Show I In ii Command n 1 4 eL I. I I I p MAJ GEN WELLS TELLS Former Salt Laker Will Be Bein Bein Bein in Charge of Army in Hawaiian Islands Major General Briant H. H Yells Wells a former resident of Salt Lake has been cho chosen n by the war d department to command the H Hawaiian department department depart depart- ment succeeding Major Major- General Genera I William L Lassiter La Lassiter reached the retirement age on September 30 The department assigned Major General A. A J. J Bowley to command I Ithe the Hawaiian division effective Oc October October Oc- Oc Oc-I Oc tober 1 succeeding Wells Major Wells was horn In Salt I Lake December 5 1871 and lived here prior to entering West Vest Point from which he was graduated in 1894 During the Spanish Ameri can war he was detailed to dut duty in Utah Otah to aid in mustering ng volunteers He later saw service in Cuba DurIng Durin During Dur Dur- in ing the world war he hc was as a staff officer of ot the supreme war council and chief of staff of the Fourth and Sixth arm army corps American expeditionary forces |