The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-02

q poker game at Hulls and another on
Spring street and won $780, 1t was
| dead easy. l had a fine time there,
! and then / went to Frisco, and Oak
land. l bummed around Frisco a few
weeks and went up to Sacramento
and then to Stockton. I went back to
Sacramento and went across the river
TO Washington's and run up agin a
| bank and lost every cent l had.
didn't have a FIVE cent piece left You
pet L felt rocky. l struck the dealer
Tor stake and he gave me SIS. / went
\ around to the Western and got in a
stud game and won SIS. Purity soon
L struck friend O. mine on freight
ana jumped on and come east as far
as Winnemucca, Nevada. I struck a
sport there with. game leg, at the
Grand saloon. I was fiat broke and
we got UP stud game and in a short
time we raked off $500. Things got
SLOW agin and I pulled for Denver. 1
MADE little winnin' and brought up
at Centralia, III. Here 1 met a Teller
with a balloon in hook and we
went in partnership. He learnt
me the ropes and we agreed
70 give three ascensions There was a
DIG crowd one day and [ concluded to go
up, got up about half a mile and
! looked down and saw something was
wrong. You could just hear the sound
HoOs iuO. way uOWn Del0W ana people
running all about. 1 knowed something
was the matter, and looking up l saw
Inc balloon was on fire. I cut loose the
chute soon as possible, and down / come.
| The chute didn't open up until I got
nearly to the ground and / fell in some
lumber and got hurt little. The balloon
| burnt up and broke me up in business
| went to Chicago and knocked around
late in the fall. and 1 run up ag'in the
recrutin' office on West Madison street,
and enlisted Captain Palmer sent me
here and l went to Company C.
i had been clerk in the adiutant's
office at Wahchuka. One Say I was up
stairs in Company C ana some fellow
come up and called out Did any of
you fellers ever clerk in the adiutant's
on that account. 1 wish 1 had now. l
might have knowed something was
wrong.
We'll, two years amt long. I guess
that's all they'll give me-
Fine antidote this snow for drills-ha!
haLand paradomania.
Private Doyle of company A claims to
have located good claim in Skull VAL
Mr.. ". G. Anderson of ]. Hagman &
Son, tailors, received sixty orders on his
last visit to the post
First Sergeant Douglas of company D
viii DE discharged, having completed a
service of tWenty-seven years. He will
re-enlist in company D Wednesday.
Sergeant Sway, of Company G. who has
been out on the eastern boundary of the
reservation with Lieutenant Castle, says
the whole country between Red Butte and
City Creek canyon has been taken up and
that there is hardly room for another
stake. Some dispute as to the location of
the eastern line was the cause of the re-
survey.
Sergeant Plesier, who was tried by a
general court not long since for locating
a mining. claim in the vicinity of the
reservation without reporting the fact
to headquarters, says he will leave the
service at the end of his present enlist
Utah He believes in the future of this
state. He has in about twenty years.
Sergeant Bullbeef was visitor down in
the vicinity of Smelterville one day during
the fine weather and has been remarked
with a flower in his button hole and
a conplacent smile. This is rather I'M
common and must certainly mean some
thing, and no doubt the coming of springs
gentle zephyrs will bring a matrimonial
denouement.
The old guard fatigue party was badly
fooled yesterday. They were required TO
turn out in the afternoon and shovel
snow for two hours. Such is the fate of
Friday guardsnen.
The reorganization scheme appears to be
gaining ground, and will probably pass
this session of congress if the officers
don't get to quarrelinS again. The in
fantry proposition looks to the adoption
of the Disqualification plan. The artillery
is to be increased by two regiments. War
veterans below the rank of colonel are to
be retired with the rank of the next
higher grade. One proposition which
seems to have been lost in the shuttle.
provides that under certain conditions
soldiers who have satisfactorily passed
examinations for promotion to the grade
of second lieutenant and who have not
received their commissions. shall be given
that rank. without pay, when honorably
discharged. ~ I. u.