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Show UilR FEVER AT POUT. SIMIDAN . .-I ; -, rV , Scliiers Tired ; of Post ; China. - ; CHICAGO, March S. War fever has broken out at Fort Sheridan. Practically all of the (300 enlisted men there have a touch of the infection. They have been stirred by the reports of a possible clash with China. They are ready t go to' the Orient and win martial honors. The postofnc at the fort reveals the symptoms of thA-fever. . On of the postal clerks said yesterday that never before have there been so many letters sent to mothers, girls end friends at home by the soldiers as within .the : last few week. Telegrams alao have been- rushed' to- the parents of the boys, informing Jiern that "we may nave to go to-war at any time, so do not be alarmed." ; A fact that bar appealed- ts the soldiers and aroused their .hopes for some change from the routine, of post life Is that recently re-cently the War department demanded a recapitulation, of the field equipments of the Fort Bherldan troops, asking a complete--and detailed report of how the men ar equipped to go Into the field on the Shortest notlflcatlon. - At the fort there are stationed one regiment reg-iment of Infantry, the Twenty-seventh; and two batteries of artillery, the Twenty Twen-ty first and the Fourteenth. All are equipped fully. Nearly every organisation has Its full quota of men and those that are not complete are being filled out with recruits dally. - . - |