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Show GOVERNOR REVIEWS UTAH GUARDSMEN Heber ( ny. luly 28 Governor William Wil-liam Spry, accompanied by Adputant General B, A. Wedgwood, chief, and other members of the staff Including Colonel Lawrence Green, Lieutenant , Colonel Whitney, Colonel Rodney Badger, Lieutenant Colonel Woolev and Dr. I. S. Critchlow. former colonel col-onel and a guest of the governor, spent todaj in the militar camp near Hcber, named "Lamp William Sprj In honor of the Ltah executive. The governor and party arrived by auto at in o'clock this morning and was greeted with the official salute of seventeen guns, fired by the 1'tah artillery. The military maneuvers which have given both regulars of the Twentieth and the guradsmen plenty of hard work for a week, were continued, with the soldiers fresh after their rest of Sunday Toda the regulars were the Reds, the attacking arm) and the N. G. U. formed the White army, defenders of a strongly entrenched en-trenched position in the hills south of Heber The battle, continued from 1 o'clock until 3, and wnen recall was sounded the White army wns declared victorious, having succeeded in retaining re-taining all of It ground At 5 o'clock Governor Spry and staff rfiviewOd all the troops, both regulars nnd guardsmen, being under command of Colonel .lames A. Irons of the Twentieth The review was undoubtedly ino of the best eer held in the state. All the maneuvers were ghon without a hitch and the men did unusually good work owing in psrt to the open and spacious groun I. Members of the staff who saw the conflict this afternoon left their au-tos, au-tos, mounted army nags ami perforce "took to the hills." from which vantage van-tage point they watched through binoculars bi-noculars th battle that was bloodless blood-less but flercel contested Lieutenant Colonel WoOley, who lias been m camp during tn i ac&mp-ment, ac&mp-ment, working hard and wearing a field uniform, has been appointed president of the board of survey, which has among its duties the adjustment ad-justment of such damages as may happen to be caused by the troops during thojr maneuers. Tomorrow-morning Tomorrow-morning the maneuvers will takf the form of the defense of a supply train by the Reds ithe guard) wtm will leaxe camp at 7 30 to protect fourteen wagons of supplies at Hailstone, the Blues being en route from Park City. The batter will stari on its hike back to Salt Lake City and Brighton The infantrv and signal corps will return by train Thursday, while the regulars will march back to Fort Douglas. |