| Show ENLISTED AT SEVENTEEN Harry Denson Discharged From the Twelfth Battery Is a Veteran of Two Wars but Cannot Vote There was no happier boy In Salt Lake yesterday than Harry W Den son lie carried In his pocket an honorable hon-orable discharge from the Twelfth bat tory United States artillery was accustoming ac-customing himself to citizens clothes and preparing for a visit to his old home at Elmira N Y which he left nearly four ears ago to light under the flag of his country This veteran of two wars with a Hat of battles on the bade of his discharge several Inches long haa hardly made the acquaintance of a razor would not look out of place In the procession of schoolboya that leave the public schools every afternoon and not until un-til the 27th of May will he be old enough to cast a legal vote Ofllclally Denson Is over 22 years old According to the old family Bible he lacks two months of being 21 I lie entered en-tered the service at the outbreak of the SpanishAmerican war enlisting In I the First Kentucky volunteers Aa he was but 1 17 years of age he was obliged to exaggerate a little but the recruiting recruit-ing officers did not Inquire too closely and he passed with flying colors Ills regiment was ordered to Porto Rico and the boy soldier put In several months with Gen Miles on that Island Isl-and At the end of nine months and twcntyono days he was discharged from the volunteers his regiment being be-ing mustered out This experience but added to young Bensons thirst for a military career and he stepped from the ranks of the citizen soldiery Into the artillery service ser-vice of the regular army Again he was obliged to add a few more years to his age to satisfy the prejudice of the authorities against robbing the cradle Soon after this enlistment his battery was ordered to the Philippines where It ILW some of the hardest service ser-vice In the various campaigns agalnct the Insurrectos Denson according to the Indorsement on the back of his discharge was with Lawton on his southern expedition at the engagement at Guadalopc bridge and ford June 10 I 1SS9 at the battle of Zapote bridge June 13 1S9D at the engagement near Las Marinas June 19 and 20 1809 with Schwaus southern expedition and In the engagement at San Nicholas October Octo-ber 8 1899 In all his three years and nine months and twentyone days of service ser-vice Harry has not been wounded or sick except for a slight attack of ton sllltls at Fort Douglas a month before his discharge Before he enlisted hens he-ns a waiter what he will do after he finishes his visit to his relatives he has not fully decided and It is quite probable that he may reenlist |
