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Show TBOOPS TO B P1I0 BYEMDOF WEEK Government Warrant for $600,000 for District's Needs Received. Annoiincenifnt was made n t the rinar-lermaslcr rinar-lermaslcr office at Fort Douglas ycsUT-ilay ycsUT-ilay al'lei noon that the troops ut Fort Douglas will be paid not later than J-'rl-iiay of this week and possibly on Thurs- !day afternoon if the rolls can be checked ' in tin;u. j It was announced that in nil probability I the ulfieery of llie IHah artillery would ! be paid this arternoon, though this it? not cerialn. I iowever. every H'i'urt is being mail.' bv the paymaster to ;i-t out titc checks for the artillery otTh urs by this afternoon. The enlisted nn-11 ui ilie ;i r-till'-ry will be paid the fame day as the enlisuvi men of the post reimenls. While the pay roll k for the various organizations or-ganizations at llie post had not ben sufficiently suf-ficiently checked last niht to detennine wha t t he tota I a mount for I be month of Auk'usf will be it was roughly estimated by the paymate'- at about Sla.oOij, in-eluding in-eluding the p;iy for the artillery, iorces. Thc'payinasier at the fort received yesterday yes-terday a government treasury warrant for (iOO.OOt), covering the estimate of all needs for the Salt Lake paymasler'u district dis-trict for the past month. This amount Is to pay all salaries find other expenses for troops in the entire district, including Utah, Wyoming and Nevada. Out of ibis amount all the national na-tional guard organisations on guard duty m Clah. Nevada and Wyoming and a part of Idaho are to be paid their salaries, rations ra-tions and quarters and other expense1;, and in addition, all the outposts in the district are to have their expenses out of this amount. The amount is considerably above tiie actual expenses for the district, it is stated, but the excess will not be known until the rolls are all cheeked. |