San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-10-01
Fort Som Houston News.

was discharged yesterday.
First Sergeant Schultz, of COM
pany a, is recovering from the
dengue.
The command will likely be
paid about the 9TH, which is next
Tuesday.
Private hurry, of the battery is
acting battery clerk during the i'll
ness of Clerk McCarty.
Capt. 0. B. Warwick, company
C, Eighteenth infantry, is the
officer of the day today.
; 1.-The battery has seventeen men
on the sick report-'ourteen pri-
Yates and three non CONS.
Jimmy Wall, of company, B, the
genial post exchange clerk, is
nursing a case OF the dengue.
First Lieutenant F. NJ. M. Beall,
company c, Eighteenth infantry,
went on sick report yesterday.
Second Lieutenant Fiske arrived
at the post yesterday and was as
signed to E company of the Eigh-
tenth. ~,
First Lieutenant VIM. Lassiter,
of the battery, has returned from
twenty days leave, spent in
Mexico.
q Simon Pendleton has returned
from the range and his smiling
face can be seen behind the can
teen bar again.
Second Lieut.. Johnson Haygood,
who has been assigned to the bat
terry, is now on a leave and will
not join the organization here be-
fore October "a.
Second Lieut.. A. S. Brooks, OF E
company, Eighteenth infantry,
was yesterday assigned to the tenn
porary command of G company,
all its commissioned officers being
absent.
Sergeant Arnold, of the battery,
who was acting first sergeant dur
ing First Sergeant Mann's illness,
has succumbed to the dengue him.
self and is being succeeded by Ser
geant Maxwell.
Capt. Mallory, stationed at Den
yer, Col, is going on his rounds
witnessing the department COM
petitive shoots. He will attend
the shoot of the infantry of this
department at Fort Clark.
Yesterday was pay day for de-
partment headquarters clerks, re-
tired soldiers and extra duty men.
Major Dodge, chief paymaster OF
the department, being i'll, the coin
was dispensed by Major Bulls.
Mp. Clarks, of Hood street, for
the past forty years civilian en-
ploye of the quartermaster's depart
ment, who has been very seriously
ill, is rapidly convalescing much
to the qualification of his friends.
All the troop and company
clerks are busy making out their
monthly returns, muster rolls,
ETC., yesterday being the last OF
the month. Sergeant Major
Sorenson and clerks in Adjutant
Jenkins office are also busy.
Col. Carpenter, the new regi-
mental commander of the Fifth
cavalry, Major Kellar the new
commander of the infantry battal-
ion at this post and Capt. Wood,
of the Eighteenth infantry, recent
~ promoted, are all due to arrive
in a few days.
Information has been received
by the battery that John Garbe
who was first sergeant of light bat
terry F, Third artillery, when
stationed here last year, has been
relieved and that Sergeant Ben
jamin F. Bowen, has received the
appointment. The battery is now
at Fort Presidio, San Francisco.
First Lieut.. Geo. w. Read, Fifth
cavalry, formerly adjutant to Col.
Wade at this post before the lat
ters promotion to a generalship
and now aide-de-camp to the gen.
eral, is inspector of small arms
practice of the generals depart
ment-the Dakotas. He is now at
Fort Frontenac, Mimi, selecting
a site for a new target range.
Col. Whitside issued a circula
yesterday directing that calisthen-
ic drill take place today and every
Friday at $50 a. m. until other
wise ordered. This beautiful ex-
ercise was witnessed by several
visitors from the city this morn
ing. 1t is worth any ones time
spent in witnessing it.
The band men who have been on
sick report are convalescing rapid
| lv and that organization will soon