St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-28
NORTHWESTERN SOLDIERS.

Notes. of Interest to Officers and
Men of the Department. of Da-
kOta.
Lieut.. Clermont l.. Best, First az
tlllery; has been transferred from Bat
terry A to Light Battery E, of that regi-
ment.i
Leave of absence for ten days, to take
effect March 2, is granted the command
ing officer of Fort Keogh, Montana, Col.
George Gibson, Fifth infantry.
2Itistthe intention to spend $500, 900 in
the construction OF the new post at
HighWood, 100000 of which will be
asked from congress Immediately.
Hospital Steward Heinrich Venue
man, United States army, is relieved
from duty at Fort Keogh, Mont, and
will proceed to Camp Sheridan, WyO.,
and report for duty.
First Lieut.. Frederick D. Sharp,
Twentieth infantry, has been relieved
from duty at the United States infantry
school at Fort LeavenWorth, Kansas.
and ordered to proceed to and join his
company at Fort AsSinaboine, Montana.
BY direction of the department COM
mander, Inspector General Edwin G..
Mason left st. Paul yesterday morning
ELI route to Sioux City, To-, to make the
periodical inspection OF the money ac-
counts of the disburSing officer stationed
at that point.
Capt. George E. Pond, of the quarter
masters department, has been specially
assigned to the work of construction at
Fort Riley, Kansas, and directed to
prosecute the work under instructions
from the quartermaSter general of the
army.
ln tII.it, nrI
ment headquarters has concluded it's
labors in the case of First Lieut.. David
l.. Craft, Sixth infantry, and that officer
has been directed to return to his
proper StatiOn-the new post at High
wood, Chicago, Ill.
The unexecuted portion of sentence
of court martial published from head
quarters department of Dakota, in the
case of Jesse l.. AlcOrn, late of Troop
NJ, Seventh cavalry, is RENTED, and his
release from the Fort LeavenWorth
military prison is ordered.
The loss of certain quartermaster's
stores at Fort Buford, OAK, has neces-
STATED the assembling of board of sur
vey to determine the responsibility.
Capts. E. w. Whittemore and Ii. III.
Humphreys, Fifteenth infantry, and
Lieut.. George w. Goode, First cavalry,
compose the DOdfQs
Recruit William Churchill, enlisted
by the recruiting officer at Fort Smell
ing, MIMI, is assigned to Company |,
Twenty fifth infantry, serving at that
post; and John Languvin, enlisted by
the recruiting officer at Fort AsSina-
boine, Mont, is assigned to Company b,
Twentieth infantry.
The too free use of pOisOns in prepar-
Inn
on the Fort BufOrd reservation has
prompted Col. Crofton, the post COM
mander, to suppress practice so preg-
nant with danger to the garrison, and a
post order prohibits the custom, except
in cases having special permission from
and cognizance of the commanding
officer.
Sergt. Jacob Heuther, Company A of
instruction, has been ordered to COIL
duet; detachment of recruits from
David's Island, New York harbor, to
Fort Snelling-fve being colored re-
cruits for the Twenty-fifth infantry,
and, one baker Thomas Brown, for
Company F, Fifth infantry, at Fort
Totten, Oak.
The large number of men being dis
charged from the First cavalry, and the
very small proportion of re-enliStmentS
III ESPECIALLY VI lOi-COIll-
missioned officers and meritorious pri-
vate soldiers, prompts the regimental
commander, Col. N. A. M. Dudley, to
cite these facts for the edification of the
company commanders, from whom he
calls for an expression of opinion as to
the cause. The regiment came into the
department of Dakota in June, 1884,
and Col. Dudley claims no regiment in
the army is better Differed, nor is there
one in which more careful attention is
paid to the interests and welfare of the
enlisted men.
a general court martial will convene
at Fort Assinaboine, Mont, at 10 o'clock
a. M, on Thursday, the 1st day Of
March, for which the following named
officers are detailed; Maj. David d. Van
Valzah, Twentieth infantry; Capt.
Frederick X. Ward; First cavalry; First
Lieut.. Joseph F. Huston, Twentieth
infantry; First Lieut.. Alfred Reynolds,
Twentieth infantry; First Lieut. Her
bert S. Foster, Twentieth infantry;
First Lieut.. Henry b. Moon, Jr., Tween
tieth infantry; First Lieut.. Edwin II.
Weber, Twentieth infantry; Second
Lieut.. Samuel G. Robertson, First cav
airy: Second Lieut.. Marcus d. Cronin,
Twentieth infantry; Second Lieut..
Michael j. Lenihan, Twentieth i'll
fantry; Second Lieut.. Walter l.. Taylor,