The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-17


by Beckets and Fay. of Company r; Fall
kenoerz. OF Company g: Dess and Ingram.
OF Company !. a54 Ella OF Company 1.
n port store. under the charge OF Lieut.,
Dorr. lis supplying the men Of the Second
battalion with canned fruit ard veSesa-
Giles. clothing supplies, stationery. totssc-
co and other coumissary supplies at cos.
pfics. There tn also at Angel Island q sGll-
necxed postosiice. including a money or
der bureau. The postmaster, a regular
army sergeant, reports taat nearly g. GO
IN money orders was sent north from hfs
ONCE on pay day. and probably as much
was sent from San Francisco as many OF
the boys were not aware that money or
aers could be purchased on the island The
FIRST battalion sent home fully as mrch
from the San Francisco postos!sces
Since Angel island was established as a
military post On September Il. lsss. many
prominent army officers have been sta
tioned there. among them being Mai Gea
fhen COLI Shsster. who was in command
OF the pos. from 1884 TO 1895 The beautiful
residence in which be then lived il now o.
cnpi~d Dy Col. Fife. Col. ShAfter was sue
ceeded on the islands by Cots. Bainbridya
and Miller. with the Third artillery. The
Island was vacated By the latter command
only a month previous TO its occupatton t,y
our Second battalion.
Sergt. Bundy, o. Company G. recently
won his fourth medal at Sutrofs by max
Ing long -dis,ance dive OF la feet. com,
petins against the best men from Kansas.
California. Montana and Tennessee.
The members of Company l. gave three
cneers last night when they received a
check FOR ZIG with the compliments of the
citizens OF Spokane. In addition TO for
mer. donations. Company has received an
other 500 from the Walia Waiia Red Cross
Society and 3ios as the personal gift OF two
ftxLr
Parker. More thar 500 have already been
received by this company. but still the
generosity Of the WaiIa WaiIa towns
people does not seem TO have exhausted
itself. Capt. Miller. OF Company r. also
received 800 from Dayton. which he is ex-
pending TO the betterment OF the COM
pany's commissary department. The money
that Company received from Seattle Will
not be divided. but retained as a company
fund
Acting Stewards Geohegan and Hunt, OF
the Second battalion hospital corps will
be shortly transferred to the hospital de-
partment OF the regular army. Nurses
Laurence. Hammond and Parker have APP
piled for like transfer, which, IL grant
ed, Will enable them to 60 10 Manila on
either the fourth or fifth expedition. Ora
II. Shumate has been transferred to the
Eighteenth infantry and will leave for Ma
Mia on the next expedition.
Capt. Frank f. Adams has returned from
the north and 10 again In charge OF Com
pany u.
The wife OF Lieut.. w " Rinehart ar
rived yesterday from Seattle, and will
make her hons on Angel island as long
as the battalion Is stationed there.
Washington visitors OF the past week
were Miss Nellie Reaches and the Misses
Sieffen. OF Spokane; Charles Bailey. edi-
tor of the Yakima Herald: Miss Tessie
Reichenhacher. OF Tacoma. and Miss
Blanche Sargent. Of Buckley.
A distinguished party OF naval officers
recently visited Angel island in quest Of
q coaiing station for the United States
navy. They were cordially received by
Col. Fife. who personally conducted them
on q tour Of the island. The party was
made up OF Capt Louis KempfY. L. g. N
Lieut.. Charles Evans, Y. s. NJ; William
Buxton. naval constructor. u. S. ": X. c.
Hoilyday and j. w. Halihan, civil en-
gtneers, L. s. ".
J. W. SAYRE.