Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-06-29
EIGHTY THREE trough RIDERS"
Enlistments for Volunteer Infantry Will
Be Rapid-Military Notes and
porcnpo1c
Personals,

sions are being filed in the executive of
fee.
Captain w. c. Reid, of company B, is
a popular and well known young man
of Las Vegas, and the appointment is
an exceedingly good one.
Charles A. Smith, who volunteered
for service in the signal service and en-.
listed here, leaves tonight for Kansas
City to join a signal corps for duty.
Captain William Strover, of company
C, is doing hard work. The captains
experience and knowledge in military
matters are proving of much value to
him now.
Ernest G.. A. Barber. a Las Vegas pri-
vate in the lst L. S. volunteer cavalry,
is confined to st. Vincent's hospital BY
an attack of stomach and throat trouble.
He will be out in a couple of days.
Captain Borradaile, of company A. at
Albuquerque, reports that he will have
the full number of men for his company
ready within a day or two for enlistment
and muster in. That is good work.
Captain Strover has Al volunteers 50
far for company G.. He left this after
noon for the southern part of the coun-
ty and expects to be back here in a
couple of days with 30 or more recruits
Orders have been received at the ex-
ecntive office to muster in 100 volun-
teers for the Rough Riders" Eighty
three have been enlisted up to noon to-
day. The quota of 100 will be easily
filled by noon tomorrow.
Captain D. d. Mitchell, 18th infantry.
U. S. mastering officer for the territorial
volunteer infantry regiment, is in the
city from Fort Grant, ready for duty.
Captain Mitchell was in Santa Fe g.
years ago when he joined the 18th as a
I'd lieutenant.
The official designation of the volun-
teer regiment to be raised by the foul
territories is: The Arizona-Oklahoma-
New Mexico-Indian Territory regiment
of United States volunteer infantry.
| New Mexico furnishes four companies
Arizona three, Oklahoma three and the
Indian Territory two.
Ireneo Chaves, who has been ap
pointed a end lieutenant of company c
| of the volunteer infantry battalion, is
deputy clerk of the U. S. court of priv.
ate land claims, a position he has held
to the satisfaction of the court and with
great credit for the past sever years.
The following new recruits arrived in
the city last night for the purpose of &C.
cepting examination for service in CON
pany G, lst battalion u. S. volunteer in
rantry: r. L. OConnor, d. r. Miller.
R. Wisenberg, William Smith, B. L.
Morris. Frank Rice, C. M. Armstrong.
The boys are all from Ration.
The recruits accepted for service in
the 1st U. S. volunteer cavalry this
morning were: Charles M. Armstrong,
Benjamin L. Morris, David r. Miller.
Robert Day, Philip s. Baker, Lawrence
E. Huffman and William IL. Waffen-
smith. The total now is SO men ac-
cepted.
DR.. Atkins, of Las Vegas; DR.. Hope,
of albuquerque, and DR.. Sloan, of Santa
Fe, the board of physicians appointed to
examine applicants for the position of
surgeon with the New Mexico battalion
of U. s. volunteer infantry, are holding
the examinations in DR.. Sloan's Office.
This morning DR.. Cruickshank, of San
Marcial, and this afternoon DR.. Smith,
of Las Vegas, were examined, and the
board will meet again in the morning to
continue the work On such applicants as
may present themselves.
Page B. Otero, who has been named
LIST lieutenant of company G, has been Il
special agent, connected with the Office
of the United States attorney of the
court of private land claims for several
years. He is a brother of Governor
Otero and much pressure was brought
on the latter from San Miguel, Santa Fe
and Valencia counties to make the ap-
pointment. With Captain Luna and
Lieutenant Otero two of the most
prominent and best known families in
the territory will have representatives
with Uncle Sans volunteers, fighting
for humanity and for liberty.
1t is expected that company G, LIST
battalion U. S. volunteer infantry, will
leave Santa Fe next week and go to
Whipple barracks near Prescott, Ariz.,
where it will remain about one month,
until the entire regiment is equipped.
Parties desiring to volunteer for serv-
ice in the 1st battalion U. S. volunteer
infantry, are requested to report to Ad-
jutant General Whiteman in Governor
Otero's Office tomorrow at 10 o'clock.