El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-17
COL, MILLS GIFTS THAR
The Third Cavalry Knocks Out the
Seventh Infantry in Great Shape.

ThA Third Cavalry Knocks Out the
Seveuth Infantry in Great Shape.
Col. Mills en- al secretary, Mr.. Hap
per, was inadvertently, as it were, IN
curing yesterday afternoon, if the
HERALD mad any recent appointments
| from Washington. He remarked il
| with such a soi-disant air, and such an
| Indifferent, 'English far-look" on his
rotund coun'enance as to disarm all
suspicion that be had anything very
particular in mind. But he had, love-
ly chestnut haired reader, and don
YOU forget it. The colonel was present
at the time, but as his secretary was
asking the question, the commanding
officer OF the Third U. S. cavalry was
noticed to be looking out of the north
window towards Mount Franklin as
though he was detecting geological
features there hitherto undiscovered.
He did not appear to be Interested In
the query of his secretary.
All the same, there was a great big
buff cochin hen on, aud the fruit was
ready to materialize. However, the
colonel was not saying anything, al
though there were more or less tumult-
uous feelings of special kind of un-
certainty CHASING through him that
may be likeued perhaps to the uncer-
tain apprehen-ions won't to ill the
parent as to whether it will be q boy
or a girl. The HERALD reporter, who
was the one asked. and didn't know,
noticed that Mr.. Happier was absent
mindedly trying to write all upper case
on his typewriter; also, that Consulting
Engineer Toilette, who has just re-
turned from the wilds of Brownsville,
was looking for the new channel in the
river below Stanton street, somewhere
Nnfb n no
was said, and the reporter went away.
A night press di>patch solves the
d fficul'y y and explains all the above re-
lated absent mindedness. Colonel
Mills friends at the national capital
have been on still hunt, and he has
been nominated to be brigadier gen.
eral, as the dispatch in detail will
show:
The president has nominate d Stewart
L. Woodford Of New York to be minis
ter of Spain; Julius Goldschmidt of
Wisconsin, to be consul general at
Berlin, Germany: Col. Anson Mills.
third cavalry, to be brigadier gen
eral: Major John Simpson. quarter
master, to be lieutenant colonel and
deputy quGrtermas.e general: Captain
J. w. Pipe, assistant quartermsster,
to be major and quartermaster; Cap
tain James Chester. third artillery, to
De lrSC LIZ" L.,
second cavalry. to be captain. First
Lieutenant D. G. Hopkins, third ar
til cry, to be captain; Second Lieut.
enant w. F. Clark, seventh cavalry, to
be first lieutenant: S cond Lieu enant
Archibald Campbell, third artillery,
to be first lieutenant, and First Lieute-
nant Andrew G. G. Quay. third ca asalry,
TO be captain and assistant quarter
master.
1t was generally expected in army
circles that Colonel Merriam, of the
Seventh infantry, stationed at Fort
Logan, would be brigadier general,
and the all together too previous Colo
RADIO ard New Mexico papers have
been printing his handsome phiz, with
long obituaries of the most glowing
description. But, to quote the words
while 1 was going. some one stepped
down before me into the pool" So
Colonel Merriam, excellent soldier
that he is, will have to bide his time,
and chew the cud of reflective expecta-
tion until more oppOrtune season.
Col. Mills was appointed to West
Point from Texas in the spring of
1895, graduating with honors four
years later. He was made first
1861, captain in April. 1853.
transferred to the cavalry arm of the
service in 1871 and assigned to the
Third cavalry, was made ma jor of the
10th cavalry in April, 1873, lieutenant
colonel of the 4th cavalry in March,
1890, and colonel of the Bird cavalry in
1892. Colonel Mills was later
appointed United States representa-
tive on the Mexican boundary commits
sion where he has done most excellent
service. His patural bent is engineer
ing, and some of the roads he has built
in the southwest country would do
credit to any professional engineer of
long experience. Col. Mills is much
Interested in Ell Paso where he owns
considerable prooerty. he has the GO
est esteem of all citizens, and in his
promotion Ell Paso people will justly
take a local pride. Congratulations
are in order.
There were thirteen colonies ahead
of the new brigadier. but his friends
were able to land him safely over the
line. General Mills, at his request,
will not be given a department., but
will be continued in his pres ent SER
vice as boundary commissioner. He
retires in August, 1898.