Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1894-11-14 | Page 5 | Paying the Soldiers

rayiiipr the Soldiers Major Robinson paymaster of the department of Colorado United States army arrived in the city yesterday and during the afternoon paid off the garrison at Fort Douglas Soon after his arrival at the post the major drove down to the Deseret National bank and there drew the sum of 12000 which represented the aggregate amount of the pay rolls for the month of October As is always the case after the monthly month-ly distributions of compensations the city was last night filled with soldiers bent on having a great time of it The result was that the saloons and other resorts scooped in the greater portion of many 13