The morning call., 1891-02-16
MILITARY JOTTINGS.
Cost Of the Campaign-Praise
for a Young ArtilleriSt.

First Lieutenant WILDER Loveridge, Third
ARTILLERY, was tried recently before a
ger eral court-martial at Fort Monroe, Va,
on a charge, the specification of which was
that lie did, without permission from
proper authority, absent himself from his
battery and post from about o'clock on the
morning Of the 4th until about o'clock on
the morning of the 10th of December, 1890 :.
this at Fort McHenry, Nd" The plea was
guilty; the finding, guilty. and the sentence,
''lo he confined to the limit of the post at
which his battery may be serving for three
months, and to be reprimanded in orders"
The reviewing authority, General Howard,
in approving proceedings. findings and
sentence, SAYS: in general court-martial
orders of the 4th inst, the reviewing au-
thuity is surprised that an officer Of the
education, attalnment5 and experience OF
tile accused should so far forget the res
possibilities and duties deyolYed upon him
by his commission as to disregard and
violate the plainest rules neceSsar for the
. preservation of discipline in the army, but
confidently believes that the lesson he has
received Will remain with him as an in
structiYe warning. Lieutenant Eoveridge
is. released from arrest and restored to
duty"
{: An estimate has been sent to Congress by
the Secretary Of War to supply deficiency
in the Quartermast1r's Department on ac-
COUNT OF the campaign against the Indians.
= Il he round sum OF $1,000. 900 is asked for,
the principal items Of which are 1885, 016 for
transportation Of troops and supplies and
. SlSF,4O Tor extra clothing, camp aud garri-
son eqUipage necessary TO fit out for the
iFIteT campaign; $40, 900 to replace horses
broken down in the campaign and for the
purchase of ponies, and $4,000 to cover the
difference in cost of supplies purchased for
troops in the field and the contract prices at
: the'posts from which the troops were drawn.
There we're other expenses under the sup
ply department that will probably bring the
tO,al cost OF the campaign up TO $1,000, coo,
a sum sufficient to have given the Sioux the
$4,000 annual appropriation promised them
for period of twenty years
: A cores pendent with the Seventeenth In
fantry, writing from Fort d. A. Russell
Nyo. says: During the entire Indian trou-
bic the Seventeenth was stationed in the
most advanced ana perllnuS position along
the linz Of the hostile country, and at no
time was more than eight miles distant
from the main body # the hostile force
War correspondents and photographers were
almost as numerous as soldiers. After pay
day there was an influx OF gamblers. An
order furbldding any of the latter to come
into camp was Issued. Several who repre-
scented themselves as newspaper correspon-
dents were driven out Of the agency at the
point of the bayOnet and their layouts con-
fscapd.
Colonel Henry. in command of the Ninth
Cavalry, has issued in orders this meritrd
praise of young officer well-known in San
francisco: second Lieutenant j. l.. Hay
. den, First Artillery, with two HGtchkiss
guns, joined the battalion Christmas eve,
participated in its fifty-mile march, again
its march of 102 miles in thirty hours,
again in the relief Of the battalion wagon
ssaln, again in the relief of the Seventh
=. Cavalry at the fight at the Mission. In this
engagement the rapid and effective fire OF
his guns aided materially in frustrating the
plans Of the enemy. Lieutenant Hayden
AID his detachment are entitled to much
praise for their soldierly and Jealous per-
fOrmHnce OF duty. A copy of this order will
be sent to headquarters of the First Ar
tillery."
A correspondent Of the Army and Navy
journal thinks a chaplain is needed at AL
calraz Ireland TO continue the good work
. formerly carried on by Chaplain w. ii.
Pearson. He says; III any military post
Is IN need of one il is this On Sunday the
; prisoner work is done, and he has nothing
TO do but to spend the day in idleness:
whereas II there was divine service many
. would embrace the opportunity and attend"
line Secretary of War has taken up the
subject OF college details. il list of officers
" has been prepared, and future details are
likely to be made independent of the de-
sfres OF officers. The Secretary proposes to
. have the duty of professor of military sell
ence and tactics given in each instance to
an gfhcer whose record shows special apti-
tude foT this work.
The Senate has passed the bill to grant