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LIEUT.. col. GUIDo ILGEs.

A Sketch Of tao Unpleasant Causes OF
His Resignation ami or His Bril.
liant AIilitshy Career.
Washington special: The resignation Of
Col. Guido Ilges, Eighteenth infantry. has
been received ut the department. As his
unconditional resignation was called for by
the q cretary Of war, it will no doubt be ac-
cepte n by the president ct once. 1nforna.
ton deceived at the war department corrob.
orates the statement already made in the
Pioneer Pres regarding the reason for Col.
1lges' peDemptory resignation. It is to the
edest th4 hehypothecateda at least eight nav
accounts for periods for which he has since
drawn hiS pay In person, amounting
to over $500 Besides this he borrowed con-
siderable amounts of money while here last
made no efforts to repay, although re-
peatedly urged to do SO. He recently ten
dered his RESIGNATION. to take effect Jan. 1
next, and asked that leave be granted him
until that date. Secretary Lincoln how
yer. tele01phed Col. Ilges to the effect that
II he tendred bis resignation to take effect
at once, It would be accepted, otherwise no
would be- tried by court martial for conduct
9npeco ming an officer and gentleman, in
duplicating his pay accounts as above
Col. Ilges Is . native of Prussia, an ex-of-
ncer of the Prussian army and coming into
TINS country. vas appointed captain In the
Fourteaoth Infantry, May ii, 1861. accept
ing bis commission the next month. Dur
ing the rebellion he served with great GAL
Iantry. commanding the Fourteenth during
:mcst OF 1854, and was breveted major for
8aihnt1y at the battle of the Wilderness,
liza AM nj f. 10
Spottsvlvanta, in 1854. Since the war he
was almost continuously on the frontier,
and In 1880, when he exchanged from the
SEVENTH to the Fifth infantry with Major
Brotha eton, he distinguished himself by
rounding up aud bringing in Sitting Bull
ana m band Oft Sioux warriors. Once be-
fore C< i. 1lges has been in similar trouble.
IN 1913, while clptain of the Fourteenth in
iant,y. re duplicated his accounts, was
tenc ID to be cashiered, but Gen. Grant. who
was then president, mitigated the sentence
In consid 0ration of his brilliant war history,
and % he was then the senior captain of in
fantry this action enabled him
to be promoted Dec. 10, 1873,
to major of the Seventh infantry, from
which he exchanged to the Fifth, as stated.
While he was commanding in Missouri in
1879 80 Lieut.. Gen. Sheridan had such COLI
fidence in his ability and Judgment as a
soldier, as we'll as an executive officer, that
he advised Gen. Terry not to send anybody
who will outrank 1lges. Gen. Terry did
not, and lies rounded up Sitting Bull and
his band of renegades. Col. Ilges is one Of
the finest looking officers in the army. He
is over nix feet in height broad shoulders.
and in uniform and mounted is the very
beau ideal of soldier. The cause of his
downfall is more than likely his inability to
believe that two pair will not beat three of
. kfr,d. Fort Assinfnboine, where Col.
1lges was stationed, is the largest and most
noltherly military post in the country, COM
prising eight troops of cavalry and four of
Infantry.