The morning call., 1891-06-08
MILITARY NOTES.
Items in General Concerning tie
Boys in Blue.

Major Elderkin, chief commissary of the
Department of Arizona, has recommended
that immediate steps be taken to construct
at each post, by the labor of the troops if
necessary, a well-Yentilated cellar for the
storage and preservation of potatoes, onion,
and like periShabe stores. The suggestion
has been prompted by the frequency of
boards of survey to condemn deeayed vege-
tables and the losses sustained through in
adequate means for the storage and keeping
of such vegetables in the hot and trying
climate of Arizona aud New Mexico.
The appropriation for construction aud
repair of public buildings in the various
departments has been allotted by the
Quartermaster-Genera as follows. tho dis
tributions among the posts to be made later:
Division of the Atlantic, 100000; Depart
ment of Dakota, $4,000; Platte and Mis-
souri,, $4,000 each; Texas aud Arizona,
$4,000 each; California and Columbia,
$4,000 each.
The enlistment of Indians is not such a
failure after all. l of the Eighth, Ninth
and Twelfth Infantry, and Troop l., Second
Cavalry, have en- completed with such re-
cruitS and the reports Of recruiting officers
agree as to the sutableness of the material
The Eleventh Infantry gained Its Indians
through regimenLal recruiting and the bat
Upon his return at Washington from his
extended tour Of inspection of the South aud
West, Brigadier-General A. w. Greedy, Chief
Signal Officer. reported having found every
thing in excellent shape. There was a
screw loose here and there, but generally
speaking the great machine worked
smoothly.
a general order has been issued abandon
ing the posts at Forts Lin coin, OAK, Lewis,
Colo, and Shaw. Mont, the abandonment to
take place during the summer, with the ex-
ceptiOn of Fort Lewis, from which the
troops will not be withdrawn until the
month of October.
Majors George Davis, J. A., Arthur Mac
Arthur, A. A. g., and j. L. Sanger, l. g.,
have been detailed by the Secretary of War
to examine civilian applicants for appoint
ment to the army, there being about twenty
commissions for distribution among such
cand dateS.
One of the batteries stationed at Fort Bar
raneaS, Fla, will be sent TO Mobile. Ala, to
go into camp on the 10th with the Alabama
National Guard, the officers to act as in
struetors for the State infantry during the
ten days encampment.
Lientenant-Co Colonel Arson Mills, Fourth
Cavalry, and Captains Kinzie and Brinekle,
Fifth Artillery, constitute the special beard
to inspect the cavalry and artillery horses
now being delivered at the PTeSdio.
Secretary Of War Tracy chose the oc-
az end to the closing of the department
upon the day of the tuneTai of ex-secretar-
les, who have been on: of public life for a
long time.
First Lieutenant Thomas Ridgeway, Fifth
Artillery, has been relieved as recruiting
officer at the Preside by Second Lieutenant
w. L. Ellis, and ordered to join Battery a
at AIcatTaZ Island.
Additional Second Lieutenant William
G. Davis, Fifth Artillery, has been promo
ted to the vacancy Of Second Lieutenant in
the Third Artillery with Battery at Wash
ington Barracks ID. C.
Commssary Sergeant James Salmon is
under orders to relieve Sergeant Emil
Miller at Benicia Barracks. and the latter
has been ordered to Fort Wala Walla,
Wash, for duty.
Second Lieutenant Thomas w. Winston,
Fifth Artillery, will conduct from New York
City to the Department of California de
tachment of recruits for the First Infantry.
Hospital Steward Frank Anezaune at
Fort Stanton, n. Mex, having withdrawn
his application for a furlOugh, has been or
dered to report for duty al Fort CASTOR. Cal
Lieutenant-COonel George II. Burton.
nspector-General, went up on Thursday to
inspect the post at Fort CASTOR, Cal.
Lieutenant Colonel L. L. Livingston has
been promoted Colonel Of the Third Artil-
lery, vice Horatio G. Gibson, retired.