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Show Hr s Fifteenth Infantry Will Cut Out Hf Pueblo En Route to Hrfi REGIMENT WILL LEAVE j.fl ' . PROBABLY ON JULY 14 ' Arrangements Being Perfected flK for Long Trip to Fort D. V; A. Russell. Wyo. y -v 1 ' With the exception of the log bc-t'.i bc-t'.i L tween Pueblo nnd Colorado Springs, the ' plan for the lone hike of the Fifteenth '( X infantry has been approved by Briga-;( Briga-;( itl dicr-Gcneral Thomas of the department j 'f of the Colorado. The hike, by tho ally al-ly ! I tercd plan, has been reduced from 2-10 J IH to 205 miles and it is the intention of a the commanding officer to cover this j i r il' distanco in fourteen days. The former i jj plan was abandoned, it is said, owing T'lJ J , to tho experience of the Twenty-Ninth , infantry, which in hiking for the maneuvers at Fort Russell, had to 'j ' march 22 miles one day in order to pro- , . oure water. I' ' t The exnet date for. the departuro of i . f the regiment, has not been set, but it 5' ' 't in all probability will be Tuesday, July ;? 11 14. Officers and men from now until I " the date of departure will be kept bust- A $ line in orJer to leave on time. Tho & f regiment must be at Fort D. A. fius- 4 l- sell on the morning of August 1, and h if - by the end of this week the officers will begin to comminute time so that tho f v. long trip I'an be successfully negotiated, ".'-j; It will inquire a full day in which "M . ' to detrain the column. All iiunrtermas- V T'r fur's wagons, ambulances, smaller vc- It'lr ' hides and mounts for the commanding iff ib and staff officers and mounted dctach- ment will be shipped to Colorado I Ijl Springs. Tho personnel of tho regi- iy nil ment will require a great many cars V 2j t for its t -asportation. The trip prob- w ably will be made in a three-section LI; special tjoop train. |