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Show ABOUT FORT DOUGLAS Various Happenings in and Around Uncle Sam's Military Post. Private winiam n Blank, Nineteenth battery, bat-tery, field artillery, Iuim been granted a two months furlough, which he will spend mostly in Donver, Colo. Private Charles V. Workman, company K Twenty-ninth Inlantry has In -n detailed on special duty SS BSSlSUUlt baker. Private Temple Tem-ple of the sujne company Is now chief baker and confectioner of th. ptmt. Inquiry has been received hire relative to thn remains of ex-Qov. j N. Johnson of California, rupp.ued to bo lnlerre.1 In thn Port Douglas Cemetery, The Inquiry comes from tan J-.se ( ul with a view of having the remains ultimately ulti-mately removed to his native State Artificer Charles A. Kloux, company L Twenty-ninth Infantry, has Ix-cn promoted corporal cor-poral to fill an existing ocuncy In that company com-pany The family of Cblor Sergl. Herman Ley, Twenty-ninth Infantry, nine s.uis. has arrived at this p.. mi from Fort Shetidan, III and havo taken up thli- domicile here Sergt. Ley is a irltable old m. Idbr. Hulling oilglnally from the fatherland hlu childhood wiui upent In New York, and ho Hturled on his military' career on May 19, 1879. He served through the Indian Campaigns under Hon. SfllSS, a service replete with Che rough-atid-reaxiy adventure of a frontiersman. fron-tiersman. He Is still the crack shot of the r.-glmerit. with over t) worth of gold and silver sil-ver m.iluls to his credit, which represent prl7.es si-eurcd In competitive shooting contests. He enn cite several thrilling episodes where his marksmanship nae. hU life and the Uvea of others when death was Imminent He Is a firm believer In tho doctrine that, whatever else a soldier must know, tin ought of necessity to b an expert with the rifle Sergt. Iy's soldier life will terminate In about a year from now. when ho will be retired frmn the army, having served the allotted nuniN-r of years He recognizes that tho trend ..f prosperity westward west-ward Is now centered 111 Salt 1-ake. which h regards as th. present "Hub of opiHjrtunlty, " and. still a comparatively young man, he win then lay aside the weapons .f war to follow ihf now more lucrative. If less ad venturous, calling of u restaurant proprietor In Zlon |