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Show ON WAY TO ISLAND. "Rookies" From Jefferson Barracks en Route West. One of tho trains from the East over the Union Pacific today carried 107 Rookies," who are on their way from Jefferson Barracks to Angel Island, In California, and who are destined for assignment as-signment in tli- Se.ond Fulled States cavalry The recruits are under the i "iii-mnnd "iii-mnnd of Canl Wllllnrd and Eleut. fir. k- ory, ami after their delivery at Angel K'..in,l ,l..o.. ..! .11 .". . . , iw wuuen iii leiuin lo J VI- R reon Barracks. With the command Is also Maj Bannister, Bannis-ter, a surgeon attached to the armv and Who will return from California to Jef-1. Jef-1. reon Barracks, whore he Is now assigned as-signed Maj. Bannister hus seen considerable consid-erable active service In the i.rmv In the past seven yars. He Is a native' of Alabama; Ala-bama; but he thinks President Roosevelt is the best thing that ever happened, He ranks among his acquaintances such old Salt Fall is as MeFarlane, Iissitt-r. J'vler. and nunn-nnis ,,th. r ol lit ers of the Blxteenth infantry which was stationed at Ft Douglas prim- to the Spanish war. Maj. Bannister was assigned to the Bec-eiiu Bec-eiiu regiment Fnli.d States Infantry, at the rlod of the Spanish war in" the t;:pulty of regimental suig.on, and in that capacity saw good service. Later, during the Chinese In, Id, nt h, wa . hif surgeon on the suiff of jen. Chaffee on I he exiie.lltlon f.,r th, r, lb ( of t hi Fm - elgn Legations al p.-kin Prom China he went to the Philippines, and was suc- ( esslvely In the same ofllclal capacltv on tin stuffs of Gen. Rell and Gen Davis Maj. Bannlsl.r recalled some other reminiscences of armj regiments that have been stationed In Ftah. He was at W ouivJ.il Knee during the Indian troubles In 1SH0-91. and was there Intimate!) associated asso-ciated with the officers of the" Ninth cavalry, which was formerly situated at Price and Duchesne and which took an active part In that campaign. |