New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-08
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
IF-rom The Tribune Bureau.l

rFrom The Tribune Bureau.I
Washington, December {.
| MORE NAVAL WIRELEsS.-The Navy Depart
ment has awarded the contracts amounting to
$1500O00 for sets of wireless biography of the
Massie system. One of these sets will be Installed
! at the Washington Navy Yard. and most of the
others viii be set up at the new stations along the
Pacific Coast. There was keen coz petl5 on 70 on
tain this contract md even n eisLt = de rep e
sentug many ofer ert wi eess 8 st ms submit MT
contract 10 nearly 5000. No one IS able to. ex-
HS' ~ - f the 7vireess Teope in regard to
their ability to meet all the governmental require
! nents There is not 50 much difference between
I vantage appears 10 be controlled rarely by local
yiress IN 7,9IncafiH # was faunf mat the sta
! ton at Newport. where there is Teefunken sys-
tween the naval station at Beaufort n c.. equinped
with tie Mass system. ard the sta. ion at Havana
between Havana and Newport is 1SG0 miles, and it
! was demonstrated that wireless messages could be
exchanged with only one relay II was interesting
stations, Beaufort was the only one able to reply
REWARDS FOR DESERTERS-Th military
authorities at Madison Barracks, New-YorF, ap-
to be determined that the chief of police OF
Carthage n. y, shall receive the legal reward
offered for the apprehension of deserters but the
reward viii be paid, in all probability since the
technicality raised by the army officers has been
set aside ly Judge Advocate General Davis. 1t
seems that the chief of police of Carthage
rested two soldiers of the sd Infantry and tele-
phoned to Madison Barracks, from which there
came a military guard to take the prisoners to
the army post. They were later tried and pun
ished for absence without leave, and it claimed
that this and not desertion was the offence. Cen
eraI Davis. in commenting on the case, says
The fine distinction between deSerters and men
present in the civilized mind. and am of the mind
good faith the two soldiers, who he had every
reason to believe We're attempting to desert and
this be so. he would appear TO be entitled TO re-
FRESH FOOD FOR THE FLEET-The Navy
Department has arranged to purchase, after COM
petitive bidding in NewYoTk, cold storage provi-
sions 10 be delivered to the naval vessels in south
ern waters. Hitherto these supplies have been
bought from one contractor. who had monopoly
Da the d Bete of Prces s9d can be
tanned by purchasing the meats IN New oTk ana
69Tns been made by the naval pay ocers The
supplies will be delivered to the vessels during their
them of the best kind of provisions during the sea-
ORDERS IssUED-The following army and
navy orders have been issued:
ARMY.
Major HENRY P. RITzIUs. retired to his home Beer
second Lleutenout RALPH W. DRURY, 9th Infantry,
from Allegheny Arsenal to Fort Thomas.
1a' Coast > aFtieT5 Preside Francisco
NAVY.
h
partment
Commands WERLICH 62sns T. duty as inspector 18th
Commander g H. MATTHEWS, retired, detached the
Columbia; home
Lieutenant Commander c. c. MITCHELL to the Gal
weston
Lieutenant Commander W A. EDGAR. detached the
Galveston; to command the Dolphin.
Lieutenant s / NJ. MAJOR detached recruiting
party Washington.
Lis0 Sa2esto T $ wilson from me Fh''o''na 70 '
Lieutenant \. \. MANSFIELD. to the Columbia
BY cable from the commander in chief Asiatic
fleet December 5.
Lieutenant J. r. DE FREES detached the Chauncey; to
homo.
En-irn F. G MARTIN. detached the Decatur; to the
oregon.
MOVEMENTS OF NAVAL VT1SSELS-The fol-
lowing movements of naval vessels have been re
ported
December aThe Nina Boston; the Massachusetts at
the West Virginia, the Colorado and PENNSYLVANIA
and Maryland Hampton Roads the Nevada at
Brunswick the Perry { Mare Island
SAILED
December 6-The Massachusetts from North River for
navy yard York: the West Virginia. the Colo |
the Pennsylvania aud the Maryland from !
Southern drill grounds for Hampton Roads; the
Perry from san Francisco for Mare Island; the
Cleveland from Guantanamo for Monte Christi.
The Juan Austria commissioned December II. |
navy yard Portsmouth.