The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-27
(Special to The Herald)

Washington, April 26.-It is reported
that the general rendezvous of the
mountain state troops may be at Fort
d. A. Russell, Wyoming. This point is
known to be favorably regarded by
General Miles as point of assembly
and departure.
The mountain states rough riders,
who do not get a chance to go with the
militia in the first call for troops. will
still have a chance for independent
service. Some of them will be given
an opportunity to enlist in the crack
ganiZed by DR.. Wood, the presidents
family physician, and Theodore ROosa
Welt
Recruiting will first begin in Okla
hOma and the southern territories, but
afterward Salt Lake, Boise City and
Cheyenne will be visited. 1t is the in
tention to make this the best regiment
of the kind in the army, and there is
not the least doubt that the regiment,
when organized. will promptly be called
upCn for severe service in Cuba.
CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY.
The war department authorities say
they expect the mountain states to fur
nish particularly efficient troops in
cavalry and artillery. 1t is believed
these states will furnish men who are
already trained for their work, who will
not need the weeks and months of prep
aration certain TO be required to get
men from many of the eastern states in
condition for actual service. Army Of
ficers say a man with a gun is not nee
.esSarily a soldier. and sometimes can
not become one, even with much train
ing, but however much doubt may be
felt about regular recruits and volun-
teeTS from other states, there is none
as to the capacity of those from the
mountain regions. They are expected
to be frst-claSS in every respect from
the moment of their appearance at the
front.
There have been many evidences at
the war department of the splendid pa
triotic spirit prevailing all through the
intermountainS. Offers of enlistment
have come in great numbers, and the
governors in this section have all been
urgent that the levy of troops from
their states be increased far beyond the
quota.
IDAHO QUOTA CHANGED.
If an arrangement made today con-
tues. Idaho will be permitted TO have
mere troops in the field than any other
state. In response to an urgent request
from Governor Steunenberg, Senator
Shoup called on the secretary Of war
and adjutant general this morning, and
secured an order changing the Idaho
quota. from two troops of cavalry. to
two battalions of infantry. The Idaho
executive had wired Senator Shoup
that with only two troops of cavalry,
Idaho'S troops would necessarily be
merged with those of other states, and
her people could not be heard from as
they desired to be, in the war.
Senator ShOuD telegraphed Governor
Steunenberg tonight that he had Sc
cured the change designated. and he
also requested that in forming his COM
panies, the governor would favor the
Shoup rangers of Salmon City, by max
ing them one of the new companies.
A UTAH COLONEL.
Senator Rawlins and Judge King are
trying to secure the designation of a
Utah officer as colonel. Had it not
been for tOday's change, the officers of
the first intermOuntain state regiment
would have been named by the COVER
nor of Utah, for its original quota was
larger than that of Idaho.
OSBORNE VOLUNTEERS.
Promptly on his return from a flying
visit to Wyoming, Representative Os-
borne called on Surgeon General Stern
berg and rendered his services as sur
5eOn in the war. The surgeon general
thanked him for the offer and accepted
he tender in the event that volunteer
surgeons were called for. 1t is almost
certain that this will be done at the
line of the invasion.
Representative Osborne is an ardent
believer in the justice of the war, and
desiring to render service to his coun-
.ry where it will do the most good. Of
ered himself in a professional capacity.