The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-17
MILITARY MATTERS.
The Weekly Budget From the
City On the Hill.
General. Business, Sacred, Personal and
Other Newsey Points of Interest
to All.

The dress parades are kept up, but the
drills are suspended for this month.
The sanitary condition of the post is ex,
cellent, and the health of the troops was
never better.
Assistant-Surgeon Kendall, from Fort
ID. a. Russell, near Cheyenne, is ordered
to Fort Douglas for duty.
Some six companies of Indians 5000
have already been recruited for the army.
out of the 1900 authorized by the war de-
partment.
The new drill regulations formerly
called tactics) will soon be issued to the
army. They will radically change the
present drill.
Lieutenant-Colo Andrews, now of the
Twenty fifth infantry, expects to leave
here for Fort Shaw, to join his regiment,
on Monday next.
The citizens employed, mechanics and
laborers at Fort Douglas find the post
canteen very accommodating in furnishing
them with lunches and dinners at yerv
moderate rate.
The repairs in the officers quarters are
nearing completion, and are required to be
finished by June 80. However, bids are
now out for the erection of other buildings
during the summer.
The ground for the Rapid Transit Elec-
u,
| the workmen will commence to put their
street cars into the post. They will pass
through Popperton place.
| 1t is not yet decided what will be the
fate of the troops now stationed here.
Probably, however. the sixteenth will all
be massed at Fort Douglas and the twenty
first will go east of the Mississippi.
Lieutenant Ettonhead, of the twenty
first, left some days ago under orders to
proceed to Fort Bridger and attend
to the removal OF the bodies In the fort
cemetery at that place to Mcpherson.
Neb.
We have, no doubt, the finest gardens in
the territory. Vegetables, such as lettuce.
radishes and green onions are already SUP,
piled for the tables of the soldiers, and as
the season advances the later vegetables
will be in order.
Surgeon Wolverton has the best con-
Quoted hospital of any in the army. The
sick have plenty of cream, milk, straWber
ries, butter, vegetables and fruit all raised
on the grounds surrounding the hospital.
We are still making marksmen and
sharpshooters by the score, on the target
range daily. There is an incessant crack
OF the rifles from sun up to sun down, with
the exception of few hours cessation in
the middle of the day.
There have been some three or four
assertions from the post since May l. A
reward of $50 is paid for the apprehension
of deserter from the army. No reason
can possibly exist for desertion under ex-
listing laws and regulations.
Last Monday evening was the fourth of
the series of those pleasant and social hops
given by the officers Of the sixteenth and
twenty first infantry. On Monday eve
ming will be the next. These are informal
parties, and they are well attended by
the young people from the city.
BY recent orders from the war depart
ment the regimentnl bands receive one
tenth of all the profits of the canteen
monthly, and in addition the band receives
the same amount pro rata as the rest of the
companies. Thus Fort Douglas is taxed
in the neighborhood OF S10o per month