The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-18
TROOPS ARRIVE
IN SALT LAKE
Fifteenth Infantry Reaches
Fort Douglas After 43 Days
Trip From Philippines.
MARCH TO POST TODAY
BATTALION OF TWENTY-FIRsT
RETURNS TO DENVER.

After forty-three days of travel by
land and sea- the Fifteenth regiment of
United States infantry has returned
from the Philippines and arrived in
Salt Lake. The special trains convey
ing the troops reached Salt Lake last
night The first section. carrying the
Second battalion of the regiment,
reached the city at 5:25 o'clock In the
evening. Toe troops from this train
marched at once to Fort Douglas. The
second section, in command OF Lieuten-
| ant Colonel Arthur Williams, reached
salt Lake at 11:25 o'clock last night,
and the last section, carrying the head
quarters detail, with Colonel Walter s.
Scott in command, reached the city at
1880 o'clock this morning. The troops
on the last two sections remained on
the trains all night, and viii march TO
| the fort early this morning. The total
number in the regiment is 675 enlisted
men and thirty-eight officers
! The Fifteenth infantry is returning
from two years of active field work in
the Philippines. During the time that
the regiment was in the islands it was
stationed at Camp Keithley, in the
heart of the Moro district, one of the
most hostile sections Of the district.
The camp takes It name from a SER
geant who was attacked and cut to
pieces at this place several years ago
by a band of bOlo men.
Active Field Duty.
While at this camp the soldiers were
kept busy suppressing minor upris-
ings. The natives in this district have
a sulien hatred for the United States
troops. and are continually endeavoT-
ing to make trouble for them. They
are for the most part u semi-savage
state and JesirGus of harassing the
regular troops as much as possible. At
the camp a double sentry duty is al
ways kept. the first sentry armed with
a pump shotgun loaded with buck
shot, and the other with d rifle Aside
from few slight brushes with the ma
tives the Fifteenth did not experience
any serious trouble, owing TO the con-
slant precautions of the commanding
officers.
Before leaving the islands the regi-
ment was relieved from its somewhat
perilous duty by the Seventeenth in
fantry The Twelty-ninth infantry
which left Fort Douglas last summer
for the Philippines, is stationed at Camp
Mckinley in Manila. The troops ar
/; rived in San Francisco Friday even
ing, and left Sunday night for Salt
Lake. Before leaving the Preside the
men. were given their new olive-drab
uniforms and OvercOats to replace the
light khaki which they had used in
the Philippines. The transition from
the tropics of the Orient to the freez-
ing temperature of Salt Lake was
much of a change for the men, and the
chilly atmosphere caused them to
SILVER even with their heavy uniforms
when they alighted from the train lat
night in Salt Lake.
Marched to Fort Douglas.
On the way from ogden to Salt Lake
the men on the first section were given
| their evening mess. At Salt Lake
Major Willis T. May, commanding the
First battalion, ordered the men TO
form in marching order, and within
twenty minutes the 200 men in the
command were swinging out Brigham
street to Fort Douglas. Everything
moved with clock-like precision. The
| companies were assembled in front OF
the cars, guard was mounted on the
freight cars containing the baggage,
, which will not be unlOaded until this
, morning, the company commanders
made their reports and the order to
, march was given.
In the Second battalion, which ar
rived first, are company E. with First
Lieutenant Wilbur A. Mcdaniel in
command; company T, commanded by
r Captain Edgar c. COnley; company G.
J commanded by First Lieutenant Guy
z. BucIer, and company Fl, command
. ed by First Lieutenant Clark Re- FL
, lott First Lieutenant A. Owen Sea-
man is battalion adjutant and Second
/ Lieutenant Charles L. Sampson is
] Quartermaster.
An Officer of Note.
: OF the United States army officers,
: one of the best known is Colonel Wal
ter S. Scott. Tegimental commander OF
! the Fifteenth infantry. He was made
: colonel of the Fifteenth just prior to
the departure of that regiment from
2 Monterey to the Philippines two years
, ago. Colonel Scott served during the
t Spanish war as a captain in the Twen-
ty-ffth infantry (colorcd), which was
IN the thickest of the fighting through
out the war.
: Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Williams.
C who will be second in command at
f Fort Douglas is an old army officer
who has seen service in several Tegi-
, ments of the regular army. Major VIII
/ i lis T. May, in command of the Second
e battalion of the Fifteenth, was lieu
I tenant colonel Of the One Hundred and
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