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Show WESTERN TROOPS TO GO TO BORDER FIRST Hurry-up Mobilization Orders Or-ders Sent to Generals Barry and Bell. WASHINGTON, June 22. The first orders for sending to the border national na-tional guardsmen called into the federal service last Sunday by President Wilson Wil-son went out from the war department tonight. At the same time Secretary' Baker sent inquiries to the state governors gov-ernors that are expected to hasten mobilization. mob-ilization. The orders for movement to the border bor-der affect the first oOOO guardsmen to be mustered into tho service in the central cen-tral department and the first 5000 in the western department. General Barry at Chicago and General Bell at San Francisco, respective commanders of these departments, were directed to send the quotas indicated as soon as their muster is complete, selecting the first units to qualify, regardless of the branches of service to which they be-loug. be-loug. General Funston will select their destinations. In his telegrams to the governors, Secretary Baker asked how soon the quotas asked for in the president's call would be ready, lie expects a reply immediately, giving the present status of mobilization in each state, about which the department now is informed only in a general way. He requested also that each governor report again as soon as his state's units are mobilized. mobil-ized. No orders were sent to the e'astcrn or southern departments, officials indicating indi-cating that the troops nearest the border bor-der had been selected as the first to go, because their transportation would require re-quire least time and expense. The states in the, western department are California, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The central department is composed of Colorado, Colo-rado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Wyoming, Wy-oming, North and South Dakota, Minnesota. Min-nesota. Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, In-diana, Michigan and Ohio. CHICAGO, .June tl. General Barry's headquarters, when informed of the war department's orders to General Barry that he dispatch M00 troops to the border as soon as they have been mustered into the federal service, said that in consequence conse-quence of the order troops should be moving from Springfield, in this division, by next Friday. There h re about 1500 troops in Springfield now, and about ,T.00 are on the way. Nearly 2u00 moie will entrain tomorrow. |