Show CORRESPONDENCE WITH ITH WAR WA DEPT Efforts of M M A to Have Body of Troops Trans Transferred Transfer forred fer red to Post Posta a J THE EXCURSION TO MANTI I nil M for fill 01 Ilio 1110 I 10 anil Tilli III l Ou au Smoothly The of ot the Manufacturers Manufacturer and Merchants association of Utah to In Induce Induce n duce duco the war department d to transfer a large body of ot troops to Fort DOUR Douglas is isto to 11 t take tako the places of ot those troops o eI o transferred to tu other posts In tho Iho ja last t few rew weeks 01 or that will march during the present month monti hag bas ha resulted in further correspondence with thu of ot the department at of Col CoI oI at It Denver lInver The following t letter lell r wan wai received by h Manager Gordon H If Place of tho Iho as aA association this morning from Crom T r K F I Da Davis DaIs vis Is military secretory of the depart department ment merit headquarters i II TT 11 en I 1 left l I tl 1 this thin data to tolI lI command of or the department of or Texas Texo and hence cannot take lake action officially on your communication of the Iho th Ith 1 lh Insl relative to having K Karrl garri garrison son Bon of ot Fort I ort Douglas Utah Increased cd Prior t to 10 leaving leavinS he ho directed me toe to If any ty that the tile new nel commander of or this thiM de tie department Colonel H B C Lackwood Infantry would ho h here herc from rota Fort Kort Douglas D In It u fuw uv tia the matter will be ba placed before him tar for action One regiment re of Infantry two bat batteries teries Held neld having ben been with withdrawn drawn 1111 from service In this military de ile department there them Is i plenty of I room now at itt Fort Tort Douglas DouRlas Utah and Ind Logan LaRun Colo oto to 10 accommodate at least a 11 legU regi nant m nl It II IM hi II not likely that artillery ry may nitty be assigned again to 10 Fort Kort I ort Douglas at lit least not noon oon anti and no an Is III held out for tor Increase of ot In this department nt In III the near future dua iU to absence of troops from the United States Colonel Lock Lockwood wood can call however make ma ke recommendations In this matter when hen he comet over from Fort Douglas Douga MANTI S The arrangements arrangement for the excursion to be given next week eek to Mantl tire being rapidly perfected Acceptances to to the Invitations sent out ewt recently from headquarters headquarter to the officials of ot the he state linte county and city are arc coming In dally daIly Governor Cutler CUller has signified his hIM Intention of ot going on the trip If he ho can cnn so o arrange his hili busi bud business ness affairs Several other tuto haVe done likewise All of at the county commission will attend and Mayor Thompson has hall Muted that be he h will wilt go and help hell tho the tooter booster A t number of or the tho members of the city council will make muke io te trip And every ewry Indication points to 10 u ti gigantic sue Sill success cess The Thu he executive committee of ot the neo nation has hall closed the th contract for serving servin ing in a light lunch on tho the train The Theof cit lIt of ot this lunch Is la limited lIed to 10 twenty live five cents Tho The Commercial C club has ha fixed n II limit of or fifty cents on the cost coal of at meals tn to bo lo furnished nt n t Mantl Menti during the stay tay of ot the organization tion there Assurances have been he ell received by lJ Manager Place that larise numbers of oC business men from Davis county Mur Murray ray lay B and Handy Sand anti other points would tako take the trip trill accompanied panted by h their The tact fact that S the sl teis mothers mol hers anti and daugh dough daughters of the boosters are Invited to 10 participate In the tho excursion ex will viiI at attract tract a Urge large number of persons who would not nol otherwise participate In the trip tnt STAY TO HI BI S Arrangements Arrangement were ere perfected yester yesterday osler day cla by hy Manager Place to 10 extend the tile stay tB In Ml Mt 11 Pleasant and from twenty and thirty ruin min minutes utes to 10 minutes In III each ech place The Th association aS rs O south West Vet Temple street treet where the sale Male of ot ticket tickets haw hus ha commenced Is del 1111 deluged with Inquiries concerning tho the details 1 of tho the trip tnt More dore Ion than ono one oneS S hundred tickets nine have already been dIe dis disposed posed of or William of the lor Tor Jorj j alan ilan boosters club comprising tile the southern part pan of or the tho county took S tickets from troi Manager Place Ilace yesterday slitting Mating that hi Jac h had already from that number of boosters to SQ from that end Cud of the Iho county and that probably on one hundred more would be io In III line lino when the train started A keen rivalry has hall been blen developed between Murray ant and Sandy Sand as U to 10 the tho town which would send the tho greatest number of o on tile the trip and It Is II that Murray will iIi lie be In iii line lino linol l to attempt to 10 double the tue num number her ber of sales Illes made nt It Sandy |