San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-20
ARMY NEWS.
Breezy Brevities Containing Current
Information of Our Military
Friends and Their
Doings.

months furlough.
Lieutenant Slocum, Seventh Cav
airy, leaves for the east on a six
weeks leave, end of present month.
Lieutenant Ord, 18th infantry,
has been given ten days leave OF
absence.
A recruiting rendezvous has
been established at Fort Sheridan
for recruits enlisted in that vicin-
ity.
The department competitors,
with the exception OF those who
have been given a few days leave
in transit, have rejOined their re-
spectiYe stations.
A COW with "black sides and red
back" no saddle or color marks OBJ
rived, was taken up in the depart
ment grounds by the depot en-
ployes and after being a hours in
arrest was turned over to the city
pound, where it is presumed she
still abides.
Sergeant Joseph Shanken and
Private John Faulds, both Of the
Twenty-third Infantry, having
Joined, the former from absence,
sick, the latter absent on furlough,
are ordered to join their proper
stations at Fort Clark and Fort
Ringgold respectively, the quarter
master department furnishing the
necessary transportation.
Private Bean, Co. G, 23d infantry,
went on high lonesome in the
canteen at Fort Clark and invited
those around to scrapping match.
The sergeant of the guard put an in
glorious end to his pugilistic in
clinations and the court martial
that considered his case gave him
"a month and a month" Bean
pleaded guilty to everything.
+ Hereafter the following signals
will be displayed from the flag
staff thirty minutes before first
call except for reveille.
y Blue flag means the formation
will be in blue uniforms.
= White flag indicates that the
formation will be white helmets
and trousers with blue blouses.
\ For recall a red flag will be dis
played.
Saturday afternoon the patrol
wagon took two troopers to the
calaboose from the post. 1t APP
pears these gentlemen resisted al
rest by the police in the vicinity of
the post saw mill where they were
creating a disturbance. The would
be tough cases in the garrison
might as well understand first as
last that by violating the city or
dlnances they forfeit the protec.
ton of Col. Wade, who will afford
the civil authorities every facility
for their apprehension.
The Kansas City Times says that
Chaplain Plummer, 9th Cavalry, in
eXtenuation for his recent intoxi-
cations at Fort Robinson pleads
that the relations between himself
and the enlisted men of the regi-
ment had been strained for some
time and he was anxious to rein
state himself in their esteem by
getting drunk. The 9th cavalry
as viewed from this standpoint,
must be a heavy consumer Of tan
glefoot.
By an order issued by the secr9-
tary of war on Friday the three
great army recruiting depots, Da-
vid's Island, Jefferson Barracks
and Columbus have been abolished,
and in their places will stand three
large military posts. Hereafter
men picked up at the small re-
cruiting stations throughout the
country will be forwarded direct to
regiments where it is thought they
will sooner develop into soldiers
than under the old system of starv-
ing them for several months at tie
recruiting depots before being as
signed to organizations.
Down at Fort Ringgold Sergeant
Banks of +, troop, 9Th cavalry, took
a jag aboard it must have been
mescal, as it untitled him for stable
duty same afternoon. The SER
geant ordered him to his quarters
under arrest which evidently made
him feel sore, as he tried to tell his
first sergeant that his order wasn't
worth a continental, or something
like that. When his case came up
the sergeant tried to bluff the court
by saying he wasn't guilty, but the
court simply charged him ten dol
lars and let him off.
Right here in Sam Houston, Pri-
vate Battle, of troop A, Fifth cav
airy, who. from being absent in