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Show IflJOfi I. E. K1EA5S ! 01 COURT MARTIAL; Major W. K. Kneass, Ogden man and former instructor at the high school, has been made a member df the Sixty-fifth Sixty-fifth brigade court martial at Camp Kearns, according to word received here. Captain Wesley E. King was selected as judge advocate for tho court, and Lieut. Paul A. Williams, former Salt Lake attorney, was chosen cho-sen as his assistant. Other members of the detail selected for the brigade court martial are Captain Edwin G-Wooley, G-Wooley, Jr., Lieut. T. Do Witt Foster and Lieutenant M. Young. Tlie boys at Camp Kearny have fallen to work on the construction of a modern communication trench. When their shovels had cleared away the first few inches of the thick dust which covers the ground the real work was encountered for there is a substratum sub-stratum of earth as hard as concrete over the whole camp. Picks were, plied vigorously, however, and the trenches soon started to go down a few inches. They will be fitted up in the most modern manner possible with telephone wires and the latest fighting paraphernalia. The men wilt receive their instruction in trench fighting in tho system of trenches, which will shelter a whole brigade. Instruction in barrage firing, grenade throwing and other arts of modern warfare will be given the Sammies. oo |