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14 THIRD BATTALION IS NOW PART OF ARMY Oregon Unit Is Believed to Be - First in Country Mustered In for War Service. SIX PHYSICALLY DEFECTIVE ELxty-Four Cars Will Be Needed to Transport Men and Supplies to Border, Captain Williams v Notifies War Department. TROOPS TO BE REVIEWED TODiY. Oregon BOldiera at Camp Wlthy combe will be reviewed this aft ernoon at 3 o'clock, by Major General J. Franklin Bell, com mander of the "Western Division, and Adjutant-General George A. "White. It has been suggested that this will.be a favorable op portunity for Portland citizens t to see the men of the Third Ore l gon. Captain Burgess, General I Bell's aide, went to Camp "W ithy- combe last night on business con- nected withthe mobilization. (Continued From CTrrt Page.) opinion that it will be at least ten days or two weeks before they are fully equipped and reasonably ready tor field service. The mustering in Is really the small est part of the necessary preparation. Captain Williams said he thought all troops in camp could be mustered in by Tuesday night, but he pointed out that after being mustered in the physi cal examinations alone will take at least a week. "With three surgeons working in the examining tent and 20 clerks assisting them, not more than 150 men can De examined in a day. The number is more likely to be less than lot). The exam ination of each man takes from 20 min utes to half an hour, and In doubtful cases lonerer. This examination is a revelation in thoroughness. It goes even to the ex tent of tapping a man's knees to note by the resulting Involuntary Jerk of the leg whether the joint is still. Even Sneer prints are recorded: not one finger print alone, but the prints of all the fingers separately on both hands. the thumbs and prints of the fingers of each hand together. A defect must be well concealed In deed to escape the prying eyes of the surgeons. Recruiting to Be Continued. After all the troops in camp have Been mustered and while the physical examinations are still In progress. Cap tain Williams will make a complete check of all property of every one of the 17 organizations now in camp. This check probably will take a week. After this is completed, there still will remain to see that supplies are Issued and the men completely equipped and that each company unit is brought as nearly as possible to the maximum war strength prescribed by the War Department. A telegram from the Secretary of War yesterday directed Captain Will iams to see that all companies of the Oregon militia are recruited to the maximum possible strength, not to ex ceed the maximum statutory strength, while at their home station at Camp Withycombe. MA11 members of companies must pre sent themselves for muster as required "by law and none are to remain at home stations for recruiting purposes," the order also directed. ILccrultlng: to Be Done on Streets. After the muster Is completed, fur ther recruiting for the Third Infantry, the official designation of which will then be Third Oregon Infantry, and for Battery A, Field Artillery, and Troop A, Cavalry, will be conducted- toy the Federal authorities co-operating with state officials. George A. White, Adjutant-General of the Oregon National Guard, an nounced yesterday that the Third In fantry band and at least one company of the Third Infantry will be sent to Portland Monday to parade and stimu late recruiting for the regiment, street recruiting stations will be opened and the men who volunteer will be taken to Camp Withycombe to be enlisted and examined. The company detailed for this duty ty Colonel Clenard McLaughlin, com manding the Third Infantry, will prob- aDly be Company M, of Salem. Clatskanie Wants to Send Men. Everybody is interested in Company M because aof Its fine record in camp and the fact that it beat every other National Guard organization in the country in being mustered into the Federal service. It is also the largest company in the regiment, being within four or five men of the maximum war strength of three officers and 142 men. General White said that Clatskanie, St. Helens, and other towns close to Portland have telegraphed to him for information about recruits. Clatskanie alone has 40 or 50 men eager to enlist, he said. A recruiting detail may be sent there and other towns which have enough applicants, to enlist the men. Etsht Companies Offered. "No further infantry organizations wt:i be formed in Oregon for the pres ent, until the Coast Artillery Corps is sent out as infantry, unless the War Department designates to the con trary." said General white. " "The Coast Artillery Corps is drilled as Infantry and is a highly efficient organization. I have telegraphed the . War Department offering to furnish eight companies of Coast Artillery now organized in Oregon to go as infantry to the Mexican border, and pledging xnai tne uoast Artillery corps organi sation will be retained after the war. "I have also offered in behalf of the state to raise 12 additional companies or me coast-Artillery corns If neces sary. It is not unusual to use Coast Artillery as infantry. Several regular Army Coast Artillery organizations are now on the border doing Infantry cuty. 64 Cars Are to Be Needed. It will take 64 cars of all kinds, passenger, baggage, stock, box and flatcars, to transport the Oregon troops. their equipment and impedimenta, to the border. This estimate was made officially by Captain Williams yester day in a dispatch to headquarters of the Western Department, United States Army, at San Francisco. The cars required and their specifica tions are: Third Regiment of Infantry Three standard sleepers, 21 tourist, IS sec tions; 3 indoor baggage cars. 36-foot, for kitchens; 6 boxcars, 36-foot; 6 flat cars, 86-foot; 1 boxcar, 34-foot. Battery A. Artillery Five tourist cars, 16 sections; 2 indoor baggage INCIDENTS IN SOLDIER LIFE AT CAMP WITHYCOMBE. ; I"'" ' "! "" "V '" 'S'U'WiM i mi mm mm ...ml n " 1 umimhihusi'" -m wB 1 '" " ' .wsmwiw w wj.nw'Wuiwi'M.'g; ' v...".;.- ' ".;:. , ',-.3 Plenty of Work. ..fN If 'I IT ' yVV V ' ' ' 'PT r '" tZZT -'' lu : 1 l -1 1 'ir l ' t ' V I ' ' f tm K t thjLt Jiliy- Bon of Mr" and Mr- Henry ' ' :J'k . -v ' 1 I " t ixr ?' 7 l Stewart, of Hain. Is in charge of 5t t , f.-f& fc 1 j i ' ' v , i Ft L Jr stores on the cruiser San Diego, now F ' A "3 V I J ' 4 5 I f- , ?0fJ ? awaiting word to take part in the J .X 1' , AXi?,V V I 'vKV-' i , t:jyif S " blockade of the Mexican ports. A,:'Vr. A .-V .V," - rVtr'l I- ' V3i- . . 4iTT v; 1 I . -i. , . j 9- -v I A. t - C. UtJ I v,"w 't f Xse "v J I I linn nniiniiiu rnnun .a - - - a - . ssa m?- - i a ifi ! 'jog cars. 36-foot; 3 boxcars, 34-foot: 2 stock cars, 36-foot; 15 flatcars, 36-foot. Troop A, Cavalry Three tourist cars, 16 sections; 1 Indoor baggage car for kitchen; 2 boxcars, 36-foot; 1 flatcar. 36-foot. All box, flat and stock cars to have steel underf rame. WASHINGTON TOLL RECRUITED Militia to Mobilize Today at or Near Full War Strength. SEATTLE, June 24,-a-The Second In fantry, Washington National Guard, called to the colors by President Wil son, will mobilize at American Lake, south of Tacoma, tomorrow to be draft ed into the Federal service for duty on the Mexican border. Troop B. Cavalry, of Tacoma; Field Company A, Signal Corps, of Seattle, and the infantry de tachment from Seattle already are at the mobilization camp and are recruited to full war strength. When the daily reports from the in- "I HOW TO REACH CAMP WITHY COMBE. By Train. Southern Pacific trains will leave the Union Depot today for Clackamas at 1:30, 8, 8:50 and 10:15 A. M. and 1, 2, 4:20 and 6:10 P. M., returning, leaving Clackamas at 6:36, 8:15, 10:55 A. M. and 12i05, 3:20, 4:22. 6:47 and 8:45 P. M. A special fare has been made for the round trip. From the station at Clackamas a short walk of one-third of a mile east brings the visitor ' to the camp. By Electric Line. 1 Take Mount Scott streetcars to Gray's Crossing, where motor buses will run to the camp. Take Oregon City cars to Gladstone and walk or take auto bus three miles to camp. By Anto. Autoists may reach the camp by driving out the Powell Valley road to East Eighty-second street and then turn south. It is about 12 miles to Clackamas. Auto buses will be run from Broadway and Washington today at frequent hours direct to the camp. THE SUNT) AT OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, . fantry company commanders were tabu lated at the Adjutant-General's office tonight it was found that the Second Infantry lacked only 62 men of the 1836 required for full war strength. . It was confidently predicted that all com panies would have the full quota before taps sounded tonight. ;Three Seattle companies, the University of Washing ton company and two Spokane com panies were the only ones which were not at full strength when today's re ports were made. The National Guardsmen will begin moving toward the mobilization camp early tomorrow morning, the Spokane and Walla Walla companies leaving their home stations first and picking up the North Yakima companies en route. The Seattle battalion and the University company will entrain at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning after a farewell parade through the downtown streets, escorted by a battalion of the Coast Artillery Reserve Corps and Spanish-American War veterans. Indications that the Washington Guardsmen would not remain long at American Lake were received in tele grams to the Adjutant-General in structing him not to erect extensive shelters at the mobilization camp and to Captain Harold D. Coburn. u. S. A., the mustering officer, advising him that militiamen who take the dual oath In enlisting in the guard do not need to repeat the oath when they are taken Into Federal service at the mobtliza tion camp. As all the guardsmen were administered the new .oath at" Their armories today, two days will be saved in drafting the men. into Federal serv ice after they reach the camp. Adjutant-General Maurice Thompson telegraphed the War Department today that Troop B, Cavalry, and Company A, Signal Corps, would be ready to depart for the border within 48 hours after mobilization of the guard is completed tomorrow night. COAST ARTILLERY IS READY Absent Members ef Albany Company ' Return in Hopes of Service. ALBANY, Or, June 24. (Special.) Though the Albany company of the Oregon National Guard, being attached to the Coast .Artillery Corps, has not been'called to service, some of its mem bers who were temporarily la other sections of the state have returned here to be In readiness should the call come. The local company has 80 men en rolled and Captain Knox says it is ready to respond instantly If its services are needed. Affairs are in such shape that the company could be. mobilized and since the infantry regiment of the Ore ready to entrain In a few hours. Mem- gon National Guard was called out and bers of the local company are not only a great many others are ready to en read; but anxious for service. roll if there Is a prospect of active There have been a few enlistments service. camp withycombe sidelights CAMP WITHYCOMBE, Or- June 24. . (Special.) Sunday will be par ade day at Camp Withycombe. Also, It will be visitors' day. How many thou sand persons will be here can only be guessed, but there will be thousands of them if the week-day crowds are any Indications. ' The troops in camp, comprising - the companies of the Third Infantry, Battery A, Field Artillery, and Troop A. Cavalry, which . Is -dismounted, will parade at 3 Vclock on1 the-rifle range. Colonel Clenard McLaughlin will be in command. - - ' Following the parade, the troops will be assembled in the plaza before the headquarters' tent for church service by Chaplain Gilbert. The service will begin at about 4 o'clock. Chaplain Gilbert's subject -will be. The Heart of the Nation." The services will be open to the general public Chaplain Gilbert is a forceful speaker, and he never has trouble getting an audience. Company K. of Corvallis. Captain Charles A. Murphey, was the last com pany of the Third Battalion to be mus tered in today. Major Abrams was a busy man all day making arrangements to have his whole battalion mustered in. It looked for a while as if some of the companies would not be ready, but Company K took the formal oath as administered by Captain Williams. Fed eral mustering officer, at 5:15 P. M. Company H 'has opened a company store on-the regimental street, with Privates Valter Bernard and M. C. Eaton In charge. Ice cream, cookies. candy, soft drinks, cigars and tobacco are on sale. All profits from the store go. to the company a mess fund. Private William E. Ad kins, of Com pany E. is named in a -special order lor promotion- to corporal. Though Washington - dispatches say that Captain Kenneth P. Williams, of the regular Army, chief musterins- of ficer for Oregon, has been detailed for mastering duty with the Nebraska Na tion Guard, It is highly improbable tnat he will be sent to his new post before the Oregon troops go to the Border, captain Williams had not re celved notification of. his detail to Nebraska tonight. Dr. . F. L. Utter, a Salem dentist in Company M. who has been nicknamed Painless by the company, was busy man fixing up the teeth of his messmates yesterday. He has his com plete tooth-pulling outfit: with him. H. K. Kellogg, a private of Company M. has served in every branch of the service in the regular Army, and has also been a member of the Northwest Mounted Police in Canada. Chaplain Gilbert, who has Just been promoted to. Major, was .wearing- - the JUNE 25, 1916. ......... m r ? '....;! It " I . , t i i !f V S " : t i , J .-4,r ..- .'--..: t I " ' - X if - i- t I I t - ' T g s-.-j. v j.. . X.-... ,.A,it.. .-.. T. Chaplain William S. Gilbert, of 1 Chaplain William S. Gilbert, of tke Third Infantry. Who Has Been Promoted to Major. - gold leaf insignia of his new rank for the first time today, after a trip to the office of Adjutant-General White In Portland. There is more than possibility that Chaplain Gilbert will receive a commission as Chaplain in one of the new regular Army regiments soon to -be formed. Of course, be would remain with the Oregon troops as long - as they are In the field, in any event. Chaplain Gilbert has been Chaplain of Oregon troops, including nearly two years with the Second Ore gon in the Philippines, for 18 years. BAKER RECRUITS COMPANY Required Number of Signatures F.i pected by Monday. BAKER, Or.. June 24. (Special.) Patriotism sent to boiling heat by the Mexican crisis continues here and more than 50 have signed the petition for a charter for a new- militia company to be recruited entirely from baker. It Is believed the required 65 signatures will be procured by Monday, If not be fore, sergeant Harry Jacobson. Com pany E. Second Regiment, Idaho Na tion&l Guard, wan heire Last nirrt 1a . cruit. but when he found Baker w mi near a con.pany f its own he made no8erv'ee effort to get men. I . - Word -has-been-received-la-Haines MILITIA ITNIT OP ISO MEMBERS AT . LA GRAXDE ACTHORIZED. Spanlah-AaaerlcAs) War Veteraoa ElETim to Join P. A. Foley Is Ik Chmrse of RecraltlBs; Work. LA.GRANDE, Or, June 24. (Spe cUl.) The formation of a militia com pany of 150 members is definitely un der way tonight. This afternoon Ad Jutant-General White gavo P. A. Foley sanction to proceed with enlistments and as soon as expedient drilling with out arms under men selected locally will proceed and as fast as the imme diate needs at Camp Withycombe are attended, formal and final muster of the company here will occur. The movement has been under way a week dui it was not until toaay tnat sanction was forthcoming. Some 20 or 30 men. with military ex perience either in actual war or ml lltia, will be expected to officer thi company. The Foley Hotel has been made enlisting headquarters. At least 60 men have already signified their in tentions and a group of Elgin men. most or tnem bpanish-American War veterans, will come up in a body to eruist at once. The Spanish-American var veteran camp here is taking lib eral Interest In recruiting and many of them are willing to join the ranks as privates. COMPANY'S PURSE IS $350 Centra Ha Increases Gift to National Guard Organization. CENTRALIA. Wash.. June 24. (SDe. ciaL) At noon today the enlistment of Company M had passed the 130 mark, and there was little doubt that the required 142 men would be secured be fore night. Tomorrow morning the company will entrain for American Lake. The purse of gold presented to the company last night to be used in fattening its commissary was increased to 3o0 today by further donations. Several Tenlno boys have enlisted in Company M. "Bill" McGowan, one of the recruits, is of such huge rfropor tions that a special uniform is being made to order for him. McGowan was immensely pleased when he passed the physical examination. Courtney W. von Sieln. of Tenino. en listed yesterday at the United States Army recruiting office here, while John McDonald, of Tenino. has gone to San Francisco to enlist in the United States cavalry. BOYS JOINING AT RAYMOND Call for Militia Determines Scliool Board to Give Training. RAYMOND, Wash.. June 24. (Spe ciai.j .twenty-live men have left Ray mond to Join the National Guard. Fif teen were new recruits who have jolne Company M at Centralia. the last leav inr this morning. The managers of the sawmills here have promised to reinstate all recruits from the mills to their old jobs whe they return. A movement has also been started to organize a company of the National Guard in Raymond and it Is receiving encouragement from the School Board. w;hich Is planning to give military arm in connection with the athletic work next year. NEW COMPANIES RECRUIT Astoria Proposes Infantry and Ar tillery Organizations. ASTORIA. Or.. June 24 (Special.) The preliminary steps toward the form lng of a company or infantry and on of coast artillery in Astoria are beln taken. The Spanish War veterans are taking the lead In the project and al ready about 50 young men have slgne the roll, while those in charge assert that at least 150 signatures will b procured. A mass meeting Is to be held on next Tuesday night, when It is expected or ganization will be perfected. Militiaman Ignorant of Call. QTJINABT. Or.. June 24. (Special.) Although he left on a hunting trip to the Cascades last Saturday morning by permission or nis commanding office Antone O'Neill is now being searched for diligently, as the call to arms cam after the young man was out of tour I with rail, telephone or telegraph 1 Read The OreKonian'a classified ada GUMMII1SJ6356.40; HUGHES, NOTHING Repbrts of Campaign Expendi tures Show lowan Was Heaviest Spender. NOMINEE HAS NO EXPENSE Overwhelming Oregon Republican Indorsement Tendered Man Not Even Candidate McArthur Raeo Cost $2521.40. It cost Senator Albert B. Cummins, of Iowa. 36956.40 to make his campaign for the Republican indorsement for the Presidency In this state at the primaries last month. Reports of campaign expenditures made by the various candidates before the primaries have Just been com pleted. Senator Cummins' disburse ment was the heaviest by a single in dividual and was made through George C Howard, who had charge of his cam paign. O. C. Bortzmever. eamo&fsm niMiri for ex-Senator Burton, of Ohio, spent But Charles E. Huehes. who secured the overwhelming indorsement of the Oregon Republicans and. subsequently. me nomination, didn't spend a cent He wasn't even a candidate and therefore wasn't required to make a report. lne Secretary of State's fi cures Mian show that the race for the Republican ominauon lor representative In Con- ress In the Multnomah County district caused some pretty heavy expenditures. McArthnr Total Is S 2.-11. 49. C. N. McArthur. wno secured the nomination, spent $657.44 personally; R. W. Hoyt, on behalf of Representa tive McArthur. spent $1739.05. and H. S. McCutchan. chairman and treasurer of the McArthur campaign committee, spent $125 a total expenditure on be- alf of McArthur's candidacy of $2521.49. But this Is not as much as was pent by E. V. Littlefield. one of Mc Arthur's opponents, who disbursed 1024.50 personally, besides the $1992.51 that was spent for him by L. E. Sauvie, treasurer of the "Littlefield for Con- roes" committee an aggregate of 3017.01. A. W. Lafferty. who also ran for Congress, spent $416. N. J. Sinnott, candidate for renoml- nation for Representative in the East ern Oregon district, spent only the $100 filing fee: W. C. Hawley. in the West ern Oregon district, spent $102.50. Prlaelpal Amounts Given. Other expenditures for some of the principal offices were: For 8crtrv of State Charles B. Moorts. Republican $ SSl.OT &i. j. L;ones;y. in oenair or tna can didacy of Charlea B. Maura 1.03 M Ben V. Olcott. Republican eS.OO oeorse t:. v atera. in benalx ox Ben . uicott B4t For Commissioner of tha Public Service Commission District lying- eaat of th Cas cade Mountains H. H. Corey, of Baker County 47M James M. Kvle. of Umatilla County.. 510 83 J. W. MoCulloch. of Maiheur County.. 577. SO itoDert e-ervlce. or ttaKer county..... -i'-.o- Ed Wrlsjht. of Vnion County 453.79 For Commissioner of the Public Service Commission District composed of counties lying west of the Cascade Mountains Fred O. Buchtel. of Multnomah 535.r Thomas K. Campbell, of Lane 031.a for Juage ox circuit court f ourtn Dis trict. Department No. 1 Wilson T. Hume 2S0.1T John P. Kavanaugh 1S3.04 Ko&ert c. Wright -jit.hs For Judge of Circuit Court. Fourth Ju dicial District. Department No. 5 W. M. Davis .V!.. J. K. Msrers 540.90 A. C. Thompson S3 S. Robert Tucker For Judge of Circuit Court. Fourth Ju dicial District. Department No. 5 Frank S. Grant. Republican..... $169.00 Fred L. Olson, Republican 144. TT W. N. Oalens, Democrat 07. 5T For District Attorney. Multnomah County Walter H Evans J-432.IS John C. McCue &59.ST M. R. Klepper. treasurer or the Jonn C. McCue campaign committee 537.10 Barge K. Leonard, in behalf of the candidacy or Jonn c. Alccue iws.w BlKstest Outlay Wins. Among the candidates for the lower house of the Legislature in Multnomah County. Hamilton F. Corbett caused the biggest outlay. He spent si.4i of his own money, and Lloyd R. Smith spent $190.40 for him a total of $275.85. Mr. Corbett was nominated. Paul C. Bates, one of the unsuccess ful candidates, spent $95 personally. and F. S. Senn spent $102.25 in his behalf a total of $197. 2o. An expenditure of $182.16 was made by Gordon Voorhies in behalf of R. L. Macleay, who was not nominated. Mr. Macleay also spent $106.23 personally a total in his behalf oi ;sa.3t. Lionel C. Mackay. one of the success ful candidates, spent $108.15. None of the others spent more than $100 in the quest for this office. DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. PORTLAND. June 24. Maximum temper ature 7.1 degrees; minimum, 57 degrees. River reading at 8 A M.. 22 feet; change in. lest 24 hours, none. Total rainfall to . M. to 5 P. M-. none: toiavi rsims.ii ai... September 1. 1015. 52.03 inches; normal rainfall since September 1. 43.67 Inches; excess of rainfall alnca September 1. 15, 8 3 Inches. Total sunshine June hours. 55 minutes; possible sunshine. 1 hours 4r minutes. Barometer (reduced to sea level) at 6 P. M., 28 o5 Inches. Relative humidity at noon, 05 per cent. THE WEATHER. Wind State of Weather STATIONS. Baker .... BoU Boston Calgary Chicago Colfax Denver Des Moines Duluth Kureka Galveston Helena 74 O.0OI. NW Cloudy O.Oof. . V 72 0.W. . S 74 G.IH . . X Clouay Cloudy r"t. ciouar 6 0.0D. I Clear 70 0.01! . Clear Cloudy Clear S O.tlOt. . E 7ri 0-liO,. .,NW v o.oo lti V iClear 6J O.OO 2o W (Cloudy 0.00 12 S JOlear 74 O. 00 16-SW .Cloudy W1.06 12SE jPt. cloudy Si: O.Otii. . NE ;cier 74 O.CK;. .SV C;eax 02 o.oj;. . s )cioud wo.tu... sw Cloudy 72 O.OO 12 W Clear Tti! T 111 W 'Hoin rJacksonvHle ... Kinsai City.... Los AnK:es .... MarshfWld Med ford Minneapolis ... M 3titreal New crK-ana. . . . New York North Head. ... Nort- Yakima. . Omaha Phoenix ' Pocat-llo Portland ...... Roseburg ...... Sacramento St Lou II. Suit Lake San Franclacro-. Seattle Spokane Tacoma Tatocsft Island. T. ilO SW Hsln 10 0.70;. -;S JClowdv 74 0.0V 12 5E Cloudy Gfej T. (1,6 S Rain 7& 0.00 . . NW Cloudy SO 0.00,. . N W Clear 102 O.OO. .'NW Clear 8GO.0O16S Pt. cloofly 73 O.OO . . W iCloudv SO O.OO 10 SW .Cloudy 10 O.OO 1& S (Clear 14 0.0OJ. .jNW Clear bi O.OO. . . IN Cloudy , tii 0.001S W Clear .2 O.oi 12 S'W Cloudy i 76 0.M;..lW Cloudy 72 0.02;. . (Cloudy ! T. 20 c? Rain S-V0.1S!. ,'SW Cloudfir Walla Walia Washington Winnipeg . . ..( M. 0.0 . .(SW Kaln ,.. 6.o.uo.. Pt- cloudy Unsettled weather conditions obtain oir practically the entire country: there ara cen ters of deprtaiton over Northern Saskatche wan. outhe-tern Idaho and the southern Ro.'klr. respectively. Precipitation ha oc curred on th N'.-rth Pacific Cvast, In Wash ington. Norti" ern Idaho, FORECASTS: Portland and vicinity Showers; southerly winds. Oregon. Washington and IdahtJ Showers; southerly winds. T. FRANCIS PRAKE, Aaalatant Fereci Msau