Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-06-04
STATE HOUSE.
National Guard Board of Exam
ination Meets, Today.
Co. F., list Regiment, Mustered in al
Sanford.
Candidates for Steamboat Inspe tor
Nnh Forest Fires-Hearinss.

The board of examination of the Ma
tional Guard will meet at the State
House at 10 o'clock, today, to inquire
into the qualifications of nearly a
score of young men who have been
promoted or newly elected or APP
pointed to positions in the Guard. The
board of examiners consists of In
spector General Hoyt, Colonel Kendall
and Colonel Newcomb, but as the lat
ter officer cannot be present Capt. f. 3.
Thompson of Gardiner, will take his
place. Col. E. B. Sawyer of Bangor,
surgeon general, will also be present.
The list of candidates to be examined
is as follows:
FIRST INFANTRY.
First Lieut.. Hal r. Eaton, (appointed
| First Lieutenant and Battalion Adju-
tanD.
First Lieut.. Willard C. Pooler, Cap
| pointed First Lieutenant and Battalion
Adiutant.
Sergeant George A. Wilson. Jr,
|, Second Lieutenant Elect, Co. D.
Second Lieut.. Eugene 1. Cummings,
| First Lieutenant ElecD, Co. M.
First Serg't Fred B. Spear (Second
Lieutenant Elect, Co. NJ.
| Private Myron E. Benentt Captain
| Elect, Co F.
| Private VIM. H. Bryant, CFirst Lieu
tenant Elect, Co. F.
| Private Howard E. Perkins Second
| Lieutenant Elect, Co. F.
SECOND INFANTRY.
| First Lieut. Frank H. Greenan, Zap
| pointed First Lieutenant and Battalion
| AdjutanD.
First Lieut.. Elmer S. Randall Cap
pointed First Lieutenant and Battalion
AdjutanD.
| Private Edward H. Besse, Captain
| Elect, Co. H.
Private George f. Tolman, (First
| Lieutenant Elect, Co. H.
| Private Frank w. Alden, Second
| Lieutenant Elect, Co. H.
| First Lieut.. Frank E. Drake, Gap
tain-ElecD, Co. NJ.
Private Blaine Owen, (First Lieuten-
| ant-ElecD, Co. NJ.
Private Thomas M. J. Enright, (Sec-
| ond Elect, Co. M.
NAVAL RESERVE.
| Harry NJ. Nickerson, M. D., (Assis-
tant Surgeon, with rank of Lieutenant,
| I'd. ~ dDIOlIteu).
The new Company F of the First
Regiment which takes the place in that
| organization of the Company F re-
Gently disbanded a Augusta, was mus
tered in at Sanford, last Monday
night under most favorable auspices
1t starts with it's ranks filled with the
best young men of Sanford and vicin-
Jtc. TOT, al1 M
nett, is the superintendent of schools
of the town. He graduated from
kent's Hill a few years ago where he
was the football captain and one of the
most prominent interscholastic ath-
letes of the State. The first lieutenant
elect is VIM. H. Bryant who is well re-
membered in this city where he was
the bookkeeper of the Augusta Water
Company few years ago. He is now
superintendent of the Sanford and
Cape Porpose electric railway. The
company was mustered in by Colonel
Kendall, assisted by Capt. Charles E..
Davis of this city, the adiutant of the
regiment, and Lieutenant Dooley of
Portland.
A number of nominations will be
made by Governor Hill, tomorrow. The
only one of importance in the batch is
that of steamboat inspector to succeed
Capt. Horace Atwood of Winterport,
who has served 10 years. The term is
for five years and Captain Atwood is
candidate for a third term. Others
who are strongly endorsed for the
position are Capt. John o. Johnson of
Liberty, Capt John r. Mcdonald of
Addison. a. +. Fairbanks of North
Monmouth, and Henry NJ. Godfrey of
Lubec The law provides for two
steamboat inspectors. and one of them,
John NJ. Taylor of Portland, has but
recently received his nomination.
The fish and game commissioners
will hold two hearings in Franklin
county, June Is. The first will be at
the railroad station at Phillips at 1873
p. NJ. on the petition of w. S. Heath
and others of Salem, that Salem pond
and tributaries be closed to all fishing
for a period of four years. The second
hearing will be at the Rangeley Lake
house at 40 p. NJ, the same day, on
the petition of Geo. M. Esty and 9TH
ers of Rangeey that the special rules
and regulations made for Dodge and
Round ponds. which expire June 20, be
made permanent or extended for 8
term of years.
The railroad commissioners have re-
ceived a petition signed by the Boston
& Maine. through its attorney, George
G. 1eaton of South Berwick, and by
the management of the Portsmouth
, Dover and York Street Railway Com.
pany. asking the commissioners to al
+ ter the course of the highway in South
Berwick at the point where it crosses
, the steam road. The present crossing
is represented as very dangerous and
it is declared impractical to separate
the grades. so the only remedy is g
change in the location of the crossing
Forest Commissioner Ring gets
word daily of new forest fires in va.
rious parts of the State, some of them
- very destructive. Yesterday a tele.