The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-06-11

1ueant generals biennial report - out ana
contains . vast amount of information.
Other matters Of interest will be found IN
place.
Company 3 and the Camp.
Company B (Capt. Lawrence 8. Booths
command) has submitted counter PROPOSE
tons to those sent by the STATE. 1t will be
remembered that Gen. O'Rrien sent COM
notifying them that camp could be held
pay Of $3.50 per day allowed by the law
while in service. As said above Com
panies E and have practically accepted
the situation. Company B yesterday
mailed to general headquarters the result
OF its consultation on the case, which was
unanimous. 1t was:
First-That Company B was opposed to
any camp that will prevent their getting
guns. (The company has now about
thirty guns for sixty men,
Second-The company will accept As
equivalent for subsistence and pay the sum
Of - per day per man.
Third-The company. If . brigade camp
be ordered, will not accept any reduction
over the regular allowance.
The offer above to go into camp for 81
per day per man, the company to provide
its own subsistence, is equivalent the men
believe to accepting a reduction Of about
one-half to two.thirds Of their pay. This
IS little open to question. The accounts
Of the adjutant general in his biennial re-
port just issued, show that s.. 073.O7 was
expended at Camp Murray in 1892 and in
going to and returning from the same.
Estimating the guard to number 1000
men this would be about so cents per day
per man. If the state has brigade camp
and provisioning costs no more now than
then it will be seen that the sum left over
from the 81 asked would be nearly full pay,
about four-tifths. 1t 10 difficult to see
where Gen. O'Brlen obtained his estimate
Of 5000 for subsistence at camp. as pre-
sented last week in his circular letter to
tho companies. His own accounts for
subsistence Of troops 1T Camp Murray
show over 5000 to have been spent on
this account.
The Rspors Of the Adjutant General.
The biennial report Of the adjutant gen.
eral Of the state has been issue1 from tho
Office Of the state printer and il vo!umi-
nous book. It is. in fact. SO voluminous
that one is tempted to wonder whether
there ought not to be some restriction on
the size of such documents imposed by
law. This book contains 40 pages and
has histories of the guard Of this state. a
history Of the national militia altogether
out Of place here, one would think). an
interesting account of services rendered by
the guard in this state, accounts of the
courts-martial that tried Col. Haines and
Lieut.. w. H. Gorham, both Of Seattle,
statements of expenses Of Camp Murray
(1s92) and many other things Of interest
to guardsmen. What will be of most in
terest to the general public. however, is
the muster rolls of the troops that served
in the Indian wars Of 1858 and 1856
and of the First regiment of Washing
ton territory infantry, which served dur
ing the rebellion. Among the former are
to be fond such names rs those Of Hon.
A. A. Denny aud Dr.. Henry A. Smith.
Edward Hanford, Z. c. Hewitt, Hon.
Harvey W. Scott. now editor of the Ore
oonian. Thomas Prather, Henry Van As
self. d. 7. Denny. Hon. Elwood Evans.
c. ID. Boren, w. II. Gillian. LemueI HoI-
gate, William Packwood, Col. Il. +. Shaw.
state senator from Clarke county. and
others. The roster Is also given OF A COM
panv Of Snohomish and Scanamish In
dams, who served under the chiefs. Pat
kanim and John Taylor. and were at
tached to the Washington territory volun-
teers in 1856. Company II. First regiment
O! Washington territory volunteers, was
enlisted entirely in Seattle. and mos. OF
the Seattle names above given were in it.