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Show CAM MEMBERS ARE MUSTERED BUT Troopers Receive Monthly Pay and Balance Due on Clothing Allowance. More than 2S0 members of the First j squadron of Utah, cavalry became civU-j civU-j ians again yesterday afternoon, when ! the mustering out of federal service was ; completed and the boys were, allowed to return to their homes. Yosterday was also pay day for the boys, and in addition to their monthly pay they were tfiven the balance due them on their initial ini-tial clothing allowance. The Ogden boys, comprising troop B, left Salt Lake by train yesterday morning morn-ing at 8:3t o'clock for ttoy, where they disembarked and marched on horseback to Offden, whero they participated in the parade arranged in their honor. As tho troop is allowed only thirty-two horses, fort' were borrowed from troops A and C, and were shipped back after the parade. pa-rade. Troop D shipped its horses sonth to Manti Thursday night in order that the mounts be ready lor the troopers ou their arrival. The members of the troop left the city at 8:15 o'clock yesterday morning" in a special car attached to the regular train, and arrived home at 1:30. A and C, the Salt Lake troops, busied themselves during the morning transferring trans-ferring equipment from the fort to the Pier pout street armory, where it was j stored away. The motor truck donated by Salt Lako citizens to the boys when they left for the border was used in moving the equipment. Captain J. C. French of the Seventh I infantry, TJ. S. A., mustered the men out of the federal service. |