Roberto
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Taken from the Arizona Star: http://azstarnet.com/ Arizona at 100. Some good stuff here.
April 21, 1912
The privates of Troops E and F, United States Cavalry, are dead sore; their officers, doubtless, are in the same mood, as the result of a series of night alarms which have caused them to patrol the border for hours with never a suspicious circumstance turning up to warrant the call.
The officers, when approached, while admitting being out on several occasions, refuse to discuss the matter.
Not so with the enlisted men. They are not only ready but anxious to express their opinions of the night calls and their purport.
Tuesday night was one of those on which a call for the troops was issued. The soldiers left their camp at the baseball park about midnight and patrolled the line from Slaughter's ranch to the smelter in Douglas until 5 o'clock on the following morning. Not so much as a jack-rabbit was seen.
The soldiers say that the information upon which the movement was made, as well as that warranting numerous other night hikes, came from Mexican secret service officials.
"There is nothing doing right now, but those fellows have to make some kind of a showing to keep on the government payroll," said one soldier. "We are the goats that catch the hot end of the thing."
April 21, 1912
The privates of Troops E and F, United States Cavalry, are dead sore; their officers, doubtless, are in the same mood, as the result of a series of night alarms which have caused them to patrol the border for hours with never a suspicious circumstance turning up to warrant the call.
The officers, when approached, while admitting being out on several occasions, refuse to discuss the matter.
Not so with the enlisted men. They are not only ready but anxious to express their opinions of the night calls and their purport.
Tuesday night was one of those on which a call for the troops was issued. The soldiers left their camp at the baseball park about midnight and patrolled the line from Slaughter's ranch to the smelter in Douglas until 5 o'clock on the following morning. Not so much as a jack-rabbit was seen.
The soldiers say that the information upon which the movement was made, as well as that warranting numerous other night hikes, came from Mexican secret service officials.
"There is nothing doing right now, but those fellows have to make some kind of a showing to keep on the government payroll," said one soldier. "We are the goats that catch the hot end of the thing."
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