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Show ENTHUSIASM GREAT AT BRiGHAM CITY Call for Additional Recruits to National Guard Being Responded To. SpeciaJ to The Tribune. BRIGHAM CITY, June 22. That Brig-ham Brig-ham City will respond to the call of the country for recruits was demonstrated tonight to-night when a large gathering met at the courthouse, upon the call of the mayor, after only three hours' notice. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon Mayor John F. Krdmann received the following message from Adjutant General E. A; Wedgwood, at Salt Lake City, calling ror iwentv-five recruits from Brigham Citv and vicinity to the National Guard of Utah: By reason of modifications of the president's order, mobilization troops from Utah, It ts necessary to muster in an adidtional troop of cavalry. By reason of the short time in which to act. It Is necessary to call upon the public authorities locallv for effective ef-fective assistance. It is desired that Brigham City and vicinity furnish twenty-five men. Please wire me tomorrow to-morrow at 3 o'clock what progress your city lias made in getting these men together for physical examinations. examina-tions. B. A. WEDGWOOD, Adjutant General. The mayor immediately started a public pub-lic agitation, with the result that a largely attended meeting was held at the courthouse this evening and rour applicants appli-cants were registered for service. The applicants are Floyd Ogs, Dewey Card-well, Card-well, Zeke Thompson and Fay Jacobsen. Recruiting will continue tomorrow until the twenty-five, or more, men are obtained, ob-tained, according to the wishes of the guard officers at Salt Lake. The meeting meet-ing tonight was presided over by Mayor Erdmann and the speakers were Oliver C. Dalby and B. C. Call. The talk by Mr. Dalby was Interrupted by a stranger on the outside of the park, who tried to make an anti-American demonstration, but was at once arrested by Officer John Burt, who planed the transient in jail. The Bright m military hand rendered a patriotic programme during the meeting. |