The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-08
TIE dRUy 1ND N1Yy
Movements of Rank and File and
Mhcrnnbnnts of Nrasnls

! hoNcments OF RANK ana File and
Whereabouts of Vessels.
Veterinary Surgeon Asa X. Balkan,
| Eighth Cavalry, will be discharged the
service on Thursday.
First Lieutenant Samuel w Miller,
| Firth Infantry, has been granted leave for
month from Fort Keogh, Montana.
Chaplain Ebcn w. Brady. U.s.A.. has
| Teen granted leave for three weeks from
Fort David A. Russell, Wy, to begin next
| Monday.
General o. o. Howard is expected at
| Omaha In day or two. lie was at Nam
| moth Hot Springs, in Yellowstone Park
last Friday.
| General Nelson A. Miles, who Is now in
| the Indian Territory with First Lieutenant
| Oscar L. Long, Fifth Infantry, his aide-de.
| camp viii return to Fort Lcayenworth on
! Thursday
Major Frank T. Bennett. Second In.
iantfS was in Omaha last Saturday, en-
route to his station at Fort Wala Walla,
wash IT, from his home at Toledo, o.,
where he has been ON leave.
Major George II. Burton, Inspector-C;en.
cral on General Miles staff. left Fort Leay-
cnwonh last Thursday for New Mexico to
INSPECT the posts at Forts Union Marcy,
Wngatc Bayard and Selden.
First Lieutcdaut Charles b. Gatewood.
Sixth Cavalry, who has been commanding
the battalion of Indian scouts In the field
in Arizona, has been relieved, and ordered
to join his troop (Gordon's) at Fort Stan
ton, n. VI.
Naval Orders: Lieutenant Alexander Me-
Ciackin, detached from the New Yorl,
Navy Yard and granted leave until Septcm-
Der 20; Fay Inspector Edwin Stewart, de-
tached from the Lancaster and ordered TO
settle accounts.
Colonel John s, Poland, major Eighteenth
infantry, returned to Fort Leayenworth
lust week from his two months vacation at
Norragansett Pier. His family will not ar
rive at Leayeuworth until the middle of the
month.
Captain Hiram II. Ketcham, Twenty
Second Infantry, has been granted leave
for month. and his Company is In com
mnnd Of Lieutenant Henry C.. Hodges, ir..
at Fort Lewis, Colorado: first lieutenant
W. IL. Kell being absent in Michigan on
leave.
Colonel Allen H. jackson, lieutenant
Seventh Infantry, has been ordered TO the
Department Of the Columbia as Acting
Judge Advocate of that command. General
Gibhon is to he congratulated on getting so
worthy successor to Captain Frank d.
Baldwin of the Fifth Infantry.
Lieutenant Colonel Melville A. Cochran
Of the Fifth Infantry of Font Keogh, was
tried yesterday for perjury and acquitted.
he case was an upshot of the court-martial
of Lieutenant John G.. Fremont In Septem-
Ter, 1884, and the verdict is received with
great favor by the soldiers and citizens.
Colonel Louis Henry Carpenter major
tuth Cavalry, commanding at Fort Supply,
]. r., reported Saturday that the rancho
men in his neighborhood are making every
effort to comply with President Clcveland's
order and have removed most of their
buildings into Texas, and great numbers of
The cattle are already en- route out of the
Territory. The cattlemen also desire to
remove their wire fences, but Colonel Car
penter reports that it win take at least six
weeks more TO do So All the firms en-
ployed increased force to enable them to
comply with the order