| Show r MILITIA BOYS RETURN FROM ENCAMPMENT T JQ Learned Much From Contact With Uncle t x or Sams Sam's Regulars Regular i Ephraim's citizen soldiers returned t Monday noon from a tW two week i I campaign n which is ill said to have been the most mOlt instructive in which the thep p- p r company compan ban haR participated Company G was yaH the tho lar largest pst infantry company t lit the encampment and was as the reA re- re A of many compliments from r f both th the state state-i meers ant and the officers rs A r of the re regular ular army who served as aR hr ill ii I and soli r inspectors The rhe coma company com- com a f 4 pany pan ranks hl high h among the National 7 Guard organizations organization on account of its p efficiency ncy as a a. a unit unit- the endurance of M the thc race men men and the knowledge e of military military mili- mili j l tary affairs displayed by its officers T The fhe Guard organizations arrived in Provo two two weeks a ago o l last st Sunday and andou r Eton i ou the following r Tuesday morning I t began the northward f journey arrivI I 5 ing n at Fort Douglas the following Sunday The trip was made in short 1 i hikes the longest lap of or the jour jour- journet t r nc net ncy covering about twelve miles but this do does not mean that the maneuvers jera ers era were WE're mOl mete mcie e play for there were V frequent skirmishes and often it was r J necessary y to make long detours in inV V order to carry out the plan of attack 7 F The guardsmen worked side aide by s F j side aide with the regulars who were sent y from Vancouver barracks to take part f in la the maneuvers ers In this way the militiamen learned many practical practical th things about army affairs which the they could not learn otherwise and this contact with wiLh men meu who have been in actual service made the encampment encampment f unusually Interesting to the boys who s desire to learn fearn earn The They bay say they have hu nev never a Dicer nier and more congenial f bunch of lIC men than the rt regulars from C y V either r within or outside F of the army And the regulars were equally pleased with the guardsmen r Wh When u they thE left fir Ir the b barracks sit lit r 1 was c with Te regret rt ret that their visit to toj j Utah l had d come ome to o an tin end and I all all IJ ex en- pressed ed the wish that hat they might soon be permitted to occupy the quarters at Fort Fore Douglas 1 t The enca encampment came to a a. close closer r with tho the governors governor's day exercises lost last Saturday but the rifle teams had hall to r remain at the fort fort- for tin comp compo last Sunday l guards guardsmen men wished lo to t apt mi Sunday in the pity and the th c company secured cl per per- s mission to remain until Ul M Monday morning Y Two of tJ tho o local gu were lent gent to lo the hospital during dining the ml maneuvers Jack sustain sustain- tul 1 a fractured forearm while wrest wrest- wrestling ret ling and D. D DRwey e Lund of Ce l I was was opEia lI for appendicitis I rt o 1 |
