Show CAPTAIN CAPT AI N BOWMAN 0 IS MISSING It Is Officer to the Guard and aad Has HasS Hasl S Left l ft State I WHEREABOUTS ARE UNKNOWN MILITTA mar uK AND OTHERS WANT V TO ID EIL Captain Charles W Bowman of the national guard bas has folded up his tent and an nI left the city In consequence con of his absence there to is much inquiry among the officers of the t he guard his many friends frI nd and many other persons penonA A few months monta ago Captain Bowman was aR appointed assistant inspector of arms e for the Utah guard He Be held heki that position the day he left the city without letting but few of ofus bis 11 us acquaintance a know that he was His Hill present whereabouts are Unknown The po officials do donot pot not know where here to forward his hi mall mail rust Bust before leaving Salt Lake City the ald said he was wa going to Denver remain there a couple of days and then I Ko Ira on n to Iowa where here he he had a aO position O I Came Caine Here Bere From Denver Captain Bowman came to this city bout about eighteen months ago from Den Denver Denver Denver ver Colo Cob That was vas his home for many nany years Before coming that far west he lived JIved so o it is said in Illinois and nd prior to that in New York In all aU three bree e of those tOO e states he was connected with Ith the militia It is understood that living In New Nev York he enlisted d In n the national guard gurd as a private In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Sucker state ne he he was an officer as aR asif ashe he bf if was as in the Centennial state In lb it mer r Captain was w a the com corn officer of three companies companie at different times The last commission he lu held was that of captain of K IC com corn J zany an The five years Jears of or national guard experience up to that time enabled him to mil ke hi bI company one of the finest drilled j in the state Wh When n the captain came to Salt Sau Lake City Cit In m the early part pan of 1903 1902 be he left a I Rood position with the Colorado Fuel Iron company previously having v worked for the Rio Grande road in that city Upon his bin arrival here Captain Bowman Rowman entered the employ of a liquor company and anI later lat traveled for fora a mercantile establishment Officer in Utah Guard Before Colonel Sam Park tendered te dered his resignation as u the head of the guard he appointed Captain Bowman assist assistS tint S 1 nt inspector Ins tor of small arras arias practice Hr held that position up to the day clay he left eft Salt Halt Lake Cit City and will continue to hold bold it until he has remained out ont of the state a sufficient l h of time to tobe I bp be declared a deserter d provided he left I t tah without permission And it Jt could 1 not lo be ascertained last evening that tbt he be heas I Ia vas as a ever eyer granted ted that request Should the captain ever be declared A deserter and It has been stated that such Iu h steps will be taken if he did not have a leave of absence his position in inthe inthe the th guard will wilt be declared vacated vlUt and it will be filled Ailed through appointment by byJ b bI J I 1 A the lieutenant col colonel colonel onel unel Captain Bowman is 18 said to have bave left the city the second day after his re return return return turn from the annual encampment of the guard pard at Camp on the shores hor of Utah lake Jake near Provo While In cams camp cam he be was made macle acting assistant quartermaster ter Like all the other boys he hp drew drw double pay front the state slate and government bt |