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Show GUHS AT F0RL ; BDOiMIH TIOTE OFIJURIIC AH Work Discontinued for Day as Official War Department Notice No-tice of Death Is Read With thirteen guns booming their notee of sorrow at sunrise thla morning, Kort Douglas began Ha official of-ficial mourning for tha death of Prealdent Harding. All day long at Intervals of thirty minutes the reveille gun at tha post la being fired and at sunset tonight forty-sight forty-sight aune will glv th. ..I,,.. I. the Union. At 1 o'icock thla morning all tha troops in ths regular fort ganieoa ss well ss ths students In the training train-ing camp wltl tha demonstration troops were paraded at the post whlls Colons! F, L Knudeen read the official notice from the war department de-partment of the deeth ot the president. presi-dent. Under ordere from the department depart-ment all work of every kind waa discontinued for tha day. The post flag will fly at half-stsff until after aft-er the funersl of the lata preaident and the regimental and organisation organisa-tion colors will bs draped In mourning mourn-ing for a period of thirty daye. The official mourning for regimental colore consist of two atrlpa of crepe, esch seven feet long and twelve Inches wide, attached ta the ferrule of the color staff. Tba officers of-ficers In the army will wear crepe st tha aword hilt far thirty .days. NJOV OUTINd. This afternoon tha students tn ths training ramp are enjoying an outing out-ing at Baltalr, for which excursion apeclal trolley cars hava been provided. pro-vided. At I o'clock the tmys will est a picnic lunch at the reeort and It would appear from the bill of fare that they will not famlah while absent ab-sent from ths camp. Lieutenant Barrell. camp meea officer, baa provided pro-vided a lunch consisting of potato salad, veal loaf, meat aandwlchea of four varieties, fresh tomatoes, green oltvea, pickles, fresh fruit, lea cream, cake and lemonade. TWO DISCHARGED. William James Law Jr. of Orey-bull Orey-bull Wyo.. and Merrill Kenneth Beaty of Fairfield, Mont, wara, by order of tha camp commander, discharged dis-charged from tha training camp thla morning and sent to their respective re-spective Domes. The ordere relieving re-lieving theea boys from further attendance at-tendance atate that "having dem-onst dem-onst rated Indifference, to military training, trawlHlngaeas ta oney lawful law-ful orders, and having given evidence evi-dence of tralte of character which Indicate that with further training they cannot attain tha quallflca-tlnna quallflca-tlnna for which they ara candidate they ara relieved from further attendance at-tendance at tha cltlaens' military training camp." Arrangements have been made to make Fort Douglaa one of the relay t st lens tn the pony express race, which will be run in Auguet from St Joseph, Mo. to Man rYancleco. Under the present plana ponies and rtdera will ba exchanged at tna post. |