Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-10-31
OREGON'S NEXT CADET.
Congressman Hermann Appoints a
Board to Examine Candidates
For Martial Hon0rs.

Congressman Hermann has APP
pointed Professor i. w. Pratt, prin-
cipal of the Harrison street school,
General William Kapus and DR.. r.
Glisan, all of Portland,a board for
the competitive examination of APP
plicants for the appointment as
cadet to the United States military
academy ut West Point says the
Oregonian. The board will meet at
the Park street school building in
Portland at 8 o'clock a. III. of No
vember 9th next, at which time and
place the examination of applicants
will be held.
Congressman Hermann suggests
that applicants appear at the office
of DIR. r. Gilsan on the Friday pre-
vious at O'Clock p. M, to obtain the
physicians opinion rs to their physi-
cal requirements and diSqualifica-
tions. The body must be sound.
Feeble constitutions, symptoms of
scrofula, chronic cutaneous affec-
tions, impaired vision, deafness, loss
of several teeth, or general unsound
teeth, impediment of speech, any
indication of IL liability to II pulmo-
mic disease, will either of them dis
qualify the applicant.
The candidate must be between II
and ~ years OF age, unmarried, not
under five feet in height, IA resident
of the state, and must be well versed
in reading, i'm writing, including
orthography, and in arithmetic, and
must have u knowledge of the ele-
ments of English grammar, of de-
scriptive geography, and OF the his
tory Ofthe United states. No osupcr-
fetal knowledge i'm these will pass
him through. He is expected to be
thorough. No friendly aid can
avail the candidat, if he is found
deficient in these.
The applicants certified by the
board to Mr.. Hermann Will be rec
omended by him to the secretary of
war for appointment. He will then
be required to report at West Point
not later than June the 14th next,
where he must submit him
self for the entering examination,
and i'm case of u failure of the NOM
inee to pass this ordeal, Mr.. Her
man has requested the board at
Portland to certify to him quail
fled second candidate as alter ate,
who must be willing to report at
West Point and be examined at the
same time as the regular nominee.
The Oregon cadet to graduate in
June, 1890, is Milton f. Davis, of
Mccoy, who now stands high in his
class and is reported to be one of the
brightest young men OF the acad-
emy. Mr.. Hermann selected this
young man from Polk county four
years ago. He was poor boy, the
son of a widowed woman. His
father had been u Union soldier,
was terribly wounded in battle, and
died, leaving this boy to support his
mother. This, with her efforts, he
did by working out on the neigh
boris farms in summer and
fall, and then attending school in
the winter months. In this toilsome
way the little fellow finally sue
ceeded in reaching the Junior
course i'm the State university, at
Eugene, where ho was selected
for West Point, and he has 80 far
passed all the rigid examinations of
the Military academy there, and
next June will graduate with high
honors and take his place as an
officer in the United States army, a
credit to the state of Oregon, and a
pride and JOY to the devoted wild
owed mother, to whom he has been
an affectionate and dutiful son.