The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-30

Sulu6SJ J. Ranges as great as elgQi
miles have been covered by this simpl
device, and General Miles, in hi
Geronimo campaign, used telegraph
signaling successfully over ranges G
fifty miles. For shorter ranges flag
waved to the right of vertical position
for dots and to the left for dashes.
A very amusing and novel drill
is that given by the surgeons tt
the company bearers" These mel
alternate in playing the part o
the wounded in battle, while th'
able bodied are taught how to carry
them from imaginary batile-fields Il
ambulances in rear. Chairs made 0.
clasped hands and stretchers, i'm
provised by tying handkerchiefs o.
towels to two rifles, are among the
simple methods taught, much to the
amusement of the assumed victims Of
an enemy's fire, except when the litters
or chairs break and, dropping theil
burdens, transfer the laugh to tbs
bearers.
Drill over. the men are called to come
and get cit" again this time a dinner
of beef. potatoes or tomatoes, bread,
and coffee or soup. with an occasional
addition of trout. venison or mountain
grouse should the company include
men who rustic" for game.
From 1 to3. also rain or shine. bri-
gade drill is had, and impromptu bat
talon commanders and their staff
prance about on borrowed horses, and
try to look natural, while the hoi pol
loi 1--WE poor doughboys) continue still
to pound grass and ploV through sage
brush at 100 steps to the minute. In
teresting, assure you-for lookers-on.
Alta. fatigue call'' summon
THE OLD GUARD
to general police Of the camp, by
which is meant the collection and re-
moval of all loose papers and weeds.
Then another it supper of coffee
and bread, with, perhaps, cold meat
must be had before the evening parade.
This is had by brigade, each of The five
battalions marching TO the line in close
column of companies, and the COM
manding officer and his staff appear,
mounted.
At this altitude, 900 fe ct, according
to the barometer, sunset is followed by
a change of temperature so great that
overcoats are donned, and men and eff
GERS gather about camp6reO. or in the
tents of those lucky enough to have
stoves. The mail, just in by courier
from Heber, is read, and songs are sung
from repertory equaled in variety only
by minstrel's; or knowing ones tell
how we put down the rebellion" and
how much grender and wilder the" old
army" was.
Sentinels resume the posts about
camp, which were abandoned st
reveille, officers gather in differ
ent tents for little games of cards
in which chips are a necessary &C.
compartment, and men prepare their
blankets for the night. So when the
last notes of this die on the still air at 8
O'Clock, lights in all but the officers
cents are out, and the camp once more
becomes apparently city of the dead,
a graveyard OF withered m onuments.
There are some original characters in
this vicinity, and one OF these is Mr..
Broncho Roundup, of the Provo VAL
ley. This son of Mormocdom owns
farm, horse and three WINS, or did
when l met him one day at the sum-
NIT of Bald Knob. This is not the
famous Missouri peak, but one at the
head of Strawberry Valley, which pro-
jects from the Rim" name given
ny LlC pCAI1C1S ~ tIC WobC4 -odCG W h1CA
separates the waters of the great basin
from those flowing to Green River and !
thence to the Pacific. With instru-
ments l recently rode to this mountain
to establish signal communications
with Park City, about forty miles dis
tant. Mr.. Roundup was on the sum-
nit He said he was looking into |
the Indian country for lost horses, j
and l mentally set him down as !
the lord of a stable. But subse- /
quent inquiry taught me that if he !
looked for horses it must have been for .
those of "his neighbour" as his wives
were his only stock in trade or sources |
of revenue. He had ridden through |
1.-The Reserve" for four months, so he
said, and though from our lofty posi- !
ton he could see his home in the Provo,
he did not seem in hurry to return TO !
his numerous family, but manifested
much interest in my signal apparatus,
in the telescope, through
which he looked into camp ten miles
distant and $500 feet below US. 1t was
during drill battalion skirmish), and as
I worked the Photograph /
My MORMON COMPANION
me with some such running
bulletin of the drill as the following:
Now the Teller in charge is roup dim
EN- all up in one bunch" Now
they re kinda movin' about an sniffin
air for break" "What d. tell you?
There goes one little bunch sorta lonely
ike for the creek. Scatterin' becomes
gen raj. pard. Regular stampede, or
I'm 'postate Genule!" Running all
IA one line now" resumed Roundup,
after pause to take chew. Hello,
'hootin', by thunder! just putin
smoke like pistols in a barroom. Gosh
all hemlock! this thing IS worth dollar
10 me. B'lieve I'll enlist. Now the
,hiet cowboys caught one bunch by
he horns ond threw him fiat. ALI stop
'hootin' and get in line. Bunchin'
or q run again! Here we go! All
swing your partners! Coin right over
he creek and all. Get there, Joseph
Mormon for Eli, out of Difference to
Joseph Smith Hello!-"
Here he knocked the telescope from
is p sition, and before could readjust
t, drill was over. And soon after I
aid good-by to this happy three times