St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-15
NOT FIGHTING NOW.
But There Is Deal of Activity
in This Department OF the
ARMY

in This Department OF the
Army,
Post Chaplain John F. Dolphin. q. S.
| army, Fort Smelling. was visitor at
department headquarters yesterday.
Private Andrew ROush, Company f,
Third infantry, Fort Shaw, Mont, has
been promoted to be corporal of that
company, vice Donahue, discharged.
Capt. Harry Reade, Twenty-lfth in
fantry, recently promoted, passed
through st. Paul yesterday Ell route for
Fort Meade, TO take command of Com
pany Z at Fort Sisseton. Oak.
A forfeiture of s. of the pay and five
| days confinement at hard labor is the
sentence of Fort Custer court martial
III the case of Private Alvin TreUbrodt,
Company E, Third infantry.
The duties of typographical officer for
the post of Fort Custer. Mont, have de-
Yolyed upon Second Lieut.. George l..
Byram. First cavalry. vice First Lieut..
! Arthur Williams, Third infantry, re-
lieyed.
Lieut. Col. Joseph r. Smith. surgeon
! United States army, medical director of
/ the department OF Dakota. has gone to
! Monroe, Mich, on a brief leave of alb
Sence granted by the department CON-
mander.
The commissary officer at Fort
! KeOgh. Mont. has been ordered to is
/ sue three days Indian rationS TO thirty
/ men. eighteen women and fifteen chill
| dren-Cheyenne Indians visiting the
| post and destitute.
! Upon the recommendation of his COM
! pany commander, Private Charles
| Schmidt, Company c, Fifth infantry,
| Fort KeOgh, Mont. is appointed a cor
! DOral in said company, to rank ana date
! from the It'll inst, to fill an original va
cancy.
Private Thomas Feeney Company D,
! Fifth infantry, convicted at Fort Ke-
| OCH. Mont. by court martial of drunk
enness on drill, has been sentenced to
! forfeit to the United States so of his
pay and to be confined at hard labor
for thirty days.
The following recruits for the First
| cavalry, assigned from the recruiting
depot at st. Paul, are allotted to Troop
q: William Broman, Fred Blenis,
| Peter Larson, Casper Mayer. John
! Schwartz, Edward Vaillancourt and
Charles F. Warren.
Second Lieut.. W. A. HolbroOk. First
cavalry. with detail of two nOn-cOm-
missiOned officers and eighteen privates
from Troop Z, First cavalry, have
been ordered to proceed from Fort Gus
ter. Mont, to Custer Station, Mont, and
escort the army paymaSter to the post
! named.
Gen. Ruger has designated Friday
next, the 18th inst. as the date when
the headquarters. field, staff and band,
and Companies B, G, Z and |. Twenty
fifth infantry, shall leave Fort Smelling
| for posts in Montana. The stations to
which these organizations have been
assigned have already been published.
The TWenty-SecOnd infantry, now I'M
der orders for the department of Da-
kOta, will concentrate at Denver. Col,
| from which point the regiment will be
transported over the Union Pacific rail
way TO Garrison junction, thence via
| the Northern Pacific railway to such
points in the department as may be des-
ignated by the commanding general.
Lieut.. Col. w. II. Johnston. chief pay
master of the department of Dakota, has
gone TO Faribault to participate in the
ceremonies attending the laying of the
| corner stone of JOhSton Memorial hall,
| which takes place to-day. The stone
will be laid by the daughter of the de-
! ceased lady Mrs. HoratiO G. Shumway)
whose wealth has served to erect this
and several other buildings under the
! direction of Bishop Whipple.
Brig. Gen. John r. Brooke. command
ing the department of the Platte, has
! requested the assignment of First Lieut..
Fayette W Roe, Third infantry, to his
staff as aide. Lieut.. Roe is at present
adjutant of his regiment, but Gen. Ru-
ger will probably relieve him in a day
or two, when he will be enabled to re-
port to Gen. Brooke. First Lieut..
! Francis p. Fremont. Third infantry.
will be made regimental adjutant
In order to expedite the transfer of
! the Third infantry from Fort Shaw to
| Fort Smelling. the department. COM
| mander has directed that an officer of
! the Twenty-fifth infanty be sent from
! Fort Smelling to Fort Shaw to receive
! and receipt for all property at that post
| pertaining to the quartermaSter'S ord
nance and commisSary departments. In
! accordance with such directions. Col.
| Andrews. commanding at Fort Smelling,
| designated First Lieut.. Edwin T. Glenn.
| TWenty-tifth infantry, for the duty in
| Dictated. and that officer left st. Paul
last evening, Ell route to Fort Shaw.
The commanding general of the de-
partment of the Missouri has designated
| the stations to which the eight troops of
the Seventh cavalry, now serving in the
department of Dakota, have been as
signed in his department. together with
the stations allotted to the incoming
Thirteenth infantry: Seventh Cavalry
Troop A. MOylan'S. now at Fort Keogh;
3. McDougall; |, NOwlan, and L.
Wallace, now at Fort Meade. are as
signed to Fort Riley, Kan; Troop E,
Ilsley, Fort Yates; f. Bell, Fort Meade.
and Il, De Rudio. Fort Yates. are as
signed to Fort Sill, Indian Ter. and
Troop *, Mathey, Fort Meade, to Fort
Supply. Indian Ter. Thirteenth In
fantry Headquarters, field. staff and
band, and Companies ID, Ellis, and II,
De Courcey, to Fort Supply, Indian
Ter: Companies G., Chance, l. Auman.
and B. Cavenaugh. to Fort Sill. Indian
Ter; Companies c. Rogers. and E.
Bishop. to Fort Reno, Indian Ter, and
Company f, Waterbury, to Fort Lyon,
Col.