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Show ill Iff SEEK SJlOSffl Quintette Fail to Report for Rollcall After Sunday Holiday, SERGEANTS REDUCED Prompt Action by Soldiers Halts Incipient Fire Near Camp Canteen. By STAFF CORRESPONDENT. JORDAN NARROWS CAMT, HEADQUARTERS HEAD-QUARTERS UTAH LIGHT FIELD ARTILLERY, AR-TILLERY, July 16. A number of picked men will likely leave the Narrows camp this mcrning to search for five members mem-bers of the instruction camp who failed to make their appearance at rollcall last night following their brief vacation since Saturday, afternoon. Up to late ihis evening they had not appeared or notified ! the camp commandant, Major E. LcRoy 1 Bourne, of their reason for staying away. They are now charged with being absent from the camp without leave and when caught will stand courtmartial by the summary court. When the members of the camp wero dismissed Saturday afternoon, following their weekly examination, they were cuu-tioned cuu-tioned by Lieutenant Colonel William C. Webb that they must positively be present pres-ent at rollcall last night. Many of the soldiers were late, due to the fact that the train schedule was misunderstood; ; however, officers say that there can be ! no excuse for the men who are now ab- ; sent and have failed to notify the camp commander. 1 Will Start Search. Search for the missing men will probably prob-ably be made in Salt Lake and in surrounding sur-rounding towns. The names of the men will not be given out until the searching j party has started. With the exception of the men who failed to appear, reveille this morning saw the artillerymen alert and ready to pitch into their instruction harder than ever. The heat during the drill periods was Intense, owing to the fact that less breeze blew through the camp than usual. The first formation this morning saw Sergeants Roy Boshard and Glen Allen, who a few days ago were taken to the county jail to serve twenty-day sentences for being absent from the camp without leave, back in the ranks of F battery. According Ac-cording to officers here, it was decided by Adjutant General W. G. Williams that the punishment given them by the summary sum-mary court was too severe. Both men said that they were given permission to j leave the camp by officers of F battery and no time limit was set for their re-a re-a ppearance. One of the men upon arriving ar-riving home found his wife ill and Immediately Im-mediately notified h's officers by mail and asked that he be permitted to remain at home until the illness was over. .Both men were recently married. The men have been reduced to the ranks. To Welcome Belgians. Announcement was made this morning that Colonel R. W. Young, Major E. L. Bourne, Major W. E. Kneass, Major Wil-lard Wil-lard Chris topherson and Captain F. T. Gundry, regimental adjutant, will compose com-pose the party from the camp to welcome the Eelgian commission. They will leave here Tuesday morning and join the general gen-eral welcoming delegation in Salt Lake. It is not yet known here whether the commission will visit the camp during the stay in Utah. Prompt action on the part of men in the camp during the morning probably saved the canteen tent and many of the surrounding tents from burning, when a fire was discovered a few yards from the canvas. The blaze spread rapidly and burned within a few feet of the camp canteen before it was extinguished. The placing of wet sacks at different points about the camp as means of precaution again saved a possible disastrous blaze. These were quickly grabbed up by the men and the fire extinguished before it spread to the tents. Plenty of Vegetables. Green vegetables a-plenty are promised prom-ised the men during their stay here through the forethought of George Storrs, warden of the state penitentiary, according accord-ing to an announcement made by Sergeant Ser-geant Theodore Peterson, of the regular army, who is detailed here to instruct the cooks. Three truck loads of the vegetables vege-tables will be donated each week from the prison garden at no cost except the hauling to camp. The resignation of Lieutenant E. J. Mortenson of F battery, who tendered his resignation a few days ago, has been officially of-ficially accepted, It was announced today. to-day. Work of preparing the smoke bombs which will be used in target practice toward to-ward the end of the week went along rapidly today. The pole from which the bombs are fired with a firing mechanism has been inspected and found to do Its work properly. With the use of these bombs hits can be scored almost as accurately ac-curately as in actual practice with the three-Inch shells. Mounted drill work continued today in the fields east of the camp for the noncommissioned non-commissioned officers. Much progress is being shown In regard to the mounted formations and few mistakes can now.be noen. While the non-commissioned officers of-ficers were drilling the officers studied the finding of ranges and prepared firing data. Lieutenant Lloyd Garrison, who was painfully injured when a recoil cylinder 1 from one of tho guns struck him Satur- 1 day, was taken to Salt Lake last night. ; It is not expected that the wound will ' prove serious, providing complications do not set in. He will remain at his home, i |