Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-06-06
ARMY NOTES.

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The Eighth cavalry is not expected at
Meade until the middle Of September.
The Third infantry from Fort Mis-
soula arrived at Fort Meade Thursday
morning last.
Lieutenant George H. Cameron, Sew
cnth cavalry, has had his leave Of alb
sence extended one month.
Companies B, @, T and I are the Third
infantry companies that will hold down
Fort Meade for some years to come.
Leave Of absence for seven days has
been granted Major James r. Roche,
paymaster at Sioux City, iowa.
The second battalion of the Seventh
left Fort Meade on its march to Riley-o
on Saturday morning under command
of Major Bacon.
The first battalion of the Seventh cav
airy left Fort Meade for Riley on Friday
noon. The battalion was under COM
mand of Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Til
ford and Major Baldwin.
Several men belonging to the Twenty
fifth infantry and Seventh cavalry are at
the post here awaiting the arrival Of their
discharge papers. Their time expires
during the coming month.
The Third infantry seems to- all app
pearances d very clever, genial set Of
men. The change recently made in in
fantry regiments has been for the better
for Sturgis in more ways than one.
The citizens of Sturgis welcome right
heartily the officers and men of the
Third infantry to their new post Of duty,
and sincerely hope the relations between
soldier. and citizen will be mutually
agreeable and beneficial.
The officers of the Third infantry at
Fort Meade are: Major Head, COM
mander; Captains Bartlett, Krause and
Thompson; Lieutenants Williams, Kalk,
Bundy, Butler, Kennedy and Beacon.
Captain James A. Snyder, of - COM
pany, is not here, owing to sickness.
First Lieutenant James b. Hickey,
Eighth cavalry, Fort Meade, Dakota, is
ordered to report to the general super
intendent Of the recruiting service for
duty at New York city to relieve Captain
Robert Ell. Patterson, First artillery, who
has been ordered to. join his battery
Globe.
Under the orders Of the war depart
ment, conveyed by letter of the 18th
ult., Inspector General Edwin G. Mason
has been relieved from duty at depart
ment headquarters, and ordered to take
station at Fort Smelling, his promotion
carrying him to the command of the
Third infantry and the post named.
Something new to the citizens of
Sturgis is the fife and drum used by the
infantry in sounding their various calls.
Heretofore The infantry at Fort Meade
have used the bugle, but that has been
done away with by the Third regiment.
When the drum was first heard the old
vets in the city hardly knew what it
meant.
The department of Dakota is likely to
lose this week most efficient and popu-
lar officer in the person of Captain James
A. Snyder, Third infantry, Fort Meade,
Dakota, who has been ordered to Wash
ington, d. G., for examination by the re-
firing board. Captain Snyder has re-
Gently suffered much from i'll health, the
result of wounds received in battle and
disease contracted in the line of duty,
and his prospects of being Immediately
retired from active service amount almost
to certainty.-Globe.
The department commander has de-
tailed the following named officers on
general recruiting service, for the depart
ment of Dakota, at their respective
posts: First Lieutenant Harry D. Reade,
Swenty-fifth infantry, Fort Missoula,
Montana; First Lieutenant Charles L.
Hedges, Twenty fifth infantry, Fort
Shaw, Montana; First Lieutenant Fran
els P. Fremont, adjutant Third infantry,
Fort Smelling, Minnesota; First Lieu
tenant Frank B. Mccoy, Third infantry,
Fort Sisseton, Rakota; Second Lieuten-
anf Chase W. Kennedy, Third infantry,
Fort Meade, Dakota; Second Lieuten-
ant Bard B. Schenck, Twelfth infantry,
Fort Abraham Lincoln, Dakota.