San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-18
ARMY NEWS.
Breezy Brevities Containing Current
Information of Our Military
Friends and Their

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who raced their horses in the de-
partment grounds one day this
week had to pay four dollars each
in the shape of fine.
SLieutenant Ripley, 3rd cavalry,
engineer officer of the department,
has purchased the thoroughbred
saddle horse of Mr.. s. Bennett.
The Lieutenant is now the happy
possessor OF two thoroughbred
horses and it is needless to remark
is the best mounted officer in the
department of Texas.
A writer in Harper's Weekly
| writing of the troops recently on
duty in Chicago, remarked among
other things that the boys "are
pure and simple of speech" There
are a great many of them certainly
simple, and nearly all of them
pure too, if an unlimited vocabu-
larry of good old Anglo Saxon cuss
words constantly in use is consider
ed one of the .purities OF the
Queens English.
The Kansas City Times says that
Private Cedarquest, who was too
religious to obey the orders of his
| commanding officer when ordered
| to do target practice on a Sunday
at the Bellview rifle range and
who was sentenced so six months
confinement for same, is striker"
and was never known to refuse to
do the necessary or unnecessary
rustling on Sundays around the
officers quarters where he handled
| the bat. The man in the service
who refuses to obey an order from
his commanding officer should re-
ceive at least one years confne-
ment in the military prison.
| What are we here for?
Lieut.. w. A. Kimball, Four
tenth Infantry, who was being
examined by a promotion board,
has been found physically disquali-
fled by reason of disability Incl.
dent to the service and has been
placed on the retired list as a cap
tain of infantry.
Lieutenant Colonel Hartsuff, dep
uty surgeon general, is announced
as medical director, department. of
Missouri.
Sergeant MintOn, troop K, Fifth
cavalry, has been given three
months furlough to terminate No
vem Der %.
Mr.. Henderson, Of the adjutant
generals office, who has been on an
official visit to Fort Clark, returned
yesterday.
Post Quartermaster Sergeant
Slezinger, Fort Bliss, has been
granted a six months furlough, to
| take effect after his re-enlistment,
first proXimo.
A new thirty-day clock has been
furnished the adjutant's office.
Lieuten ant Mallory, inspector of
rifle practice for the department.,
has returned from the department
shoot at Fort Clark, Texas.
1t is rumored that the cavalry
stationed at Fort Clark has been
authorized to proceed as far as this
| point on a practice march the early
part of next month.
Reports from Fort Clark say
that the 23rd infantry do not miss
San Antonio now so much as they
did after the change ;itis presumed
they are becoming accustomed to
the high lonesOmes and deep
melancholies of the wilderness
vast.
A quiet marriage took place in
army circles evening before last.
Sergeant Grieb, troop A, Fifth Cav
airy, acting steward in mess hall,
to Miss Mary Engelke; both of the
Post. May they live long and pros
per.
v The wooden sidewalk leading to
the stables from the Post gate is
becoming decidedly rocky. Who
ever is responsible for the cOndi-
ton of same ought to get move
| on himself before some one Injuries
themselves by slipping into one of
the yawning crevices therein.
In Post order, dated Fort Doug
lass, Utah, Aug. II, Colonel Blunt,
of the Sixteenth Infantry, now re-
tired, congratulates the regiment
on the manner in which it per-
formed it's duty in keeping open
the lines of traffic on the Southern
Pacific railroad during the last
strike, and says that he shall al
ways feel proud of having been
| commander of the Sixteenth for
eleven years. He says the disci-
pline, courage, resolution and de-