Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1916-07-21
'UTAH'S THIRD UNIT
NOW ON BORDER
SECOND SQUADRON, NEARLY
FOUR HUNDRED STRONG, NOW
DOING PATROL DUTY.
Calls Are Expected Daily From the.
War Department for Third
Squadron Of Cavalry from Utah.
More Men Being Recruited.

Salt Lake City-The third unit OF
Utah's national guard is now doing
patrol duty along the border. The
second squadron of the First cavalry
left Salt Lake on July ID. The sec
ond squadron was accompanied by the
field hospital under command Of
Major John F. Sharp. The second
squadron is commanded by Major w.
b. Wallace. The squadron and field
hospital comprised about $50 officers
and enlisted men.
The staff of Major Wallace as 1t left
for the Mexican border comprised
First Lieutenant Bruce Wedgewood,.
adjutant of the second squadron; Sec.
ond Lieutenant Roy Williams, in
charge of the quartermaster and com.
missary division, and George II.
Payne, sergeant major. The staff Of
Major Sharp of the field hospital con
sists Of Captain George +. Roberts.
Lieutenant A. A. Anderson, Lieuten.
ant f. /. Jansen, Lieutenant Paul In
gebretsen and Lieutenant Willard
Christopherson.
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bers of his staff, Brigadier General Il.
A. Wedgewood, adjutant general of
Utah, Captain James K. Shelley, U. ).
A., instructor-inspector OF the National
Guard of Utah and Lieutenant Eugene
Santschi. mastering officer of the ma.
.ional guard, were present at the en-.
rainment. They complimented the
tnh xx,itk NIL tho Cannnh
squadron and the field hospital trans
erred their equipment to the railway
cars.
The Utah boys reached Nogales,
Ariz., Sunday afternoon.
1t is admitted from the office of the
idjutant general that calls are expect
I'd daily from the war department at
Washington for third squadron Of
oavalry from Utah. Captain Thomas
Brady of Manti is now alone on the
mastering ground at Fort Douglas
with troop /, which will form the first
unit of the proposed third squadron.
Future mastering of men for the
national guard will be performed un-
der the direction of Captain w. b.
elliott, commandant of Fort Douglas,
which has been designated as ma
tional guard mastering camp for ma
tional guard organizations in the inter-
mountain west.
David r. Thomas, a high school stu
dent of Ogden, applied for enlistment
in the United States navy, but found
that his hammer toe barred him.
Young Thomas promptly went to
the hospital and suffered the amputa'
ton at the first Joint of the bother.
some toe, reported again for physi'
cal examination and was accepted.
Sergeant Frank N. Schwab, troop F.
Utah cavalry, was unable to go to the
border few days before theetaoihr
much to his disappointment. He fell
few days before the cavalrymen left
for the border with the result that
he sustained an internal rupture by
the reopening of an old appendicitis
wound. Another operation may be
necessary.
Marshall b. Allen of Wellsville,
member of troop II. Second squadron,
Utah cavalry, left for the Mexican
border without his bride OF the day
before. On Wednesday night young
Allen was married TO Eva J. Johnson
of Bancroft, Idaho. at the Kenyon
hotel, with none but the parents OF
the young couple being any the wiser.
Leonard A. Peterson, % years old,
of Mount Pleasant. a private Of the
First Utah cavalry, is in dangerous
condition at the county hospital at.
San Bernardino, Cal, suffering from
transverse myselitis, a serious disease
of the spine.
The militiaman was taken from a
troop train as it passed through San
Bernardino, and at first 1t was believ-
ed he had been stricken with infan-
tile paralysis.