The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-02


guard, yet the baby state very fire.
quently bobs up serenely. Whatever is
the cause, no volunteer organization in
these parts seems to attract more at
tention or command more respect. Each
day visitors from all parts alight from
the cars at the further end of the big
and beautiful post and ask sentries all
along the route where to find the Titan
troopers, passing on their way many a
larger and better equipped body OF
men.
Not only socially is Utah in Frisco s
swim, but among officers of the post
she holds fast her own. One of the gen
tlemen who sits in his office chair and
presses military buttons for whole regi-
mentS TO do the rest, said some pleas
ant things for the cavalrymen today.
He regretted, with the troopers, that
they could not be sent to the front, re
marking that they were wonderfully
we'll trained for the bries time since
their mastering in and oI1ning that if
they should yet be given the opportu
nifty they would prove themselves well
disciplined and valorous in service
Further. he suggested that now, since
there is no chance to go to Manila, the
Utah men should feel highly cOmpli-
semitic, which he considers the prettieS
post in the gift Of the CalifoI MIA depart
ment.
Your ride to the park" said he.
"wiE be like triumphal march. Al
along the road you will be Hospitality
received and generously treated to the
best of everything in this, the best OF
all lands. ! know this both from my
knowledge of the people and from the
fact that letters have been received
from citizens of towns along your cor
templated line of march, asking wher
you were coming, and intimating that
warm receptions await you. Then,
when you have reached your deStina-
ton and have become accustomed to
the new duties of camp guard, you will
ind them easy and the life delightful
All summer tourists from all sections
crowd the resort, and, after the manner
of most folk, they make much of sol
diers, especially volunteers. The Utah
troop is an especially ne lot of men;
their disappointment at having to stay
at home, and then their sOldierly sub
mission to the adverse fortune, viii
command sympathy and admiration.
and they will find friends everywhere
For that reason, partly. nothing Will be
spared in the supplying of clothing.
good horses and all camp eQuipage to
make their appearance as comely and
their lot as easy as possible. Before
they go they will be issued everything
lUdl cues 10 IldhE up Oil lutdi lIOOD
Quilted perfectly"
Also an paper Utah and Utah men
are named not infrequeniy. Among
the recently filed documents one is No.
% of special orders, reading: Majors
@. F. DoWney, W. B. -Schofleld and 3.
C Kenyon, additional paymasters, will
make such payments as may be as
signed to them by the chief paymaster
of the department, on rolls of July 81,
1893. to troops at Preside. of San Fran
cisco, ABOUT to embark for Honolulu,
H. l. Upon completion of this duty.
the paymasters will return to their sta
ton, the travel enjoined being neces-,
saTy for the public service"
That is signed by Acting Assistant
Adjutant General John 3. Bennett. by
command of Major General Merriam.
Paragraph 1 of another special order,
No. 90, signed by the same official. is:
Upon the recommendation Of the
chief surgeon, Acting Assistant Surgeon
Frank B. Robinson, L. S. army, now in
this city. will proceed to the Presidio
of San Francisco, reporting upon ar
rival to the commanding officer for
duty with the First troop Utah volun-
teer cavalry"
Paragraph ) Of the same special or
der details a board of officers TO exam
inc lot of private horses belonging TO
mounted officers of volunteer organiza-
lions lately gone on foreign service in
the Philippine expedition. The board
is now arranging a list, giving descrip-
ton of horses, ages, names of owners,
and assessed values, in the order of
their. fitness for mounted service OF the
three officers on this detail, Lieutenant
Smith of Captain 'aine's troop e one,
and his wishes are largely consulted by
the CHEERS. In the lot of horses left
behind are some magnificent chargers,
which viii become the troop property
of the Utah cavaliers.
There no longer remains the shadow
of a doubt that We VIII go 70 Yosemite
and Sequoia parks, Captain Game TAX
ing the bulk OF the troop to the former,
and Lieutenant Smith going with 80
men to- the latter post. The list Of men
for each destination has not yet been
prepared. Dr. Robinson viii go With
Captain Game and take with him as
hospital steward, Private Meyer Joseph
son of the United States army hospItaFi
corps, now at Angel island. Lieuten
ant Smith has been furnished another
competent physician and steward in
Acting Assistant Surgeon T. A. Nc !
Culloch, United States army. and Pri- |
vate Fred B. Zweybrucfl, now at Alca- |
tras The troop is TO have 80 pack |
mules and several skilled packers; also
three big wagons, prairie schooners,
and 20 new horses. Each OF the two di- (;
visions is furnished a blackboard and .
fine driving team Tomorrow the final I
report on all reuuisitions will be pre- /
pared, and very likely the troop will re- 4
ceive D months pay before their de- +
parture. Everything that Captain Game /
has asked for has been promptly grant
ed, and he has had to refuse offers of /
many things not needed. When the
troop has reached its dual post it will /
be monarch Of everything already sur
ve.yed and viii survey the rest Cap
tain Game viii be the commanding
officer for the entire domain. The only
exception to the established rule that
his troop is popular wherever it is
known is found right here at Preside. /,
where officers of regular troops of long
existence are enyious of the good for
tune OF the volunteers. They deem Yo-
semitic the most desirable camp in reach
and i'll conceal a feeling of Jealousy al
being robbed OF the outing by the
newcomers from the region of the salt
sea in the valley of the Jordan. One
hing overlooked by those disposed TO
grl.Tn Bile IS that the Utah troop Will
stand just as good show to go to the
'front.' as any other cavalry in case
men are needed hereafter in
he Philippines.
Word has come from Washington
hat the recommendation for an honor
able discharge for Private Jacob
Brandt has been approved and now
he prisoner, court-martialed for sleep
he VIII owe the honorable discharge to
Captain Game. who believes. the man
.onstitutionally sleepy, Lieutenant
Smith, judge advocate, and Lieutenant
xirnball, who defended him az his
,ourt martial Private Chris Peterson