Show THE MILITARY r CITY q 1 1I I A Government Mule Insists on i i I Sfkking Hands I SOLDIERS BUYING REAL ESTATE i t General CourtMartial Reward Offered f for the Baseball Clnb The Post Canteen Can-teen The Rifle Competition Private George McIntyre met with quite a painful accident on Sunday morning last t It seems he was investigating that most I I curious of all animals the mule when that pet creature shook haudswith him rather I I unexpectedly Hp is as yet unable to navigate navi-gate Our friend Charlie Taylor recently discharged dis-charged oy special order visited the post t Sunday He reports himself much satisfied i I I with Salt Lake and is doing well at his trade that of a blacksmith I I Strange things happen sometimes and it seems that new ideas are promulgated with new officials TUB SUNDAY HERALD failed I to connect with the post mail on that morning morn-ing We have heretofore received that journal regularly every morning The fault must lay with the postal authorities for wo I ascertained to our satisfaction that THE HERALD was posted due time to have been distributed Regimental Color Sergeant Hallar who isalso acting as post provost is entitled to II much credit for the manner in which he is having the drives and walks around our little lit-tle city repaired and otherwise ornamented orna-mented UV in Sundays HERALD says that LieutenantBlake and family are soon to leave for the Presidio of San Francisco It should have read Lieutenant Blunt Fifth artillery The lieutenant is the son of our coloneL Hot hotter hottest and if the language would stand it we could say most hottest hot-test as regards the weather here at present r pres-ent Musician Lynott company G Sixteenth infantry who challenged Frank Fitzgerald to fight to a finish and to back his challenge chal-lenge made a deposit of 50 in hard cash asks us to state that Fitzgerald wants him to light at 140 pounds which is impossible i for Lynott as he cannot reduce himself to that weight Lyuott now weighs 104 pounds and says ho will fight at between 145 and 150 probably 147 pounds If Frank Fitzgerald wants to test his strength with Lynott he can easily do so but his excuse of not wanting to fight at a weight over 140 pounds when he knows Lynott cannot reduce re-duce to that shows he would rather not try him We say upon Lynotts authority that he will fight him at a weight between 145 and 150 pounds The band did better on Sunday afternoon at their open air concert than ever before We congratulate each member for his determination de-termination to give us the choicest and best rendered of arias The leader Prof Feus sel and Chief Musician Keating are among the best musical performers in the army Quite a few civilians visited the post on Sunday and were we in better connection with Salt Lake city no doubt many more would come who do not feel able to hire livery rigs Hurry up that electric road Three of our boys sufferirjf from that painful disease rheumatism are sent to Becks Hot springs three times a week WP sincerely trust the waters will eventually even-tually cure them Having once been a sufferer from the same complaint Fritz knows how to sympathize with them The new officers club room which was opened on the 1st has been furnished elegantly ele-gantly It is a cozy place and is a credit to its promoters and an ornament to the post Rumor has it that we will shoulder our pack saddles and tramp towards Pa son on the Sth proximo This is not official but is generally accepted as the date of our departure The official programme of the tenth annual an-nual rifle competition of the department of the Platte for August to take place at Bellevue rille range Nebraska is received i at this post Among the officers of the Sixteenth detailed on special duty during dur-ing the competition we note the names of First Lieutenant Richard R Steedman as commissary of subsistence First Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Charles R Tyler and Second Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Maury Nichols as range officers The competitors will report July 2tj The preliminary practice for rifle and carbine regulars will occupy July 31 August 1 and 2 when the competition will commence on August 4 continuing for four consecutive days There will be a presentation of medals after the afternoon after-noon firings Quite a number of enlisted men have made real estate purchases in and around Salt Lake on the instalment plan recently This is a good idea The property will steadily increase in value and to our mind it is a far better way of depositing thanby putting money in the bank at 5 or G percent per-cent per annum Our post canteen beside carrying an extremely ex-tremely large stock of light wines beer and cigars has almost all the little necessaries neces-saries required by the soldier Everything Every-thing is sold at a small margin In connection con-nection with the canteen is a well appointed restuarant where the hungry among us cart purchase edibles at an extremely low figure Just think of it ham eggs bread butter and coffee all for 10 cents All honor is due Lieutenant Johnson jr the officer in charge whilst praise unlimited is accorded ac-corded Sergeant Joe Bowers and his efficient aides for their promptness in serving ser-ving all who visit that popular army institution insti-tution f It should be a source of much gratification gratifica-tion to the residents of Fort Douglas to realize that we possess a most efficient staff of surgeons hospital stewards and hospital corps Three more enlisted men have subscribed sub-scribed since last report Come on boys you wont miss the money and you will receive re-ceive a paper worth many times the cost of subscription What has become of our baseball club We have noticed bats balls and other articles used in the national game wandering wander-ing around different times Wake up boys organize and our word for it you can put man y a professional in the background back-ground We have expert players here and withal the game of baseball has a tendency to develop and strengthen the participants E companys genial commander Captain Ward Sixteenth infantry was officer of The day on Monday the 14th instant with First Lieutenant Warren H Cowles Sixteenth Six-teenth infantry as officer of the guard Professor Keillor informs us that he ha ordered two special scenes to be prepared for the forthcoming sensational drama Oliver Twist Musician Frank Laurence Company E Sixteenth infantry left on to day for Fort Omaha he having been detailed as range trumpeter at the approaching rifle contest at Believue range Nebraska Our post printer is thorough in his knowledge of the art preservative as is easily evinced bj his tasty roster of the noncommissioned officers of the regiment Too much credit cannot be given Mr Lee for his untiring energy and exceedingly good taste in doing the printing the post His work room is a complete job office in itself it-self A general court martial was convened at this post on Monday afternoon to try such parties as may bd brought before it Corporal Roula and Private Eugene Mr Donald of B Co Sixteenth infantry spent two days fishing in East canon about twenty o miles from the post on thee the-e Park City road riley caught about hOt hO-t rout bringing homfc forty fine seer itaras j They met thirty or moi wairons loaded to j their rtmost capacity with disciples of hank Walton fully prepared to wage war on tbe liimy tribe Utahs streams arc just brimful of ffsi just now Private Thoiuus Fletcher company E Sixteenth infantry is discharged from the service by special order It Is thought a building to be used as i post canned will be erected very shortly There wasau appropriation of JOIOJ for that purpose and our share will bc ample to put up a very cozy edifice > 1 Election day was a quiet one at the post Ihe boys not on duty and entHlefl to the < < 1 right of suffrage very generally voted Our allegiance as a soldier is due direct to the national government with no desire to mix or meddle in squabbles political yet we are not in the least lotli to use our suffrage against those who smile on us to get our vote and afterward treat us with contempt The cry Soldier will you work is only the maniacal utterance of men of ignorance igno-rance and whilst we pay no attention to such our sympathies go out for those who thus malign us realizing that they axe the lost portions of the missing link of the celebrated I cel-ebrated Darwinian theory and to them the name man is undoubtedly a misnomer misno-mer Fnm I I July 15 I860 |