St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-08
RANK AND FILE.
Matters Pertaining to This De-
partment of the Army.


department., has been granted leave of
absence until May 81 ON account of sick
ness.
Leave of absence for two months, to
take effect June IL, is granted Second
Lieut.. Benjamin A. Poore, Twelfth in
fantry, Fort Sully, Oak.
The commiSsary officer at Fort Keogh,
Mont, has been ordered to issue three
days Indian rations to two Cheyenne
indians now visiting that post and with
out means of subsistence.
Private William d. Wyant, Company
d, Fifth infantry, has been relieved
from special duty i'll the quartermaster's
department at Fort Keogh, Mont. and
Private Edward Nolan, Company l,
detailed in his stead.
Authority from division headquarters
grants Through for fouI months to
Sergt. Bruno Hartman, Company A,
Nineteenth infantry, with permission
to go beyond the limits of the division,
to take effect July 10.
Upon the recommendation of the COM
pany commander, the following appoint
ment is made in Company ID, Third in
fantry, at Fort Shaw, Mont: Private
Michael Dyer to be corporal, vice
Thompson, permitted to relinQuish
rank.
H. G. Sickel, first lieutenant Seventh
cavalry, was visitor at department
headquarters Yesterday. Lieut.. Sickel
is the cOmmiSSary officer at Fort Yates,
and is enjoying brief leave of alb
sence, granted to enable him to attend
TO some important private business.
Private Frank Peters, Company E,
Third infantry, Fort Custer, Mont, has
been detailed to relive Private Herman
SimonSOn, same company, now on de-
tached service at Terry's Landing,
Mont, guarding and caring for govern
ment property. Private Simonson will
rejoin his company at Fort Custer.
Capt. William II. Hammer, Twentieth
infantry, is registered at department
headquarters, with quarters at the Mer-
chants. The captain is en- route to re-
join his company at Fort AssinnibOine,
Mont, in compliance with the war de-
partment order which recently relieved
him from duty at the Fort Leavenworth
prison. where he has been since Deem
Der, 1885.
A board of survey is ordered to con-
Vene at Fort keOgh. Mont, to inVeSti-
gate the causes leading to the desertion
from that post of Musician Max Fox,
Company B, Fifth infantry; and Private
John c. Howard, Troop A, Seventh cav
airy. The board will ascertain what
property HIS D6Sl lOSO vi
stolen by the deSerterS named, and fix
the responsibility therefor. Capt. T. III.
Logan, First Lieut.. j. c. f. Tillson and
Second Lieut.. w. Ii. Chatfeld, Fifth in
fantry, comprise the board.
Second Lieut.. James O. Greene,
Twenty-ffth infantry, Fort Sisseton,
Oak, and William c. Neary, Third in
fantry, arrived in st. Paul yesterday
and are registered at department head
quarters. Lieut.. Neary has recently
been commissioned in the army, having
won his promotion by competitive eX-
animation from the grade of corporal
battalion. He is en- route to join his
company at Fort Shaw. Mont.
By direction of the secretary of war,
Post Chaplain John F. Dolphin, U. S.
army, has been assigned to duty at the
post of Fort Smelling, and ordered to re-
port to the department commander for
duty. Chaplain Dolphin is a Roman
Catholic, a native of Hastings, Mimi,
and scholarly gentleman whose attain
mentS Justify the prediction that the
personnel of the army has acquired a
most valuable acquisition in his appoint
ment thereto.
The superintendent of the general re-
cruiting service has been directed to
cause to be prepared and forwarded
under proper charge, to such point or
points in the department of Dakota as
the commanding general thereof may
designate, thirty recruits for assignment
to the Fifteenth infantry; to the depart
ment of the Missouri, thirty recruits for
assignment to the Eighteenth infantry;
and to the department of the Platte,
thirty recruits for assignment to the
Twenty-firSt infantry. These men will
be assigned as equitably as practicable
among the companies of the respective
regiments.
In accordance with war depar tment
order received by the department COM
mander last evening, the Twenty-fifth
infantry and the department of Dakota
lose an experienced and valuable officer
in the person of Capt. Edwin j. Stivers,
now stationed at Fort Smelling. Capt.
StiverS has been found by an army re-
firing board to be incapacitated for
active service and untitled for further
duty, and the order directs him to pro-
ceed to his home and report by letter to
the adjutant general of the army to
await retirement. Capt. Stivers entered
the army as fifer in Company K of
the Eighty-ninth Illinois Volunteer
infantry, Aug. Z, 1862, and rapidly
passed through the various grades of
nOn-commiSSioned officer to that of SER
geant major of his regiment. In De-
cember, 1868, he was commissioned
second lieutenant in the Seventeenth
United States colored infantry; was
promoted TO be first lieutenant in Feb
ruary, 1864, and captain in August,
1865. In February. 1867, he was APP
pointed second lieutenant in the For
tieth Regular infantry; promoted first
lieutenant in September, 1868, trans
ferred to the Twenty-fitth infantry in
April, 1869. and promoted captain Feb.
10, 1888. Capt. Stivers is native of
Ohio, andwas appointed to the army from
Illinois. He and his estimable wife
will carry with them the good will and
esteem of large circle of friends and
acquaintance in st. Paul and Mime