ASHY AND NAVY
Mud Mauseth write* the editor he is|
sore at "Bill'' for calling off the war and
spoiling hia military career. Mud ex
pected to be discharged Dec. 10th.
Word hac been received in Juneau that
W. 8. Bayleas, for many years a practicing
lawyer there, received a commission in
the army late tu November and is sta
tioned at Camp Zachary Taylor, near
Louisville, Kentucky.
Lteut. ISarle C. Jameson, formerly of I
The Empire editorial staff, has been dec
orated with the French Croix de Guerre
for gallantry in action. He won the dec
oration through an accident, and he says,
when there was no chance for him to do
anything else than fight.
David N. Bairner. of Fort Seward, has
recovered from his severe attack of pneu
monia. but now has pleurisy quite severe
ly, according to word received here this
week. Bob McKlem, who at one time was
very lo». with pneumonia at Fort Seward,
has recovered and is now out of the hos
pital.
Word has been received that 1st Lieut.
Way land is still at Camp Humphries and
will stay and complete his training, then
will be given a commission in the En
gineers’ Reserve Corps and discharged.
Mrs. Wayiand, the children and her
mother arrived safely at Chehalis, where
they will reside for the present.
Malcolm Wilson, Juneau draft man who
had received an appointment to the Of
ficers’ Training Camp at Camp Pike, re
turned to Juneau last week. Wilson, like
other men in the Officers’ Training Camps,
was given the choice of finishing his
course or returning home and he chose
the latter. He will re-enter the employ of
Charles Goldstein
Clorp. Bozo Murisich, formerly of Tread
well, now In the 1th Infantry, writes
Gabe Paul: “Enlisted four years ago at
Butte, Mont.; was down on the Mexican
border most of the time until last summer
when requested to be transferred to Alas
ka; was stationed at Port Seward until
the 14th Inf. left, and am now at Camp
Dodge, Iowa, and have qualified as a
wireless operator.”
1st Class Sergeant Oliver S. Hopper,
Medical Dept., Port Riley, Kansas, writes:
“There is very little going on here at
present. We discharged 200 officers yes
terday. From the way it looks, some of
us who have spent these months In this
office will remain until the camp Is closed
and all records completed, which will
probably take two months yet. We had
a line thanksgiving dinner [a copy of the
menu was enclosed and everything that
makes a good dinner was on It], A piece
of poetry that I like also enclosed.”
Chub Douglas writes Earl Blossom
from Camp Mills, N. r., that we have
been in this camp a little over a month;
were on a transport to go overseas and
ordered back to camp. The latest dope
is that we are going back to Frisco to
be mustered out. I only hope so, be
cause I sure don't like this Eastern coast.
Wa are camped alongside the Curtis aero
plane factory, and it is nothiug to see
twenty or thirty aeroplanes up in the air
doing the loop and nose-dive. Was in
New York City yesterday, and who do you
suppose I met? Our old friend Dillard
Beck. He was at Camp Fremont when I
was. but we never met. He is in 62nd
Inf., Co. G. Talk about chickens, this town
of New York is sure full of them. The
night armistice was declarod they paraded
up and down the streets, hugging and
kissing men In uniform. I was lucky
enough to be in town with my uniform on.
I expect to be back in 3eattle for Christ
inas or New Years' so will see you soon
in Seattle or Juneau. Give my regards
to all the boys. Corporal B. E. Douglas.
13th Inf., Co. F„ Camp Mills, N. Y.”
Isadore Goldstein, with the 364th Am
bulance Co., in Belgium with the Ameri
can army, writes, under date of October
30: “Have gone through the big drive al
ready and, believe me it was some drive.
The division I am attached to is the one
that started the drive, and if you could
have seen the way those westerners went
through the Huns and their Hindenburg
line it would have done your heart good.
They went through for a gain of five miles
the first day. Speaking about the Hin
denburg line, you snouia nave seen it. it
is built of concrete and railroad Iron, and
some of the dugouts are 40 feet under
ground. You would think it impossible
to get them out. of them, but we did, and
not only that, we have the Hun on the
run in that section of France. I thought
that country (France) had suffered from
the Hun, but you should see this country
(Belgium)—it is twenty times as badly
shot up as France is. We camped for a
week on the worst battle fields of Bel
gium, where they have been fighting for
the last four years. It is a real no-man’s
land. A person can step from one shell
hole to the next for miles and miles. Not
a living soul to see nor a branch or tree
that has not been shot off at the ground.”