Show RflfASING UTAHS Ot1TEERS OTIS DIRECTED TO DICGB TOSE BY CAN A A Assurance to Governor Well FTom the War Department That Affords Little Comfort A month ago Governor Wells made application to the war department 4 Washington for the honorable release I and return home of abouttwentyfive Utah YQlunteers now doing serylce In the Philippines and in reply the governor gov-ernor has received the following self I explanatory letter dated M rch 20 i from Adjutant General H C Corbin I I have the honQr to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 2ith of February last in which you request telegraphic discharge wih trsporta tioa to San Francisco and travel my tan from thence to Salt Lake City of some twentyfve enlisted men of the Utah battalion of light artillery now serving in the Philippine islands and in reply to infor you that Major General Otis such has been authorized to discharge men as furnIsh god and sutcient reasons rea-sons therefor on their IndivIdual appl catians if he can spar them As the governor construe the adjutant ad-jutant generals reply it affords ltte assurance that any of Utas volunteer artillerymen who are now achieving such brilliant victories over the insurgent insur-gent Filipinos back of Mania can be spare by General Otis in order that they may obtain their discharge and return home at the governments ex ense |