The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-04-28
Military Items.

Surgeon VIM. G. Spencer departed for his
new station at Fort Ceur d'Alene on Mon
day.
Asst. Surgeon Candy, now at Camp Spo-
kane, has been ordered to duty at Fort
Stevens.
Lieut.. Thos. w. Symons, Engineers de-
partment, returned from San Francisco on
Monday.
Orders have been issued for the transfer
of part of the armament of Fort Stevens to
Fort Candy.
Lieut.. S. r. Jones, 4th Artillery, has been
ordered to conduct an insane man of Battery
Nj to San Francisco.
Capt. Goddard, of the U. S. Revenue Ser
vice, stationed on Puget Sound, paid the
post visit on Friday last.
Lieut. r. 7. Earle; Cd Infantry has been
ordered from Fort Lapwai to Lewiston, to
look after stores and subsistence.
Capt. S. p. Jocelyn, 2lst Infantry, visited
at the post during the week, starting on his
return to Fort Townsend on Tuesday.
Hospital Steward Cassiday has been Or
dered to duty at Fort Stevens, in place of
Hospital Steward Terrier, who goes to Fort
Townsend.
Lieut.. J. w. Duncan, 2lst Infantry, will
have charge of a detachment of recruits dur
ing his return to this post, from the New
York recruiting station.
Major Ely Mcclellan, Surgeon U. S. A.,
arrived down from Fort Lapwai on Satur
day, and has been assigned to duty at de-
partment headquarters
Lieut. VIM. G. Mallory, Aide-de camp
Who,to,,o f,H
Bonesteel, DIST Infantry, returned from their
trip to Fort Candy on Friday last.
The steamship California arrived in Port
land on Sunday from Alaska, bringing ten
Indian boys from Alaska for Capt. M. G.
Wilkinson's Indian school at Forest Grove,
Ogn.
A letter from Gen. H. A. Morrow to Col.
L. c. Mason, dated at Niles, Michigan,
| April 9th states that he aud his wife were
called there by the serious illness of Mrs.
Morrow's father, who is not expected to sur
vive long. Mrs. Morrow, at the time Of
writing, was quite i'll from an attack of
| rheumatism.
Major John A. Kress, Chief of Ordnance
of the department, and Lieut.. Francis j.
Patten, 2lst Infantry, will in a few days
depart for Boise Barracks on special duty.
During the absence of Major kress Captain
G. NJ. Downey will have charge at the ar
senal. and act as Chief Ordnance officer of
the department
We have received cards of invitation an
nouncing the marriage on May 9Th, 1881, AZ
Grace Church, Chicago, of Capt. Charles A.
H. McCauley, U. S. A., aud Miss Olive Lay,
eldest daughter OF A. Tracy Lay, Esq, a
prominent lumberman of that city. We ex-
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their friends on this coast
On Friday evening last there was given at
the new hall at the garrison masquerade
hop, the last Of the regular course for the
winter season. There were present about
| rs persons, the officers of the post and
headquarters, and their families. From
abroad there was Capt. Jocclyn and Captain
Goddard, and few ladies and gentlemen
from Portland 1t was superior to anything
of the kind we ever witnessed, the costumes
being very fine. and the characters assumed
being well sustained in all respects. Want
| of space prevents us from making comments
upon them, though all were deserving OF it..
| We set it down, however, as the greatest
social success of the season on the Pacific
coast.
A Washington dispatch of the associated
press dated the 26Lh April comments as fol-
| lows on the easy positions SO long held by a
few of the officers of the army: Secretary
| Lincoln. it ID understood. has declared his
intention to relieve and send to their regi-
ments such officers of the army AS have en-
loved soft bilets of detached duty in and
| about Washington for several years. The
most prominent case, and one which is with
out parallel, is that of Thomas II. Bradley.
Brvt. Captain and LIST 1t. 2lst Infantry. who