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Show CJ-Tipany D Departed Sunday Morning; Special Train Takes Three Companies From Sanpete; Hundreds Of Soldiers Maneuvering-. f'.ie Utah .Militia are now on tlioi Aur.ual Encampment maneuvering i iba vicinity of Sa't Lake and Uia: Couiuies. Nearly 4 0 0 int'antrymei ca-aoed first at Provo last Sunda. moi'jlng prior to their geiting rc.td. fur practice march to Sf.lt Lake Cit i. special train to Sanpete carrie; forty-one men of Company F of Mai. ti, Sixty men of Company G of Epli raini and forty-three men of Co.-npan. D of Mt. Pleasant, to Provo whei. they met Company B of forty-on mfu of Ogden and Company H witi flt'iy-eight men from Salt Lake Cit HcaJed by the Military Band of Com paay E of the twenty-first Unitet Stales infantry the Battallion march up Depot Street to Center Street : turning-' west three blocks and the. northward to North Park which ha been selected for their first campsite One hour after the militiamen a; ! rived at the park the camp was prae tidily complete. What was a fe niiuutes before a barren field wa-quickly wa-quickly transformed into a tented cit and fires were burning in half doze, stoves cooking the noonday mea'. It as a splendid sight. These ra recruits mostly adapted themselvo at once to their new duties and f el to their work with a will. Men wh for eleven months and two weeks i every year sit at an office des. marched through the hot sun in dusty road, burdened with the! equipment, not too heavy, but heav. for a man unused to this sort of thin: and forgot that their hands were sot and attacked the wood pile with : vim. Of course, their camp makin was rude in places and not performo. i us the regular troops would hav done it, but every day will see an in; provement and they will be a fairl well trained men when the cam s cornea to an end about August 14th The camp was made shortly befor i noon and immediately the announce ment was made from headquartei that it would be known as Camp E. A Wcdgewood. Major C. H. Martir United States Army, is in comman and showed his appreciation of th ntce3s of the Utah militia officers b selecting Lieutenant Freeman Basset ai his adjutant. There are four ref ular army officers in the camp wh could have been assigned to this du ty, but Major Martin saw that Lieu tenant Basset knew his business am continued him in the office he regu larly holds "with the Utah infantn batallion. S No drills or maneuvers were held ; Sunday, the only program of instruction instruc-tion being a lecture on "camp sanitation" sanita-tion" by Capt. H. C. Gibner, medical med-ical corps, United States Army. There 1 was "guard mount" at night and the : Uiea performed in a worthy manner a duty wholly new to many of them. Major C. H. Martin of the United States army is the commanding officer offi-cer of the encampment, with Majot W. G. Williams of the National Guard of Utah next in command. The inspector-instructor of the encampment h. Col. J. L. Chamberlain of the Inspector Inspec-tor . general's department, United States army. The arrangements fo. the camp sites and other details of the encampment are in charge oi Lieutenant W. B. W'allace of - the United State3 Army, inspector-instructor for the National Guard of Utah. THE PERSONAL OF COMPANY I) The following are the officers and men of Company D who left Mt. Pleasant early Sunday as their families fam-ilies and friends bade them a shor. farewell at the depot: Capt. Thos. Braby, 1st Lieutenant J. M. Boyden, 2nd Lieutenant George Christensen, 1st Sergt. S. M. Neilson Quarter Master Win. Hansen, Sergt J. B. Staker, Sergt. Sergt. B. E. Reynolds, Rey-nolds, Sergt. J. C. Ericksen. 1st Squad Corporal L. P. Nelson, Privates Or 3on Braby, Manuel Christensen, P. A Lindburg, F. L. Lindburg, Bazel Syn lergaard, Otto Rasmussen and Laurence Lau-rence Carlsen. 2nd Squad Corporal Burke McArthur, Pri vates Lloyd Barton, Ray Tanner, Ly man Seely, Cliton Poulsen, Cam: 3 Jensen, Dazel Jones and Shirley Za briskie. 3rd Squad Corporal M. E. Jensen, Private' Hugh Jensen, T. J. Thompson, Geo Poulsen, Daniel Larsen, Carl Ander ;on, Joe Larsen and Joseph Wise. 4th Squad Corporal Stirling M. Ericksen, Pri ates, Wm. Rosenlof, Alonzo Trus ott, Grandville Freston, Haler Ivif '. V. Spencer, Edward Jensen an: jevi Christensen. Musician, Faireld Larsen. Cook, N. G .Peterson. Teamster, Joseph Meyrick. Mascott, Harold Christensen. Total 4 4 |