The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-05-11
MILITARY NOTES.
Guards for the National Park viii
Leave This Week.

Orders have been issued directing Act
ing Assistant Surgeon Tension Deane to
report to the commanding officer of Troop
X, Fourth Cavalry, for duty with the guard
at SeQuOia National Park. Several other or
ders have been issued in connection with
the same guard, which will proceed by rail
to the nearest station to the park at once,
leaving here during this week. Hospital
Steward Robert F. Gerahty will go to
Yosemite National Park to report to the
commanding officer of Troop /, Fourth Cav
airy. Captain Charles A. Booth, Assistant
Quartermaster, will 90 to Kaweah, Cal, to
arrange commissary matters in connection
with the Sequoia Park guard.
As result Of President Harrison's tele-
gram from this city to the Secretary of War
regarding the lynehng by the soldiers
stationed at Walla Walla barracks, General
Ruger has been officially notified that
General KautZ, Colonel William p. Carlin
aud Colonel Thomas NJ. Anderson. with
Captain Charles Mcclure as judge-advocate,
have been ordered TO constitute a board to
Investigate, and, If possible. determine the
leaders or instigatoIs of the affair with a
view of bringing them TO justice The
United States District Attorney at Walla
Walla has been Instructed to act In conjunc-
ton with the board and accord it every
privilege possible.
There will be no order Of honorable
mention published for the year 1884, there
being no report on file requiring such action.
The order for 1883 will probably be the
last OF such published going backward as
the records prior to such year and covering
the necessary data for such mention are too
incomplete. while many of the officers who
could have completed them from personal
knowledge have passed away.
Brigadier- General A. V. Kautz has re-
eeived any number Of congratuiatory teie-
Iafflrc nanz "a old
Mess, Fort NiObrara, $780," sent him
magnificent uniform, sword and belt for a
general officer, and on the day following
Guartermaster Ames and Adjutant Richard
Sun sent him the rich, heavy, silk web sash.
Transfers in the Fourth Cavalry have
been made as follows: First Lieutenants
James LOckett Troop |, Preside, to Troop
A, Fort Walla Walla; Alexander L. Dean,
from A to |; Second Lieutenants Robert A.
Brown, l to NJ, and Milton f. DAVIS from nj
to l. First Lieutenant Matthew f. Steele
has been transferred to Troop II, Fort
Keogh, Mont.
Cbmmissary Sergeant William F. Eekard
having relinquished the unexpired portion
of his fuTlOugh has been ordered from the
Preside to Fort Bidwell, Cal, relieving
Commissary Sergeant John Buckley, who
will report for duty at Benica Barracks.
Lieutenant Lewis H. Strother First In
fantry, will relieve Lieutenant Nat p.
Phister in command of the post at Fort Bid
well at once, and Lieutenant Phister has
been ordered to rejoin his proper station at
Angel Island without unnecessary delay"
The leave OF absence granted First Lieu
tenant Leonard A. Lowering, Fourth Infan-
try, has been reSeinded, and he will remain
on temporary special duty as aide-de-camp
of General Ruger until further orders.
Transfers in the First Infantry have been
made as follows: First LieutenantS l.. ii.
Str0ther, from Company Z TO p, both at
Angel Island; B. S. Viewer, from B to C.,
Benicia Barracks, and b. c. Welsh, trom
to Z.
A general order will shortly be issued
from headquarters reYiying the place Of
lance-c0rperal. Que such appointment will
be made from each troop, company and bat
tery.
The officers Of the First Infantry sta
toned at Angel Island paid their official
respects on Friday afternoon to Brigader-
General T. ii. Ruger, commanding the Di-
vision of the Pacific.
A Board of Survey has been convened to
fix the responsibility for any damage exist
ing in articles OF Quartz masters stores at
the San Francisco depot during the present
calendar year.
Under date of the 30th ult orders have
been issued for board to convene at the
Preside for the examination of officers for
promotion.
The order assigning First Lieutenant
William p. Stone to Battery x of the Fifth
has been amended to assign him to Bat
terry A.
Captain Leopold o. Parker, First Infantry,
will not be required by amended orders to
join his company until the 10th prox.
Captain Frank Thorp has been assigned
to Battery A, Fifth Artillery, at Alcatraz
Island
Major-General Miles has resumed COM
mand of the Division of the Missouri.