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Show SECOND IDAHO WILL ENTRAIN ON TUESDAY Soldiers Will Leave Nogales for Home, Expecting to Reach Boise Friday or Saturday. Special to The Tribune BOISE, Idaho, Dec. IS.--The Second Idaho regiment will entrain at Nogales Tuesday afternoon, between 2 and 5 o'clock, and travel in sections to Idaho, arriving in Boise Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. This is the authentic information that reached Boise military officers today. It took the regiment seventy-two hours to reach Nogales last July and about the same time will be required for its return. re-turn. The trip is to be made by way of Colton and Salt Lake. Elaborate plana are under way here for the reception of the troops. The city will be gaily decorated dec-orated and the Boise barracks renovated. reno-vated. All buildings will be heated and extensive entertainment provided while the demobilization is going on. This will require ten days. All ciLies and towns having companies In the regiment will be asked to appoint committees to work with those in Boise for the reception of the troops. Major J. B. Burns and Captain Max B. Garber returned today from Nogales, where they checked the regimental property., prop-erty., No shortage was discovered, they report, and the property will, check. It was reported there was a shortaee of $15,000 In property value. Misunderstanding Misunderstand-ing In bookkeeping and receipting property prop-erty explains this. Dispatches from Nogales No-gales say 1100 officers and men make up the returning regiment. |