St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-03
BOARDS OF SURVEY
And Courts Martial Occupy Army
II Officers.

anu courts Martlai occupy Army
LdP Officers.
~ Col. n. A. NJ. Dudley, First cavalry.
commanding Fort Custer, Mont. has
ordered a board of survey to examine
into and fix the accountability for dam
age alleged to exist in certain clothing
sent to that post for issue to troops.
Capt. William r. Hail, medical depart
ment: Capt. Owen j. Sweet. Twenty
/ fifth infantry, and Lieut.. U. G. Nc
Alexander, Twenty-ffth infantry, con-
stitute the board.
Naptain.John 81. Patterson, Twentieth
infantry, who, subsequent to his inspec-
ton of the Minnesota National Guard.
availed himself of two weeks leave of
absence, returned to st. Paul. yesterday
en- route to join his command at Fort
MaginniS, NJ. L.
Orders have been issued for the gra-
tuitious distribution at Fort Keogh. w.
t., of three days Indian rations-the
benefciarieS being destitute band of
Cheyennes.
Recruits John Snajdr, August Beck.
Edward Burns, Daniel Keefe, Thomas
McCarson and Rudolph Rossunder, re-
Gently forwarded by Capt. Frank D..
Garretty, Seventeenth infantry. re-
cruiting officer, to the Twelfth infantry,
at Fort Yates, Oak, have been assigned
the first named to Companies E and
III of that regiment
Corporal Jacob Bruck, Company 1,
Twelfth infantry, Fort Yates, OAK. has
been reduced to the grade of a private
soldier.
Upon the recommendation of his COM
pany commander Private George c.. De
Forrest, Company E, Fifteenth infantry,
Fort BufOrd, OAK, has been appointed
corporal, vice Somers, reduced to the
ranks.
For gross disobedience of orders Sergt.
Alfred Schlemm and Corp. Edward
Brady, Company l, Twenty-second in
fantry, Fort Keogh. Mont, have been
reduced to the ranks, and Corp. Fritz
LentZOw and Private Charles L. Heintz,
respectively, promoted in their stead.
Private SilaS M. Hoover has also been
appointed corporal in said company.
vice LentZOw, promoted.
A court martial at Fort Missoula.
Mont. has sentenced Private John II.
cambridge, Company K. Twenty-fifth
infantry, to forfeit SO of his pay and to
be confined in the post guard house at
hard labor for period of thirty days.
Private Green T. Cox, hospital corps.
and Corp. Charles Schultz, troop l.,
Eighth cavalry, Fort Keogh, Mont.
have each been granted furlough of
four months, with permission to 20 be-
yond the limits of the division of the
Missouri.
Private Julius II. Howard, COMPANY
|. Twenty-fifth infantry, Fort Missoula,
Mont, has been appointed corporal in
said company, to succeed Corp. John
son, who has been promoted to regi-
mental sergeant major.
Col. Mason has made the following
promotions in the regimental band of
the Third infantry, at Fort Smelling:
Corp. DOnahue to be sergeant, vice
Thompson, discharged; Private Lewis
Hollenbach, to be corporal, vice Dona-
hue, promoted.
The department commander has ap-
proved of the following court martial
sentences: Fort Buford, D. T.-Private
Charles E. Morton, troop &C." 1st Cav
ialry-violation of the Goth article of war
$50 fine ana six months confinement.
Fprt Custer. NJ. T.-Private John Hart,
leave, theft, and violation of the nth
article of war--dishonorable discharge
and two years confinement in Fort Leav-
ehworth. Fort Keogh. NJ. T.-Private
William Berner, troop NJ, LIST Cavalry
- desertion - dishonorable discharge
and confinement for one year
and six months at Fort Smelling;
/ Private Joseph O'Brien, band, Second
: Infantry, violation Seventeenth article
of war, and conduct preiudicial to good
order and military discipline, forfeiture
of $40, and confinement for two months
in the post guard house; Private John
= a. Officer, Troop NJ, First cavalry, deser-
ton. diShOnorable discharge and four
years confinement in Fort Leaven-
worth; Private Charles E. Spencer.
Company c. Twenty-second infantry,
desertion, dishonorable discharge and
confinement for four years in Fort Leay-
enworth; Private William Sprague,
Troop NJ, First cavalry, desertion, dis
honorable discharge and confinement
for three years in Fort Leavenworth.
Fort Snelling-Privates William T.
RAYMOND and Michael Hayes, Company
K, Third infantry, drunkenness in each
case. dishonorable discharge and con-
finement in post guard house for eight
months and six months, respectively.
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