Show GIBBS AND ShIITH I Write Frani hlanila and Tell of the Situation Two letters from M nilar under date 0 > Oct 5 were received by a member of The herald staff last night The first is from Ben Smith a member of the hospital corps who enlisted from this place He says he read in the papers that the money collected by the people of this state for the benefit of the volunteers had been distributed h pro rata among the men and his ob l etlt in writing is to inform the ones 1ho donated that up to this time the members of the hospital corps have received re-ceived not one cent and they want this fact disspminatctl among these who contributed The second letter is from Lieutenant GIbbs of battery A who writes that disease smallpox etc has brol en out and conditions have come to such a pare that the boys all want to come hVI They claim they enlisted for the titer C111 now there is no war they I du not are to do gwrison duty any longer speciUy in that sort of a till mate Gibbs declares he pension list viii be a hesvy one if the volunteers are not brought home soon There mire 14 cases of smallpox in the division hbspital and more coming All the officers of the battery are fairly well but with the men are anxious to get home Military Jottings Captain Hardin or the Eighteenth infantry in-fantry was taken very ill while travel = ins from San Francisco to Ogden yesterday yes-terday and word was sent here to have the post surgeon meet the officer I at the latter place The captain is returning re-turning from Manila and contemplated a visit to Fort Douglas before going east His complaint is high typhoid fever By order of Major Thompson Dr Niles left last night to met and attend the officer The telegram announcing an-nouncing Captain Hardins illness was sent by E C Baldwin from Terrace Utah 000 1111 George T Odell who for several days has been very uneasy over the absence of news from his son in Puerto Itico was pleasantly surprised yesterday by the receipt of a telegram stating that he had arrived at the Hotel Imperial in New York and that he would at once report to Philadelphia to enter college and finish his four year medical course Young Mr Odell has been honorably discharged from the United States service but is thoroughly thor-oughly enamored of a naval life and it is his intention to reenter the service serv-ice after his graduation JC 0 carload of brand new clothes bedding bed-ding furniture etc arrived from the army supply depot at Denver yesterday yester-day and is being delivered at the post A distribution of the new uniforms took place yesterday and the raw recruits re-cruits who have heretofore appeared in civilians dress came out on parade pa-rade fully attired in their handsome suits of blue Two privates were dishonorably discharged dis-charged from the service this week for most serious offences 0 v 0 There seems to be no truth in the report that company K was ordered to return Adjutant Leitch has received I no word concerning it n 0 0 I The Twentyfourth infantry band I will render the following programme at their concert today at 3 p m Twostep Tennis Fairest of the Fair gavotte Bach Musical Tour Through Europe Conradi The Huguenots selection 1I1eyerbeer Oberon overtureWeber Der Freischutz selectionWeber Star Spangled Banner o 1 > G Corporal Robertson gave a description descrip-tion of the battle or Santiago at the Sugar school ouflding last evening |