The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-18
MILES
SOON GOES OUT
Gallant Officer will Be Retired
August 8.
YOUNG IS nExG IN LINE
LIST OF Colonies WHO WILL
GET STARS.

Washington. July 1.-THE president
has given directions for the prepara-
non OF commissions for the following
promotions i'm the army.
Major General Young. TO be lieuten-
ant general, vice Lieutenant General
Miles. who retires Aug. s.
Brigadier General 5. s. Sumner, to
be major general. vice Major General
Davis. 90 be retired July 2G
BriEadier General Leonard s. Wood,
TO be major general, vice General
Young. to be promoted.
Secretary Root today sent the fol-
lowing memorandum to the adtutant
general for the promotion of colonies
10 be brigadier generals and their re-
tirement with that rank:
By direction Of the president you
viii prepare commissions for the pro-
motion and retirement OF the follow
ing officers. with the understanding
that each had applied for retirement
and comes within the provisions of the
Dill that passed the senate of the Unit
ed states at its last session. namely,
that each served creditably during the
civil war for not less than one year,
ana has total service of not less than
thiity-five years;
Colonies 70 Go Up and Out.
John II. Page. Third infantry: Will
liam HaslSin. artillery coyps; Charles
w Miner, Sixth infantry James NJ. J.
Sanno, Eighteenth infantry: Charles f.
Robe, Ninth infantry; Edward b. At
wood, quartermasteJ>S department;
~lohn simpson, QJsrfterTnasters depart
49,; FranlS/-Z Smith, artillery corps;
GeofEe - Rodney, artillery corps;
Almond 3. Wells, First cavalry: John
T. Babcock, assistant adjutant gen
eral; Charles A. Coolidge, Seventh in
fantyy; Henry Lppingcott, medical de-
partment; Cyrus r. Roberts, Second
infantry; J. Milton Thompson, Twenty
third Infantry; Carl A. Woodruff, artil-
lery corps John L. TirnOn. artillery
corps; James Miller, Twenty-second in
tahtry: Alpheus II. Bowman, Twenty
nth infantry; Edmund Rice. Nine
tenth infantry; Charles G. Penny,
Iwenty-ninth infantry; Jesse c.
Chance, Fourth infantry: Theo. +.
Forbes. Twenty seventh infantry; Dan
lei ID. Wheeler. quartermaster's depart
ment; James l.. Cooper, Fifth cavalry:
James w. Really. ordnance depart
ment; John A. Kress, ordnance depart
ment; Calvin Dewitt, medical DEPART
ment. Peter J. Cleary. medical de-
fourth infantry; Charles A woodruff.
assistant commissary general. Colonel
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adler general and retired i'm service.
The promotions are made through the
retirement OF General Davis as major
general on July Is. and TIE promotion
o. Brigadier General Samuel s sum
ner to be major general Ii is stated
at the department that nd more promo
lions Of this kind will ben made. with
The above promotions theRe remain N
@ctlNe service below the Fnk of gen
eral officer only seventy shven officer,
Who served in the civ3l Var.
kneral --->s-s,l----- laazbeen promoted
from The Fourth cavalry, will remain
I'm the same service and Will be as
signed to commend the cavalry and
field artillery school a { Fort Riley. Kan
There is one vacancy in the list OF
brigadier generals for the permanent
list that has not yet been filled. but il
is expected that Colonel Thomas Barry
aGjutant generals department, will be
promoted to that place.