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Show 0 Hi IILEfifll Equipment, However, I5 1 sued Only for PractiC( Work at Kearny. OFFICERS ASSIGNE Beehive State Leads Dh sion in Amount of In. surance Taken. By STAFF CORRESPONDENT, CAMP KEARNY, Cal., Feb. has received her big guns. Sixteen or "four-point sevens" of the model k( the regiment will use on the bimitn, of Europe are now In the posscssio; the boys of the Beehive state. In ;; ihey have been in their possesslc,, weeks, and the artillerymen have themseh es up to their every eharact.-V tic through hours of rigid gun drill. ; to the camp censor the guns only rived today for publication, and the;', of their arrival was given its firs, lease this morning by General Tnii: S. S'trong. It was announced this morning t the 1'tah regiment will fire tho !- guns on Hit: tiu-get. range the latter ; of this month. All the equipment nn sary for the firing, with the exceptio-the exceptio-the ammunition, is now on hand. -motor tractors to haul them will prob; not bo issued here and horses win used to take thein to the firing line. The Utah regiment will also use i'-guns i'-guns during the big divisional rev which will take place dining the mo; The exact date has not yet been nounced. In this review the division be fully equipped for field service. Gun drill with the new models has ',-going ',-going on steadily during the past for hours each day. The pieces are it heavier than the three-inch type ; viously used by the, rtahns and fir. sixty-pound shell a distance of st miles. It will require eight heavy tillery horses to haul each gun to firing line during the review. Horses Are Issued. More than 125 artillery horses were sued to the regiment today from the : ernment remount station to be UBee temporary work with the big guns u; the time of leaving for Europe. The mounts will then be returned to station. .Stables to house them are -being conslrucled in the rear of the It camp. Lieutenant Gordon It. Lawrence an! detail of thirty-five men selected the mals and brought them to camp. i: lain T. DeWitt Foster and Lieutensr: K. Wilforng have betn assigned tj : for the horses and distribuPi:. through the organizations. Announcement was made that the ? used here wlU not be taken to the f by the Utah boys, and have been l only for training purposes. New g complete with tractors. motor tru touring cars for the officers and ilj cycle sidecars for the non-comnT' officers will be assigned in Fran'? A report Issued at divisional innr; headquarters this morning shows Utah regiment leading the entire di1 in the amount of army insurance u, per man. Willi the exception of teen men. every soldier in the comn.i has signed up. Supply company. Car; batteries, have issued policies to lien li-en tire personnels. The total liisnra: taken out by the Utah regiment is i. 057,000, with an average of J85S5.5S , man to date. The entire division if per cent insured. Changes Ordered. Orders issued at regimental headfiji ters today relieve Captain J. Ray from his duties as adjutant of the T: battalion and assign him as comma: ing officer ot B battery. Captain Li Garrison, who was recently promo'.-will promo'.-will succeed Captain Ward as batta! adjutant. Lieutenant Gordon R. Li rence lias been transferred from the t-plv t-plv company to headquarters compa" ' Lieutenant Charles C. Budd is noil signed to the supply company, while L't tenant Samuel W. Rlter has been Inferred In-ferred from A battery to C battery. Lis-tenant Lis-tenant Martin P. Mulvey has been i-signed i-signed to A battery and Lieutenant JV P. Egan to the "supply company ' duty. Sergeant Forest 31. Carhart of C re tery waS today selected as acting fe sergeant of his battery and recommend tlon has been made for his pennant appointment. Corporal Lee Allison of i same organization was chosen as set:' quartermaster sergeant and has been rr ommended to fill the berth permanent Privates Fred S. Porter and Thorc-Pick, Thorc-Pick, who reported to the regiment . duty after being released from the of-slon of-slon recruit camp, have been assir-to assir-to B battery for duty. Regimental hi; quarters todav called upon Private -nest II. Rufor of A batter for spe-duties spe-duties on the regimental clerical ft; The condition of Sergeant James H. Gee of headquarters company Is repo. ; much improved. Lieutenant GU!' ticoyoc of the sanitary corps, r been attending him, has reportd ni! covery now a certainty. |