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Show 18 SOLDIERS ADDED 1 TD HOSPITAL ROSIER Five Utahns Included in Yesterday's Sick and Wounded Arrivals. Croix de Guierre Winner Returns to Fort Douglas From Furlough. Dt'htocn -sick and wounded soldiers arrived ar-rived :U noon yesterday over the Union ':n:llic from hospitals near New York City. The men live in the intermountain .slates, live of Diem in Utah. The latter are c'larenco 13. Stephens, 165 South First West street: W. 8. Shire, 643 Iverson I'ourl; K. V. Davis, SprinKvtlle; Jlllo 'lirown. Fayette and Walter Sorenson, 260 Vnplar avenue, Salt Iako. The men from Idaho arc William Harris. Har-ris. Sweetwater, and Simon Liustave of West on. a. T. Anoe. A. Paulson. Harry V. Sli;Miirrny, Charles Daniel and D. E. Lewis are from Montana. I. Gardner and William Hums are from Arizona. .John ! '.Irhnienrly and K. A. Miller live in Wyoming. Wyo-ming. W. K. Ca.ilo' k of Colorado and i . liennen of Nevada completed the list of patients. Entertained Along Way. The cor was In chaise of Lieutenant '.. C Dickinson, medical corps, and two enlisted men of the medical department. They reported an uneventful trip, with continual entertainment hy the Red Cross along the road. At Chicago the men were Klven a lunch and supper by the canteen workers, and at Omaha were given a d Inner and theater party, with an afternoon after-noon entertainment at the athletic club. At practically every town they were met by the canteen workers and feceived the best of treatment. The train was composed of eleven coaches out of New York, the other seventeen sev-enteen being dropped off at various points for other hospitals. Two cars of the original orig-inal train were cut off at Ogden, another groing'on to the Presidio at San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The men wear wound and service stripes and most of them have seen considerable con-siderable fighting in France and Belgium, E. A. Miller of Wyoming has a German helmet scarred with the mark of a bullet which he flred and which killed the Hun wearer. Met by Officers. The .arrivals were met at the station by Lieutenant V. J. Lovering from the general hospital at Fort Douglas, Captain R. M. Jones, personnel adjutant, and Major George M. Miller of the Red Cross. Canteen workers distributed fruit, cigar-ets cigar-ets and candy. Ambulances took the men from the depot to the general hospital, hos-pital, where they were registered and assigned as-signed beds in the wards. Lieutenant W. B. George, Jr., wearer of the croix de guerre, the blesse medal mllltalre and possessor of a number of citations for bravery in action, has returned re-turned from a furlough granted to visit his relatives in Bililngs, Mont. While visiting the capitol at Butte, Lieutenant George was asked to speak to the con -gress urging the passage of a bill appropriating appro-priating $5000 for welfare work among returned re-turned soldiers. He was given a tremendous tremen-dous ovation, with fully five minutes of cheering. He made a short speech telling what the men overseas had done, and at the conclusion of his talk was the recipient re-cipient of congratulations. Officially Kissed. A pretty girl was appointed upon the spot to give the lieutenant the official kiss of the congress. At the next day's session the legislature passed an increased in-creased appropriation of $25,000 for soldier sol-dier welfare work. Lieutenant George was called upon to make a number of talks before organiza- tions in Montana. California and other western states. He has returned to the general hospital at Fort Douglas to receive re-ceive final treatment for his wounds, and will remain . here until discharged from the army. Two men were ordered discharged yesterday yes-terday from G company. Twenty-first Infantry, In-fantry, at Fort Douglas. The men, Paolo Cocco and Manuel Dias, will be sent to the Presidio at San Francisco for observation ob-servation and discharge. A ten-day furlough was yesterday granted to John W. Wadman, who was wounded in the fighting overseas and is now convalescing at Fort Douglas, to visit his relatives in Ogden. |