The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-15

Kimball, quartermaster, is constituted to meet
at San Diego, Cal, for the purpose of making
an examination for suitable site for military
post and harbor defenses at or near the city of
San Diego, etc.
The folowing-named officers have been or
dered to report before the examining board
at Fort Omaha, Neb., for examination for pro-
motion: First Lieut. John Guest, Eighth Cav
airy, and First Lieut.. Charles w. Taylor,
Ninth Cavalry.
Capt. Robert Craig, Signal Corps, is ordered
to the following-named points, in the order in
which they are designated, toinspect the Signal
Service stations located thereat Atlanta, Ga;
Montgomery, Ala; Nashville, Chattanooga, and
Knoxville, Tenn, and Lynchburg, Va.
so much of special orders of March 2 as di-
rects Maj. Camille c. G. Carr, Eighth Cavalry,
to join a station in the Department of Dakota
has been revoked, and he will remain on duty
at the United States Infantry and Cavalry
School, Fort Leavenworth, Kan, until further
orders.
The ordnance depot at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, is discontinued. The ordnance stores
and enlisted men thereat will be sent to the
Rock Island Arsenal before April /, 1891. The
records, files and papers of the depot will be
sent to the chief ordnance officer Department of
the Missouri.
The following-named officers having been re-
examined by Army retiring boards and found
not incapacitated for active service, will join
their proper stations: Capt. Leopold o. Par
ker, First Infantry, May 10, 1881, and First
Lieut. Edward s. Farrow, Twenty-frst In
fantry, May 1, 1891.
Maj Samuel B. M. Young, Third Cavalry
and Maj. Calvin De Witt surgeon, have been
detailed as members of the retiring board at
San Antonio, Tex, vice, respectively, Col.
Henry NJ. Black, Twenty third Infantry, retired
from active service, and Lieut.. Col. Charles G.
byrne, surgeon, relieved.
Maj. Fred Van Vliet, Tenth Cavalry, brother
of Gen. Steven Van Vliet, retired, was buried
on Tuesday with military honors at Fort Grant,
Ariz., where he died the previous Sunday His
death was the result of an accident on the 9th
of February. AS he was getting into high
carriage he fell, breaking the bones of his right
elbow, and he neverrallied from the shock.
The Georgetown University will ask that an
Army officer be detailed for duty there as an in
structor in military science and tactics, under
the law which was passed at the last session of
Congress. No school or institution in the
District of Columbia has ever had an Army
officer as an instructor. The Columbia College
some years ago endeavored to secure one, but
was unsuccessful.
Secretary Proctor has notified Col. Carpenter, in
command at Fort Myer, Va. that the troops now
there must be ready to move by the first of May.
What troops are to succeed those of the Fourth
and Sixth Cavalry, now at the post, has not yet
been decided. The Seventh and Ninth have
been picked out for their gallant services in the
recent Indian campaign for the honor of coming
to Washington but there is no decision yet as
to which troops Of these regiments will be
brought East
An Army retiring board is appointed to meet
at Columbus Barracks, Ohio, for the examina-
ton of such officers as may be ordered before
it, consisting of the following-named officers:
Lieut. Col. William H. Jordan, Nineteenth In
fantry; Capt Jacob III. Smith, Nineteenth In
fantry; Capt. Constant Williams, Seventh In
fantry; Capt. Augustus A. De Loire, assistant
surgeon, and Capt. William Stephenson, assist
ant surgeon; First Lieut.. David d. Mitchell,
Fifteenth Infantry, recorder.
The following transfers in regiments are or
dered: First Cavalry-First Lieut.. Samuel c.
Robertson, from Troop d to Troop L, vice First
Lieut.. George B. Backus, from Troop to
Troop D. Third Cavalry-Capt. George K
Hunter, from Troop to Troop K vice Capt
Edgar z. Steever, from Troop K to Troop G.
Twenty-thrd Infantry-Capt. Frederick L.
Doge, from Company G to Company I; Capt.
Edward B. Pratt, from Company to Company
B, and Capt. Calvin D. Cowles, from Company
to Company G.
general order has been issued by the Sec
retary in connection with the act of Congress
authorizing retired list for privates and nom
commissioned officers who have served thirty
years and upward, in which it is held: a. That
the War of the Rebellion began April Is, 1861
a. That "war service' includes service rem
dered as commissioned officer. (3.) That the
war ended August 20, 1866, but to entitle the
applicant to double time for service after April
2, 1866, 1t must appear affirmatively that such
service was rendered in the State of Texas.