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Show NATIONAL GUARD OF PENNSYLVANIA HERE Two Hundred Officers and Men of Second Sec-ond Infantry Pay Visit on Way to Exposition. Under command of Major M. Joseph Pickering, a provisional battalion of about 200 officers and men of the Second Infantry, In-fantry, Pennsylvania National Guard, arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake at 1:30 o'clock yesterday yes-terday afternoon and remained until 4 o'clock, when their special train departed for San Francisco. The troops are on their wav to the exposition ex-position to participate In the Pennsylvania day exercises. September 4, and will act as escort to Governor Brumbaugh and the Panama-Pacific committee of Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. This trip Is a part of the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the guard, the oldest infantry organization in Pennsylvania. The regiment has a long and honorable war record, having served in the Mexican war, several Indian ware and the civil war, being represented in the war between the states by the Nineteenth Nine-teenth and Ninetieth Pennsylvania volunteers. volun-teers. Colonel Hamilton D. Turner, commander command-er of the regiment, accompanies the battalion, bat-talion, together with his staff and eight ladies, wives of the officers. The guardsmen guards-men left Philadelphia August 28 and are due to return there September 1" They were received by an escort In Chicago and a salute was fired In their honor when they reached Denver. A 'majority of the men took the 2 o'clock train to Saltalr, returning in time for a brief sightseeing trip before their train pulled out for the west |