The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-30
(Snecfall Ia The Herald. ]

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PocatelIo, Ida, Sept. 29.-No more
royal welcome has been extended to
any body of troops on their return home
than that given today to the returning
members of companies E and G OF the
First Idaho volunteers, who reached
home this morning after an absence in
\ the Philippines Of sixteen months.
/ Other and larger communities have
! done honor to their returning heroes,
land other places have gone crazy with
/ joy over the sight of the faces that
! have been so long absent, but 1t re-
manned for Pocatello to exhibit itself
as utterly incapacitated for any other
! form of diversions, amusement or ac-
/ tfon? than to throw herself at the feet
! of the boys who have brought so much
honor to the state of Idaho, and as the
hpeople here think, when contemplating
| the membership of company q, to the
city of Pocatello.
| Yet, it was not without a final effort
\ that the railroad town had the salts
( faction of first receiving her boys.
| Boise wanted them as drawing card
| for the. state fair. and at Nampa yes
terday fought for them, started an IN
! terneeine strife and tried to take the
( baggage of the Bannock. Bingham and
Fremont troops to Boise, so that the
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the aid of Engineer Jack German and a
coal pick, and Fireman Mart Cosgrove,
armed with copper hammer. Captain
| Graham of company Fl and his follow
ers were fought off.
Enthusiasm Was Rampant.
: At 1:30 this morning every shop and
i locomotive whistle in Pocatellos let
loose and announced that the special
4 train had reached American Falls and
at 2 a.. m. itapulled into Pocatello. with
/ Superintendent. Ed. Manson'ss private
\ car on the rear end. Late as the hour
was. the. soldiers were taken in charge
by the ladies of the Red Cross society
and were marched to the pavilion
/ where, what would have been a BAN
! quet at an earlier hour, was served as
a lunch.
Those of the boys who returned were
locking well for the most part, though
Sergeant Frank Mulligan. who was
clerk of company g. and who has been
suffering from dysentery exhibited
signs of his recent illness.
Some faces were missing. Walter
Dugard died in the islands of typhoid
i fever, Orrin L. Darrah was killed ait
I the battle of Santa Ana. George Scott
1 was shot through the head ait the Cum
! DO Crossing and T.. FL. Fitzpatrick was
I lost overheard three days out of Ma
/ Mia. Two others are lying in the hos
pital at the Preside with little hope
/ of their recovery. They are Fred j.
Taylor and Hyrum Spillman.
/ At / o'clock this afternoon the exer-
! cises Of the day began. led by the Me-
nan band Of Fremont county. the pro-
I cession formed at the west side school
J building and marched along Arthur
avenue. countermarching on Cleveland
to the grand arch on Center At this
point they were halted by the children
| of the public schools, who sang the
hymn America and afterwards sub
jected the returning volunteers to a
perfect shower of flowers.
Parade the Streets.
At the head of the. procession was
Colonel Jones, and following the sol
diers were Mayor Bistline and the
members of the city council. Behind
/ these came the G. al. r. and the uni
\ form rank of the Knights of Pythfas.
the Odd Fellows, sWoodmen of the
World and other secret and civic or
\ ganizations.
The march was made to- the opera
house, where the welcome proper was
! extended. The soldiers were seated on
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