The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-11
LIGHT PUNISHMENT
PRIVATE BRANDT WILL GET AN
HONORABLE DISCHARGE.
Private James Estes, Injured By a
Fall, May Also Be Discharged
Troopers Shining In Society.

Camp Merritt, July Honorable
discharge is practically the assured
fate of Private Jacob Brandt, the Utah
cavalryman who slept on post. To-
day the prisoner was given a search
ing examination by Major Choate of
the Seventh California hospital corps,
and it is learned indirectly that the
doctor will report to General Otis, re-
viewing authority, that Brandt's phys
zeal condition is responsible for his re-
missness. Major Choate also examined
Private James Estes, who fell from his
horse on his head. and will likely re-
commend an honorable discharge for
him. One remark that Major Choate
dropped caused a tendency to blues
among the Utah troopers. Speaking
of the Brandt and Estes affairs, he
said the calamity would not be great
in any event, because very soon We
will all be sent home. Now the boys
are only hoping the major is mistaken.
Fatigue uniforms, underclotheS, hose
and campaign hats have been issued
to the troops recruits, who are now
fitted out with everything but blue
trousers and present almost as mill
tary an appearance as the men mus
tered in at Camp Kent.
Lieutenants Smith and Kimball put
the men through their exercises at a
lively gait today, their first day since
Captain Gaines departure. According
to the new regime which went into eff
feet this morning, the time devoted to
drills is almost double that previously
consumed. Soon after breakfast this
morning, the lieutenants marched the
troop out on foot for carbine practice.
Directly upon their return, Lieutenant
Kimbal conducted a nOn-commis
stoned officers school. Upon its dis
missal the troop went out for an hours
bareback riding, and after dinner,
Lieutenant Smith put the men through
a mounted sabre exercise of two
hours. Some time is being given to
the memorizing of trumpet calls, and
many of the men execute the maneu-
vers without depending upon oral COM
mands. The newly published regula-
tons require all officers to attend all
drills, imposing upon them as much
outdoor work as the men are given.
This evening Corporal Harry Atkin-
son met by Geographic appointment an
old chum, Robert Morris, who arrived
from Salt Lake City, his home. Morris
belonged to the third class at Annap
oils naval school. When the war broke
out the school sent out circulars in
viting applications from under-gradu-
was assigned to the Philadelphia, and
has come to join his ship, which is
anchored here.
Lance Corporal Perry Cotner has
been appointed stable corporal. with
general charge of all the troops horses.
Socially, as everyway else, Utah is
holding up her end of the string at
Camp Merritt. Tomorrow. Mrs. Frank
Richardson gives swell dinner in
honor of Sergeants Porter and Cobb.
Last Sunday Mrs. A. E. Bradley dined
Sergeants Porter, Cobb, Price and
Richards, Corporal Young and Privates
Barnett, Goliath and Hampton. On
Monday. Miss Friedlander entertained
the same company.
Sergeant De Vigne has finished the
making of some fancy hurdles for bare
back work.
The troop has a mail box all its own,
stationed at camp today.
John Brown and Archie L. Cross,
who have been doing Frisco and Camp
Merritt several days, start home to
Ogden tomorrow
Tomorrow morning, Corporal Young
will go to Sansalito, Cal, to visit his
mother, Mrs. L. c. Brigham. who is i'll.
.Privates Paget and Whiting have
been discharged from the hospital
JOHN METEER