The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-21
DEATH OF JOHN B. ROGERS
STRICKEN BY DYSENTERY
WHILE IN CHINA.
Well Known Salt Laker Who Served
With Utah Batteries-Majo r SEQ
fields Letter.

Alexander Rogers of this city has re-
ceived a letter from Major w B. SEQ
field, United States paymaster at Ma
Mia, containing the sad announcement
of the death of his son, John b. Rogers,
which occurred at Tien Tsin. China, on
Sept. 20. Deceased was a we'll known
and popular young Salt Laker, having
been born and raised in this city. 1t
was due to his energy that the Grand
theatre was completed and he was its
first manager. When the Spanish war
broke out he enlisted with the Utah
batteries, and upon being mustered
out with the Utah volunteers he be-
came PaymasteT ScOfield's clerk. He
was 80 years of age at the time of his
death. The body viii probably be
brought home Cor interment.
Mr. and Mrs. Rogers are Frustrated
by the news of their sons death. and
their sorrow is shared by the young
mans multitude of friends in this city
Major Scohelds letter follows:
TOngku, China, Oct. g. 1905
Dear Sir-It is my painful duty to
inform you of the death of your son,
John 3. Rogers, on the night Of Sept
Is, 1900, at the United States general
hospital at Tien Tsin, China, of acute
dysentery.
We left Manila on Aug. 81, under
orders TO pay the troops in General
Chaffee's army, and arrived in China
Sept. Z. When we left Manila John
was in perfect health and good spirits
at being one Of those chosen for this
detail, and all went well until a day
or two before our arrival, when he
complained Of a slight feeling of dis
comfort in the region of the reCtum.
He attached little importance to it.
and, indeed, seemed to have entirely
recovered before We reached Tien Tsin
While there it returned so bad that I
was obliged to go to Pekin without
him, leaving MIN in the hospital at
Tien Tsin. The surgeon there DrO-
nounced II dySentery, but said it was
apparently very slight case and a
rest of a week or ten days would prob
ably bring him around all right. About
q week later I was advised of his
death. His remains are buried in the
British cemetery at Tien TSin with all
the usual arran gements for identifica-
ton, etc.
Il have in my possession his watch
revolver and a few trinkets he was car
rying with him in the expectation of
going from here to the United States
In one of my boxes in Manila. are his
discharge papers from the Utah artil-
Iery, and ] believe some other papers.
all of which I viii forward TO you at
the first opportunity. he had in his
pocket a, small sum of money, barely
sufficient to pay his expenses. His
clothing was of no value, as. in the
expectation of a speedy return to the
United States, he had, like myself, al
lowed his wardrobe to run down to the
lowest possible point.
'vHhere IS Pay due him from Sept 1
to 2S and mileage from Manila to Tien
Tsin, for which win send you vouch-
ers on my return 10 Manila the latter
part of the present month.
John Rogers had been my clerk for
over q year and half and our reIa-
tions had been of the pleasantest ma
ture. The relations between the pay
master and his clerk are necessarily
close. and in this case they had become
particularly So
In the death of your son lose not
only a valuable assistant, but q warm