Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-08-20 | Page 1 | Will Fight Today for Possession of Golden Gate City

WILL FIGHT TODAY OF GOLDEN GATE CITY Webb jn n Command Special to Thc Republican nul ald Morgan Hlll Cal Aug AuS' l 19 lAter After Ater a forced march rom GUroy GUro the Red Hed arm army flanked Ute tile Blues out of oC position post post- Lion tion on l Morgan J Hill m. m The The Ut Utah h signal corps corp Is In constant service Tho The ba battery was not used today Captain William C. C Webb Welb Is in command com corn mand of ot all Red artillery Both Doth armies are sleeping on their arms tonight ht Tho decisive battle battlo will take tako place tomorrow after which the bo boys bos s 's will entrain f for r San Fran Fran- cisco FRANCISCO CISCO Aug A. 19 Barely 19 Barely I S SAN SA six ix m miles s' s part apart g glimmering camp campfires campfires fires marl mark tonight tT o encamped forces of oC Ufo tho red ana anil nd blue armies which tomorrow wW battle tHo for the tho possession of or c The rc fight is to be bo directed on one sideby n nn n b a a teg ular army officer on th the tho other b by bytho tho of t the tho o national Suar guard of ot California Tho Tilo Invaders designated the red army at tl the he heat hea r of which is Brigadier Brigadier Briga Briga- dier Iller General of or the state stale militia represent a foreign foe roc which has landed transports in Monterey bar bal baThis This army which 1 13 Is c cd of the Iio majority majority ma ma- ma- ma of oC the California guar guard and und a a portion of oC tho Utah mIlitia with field artillery h has s matched north to to toMor Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- gan ban lull hill ono seventy miles souti of Continued T oh Page Je 2 Column C G G. G WILL FIGHT Nun I TODAY FOR GOLDEN GATE Continued From Pago Page 1 San Francisco Its purpose Is to capture capture cap cap- ture tUle San Francisco and permit Us its it fleet to enter the bay To check the advance of oC the thc reds the tho war department mobilized a a. a force at the Presidio here known kno as tho the blue m at-m army and dispatched it south un under tinder er ertho tho the command of or Colonel Cornelius Gardener The Tue majority of or Colonel Colonni Gardeners Gardener's men are regulars His Ills force torce Includes a 1 body bod of Utah militia Tho The program for tomorrows tomorrow's battle has been laid out by tho goner general 1 staff stoff of or tho the war college conego The Tite armies s aro of or about equal strength h n numbering in all aU alla aUa a little more than men J lypo- however will be en en- en gag