was issued and within twenty minutes from the time of the call the boys were prepared to iar-e anything that might happen. It wiw round, however, how-ever, that the shots were fired by a drunken Mexican when challenged by a guard at the pumping station and the troopers were allowed to again continue their slumbers. The camp site selected for the Utah troops is absolutely the best in the Nogales vicinity, both as to coolness and sanitary conditions. Rigid regulations regu-lations have been in force In regard to sanitation and the conmtnm we the camp has been complimented by regular army inspectors. Sickness is a thing almost unknown among the troops and the worst cases the hospital hospi-tal has had to handle in weeks were slight sprains or bruises due to the wildness of some of the horses. The boys are being fed well, otherwise other-wise treated well and worked hard, and, if it were not for the fact that they are simply hungry for a glimpse of Utah once more, they would be perfectly willing to stay on the border bor-der for months. |