Show SPIRITED SHAM BATTLE Company Dt Utah Untlonal Guard Engages Iii Actual Warfare Maneuvers Yesterday the company recently organized organ-ized by Capt Warwick proceeded In heavy marching order to Emigration canyon can-yon where tho men wero given their first experience In tho art of waging war The programme Included a strenuous guard mounting drill comprising the duties of 1 soldier In camp Tho company then formed to the advance and rear guard drill requiring a division of the company Into attacking and defending parties The object of the attacking party under command of Lieut Woodward was tho capture of tho commlnsary wagons under escort ojC tho defending party commanded com-manded by Capt Warwick After lowInG low-InG uufllclent time for tho attacking party to form their plans and deploy their menthe men-the commissary wagons moved down tho canyon under convoy of the defending pnrty deployed as skirmishers to cover the advance All the movements of tho opposing rartles wero carried out as In actual warfare Presently when Capt Warwicks men dislodged some of the advance guards of tho enemy the rattle of tho musketry added further to tho realism Of tho light The spirited horses of the commissary could not be Induced to enter Into tho spirit of the occasion at this part of the drill However tho men caught the spirit of the noisy part of tho drill that would bo of great bcnellt to Undo Sam In case of actual war And therein lies the secret of tho benefit derived de-rived from these actual warfare drills namely I thoy accustom tho men to the service as seen In real warfare Company D Is the frt company In Utah mustered In under tho now Dick army bill This bill places tho National Guard on tho same piano us tho regular army In time of war They arc subject to the same orders ns the regulars and In short arc a reserve regular army Under tho Dick bill tho drill hall maneuvers arc almost al-most entirely abandoned for the more practical actual warfare drills In theO the-O en Tho drill yeuterday 13 merely tho first of a series scheduled to take place at closo Intervals In the future |