| Show COIl COL THOMAS liMitE Noted British Army r to Spend the lie Summer In itt Salt S It Luke Lake Colonel It 1 t Bryce Thomas n a noted British army culver who has spent a n great portion of ut his hll life lICe In the service of ut his hili country In iii far oft off India Is in 11 Salt SnIt Lake Lali und and anticipates remaining hero here for the III next two or three months Colonel Thomas Is an nl exceedingly In Interesting and ban iiii n IL decided decidedly ly iy I pleasing personality This Thi IK is I not his ht hirst trip trill to the tile United States HP lip UFe through Suit Snit Lake with his lila wife wH in iii EgG after atter having rested for a n few tew months on a n ranch that he lie owned In California While In Nevada em out outto to this thmia city his lila wife stIfe tell fell Ill and for Ir some koine time lint was wall In quite a It serious state at nt the time Templeton hotel The rho care of ot ofa ofIL a IL couple of at physicians and a It nurse soon reitor restored her hor however and amid the tho jI to England was resumed her nt ot that lint time the colonel purchaser a number of ot books book treating upon Ullon Mormon doctrine and read them with such earnestness that he lie became a 11 convert to the Mormon fulth faith On Or reaching lila Ills native lIall land lani he sought out Olt the Mormon Elders and learned more about the Church with the result that thoth he hit h was baptized the thc year following The Col oi 01 has spent pent the last two to or three days day dH In calling upon friends and making new ones Today he tie met mot Preel President dent now and made a n call nt at atthe the News eked Asked as to tho the war wor warIn worIn In South Africa he said Mid saidI MidI I think It will soon be hI over England for or a time was ivus not able to 10 understand or ur successfully cope with Hoer Boer meth methods OdA od of war Ill Her army arro was organ organized just jUt as the tue other great reat armies of I Europe Hut But when sue she got sot over oer there she found tOil that Infantry and artillery could rouM not follow folios the tue Doer Boer on his hili fleet tooted looted horse hors and onti as a consequence had to l learn rn to mount her Infantry and to meet thu Boer as the lIner Hoer mot met the British Put But continued the colonel we dont lont seem to have had much more trouble In South Africa than the United States had In the Philippines besides you OU liars have been at nt It II two years longer than we have and arc are not through with It yet et either Concerning his Impressions of ot Salt l Lake ke Colonel Thomas said Raid I 1 very Vet vcr much like your broad streets and air and light Is nil all of ot that that Is needed antI and that Is i a great deal |
