Show TO MUSTER OUT ROUGH RIDERS the second united states volunteer iry is to be mustered out of ser without delay such is the in aaion that came to governor wells r t e evening mg in the following dispatch colonel cannon i fl panama park fla oct 11 1898 p m 4 meo vernor heber M wells salt lake city utah colonel torrey just telegraphed me arom rom washington that our regiment av ua be mustered out here the men re citing r travel pay JOHN Q CANNON lieutenant colonel i 1 washington oct 11 secretary alger aday decided to muster out the second shifted ted states volunteer cavalry other jue affe known as Torr bys rouan riders IM fie order will probably be issued in 9 a ataw w days to take effect at once the aftan will be mustered out in jackson cgue 4 e and most of them will return at 1 to their thedr homes in the rocky moun wn ln country A tribune special says that col J L torrey arrey commanding the regiment has sen in washington for several days t endeavoring to secure the discharge vl of the sick men in the regiment aad zid such birch others as having families dependent I upon them desired to return 30 their homes now that the war is end fl L col torrey proposed to the war apartment that to fill vacancies thus udde recruits should be brought in from om the states from which the regi faint was originally recruited or the department A deeming this inadvisable abe regIme regiment ut was ready to obey orders id the wax war department whatever they ak be and to remain in the service As long as was deemed advisable i t the secre secretary war atter after con ti Oe erias ring the matter for twenty four urs gave his decision that the in tec ests of the service would be best A served by the mustering out of cut the J e regiment his reasons are that it has been de ded to muster out all the volunteer ry first on an the ground of the ex ige of maintaining as abor for garrison purposes that the A vt and third had haa already been 2 stored e red out gut and that the second I 1 been retained so long as they had hauae there seemed a possibility that ir r services might be needed he ee spoke of the fact that a large lumber ber of the regiment whose excel ft edt personnel la Is well known at the deoc ar r department are either eather family or yang ung men students and recently ed in the diversified diver sifted ed interests of west and hi felt it would be more the interests of the section from ch i they came and to the govern t that they shou should id remain in the lay in which they were engaged to their patriotic response to the the use baa so rae from the railroad accident which for so BO long a time lost to him the use lise of his foot that he is able to walk without crutches or a cane and while not quite as good as new has been in condition to command his regiment in the saddle and to the casual observer would not appear as having suffered any accident a he said last night there la is no better regiment in the service than mine and none in camp at jacksonville which has a finer record for admirable discipline and soldierly qualities quail ties on our trip to jacksonville no guard was placed over any of the men not a soldier disgraced himself or his command or deserted and since our arrival in camp the regiment has been unknown to the police in the city they are a splendid sturdy patriotic aggregation of western manhood only desiring to know what orders are and then obeying them like soldiers we were naturally greatly disappointed at not having an opportunity to engage in the santiago campaign but we have done our duty where we have not asked to be mustered out we have only asked what the government desires of us in the way of service gen alger said to me when I 1 saw him Yost yesterday erday that he had heard nothing but word of praise from the second united states volunteer cavalry that was a compliment t which my officers and men will appreciate colonel torrey said that while there was considerable sickness in the regiment it was chiefly due dike to the infection of typhoid froma from a southern regiment adjoining his own regiment had most carefully complied with every sanitary sani tary regulation each troop having officer look after a commissioned noncommissioned non to its sinks and policing under the troop commanders and the commanding of officers flers having every day made personal inspection of the sanitary arrangements range ments he spoke in the highest terms of col coi cannon who commanded the regiment during his illness and of capt shoup recently promoted from lieutenant and who at the time of the organization of the regiment w wis ks tendered and declined a majority on the ground that he desired to win his spurs |