The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-17
UTAH WARRIORS START
FOR THEIR HOMES TODAY
Eacn oOdler Received SIPS as He Was Mustered
Out of the Service Yesterday.
All Preparations Made For the Comfort of the Sick Who
Will Be Brought Along.

! In addition to the Colorado regiment
| the Warren also brought from the Phil
| ippineS, 129 discharged soldiers, COM
prising fifty from the Sixth artillery,
| light battery; fifty from the engineer
/ corps, and twenty-nine stewards and
nurses from the various hospital corps.
] y About forty of the men on board are
suffering from dysentery. Two of these
are so seriously i'll that they will have
to be taken to the hospital for treat
ment as soon as the transport docks.
These are Corporal Demrose and Pri-
vate Johnson.
Brigadier General Hale left Manila
on the Warren, but at Yokohama he
left the transport and took passage on
the steamer Dorie- Captain Booth for
merly of the Colorado regiment, but re-
Gently appointed to a commission in the
newly-o organized Thirty-SiXth regiment
returned on the Warren and will spend
a three months furlough at his home.
Other returning officers on the War
rem are former Major Young of the
Utah battery, now one of the associate
chief justices of the Philippines, and
Captain P. B. Strong, who was on Gen
eral MacArthurs staff and who is a
son of former Mayor Strong of New
York His father and brother came
hither to meet him.
Rough and perilous as was the trip
from Manila to Nagasaki, the remain
der of the voyage was exceedingly
pleasant. The men appear to be in
fine form and good spirits, their ap-
pearance indicating a better state of
health than any of the regiments who
have previously returned, with the eX-
ception of the Pennsylvania boys. They
have unanimously expressed their de-
sire to be mustered out in San Fran
cisco.
A.
chor in the bay this evening she was
boarded by the quarantine officer At
ter his inspection was satisfactorily
completed the Colorado delegation
which had some to welcome home the
returning volunteers of its state with
Governor Thomas at its head, went out
in tugs to the transport. The meeting
between the governor and his party
and the returning soldiers was cordial
and enthusiastic, and all the steamers
in the bay, as well as every factory
whistle in the city, footed a joyously
discordant greeting. Governor Thomas
had chartered two tugs, the Governor
Irwin and the Governor Markham, and
Major S. H. Hooper of Denver person.
ally engaged the tug Alert to take out
to the transport all the Colorado people
now in the city.
In the governors party We're the fol-
lowing, besides a large number OF
friends and a corps of newspaper men
residing in this city: Governor and
Mrs. 5. c. Thomas. Miss Thomas and
Master Thomas, Mr.. and Mrs. J. H.
Fletcher. Adjutant General Uvermyer,
Phil D. Wilson of the Colorado Springs
Gazette, j. c. Stuart of the Colorado
Springs Telegraph, Z. H. Studevant, ].
H. Dean, Major j. F. Mcdonald of
Leadville, c. H. Bennett, chairman of
the board of Leadville county commits
sioners; F. w. Hurd, w. H. Cord, DR..
o. w. Spicer. father of Captain SDicer
of company NJ of the returning Colo
RADIO regiment; Major j. II. Robinson
of Colorado Springs. H. Lewis of the
Pueblo Chieftain, and F. W. Mccall /
Tough of the Denver Times.
Only the governor and Mrs. Thomas, |
Miss Thomas and Mrs. Mccoy, the wife !
of the colonel of the First Colorado, |
We're permitted on board. they remain |
ing on the transport during the even !
ing. The men went wild over their I
state executive, who was particularly |
cordial in his greetings to Corporal Ell |
der of company H. and to Lieutenant |
Colonel Moses. The latter, it was
feared, would lose an arm as the result |
Of a gunshot wound. and month ago /
Elder was believed TO be dy-
ing from very serious attack of dv-
sentery and fever. Both, however, are
now well and whole.
The Colorado soldiers were much |
gratified when they were drawn up on
deck to hear an eloquent address from
the governor. When the latter in
formed them that their native state
would present every Colorado soldier
with a medal of honor in token of ap-
probation of their Valor and patriot
SIN, and that $4,000 had been sub
scribed by Colorado people to defrav
The expense of transporting the boys
rom San Francisco to Denver. the men
.heered as only returning soldiers know
now to cheer.
1t has been arranged that the troops
shall be landed at II o'clock tomorrow
Escorted by the Pennsylva-
Tia regiment and a detachment from
he Preside garrison, they will march
o their camping ground on the reserv-
ltion. 1t is expected that they will be
mustered out in about three weeks.