The record-union., 1898-06-11
Law by Governor Budd and Major Cen

day by Governor Budd and Major Gen.
eral John H. Dickinson to arrange a
plan for the reorganization of the Ma
tional Guard. The Governor tends that
there should be no rehabilitation of the
guard. allowing all who have volun-
teered to retain their positions. Cen
eral Dickinson says there is no legal
authorization for such a course.
Company F, Sixth California Nolun-
teers under command of Captain Luz
cey, left the Preside this morning for
Santa Cruz, where they have been de-
tailed to guard the powder works. The
ladies Of the Red Cross gave them
dinner at the ferry at 1 o'clock, and
they took the 2:15 boat and narrow
gauge train for Santa Cruz. Captain
Lucey took only seventy-seven men
with him, but will have authority to
muster in enough more to bring his
company up to the war strength or
JOG men. The rest of the Sixth Califor-
MIA Volunteers will not break camp for
a day or two, until they have receiv-
ed all their equipments.
AS soon as the orders come the re-
cruiting officers of the Sixth will go to
the original homes of the company and
recruit them to the war strength.
Lieutenant Walthall of Company ID
will be the recruiting officer at Sacra-
mento, Stockton and Modesto, and
Lieutenant Mixler of Company E at
Merced, Fresno, Visalia and Bakers
field.
Lieutenant J. W. F. Diss of Battery
d, Heavy Artillery Volunteers, will go
to Los Angeles to recruit for Battery
ID, which came from that city, and on
his return will go to Sacramento to
recruit for Battery c, which came
from there.
The Fifty-first Regiment of Iowa
Volunteers. numbering nearly 1,OUO
men, arrived here this morning, tired
out after their long journey. The SOL
diers from Iowa are the best equipped
of any that have preceded them. They
have all the requisites for active serV-
ice, and are prepared to go to Manila
or anywhere else that they may be or
dered The Red Cross Society gave
the new arrivals the same reception
that has greeted all the visiting sol
diers. They were given a hearty break
fast and fruits and flowers in abun-
dance were distributed before the men
started on the five-mile march to Camp
Merritt. They We're given a very en-
thusiastic reception by the thousands
of people who gathered on the line of
march to witness the parade. At Camp
Merritt the men were greeted with
cheers and other demonstrations Of
welcome by the thousands of men
camped there.
Brigadier General Harrison Gray
Otis has been assigned to command the
Fourth Brigade at Camp Merritt. He
will establish a headquarters next
week at the camp. The Seventh Cali
fornia Regiment, from Los Angeles, is
included in his brigade. The present
formation is provisional and tempo
rary.
At Camp Merritt the North and
South Dakota troops to-day We're
drilled in battalion and extended order
work, and ELECTED much favorable COM
ment from the officers of other COM
mands
Governor W. A. Richards Of Wyom-
ing will visit the camp of the regiment
from that State tomorrow, and be en-
tertained by its officers.
Private George D. Conn of Company
c, Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers, was
accidentally wounded during target
practice at the Preside to-day. He
let struck an iron rod, sustaining the
target frame, a fragment of which be-
came detached and fell upon Conn's
head, infiicting painful but not nee
essarily fatal wound.