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Show new conn a FORTJOUGUS SALT LAKE, Aug. 22 Word from Fort Douglas this afternoon statod that the new regimental commander, Colonel Frank B. Jones, would arrive here on Thursday. 10 assume command com-mand of the regiment and post. Colonel Col-onel Jones has Just completed his three years' detail In the adjutant gen-oral's gen-oral's department, where he was as-Rlimed as-Rlimed In 190S while lieutenant-colonel of the Nineteenth Infantn. His promotion pro-motion to be full colonel takos him out of the adjutant general's department back Into the 1 ne once more. Colonel Jones is a native of Mississippi, from which state he was appointed to West Point In 1875, graduating in 1873. He was lieutenant and captain in the Twenty-second infantry, mnjor in the Ninth infantry and made lieutenant-colonel lieutenant-colonel of the Nineteeth in Qctober. 190S. oo |