Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-14
FOR A BRIGADE ENCAMPMENT
Military Board Recommends a General
Massing of Nebraska National Guard.
BETTER THAN REGIMENTAL GATHERINGS
Advantages of the Plan Proposed Set
out In Communication to the
Goycrnor-Not Enough
Cash Available.

LINCOLN May .-CSpeclal)-The Mill
tary board, which consists of Patrick Barry
adjutant general; c. J. Bills brigadier gen
eral; John p. Bratt, colonel Of First Infantry;
William Bschoff, colonel of Second infantry
and w. l.. Stark. judge advocate general
has been in session considering the prac
| ucability of holding annual encampments
of the Nebraska National guard, and
while adopting no definite resolution con-
corning the subject, has addressed the fol-
lowing communication to Governor Holcomb:
The Military board. after due inquiry and
| examination, would respectfully advise for
l. That section 40 of the military code
provides in mandatory terms for an annual
| encampment of the Guard That the gen
erai government has appropriated the sum
OF SiOOOoo for the purpose Of providing arms
| Guard, we receiving our apporlionment
therefrom, and believing that congress ex-
braska law, by holding an annual encamp-
| meilt, ana we believe the reason for max
| i,,g Such an appropriation was the fact that
nearly all the states provide for an annual
2. Past experience has shown that to
| undertake to maintain the Guard without an
| encampment annually is a great detrment
| thereto, and requires at least two years to
| ing and efficiency
3. While each company can maintain a
! certain degree of efficiency at its home
station during the year i'm. company move
| nents II is necessary that the whole COM
mand be assembled annually for field move
ments
A. That with the. present military spirit
and high standing of the Nebraska National
Guard, II IS very important that an enCamp-
ment of the, entire brigade be held during
the year lSgt as we believe "a large portion
OF the work already performed would be
ment.
be either a regimental brigade encampment;
we, the Military board, after having care
fully estimated the cost and benefits to be
derived from brigade encampment, instead
Of q regimen al encampment find it to be
to the best interests of the Nebraska Ma
tiona! Guard, and the state of Nebraska, to
hold brigade encampment instead of sep
arate regtmental encampments.
careful and conservative administration of
ne affairs of the National Guard during
the last year there are not sufficient funds
remaining from the appropriation of 1895
and 1896 to pay the entire expenses of an
encampment as provided by law for the
Therefore in consideration of the prem
nrTs lSeS, we ,h reSIpeSGtfuy reeommend that you
brigade encampment for 1896.
BY the terms of special order No. 90. Ad-
jutant General Barry has accepted the res
ignation of Captain Ira e. Munger, company
ID, Second regiment, N. N c.. 20 take effect
| today, and appointed Tuesday, May ~, for
the assembling of the company and the cleo
tton of new captain. Special order No
"a directs Lieutenant Colonel N. p. Lundeen
to proceed to Central City, Merrick county.
and muster cut Company X Second reei-
ment of that place. and take charge of all
the company property which may be on hand
p. G. Gearey of Fargo has written to
Adjutant General Barry, asking for the
present addresses of Captain jackson Lieu
tenant Tetwiler or Lieutenant Norslee form
erly Of company B, Black Horse Battalion
Nebraska Volunteers. Mr.. Gearey desires
the addresses of these officers in the matter
of pension for North Dakota veteran.
NORRIS MAKES ANOTHER MOTION.
Judge G.. w. N. Norris, the respondent in
the Norris-Welty contest in the Fourteenth
judicial district now pending in the supreme
court. filed two additional motions today with
the clerk Of the court. One is a motion
to strike from the reply of relator some ten
or a dozen paragraphs which are alleged
to be redundant and immaterial, and the
other is to appoint referee to take addi-
tional evidence in the case now under con-
sderatiOn by the supreme court
This morning the State Eclectic Medical
association resumed its session at the Lin
coin hotel. Applications of DR.. S. p. Ira
cey Of Milford and DR.. c. Drummond of
Firth were received and approved, and they
admitted members of the assOcia-
tion. DR.. Loughbridge read a paper on
obstetrics and GynaecOlOgy' which was dis
cussed by Drs Reynolds, Moore Fllppin,
Woodward, Grimes and Others This even
Ing the ASSOCIATION ATTENDED IN a DOQy lee
ture by Prof. Brace on the X rays at the
State University. The president delivered
his address this afternoon
A jury in the district court is wrestling
with case in which the Korsmeyer Plumb
ing company j. H. Hartley, John H.
McClay and Louie Meyer, bondsmen of Con-
tractor W. II. b. Stout. The suit is brought
on Stout's bond to recover a claim of $500
for putting in the heating apparatus at The
court house. Stout built the court house
md 6afandaDtS SIIrptiaS mis- bpnl
given for completion at a certain date.
John Kastle, the young man who stabbed |
Hermann Fraas during all election braWl in
the Fifth ward last November, was this |
morning sentenced to forty-nVe days In the |
county jail
A Miss Allen is supposed to have eloped |
with a man named Fred Bradley, from the
town Of Geneva. Her sister is here looking |
for her 1t is not believed by the Lincoln |
police that the clipping couple are in this |
city, although they are keeping sharp look
out for them.
In the district court this morning Judge |
Hall overruled the demurrer of the stock |
holders of the News Publishing company in |
the libel suit in which Rufas b. Townsend |
sues the News for $4,000 damages. The |
question of the right of a newspaper to print |
a pleading in case was not passed upon.
The court held that the petition nowhere
alleged that the article claimed TO be libel
lous was a filing in court, but that it was
therein alleged that the publication was
malicious, which constituted a cause of ac-
tion. In effect this holds the article libel
lous as to Townsend Defendants were given |
fifteen days In which to answer.
Articles of incorporation of the Bee Cream
cry association Of the town of Bee, Seward
county were filed today with the secretary
Of state The capital stock is $4,000 and the
incorporators are NJ. Dunegan, W. ]. Batch
elder, II. S. Baxter William S. Ford, j. ].
Ernst, A. Terwiger, G. NJ Welty, II Har-
rOld. William Heese, John Dalton and F. O
Gumbel.
Omaha people in Lincoln: At the Lindell
Richard Smith, d. It. Hurd. At the Cap
ital-G. #. Bend. At the Lincoln--W. c.
Barnes, ]. A. Prlflles.
EpwOrth League Day at sidney.
SIDNEY, Neb., May 13.-(Speciil Tele-
gram,)-This was Epworth league day at the
Ministerial association meeting Rev. Allen
Kenworthy of Sidney was elected president