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Show TWO BATTALIONS OF FQRTY-SEGDQ LEI i i Third Section Will Depart Early This Morning for Des Moines. i j T-cnu5P of Uv-'k of railroad equipment equip-ment odIv tv.o I-;: "talions f'f the Korty-i Korty-i sfvoi:-.! wore bMi to l?ave Salt Lake kvVi hiht lor tbe rcinu-nt '5 new winter win-ter training camp atamj' DO'lgf. Dts Mu:dc. Iu" a. The two I'littnliou? to Jave wojp the fir-t ariT so'-nv.il. Tho thir-1 battalion will bavo this morning. The stook scuiou of the raiment left Saturday aiternoon. j It ha-1 been planned by Colonel Alfred 1 IIa bro-post commander at Fort Portias, to turn out the Twentieth hi-1 hi-1 Trintiv to cive a rousiot; "sondoit-' to the uffi-'pr.-s and mu of the Forry-see-oud when they leit the po?t, as wad liftne in the case of the Forty-third, but the Intone?-? of the hour at which the two b:ittaiioD5 of the departing rimeut left the j ot interfered and thi? pian ha-1 to be abandoned. Colonel Hacbrou..'k expressed to Colonel Colo-nel C.. '.. I'enfier. ceoimandin the reciniont, and his r.fficc-rs tbe most sincere sin-cere rn;retr of the 1 wentieth that it and hi- regiment a formal military farewell, and expressed to him in behalf be-half of the oi'fieers and men of tho Twentieth, their sincere regret at losing los-ing the regiment from Fort Douglas. The first two battalions of the Forty-second, under command of Colonel Colo-nel Pentlcr and Lieutenant Colonel P. H. Mullay. formed in column of squads on the cantonment section road at 4:15 and fct 4:40, headed by tho Forty-second infantry band, bean the march from the post to the oepot. The regiment regi-ment passed throucn the city where a larcie number of th people lined tho streets and cheered the soldiers as they went forth on the first leg of their journey to the battlef ront in France. Hundreds of people gathered Rt the depot and waited even until after nightfall to say farewell to friends and acquaintances a;r.oti the officers and mm of the regiment. The first section of the troop train, under command of Lieutenant Colonel Mullay pulled out early in the eve-: eve-: ni:i and the second section, with Colo-, Colo-, 11 el Dentler in command, pulled out a ; little iatnr. j The third batta'ion. which is under 1 command of Major H. L. Jordnn, re- niained in camp last niht and will pull i out sometime this morning, as soon as the necessary car equipment can bo cotten on hand by the railroad com-. com-. panv. ! W . II. Cuudv, assistant general pas-j pas-j sender agent of thn Denver 6c Rio ; Grande railroad, accompanied the men anil will remain as pilot until the end of tho line id reached at Pueblo. |