The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-10-26
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Bridge. R. I.
Lieutenant Cowles, who has been ''on
the shelf" for nearly two months.
pending the decision of the reviewing
authorities on the proceedings of his
courtmartial. is again for duty with
Company c.
The soldiery are practicing daily with
the view of forming a, very strong
football team, fully capable of holding
their own against the coming Calltor-
mia and Montana teams.
The Fort Douglas Social club gave
we'll attended dance in Recreation hall.
on Thursday evening. A large number
of visitors from the city were pres
ent. Dancing viii be the programme
on each alternate Thursday evening.
Promotion from the ranks has been
increasing very slow this year, owing
to the scarcity of vacancies in the line.
Among the large number Of recent ap-
phcants We're many sons of officers,
none Of whom, however, failed to pass
the final examination.
General Wheaton, the department
commander, who recently visited the
post, has reluctantly permitted the
Fifteenth Infanty to omit the practice
march ordered from army lheadquar-
tiers This step was taken on account
Of the large amount of work necessary
In building the new waterworks'
Corporal Coles, Of Company D, was
the recipient of a check for $500 a, few
days ago. the amount of his share of
an eastern estate.
Private Ole Oleson will be tried by
general courtmartial for addressing an
officer by his nickname of Johnny
Come-Lately." The social chasm be-
tween officer and soldier is so great,
the latter never fail to fasten some
kind of nom de guerre to the former.
The latest thing in this line is Brick
top and has special reference to a
recent arrival from the Point
The ornament of the new enlisted
mems cap is to be same as the old
cap.
The war correspondents with cal
loused hands, have broken loose again
since the pick and shovel work slowed
up. There's a question: Whether
'twere better to use a pen or shovel
mid the Sings and arrows of mill
tary misfortune, or take up arms
against a garrison full Of pick and
shovel trouble, and, by opposing, in
crease them"
Today the command will be excused
from the usual weekly inspections.
and turn out to fill the network of
bitches in and around the post. This
exercise being necessary to the short
haired kickers of the pig skin.
Lieutenant R. Downing appears to
be a good coacher. He Won his fame
in this line at West Point as coacher
of the cadets in their great game with
the Yale team. A good deal of inter
est is being taken in foot ball at the
post since his arrival, and all kinds
of athletics are being revived again.
after more than a. year of innocuous
desuetude. 1t is rumored that another
gymnasium is to be established in
Connection with and by the aid of the
post exchange.
One soldier finds his chief objection
to the new drill manual in having to
wrap the blank blank thing around
his neck in coming from an order
time using great care not to jab an eye
out of the fellow on your left
The reports of the emergency ration
boards are all in at the war depart
ment General Morgan will now take
up the subject of emergency rations,
and take steps to have one formally
adopted. And then we will have that
practice march.
The army loks forward to a number
of needed improvements, with General
Miles in command. It is hoped that
he will be more successful in inaugur-
ating a few of the many reforms rec
commended than was his predecessor,
General John NJ. Schofield.
The following comparison indicates
that the efforts to prevent undesirable
men from entering the army, are meet
ing with success:
Fiscal year ending June 80. 1894
Discharged for fraudulent enlist
ment ...................... 259
Discharged by sentence of general
courtmartial ................1.O S9
Total Observation-Disclosures. 200
Fiscal year ending June 80, 1895.
Discharged for fraudulent enlist
ment Observation-Disclosures. $50
Discharged by sentence of general
courtmartial 77e
Deserted in first year of enlistment $40
1otai OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. / $50
Difference in favor of fiscal year
1887