The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-02
The MILITARY CITY.
The Telegraph Corps Doing
Most Excellent Work.
A WAR DEPARTMENT RULING.
General Orders, Nc. 124-Field Music-The
Minstrels-The Open-Air Concert To-
day-General News Notes.

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The door of the post printing Office still
remains closed. good JOB man is needed.
Captain Guy L. Edie assistant surgeon
United States army. is absent on sick leave.
Owing to the parading of the troops on
Friday, no parade on yesterday troubled
the boys in blue.
Remember just prior to general guard
mounting on this morning at o'clock, the
band will render two sacred airs.
Daniel O'Connell, company H, Twenty
first infantry, expects TO sever his connec
ton with all affaias military by the 9TH
inst.
Lieutenant W. H. Johnston, jr, has
taken advantage of the eight months leave
granted him and departed for ST. Louis on
yesterday.
Sergeant Watkins company E, Sixteenth
infantry, has returned from Provo, much
improved in health and spirits from his
short outing.
General Penrose, lieutenant-colonel Six
II nth infantry, our present commanding
officer, leaves for the east about the middle
of the month.
Joseph Senfert, company II, Twenty
first infantry, has put the necessary coin
and expects to dissolve his relations with
tie army at an early date.
Payday on Monday. The coin dispenser
for Uncle Sam in this region, Major Creary,
will begin his monthly official labor about
1 O'Clock p. m. of that day.
James L. Crawford, company H, TWEEN
ty-flrst infantry, went on two months
furlough or yesterday. He will reside in
Salt Lake during his leave. 4
When the curtain was rung down on the
lastact at the minstrel performance, trip
ping the light fantastic was in order and
continued until the wee Sma' hours.
Sergeant Caldwell, late of company K,
Sixteenth infantry, has been assigned to
company f of the same regiment and will
join his new company at Fort Duchesne
this week.
Corporal M. Algier company F, Twenty
first infantry, has effected a transfer to
company H of the same regiment. He
voluntarily resigned his chevrons to make
the change.
The boys of skeleton company K.
Twenty first infantry, now assigned to the
various companies of that regiment at this
post, were vaccinated on yesterday. Look
out for limping now.
The question is, whether we will or will
not have the bal masque on Thanksgiving
evening. Maybe the unique Club will
take the matter up. Agitate the affair now,
for the sooner the better to accomplish good
results.t
]. H. Mclaughlin, Company H, Twenty
first Infantry, was discharged from the
service on the 31st inst, having purchased
the parchment under the provisions of
paragraph l. G. o. No. so, c. S. A. G. o.
Luck to HIM.
Every company has a tailor, and from
the amount of work on hand must be doing
rushing business. a good suit of mil
form, which the soldier draws from the
quartermaster department., costs from
$3.50 to s. to have made to fit.
The trumpeters are now required to re
main at the guard house after the new
guard has reached that point, and march
off with the old guard. The boys are i'm
proving very much, and their rendition of
field music is proving their efficiency.
We have just examined a candidate for
army patronage in The General Service Rec
ord, little quarterly publication devoted
to the interests of the United States army
and navy, and published at Philadelphia
1t should meet with the success the venture
merits.
From the number of amateur telegraph
ers now wearing out the tips of their fing-
ers on the 'senders" and stretching their
ears to call words from the saunders it
is evident that decided interest is being
taken in military telegraphy by the enlisted
men of Fort Douglas.
The details from each company to attend
school have been made, and on Monday the
Sd inst, Professors Spidell and Currier
will classify their pupils with view i'm
mediate work. The term will last six
months and the hours of attendance from
to O'Clock each afternoon.
Adolph Buerck, formerly adiutant's clerk
at the post, from recent developments
seems to be playing the part of 1.-The Gay
Deceiver" to perfection. We don't believe
in any mau's guilt until he is so proven, so
our pen rests regarding him with a conf
dence in the courts of justice.
The heliograph corps now flash old Soils
rays from the 1000 yard target butt to the
adiutant's Office. The progress made in re-
ceiving and transmitting messages is ex-
tremely satisfactory to the acting signal of
hcer, Lieutenant Gregg, who takes much
interest in instructing his class.
One OF the attaches of the adjutant's Of
fee was receiving q telephone message
the other day from the Continental hotel.
When he put it on paper it read as from
the sentimental hotei." A careful and
thorough inspection of the Salt Lake CITY
directory has as yet failed to locate the
Hotel de Sentimental.
Corporal NJ. Flood. company H, Seven
teenth infantry, who absented himself last
summer from Fort Bridger, Wyoming, and
who was recently apprehended in Salt Lake
city, has strong hopes of clearing his
skirts of any criminality which may be at
tached to his absence when a general court
martial is convened to try him.
The command was paraded and reviewed
by General Penrose, lieutenant-colonel,
Sixteenth infantry, on Friday morning at
O'Clock. Following the review came the
inspection and muster of the battalion of
the Iwenty-hrst infantry by Major j. N
Andrews, whilst Major Parke duly looked
over and mustered the companies of the
Sixteenth The ceremony was in full
dress uniform.
A recent ruling of the war department
makes the re-enisted men eligible to dis
charge at the expiration of eight wears of
service. he cannot purchase his discharge
though otherwise is governed precisely as
the recruit as set forth in G. O. No. so A
q. o. current series, and explanatory cir
culars more fully defining the same Sew
eral re ennsteo men mayo made application
for discharge under this new provision
We are told by the captain of the nine
composed of the pick of the Sixteenth and
Twenty infantry, that he has been ex
pectng match game with a Salt I alte
club, with whom he has been comforting an
the subject and that the city boys evidently
have no desire to test their proves on the
green diamond, as nothing has been heard
as to their intentions up to date. WHAT'S
the matters Let's have at least one game
before Jack Frost calls halt on ball
playing.
The party of hunters of Company d, Six
teenth infantry, returned on the afternoon
OF the Both uilimo. They were absent ten
days, having struck camp ia East canon,
about twenty-eight miles from the post.
They brought home about two hundred
grouse and sage hens, whilst they killed
about twice that number. They saw only
seven deer, but owing to the surroundings
could not get within a mile of them. On
the whole, the boys enjoyed the trip and