The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-22
ROI ROAST
|FOR COL. LUND
cruelty. and Mismanage-
Charged in Connection
With Encampment.
n ARRAIGNMENT
|0F METHODS EMPLOYED
Guard Boys Shameful
treated, According to
Their Stories.

rn,slty, mismanagement and
- are the charges made
c5Scers of the Utah National
! private II. o. Smith of COM
Nc. u, in his description
ibune representative Of the
K he and his comrades received
N rscent maneuvers near Fort
ursell, in Wyoming.
ia frst,H said Mr.. Smith,
management and carelessness
1ns details were evident. To
I'm we were made to report
|5ort Line station in this city
>Iock on the morning of the
Il was well into the afternoon
n train pulled out, the tedious
Ling accustomed by loading
Wien Government troops are
they are supposed to be af~
surist sleeping cars, but on the
ke camp we were quartered in
.rs. where three men were
% rest in two seats, and COM
ordinary day coaches were
Tor rs.
sen here and Ogden another
vas loaded on our train, and
we're not nearly enough cars
the Salt Lake boys were
1ive up their seats to the new
0f course we resented this, and
of Of argument were permitted
bur places. There was so much
In the train, caused by lack Of
Recommendations, that we tele-
10 Ogden, stating that If there
suficient cars there TO haul
Etably we would not go to the
Lnmd Is Turned Down.
a lot OF delay and vexation,
ons and other annoyances that
f1ll have been avoided, we
Dale Creek on Sunday night,
~ out and hungry. Col. Lund
10 march us out that night.
Bassett Of our company would
Tor it, and insisted that we
70 rest until the next morn
basselt's argument prevailed,
Tere permitted next morning
on small samples Of hard tack,
'1 and alleged coffee, before
3 twelve-mile march up a
- weather that would roast
<or the first nine miles the
good, but we were forced to
y last three miles over a Jag
the sun IS rays coming down
heat that nearly Frustrated
o. the boys, and no oppor-
Afforded us for rest.
'1'Y} we had a little water in
1na, which perhaps saved us
PuS consequences. On empty
sqdering the pangs of hun
!, neartless march was forced
nd We could not get a bite
y after we had arrived at the
! ny made our camp complete,
ork was finished about )
the afternoon.
ahons Were scant.
: re compelled to maneuver for
: 'ne neat of the broiling mid
sna as soon as we had fin
'eued and overheated, our
4ons were put before us.
4 tee most heartless incidents
feq was in connection with
stion by heat and general
95ustion of the bugler Of our
y 1e fainted on the line one
y and was taken back TO
Government wagon and
\ hospital. In a few hours
4 el put soon after suffered
81 ouu u became so violent that
I sne united strength of five
. I 10 hold him. When he
: 1 hospital he was searched,
: found in his pockets, the
81 WEnn nanoed to the hospital
u c cnns we were arranging TO
4, sunday morning. the doctor
b tn,valid to be carted to the
y ~ f.,on IN a baggage wagon.
d ~ steward and asked him if
8 ,s Z money had been returned d
~ spc steward replied that
- ka sn,y Only been possessed of
o'ul rnlefed the hospital, and
Il ,aan. told Capt. Bassett
8 ID orn'ances, rn and he made the
. up the remaining $40.
y nag Doctor Drunk.
%np doctor was drunk hale
I~ sne sergeant who was act
he ht.iy ty or aide was nearly
sber fS1nd r", IN a similar condi.
O. iInesss s01 /. Lund heard of the
Ss ne eountermanded the
,G|rosJ1 y1lor That he should ride
VA 'Sa Sea station in a baggage
aSl6aI;ts, l6dIhse, gsAere he belonged. ed
s'ity Of food served Ss N wa.
ots III Inc fresh beef was alive
4 SS;. end host of the fruit was WAS
- on5;I iiea with worms. We had
I rHlnn "a after the company had had
n dpn. ror Tour days. There vas
y iof R,,out out it was not issued d
NJ s, bsassett and Lieut., Barnss aJre.,
H. bought s,g food for g, our PIsnrs com'
'0f 1t out of their own
= : Dale Creek at 7.5o = ,o,o,,
3 J! oIs's sso arriving 3 here reO TpesSsK ,eiSsk
II n<t ~ sy%Sura1ey n we were not al. al,
! y est ~ AZ any place the train
~ ara sronsaa nssoaIaething to eat. This
~ iasionsS7 the men that the
~ hevro,nnss nan reached Evanston
,r.p NJ IN Vus tIo rom rom their sleeves anf
~ }or +SSorps, as he is the on,
y Tsfe treated as regards essndsr ri II
''' . huge graft in the Who'll.