The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-04-06
Military and Personal.

The cavalry horses at Fort Boise are suf-
fsring from the ravages of ''pink-sys."
Major G. M. Downey, Capt. 2lst Inf, and
family, leave for the east on to-day steamer.
Capt. Frank d. Baldwin, aide-de-camp,
left yesterday on q trip to the Dalles, on
public business.
The old Fort Dalles Military Reservation
will be sold in May, at auction, commencing
on the 10th day of the month.
The leave of absence for one year granted
1t. S. c. Robinson, LIST Cav, last August,
has been revoked by the war department.,
Capt. John @. Adams, LIST Cav, leaves on
the steamer of to-day, in charge of the de-
tatchment of ordinance destined for Bsnicia
Arsenal.
1t. VIM. p Van Ness, LIST Artillery, ar
rived down from Fort Ceur d'Alene on
Monday, leaving the same afternoon for his
station, going via Victoria.
Major w. H. Eckles. who arrived down
Oh Monday, takes charge of the Chief Pay
masters Office in this department until the
arrival of Col. Rodney Smith.
Capt. Robt. Pollock, 2lst Inf, was at
headquarters on Monday, en- route to Cor
nelius, Or, where he has fine farm, and
where he will remain during his leave of alb
seDce.
| Major JAS P. Candy, Paymaster U. s. A.,
| stationed at Portland, has been relieved from
duty in this department, with orders to re-
port to headquarters military division of the
Missouri.
Post Chaplain David Wills has been re-
| lieved from duty at Fort Walla Walla and
assigned to duty at Fort Colville. He will
spend 30 days at Medical Lake in the hopes
of benefiting his health
The commanding officer at Fort Ceur
d'Alene has been directed to send an Off
Ger for duty to Fort Colville this step be-
coming necessary on account of Major Larned
taking station there and leaving them short
of quarters.
Col. Rodney Smith, Deputy Paymaster-
General, for a long time past Chief Pay
master to Gen. Mcdowell. will shortly leave
San Francisco for Vancouver Barracks, w.
L. to assume a similar position on the staff
of Gen. Miles.
! Sergt. Frank V. Green of the signal corps
stationed at Dayton, has been commissioned
2nd 1t. of the signal corps, his commission
arriving at headquarters yesterday. He
has been ordered to report at headquarters
to consult on telegraphic matters.
The following named officers have been
detailed for recruiting service, in addition
to their other duties, at their respective
posts They will not be relieved, except by
| order of the department commander:
Vancouver Barracks, w. t., LIST Lieuten-
ant Henry H. Pierce, 2lst Infantry; Fort
Townsend, w. T., LIST Lieutenant Willis
Witch, 2lst Infantry; Fort Candy, w. T.,
lst Lieutenant John Pope, Jr., LIST Artillery;
Fort Walla Walla, w. T., LIST Lieutenant
Frank X. Upham, LIST Cavalry; Boise Bar
racks, l. T., 2nd Lieutenant Jacob G. Gal
braith, LIST Cavalry; Fort Lapwai, l. T., 2nd
Lieutenant j. F. Reynolds Lands, LIST Cav
airy; Fort Ceur Alene, l. T., LIST Lieutsn.
ant Charles w. Rowell, 2nd Infantry; Fort
Spokane, w. T., LIST Lieutenant William j.
Turner, End Infantry; Fort Colville, w. T.,
LIST Lieutanant Edmund X. Webster, 2nd
Infantry; Fort klamath, Oregon. End Lieut.
snant Francis j. Patten, 2lst Infantry.
Removal OF the 2lst Infantry.
There has been rumor for some weeks
that the 2lst Infantry is to be transferred
from the Department of the Columbia to the
East in the course of the coming summer.
Before announcing this to our readers we
called on General Morrow, Colonel of the
regiment, and made inquiry as to the ground
of the rumor, and as to the station east
which the regiment will be likely to occupy
in the event Of change. The General said
in substance about as follows: That the
regiment would undoubtedly leave this de-
partment next summer; that information to
that effect had been received from sources
which left no doubt on his mind Of its accu-
racy; that he believed the regiment would
go to the Department Of the Lakes, with
headquarters at Detroit. This was based
not only on report that such was in contem-
plation by the War Department, but on the
further fact that the regiment seemed to
him to have, by reason of long and arduous
service On the Pacific Coast, o claim te go
there. The 2lst Infantry came here in
1869, and in the l3 years which have since
interviewed it has served in Arizona against
the Apache Indians, and in Oregon and
Washington against Modoc, Nez Perez and
Bannock Indians-four campaigns The
campaign against the Nez Perces, under the
command Of Captain Evan Miles, was one of
the hardest in the annals of Indian warfare.
| No greater march-nearly 1900 miles-was
ever made in America than was made by the
troops, especially the 2lst Infantry, in the
pursuit of the Nez Perces We should have
to go to the pages Of Xenophen to find its
parallel. General Morrow thought in view
| Of the conspicuous services of the regiment
and its IL years of campaigning and toll on
the most remote frontier, it would be Or
dered for tour of duty at the east. The
long leaves OF absence, on half pay, required,
and the enormous expense attending 1900
miles of travel in order to reach the east,
had made it impossible for persons in the
military service TO 60 east in person or to
send their children there to be educated.
A trip from the Department Of the Colum-
ba to New York and return coata ahout