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Show PLiffl BEDS FOR FORT HOSPITAL At Outset Local Post Will Care for 1000 Wounded Men. Special to The Tribune. WA.SI1IXGTON', July 2C The army hospital to be cst.-tblMicd at l-'oi t Dous-las Dous-las for the treal tnent of wounded soldiers sol-diers returned from Franne when completed com-pleted v.ill a' Tommodate a maximum of ."oo men. This assurance was Riven today to-day by the surgeon general, wlfJ s..lifj an officer of ills department had been sent to fc'alt Italic to make an inveslit'atlon and report spetifh aliy what is required in the way of new buildings, equipment, elc. When this report in received, money necessary nec-essary to make the improvements and enlargements en-largements will be allotted from a lump sum appropriated by congress for army hospital. The hospital at Kort DoukIhs is intended in-tended for tho treatment of soldiers who enlisled or were Crafted in the western s'ates. and at the outset 1000 beds or more will be provided, the initial number depending largely upon the report. The maximum number of beds has been fixed .'it ITiO. The hospital will soon become the larccst element at fort Douelas. In addition to the wounded, the hospital will require the constant faervices of a lar?e number of doctors, nurses and attendants, who are not counted in the above figures. fig-ures. After a conference with Senator W. II. Kir:;.', the secretary of war today directed the establishment of a mechanical train-ir train-ir ' s'.htxil for soPllers at the Utah Agricultural Agri-cultural coIPkc. at l.oi,',-n. At this instl- (Continued on Page Five.) PUN 2500 BEOS m FORT HOSPITAL (Continued from Page One.) t'Jtion 4L'0 men will n given a course In mechanics to equip thm for service with the vario-js m-.'.-hurn) bra neh'-s of the army. The cove rn men t will enter into a ron tract with the rolleeo. and pav not only for the tuition, but for the maintenance, mainte-nance, of the men while training. The, plan U to keep this rnTlinnial 'school eonpt-antly In oprptJon during the war nrwi an one class graduates new men j will b ass-gned. |