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Show SECOND INFANTRY OF IDAHO READY Boise, Ida., July 5. The Second Idaho infantry, more than 1000 strong, is mustered, its equipment checked and It is ready for orders to move to the Mexican border This was the information wired by Captain Max B. Garber, U. S. A., mustering mus-tering officer of the war department, who ha3 been In charge of the regiment regi-ment since orders were received to mobilize. Captain Garber has received no reply re-ply from tho western department at San Francisco regarding his query as to what action he should take toward mustering in Lieutenant Colonel P. H. Crow in face of the supreme court writ prohibiting him from so doing. Neither could he' say when the regiment regi-ment will be moved. It Is believed here that tho regiment may not be permitted to move now until It is recruited re-cruited up to full war strength, In face of the controversy that has been waged over ousting Lieutenant Colonel Colo-nel Crow and tho legal controversy that followed. Officers of the regiment regi-ment are uneasy over the situation and havo taken sides on It. Captain Garber mustered In the machine ma-chine gun company and quartermaster's quartermas-ter's department today, completing the mustering with tho exception of the lieutenant colonel. It Is said that the war department may refuse to ac- ( H cept the regiment until it is fully of- 'H fleered. , H oo H |