Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-15
HONOR TO UTAH VOLUNTEERS.

As forcshadowcd In last evenings
News" Governor Wells at n late hour
last night Issued @ proclamation call
ing upon the people of the state TO
meet the returning volunteers and give
them reception and demonstration
that VIII testify 60 utuh'H appreciation
OF their valiant services In the Philip
pines The executive also named %
large committee of citizens from Nnti-
Gus parts OF the state, who are rc-
quested To- meet iu the supreme court
room mt n "a. m. next Ihuudny Tor
organization purposes, The procluma-
ton is aH follows
'Thc last OF the Utah volunteers
for the recent war with Spain are
about 90 receive their discharge aud
return 20 their homes, Troop ], Src-
oud United States volunteer cavalry,
the first organization composed Of Utah
mon TO leave the State, May No. 1895,
was also the first TO return home. be-
ing mustcred out OF the service pcto-
Dor aith OF last year at Jacksonville,
Fla. The First troop Utah United
states volunteer cavalry leaving this
city ON May 2ith. received honorable
discharge December 2ard In san Franz
cisco. battery q, Utah light artillery.
mustered IN July ~, 1885. was die
charged December 2ist pt san Fran
cisco. one company OF the Second
United states volunteer engineers,
made up largely OF Utah men, was
mustered In July OH, and dis
churrcd January s. 1899, ana now bat
tcrira a and -. Utah light artillery,
received into the service OF the Huy-
eminent ON the gth Of May, 1895, and
having spent more than year iu
tho Philippine Islands, are upon The sea
~.
They are TO be mustered out ln san
Francisco upon their arrival, and this
will presumably occur within month.
ut Do hitting that the state, which
offered no many OF its sons 10 the
cause on humanity aud patriotism,
should celebrate appropriately their roe
tutn.
'Whothcr IN the hot shock Of battle
or in urduoua patrol duty within our
Republic or 10 camp hourly awaiting
the order 10 embark Tor foreign lands,
their work has been Wdl done, To
batteries a and 10 especially, whom the
fortune of war east into the thick N
the nght, should our gratitude ana our
pride hn made manifest Their splon-
ana vnlor has won for them md Tor
their stntc q fame That has girilcd the
world Thpy boar the palm OF victory
from half hundred hltllcilelds Their
bright young lives have been oicrcd
time md again in drigure OF tho Tag.
They hnvn endured suffering gud sac
rlnCe under q tropic sun ana against
the barhar0ua Foe They come bringing
20 us tho1p reminders uf the tented
fold, weary aud Worn with hardship
and fatigue but bearing hravcly alott
the guidOuB we gave them unsullled by
dlnhouor or defeat. AZ we have SYM
puthlzo1 iu their gunrrlugH, 80 have
we glohed ln thciF achievements, The
terms are fuuEht with q new affection
when wo hail them 1913 our brothers and
our SONS,
- precious few OF our brave yolun-
taorH win not return with the others,
They lir burlel lu that Ear Of land,
mnrtyrH 90 their Country'H cause, A
generous government promises aa soon
as possible such poor comfort 90 the
loved ones Of their departed heroes aa
may be derived from the return OF
their mortal remains for more hitting
resting place beneath the soil OF their
native land.
"rhe Legislature OF the State. In re-