Show I FROM CUBA TO ORIENT Battalion of tho First Infantry Passes Through Going West The second battalion First United States Infantry regimental headquarters headquar-ters and band 520 men ere In town yesterday and the boys attracted attention at-tention as they came up the street and walked around in their somewhat negligee attire Companies F and G arrived ar-rived on the first section of the soldier special over the Rio Grande Western at noon and departed at 2 p m for Ogdcn The second section with headquarters head-quarters ant band and companies I and E arrived early In the evening and after a rest followed after the other two companies MaJ F A Smith Is In command of the battalion with these commissioned officers Capts Phlster Tayman and Bell First Lleuts Newman and Fccley and Second Licuts Pennafleld Townsend Town-send McClure and Reed The command com-mand is only two weeks out of Cuba Plo del Rio province where Brlg Gen Fitzhugh Lee has command The first battalion passed through Ogden the other day companies A and B going I go-ing via the Union Pacific and companies I com-panies C and D going via the Rio Grando Western The boys have n high opinion of Cuba as a wealthproducing country and say that any American with u little capital can go there and make money for the ground produces anything with little or no cultivation The boys hope to be sent to China but fear they will bo turned usldo at Nagasaki Naga-saki and Kent to Manila They are goodlooking husky lads and appear as though able to stand a pood deal of hardship Most ot the boys have I learned to hablar Espagnol un poco I |