St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-08
HEADoUARTERs REMOVAL.
1t is Definitely settled That Head
quarters will be Moved from
Smelling TO ST. Paul--Social Acqui-

quarters will be Moved from
Smelling TO ST. Paul--Social Acqui-
siIiOns.
A general order has been prepared at
the war department changing the head
quarters of the department of Dakota
from Fort Smelling, Mimi. to ST.
Paul. Mimi, on the first of NOvem-
ber and the headquarters of the division of
the Pacific from the Preside of California
to San Francisco. on the same date, says a
Washington telegram.
There was no doubt felt at Fort Smelling
yesterday that the headquarters OF the de-
partmenJ were to be transferred to st. Paul
and that the entire transfer was to be ac-
compliShed by the first of the month. The
official order will probably not be made
public until the printed copy has arrived
from Washington. but in the meantime the
matter is considered absolutely settled, and
arrangements are being quietly made for
the move. The following officers of Gen.
Rugers staff will accompany him to the
city. Personal staff, Lieut.. Robert +.
Bates, Eighteenth infantry. aide Gle
camp and. inspector of rife practice;
department staff, Brig. Gen. Thomas
NJ. Vincent, adjutant general; Brig. Gen.
Edwin c. Mason. Fourth infantry, inSpec-
tor general; Lieut. Col. J. NJ. Moore, chief
ouartermaster; Lieut.. Col. c. B. PenrOse,
chief cOmmlssary; Col. Glover Perrin, med
ical director; Lieut.. Col. W. IL. Johnston,
chief paymaster; First Lieut.. John Biddle,
chief engineer officer. Among these, Gen.
Vincent will not arrive from Washington
for a month; Gen. Mason will be III st.
Paul but short time when his place Will
be taken by Col. Drum, ordered from Ari-
IONA, and Lieut.. Biddle will be engaged
until the middle of November at western
posts. But by the first pr0XimO all the
others will be in st. Paul. a GLOBE re-
porter found general satisfaction among
all officers at the move. The advantages
offered by the city they know very
well how to appreciate. Among the ladies
whom this pleasant change will add to the
resident society of st. Paul are Mrs. Thomas
II. Ruger, Mrs. Thomas NJ. Vincent. Mrs.
G. 3. Penrose, Mrs. j. NJ. Moore, Mrs. G.
Perrin, Mrs. Robert F. Bates, Miss Ruger,
the Misses Johnston. the Misses Gill and
the Misses Perrin. Every one is talking
about the great changes that must now be
made, but, of course. much is as yet only
speculation. What is known is that the
Twenty-tifth infantry will be ordered away
begun for white troops near the present
site of headquarters. The old post will be
RACED to the ground with the exception of
the newest buildings and the whole plain
made clear to the river. A GLOBE reporter
was told that there is already 5000, 600 in
hand to begin work.
MINOR ARMY NOTES.
4 general court is appointed to meet at
Fort Totten Oct. IL, at 10 O'Clock a. m. The
detail for the COURTS Capt Henry j. Nowlan,
Seventh cavalry; Capt. Frank d. Baldwin,
Fifth Infantry; Capt. Augustus a. DeLofre
medical department; Capt. Edmund Rice.
Fifth infantry; First Lieut.. William II. G.
Bowen, Fifth infantry: First Lieut.. Hunter
Liggett, Fifth infantry; Second Lieut.. John
@. Waterman. Seventh cavalry; Second Lieut..
James E. Wilson, Fifth infantry; Second
Lieut.. William II. Sage, Fifth infantry; First
Lieut.. Albert j. Russell, Seventh cavalry,
Judge advocate.
First Lieut.. p. P. Powell, Ninth cavalry.
arrived at Smelling yesterday with twenty
three recruits from Jefferson barracks for
the First cavalry.
Maj. William T. Down, Fourteenth infantry,
the new inspector general of the department.,
reported yesterday for duty.
James H. Daily has secured the government
contract for printing at headquarters.
First Lieut.. John BiddIe left yesterday for
Fort Custer.