Show VISITS FT DUCHENE chief of 0 staff of U 6 army on a trip of inspection of army posts major general bell chief of staff of the united states army visited fort duchesne chesne and whiterocks during the past week general bell is ie on a trip of inspection of the army posts throughout the tha country and although port fort duchesne has never before been honored by the presence of one so high in authority of our U S officials general bell made the trip no doubt to inspect in person the existing conditions dit ions and satisfy his own mind its as to the abandonment of fort Duches rL over dver which there ha has hai i been so much discussion from fort duchesne Du chesna he went to whiterocks agency and spent the day with ith captain hall lie ile then left for felt douglass which camo came next on his trip ile he is practically at the head of the united states army and next in authority to president roosevelt in that respect oct general bell graduated from west point in 1878 the same year that secretary taft t graduated from yale and served through his hia captaincy in the ninth and seventh cavalry regiments ile he was jumped over the intervening grades as a regular to a brigu brigadier dier generalship eral cral ship an n 1901 and later was made a major general his record as a 01 colonel of volunteers during the war in the Phillipp Phillip pines mes was waa the means of his rapid promotion no doubt there will soon be a move that will settle the fate of fort duchesne Duce esne one way or the other for years to come it would perhaps have been a good plan to have sent a delegation of a half dozen depre tentative senta tive citizens of this county aa well as the same number from the reservation to explain the matter of retaining the troops at fort duchesne Du chesna to general bell in the proper light |