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Show Captain Young's Resignation. A dispatch from Washington, I). C says that the President has accepted ac-cepted the resignation of Captain Willard Young, ol the engineer corps of the I'niled Stales a'my, to take effect February , 1S91. The Secretary cf vcr has also approved Captain l Aung's application for an extended leave of absence and granted Inm eight months from June 21st This is an unumal leave for efflcers of the engineer corps, but, the Secretary tays that Captain Young was an excellcntoulcer and lie was disposed to do lliu very test be could for him. The captain will j s;nd the greater pcrtionrf his term iof leave in visiting various institutions institu-tions of Iearcinf; throughout me country. It! Understood that bis 1 j.d.-poseJsto become identified with t eJfti-iioual ioierests in Utah, as j tfca head of a leading institution in that line in Salt Lake City. |