The San Francisco call., 1899-06-11
WILL BUILD
ARMY POSTS
IN ALASKA
Col. Ray Will Make
Men Comfortable.
EXPEDITION TO SAIL SOON
THE WYEFIELD CHARTERED AS
A TRANSPORT.
General Shafter Has Ordered the
Commanders of Posts Around
the Bay to Fire a Salute
Bunker Hill Day.

General Shafter is busy these days Civ
ing his personal supervision to the out
fitting Of the expedition which is to sail
the last of this month for Alaska under
Colonel Ray This expedition is practi-
cally the first Of it's kind that has ever
been sent to Alaska by the War Depart
ment. While it is not the first body of
troops that has been sent, it is the
largest and the plans for its occupancy
are the most elaborate, while the scope of
the expedition is the most extensive of
any that has ever yet inhabited the re-
g1on of ice and snow. Colonel Ray will
take with him thirty pack horses and six
teen work oxen. The first thing that he
has been instructed to do on reaching
Alaska is to build suitable posts and
quarters for the soldiers. To this end
Colonel Ray will take with him a large
force of mechanics and several sawmills
or course, as is to be expected these
posts will be more or less primitive, as
much of the material has to be carried
TO Alaska, but il is the intention of Col
onel Ray to make them as comfortable
as possible for the men. One of the posts
will have to be built of stone, as at the
place where it is proposed to erect it there
is no wood to be had.
Acting under instructions from the War
Department the quartermaSter's depart
ment has chartered the freight steamer
Wyefteld for transport service between
San Francisco and Manila. This vessel
has a capacity of 1000 tons She will be
loaded with medical and subsistence sup
plies, and will sail within the next two
weeks.
First Lieutenant John O'Shea, Fourth
Cavalry. who took number of mules to
Manila on the Tacoma, has been ordered
TO return here on the same vessel for the
purpose of taking the horses of the
Fourth Cavalry to the Philippines.
Those officers of the Eighth Infantry
who have been in Alaska on an exploring
expedition have been ordered here to re-
join their regiment. preparatory TO go
ing to Manila The Eighth is now in Ha-
vana, but has been ordered to the Philip
pines. 1t will take some time before it
can reach here.
Captain Harry c. Benson. Fourth Cav
with the Yosemite Park Commission.
Captain Benson was on duty in Cuba
Private Frederick Rosenstein of the
casual detachment died yesterday morn
ing in the general hospital at the Pre-
sidio Of pneumonia. following measles.
General Shafter has ordered that a sa-
lutte of twenty-one guns shall be fired
from Alcatraz Island, Fort Baker. Fort
Saturday, the 17th inst, in honor of the
patriots who fell in the action at Bunker
Hill, Massachusetts,, on the 18th of June,
l775.
Major Stephen W. Groesbeck. Major
Harry l.. Rees and Second Lieutenant E
W. Tanner have been appointed a board
of survey, to meet on the Sheridan at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning. for the pur-
pose of fixing the responsibility and rec
ommending disposition to the best inter
estS of the service of the sails and avn
ings that We're damaged in the recent
fire.
Acting Assistant Surgeon Charles Fitz-
patrick has been ordered to report to the
commanding officer of the Fourth Cav
airy at the Preside, for assignment to
that command for the purpose of acom-
panying it TO Manila.
Privates William o. Siler, Company 3,
and Joseph w. Leamon, Company II,
Fourteenth Infantry, having been re-
ported by the surgeon at Angel Island as
unfit for military duty in the Philippines
will. under instructions from the War De-
partment. be honorably discharged from
the service
Captain James Parker, Fourth Cav
airy, has been ordered to rejoin his regi-
ment.