Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-01-18
PIONEER DAYS.
4 LITTLE HISTORICAL SKETCH OF
 MILITARY MATTERS.
AIarzning Result of Slight ETisunder- standing-A Eenderfoot's Zeal Sud
 denly QUenehed.

Alarming Result Of Slight ETisunder-
 standing-A Eenderfoot's Zeal Sud-
 denly Quenohed.
 BY JOHN <. SPRING.
 In the early part of 1866 the secre- tary of war ordered the establishment of military post on the site of the old Babacomori ranch on the upper i San Pedro river, about four miles south of the N'hetstone mountains. The original official name of this military station, which was afterwards changed to Fort or Camp Waller, was New Post on the upper san Pedro river, and it's first garrison consisted of Co. G. 1st U. s. Cavalry. commanded by Lieut.. l Mcdonald, t3s only commissioned officer at the foet During the month of May of said year number of apaches made 8 raid upon the herd of said post, killing one herder and stam- peding all the Ainlals, about 50 horses, 40 mules and I50 head of beef cattle, driving them dextcrously into can yon leading towards tie Huachuca mountains.
 It appears from good authority that the only animals left in camp were 5 lame horses, 7 sore back do, 2 draught mules for the police wagon and l bur TO belonging to Mexican herder. Every other hoof had been incautious- ly sent out with the herd. Still pur- suit was attempted: the burro was packed with provisions and under the guidance of Inc uninjured herder 8 column of foot cavalry started out, vending their weary way towards the Huachuca mountains at the foot of which they arrived probably about the same time that the robbers with their booty were far beyond the other side of the range. Three days after the starting out Of this party very hum gry and foots0re crowd returned to camp. 1 court of inquiry was held afterwards, of which the result was that Lieut.. McDonald's name disappeared from the list of army officers.
 The immediate consequence of the related raid was, that Go. 70 3rd Bait, I4th Infy. (lats changed into 32d Infy)
 was ordered from Fort Apache Pass 1 (now Fort Bowie) to the New Post to do garrison duty, while the Company l of Cavalry, as soon as it should be supplied with fresh < horses, Was
 destined, to take the field and.do scout ing work in the surrounding country.
 The Commander of this Infantryco n-
 pany being a full Captain, he took
 command of ;he Post and retained the
 same until the spring of 'GS when his
 company was ordered to Tucson. His
 name was ". Harvey Brown and as
 shall have more to say aoout him al
 some future time I will here only re
 mark, that as good solid Pennsylvania
 farmer with horse sense he was q de
 cided success-~as a military man {
 miserable failure, although ill this one point he was as strong as Dickens soldier who insisted that discipline
 must be maintained"
 , l shall now jump over about Il months, during which some thing
 happened that l shall relate furthe 6h el15 5to si3ll o1E igs tHHt e seEt I-il6tsf l6f from Camp Wallen in pursuit of In } dians, their success and their failure l This will be hereafter.
 About the end oi November of '6I
 new officer came to onr post or camp
 His name was Harrington; he relieve
 W. H. Winters as Commanding office
 of Go. G. 1st Cavalry and being, be : sides the above mentioned " Harve !, Brown the only commissioned officer a r the post, he was Adjutant, Quarte l. Master, Commissarv, Post Treasure :: etc.
 + When ne relieved Mr. Winters, wh t had occupied the same responsibl !; positions, the former gentleman jui j. pointed 10 the writer and in less tha j. half an hour the invoices and receipt 1T were signed. To tell the truth, ther II was gain on the c0mmissary store 't on flour and bacon. MT. Winter e would not take the advantage of 1t. e Mir. Harrington immediately r t. ceiyed the property and took my wor e and Mr Winters recommendation fl g the property of which he assumed u g responsibility, and as to that he di T. we'll because t,afterwards turned ol Q that we had gainell in the issues of u J; four, bacon, etc.
 Ill MT. Harrington WAS young, he W. V in fact what migIlt be aealled tende s. foot. He had redd an article that n had published sin t4s8 Alta Californi er about the difichlIv n: ching Apach l, and he said; tTa sz1flin ten days l Id would scout the to such effe to that no Attach v.sj 1ikape him ar n- h mos.,d cleax tisk<zhtrg arour m tas post of aii nostin t7aian6 m m T was q Us tl;l ti.Is ..s, srge of a d stores sbg S'aa'Ss' aadsa o - \. 'o with 40 men asd hdfses. v gss le condition. Id About six days afte-iIais ezpedftiS le started out, ,wbieI was assuring ration ns there came a nan and said ssEIarrin
 ton's party is coming back, they a
 coming over inc hillr l went il
 mediately to the bakery under Il n. charge and, while the oven was ht or ordered the baker to make some mo 1t, bread.
 ,4, Now it must be said, that the coi yo mlssioned officers of the post had s; cook whose name was RomanoT, ee Russian name, it is true, but he usu. en ly spoke to me iu French and 6 ye m- good French he spoke.
 10 Wei, as soon es the scouting par 5 arrived, he came running down to t ,m commissary office and said in
 French, abrupt way.
 ,n- Le Lieutenant est de retour. or vent de Phuile. (The Lieutenant ns. back, he wants some oil) IL lei w. about the hour when people light res up their lamps l naturally thous ng that he wanted some coal oil, and h. in- ing none on hand, having in fact me kind of oil on hand, said to him {; ar heard that turpentine will do the default Of anything better for c are night. ] think that Capt. Smit ms. wagons will be in tomorrow. Int The Frenchman merely said: c als. bien, mais vite, vite,
 nes filled him the quart cup of lile which he carried, with goyernm md turpentine and was about going to leir the Lieutenant, the destroyer to Apaches, when the same Roman