The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-16
THE MILITARY CITY.
The Entertainment rendered
the Boys in Blue.
UINTAH AGENCY NEWS NOTES.
The Serenade to General Blunt-A Recent
Decision From the War Department
General McKeever's Report.
The sick in hospital are conyalescing.

The sick in hospital are convalescing.
The sanitary condition of the post is good.
The nights are surely wintry, at least
such was our experience doing guard duty
the other night
The average temperature for the past
week as recorded at post hospital IS, maxi
MUM 80, minimum 20.
Doctor De la Meza, a young disciple OF
Esculapius, IS q guest of Major w. ID.
Wolverton, post surgeon.
A strong fence is being erected adjacent to
the Quartermaster stables to enclose space
necessary for corral purposes.
Sergeant Caldwell expects to leave for
Fort Duechesne at any moment. He is one
of non commissioned officers of Skeleton
company PA and goes to "A' for perman-
ent assignment.
John Z. Myers, company L, Twenty first
infantry, has received four months fur
Tough and viii leave on the lst proximo to
spend his leave in California. May his trip
be pleasant one.
Colonel Blunt exercised the entire garri-
son on battalion drill on Friday afternoon
from / to ? o'clock I he different evolu-
tions incident TO this drill were rapidly and
accurately performed.
Patrick Shanahan, late OF company Q,
Sixteenth infantry, has just re enlisted for
the purpose OF retiring. Mr.. Shanahan
has served thirty Two years, counting ms
''war service as double.
The post canteen employs seven enlisted
men, SIX Of them being paid 90 cents per
diem, whilst the non-commissioned officer
in charge is paid 81 per day. The amounts
are IN addition to their pay as enlisted men.
First Lieutenant T. c. Patterson, 1st U.
5. artillery, sailed from New York for
Europe early in the present month. Lieu
&c on
man and affable officer. He was here with
Captain Capron's light battery.
The evenings entertainment closed with
recitation descriptive of Scottish home
life. AT its close General Penrose ten
dered a vote of thanks to the lady for her
kindness in entertaining US so agreeably,
which was unanimously agreed in by all
present
Our popular mail carrier, f. w. Burnett,
of company L, Sixteenth infantry, goes on
a three months furlough on the 18th inst.
He expects to wander among the mines of
Utah during his absence. Trust he will
meet with miners luck and strike it rich
whilst away.
On the evening of the 18th instant,
Colonel Blunt was rendered a serenade by
the Regimental band. Our post and regi-
mental commander highly appreciated the
motives of the band in greeting him home
dlOSI d GNO ulODbuS anu expressed
his pleasure on being again with his regi
ment.
1t is our desire to make our column more
appreciated in non-military circles and to
that end we are arranging to have regular
correspondents at several other posts in
this department All legitimate items from
the "blue-wearers' will be inserted in THE
HERALD, our object being to give items of
interest to all-military and ciyil-some-
thing worthy OF their appreciation and sup
port
BY a recent decision from the war
department, if man desiring to
purchase his discharge has the
necessary amount deposited with an
army paymaster, the applicant need not
put cash in hands of company or post-com-
mander, but can give An order covering the
amount required on the paymaster holding
the monies so deposited.
During the past fiscal year, the average
strength of the Sixteenth infantry was ASP
enlisted men (as per adiutant-generars re-
port, the recruits assigned numbered
ninety-tw and assertions twenty, or "A
per cent. The Sixteenth makes the best
showing of any white regiment whilst the
Twenty fourth (colored) numbered 479, re-
cruits zee, or Ia per cent
Mrs. Clara Norris, the gifted elocutionist.
gave most enjoyable entertainment at the
post chapel on Tuesday evening last. The
building was literally packed with an appre-
ciative audience which frequently inter
rupted Mrs. Norris with applause. Among
the commissioned rank were noticed
present General Penrose and lady. Col
onel Andrews and lady, Captains Ward.
Richards, Cornman, Palmer, with their
families, and Lieutenant Chandler The
enlisted men highly appreciated Mrs. Nor
rls' efforts, the entertainment being adver-
tised as exclusively for them.
The recitations were as follows:
Poem, description of scenery in Scot
tish Highlands
2-Scottish life scenes, showing women's
supremacy in domestic affairs.
g. Extracts from Dickens, descriptive of
a love scene in David Copperfield.'
4-Poem, scene, Italy, a mothers lament
upon the loss Of two sons on the battle
field.
5-Impersonation of naughty little girl.
Emusic, songs with guitar accompany
ment inldgnihcently rendered and yigor-
ously encored).
Meditation, ''hing Henry Of Navarro. u
S-Recilation from Bret Harte.
"a man is & man for a; that,n from
Burns.
FROM UINTAH AGENCY.
From OR Fort Duchesne correspondent.
Coyote low at the United States gov
eminent saw mill, forty five miles from
that post. we have the following: The act
ing foreman of Hoey Bros. arrived on the
UiLtah reservation on the It'll inst. with 100
head of beef cattle TO be delivered to the
two agencies (Uintah and Ouray) agreeable
TO contract. Hoey Bros. are to furnish
seven head per week to the Uintah and ten
head weekly TO the Ouray agency. Their
contract expires on June 80, 1891. Six or
seven hundred head viii be required to fill
the contract These cattle nave been
herded in Strawberry valley, where the i'm
mense herds owned by the Messrs. Hoey
are now held MIR Curtain the nntirrr frrn