Show ROYAL WILCOMf 55 TO IDAHO I BOYS 6 Pocatello Greets Her Heroes I Home From the War r < J < > ENTHUSIASM WAS UP1 1 S S I I I TO HIGHEST PITCH S S > > Decorated i With Badges l By Beauti Y > j f > > flu l Yoriiig Ladies v 4 > 1 I Paraded the Streets i Under a Shower of Howers and at the Opera S Hbuse hei FormalReception I = Took S Place Banquetedi last Night i S The City Oyerdoes Itself In Eos S pitality and Patriotism Going to S Theij Homes + S S 1 Special to ITho Herald Pocatello Ida Sept 29No more I royal wefqomfe has been extended to I any body of troops bmtheir return honie than that given today to the returning members df cornpanies B and G of the 1 First Idaho volunteers who reached 1 home this morning Batter an absence In the Philippines 1 Of sixteen months Other and large communities have done hoijtir to their returning heroes and other placesh 1 + Ve gone crazy with joy over the sight of the faces that have been so JongJ absent but it remained re-mained for Pocatello to exhibit itself l as utterly Incapacitated for any other tom Of dlversion1 amusement or act tiori fharf tel throwherself at the feet r of the boys who have brought so much I hon r to the stateof Idaho and as the people here think when contemplating J the membership of company G to the city S of Pocaleno I Yet it was not without a final effort that the railroad town had the satisfaction satis-faction of first receiving her boys Boise wanted them as a drawing card for the state fairand at Nampa yesterday yes-terday fought for them started an internecine in-ternecine strife and tried to take the baggage oC the Bannock Bingham and Fremont troops to Boise so that the I boys would have to follow But with the aid of EngineerJack Gorman and a coal pick and Fireman Mart Cosgrove armed with a copper hammer Captain Graham of company H and his followers follow-ers were fought off Enthusiasm Was Rampant I I S At < l30 this morning every shop andS 1 locomotive and-S whistle in Pocatello let I loose and announced that the special traln l BaLcTrfached > American Falls and Iat 2 > a m i pulled infrx Pocatellof with Superintendent Ed Mansonsi private car on tljeirear end Late as the hour was the sdldiers were taken in charge by the ladies of tie Red Cross society and were marched to the pavilion where wilatwoald have been a banquet ban-quet at an earler > fcour was served asa as-a lunch > Those of the boys who returned were looking well for the most part though Sergeant Frank Mulligan who was I clerk of company G and who has been suffering from dysentery exhibited I signs of his recentillness I Some faces were missing WalterS I Walter-S Dugard died in the > islands of typhoid j fever Orrin L Ddrrah was killed at I the battle of Santa Ana George Scott S was shot through the head at the Gumbo i Gum-bo Crossing and TH Fitzpatrick was lost I overboard three days out of Manila i Ma-nila Two others are lying in the hospital hos-pital at the Presidio with little hope i of their recovery They are Fred J Taylor and Hyrum pillman I At 1 oclock this afternoon the exercises exer-cises of the day began led by the Me nan band of Fremont county the procession i pro-cession formed at the west side school building and marched along Arthur avenue countermarching on Cleveland to the grand arch on Center At this 1 point they were haIled by the children 1 of the public schools who sang the hymn America < arid afterwards sub 1 jecte J the returning volunteers to a perfeCt shower of flowers 3arade tEe Streets At the head of the procession was Colonal Jones and following the soldiers sol-diers were Mayor Bistline and the 1 members of the city council Behind these cme the G L R and the uni form rank of the Knights of Pythias the Odd Fellows Woodmen of the I World andother secret and civicr organizations or-ganizations t f S I The march was made to the opera housed where the welcome proper was 1 extended The I soldiers were seated on I Continued on Page 5J S > iECOE 1O 1AO llOYS Continued from page 1 the stage on an incline The mayor as master of ceremonies conducted a most interesting programme of entertainment enter-tainment himself welcoming the boys back to the railroad town in a brief but most felicitous speech Hon Fred T Dubols addressed the crowd at length and extended the welcome in behalf of the state and then a bevy of beautiful young ladles pinned the badges on the bosoms of the heroes Interspersed through the programme P were numerous choice musical selections selec-tions the opening being an ode cf welcome wel-come by the Latterday Saints choir The days proceedings are winding up with a banquet at the pavilion where 500 covers are laid It is admitted ad-mitted in all quarters that the work of the various committees in preparing and carrying the welcome to a success ful finish is beyond criticism The city has done even better than it dreamed of doing and has shown its capacity to do business on a large scale Not alone have the boys been royally received but the visiting hundreds have been taken care of In splendid style and the event has marked an Important stride in the advancement of Pocatello |