The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-14
Military and Personal.

Since Capt. j. @. Adams, LIST Cav, went
east, he has been placed on recruiting detail,
and is now on duty in Chicago
1t. j. B. Aleshire, LIST Cav, has been Or
dered to Fort Bidwell from Fort Walla
Walla, for duty with G Troop, LIST Cav.
| Gen. Nelson A. Miles was still in Wash.
ingtpn on Tuesday. 1t is not known when
he will start on his return to the depart
ment.
Major G. G. Hunt, LIST Cav, and DR.. J.
| H. Bill, formerly stationed here, were in
| Washington at the Ebbitt House the last
week in November.
Capt. Frank ID. Baldwin, Judge Advocate
of the department, started yesterday for
Walla Walla, ON official business, and will
probably be absent two or three days.
! Capt James Jackson, Troop B, LIST Cav,
arrived down from Fort Ceur d'Alene yes
terday, on duty in court martial case now
before a general court in session at the Bar
racks.
The order directing Major j. P. Candy,
pay department, to take station at Vancou-
yer Barracks has been rescinded, and he will
remain on duty in Portland, Or, until fur
Their orders.
Co. X, 2lst Inf, 1t. c. H. Bonesteel in
command, have rejoined their station at
Vancouver Barracks, having completed the
Astoria and Fort Candy telegraph line as far
as practicable this season.
The promotions of Major Bernard and 1t.
Upham of the LIST Cav, promotes End Lieut..
John Pitcher to LIST Lieut., and leaves Capt.
j. Q. Adams and j. G. Galbraith first on the
list for promotion in th(begiment.
Hosp. Steward VIM. Book has been re-
lieved from duty at David's Island, N. Y,
to report at Fort Spokane, and Hospital
Steward VIM. w. Dali, Washington Bar
racks will report here for assignment.
1t. Frank Greene signal corps, reported
at headquarters on Tuesday, having COM
pleted for the season the work at the mouth
of the Columbia on telegraph construction,
and will now resume charge of his signal sta
ton at Dayton, W. I.
Capt. Frank X. Upham, late Adjutant of
the lst Cav, having been promoted to the
Captaincy of Troop G, LIST Cav, vice Ber-
nard promoted to Majority in the Sth Cav,
sailed on Friday for San Francisco, en- route
to Fort Bdwell. Cal, his family accompany
ing him.
On Dec. sth, 1t Philip NJ. Price, U. S.
engineer corps, who has charge of the gov
eminent work at the Cascades, met with a
severe accident His men were engaged in
blasting large rock at the edge of the water,
and 1t. Price stationed himself behind q
large tree about so feet away, when the fuse
was lighted. The blast threw large rock
into the tree and it fell crashing through the
branches upon his ankle Several bones
were crushed, but the attending physician
says he will recover without necessity Of
amputation.
The army and Nary Journal says: There
seems to be a reasonable probability that by
the lst of July next, the corps known as
General Service Clerks" will have disap-
peared from the army rolls, and in their
places will be found civilian clerks at an
adequate rate of compensation. Adjutant
Gen. Drum and his assistants have unani-
mously recommended this measure in their
recent reports as tending in many respects to
the good of the service They have disap-
peared from the War Department under leg
islation of last summer. and there is no mil
itary reason why they should be maintained
at the headquarters of divisions and depart
ments, where numerous civilian clerks are
already employed in the staff offices of those
headquarters.
The infantry are coming to the front in
the contest for the Nevada Trophy. A cir
cular OF Nov. 10, published by Gen. Scho-
field shows that Co. b. 2lst u S. Infantry
| Capt S. b. Jocelyn). stationed at Fort
| Townsend, made in competition for the tro-
ply scores as follows: At 200 yards SS.2
per cent; at 500 yards, Sc. SO per cent. This
gives an average per cent. of S7.42. If ex-
animation shall prove that so per cent. of
the strength present and absent, officers aud
men, of Capt. Jocelyn's company, have. as
| ,kaI do, ta,, NIL, ol1te
during any meath's regular practice" an
average of nearly 90 per cent. az 200 and 81
at 300 yards kneeling. without sheds. or
shelter of any kind from wind or weather,
and strictly as certified. there is hope that
the infantry will lead in Workmanship, as
certainly considering the requirements from
that arm it is proper they should do-Aymy
and Mary Journal.