Show DEATH OF JOHN ROGERS Passed Away in China After Short Illness I V I HE WAS ON HIS WAY HOME WeilKnown Salt Laker Who Went to the Philippines With Battery A and Remained There After tho Service Ser-vice of the Batteries Was Ended Dies From DysenteryHe Was 111 But a Pew HoursWas Formerly Prominent in Theatrical Circles Many Relatives Here Information of the death of John B I Rogers formerly manager of the Grand theater In Salt Lake and later j I ft member of the Utah batteries I reached theclly Yesterday In the form of a letter from Gen Schofield paymaster pay-master of the Army of the Philippines i Mr Rogers was Gen Schofields clerk h I nnu nom tne meager details received It Is learned that Mr Rogers died In China Chi-na of dysentery last month Death came very suddenly after an Illness of but a few hours and the remains were buried in China The information informa-tion reached Salt Luke In rather a roundabout way Gen Schofield not having the Salt Lake address of Mr Rogerss family wrote from Honolulu I to Mrs POll y of San Francisco inclosing in-closing a letter to Mr Rogorss father with the request that It be forwarded Mrs Perley who formerly lived here did not know the Salt Lake address and in turn forwarded the letter to a II I I friend In Salt Lake who gave it to the I I father of the unfortunate young man I yesterday afternoon Mr Rogers was a son of Alexander Rogers of this city and leaves many relatives here to mourn his death He had been known for many years In Salt Lake as one of Its brightest young business men and was popular with all who knew him He was about 30 years of age at the time ofhls death Mr Rogers went to the Philippines asa as-a member of the Utah artillery He was one of the Wedfrwootl recruits l and I was made a corporal in battery A He was one of the most popular members of Uie batteries and the announcement of his death will come as a personal bereavement to many of the Utah Aoluntcers who served with him in the Islands Mr Rogers was appointed I cleric to Gen Schofield about two months before the Utah batteries left the Islands and secured his discharge j I from the army when tho batteries started home He retained his position WiHi Gen Schofield however until the time of his death The news of the death of Mr Rogers did not reach Salt Lake in time to be made known to his old associates of the Grand operahouse last night Mr Rogers may well be called the promoter and father of the Grand It was he that Ilrst came to the front to pull out of the hole the young gentlemen who started tho house but had not enough I money to finish it Always fond of the professional world of amusement and I sports John Rogers took a fancy to theatrical the-atrical management and brought here 1 the Glffen Nclll or as it was commonly com-monly known here the Frawley company com-pany which opened the house He sustained a liberal policy paid high salaries and went down Into his own pocket times without number to help members of the profession who had gotten Into a tight place From the time the Grand opened Christmas eve In 1S04 till the house was leased to H S McGarvie in the summer of 1SD7 John Rogers was the main spirit of the institution The long list of players play-ers who filled stock positions under his management will all joIn In a kind word for the cheery and liberal man who never failed to meet them on pay day who helped them so often over Iocky places and who was a companion compan-ion as well as an employer |