The morning call., 1890-12-04
WARLIKE MOVEMENTS
First Infantry Regiment Ordered
to the Front.
Ordered to Report 10 General Miles for Duty
In the Field The Situation Evi.
IDENTIFY Alarming.

General John Gibbon, commanding the
Pacific Di vision of the United States Army,
lhrough the Assistant Adjuiant- General, o.
u. Green, issued yesterday the following
orders:
In compliance with Instructions received from
Inc Major General commanding the army the
neadquarters. Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel. Ma
siohea sian band ana Companies A, b, {, ID, E,
ana ID, First Infantry, Will proceed to Omaha,
Nepr:. on the 4th inst, fully equipped for SER
Yer service. Colonel Sbafter. First Infantry,
commanding tie regiment, viii report by teie.
graph Ell Ioue TO Major General Nelson A.
Miles, Y. >. A, at Chicago, ILL.,, IN order that
iuI.her orders may be received from him by The
Time the regiment shall arrive at Cheyenne.
Wyo. The QHaitermasiei's Department will
furnish The necessary transportation.
by command Of Bligadler-General Gibbon.
%. ID. GREENE,
Assis ant AdjulanI- General.
Omcial: l.. A. LOWERING, Aid. de. Camp.
LOOKS LIKE WAR.
Accompanying it is another order which
savors strongly of the grim possibilities of
war and Its concomtants, bloodshed and
carnage, for it reads as follows:
4--Tne following named medical officer and
members OF the Medical Corps will report to Col
ohel W ii!iam Il. Sha!ier, First Infantry. for.duty
" uiiam ID. Gardner, surgeon, United States
Army; Hospital Steward, Charles Bolz; Prvates
William VII Moran, Carl Whllsitl. Richard Arch
bold Jacob +. Fisher, Hospital Corps.
Major Gardiner will make requisition for The
necessary medical supplies for The command
while in ihe field.
AS a result of the aboye-quoted orders
the troops referred to will leave Oakland
mole this morning at $50 O'clock by the
regular overland train, which will be di-
Yideo IN two sections consisting of two
first-class and eleven second-class sleepers,
hnO
They will proceed on schedule time to Oma-
ha unless diverted at an intermediate point
by orders from General Miles, who will di-
rect their movements from his Headquarters
at Chicago. While it is not known, OF
course, II Is fair to presume that the Indian
trouble Is becoming more serious, and the
First Regiment Is needed to re-enforce the
troops already massed in the vicinity of the
scene OF the expected outbreak.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
The companies thus ordered to the front
consist, besides the members of the band, of
Y officers and 1856 enlisted men. The Off
GERS are:
Lieutenant-Colonel J. S. Casey; Major Edward
Moaie; First Lieutenant L. de L.. Carrineton
Ad1utant; First Lieutenant e. &. Starr, Quarter
master. Company A-First Lieutenant Thomas
n. Barry, commanding. Company B-Captain
W lillian t. Doughery, commanding; Second
Lieutenant Frank L. Vim. Company C-fIrst
pany D-Captain d. +. Callinan commanding;
First Lieutenant L. p. Biant; Second Lieutenant
r. A. 1ripp. Company E-Captain j. J. OCon-
nell, commanding; Second Lieutenant q. w.
hiIkman. Company F-Captain f. IL. Edmunds,
commanding. Company G-Frst Lieutenant l..
Ii. STROLLER, commanding; Second Lieutenant s..
A. Cionlan. Company H-FiIst Lieutenant I. Il.
Connolly.
Batteries c and K, Fifth Artillery, have
been ordered TO take the places of the garr-
sons at Angel Island and Benicia Barracks
during the absence OF the latter, anu Acting
Assistant Surgeon A. f. Stigers and Acting
Hospital Steward J. Wagntz have been or
Cered to report to the commanding officer at
Angel Island for duty.
The orders were not in the nature of a
surprise, as Colonel Shafter had already an
ticlpated the need for re-enforcements at the
front and as consequence the regiment
was IN state of readiness to move at once.
With the irne instinct of soldier he real
lied that promptneSS was necessary and no
delay, therefore, will be experienced.
TROUBLE ALMOST CERTAIN.
Captain E l.. Higgins of the Second Cav
airy. now serving on the staff of General
Miles, is now in Berkeley visiting friends
and expresses himself as believing that the
situation Is full of danger, and that blood
Shed IS almost certain to occur sooner OIL
later. The Indians, he says, have been I'M
easy for some time, and the open winter
thus far experienced has kept them in the
field. A sudden closing in OF winter NAV
postpone h0Stilities until spring.
They are a bad lot" he added, land be-
cause the Government made terms with them
after the Custer massacre they think they
were not whipped"