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Show OFFICERS B MEN DISGUSTED Salt Lake, April 29. That "nobody knows" very much about the whys and whereforos of the mobilization of tho United States trQops a San Antonio, Tex., is the conclusion arrived at by Captain J. M. Palmer, company H, Fifteenth infantry, who returned Friday Fri-day afternoon from the scone of tho maneuvers. Captain Palmer brings the information informa-tion that tho officers and men of the Fifteenth are in good health, as are the troops generally, notwithstanding the unsatisfactory weather which has prevailed during the big encampment Captain Palmer Is the first officer of the Fifteenth to return to Fort Douglas since the regiment left on March 8, this year, and ho will leave again at noon" today for Washington, D C , where he goes on duty with tho war department Captain Palmer, when seen at his dismantled quarters at the post last night, was busy delving delv-ing through his household effects preparatory pre-paratory to his trip to Washington, and pla'ced no further significance to tho orders received by him than that he had merely been assigned to temporary tem-porary duty at Fort Douglas and was to continue on to Washington at onco io repoit to the department there. Don't tike the Job. "Conditions for the "naneuvers are not altogether satisfactory at San Antonio," An-tonio," said Captain Palmor, "and to add to the discomfort of the men the weather has been unusuallv Inclement. The officers and men are rather disgusted dis-gusted with affairs generally, hut nevertheless nev-ertheless are in good health and making mak-ing tho best of tho circumstances. "The topography of the country- In and about San Antonio is not fitted for extensive maneuvering to the best advantage. There are no stretches for long marches except to Leon Springs, and tho troops take that trip by turns. Regulation camp Hfo Is being be-ing lived and the time is spent in drilling, Target practice and tho usual routine attached1 to army life. Another disadvantage of the camping grounds is the lack of sufficient water supply. A few hundred visitors in that section would find It ample, perhaps, because they could locate wells if nothing else to supply them, but for nn army of several thousand soldiera the supply-is supply-is deficient Thoro has been too much rain, however, and'the accompanying mud ha3 inado marching and drilling unsatisfactory. "All of the troops that went down originally are still there, and so far as the Fifteenth 1b concerned at least, wo have no Intimation of when we will move." |