The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-09
JOHNSON DIsoBEYED ORDERS.
But He Made Good Shot and That
Saved Him.
Especial Correspondencel

Especial Correspondence
San Francisco. Aug. 6.-Many visitors
called at the tents of the Utah batteries
today. AS a larger number of guests
were expected on Sunday than usual
the batterymen arranged their toilets
with punctilious care, and when they
eventually bloomed out it was with i'm
maculately CLOSED boots and an oc-
casional starched collar.
The Utahns were part of the long
line of Borrowing soldiers who followed
all that was mortal of Colonel Hawkins
yesterday. The Soldiers felt honored in
being able to show their respect for
that sturdy. gray-haired warrior They
knew him well, first in the tumult of
Malate and then through the harrass-
ing jungle marches. Always he was the
same inspiration to the men-stern like
Achilles in battle; tender as the caress
of fond woman during days of peace.
The Utahns' place in the parade was
just behind their old fighting comrades.
the Nebraskans. The Utah band was
one of the two bands present. The
Utahns never marched so well or made
so gallant an appearance since the
peaceful days just before the weapons
of the insurgents turned upon Manila.
Utah's invalids had a chance yester-
day to explain their ailments to an ex-
aiming board. All the men underwent
a physical examination as one of the
last functions preceding a muster out
Although some of the men show the
ravages of years campaign, the gen.
eral average for constitutional perfec-
ton was unusually high. and when
Emil Lehman and Nelson Margetts
gave the doctor an exhibition of an
eightinch chest expansion. he looked
upon the Utahns with a chastened holy
awe.
The sick men are improving rapidly,
and Lieutenant Gibbs is expected back
at his post within two or three days.
Private Emil F. Selmer is suffering
from slight ailment ain his eye. No
one is worrying about Selmer. though.
for the strength of the old Norwegian
Vikings is in his sinews. and he main
tains recuperative powers that beat the
record of his sires.
1t was he who received a Mauser bull
let at Bagbag and about whom several
premature obituaries were written. 1t
was about two days after Bagbag was
taken. and when the bullet mixed up
with Selmer he was deep in the intri-
cacies of a game of stuff His COM
paniors were Emil johnson and f. C.
Peterson. Selmer looked upon his hand
and saw that ii was good. and as it was
around to him, proclaimed himself.
III frog" he said Just then he was
struck a tremendous blow in the side.
He thought one of the soldiers had hit
him with a trail handspike, and in
stantly Selmer called back angrily that
he had had a sufficiency of rough
houses" and 'fooling." But something
had ploughed up the dust at Johnson's
feet. and Seimer suddenly became pale.
The bullet went straight through him
from the left side above the hips. They
took Selmer to the hospital, although
he protested, and a week later he
into the Quartet with a wide
smile and inveighed against all hospital
surgeons because they refused to re-
lease him.
And that is why batterymen never
worry about Selmer.
Since their arrival in San Francisco
some of the boys are losing the fierce
ness of visage and wealth of uncropped
which are supposed to be the
particular property of an old campaign
err. Sergeant Billy Kneass came out in
the battery street today yoked in a
collar tall as the dignity of a first SER
geant and more white than the sur
plice of a chorister. Lieutenant Naylor
looks like munificent and pampered
whose nearest approach to
a war was the sight of one on a wildly
canvas Captain Critchlow
also has an air of easy affiuence that
gives no reminiscent suggestion of the
heavy fusilades and weary marches