The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-10-02
NATIONAL Guard APPOINTMENTS.
4 Number Of Brigade and Regiment
nj omeers-seven Lost Blankets.

Special Dispatch 70 the Post-InteIlsgsncer.
OILY APIA. Oct f.-Adtt. Gen. J. E. Bal
lame has issued general order No. IL an
nouneing the following appointments and
commissions:
Appointed-Maj. J. E. Ballaine. 10 be
adJutant general. with rank OF bTisadier
general, from October l. 1897.
CoEaEnissioned-Brig. Gen. j. E. Bal
G lasne; adjutsn an general with rank from
Donald b. Olson. lieutenant colonel and
brigade Inspector. with rank from May .,
Frank w. Spear. lieutenant colonel and
Judge advocate. with rank from May q.
1881
Albert Bryan. lieutenant colonel and bri-
gade quartermaster. with rank from May
L. b. Parsons. lieutenant colonel and
brigade eommissary. with rank from May
j. T.. Gould. lieutenant colonel and as
sistant chief engineer. with rank from Au-
gust 9. 1887.
John Y. Terry. lieutenant colonel and
Inspector OF rife practice. with rank from
w. J. c. Wakefield. lieutenant colonel
and chief signal officer. with rank from
ond infantry battalion. with rank from
E. A Sturges. first lieutenant, Company
G. Second infantry battalion. with rank
Samuel c. Boutwell,. second lieutenant.
Company G, Second infantry battalion.
with rank from February 8. 1897.
Richard ". Rulings first lieutenant and
adjutant. Second infantry battalion. with
rank from June IT, 1897.
Frank T. Liggett second lieutenant.
Troop A. cavalry. with rank from March
James c. Maitland. second lieutenant
Company r. Second infantry battalion.
with rank from February g. 1897.
Will 10 tad ord fafc m
cordiRgiy.
Upon the recommendation of the brigade
commander. the number OF corporals al
lowed Battery A, Light artillery. Is In
creased TO eight. Paragrap g. of general
orders No. L. series Of 1885. Is amended
accordingly.
Commanding officers of the n G. w are
hereby authorized to drop the manual OF
arms now In use and instruct under the
new manual Of arms adopted by the Uni
ted States army. which covers the changes
neceSsitated hv the adoption OF the krag-
Jorgenson rife. The drill regulations COW
erIng the adoption OF She manual for the
service magazine rife. caliber 30 10 the
Springfield rife caliber 45. viii be fur
nished in pamphlet form as soon as a sup
ply can be procured.
Gen Ballaine has also issued special or
der No. II. which reads:
"A board of survey win assemble at the
office Of Lieut.. Col. j. f. Gould. acting as
sistant adJutant general Seattle, on Sat
urday, October 2 1887, or as soon there
after as practicable. for the purpose OF in
curing into. and II possible fixing the re-
SponslbIlity for the loss of seven double
blankets the property OF the state. for
which Lieut. Col. Albert Bryan. as quar-
terrnaster OF the late FirA infantry regi-
ment is accountable which property is
alleged to have been lost while i'm the serv-
ice Of the state with troops at Ilwaco dur
ing the fishermen's strike In 1895.
Detail for the board-Lieut. Col. j. r.
Gould. acting assistant adiutant general;
cant George II. Fortson. Company b.
Second infantry battalion, First Lieut..
Henry l.. Egell Company n. Second iufan-
try battalion The board will make such
Recommendations as seem just and proper
IN the premises"