The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-12
For Commissions In the Two
Philippine Regiments.
PRESIDENT APPOINTS.
Commissions a Few More Jay
haWkers on His Own Account.
Major Bishop Will Hold Same
Rank In the seth.

ganized in the Philippines. They are
as follows:
Thirty-sixth regiment-Colone1 ].
Franklin Bell, captain Seventh cavalry
and major A. A. G. volunteers; Lieut.
enant Colonel William r. Grove, major
First Colorado.
Majors-William B. Bishop, major
Twentieth Kansas; John .. A. Braden,
first lieutenant. First South Dakota;
William Lugn, first lieutenant and ad-
jutant, First Washington.
Major and SurgeOn-H. r. Titus, act
ing assistant surgeon
Captain and assistant surgeon
George w. Matthews. acting assistant
surgeon.
Assistant surgeon-Isaac H. Bower.
Captains-Robert S. Abernethy, first
lieutenant Sixth United States artillery;
Erving G. Booth, captain First Colora-
do; George B. 1amplng, second heuten-
ant First Washington; Charles W.
Meade, first lieutenant First Montana;
Charles French, first lieutenant First
Montana; Henry Steere, captain First
California artillery; Edward L. Glas-
gov, captain Twentieth Kansas; Daniel
f Craig captain Twentieth Kansas;
Harry A. Hegman, captain First South
Dakota; Warren Hicks, captain Fifty
first Iowa; Carl L. Stone, second lieu
tenant Thirteenth Minnesota; Frederick
r. Dodge, second lieutenant twentieth
Kansas; Harry B. Smith, -; K F1tz-
First Heutenants-Wil H. Point, first
lieutenant Fifty-first Iowa; Cornelius f.
- he6IG, urSL lieutenant ElISL 0O1OIdAOs
Loren Cheever, second lieutenant Wyo-
ming battalion; Fred E Smith, second
lieutenant First North Dakota; Benja-
min Lear, jr., second lieutenant First
Colorado: Walter v. Caichett, Milo C.
Carr, Alexander H. Davidson, A. j.
Erikson, A. F. Jolhro, Winfield Harper,
c. A Bach, Roscoe Treadwel, Arthur
NJ. Ferguson, Thomas B. Crockett, S.
w Widdleheld.
Second Observation-Disclosures T. Mann.
Thirty-seventh regiment - Colonel
Robert B. Wallace, lieutenant colonel
First Montana; lieutenant colonel
Thomas r. Hamer, lieutenant colonel
First Idaho.
Ma1ors-B. Frank Cheatham, major
First Tennessee; Charles T. Boyd, lieu
tenant Fourth cavalry; Henry B. Or
wig, captain Twentieth Kansas.
Surgeon-F. A. Winter.
Assistant surgeon-T. B. Anderson.
Captains-Nick K. Owens, captain
First Tennessee; Sam Van Leer, cap
tain First Tennessee; David E. Lyle,
first lieutenant Eighteenth United
States infantry; Henry Richmond, cap
tain First Tennessee; H. B. Myers.
captain First Tennessee; James NJ.
Croft, second lieutenant First Montana;
Hanna, first lieutenant First Montana;
Benjamin NJ. Koehler, second lieutenant
Sixth United States artillery.
First HeutenantS-JOhn Patton, first
lieutenant First Tennessee; Ernest Van
D'Murphy, second lieutenant First Mon
tana; Robert Q. Eagsdale, first Ieuten-
ant First Tennessee; R. B. Clark, -;
Albert ]. Bright, first Lieutenant First
Tennessee; Granville L. Chapman, first
lieutenant First Tennessee; c. NJ. Les
ter -; Charles H. Sloper, first lieuten-
ant First Colorado; w. T. Vaughn, sec
ond lieutenant First Tennessee.
Second Heutenants-JOe Cooke, first
lieutenant First Tennessee; Alvin K.
Baskette, second lieutenant First Ten
nessee; Winston Pitcher, first lieutenant
First Tennessee.
Colonel Bell of the Thirty-sixth had
been named as one of the lieutenant
colonies of the regiments being raised
in this country.
Colonel Wallace is a captain in the
regular army. He has been severely
wounded while fighting with the Mon
tana regiment in the Philippines.
The president has announced the fol-
lowing additional appointments to the
volunteer army;
To be majors: Hunter Liggett, form
erly captain Fifth United States infan-
try; William A Skunk, formerly cap
tain Eighth cavalry
To be captains: Alfred Q. Kenneth,
formerly Missouri volunteers; Harry T.
Matthews, formerly captain Company
D, Seventh California; George E.
Lowell, formerly captain Company B,
First Florida; Milton J. Foreman, form
erly quartermaster First Illinois cav
airy; Frank H. Burton, formerly Thirty
third Michigan volunteer infantry; Cor
nelius B. Brownwen, formerly First
Vermont volunteer. infantry; Cleveland
WiIcoxson, formerly Second Georgia
volunteers; Owen T. Keanen, formerly
First Georgia volunteers; Howard At
kinson formerly Second West Virginia
volunteer infantry; Thomas r. Hayson,
formerly Twenty-first Kansas; William
e. Cabeu formerly Second Kentucky;
William E. Adam, formerly First .. S.
V. cavalry.
To be first Heutenants: Walter K.
Wheatley, formerly Third United States
infantry; John L. Hughes, formerly
Third Illinois volunteer infantry; Frank
D Buckingham, formerly Thirty-hfth
Michigan volunteer infantry; A M
Mason formerly First Vermont volun-
teers ;Blanton Winship, formerly Second
formerly First West Virginia volun-
teers; Charles A. Phillips, formerly
Twenty Kansas; Logan Feland,
formerly Third Kentucky: Sherrard
Coleman. formerly First U. S.V. cavalry;
Macmillan Luna, formerly First U. S.
formerly Pennsylvania artillery; Roland
Fortescue, formerly First U. S. V.
cavalry; Richard Day, formerly United
States cavalry; Henry NJ. Aldman,
formerly Second Georgia volunteers;
Frank M. Chaplin, formerly Sixty fifth
all formerly First New York volun-
teers; Charles Grant Mcdonald, -;
Matthew Leepere. volunteer army as
sistant surgeon: Madison NJ Wilson,
formerly First Florida volunteers.
To be second Heutenants: Lyle H
Pedlar, -; William E. Pack formerly
Thirty fourth Michigan volunteer in
fantry: Sanford E. WOrthington, form
erly First Vermont volunteers; William
H Monroe, formerly Fourth U. S. V. in
fantry; George r. Crawford, formerly
TWenty-second Kansas; Watson Lind
sey. formerly First Kentucky; Roland
4 S. Pike, formerly Sixth cavalry.