The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-31
FORT DOUGLAS FACTS.

Captain Palmer and Lieutenant Nichols,
Sixteenth Infantry, were Oh duty yester-
day as officer of the day and officer of the
guard.
One of the trumpeters was FRUSTRATED by
the heat al guard mount this morning, and
had to oe carried to the hospital.
and Il companies will be disbanded on
the lst proximo.
Mr.. Otto Weber, of company, goes to D.
| He is a splendid barber, and will continue
| to WELD the shears aud razor in his new
company.
| On behalf of the boys, through THE HER
AID, we thank the good people along the
| line of march for their generosity and open
hearted liberality. To the residents of
Payson are due in a special manner the
gratitude OF the command. The people of
that village did everything in their power
to make the short stay pleasant one,
and many were the invitations extended TO
visit their homes. Orchards were thrown
open when it was practicable for the boys
| to invade them, and on other occasions, .he
| good people were waiting along the road
with boxes of the luscious fruit which they
forced on the boys. The men never tire of
saying good words for the people they met
We just now remember conversation
with friend of ours, an army hospital
| stewards in which we talked of the various
modes in which soldiers sometimes en-
deavor to get their discharge by surgeons
certificates of disability. He told US of one
who played the deaf racket to perfec-
ton, but heard pin drop when that
coveted discharge was in his pocket;
another who was on the verge of the
grave, as it were, with rheumatic troubles
of painful nature, who never improved for
three months, and was finally discharged.
The day he ceased to be soldier, the good
hearted physician presented him with a
pair of clutches. Slowly he made his way
Il to his company quarters, when he returned
the crutches to the hospital, That night he
was met down town elegantly dressed,
nimbly twisting light cane between his
fingers and walking with quicker step
and with more ease than he was
ever known TO do in his army life.
Again, says our informant, the vision Of a
soldier with certain chance in civil life,
gets very defective. His best time for
working this racket is during target season,
when, owing to the fact of his inability to
see the, target, he never makes score. But
adds he, those days are gone-for the per-
feet physical examination, there are now
provided instruments which tell the tale.
BY the way, was at post at one time
where our post surgeon had beat mix :
ture' as it was known, and the dose, an
enormously large wooden spoonful to
! be taken in the surgeons presence, always
to cure. It was the uastiest dose ever
gotten together, aid being of gummy 4
ture, stuck all over the teeth and left a
t; SIC worse than qUiniDe in the mouth for
at least TIVE n " TOUR hours. The ingre-
: dents # this celebrated mixture were
, "Balsam copaiba, assafGtida, sulphate of
ouinine, ya.erian and gum arab C - The
proportions must be sufficient to make the
compound likened to the thickest New
l Orleans molasses. We never tasted the
| mixture as yer, a I'd if our he 18th forces us
, to the hospital we are ''sure'' ok.
The Fort Leavenworth items in the Kan
, sas City Times of the 18th inst: cit is not
unlikely that the order assigning General
McCook to the command of the depart
: ment of Arizona will be so changed as to
q assign him TO the department of the Platte,
with headquarters at Omaha. In that event
Greneral Brooke will ne assigned to the
o department of the Columbia, ana General
: Gibhon will transfer his headquarters TO
n San Francisco, 1T the same time commanding
the department OF Arizona, the headquar-
tiers to remain at Los Angeles" We trust
this will never come to pass, for our present
department commander is q very able of
y ficer, well liked. and ON the whole the
r change. if it is male, savors of a political
move. 1t will be virtually upholdinl
=, Colonel KautZ in the recent controversy
and would he victory for the Eighth In
II faEtry commander Whist the aboy
e paragraph is not as yet an order, it must b
j.. based on some correspondence of semi
n official nature. Let justice be done
though the heavens fall. FRITz
OPEN AIR CONCERT.
q The troops having returned from thei
fifteen days outing, the regiment bdnt
| will render the following unusually attrac
t, tive programme. The concert commences
q nj = Or clock This afternoon.
a March, Light Battery Koppit;
! 2-Overture Belle OF the Village" - t,ouiilor
3-Waltzes ''ine metropolitan ------M S sat
d--Seiection from .'Mar,ti.iA' Va lace
5--Cialop, "Furore" Brook;
6-Antherl --
/, AS the weather is becoming MOI
n pleasant, an AFTERNOON could not be NOR
probably spent A cordial invitation to b
=, present is extended to all. AS usual tn;
:, talented musician, and composer of mlitar
IL airs, Professor Feussell. will have imm
s diate charge OF this as well US all the cor
1T certs given by the Sixteenth Infantr
% band, OF which he is the leader.
le NEW MEXICO.