San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-19

and is therefore we'll Qualified to NIL
his present responsible position in the
states army The general has been
considerably hampered since his ar
rival by not having his staff all with
him, some being unable to attend,
therefore compelling him to thoroughly
reorganize his staff. He is native
Texan and resides at Plafnesville, Hale
county. %out in the plains as he puts
it. The Express yesterday morning
insisted on calling the general coll
onel in its report of Saturday evenings
review.
The Dallas Artillery company has as
q mascot a large mastiff dog about
three feet high which the boys are
proud of. He wears a collar with the
artillery emblem and a plate with his
name, Leo II and the name Of the COM
pany thereon. La
Adolph Toepperwein, Texas cham
pion rifle shot. has become a member of
the San Antonio Zopaves. and is in
camp with the boys. s;
The Dallas artillery company is cap
tanned by W.. B. Blewett with L. S.
Flatan as first lieutenant. They are
on the grounds thirty-nine strong and
have two guns. Their quarters pre-
sent an exceptionally heat appearance
and they are in hopessf scoring high
mark in the inspectors report.
Lieutenant Steinbririk. of the Busch
Guard Zouaves, presented their spon-
sor, Miss Della Stefnie, on behalf of
the company. a handsome gold medal
Saturday. night. They also entertain
ed their sponsor last evening at camp
headquarters with music by the Cor
pus Christi band, the commissioned Of
flcers of the Corpus Christi company
being present. They will treat herself
and maids to fish chowder Thursday
evening, to which the Light represen-
tative acknowledges an invitation from
Lieut.. Frank Tiernen.
DR.. Adams, of Fort Worth. connected
with the academy of that place, was in
camp yesterday shaking hands with
the militia physicians. He paid Wis
it to the hospital also.
DR.. w. L. March, of Longview, Sec
ond brigade surgeon, is on the sick list
in the hospital
The hospital attended to twenty
seven cases yesterday all minor cases
luckily, however. nothing more Serious
than a severe headache or a case of
diarrhoea being treated, Capt. ]. w.
Suttle, of Corsicana, Second regimental
surgeon, was in charge of the tent.
Company D, of the First Minnesota
regiment, of st. Paul, is in camp in
good shape. All the boys are in good
health and high spirits and are conf
dent of carrying off first h6nors. They
ha ;e
and that they all enjoy excellent sleep
at night They boys have fine silk
flag with them which floats in front of
Capt. Beams tent. They carried it off
in a competitive drill with the National
Rifles, of Washington. d. c.. at Lake
Minnetonka, in 1884. 1t lis decorated
with gold tassels and streamers with
the place and date of the various vic
tories of the company. The company
gained considerable national notoriety
by its march through Yellowstone park
a distance of 200 miles in '92. This
attended Mardi Gras in New
Orleans in 80 when Capt. Bean was
knighted Duke of st, Paul by the king
of the carnival. Capt Bean is an old
friend of Recorder Dan Lewis and they
spent yesterday afternoon visiting the
various places of interest in the city.
Lieut.. Merrill says the boys have re-
ceived invitations to- a number of So
cial affairs this week and that they will
get out and have a good time after
they have put up their, competitive
drill; until then they viii, attend strict
ly to business. 80
Lit. Col. J. D. Dudd, 1t. Col. w. B.
Henderson and Major Allen, of the
Governors staff, reported at Adjutant
General Mabry's headquarters yester-
day and have assumed 1uty on the
board of inspectors
Roy Kennedy spent atconsiderable
part of yesterday visiting old friends on
Dreiss hill He is with the Tom Ham
ilton Rifles, of Huntsville.
The board of inspectors report that
they find the camp in excellent shape,
better than the first. two days of any
previous encampment. They also find
the discipline of the camp good and
taking it as a whole they think it can
not be beaten. f.a
The First regiment stood field inspec-
ton at 5:45 o'clock this morning, Maj.
Allen Buell. and 1t. Col. Henderson,
reviewing the organization.
The staff of Gen. Oppenheimer
gathered in front of his headquarter
tent this morning at Z o'Clck and were
photographed.
Capt. w. J. Foy, of the Thurston Ri
f1es, yesterday morning turned over the
Galveston championship cup in the reg
ular way to Gen. Mabry, to be drilled
for in the Interstate competitive drill.
The Denison fife and drum corps rem
1ered some excellent music throughout
the camp yesterday afternoon, playing
such well known tunes as Just tell
them that you saw me-" etc.
The Thnrstnn Rifles hnYs are highly