The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-09

Lieut. and Mrs C. E. S. Wood are at
Fort Candy, and will return to-day.
Gen. Morrow returned to Vancouver from
Puget Sound yesterday morning much ben
Gifted by his trip.
Gen. Sawtelle and family are taking tour
of Puget Sound. visiting Victoria. They will
return home on Tuesday.
The flagstaff on the parade ground at the
Barracks is being removed to position in
front of the Regitnental Headquarters build
ing.
Lieut.. j. G. Shofner 2lst Infantry, has
gone upon leave of absence until April 30th,
1881, with the intention of resigning at that
date.
Gen. 0. o. Howard, and Capt. Pierce.
2lst Infantry, left Spokan Falls yesterday,
and will arrive in Vancouver about Monday
next.
Among the old army officers at the con-
vention yesterday were DR.. Fred w. Spar
ling, and Capt. Geo. d. Hill, U. S. A., re-
tired.
The companies of Cavalry which have
been encamped in the kittitas valley for two
or three weeks returned to Fort Walla Walla
last Sunday.
LIST Lieut.. p 5. Bonus, LIST Cavalry, sta
toned at BOISE Barracks has been detailed
on recruiting service, and ordered to Jefer-
son Barracks, st. Louis.
2nd Lieut. G.. w. Goode, y recent gradu-
ate of the military academy, visited the gar
rison on Tuesday, on the way to his com
pany, Capt. Bendires, LIST Cavalry.
Lieut. +. A. Boutelc, LIST Cavalry, arrived
at the post on Monday on his return from
the rifle contest at Preside, being on the
way to his post, at Walla Walla.
Military headquarters now have tele
graphic communication with Fort CGur
dAlene, the military telegraph line being
finished to that post from Walla Walla.
Lieut.. Col Alex. Chambers and wife ar
rived up on the State Of California on Mon
day, from California, and stopped over at the
Barracks, on his way to his post at Fort
Lapwai.
Although the rifle contests for the year are
over on this coast the crack of the target gun
is daily heard on the range at Vancouver
Barracks, where the boys are keeping their
hands in for next year.
The commissions have arrived, of LIST Lieut..
J. a. Haughey, f Co., 2lst Infantry, pro-
NOTED to Captain, vice Riley; and OF Lieut..
f. +. Eltonhead, promoted to lst Lieutenant
in place OF Haughey. Capt. Haughey will
be stationed at Vancouver Barracks and
Lieut.. Eltonhead at Fort Candy.
Mr. l.. Harrison of the land department
at Washington d. c., Mr. Il. b. kinne re-
Gently appointed Register OF the L. ). Land
Office at Yakima, and Mr.. c. W. Halton.
on Saturday went up the river to make the
appraisement of the Dalles military reserva-
/ = L.. IL H., II,
There died at Vancouver Barracks this
week probably the oldest soldier IN the regu-
lar army James Oliver, ordnance sergeant.
He entered the service i'll 1888, served
through the Florida and Blackhawk Indian
wars, and through the Mexican war. He has
been stationed at Vancouver since 1850.
Prof Huebner, leader of the 2lst Infantry
Band, is lying i'll the hospital, very sick with
typhoid fever. This week two more band
men came down with the fever. IN conse-
quence the band quarters have been vacated,
and the men placed in tents. The sanitary
conditions of the quarters, the oldest at the
Barracks, is found to be very bad
The younger brother of Lieut.. William
Maxwell Wood, L. :. Navy, son of the late
ex-Surseon-G General Wood, U. $. Navy, has
recently been appointed clerk in the Bu-
reau OF Medicine and surgery, IN the Navy
Department. He is also a brother OF Lieut..
c. f. s. Wood. DIST Infantry, who is an
aid -de-camp on the staff of Gen. Q. Q. How
ard.
The AImy and Nary Journal says that
Gen Edwin b. Rabbit, colonel retired, is
still with his son, Major Lawrence 5. Babbitt
of the Ordnance Corps, at Fortress Monroe.
His health has somewhat improved since he
came East from his Oregon home, but it
is doubtful whether he can ever recover from
the stroke of paralysis with which he was
attacked some months since.
A general court martial will convene at
Fort Candy on the 9th inst. The detail for
the court is as follows: Lieut.. Col. Cham
bers, 2lst Infantry; Major o. ID. Greene
Asst. Adjt. General; Major Geo. =. Dandy;
paymaster; Major l.. L. Livingston, 4th Ar
tillery; Capt c. h. Throckmorton, 4th Artil-
lery; Major w. NJ. Graham, 4th Artillery;
Capt. Arthur Morris, 4th Artillery; lst
Lieut.. f. S. Chapman, 4th Artillery; LIST
Lient &. II. Paddock, 4th Artillery, Judge
Advocate of the court.
FARRow's CoMMAND.-The Boise States
i