The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-06
MILITARY NOTES.
The Next Visitor Will Be Signal
officer Greedy.

A correspondent at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.,
boorns up the record Of the post as follows:
We have upward Of 200eniisted men at this
post Payday occurred this week and not
a man was put in arrest. We have only one
prisoner in the guard-house, and he IS serv
ing a six months sentence. II is a source OF
:5-ide to the officers and great honor and
credit to all the men to maintain this high
standard OF good order and morals. This
record Is perfect refutatlOn of those who
seem to delight in slauderlnS the army
There Is not a community OF citizens within
a thousand miles of this post, with an equal
number of inhabitants, counting in even the
women and children with tie men, that can
show as clear a record.
Another correspondent from Fort Castor,
Cal, writes; ." The men have conducted
themselves in a manner worthy Of mention.
We have been here six months and there
has been only one confinement during shat
time A drunken man can never be found,
consequently Courts-martial are a thing of
the past with US" Company f of the First
is at the fort and Captain Edmunds is IN
command, First Lieutenant Vogdes IS quar-
termaster and cnmmissary officer and Sec
ond Lieutenant Beujaniin is adJutant and
recruiting officer.
The Acting Secretary of War has decided
that when a deserter surrenderS or Is de-
hvered at q military post, the triad OF which
deserter is barred by the 1G3d Article OF
War, as amended by the act of April II,
1850. said deserter shall, after examination
Of the affidavit required. be immediately set
at liberty and instructed to apply by letter
to the A G. O. for a deserter's release; the
post commander to report his action trans
hitting the affidavit referred to.
Tie programme of the opening ceremonies
of tile Worlds Fair at Chicago in 1898, pro-
vides for an imposing military display on
the first day in which a large body OF United
States traOps and at least 10000 State troops
viii take part. General Miles Will naturally
command the military forces.
The retirement of General Gibbon Will
open the way for the appointment of an
other Brigadier-General and for some proba-
Bile changes in department commands. II is
quite likely that General Stanley may 90 to
the Pacific Coast, and The new Brigadier
succeeds him IN the command oil Tue Depart
meut Of Texas,
General Miles is not apprehensive OF an
other war at present, but he takes care to
qualify his hopeful opinion as follows:
This is not the last of the Indian wars
There will be many more The same causes
which produced this one will bring about
Others"
Brigadier-General A. W. Greedy, Chief
Signal Ofieer, is coming westward for the
purpose of inspecting the signal service
stations, and among the places which he
will visit viii be Los Angeles, San Diego
and San Francisco, Cal TatOOsh Island,
Washington; Portland, Oregon.
Major Joseph B. Gerard, Surgeon, has
been relieved from duty at Fort Lowell,
Ariz.. to take effect upon the withdrawal of
the troops from that post, and will report
in person to the commanding officer al
AlcatraZ., Cal, for duty at that station.
General Miles has been receiving every
attention from the Mexican authorities.
Colonel Ress Of the Mexican Army, who
has charge of the Juarez Garrison across
the river from FL Paso, met the General
there and escorted him half way to the City
OF Mexico, second escort taking the Cen
eral to the capital
The War Department is gathering inf0r-
nation for use in the disposition OF the ap-
preparation Of $4,000 intended for the pur-
chase of old post-trader buildings for canteen
purposes.
Lieutenant Fremont P. Peck, recently
here with the Fifth Artillery, has been pro-
NOTED TO the Ordnance Corps, having passed
a successful examination at New York two
or three weeks ago.
Captain Frederick Wheeler, recently pro-
noted. vice Mason, deceased, has been a.
signed to Troop Z, Fourth Cavalry. at Van
cUuvcr Barracks, Washington.
The Secretary of War has authorized the
enlistment of Indian prisoners at Mount
Vernon (Ala) Barracks into a company OF
infantry.
BY the death of General Hannibal Day,
retired. the army lost one of its oldest eff
GERS.