Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-08
NEWS FOR THE ARMY.
List of the Orders Of Day in the Regular
Service,

List of the Orders Of a Day in the Regular
Service.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., April 7.-ISpecial
Telegram to Tue BEE. The following army
orders were issued today:
The operation Of so much of special orders
of March 80 as relieves First Lieutenant Cas-
sius E. Gillette, corps of engineers, from
duty under the orders of Major Amos Stick
ney, corps of engineers, and directs him to
report to the commanding general, Depart
ment of the Missouri, Is suspended for two
weeks. A board of officers is appointed to
meet at the call Of the president thereof at
Fort Douglas, u. t., for the examination of
such officers as may be ordered before
it to determine their fitness for
promotion. Detail for the board: ColoneI
Major Charles l.. Heizmann, surgeon; Cap
tain William Ii. Clapp, Sixteenth infantry;
Captain Henry G. Ward, Sixteenth infantry;
CAPTAIN William p. Kendall, assistant sur
Geon; First Lieutenant Warren II. Cowles,
regimental quartermaster, Eighteenth in
fantry, recorder
The following named officers will report in
person to Colonel Matthew M. Blunt at Fort
Douglas at such time as he may designate
for examination by the board as to their fit
ness for promotion: First Lieutenant
Charles r. Tyler adjutaut Sixteenth in
fantry; Second Lieutenant E. w. McKas-
key, TweLty-first infantry. On the concu-
sion of his examination Lieutenant McKas-
A board OF officers is appointed to
meet at the call of the president
thereof, ut Fort d. A. Russell, Wyo., for the
examination of snon officers as may be
ordered before it to determine their fitness
for promotion. Detail for the board: Major
H. Q. Egbert, Seventeenth infantry; Major
Valery Harvard, surgeon; Captain Cyrus
Roberts, Seventeenth infantry; Captain
Captain Freeman V, Walker, assistant sur
geon; First LieutenantJamcs Il. Kerr adju-
tant Seventeenth infantry, recorder. First
Lieutenant GeorTe H. Roche, regimental
quartermaster, s5s-ss :eenth infantry, will
report in person t6 Major H. G. Egbert at
Fort d. A. Russell for examination by the
board as TO his fitIess for promotion. First
Lieutenant William w. Gibson, ordnance
department, is relieved from duty at Sandy
Hook proving ground and will report for
nance. United States army with station
nation by Major Stephen ". Groes-
beck, Judge advocate. of his commls-
been accepted by the president, to take eff
feet April II. Leave of absence until June
], 1892. is granted Post Chaplain James c.
Kerr, U. S. A. The uneXecuted part of the
sentence of general court martial in the
case Of First Lieutenant j. A. Smith, Ninth
cavalry, is RENTED.
Second Lieutenant F. w. Kobbe, Twenty
second infantry, is, transferred to the
twenty third infantry company A, and
will join the company to which he has been
transferred So much of special orders Of
March 30 as relates to Captain James II.
Gageby, Third infantry, is revoked and he
will report in person to Colonel Robert f. A.
Crofton, president Of the examining board
at Fort Sheridan, Ill.,, al such time as he
may designate, for examination as to his fit
ness for promotion.
1t having been represented to the War
department that a necessity exists for offer
l.. EU .l,,I-u
who desire to make contributions for the in
telectual and moral welfare of the enlisted
men of the army, the secretary of war has
authorized the adjutant general to receive
free of expense to the senders of such con-
tributions of books, periodicals, pamphlets
and papers as may be sent to him By philan-
thropic persons for distribution to the army,
especially to troops in tho far west