Pals of Four Wars Come Back to U. S.

1919

Wyoming Cattlemen Say They Are Ready at Country's Call Again.

NEW YORK, N. Y. — Two seasoned American warriors from Wyoming, ranchmen and veterans of four wars who never got a scratch in a battle, altho they fought in many, arrived here from Havre on the French liner La Lorraine.

They had been friends for 22 years, and whenever there was a real war under way they turned their ranches over to foremen and took chances on the firing line.

The last fight that brought them together was the great war. Their unit was the 148th field artillery, made up of the Third Wyoming infantry.

These two soldier-rangers are Capt. W. E. Jackson of Wheatland and Capt. W. P. O. Grote of Jackson. Capt. Grote's ranch lies up in the northwestern part of the State, just below the Yellowstone, and that of Capt. Jackson stretches along the Platte River in the southeast corner of the State.

They saw service together in the Philippines, in the Boxer uprising and in the Boer war in South Africa.

Wireless bulletins of the strained relations between the United States and Mexico aroused their interest at sea, and they announced they would go over the border if Uncle Sam needed them.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 5.