The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-24
JOHN A. RUGAR
DON'T LIKE TRIBUNE
Criticism of the National Guard
and Food Served the
Cause.
HE SERVED FOOD ON
WHICH PRIVATES STARVED
No Doubt He Rode i'm Col. Lund's
Private Car, and Had
the Best.

John A. Rugar is soldier in the
National Guard OF % summers, He
stopped The Tribune going to his ad'
dress at 217 East Fourth South street.
His age would indicate that he had par
ticipated in many encampments He
objects to the criticism OF Col Lund
a member Of the signal corps of the
Utah National Guard. He distributed,
or helped to distribute, the rations
which the Utah National Guard starved
on during the recent encampment. He
probably rode with Col. Lund and the
other officers in private car; hence,
while he lived on the fat of the land,
the private soldiers, who do the real
work in war as we'll as in the encamp-
ments, were trying to find something TO
eat. Here is what he says TO The Tri-
bune:
Pretty Boy Rugar's Letter.
SALT LAKE OITY, Aug, %. 1eo6.-Trib-
Ssending. The Tribune to John 4. RusaS, 2l7
East Fourth South street Your charges
against Col Lund and the Guard In general
are so false that another paper with little
m2r' s2 regard for the 'Teh JoAS T sTaiR &c bet
2I7 Ems; Fourth South street, Salt Lake
City, Utah.
What the Pretty Boy Says.
"1t's all a lille, and th-th-that's s the
r-rreason ] s-s-stopped my sub-ss scrip
tion to to to TO the Tr-r-r-nbun - This
dis]ointed articulation was uttered by
John a. Rugar Of 217 East Fourth
South street yesterday in explanation
of his action in discontinuing The Trl-
bune, because it quoted in a recent is.
sue the remarks of certain members Of
the Utah National Guard describing
their opinions Of Col, Iund.
Mr., Rugar then laboriously proceeded
to relate that he was a member of the
signal corps, which distributed the ra-
tions SO bitterly denounced at the re-
cent encampment in Wyoming.
''The only complaints 1 heard re-
garding the food were from few mem
bers Of the signal corps, and l suppose
the only reason they kicked was be-
cause they were not able to handle the
grub. They. ate half their meals at
the canteen,
"What do you mean by the word
handle9' =" queried the Tribune rep
resentative.
Mr.. Rugar's features began twitch-
ing in preparation for a reply, but the
newspaper man beat him to it.
"Do you mean by the word handle
TO imply that the digestive facilities af
forded by nature to the aforesaid kick
ers were not sufficiently competent or
power ui 10 OI ulSeSl lue dT-
ray of choice and fancy viands fur
nished them on this memorable occa-
sion7n
Was Long Distance From Prvates
9Th -th-that's the very idea,'' re-
piled Mr., Rugar, who then went on to
explain that the signal corps was
camped at some distance from the pri-
Yates, which would make it impossible
for him to hear anything that might
have been said by the soldiers while
they were at their meals.
Mr.. Rugar, who is an old and expe-
rienced soldier Of perhaps % years and
several encampments, intimated that
men should not grid up their loins with
the idea that army life grub is similar
to the food which Lucullus used to fill
himself with, but that all military mon
Of experience made up their minds be-
fore going to camp or war, whichever
the case might be, that they must be
brave IN an epicurean way and put up
with or put down such gastronomic
tasks as were set before them
n. B.-Signal Corps Member Ruear
will buy copy of this mornings Tri-
bune and be surprised when he ascer.
tains that his stop of the paper did
not cause il To 6uSDend Duhli r 70 t5op