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Show American Fork World W, X. SMITH, UTAH UTAH. NEWS. Utah' rough riders will bo mounted on black hornet. Tooele county's now court house it progressing finely. Mantl is making preparations (or a grand celebration of the Fourth of luly Lehl is now a prohibition towr, the last saloon haring been closed last week. Ten carloads of people went from Salt Lake to Ogden with the Woodmens excursion Sunday, where a monument to a brother was unveiled. The Utah Iower and Electric Light company proposes to extend its wires into Salt Lake and will be prepared by July 1 to furnish light Utah's mineral exhibit at Omaha is the best there. Colorado, Montana and Idaho were not so prompt in getting ready as Utah, hence their displays suffer in comparison. Jack Sinnett, a Salt Lake boy with a weakness for scorching, ran into a horse and buggy, knocking the horse down. Sinnett was rendered unconscious but not seriously injured. Lieutenant Kimball and Sergeant Coblfc of the Utah eavalry troop, came in from San Francisco the first of the week for the purpose of recruiting nineteen more men for their troop. John Q. Cannon has been elected lieutenant colonel of Torreya regiment. Colonel Cannon arrived in Salt Lake Sunday to remain a few days. lie believes the regiment will move shortly. C. K. Bannister of Ogden Is said to be a candidate for state engineer, the place that Willard Young has given up to accept a colonelcy in the volunteer irmy. Lieutenant Wash Young will prob-ibl- y be appointed to the captaincy aade vacant by the promotion of Captain Cannon to colonel, while Second Lieutenant Burt will be made first lieutenant. James Thomas, a tramp, in attempting to board a train at Provo last weclt tad the fingers of his left hand and the loea of his right' foot off, both legs broken near the knee and a deep gssli in hla head. Harry Ilaekwell who was struck by l locomotive on the Rio Oraude Western at a street crossing in Salt Lake last week is dead from the injuries, nis injuries were not thought at first to be serious. Fish and Game Warden 8harp states that many people are under a misapprehension as to the time that the Bass may be fishing season opens. on the trout seaJune but 15, caught son opens a day later on June 18. George Dielson, son of Bishop A. I). Dlelson of Richvllle, Morgan county, was killed by lightning last week, while herding sheep at Soda Springs, Idaha He was a popular young man. The remains were interred at Morgan, The Provo Bar association has preferred charges of intemperance and be-tTe- en ts-Six- th, Tenth, Twenty-firsTwenty-secon- t, d, Eighth, Twenty-fourt- h, Second y, chusetts volnnteers; First, Fifteenth, Seventeenth, Seventh, thirteenth, Third, Twentieth. Total infantry, 518 officers, aud 10,709 enlisted men. Cavalry Two dismounted squadrons of four troops each from the Third, Sixth, Ninth, First and Tenth cavalry, and two dismounted squadrons of fonr troops each from the First United States volunteer cavalry. Total dismounted cavalry, 156 officers, 2875 enlisted men; mounted eavalry, one squadron of the Second, 0 officers and 280 enlisted men. Artillery Light batteries E and K, First artillery, A and F Second artillery, 14 officers and 323 enlisted men. Batteries G and IT Fourth artillery; 4 officers and 133 enlisted men. Engineers Companies C and E, 0 officers and 200 enlisted men. Signal Corps One detachment, 2 officers and 45 enlisted men. Hospital detachments are Included in the above figures. The staff corps numbers 15 officers. The grand total of the expedition is 773 officers and enlisted men. Aside from the men and officers making up the expedition, the boats carried a vast quantity of supplies, ammunition sad war equipment, necessary to maintain an organization of this size for at least 60 days. 14,-5- ot FOR HIS MEN. PRA1S Massa- venality against District Judge Duscn-berrand requests that steps be taken to oust him from office. The only provisions for such a procedure is impeachment by the legislature, and the expense attendent upon such a cause almost precludes it. Judge Dusen-berr- y refuses to resign. The lifeless body of Daniel Hurley was found last week at the bottom of a shaft in the Daly mine at Park Roush Rider For Porto Rico. How the unfortunate man hapCity. Fort Russell, Wya, June 14. Colonel pened to be there is not definitely will go to Jacksonville known, tat the supposition is that Torrey's men and there atones report to General darkin the while wandering around ness he fell into the shaft and was instantly killed, although not a bone in his frame was broken nor his body badly crushed. The dead body of Thomas Bates, a young man of 25, of Monroe, Sevier county, was discovered Sunday morning on the enbankment of the Rio Grande Western railway near Murray. He had been stealing a ride and fell from the train. Gov. Heber M. Wells, with a party of intimate friends, left last Friday for a few days fishing on Wood river, in Idaho, or wherever the fish are most sportive. The governor delights in an outing of this kind. Col. Clayton and Harold Russell are his companions. Colonel X. Trceweck, a prominent mining man, lias been expelled from the Alta club for drawing a gun on W. 8. McCornick, the banker, and threatening his life. Disagreements GEN. BHAFTER growing out of business relations are just previous to (Taken supposed to be the cause of the trouble. 200-fo- ARE HAVING HOT WORK. ot Pabllsher. AMERICAN FORK, Lee, according to orders from headquarters, and will soon be in Cuba, red-hon the trail of the Spaniards The instructions to move at once will probSailed From Key West at the Break ably be cpnstrurd to mean as soon as the balance of equipment and horses of Day. shall have lieen procured. But 800 sets of equipment, including saddles, General Shifter WUI Lead 15,000 Boys In bridles, eta, have been issued, leaving the regiment still nearly 200 short Jtlua to Victory Tlie luuillnt Army Chiefly Composed of Regular The hone board is buying in Cheyenne lufautry Regiments. and will secure the remaining horses necessary at an early date. Colonel Torrey is in receipt of a teleWashington, June 14. The first army of invasion to Cuba is now well gram from the department, routing on its way, 33 transport steamships, the regiment by way of St Louis, and would travel beariog 15,000 officers and men, con- stating that the command in ten sections. voyed by battleships, cruisers, gunThe colonel stated that he had been boats and auxiliary craft, sixteen in number, having actually sailed from given an opportunity to choose havthe Philippines,' with the Key West at daybreak Monday mornto native ponies, or become ride ing. An authoritive statement to thia ing effect was made at the war department dough boys, and the southeast with hod chosen the latter yesterday, setting at rest all reports horses, and he that the expedition was on its way or BOUND FOR THE PHILIPPINES. had landed last week. By Thursday at the late t, the trans- Itoh 11071 Break Tamp Preparatory to ports will be off Santiago, and a large their Lon( Voyage. American army will make its landing San Francisco, Jnne 14. The long on Cuban soil. Admiral Sampson has order to embark arrived yescleared the way for this undertaking, expected It is as follows: and little danger is spprehended in terday. Islands It will be after that, Headquarters, Philippine getting ashore. Forces, Camp Merritt, when the advance is made, that the June 13th, 1898. actual development may be looked Battalion Commanding Officer, for. Utah, Light Artillery: Your battalion The United States regular troops will break camp at 7 o'clock tomorrow make up the greater part of the force, and will take up its march for the there being only three volunteer organ- Pacific Mail dock, arriving there at 0 izations on the ships. These are the oclock. Teams will be furnished you New York infantry vol- to Seventy-firs- t your baggage, and you Second Massachusetts in- willtransport unteers, the leave in camp an officer, one nonfantry volunteers, and two dismount commissioned and six privates, to load ed squadrons of four troops each from the same as rapidly as teams arrive. the first United States volunteer cav- Upon arrival there you will report to alry, the regiment which Colonel Wood Brigadier General Green for instruccommands, and of which Theodore tions. colonel. Roosevelt is lieutenant By command of Major General Otis. Whether any of these officers are with JOHN L. 8EHON, the two squadrons named is not yet General U. S. Vola. Adjutant known at the war department It was It baa been decided to raise another difficult to prevail upon the mounted in Salt Lake of the 104 men to riflemen to leave tlicir mounts behind, battery be recruited there. On thia account but this was was a matter of necessity Llentenant Wedgwood was sent iflstead it is said, owing to lack of accommo- of Lieutenant Lieutenant Naylor. dations for the horse on shipboard. lieutenant, ranking The fnll list of the troops that made be captain of the up this expedition, as reported to the new batter AThe party, consisting of war department by General Shafter, Lieutenant rVedgwood and Sergeants is as follows: Brown and Jshr, left at 6 o'elook la st Sixteenth, Infantry regimen New York volnnteers; evening. Seventy-firs- t 64 Commander J for the Ms Washing Has Only Good Words ho Fought Under Him. aepune 14. The navy vey de public the first partment Admiral receive ter Dewey since Manila. In the letter he he arrived gives a fnll escription of the battle, fall partici ,rs of which are already most every reader, and familiar o he conduct of the men speaking ' let-io- m j says: I beg to state to the department that I doubt if any commander-in-chie- f was ever served by more loyal, efficient and gallant captains than those of the squadron now under my command. Captain Frank Wildes, commanding the Boston, volunteered to remain in command of his vessel, although his relief arrived before leaving Hongkong. Assistant Surgeon Kindleber-ge- r of the Olympia, and Gunner Evans of the Boston also volunteered to remain after orders detaching them had arrived. The conductnf my personal staff was excellent,. Commander R. P. chief of staff, was a volunteer for that nosition, and gave ine most efficient aid. Lieutenant Brumly, flag Lam-berto- But Colonel Huntington'! llucky Marinos Keep Old Glory Flying. The Stars and Stripes Raised at Guantanamo. Washington, June 15. The American flag still floats over Cuban boil on the encampment of the marine battalion and our boys say they will keep it there until the belated troops arrive, if it takes until winter. Thus far the marines have hod the best of the fighting, but the situation is grave, and they are exhausted with Spaniard! Drawn From Entrenchments by Gunboat! and Six Hundrnd Marines Lauded With oat Opposition. repelling almost incessant attacks. They have little chance to rest or sleep and the time of the arrival of the Washington, June 13. Official advices have been received from Admiral relieving troops is uncertain. Were it not for tbo guns of the fleet, Sampson that the United States flag the gallant little baud would be annifloats over Cuba. Six hundred marines hilated by the Spanish troops in overhave pitched their tents about the numbers from Santiago de powering smoking ruins of the outer fortifica- Cuba. As it is, they probably can hold tions of Guantanamo, and the stars and their but position, they cannot move tripes for the first time float on a forward until reinforcements come. Spanish flagstaff in Cuba. The spot is lamentably exposed, To Captain Clark and the battleship while surrounding it on all sides is Oregon belong the honor of making the brush. The least movement in first successful landing of the war. The heavy the camp la the signal for instant tarforty marinee from the battleship went get practice upon the part of the Spanashore and occupied the left entrance ish whose rifles carry to the bay until the Panther arrived much farther than ours, though their with 600 marines. These, under the owners rarely hit anything they aim command of Lieutenant Colonel E. W. at Huntington, arrived at 3 o'clock, and It is to accurately estiwithin half an hour they had burned mate impossible the Spanish attacking force, but the buildings of the Spanish camp and it is numerous About enough. had set fire to the miserable little vilof this force surrounds the camp lage which crouched on the beach un- nightly with a deadly ring, and the der the hilltop of Guantanamo. Mausers of the make things The whole oeration of silencing the spatting for the lively, Spaniards are daring guns and landing the forces was as to crawl enough up and take a pop easy as placing a Sunday school picnic. shot at the marines from the bushes The Marblehead, backed by the Vixen about 30 yards from the camp. and Dolphin, opened on the earthAt night the besiegers fight like Inworks. The shores to the right, of the dians and our old Apache fighters will entrance were lined with guns and feel in their element. Every yard of rifle pits, but the Spaniards stampeded an ambuscade, and picket is ehapparal after firing a few shots The city of is coins with death. Guantanamo lies four miles up the bay, duty flipping After the first attack on Saturday and alittle Spanish gnnboatcame down Colonel Huntington, who is in night, to help the shore batteries; but she charge of the marines, who are holdstayed just long enough to turn around. ing Gils position, decided that another Numerous shots were fired by the attempt would be made on fcfnnday Spaniards, but not one landed and no night, and he caused entrenchments to Americans were injured. be thrown up on all sides of the camp, Guantanamo is about forty miles east and in the trenches the main part of of Santiago de Cuba, and is a splendid the battalion lust night waited for location for a base of supplies for the the attack that the colonel was certain blockading fleet. would come. arrived within a short sharp-shooter- s, two-thir- ds It time Utah Batteries Leave. after dark and from that time un- til daybreak the firing was incessant, San Francisco, Jnne Utah's to sail are for the and at times very heavy. tery boys ready On the American aide two men were field ammuniThe guns, Philippines. tion and camp equipments of the Utah killed and four wounded, the dead be13. bat- batteriei Are on lioard the Zealandia, the last of their supplies are loaded on the China and Colon, and the Senator is being coaled from both sides The Morgan City may have to go on the dry dock. In that event she will not go out with the Zealandia, Senator, China and Colon, but will be added to the fleet composed of the Ohio, Indiana, City of Para and City of Pueblo. The China, Colon and Zealandia will receive their quota of ammunition and with the Senator will sail on Wednesday. It has been finally decided .that no horses shall be taken with the present expedition. This leaves the officers, who purchased expensive mounts, with their horseB on their hands. They will make no effort to dispose of them at present, in the hope that they may be allowed to come with some of the later expeditions. SUPPLIES FOR BLANCO. Iptnl.h Government Will Attempt to Rua the Blockade. London, June 13. General Blanco, having again telegraphed that in case the blockade becomes stricter it will be argent to send war stores, as hia lieutenant, and Ensiga W. P. Scott, supply is running short, the governaide, performed their duties as signal ment has taken steps to distribute officers in a highly creditable manner. abundant supplies by vessels from The Olympia being short of officers for Spanish and foreign ports. The more the battery, Ensign 11. C. Caldwell, important supplies for Spain will be flag secretary, volunteered for, and strongly oonvoyed and sent lmmed of the lately. was assigned to a General Blanco also telegraphs that battery. the authorities at Santiago de Cuba claim to have repelled the American attempt to laud in the inner and outer bays of Guantanamo, the Spanish forces being intrenched in positions commanding the best landing places between Santiago and Guantanamo. n, ing Sergeant Henry Goode and PriyjiJe Tonman. The Spaniards have lost heavily The fight was tlie first of the war in which the Cubans with the American forces, and their was not a glittering success At one time during the afternebn when the marines were firing on a small detachment of Spaniards that made their appearance a short distance from the edmp, the Cubans began firing without orders and sent a volley right among the Americana Thera were several narrow escapes but no one was ' inured. The men freely criticise the policy which compels them to hold a position that could be they say, with half an hour's shelling, but not the faintest disposition is manifested to do otherwise than fight it out. RELEASE OF HOBSON. n, Proposition to Exchange Prisoner! Submitted to Blanco. Madrid, June 15. Early yesterday morning an American gunboat appeared off Havana harbor with a flag of truce. When she arrived within a short distance of the fort, Llentenant Colonel Ramos, on board the Spanish gunboat Flecha, went to meet her. The correspondent understood the sub-divisi- A ThouMBd People Killed. Steamers which Liverpool, June have arrived here from Sierre Leone report that a thousand people were killed in the recent uprising in .that 12. district. One hundred and twenty in. habitants of Freetown, most of them traders, are known to have been and other colonists were carried into the bush by war boys" and undoubtedly met a worse fate. Three hundred friendly natlvee were hilled. Besides the white missionaries, six colored missionaries of the United Brethren of Christ were murdered a t Msnoh-bargrThe English missionaries are at the mercy of the war boys," but inn-sacre- d, u. AND STAFF. their departure (or Cuba.) have not been molested. LIEUT. HORBON. (The hero of the Merrlmaa) Americans proposed an exchange of prisoners captured with the Spanish steamer Argonaut, for prisoners taken at Snntingo de Cuba at the sinking of the collier Merrimac. General Blanco, it in understood, gave no definite answer to the American proposal, alleging that he hud received no instructions from the Madrid government on the subject |