| Show THE TROOPERS RETURN Ii II i I I Fifty embers 0f Captain Caines Command Arrive Home I 4 GIVEN A ROYAL WELCOME t llIUNDREDS AT THE DEPOT T GREET TEEt J30ys Disappointed at Not Being Sentto the Front But Remained Cheerfully In the Servi Until Honorably Mustered OutCaptnih Caine Talks of Troops Experience i + I i kbout fifty members of troop A Utah I cavalry arrived in the city yesterday 1 and hundreds of peope met them atl the Rio Grande Western depot and 1 cheered and kissed th < returning boys in blue It was a spontaneous welcome II such as soldiers might receIve who had seen servIce on the battlefield and the 1 t and not one of the boys regretted the experience Tbegenerai impression seenis to be that thIs was a sort of a picni as it were but as a matter of fact we had much work to do and if you please members of the troop often took their life into their hands The country is wonderfully rough and the boys often passed over trails where a misstep would have sent them several thousand feet into the abysses below One incident inci-dent of the hardships occasionally endured en-dured is furnished by Lieutenant Kim balls party A miner came to our camp and reported that about 100 Indians had gone on the rampage and were threatenIng a mining community with destruction I dId not place much reli anee in the report and upon question lng our Informant closely he reduced the number of redskins to twentyfive This man had often acted as guide for our scouting parties and feeling that we were under some obligations to him on that account and also partly because be-cause I considered him quIte reliable I detailed Lieutenant Kimball and four men tQ repulse the attacking Indians The party had a very rough time of it being caught In a snowstorm and coin pelled to ford the San JoaquIn river Over trails almost impassable they finally arrived in camp and we were glad to see them But after all we enjoyed our stay in the park I did not nave the opportunity oppor-tunity many of the boys had because duties at headquarters kept me busy but the mountain all was bracing and after all we returned to the PresidIo + + + 47 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ± + I f + + 4 Y 110 I t i Hilt Wt u + H I + cg11 I I + iI i t B y + JLwx 9 4 7 7 I I 7V L 1 J 1 i = Z w 11 4 SOE AT PHL RIO GRANDP WESTEB DEPOP YESTERDAY MOl + 4 4 + + + + + + + + + 4 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4 i welcome was all the more compIimen tary because of the fact that troop A was decreed by fate to stay in California Califor-nia It was a tribute to their qualities as true soldiers who always accept the command in good gra e where duty calls True Spanish bullets did not get a chance to whizz about the ears of these boys but it was not their fault Many other regiments from other states who i enlisted hoping to see active service I became discouraged as it were when orders came assigning them to garrison duty at the Presidio but the members of troop A never became discouraged and while disappointed at not being set to the front accepted their assignment as-signment as cheerfully as regulars In the great state of California they won the hearts of everybody and may it be said to their credit that the mem bets of this troop were considered the finest military organization at San Francisco not only because of their I military bearing but on account or their manly conduct That is why j friends relatives and the public in general I gen-eral who have had nothing but com I pliin ntary ports from these boys I were on hand to extend a welcome as enthusiastic and genuine as that tendered ten-dered them when they marched down Main street in response to their coun trys call GLAD TO BE AT HOME The boys themselves were pleased toy to-y get home Peace has been established and they did not enlist for garrison duty There are thousands of others w11o are morE litted for that class of soldiering and Utah boys are fighters And so they felt that when the last t hope of an active campaIgn had vanIshed van-Ished there was no reason why they should not be mustered out and go to their homes the majority to remunerative remunera-tive positions they sacrificed for patriotism I patrI-otism The Rio Gralde Westerns train came in on time and two sleeper carried the I returning troop Ac it showed up at the station the boys peered out through the froststidned windows eagerly I looking for loved ones Not many stayed away for It seemed that all who had friends in the troop were on hand to give the soldiers a hearty welcome wel-come Captain Caine soon made hIs appearance and received a rousing cheer that must have made him feel as if he was the hero of the occasion I andperhaps he was for none has maintained main-tained popularity better than Captain Caine Every member of the troop idolizes him and that is saying 3 good deal Those of the troop who belong at a places south of thIs city went on First Sergeant M ter and acrowd of southern south-ern Utah boys passed on to Richfield A few who did not belong in the city stopped off to spend Christmas while those who reside here went to their respective homes Quartermaster Sergeant Ser-geant Porter had a number of friends at the Kenyon for dinner and everybody every-body else was taken care of by friends and relatives t CAPTAIN CAINE TALKS k Captain Caine was seen at his home shortly after his arrival He looks bet tr than ever and must have gained at least twenty pounds f While we are all glad to get home again h said there is not a mem q j ber of the troop who dId not enjoy the I experience of soldier life Ve were of course much disappointed at not being be-ing sent to Manila at first but after j peace was in prospect and omcers from the Philippines arrived and told us the I I 11ature of the work out there I cannot say w felt < ony When we were called f f to duty at Yosemite park many dId not r te1ish the idea at first but neverthe I p s J We haI a very enjoyable outing with some degree of regret especially after we had a taste of the garrison duty therp The Presidio as you probably prob-ably know is a very large garrison and the boys had to work hard hence it was with a great deal of pleasure I the news was carried to us that we would be mustered out on the 23d I Several members of the troop expressed ex-pressed themselves in the same manner man-ner as their captain of whom they had naught but praise to bestow Not one I of them but would enlist again if duty called and go to the front to fight their countrys battles The roster df this troop of young patriots when they left was as follows CaptainJOseph E Caine First LieutenantBenner X Smith Second LieutenantGordon N Kimball First SergeantJohn Meteor Quartermaster Sergeant Samuel S Porter Sergeants Elliott Kimball J lL Richards Albert W Luff W A Fortesque W D Loveless Ernest De VIgJW R1flIJ A Marsh C Stanley Price Arthur F Conklin Perry R Cotner tfomer Brown H A Atkinson Samuel DalUn CorporaIs C 0 MerrIll Vilford V Young Arthur Dennis jr F K B Ritchie Ives E Cobb Paul Kimball Jarvis C Dowd J H Edwards Roy W Daniel A W Lee Frank M Eldredge John B Wheeling Wllliam B Dods Walter S Clawson P J Fairclough Alex Colbath Rupert A Dunford Farriers Walter F Gannon fr i E C Wright James W Estes I Louis Smith W R Greenwood Musicians Ellis C Freed John C Crawford Frank Harkness O O Butcher V H Gardner Saddler Abner B Harris James Payne Martin Lund Wagoner Arthur L Miller Marion Grundy Fred H May Privates Leroy Nelson VlIllam P Adams George C Morrioon loron E Trevorq c B Neugebauer illlam Barnett Charles A Nielsen D W Whiting George 11 Page Oscar H Breinholt George E Paget Joseph Voodford Clem V Porter Joel T Brown Christian Peterson A W Andrews Ray R Pratt E J Cavanaugh LouIs Schoppe Arthur L Brattain Fred E Racker George P Hansen William J Stevens Roger C Kanters Garry 11 Searle Robert L Hodgert George L Weller Jefferson F HowcllPaul S Jenst ltalph IrvIne Kleber Worle Greeley C Ladd 1m H 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