The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-30
VigiIant Sentinels on Duty
at the National Gene
terry.
CAREER OF MAJOR ARMIES.
Incidents Of Frontier Service.
Cruisers Olympia and Phila-
deIphia.

monument to the memory OF the soldiers
who persisted in the Yolo tules, they will
have to resort to very adroit strategy or
employ considerable force.
The instructions to these sentinels are in
accord with army regulations. A person
approaching at night is challenged in the
command Haiti" The command is given
three times, and if the person to whom 1t
is given continues to advance or tries to
run away the sentinel fires. Blank car
tridges are not used.
General Forsyth, com handing the De-
partment of California, is very clear IN his
opinion that the post commander has the
undoubted right to keep Objectionable per-
sons away from the reservation.
General Graham adheres to the same
view. The police control must be vested
in some officer with authority to preserve
order and protect property. "Some years
ago." said General Graham, 81 saw that
the groves and thickets of the reservation
would become the hiding place and rem
devious of thieves and rowdies from theCity
if they were permitted to use the grounds
as they pleased. For protection CT visi-
tors, ladies and children 1 resolved to
patrol the grounds daily with mounted
men and eject suspicious characters. The
duty of patrolling must either be performed
by the police of the City or by
the soldiers stationed here. I deemed
it best to have it done by the
soldiers. If my orders for man to
leave the reservation are not obeyed shall
arrest him and put him in the guardhouse.
Then shall turn him over to the police
authorities of the City for trial and appear
at the Police Court against him. The
other day | made q mistake in not search
ing the two men that had arrested.
search might have shown that they had
dynamite or something of that kind.
mo, | do not think the soldiers of Bat
terry l. would use violence against prowllng
strikers. The men of the battery know
more or less al out the strikers who MUIR
dered their comrades, but they are SO
obedient to discipline that they would not
attempt to redress the outrage of their own
motion. 1t would De my duty to protect
strikers against the vengeance of the sol
diers, and | should perform that duty. 1t
would be better, however, If the persons
suspected of having murdered the soldiers
and those who sympathlze with them
should stay away from the reservation"
The monument which has claimed so
much public attention of late was provided
by citizens of Sacramento. General Ora
ham says the design and the inscription,
I'M urdered by strikers" were submitted
to the committee at Sacramento that
raised the funds for monument. The
memorial stone bearing the inscription
was illustrated in the Sacramento papers
urged.
The retirement of Northumberland
Schofield and the promotion of General
Miles engaged the attention of army OFF,
GERS stationed in and about San Francisco.
General Miles entered the service Septem-
Der 9, 1861, as captain in the Twenty-sec-
ond Massachusetts, Volunteers, and
achieved well-merited promotion for gal
lantry in action.
Officers prominent in this department
speak highly of General Miles military
record, and regard him as every way
worthy to command the army. They
doubt the existence of prejudice against
him because he did not graduate at West
Point.
The arrest of Major Armes at Washing
ton last Friday by order of General Scho-
field, acting Secretary Of War, has created
no end of comment in army circles here.
Armes has had turbulent career in the
service. In 1870 the papers of Chicago, ST.
Louis, Leavenworth and Kansas City pub
lished full accounts of the escapades of
trio of army officers-Armes, Cox and
Graham. The first two mentioned were
tried by court-martial and dismissed from
the service for disposiDg of Government
mules for their own benefit.
Graham gained notoriety for sprees in
Leavenworth-sprees that astounded the
police and excited the widest admiration
of the cowboys. On the plains and in Colo
RADIO he was a terror. His greatest exploit
in outlawry was in defeating the escort of
paymaster's wagon and robbing the pay
master of large sum of money intended
for the payment of troops. He escaped
with the greenbacks, taking refuge in the
mountains, where he was pursued by
posse and killed. He fought to the last
and died game. As tighter, Graham was
not surpassed by any of the Western des-
peradoes, and the "bad men" of the from
tier, with ''nicks'' in their guns, never
warbled of their prowess in the presence of
Graham jag.
Armes was not desperate, in fact he
disliked Graham, but he achieved some
notoriety by making a report to headquar-
tiers of desperate fight with Indians, which
took place only IN his Imagination. His
official report describes how he attacked,
pursued, routed and killed many savages.
On the strength of the report he was pro-
NOTED for gallantry. and his example COM
mended to young officers in general orders.
The scene of the fight was located away
out on the plains remote from military
posts, and some time elapsed before the re-
ported engagement was found to be a fake.
There was great indignation at army
headquarters when the truth was made
known.
Lieutenant Conway Fl. Arnold one of
this years graduates at West Point, has
arrived in San Francisco. He is assigned
to Battery A, Fifth Artillery, and win re-
port for duty to-day.
Lieutenant A. S. Fleming, who gradu-
ated at West Point this year, has been as
signed to Battery K, Fifth Artillery.
Major William M. Maynadier, paymaster,
has retired. Major John S. Witcher sue
ceeds him on General Forsyth's staff.
The examination of enlisted men for
commissions is still in progress at Fort
Leavenworth. Out of the twenty-one APP
plicants seventeen failed to meet the re-
quirements around the chest imposed by
the rules. Enlisted men should take no.
tice and practice chest expansion.
Colonel Edwin 4. Townsend, command
ing the Twelfth United States Infantry,
has availed himself of the law permitting
army officers to retire at the age of 81 years.
The medical corps of the army is now
down to the limit allowed by law.
Secretary Lamont has directed that the
new army regulations, which will shortly
be distributed, shall contain the require
ment that at the last note of Retreat"
which each day marks the close of ordi-
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