San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-09-04
ARMY NEWS.
Breezy Brevities Containing Current
Information of Our Military
Friends and Their
Doinps.
Doings.

Doings.
Lieutenant and Mrs. Jones, Fifth cav-
airy, left here today for home.
Private Haynes, Eighth battery, third
artillery, VINO died yesterday morning in
the post hos pital, was buried this morn
ing with military hOnors.
The band has recently received nu-
merOus applications from musicians in
| the north for positions. There are now
| six vacancies which ii Is expected will be
! filled in a few weeks.
Lieutenant Adair is on a visit TO the
post.
The tour of duty as regimental quar-
termaster of Lieutenant Forster, tltth
cavalry, will expire the end OF this month.
| His successor has not yet been named,
but it is hoped he will prove as popular
as the present incumbent.
Lieutenant Clayton, Fifth cavalry, who
has been here on a short visit from Fort
Mcintosh, left for that station this morn
ing.
A vacancy exists in troop II, Fifth cav
airy, for a first lieutenant.
The following officers Of the Fifth cav
airy are stationed at the post: Colonel
Wade, Lieutenant Amy, Adiutant; Lieu
tenant Foster. Quartermaster Major
Moore, Captain Augnr, Lieutenant Read
and Captain Schuyler.
Yesterday being a holiday only the
usual routine work was performed at the
post. Troops were paid at 10 a. m. today.
Post QuartermaSter Sergeant Mullen
has an addition to his family this morn
ing; it is a girl.
Lieutenant Goldman, Fifth cavalry.
stationed at Fort Brown, is on a visit TO
the post. He is on his way TO the army
carbine competition.
The thirty-fve recruits who arrived
here the other day are distributed be-
tween Forts Ringgold, Bliss, Macintosh
and Clark.
Major Hammer. paymaster, L. S. A,
arrived from Fort Brown this morning.
He is on official business.
There will be a quiet marriage at the
post this evening.
1t is almost needless to remark that the
apparently drunken individual who
played a musical instrument In the sec
Ond band in yesterdays procession and
who SpOrted a soldiers uniform is not a
member of this garrison; neither is he a
member of the U. 5. Army.
The water supply at Fort A%ssinnaboine |
Is so poor that water has to be hauled in
barrels, and this for the use of ten com |
panies. Never in the memory Of man has
such ddrOuih OaeH experienced in mat
vicinity.
Captain F. D. Sharp. Twelfth infantry, |
cOmmendS highly the conduct of COrpor-
alHorstman, Artifcer Holmes and Must
clan Rice, of his company, who at the
risk OF their lives, removed eight
boxes Of giant powder from a burning
building at Mullen tunnel, Montana,
August third, during the late strike. He
says such acts of bravery are a credit TO
the men concerned and to the service, and
are worthy of emulation"
LieutenantJames 7. Anderson, Twenty
fifth infantry, and Lieutenant Henry
A. Pipes, Seventh infantry, have been
found incapaCitated for service by a re-
firing board.
The members of the Christian Endeavor
societies of Evanston, H., have decided
TO give the boys in camp there an ice
cream and lemonade blow out. Arrange
mentS have been made TO entertain l,2GO
head regardless of former reputation.
Beer is strictly tabOed. just think of
the number of old tOperS who will try to
cool of the central portion OF their anat-
Omy with this commodity.
One of the finest military funerals ever
witnessed in this garrison took place this
morning at O'Clock, when the body Of
the late Private Haynes, Of the light bat
terry, was taken to its last resting place.
The funeral cortege was under lhe super
vision Of Major Burbank, who has a
faculty for doing things as they should
be done. First 10 order came the Fifth
Cavalry band, firing party, eight men and
a corporal, Captain Burbank's private
carriage, containing chaplain, hearse or
Il carriage, deceaSed'S horse draped fol-
lowing: then came the full battery
monnted,and with guns and caisSons. next
came the whole garrison in formation of
tours, followed by the friends Of the late
urtillrrymau. Ore consolation the
members of the battery have, is they are
sure of getting a good send off from the
army above.