The San Francisco call., 1899-11-01
MEN To WATCH
THE FIGHT IN
The TRANSVAAL
Four Officers Ordered
to Africa.

The Forty-fourth Infantry has arrived
from Fort Leavenworth Kan. Two bat
talions came in Monday night and
marched to the Preside yesterday morn
ing. They were the First Battalion, under
command of Major H. c. Hale, and the
Third Battalion under Major II. B. Nc
Coy. Major Mccoy will be well remem-
bered here as the colonel of the Colorado
regiment that was mustered out at the
Preside last September. His appoint
ment as a major in one of the new regi-
ments is in recognition of his efficient SER
vice with the volunteers of his State. The
Forty-fourth Regiment is quartered in the
old camp of the Colorado men, just inside
the east gate of the post.
Recent orders from Washington show
that this Government is not letting any
military opportunity slip through its
fingers. By the orders four officers of the
army were detailed to accompany the
British troops in the Transvaal to inspect
the maneuvers and report upon them. The
Government was notified, however that
four officers were too many for If that
number came from each power there
would be trouble accommodating them
all, and 1t was requested that not so
many man be sent so some of the lucky ones
viii have TO stay at home; which ones
will stay is so far not known. The Off
GERS detailed in the order are Colonel
Samuel S. Sumner, Sixth Cavalry; Major
John P. Story, Seventh Artillery; Cap
tain William ". Gibson. Ordnance De-
partment, U. S. A. and Captain Stephen
III. Slocum. Eighth Cavalry. The in
fantry is not represented, but it is prob
| ably because the infantry has just now
all 1t can do in the Philippines and in
Cuba and Porto Rico.
Captain j. d. Leitch, Twenty fifth in
fantry, recently ordered to join his com
mand at Fort Houston, Texas, has been
appointed to the examining board to meet
at that post
sidio and examine officers for promotion
has been appointed with the following
membership; Lieutenant Colonel Wallace
Randolph, Third Artillery; Lieutenant
Colonel Marion P. Maus, inspector general
of volunteers Major Robert Gibson, sur
geoni Captain Sedgwick Pratt, Third Ar
sistant surgeon, and First Lieutenant
Rogers f. Gardener, Third Artillery re-
corder. The officers ordered to appear be-
fore it are Second Lieutenant Alvin R.
ant Ethelbert L. D. Breckenridge, Seventh
Infantry; Second Lieutenant Theodore A.
Batdwin' Fad Twentyfoqrth Infantry and
Twenty fourth Infantry.
Lieutenant Wholley is just now the
colonel of the First Washington Volun-
teers, to be mustered out to-day. But
he has even more luck than being pro-
NOTED to a captaincy in the regular army
he has been notified that he has been
appointed a major in one of the new
regiments to leave soon for the Philip
pines by way of the Suez canal, and as
soon as his regiment has been mustered
out he will join his new command. 1t is
probable that he will be examined for his
promotion In the regular service before
he goes East. He announced the fact to
the regiment yesterday, and the an
nouncement was received with cheers as
we'll regrets that he could not be in at
the reception awaiting the returning
troops.
1t has not even yet been settled how
the Washington men are going home.
They will be mustered out to-day, and if
the old programme be adhered to five
ocean and the remaining seven by rail.
Yesterday a telegram was sent to the
reception committee asking if it could
not secure transportation by rail for the
five amphibious organizations, but no
answer was received. 1t will come in
time, however, the men feel assured.
regiment and afterward used as a call
bell by Colonel Wholley has been pre-
sented to Whitman College by those of
the Washington regiment who have grad
uated from that institution 1t is suit
ably inscribed with the names of the men
who attended the college and afterward
Joined the regiment and it speaks well
for the regiment that nearly twenty
names were on the list. Whitman Col
lege is al Walla Walla. The two cannon
captured by Company H Of the Washing
the captors by Colonel Wholley. Prop
erly speaking they belong to the regi-
ment. but Company II was alone in their
capture and the colonel yields the spolls
Captain Henry C. Fisher, assistant sur
geon. and five of the hospital corps have
been ordered to take charge of five in
sane men now patients in the general hos
pital and convey them to the Government
Hospital for the Insane at Washing
Mo ior Morton T Henry. Thirtv-second
Infantry, has been ordered to proceed to
the Philippines by the transport City of
Sydney.
Acting Assistant Surgeon George H.
Richardson has been assigned to temper
ary duty at the general hospital
The following letter in answer to one
printed in The Call of October 80, has
been received:
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. Oct. go 1899
Editor Call: In your issue Of this morning
appears a communication from Captain F. W.
Hunt formerly of the First Idaho volunteers.
In which that gentleman takes occasion TO call
mo 10 task for some statement alleged to have
heen made by me respecting the Thirteenth
United States Infantry | wish to say once
for all that no such statement as that credited
IN me was ever made by me at any time. nor
at anv place. under any circumstances.
Such being the case no comment Is necessary
on NV part The alleged statement was given
birth by a newspaper reporter endowed with
vivid Imagination and who at the time
laboring under the hallucination that he was
J. ]. WEISENBURGER,
Major First Washington Infantry, U. 5. V.
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