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Show HOSPITAL CORPS IS FREE FROM SERVICE Members of the Utah field hospital corps were mustered out of federal service serv-ice yesterday afternoon. The mustering out took place in the Pierpont Etreet ! armory, where the men were paid off and allowed to go to their home-s. Checking of property was completed early in the morning, following which the corps of clerks were put to work preparing the pay and muster rolls. The announcement that the boys would bo free to go to their homes for the holiday was the cause of great joy to the guardsmen. It was expected that it would take several days more before the work could be completed. Members of the medical corps have been in the federal service nearly six months. They were called to Nogales, Ariz., July 14, and left with the second squadron of Utah cavalry. The second squadron is still on the border. The officers of the hospital corps are: Major J. F. Sharp, commanding; Captain George F. Roberts, Captain H. P. Kirklev, Lieutenant A. A. Anderson and Lieutenant Paul Ingebretson. Lieutenant Lieu-tenant F. I. Janscn is still on duty with the second squadron of Utah cavalry. |