The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-02-28
CANDIDATES FOR
WEST POINT
Board Of Army Officers te
Meet at the Preside to
Examine Applicants.
Military eadQuarters-Pay
nent of Troops.

board of officers will meet at the
phys cal examination of such candidates
for West Point as may be authorized 10
appear before it. The following officers
have been detailed for the board: Major
Robert H. White, surgeon; Captain
James s. Petit, irst Infantry; CAPTAIN
Euclid B. Frick, assistant surgeon; First
Lieutenant John D. Barrette Third Ar
tillery; and Second Lieutenant Thomas
G.. Carson, Fourth Cavalry. The exam
nation will be conducted in accordance
with instructions received from the su-
perintendent of the United States Mill
tary Academy.
The following transfers of officers n
the First Infantry have been announced
in orders from military headquarters:
First Lieutenant Charles B. Wedges, from
Company l to Company B; First Lieu
tenant Richard \. Croxton, from Com
pany G to Company /; First Lieutenant
Francis Z. Lacey Jr., from Company B to
Company G.. There will be no change of
stations of these officers except Lteuten-
ant Lacey, who goes to the Preside from
Benicfa barracks.
Payments to troops on the muster of
February IS. 1898, are assigned as fol-
lows: Lieutenant-Colonel Frank NJ Coke.
the Preside, Fort Mason, Benicia bar
racks and Benfcia arsenal; Major John S.
Nltcher, Angel Island, Alcatraz Island
Fort Baker and San Diego barracks.
Military justice is being dealt. out by
the general court-martial row in session
at the Preside. The latest victims are.
Private Max E. Riepe, Company H. First
Infantry, who has been tried and found
guilty of being drunk and disorderly in
quarters and or disobeying and assault
Ing non-commissioned officer He mas
RI he
labor for period of four months and 70
forfeit $40 per month for the same period
Private William Howard. Company B,
guilty of refusing to obey a non-com-
missioned officer and of using threateninp
ana abusive language toward him He
mas been sentenced to be confined at hard
labor under the charge of the post guard
felt $50 ~ -0A
First Lieutenant Alexander T. Dean.
Troop =, Fourth Cavalry, who has been
absent on leave, will return March 5 to
the Preside for duty.
The leave Of absence granted Lieuten-
ant-Colonel Charles P. Egan. chief COM
missary OF the Department of California
till February n, 1885, has been extended
fourteen days.
Recent orders from Washington detail
the following officers as a retiring board
to meet at the Preside for the examina-
ton of officers ordered before IT.: Colonel
Charles N. Greenleaf, assistant surgeon
BeHeIdi' COlOnel Evan Miles, commanding
the Preside; AFOREMENTIONED ]. V. ID
Middleton, chief surgeon Department of
California; Lieutenant-Colone Louis T.
Morris, Fourth Cavalry; Major David II.
Kinzie, third Artillery: First Lieutenant
Robert II. Noble, aid to Brigadier VIII
liam r. Shafter, recorder The board will
meet at the call of the president.
First Sergeant John F. Studt and Prt-
vate James w. Garrett, Company B, First
Infantry, now stationed at Benicia bar
racks, have, upon their own application.
been transferred to the Fourteenth In
fantry as privates, and will leave In a
few days for Vancouver barracks, Wash
ington, where the regiment is stationed.
Major William c. Shannon, surgeon
United States army, who has been on sick
leave at Omaha, Nebr.. has been ordered
to report upon the expiration of his leave
to Colonel c. r. Greenleaf, assistant sur
Geon, United States army, and president
of the retiring board at the Preside, for
examination.