The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-05-23
UNCLE SANS ARMY.
Purchase of Misunderstanding Troops
10 Chicago.

Purchase OF misunderstanding Troops
TO Chicago.
Hereafter the privilege of purchasing
discharge will not be accorded an enlisted
man after he shall have served TWO and
half years, nor will any soldier be allowed
such privilege n second time. Two instead
of six months, as now, has been fixed as the
period during which such discharged en-
listed men shall be debarled from again
enisting. The service period necessary to
classification as q veteran soldier has been
increased to y years, aud no soldier once
discharged as a veteran will again be dis
charged by way of favor.
The board appointed TO meet ut Angel
Island al call for the examination Of officers
to determine their fitness for promotion
consists of the following named Colonies
w. r. Shafter, First Infantry; w. NJ. Gra-
ham, Fifth Artillery; Majors w. II. Gard
ner, s. and Charles BentZon, First Iufan-
try; Captain Leonard Wood, A. S., and
First Lieutenant +. de l.. Darlington, adj
jutant First Infantry, recorder. Second
Lieutenant Chauncey b. Baker, Seventh
Infantry. has been ordered before the board.
Three thousand SIX hundred United States
troops Will probably participate 10 Chicago
in October in celebrating the 400yh anniver-
saTy OF the discovery of America. This will
be a larger body Of regular troops than has
been seen, IN the East. at least, since the
civil war. Orders have not been issued, but
the preparatory warnings have been sent
looking to the assembling Of the designated
troops
First Lieutenant Ogden Rafferty,, A. s.,
on being relieved from duty at Camp Eagle
Pass, Tex, will report at Alcatraz Island.
Major David l.. Huntington, S. from New
York City, will come to Los Angeles as
m pa1 Of ri of Ari-
IONA, relieving Colonel Joseph r. Smith,
who will come as medical director to theDe-
paTtment of California.
In accepting the invitation to act as grand
marshal Of the Astoria centennial celebra-
ton, Colonel Thomas NJ. Anderson. Four
teenth Infantry, did so with the greatest
pleasure, because. as he wrote, he is a grand
nephew OF Governor William Clark Of
Lewis and Cark's eXpedition and the first
citizen and soldier Of the United States who
went down tie Columbia RIVER
10 Second Lieutenant Charles Crawford,
Tenth Infantry. has been assigned the duty
OF experimenting the diSinteTment aud
shipment to the National cemetery at the
Preside OF the remains Of officers and en-
listed men at the abandoned posts of Forts
MOjave, Verde and Camp Date Creek, Ariz.
A personal in the Army and Navy Reg
lister says: The Michigan delegation is said
10 be doing some hard work to assist in tine
appointment of Colonel William r. Shafter
First Infantry, to the vacancy caused by the
retirement OF General David Stanley on
June /. He Is native of Michigan and
served with the Seventh and Nineteenth
Volunteers.
Leave for four months with permission to
leave the United States has been granted
Captain John j. 0'COnnelI, First infantry,
stationed at Benca barracks. Second
Lieutenant George w. Kirkham has been
detailed as recruiting officer at the post in
the captains stead
Second Lieutenant Clement A. F. Flagler
relieved from duty at Wilets Point, n. Y,
on expiration OF the leave granted him on
the 9th, will come TO this city and report to
Colonel Mendell. corps engineer, for duty
under his immediate orders.
A favorable report to the House has been
ordered by the Committee on Military
Affairs of the Senate bill providingehat any
enlisted man in the army of good habits,
unmarried and not above 80 years old. may
be examined for promotion TO the grade Of
second lieutenant.
According to decision of the Secretary
| Of War, the proper position for enlisted
men OF tie signal corps In the formation
| with troops is with the non-commissioned
| staff. Such signalmen Will be armed With
| the cavalry saber
Fewer graduates Of the Military Academy
| this year than usual will begin their carerr rs
as additional second lieutenants There
are already 81 vacancies in the grade OF
second lieutenant anu 62 members OF the
| graduating class.
CAPTAIN Francis E. Pierce, First Infantry.
| who is on extended leave on surgeons GER
| tliicate. has been granted further extern
| sion OF three months
AFOREMENTIONED Burton. inspector-gen-
eral, has gone to Reno. New. on public bust
ness In connection with the military col
| ege.
Lieutenant Colonel Eugene b. Beaumont
| Third Cavalry, having served over 80 years
las been retired on his application.