Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-12
IS NOW COLONEL
Bruce Wallace Will Lead
the 9th Regiment.
A POPULAR PROMOTION
Under Him He Will Have a Number
Of Montana Men as Captains, Etc.
His Commission Has Been Issued
by President Mckinley.
A POPULAR PROMOTION
Special to the Inter Mountain.

from Adjutant General H. G. Corbin,
stating that Lieutenant Colonel Wallace
of the First Montana volunteers had been
appointed colonel of volunteers by Gen
eral Otis. Before that news was receive l
at the department., President Mckinley
had ordered Wallace appointed l%ieuten-
ant colonel. The telegram follows:
acknowledging the receipt of you tel
egram, the president ordered the appoint
ment of Bruce Walllce to be lieutenant
colonel of volunteers. Since this action
General Otis has cabled his appointment
as full colonel of one of the regiments
now being raised there. I share with
you the satisfaction of this appointment"
Washington. July 1.-THE president to-
day confirmed and commissioned the Of
ficers recommended by General Otis for
the Thirty-siXth and Thirty-seventh vol
unteer regiments now being organized in
the Philippines. They are as follows:
Thirty-sixth regiment Colonel. j.
Franklin Bell, captain Seventh cavalry
and major of volunteers: lieutenant colo
mel. William r. Cove. major First Colo
RADIO: majors, William H.. Bishop, major
Twentieth Kansas: John Q. A. Braden.
first lieutenant First South Dakota: Will
liaf l.. Luhn. first lieutenant and adju-
tant First Washington; major and sur
geon, H. A. Titus. acting assistant sur
geon; captain and assistant surgeon,
George w. Matthews, acting assistant
surgeon; assistant urgeon, Isaac H.
Brewer; captains. Robert S. Abernethy.
first lieutenant Sixth United States ar
tillery; Irving G. Booth, captain First
Colorado; George B. Lamping, second
lieutenant First Washington: Charles w.
Meade, first lieutenant First Montana:
Charles French, first lieutenant First
Montana; Henry Streer, captain First
California artillery: Edward L. Glasgow.
captain Twentieth Kansas; Daniel F.
Craig, captain Twentieth Kansas; Harry
A. Hegeman. captain First South Da-
kota; Warren Hicks. captain Fifty-first
Iowa; Frederick r. Dodge, second lieu
tenant Twentieth Kansas; Harry B.
K. Fitzhugh: first l~ieutenants,
Will H. Point. first lieutenant FIfty-irst
Iowa: Cornelius F. O'Keefe, first lieuten-
ant First Colorado: Loren Chever, second
lieutenant Wyoming battalion; Fred E.
Smith. second lieutenant First North
Dakota; Benjamin Lear. Jr., second lieu
tenant First Colorado: Walter V. CAL
chett, Moli Carey, Alexander H. David
son. A. J. Erickson, A. F. Jolhro, Winfield
Harper. c. A. Bach, Roscoe Treadwell,
Arthur NJ. Ferguson, Thomas B. Crockett,
S. w. Widd!efield; second lieutenant, Will
liam T. Mann.
Thirty-seventh regiment-Colonel, Rob-
ert e. Wallace, lieutenant colonel First
Montana: lieutenant colonel. Thomas r.
Hamer, lieutenant colonel First Idaho:
majors, B. Frank Cheatham, major First
Tennessee; Charles r. Boyd, lieutenant
Fourth cavalry; Henry D. Orwig, captain
Twentieth Kansas; surgeon. F. A. Will
mer: assistant surgeon, Il. B. Anderson;
captain. n. X. Givens, captain First
Tennessee: Sam Van Leer, captain First
Tennessee: David E. Lyle, first lieutenant
Eighteenth United States infantry; Hen
ry Richmond, captain First Tennessee; H.
B. Myers. captain First Tennessee; J. NJ.
Croft, second lieutenant First Montana;
Michael F1aherty: William B. Hanna,
first lieutenant First Montana: Benjamin
N. Koehier. second lieutenant Sixth Unit
ed States artillery: first lieuterants. John
Patton, first lieutenant First Tennessee;
Ernest Van D.. Murphy, second lieutenant
First Montana: Robert o. Pagsdale. first
lieutenant First Tennessee. r. Il. Clark:
Albert j. Bright, first lieutenant First
Tennessee: Granville l.. Chapman, first
lieutenant First Tennessee: c. NJ. Lesser:
Charles III. Sleeper. first lieutenant First
Colorado: W. Il. Vaughn. second lieuten-
ant First Tennessee: second l~ieutenants,
Joe Coke, first lieutenant First Tennes-
see: Alvin X. Baskette, second lieutenant
First Tennessee; Winston Pitcher, first
lieutenant First Tennessee.
Colonel Bell Of the Thirty-sixth was
yesterday named as one of the lieutenant
colonels of n Of The new regiments now
being formed in the Philippines.
Colonel Wallace is a captain in the reg
ular army. He has been severely wound
ed while fighting with the Montana regi.
ment in the Philippines.