The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-10
ARMY AND NAVY APPOINTMENTS
C. II. ALLEN ASSISTANT sECRE-
TARY OF NAVY.
John Jacob Astor Made an Inspector
General = Adjutants, Subsistence
and Engineering Appointments.

Washington, May 9.-The president
today sent these nominations to the
senate:
Navy-Charles H. Allen of Massa-
chusetts, to be assistant secretary Of
the navy.
Treasury-First Assistant Engineer
James H. Chalkey of New Jersey, to
be chief engineer in the revenue cutter
service.
Interior-James Whitehead, register
of the land office at Brokenbow, Mob.
War-Captains United States army,
to be assistant adjutant generals, with
| the rank of lieutenant colonel: John
A. Johnson, Eighth cavalry; Francis
Michler, Fifth cavalry; Joseph H.
Dorst, Fourth cavalry; WILDER A
Wilder, Fourth cavalry; Cyrus S. Rob-
ertS, Seventeenth infantry; George r.
Cecil. Thirteenth infantry; Edward J.
McClennan, Second cavalry.
Major, to be inspector general with
rank of lieutenant colonel: Joseph P
Sanger, inspector general United States
army.
Captains, to be inspector generals,
with rank of lieutenant colonel: D.
Baldwin, Fifth United States infantry;
P. Name, First infantry:
To be inspector general with rank of
lieutenant colonel: John Jacob Astor
of New York; Charles A. Whittier of
New York, Curtis Guild of Massa,-
chusetts.
Majors. to be chief quartermasters
with rank Of lieutenant colonel: Daniel
d. Wheeler, quartermaster; Charles
Bird, quartermaster; George e. Pond,
quartermaster; James P. Pope, quar-
termaster; Francis B. Jones, quarter
master; Crosby 3. Miller, quarter
master-all United States army, also
Avery D. Andrews of New York, a
civilian to this rank.
To be chief surgeons with rank of
lieutenant colonies: Major Benjamin
T. Pope, surgeon United States army;
Robert NJ. O'Reilly. surgeon; Alfred C.
Girard, surgeon; John Van r. Hoff
mot Vanderhoff), surgeon; Louis NJ
Maus, surgeon; Nicholas Sem of
Illinois; Rush Huidekeper of Pennsyl-
vania.
To be chief commissary of subsist-
ence, with rank of lieutenant colonel,
Major Edward E. brave; commissary
of subsistence, Major Tasker T. Bliss;
commissary of subsistence, Captain
JemeS N. Allison; commissary of sub
sistence, Captain William II. Baldwin,.
commissary of subsistence, Captain
4)cNAQ L. VI SUI
sistence, Captain Oliver E. Wood, Fifth
artillery; Captain Charles H. Grierson,
Tenth cavalry.
Captains, U. S. A. engineer corps, to
be chief engineer, rank of lieutenant
colonel: William NJ. Black, George Nc
Derby, ]. L. Lusk. George W. Meeth,
George L. Biddle, Hiram Chittenden.
Majors engineer corps, u. S. A, to be
chief engineer, with rank OF lieutenant
colonel, William r. LivermOre
To be judge advocate, with rank of
lieutenant colonel: Captain Fayette, W.
Roe, Third United States infantry; Cap
tain Edgar S. Ausley, assistant quar-
termaster, U. S. A. Andrew c. Gray of
Delaware; John A. Gull of Iowa; E. J.
Hill of Connecticut; Charles L. Jewett
of Indiana; Charles H. Robbie Of New
York.
To be chief surgeon, with rank of
lieutenant colonel, Major Benjamin E.
Pope.
Surgeon, U. S A, Major Robert NJ.
OReilly.
Commissary subsistence, U. S. A:
Oliver E. Wood, Fifth artillery; Cap
tain Charles H. Grierson. Tenth cav
airy.
To be assistant adjutant general,
with rank of captain: Charles r. Miller
Of Ohio; William Astor Chanler OF
New York; Irskine Hewett of New
York: Walter L. Bouve of Massachu-
sets; Fred Nj. Alger of Michigan:
James c. Blaine, jr., of Maine; w. B.
Allison of Iowa
Nicholas Sem of Illinois was appoint
I'd assistant surgeon general, with the
'ank of lieutenant colonel