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Show OGDEN SOLDIERS ARE TD LEE EARLY SUIIY Salt Lake, June 24. The National guard of Utah will be sent to the Mexican Mex-ican border just as quickly as it can be reasonably equipped and mustered. Each unit will go, irrespective of other units, as soon as It is mustered Into the federal service, If reasonably equipped. Orders to this effect were received yesterday by Captain W. B. Wallace, mustering officer for the United States army. In all probability the battery of field artillery wll bo the first to leave and will be ready to move Monday. The battery has all Its equipment except ex-cept horses, and should have Its quota of men by tomorrow night. As soon as the required number of men have been enlisted the battery will be mustered mus-tered into federal service. The work of mustering in probably will begin today and will bo completed by Monday Mon-day noon. Cavalry Troops A -and C of Salt Lake and Troop B of Ogden are now recruited to peace strength. To fill another troop to the required strength probably can be accomplished within a day or two and the first sqladron of cavalry should be ready to follow the battery closely. The recruiting and equipping of the second squadron will require a little more time, but it the appeal of the governor is met with the proper response the last unit of the Utah guard should be on Its way to the front within ten days or two weeks, if the present order Is not Need of Troops Evidenced. The urgent need of troops on the border is indicated by the order that troops reasonably equipped should bo rushed to the front. Ordinarily troops ere not sent out for active service unless un-less fully equipped, full equipment including in-cluding horses and such other means of transportation as may be prescribed. prescrib-ed. With the exception of the battery all Utah troops are cavalry. The battery bat-tery is fully equipped with everything except horses, of which It has ten. The cavalrymen have no horses at all owing to the recent change from infantry, but otherwise they are fairly well equipped, except the Logan troop an-1 the new troop now being formed. The term "reasonably equipped" means the elimination of delay incident inci-dent to obtaining horses and other means of transportation, and even some of the minor articles of equipment equip-ment may be overlooked. On the strength of the urgent call for troops the complete mobilization of the Utah troops will be begun at once. The Salt Lake troops and the battery went into camp yesterday at Fort Douglas. Ordered to Salt Lake. Last night Adjutant General Wedgwood Wedg-wood issued orders bringing the Ogden Og-den troop to Salt Lake tomorrow and the troops from Manti, Ephralm and Mount Pleasant will arrive Monday. The Ogden troop will leave Ogden at 7.1f o'clock tomorrow morning on a special train over the Oregon Short Line, and . the southern troops will come on a special train over the Denver Den-ver & Rip Grande, leaving Manti at S o'clock Monday morning. The movement of the troops from Logan and of the new troop from Utah county has not been ordered. As the Logan troop practically has Its complement of men, its movement may be expected early In the week. Officers Disappointed. The work of organizing the new troop in Utah county has been slow, and no date for its movement to the concentration camp has been fixed. Captain J. F. Sharp and Captain Freeman Free-man Bassott spent yesterday In Provo In the interest of the recruiting department, de-partment, and enlisted fourteen men. Last night, with Captain "vV. B. Wallace Wal-lace and Captain Wesley King, they attended a mass meeting at American Fork in the Interests of the department. depart-ment. The meeting lasted two hours and little enthusiasm was displayed. Only two men from American Fork offered of-fered their services to the state and the government after the matter had been discussed for fully two hours. The officers were deeply chagrined. General Wedgwood reported to the commandant of tho western department depart-ment last night that 507 men in Utah were under arms. This number did not include the troop at Logan or the recruits enlisted yesterday. The minimum number of men required re-quired to muster the four Utah units into the federal service is approximately approxi-mately 735. Taking Into account the Logan company and tho recruits obtained yesterday, General Wedgwood Wedg-wood estimated last night that at least 110 more recruits would be needed to fill the units to peace strength. Tho battery ' 111 require about ten more men, the field hospital about twenty and the cavalry about eighty. The maximum number of men that would be accepted by the government on the order would be approximately 1000. Twenty recruits wero accepted at tho local recruiting station yesterday, bringing the total to date to seventy. Those who were accepted were Leo A. Clayton, J. P. LeRoy, A. B. Brlng-hurst, Brlng-hurst, E. J. Gallacher, W. A. Bailey. Paul Goinoll, Charles W. Frame, Jack Rhodes, Edward McLaughlin, Edward E. Wishon, David Turk, A. G. Slado, R. E. Northrup, Roy Dearlng. Laurln Ross, Roy F. Reed, Joseph McDanlel, T. H. Pearson, George E. Wade and H. D. Walsh. |
