Deseret Evening News | 1898-05-04 | Page 5 | Movements of Western Troops

MOVEMENTS OF WESTERN TROOPS Firs SIps Toward Sending Soldiers to tV Philippine Islands Portland Oregon Maj 3The first moo tow arl sending troops to Com mod ore Dewey In the hlllpplnts was nada tonight when General Merriam commanding the departments or tho Colllmbia and California received In structlons from the war department to end l the Fourteenth infantry to Sin Irnclco General Ierrlam In ac online with these Instructions 14 Iud I-ud an order for companies C D 11 and F to Proceed nt once to the Pre tldlo Companies A GII and II now In Alaska will be recalled Immediately and sent Here Captain Taylor Fourteenth Four-teenth Infantry mustering officer for the state of Washington left for Tacoma Ta-coma today Word has been receded at Vancouver Van-couver barracks that Col T M Ander eon of the Fourteenth Infantry who Id I with his regiment In Alaska Is I to be appointed brigadier general of volunteers teer