Show FORT DOUGLAS ITEMS Captain WcWdbury and bride have arrived after a extended tour to the Atlantic states and will in future r side at the post The bridal trip included in-cluded a visit to the Atlanta exposition which is praised by the captain in ex tenso mso S Captain McFariand is in the Oquirrh country looking after some improvements improve-ments in his extensive mining property prop-erty I The annual message of the com I mianderInchlef of the army was read and pondered by the residents of the post yesterday and as becomes subordinates subor-dinates the comments were few and unimportant The fact that the noble 25000 was not mentioned In the doc meat Is no doubt an indication that everything is all right with the blues One soldier In speaking about the President made the remark that lie had only a year and a but to serve A rather sudden application of a paragraph par-agraph of the new revised army regulations regu-lations by the commamdante the other day came like fa feeler from a masked battery and resulted In the reduction to the Tanks of Q very popular corporal The formation of an oMtlme fife and drum corps is the talk of the hour I crps Improvements in the post hall include II In-clude < a dancing floor and steam heaters heat-ers On account of the tornup condition condi-tion of the hal the Wednesday night concert was omitted I Pink eye is an unwelcome visitor in I the families of several officers The muster rolls of each company I loft the pest yesterday fo department I headquarters being several days late l i Beginning this month the troops are I to DO paid by check each man to receive I re-ceive the amount due him in < a sealed envelope with his name company and rink written thereon S Private Sweeno of company H Six tearth infantry was yesterday dishonorably dis-honorably discharged from the service of the United States r I General Wheaton commanding the I department of the Colorado in his 021 nual repcrt drives the nail out of sight in reference to gymnasium training train-ing His remarks are especially apr ap-r to this post where the Ath tetlc club is a thing of the past Hems He-ms Gymnasium training would vary the tedious monotony of drills and exercises that when once learned by the recruit cannot always retain his interest I onehalf the time now devoted to company drill should beg be-g en to gymnasium instructions our I soldiers would not only be better prepared pre-pared physical for service in the field but the discontent a frequent cause of desertion that more or less pervades our Tanks oould be greatly lessened If iKt ultimately removed England and France have followed Germany In tho matter of physical training of troops and In striving for a perfection earn cetly desired by our officers and soldiers sol-diers we should not in this most important im-portant Instruction remain too far behind be-hind them all H |