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Show Brings Heavy Mail. . i NEW YORK, Dec. 28. The French liner Niagara arrived here todav from Bordeaux with 277 fassengers and 6000 bags of Christmas mail. Only one soldier, sol-dier, a sick corporal, was aboard. Amfmg the passengers were Colonel Webb C. Hayes, son of the late Presi dent Kutherford B. Mayes, who has been .attached to the army service corps in France, and Captain Algernon Sartoris of Washington, a grandson of General Grant, who served in the French foreign legion and later In the American aerial armament division. He fought in tho Champagne and on the Afsne with the French, and was decorated. Charles L. Flamand, a son of the French oonsul at Boston, returned with the Croix de Guerre, won in the French army. After being wounded seven times, ho was discharged, and later served with tho American lied Cross. No word has been received in Salt Lake of any plan to demobilize any part of 1 four battalions of the 143rd field artil- lery, headquarters and supply company i of twenty-four officers and 750 men, part- : ly at California national guard camps, j Camp Lewis and Fort Douglas, as inti- ; mated in tlie Associated Press dispatch last night. |