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Show UTAHNS IN TROPICS LONGING FOR SNOW Dozen Marines Fron Beehive State Are Stationed at Santiago; Laud Ked Cross. I Down at Santiago do Cuba there are a dozen I'tah bes with the Fnited I States marines. They reached their i present station niter a" transcontinental j trip from San Dieo. They declare they I wi re royally treated at "every city in which they slopped, the c:i utecn " ser-vi.-e of the 1,',-d Cross turning out most pat 'dot ii-fiil v all along the line. I The weather in Cuba has beeU tropi-ical tropi-ical since these f'tuh boys armed, and jth"- would welcome a little snow, j What the boys particularly noticed I is the poor tran-portation facilities in the vicniitv (if their Motion, the chief 1 means of iiauling boi:w bv jack mule. From i-ht to ten oxen are used to a cart carrvin,' six or seven tons of sucar car.e. Scarcity of axle grease gi cs warning of the approach of the carts miles a ivav. I The Ctah men in the detachment a-e j Private T. K. Sanberg. private lvilis Neil son, I'm ate T. 11. Shaw, I'm ate .1. F. I Craves. I'riva'to p. Willouuhbv and Fri-x Fri-x :i I c II. J. I.'eid. all of Salt Lake, and Private W. K. 'ook. Me.'ner; Corporal Harry Hickman, Tooele; Corporal (diver (di-ver W. Carter, Fund. a: Pruate C. II. Hradv aud Private i Irlrence linker, Tooele, and Private K. II. Pascoe Lark. |