Show = SCHOOL FUR HORSES FORT RENO WILL BE USED AS NEW REMOUNT STATION ThreeYearOld Army Animals to Be Broken by Experienced Trainers and Then Taught the Game of WarE War-E Reno Okla Picturesque old Fort Reno Is to be mado a remount station a place where new mounts will be provided for cavalrymen U Is purposed to turn out more than a thousand head of horses and mules each year ready for the military Tho cavalrymen who have been sta tioned at the fort have gone to other posts and as soon as stables can bo built tho horse school will open England and Franco have remount stations but Uncle Sam has not had one heretofore If the one here proves a success It Is probable that all horses and mules for tho United States army hereafter will go through a course of training before graduating Into regular army life A horse usually lasts about seven years In the service said Capt Letcher Hardcman who Is hero arranging ar-ranging for the opening of school A mule Is good for ten years Tho contractors who have been supplying the army horses have been buying them between the ages of four and eight years Our experiment will bo with threeyearolds exclusively Therell be no bronchobusters here We dont caro for any man who would mount a threeyearold sock a pair of rowels into his side and fight It until Its broken In spirit and broken In heart That kind of breaking may do on tho plains but It wont do for tho United States army A good cavalry horse must have a cavalrymans spirit Nor will the cavalrymen themselves them-selves do tho breaking This work will be In tho hands of civilians under the supervision of army officers The best trainers we can find will be employed em-ployed After tho horses have been broken cavalrymen will teach them the gamo of war No animal Is to bo roughly handled Kind treatment goes a lone way with a horse In cult < voting a good disposition We believe there Is economy In n I remount station Not only will we get a better more desirable lot of horses but by taking them as threeyearolds we will get from one to five years more service from them than when we took them four to eight years old They may bo bought cheaper too A rebellious unwilling horse can almost disrupt a cavalry movement and the sooner It has I C Inspected Inspect-ed Condemnedbranded on Its side the better oft that troop of cavalry Is About GO men will be employed at the Fort Reno station and they expect ex-pect to break In 800 or 900 head ot horses and from 300 to 400 head of mules each year The old barracks at Fort Reno have practically been abandoned aban-doned for months Tho fort Is on a reservation over which bands ol Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians still rove but they commit no depredations depreda-tions The Darlington agency Is Just a few miles distant and Lo Is careful that he does nothing which might prevent pre-vent him from drawing his quarterly pay Ho remembers too tho Indian police mounted on fast ponies who feel the Importance of their blue uniform uni-form and brass buttons |