The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-01-19

could have had any show in winning IN.
trophy How about the First? o and r
m miI practically the fed 70 themselves, ret
in nn's ,IS five other companies GAO men
| !" ~ were entered aud contested.
or1,! ne NY Guard Rifle Club has been re-
! Tn%nseu lor the year 1891 with L. r.
! w w u6nrhd as President; A. Kleinelaus
and A IPS S W. ; O'Maney. Secretary
| cordanca MN, ShooHlg Master, and in ac-
! stDaua te win Cap aifi-ejeet Cook,s ideae
that every man in the cofrnan, is , ,,s.'s
yer OF Inc rifle club, aud a man is mar a
soldier unless be car shoot we'll"
ne service medals and marksmen's dec
oratIons VIII be publicly distributed In the
members of the First Infantry, AZ the D. p'a'
.nioh, on the 9th prOx. After short drill
me regiment will entertain It's friends a
dance following. .
GENERAL CUTTINGS REsIGNATfoY
Inc following is from the Evening Tribune
OF oakland and is given without eoTnnosnt.
brlgader-GeneraI John T. Cutti5 60,
mith ulhg the Second Brigade, N. G. G. vim
MIS recently elected 70 Congress m san
b;ianc iI, VIII tender his resi- gnatiOn from
ms military position iu "a few DAYS and o.
ernor Markham has already decided s,,gn q
successor Tor nm. The name of the now
Brleadier-G is withheld, however nm.
III tle appointment IS announced, but. sorrv
10 say, rumor has it that the new oflicer viii
ny os oil the Second Brigade.
LefIanco Californian. 10 making sIlnsion
- u, GtoIt ol the Acknowledgement show
a"S '!iit sheTe are ll3 neral and stat officers
z9U ueid, staff aud lire Officers 5eT -,
commissioned officers. 3I6 musicis.,s s,,5
zoIo prlVates, adds "a little more thaD
TWO pryates for every officer As in the
regiment Of la Gi8nde Duchesse, lois on
oIlceTs mighty few men. But IL is, never
theleSS, true that Ira case of war th.s
National Guard wou assist in forming some
good regiments, a aaL evident proposition
being that the III l.iary which has dom,
service, however / tie, is worth always
more than that viii b las not served at II
Some OF the mos eXcruciatingly funny
things appear at tin rs in the daily news
papers under the dep disguise of military
announcements. H1re is one for instance
which saw the light of day on Friday:
captain Boyd, aid de-eaTnp on the brigade
stan, will preside at an election for Second
SSerReant Of + OF the Third on the evening of
tne -oVh INST. EIeeting non-commissionpd
nissia, ~ t ae N, u. y, and having
u TIeslde at SUCH elton is good
Inc annual con petition for The Tobin
trophy in the First Infantry ard COW held
1y company will be shot Tor tbis year o.
Tie oth of March. who Will Keep il for tbe
next twelve months
DIVISION STAFF CHANGES.
The changes in the staff OF the division,
commanders nave recently been quite rumer-
Gus. The latest announced BY Major-Gen-
elal DImond. III consequence of tie death
OF Colonel j. w. Staples, are as follows
LIeuteuant- Colonel Albert i, Castle, Di-
vision Inspector, to be Colonel aud Assist
ant Adlutant-General and Chief of Staff
vice Staples, deceased; lieutenant oclonsi
a. D.-Cutler, Quartermaster, to be Division
Inspector, wee Castle, promoted; Lieutgn-
ant-Colonel Edgar j. de Pue. Commissary
to be Quartermas er, vice Cutler traes-
terred, and Lieutenant-Colonel George b.
SperTy, a. ID. G., staff OF COMMANDMENT
chlel, 10 Dc COmmissary, vice De- rue,
transferred,
Now that the regiment has an energetic
Lieutenant Colonel and Major. Colonel
Dickinson has concluded that it is tiaie Tor
the line officers aud the men TO DO some
thlng ana he has ordered two ser IS of
battalion drills, as follow and r Oh Va,
Ness avenue and Is and l. at the Tegirent
armOry Tonight; IL and y on n. lgenus.
TOMORROW night; ana A at tho saiae
place on the 23d; { md * al The arntorv
and and on the avenue en- Tie 10th; N
and b on the avenue CT THE 2Sth aud and
A at the arm0ry oG the 2Jth. ring tire
temporary absence o. the Colonel IN Oregon
Lieutenant Colonel sullivan VIII be in COM
mand OF the regiment.
According to the Alta movement is on
foot TO resurrect baseball among military
companies. The same lining was tried az
Central Park couS.e Of seasons Ugo, bus
proved a failure. IL 1879 The first military
league was formed, but soon went 10 pieces.
The league was then composed of Mines
from the Calling Battery, Men il0A's Com
pany 3 City Guard p, Frankin's, San fral-
cisco Cdut Is ana Tor NhiIo nine II y :
Police Captain Douglass watch, under ths :
captaincy of Police Officer LinYille.
Joseph a. Stoney, an ex-inembeT If the
former Cadet Company Of the Second Ar
tiilery, an eX-membef of the First Infantry's
Signal Corps and an ex-Seeond Lieutenau.
of Company c Nationals, First lnfEntry,
died on Saturday.
Upon request Sergeant Liston Kimble has
been reduced to The ranks ana tanartermaster
Sergeant w ). Alexander Relieved frcu the
duties of that position. Both re Of Com
pany (Nationals). First lnfau.fy.