Salt Lake Herald | 1898-06-30 | Page 2 | Shafter's Army Waiting

SHAfTfRS ARMY a WAITING LJ Continued iom Page 1 excessive heat and the hard fare which thus far has been confined exclusively ex-clusively to coffee hardtack and bacon ba-con a diet hardly suited for the climate mate Rice would make a splendid staple here But the great deprivation is that both men and officers are suffering suf-fering from the lack of tobacco The men are remarkably steady and confident confi-dent The pickets show none of the nervousness which might be expected and there are practically no alarms or phantom firing on the lines at night Two reconnoitering parties one of the Ninth cavalry and the other of the TwentyJourth infantry collided this morning and several shots were exchanged fortunately without accident lished acci-dent before their identity was etb