Show HOME FROM ST MICHAEL Soldiers Who Have Been Ini iiio Rsgikn Rstiim to Portlnnd Portland Or Sept 2T1ie ltI7ed States army transport Rosecranav arrived ar-rived In port tolllgltt after a fourteen days voyage from SL Michael The Uosccrana brought 127 United States troops under the command of Capt Wright The troops arriving are as I follows Company P Seventh United States Infantry 102 company L Seventh Sev-enth United States Infantry 9ii unassigned unas-signed 205 hospital corps 12 signal corps 11 The remaining passengers on the Rosecrans are nearly all Government Gov-ernment employees and employees of tile Consoliniii l 1 companies of Alaska who are coming home either to remain permanently or to spend the winter Of the troops 199 are to be stationed I at Vancouver barracks having spent three years In Alaska while 205 of them were brought out because their term of service expires before the opening of navigation next year Gen Randall commanding the Department De-partment of Alaska will leave St Michael on the transport Seward In a few days and will take up hiM headquarters head-quarters at Vancouver barracks The Hosecrans left St Michael for Portland via Nome and Dutch Harbor on September loth It was at Dutch Harbor that the passengers and crew learned of President McKInleys assas sination They did not hear of his death however until this morning when they entered the mouth of the Columbia river |