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Show lOE WD n ! II RECRUITERS ? i A Braby, Jensen and Reynolds h !L Selected on Wedgwood's ?. Recommendation. y. I GUARD TO LEAVE FORT ,j Members of Provisional t Troop I Will Be Dis- fr charged Immediately. In Ihie with his recommendations, Adjutant General E. A. TYedgwood yes- terday received instructions from the "ri war department to have mustered into federal service for recruiting duty Cap- tain Thomas Braby and Lieutenants 3- Glen Jensen and Ben E. Reynolds of 5 the National Guard of Utah. The of- n ficers will devote their time to recruit- hip for the national guard organizations unless further instructions are received, ei Tho assignment of the officers was left j to the discretion of General Wedg- q wood. In all probabilities one officer et will be stationed in Salt Lake and the other two will move from place to place Sj within the state. The war department has not yet piv-irv. piv-irv. on a decision as to the status of Lieu-tenant Lieu-tenant Jensen with reference to his t, -physical fitness for active duty in the KMeial service. The question will be D again taken up with the department, J but in the meantime he probably will serve as a recruiting officer for the guard. !( To Abandon Camp. ll Within the next twenty-four hours all members of provisional Troop I, except s Captain Thomas Braby. will be dis-hr--. charged and the camp at Fort Douglas will be abandoned by members of the . state guard, except Captain Wesley iZ King and two or three other members rr. of the quartermaster's corps. Captain - Jing arjd the few men under him have l been mustered into federal service to handle camp supplies and will remain on duty until such a time as thev are relieved by the war department. X). A. Lp Homan of the quartermaster's corps has Ki been advanced to the position of quar- term aster sergeant and is on duty with Captain King. 01 "o other recruits to the militia from outside points have been reported to 5a Captain W. B. Elliott, United States -JI artaiy, at Fort Douglas. However, he has received instructions to be prepared h to thoroughlv equip approximately 700 r.Tf ruits. Whether they will be re-rB re-rB cruits for the guard or for both the bl guard and the training camp was not ;ea intimated, but he is inclined to believe '- ' that the number is meant to include both militia and training camp recruits. The militia recruits assembled at the rr camp are to be equipped only and held " until ordered to the various organiza-, organiza-, tions on the border, according to pres- N cnt instructions. Compiling Expense. The greatest activity in connection zor wiin the mobilization just now is clean-rw clean-rw ing up and straightening up and figuring up expenses. Captain Braby and his " 4 men have practically cleaned up the "pij camp grounds end Captain King and -o.: Sergeant A. J. Mechin of the quarter- r master 's corps are making pood head- "i way n straightening up equipment and ar-conrtts. Sergeant Mechin is devoting rj" his time to checking up and packing all i p the old national guard infantry equip-. equip-. .; ment preparatory to shipment to the Rock Island arsenal, quartermaster's f, department. United States army. The expenses of the mobilization are n being figured up by Adjutant General of' "Wedgwood. The eiat figures will not be available for a week or more, but "T" it is estimated that the expense will run ,y in the neighborhood of $17,OnO. E. C. 's Manson. superintendent of trancportar r tion of the Oregon Short Line, has al- a'-i readv compiled his reports of the move- ajj ments of the Utah and Idaho national ' guard over the Short Line and for- warded them to the war department. |