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Show FLAGS. SALUTED BY UTAHHS TO RKT If FRF 1 1411 I IllilUl Secretary Baker Acts on Request Re-quest for Colors of State Units Colors of disbanded organ iza t ions that were originally national guard units will be delivered into the custody cus-tody of the states from which the ma -.(only of the men originally came; but the Fnited States government will still rcfn title to thyn. at corning to a lc.Ui r tu Gmyrnor li.num Rtnhrgr from Nwtnii It. Baker, secretary nf war. Mr. Baker's letter is in answer to c request from Major John S. Karley, state una rlermaster, that colors of organization comprising moMly I'tah i men be turned over to the stale of i I lah. 'Several years ago." Mr. Bker writes, ' the colors of state military organizations or-ganizations that served in the Civil and Spanish-American wars, which wer ! stored in the Philadelphia depot of . ' I he quartermaster's department, were (distributed to the various atates. The 1 colon of the slate troops that served on the Mexican border should Mill be in the possession of those organizations, organiza-tions, as they never really Iohi their identity, even though tUey w ere federalized. fed-eralized. "Colors of disbanded organizat ions that wvre originally national guard units will be delivered Into the cus- tody of the state, from which the majority ma-jority of the men originally came. The I'niied States will still retain title to them." , i Mrfjor Ivarley's plan Is to secure for . I'nth colors of drafted and national j guard units composed mainly of l t;hiirf, which include the One Hundred Hun-dred Forl -fifth field artillery; Dr. Spriigue s unit. 90 per cent of whom are I'tuhnw: the Three Hundred Sixty- ' second mrantiy, with The Ninety-first I dii.ion, fompiised entirely of t'tah 111041; the (.Hie Hundred Fifteenth san-i san-i itary train, with the Fortieth division. I and the color of the Utah battery in I tiie Philippine campaign, which never have bn turned over to the fctate. if 1 t he colors are secured, they will be I placed in the pmsosed memorial hail, if built. |