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Show ICOAST ARTILLERY TO BE GIMCEPTIDN Bands and Citizens to Meet Training Camp Troops From California. ! Plana have been started for a b j public reception to be tendered the members of tin: coast artillery conipa-; conipa-; nit?s that are due to arrive here the first of next w-ek to remain during the period of the citizens ' military training camp at Fort Douglas. Three cornea-nies, cornea-nies, totaling more than 22-j men, iunv at C.'alexico, (-"ul., will comprise the detail. de-tail. I. H. Manderfield, assistant general freight and passenger agent for the Salt Lake route, has wired to -(.'alexico asking details as to the exact time of departure for the troops in order to provide a special excursion to meet them. Brass bands and prominent citizens will show the soldiers that the city welcomes wel-comes them. Definite plans for the reception re-ception will be made as soon as the exact ex-act date and time of the arrival of the troops is known. At a meeting of the executive committee com-mittee of the training camp, scheduled for this afternoon, a plan ot action will be formulated to secure recruits from Denver. It is thought that two or more energetic members of the local committee commit-tee will be sent on a special mission to the Colorado city. Denver, it is thought, should provide several hundred pien for the camp, and the lack of interest up to the present time is attributed largely to a failure to thoroughly canvass the situation. Three of yesterday's five recruits come from Salt Lake, one is from Og-den Og-den and the other from Anaconda, Mont. Although Salt Lake has so far contributed almost as many recruits as the remainder of the inter mountain country, more art still expected to enlist. en-list. Yesterday's recruits are Chester N. Whitney of the United States forest service at Anaconda, Mont. ; "Walter Conrad Raymond, high school student; Clarence D. Farley, railroad brakeman, and Horace V. Altree, all of Salt Lake; Edward J. Dalrymple, student of Ogden. |