The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-22
MILLER WILL
COMMAND THE
THIRD DIVISION
Dispatches Announce
His Appointment.
MAY BE A MAJOR GENERAL
ENTITLED TO THIS RANK AS
DIVISION COMMANDER.
A Hospital for the Accommodation of
Three Hundred Soldiers May
Be Erected on Angel
Island.
ENTITLED TO THIS RANK AS
DIVISION COMMANDER.

Dispatches received here from Wash
ington yesterday announce the fact that
it has been decided by the War Depart
ment to place General Miller in command
of the troops lately ordered to Manila.
When this became known at the Preside
1t caused the greatest satisfaction among
both officers and men. Only yesterday
morning General Miller yielded to the
persuasions of the officers under him, and
wrote a formal letter to the adiutant gen
eral of the army requesting that he be
placed in command of the troops ordered
to Manila.
1t is now positively known that for
some days, in fact ever since the order
came for the troops to go, the officers
that were included in the order have been
quietly at work using their influence to
secure the command for the general. Cen
eral Miller was highly pleased when in
formed of the dispatches from Washing
ton, and he declared that he hoped that
they were true, but added that he had not
as yet received any official notification
that he would be sent to Manila in COM
mand of the troops.
No one seems to doubt the authenticity
of the dispatches, and if they be true 1t
means that the general will in all prob
ability be made major general of volun-
teers. This would follow as a natural
sequence of his being appointed to COM
The most important thing done by Cen
eral Miller yesterday was the consdera-
ton of the building of a hospital to ac-
commodate 300 sick soldiers. He had a
long consultation with Surgeon Colonel
Middleton with the result that II was
practically decided to ask the War
Department to order the erection of such
a hospital. Colonel Middleton has with
drawn his objection to Angel Island, and
the hospital Will no doubt be erected
there. 1t is absolutely necessary that the
brick barracks shall be vacated by the
Division Hospital, as they will be needed
to shelter the troops that remain behind
batteries Of the Third Artillery, two
troops of the Fourth Cavalry three com
panies of the Eighth Regiment, the AL
ger Light Battery and the Nevada Cav
barracks will be needed for them, so
there is little doubt that the hospital
erected in the near future orders have
now been issued that Angel Island shall
be garrisoned by twelve men from Bat
terry ], Third Artillery. under the com
mand of two non-commissioned officers
This detachment will relieve the second
battalion of the First Washington Regi-
ment now there.
Police Inspector First Lieutenant Nolan
of the Fourth Cavalry has written a let
ter to the adjutant of the post, complain
ing of the condition of the ground lust in
the the rear of the convalescenf tents of the l,s
division hospital. He reports that
criminal state of affairs exists there be-
cause the nurses OIL the hospital have
been permitted to create an intolerable
nuisance that endangers the health Of
those in the hospital. The matter will be
brought to the attention of General NH
Ter, who will have the evil remedied.
First Sergeant Gail g. Ferguson, Com
many F, Seventh California Regiment,
died at the division hospital yesterday
of typhoid fever. He was one OF the
hest non-commissioned officers in the
regiment His home was in Los Angeles.
He was convalescing, but imprudently
tried to get out of bed too soon, and suf-
fered a relapse
private John D. Sampson, Company b.
Twentieth Kansas Regiment sentenced
by a general court-martial to be fined $40
and confined for thirty days at hard labor
for larceny, had his sentence .disapproved
by the reviewing authority, who held that
inasmuch as there was reasonable doubt
of the soldiers guilt he should be given