The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-27

WARWICK MUST
GO, SAY MEN
Members of D Company Don't
Want Him For Captain.
HIS TENT Is THROWN DOWN
CHARGES AND COUNTER
CHARGES FREELY MADE.
HIS TENT IS THROWN DOWN


II the present Intentions of the mem
bers Of ID company of Salt Lake. \. c.
L. are carried out Captain C. n. War
wick is TO be asked to resign The feel
ing against him is said 20 be due TO his
conduct towards his men at Camp Tim
panogos and his failure 70 make good
certain promises TO his men TO induce
them 10 attend camp.
request for the resignation Of Cap
tain Warwick was drawn up while the
command was stin in camp. but it was
not circulated for the signatures owing
to the fact that II was afterwards decid-
ed that the proper manner 20 secure the
Resignation OF the officer was to have the
company meet, appoint a committee and
nave that body call upon him and ask
lhat he step down and out
captain WarWicks tent was pulled
down Tuesday night 1t is claimed there
was long debate in camp that night
whether TO throw the captain into the
lake or wreck his tent. The latter act
was decided upon. Before 10 was done.
however. two buckets fun OF water were
thrown upon a figure stret ched out upon
the captains cot Captain Warwick de-
Ciared last evening that he was not in
the tent at the time and did not receive
any Of the water. He declares that an
officer from Fort Douglas slept I'm his
tent that night and that as soon as he
reaches the post he will prefer charges
against the guardsmen-
Charges Against Captain Warwick.
The feeling against Captain Warwick
was brought TO a high tension on gov
ernors day through his alleged treat
mcnt Of Acting Corporal Taliaferro. Ac-
cording to the statements of several
guardsmen, the facts in the case are
these:
Captain and Mrs. Warwick and Cor
poral Tahaferro had been friends for
some time. On governors day, while
Mrs Warwick was seated in front of her
husband tent she saw Corporal ITALIA
ferro pass along the company street. She
spoke TO him The corporal entered tho
company Officers lines and took a seat
in front OF Captain Warwicks tent and
talked with the latter's wife
They had not cOnversed long before the
company commander came up and or
dered the corporal off the line. claiming
he was violating rules. As the latter
went towards the company street. he
ruuttere1 some remark Captain War
wick rushed after him and ordered him
placed under arrest. First Sergeant Has
sick said he could not do that. so the
non-com. was placed in his tent under
guard. Before that was done Corporal
TaliaferrO refused TO take off his arm
the insignia Of his rank. as ordered to
do by the company commander.
The matter was Investigated by Lieu
tenant Colonel j. A. Greenewald and Ad
jutant Grow. with the result that Cor
poral TaliaferrO returned to his company
still wearing his stripes.
Captain Warwick said last evening that
he did not command the arrest OF Cor
poral Taliaferro. but simply had him
placed under guard. He denied that he
spoke 90 his subordinate I'm an insulting
manner. as charged He said that when
he went up to his tent he found the mon
com" there and told him in a most pleas
ant manner that inasmuch as the gov
ernOr and his staff were in an adjoining
tent IL would not be quite the thing for
him to be found on officers row. and
asked him TO leave, Thereupon Corporal
Taliaferro got up and. as he went away.
made some inaudiDle remark about some
one OF two officers which demanded an
apology: that he demanded a retraction
and placed him IN his tent under guard.
Hazing Decided Upon.
Prior 60 that incident. it had been ru-
mored around camp that Captain War
wick had made the assertion that his
company. composed largely Of CONNER
Cial club men. was too good to associate
with the members of the other COM
mands, both regulars and guardsmen.
other alleged acts on his part made Cap
tain Warwick rather unpopular with the
other officers in the camp. After the
Corporal Taiiaferro affair, IL was decided
TO haze the commander Of ID company.
The captain claims that az the time OF
the hazing. or sometime during the night.
his watch. pipe. saber and a lot of liquor
we're stOica. The next morning he found
his saber near the flag staff The pipe
and watch are still missing. besides a
number OF other things which he had on
his table the night that his tent was torn
down.
Corporal Talaferro. who Is dentist
with apartments on South Main street.
just above Third South street. is confined
10 his bed. He is suffering from kidney
trouble He was unable to march from
the camp into Provo
To Ask For Resignation.
, Shortly after the company. began its
march he fell out Of ranks. which Captain
Warwick SAYS ne gave him permission to
do. and getting lift from a farmer, rode
with him until he overlook the wagon the
company had hired to take its blankets
and equipment into Provo. BY the time
ne reached the city his condition was sucn
that he had to he taken to the Roberts
hotel. where Major Benedict and the
members Of the hospital corps attended
him. and brought him into Salt Lake
City.
The condition OF Corporal Taliaferro
last night was such that IL was impos-
Eible to secure a statement from him con-
corning his difficulty with Captain War
wick A member of d company stated last
evening:
1T is our intention to ask the captain
members of the company will step down
and out. He got a lot OF us TO go to
camp by telling us that we would not
have to drill except upon certain occa-
sions. His treatment OF the men is not
according 70 their liking He is a man
OF many promises as regards the COM
pany. which he seldom keeps. and they
are getting tired of 10. IL 7 had known
then what 7 do now. I never would have
Joined the guard. and there are others
in the company who can testify to the