Omaha daily bee., 1905-02-19
Fort Riley. Kan.

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Fort Riley. Kan.
FORT RILEY. Kan, Feb. 1s.-(Special)-
Much inconvenience and considerable dam
| age has been caused by the extremely cold
weather Of the past week. On Monday the
| thermometer registered 2S degrees below
zero, the coolest, with but one exception
on record. Several soldiers sustained Sc
we're frost bites. All week the uuartermas-
ters force of workmen has been kept busy
repairing the broken water pipes and con
siderable damage was done by the Hood
ing of houses and cellars. a good many
plants and flowers, some of them rare ana
valuable, in private conservatories, were
destroyed. instruction of the class in equi-
tatiOn had to be discontinued during the
fore part OF the week as the riding nan
was too cold to be used for that purpose.
Two horses, one belonging to the, Sixth
cavalry, field artillery, and the other 10
Troop X, Eighth cavalry. sustained broken ,Iis
legs by slipping on the ice and were killed
by order of the surveying officer.
Colonel f. s. Godfrey. Ninth cavalry,
commandant, spent the fore part OF the
week in Leavenworth, attending reunion
of the Loyal Legion.
Announcement has been made Of the en-
gagement of Second Lieutepant w: A Nc
Cain. Eighth cavalry, to Miss Jennie Earle.
Lieutenant Mccain, who is nephew or
Assistant Adjutant General Henry p. Nc
very popular. Miss Earle is sister or
Mrs. Dean, wife of Captain Elmer a. Dean
of the medical department
First Lieutenant Duncan Elliot, Eighth
cavalry, having been granted leave or aD-
senGe for four days with the privilege ,ai,s @ oi
gone to Kansas City for dental treat
ment.
has been detailed as summary court for
the cavalry subpost.
An organization Of minstrels has been
formed among the enlisted men OF the
Ninth cavalry squadron. The troops, VIII
consist OF sixteen men (coloredl, ana ths
SreSay % Red haYg ty 10 furnish
a firSt-clasS entertainment, the first one
of which they are planning to give at
weeks 1t is probable that later on they
will also give entertainments at junction
CITY Fort Leayenw3rth and MyaS eseWhfTs ERE
First Lieutenant s. B. Pearson, Ninth
cavalry, Judge advocate of the general
court martial now sitting at Fort Riley,
has gone to Great Bend Kan, to take
dispositions in connection with the trial or
Corporal Joseph C. Rodgers, Sixth bat
terry, field artillery has, at his own request
been reduced to the grade of private.
Among a number of new monograph
records recently received by the Young
Mems Christian association at this post
Gould of New York. Peculiar interest At at
taches to these records by reason OF the
fact that the phonograph, a very fine In
strument. was presented to the organiza-
Private Hubert E. Carver, Seventh bat
terry. field artillery; VIII go to topeka on On
alton for the position of railway mail
clerk.
clerk in the Office of the post; and con-
structing quartermaster, was absent from
his desk several days this week on account
of sickness. ..-.
First Lieutenant A. S. Odell. squadron
adjutant, Ninth cavalry, is still confined
to his quarters by sickness. The duties
of adjutant of the cavalry subpost are
meanwhile being performed by First Lieu
tenant +. NJ. Jones, equadron adjutant,
First Lieutenant ]. p. Barney, Eighth
cavalry. is acting recruiting officer during
the sickness of Lieutenant Odell.
Second Lieutenant w. A. Mccain Eighth
cavalry, has returned to duty after being
on sick report for nearly two weeks.
Corporal Bennie p. Forch, Twenty-fifth
battery, field artillery, was promoted to the
grade of sergeant on Thursday.
Artiicer David G. Hillman, Sixth battery;
alcohol TUESDAY afternoon presumably
mistakng 1t for the other kind; The funeral
was held at 2:3O p m, Thursday, from the
post hospital, with interment in the post
The preliminary hearing, of Private w.
L. Matthias of Troop B, Eleventh cavalry
trusted to his care at the post and stealing
therefrom a registered package containing
Junction City before United States Com
missioner Roark. He was bound over for
trial at the April session Of the federal
ing ing detained i ed in jail After the hearing
Matthias confessed the crime and gave
such information as enabled the postotiice
inspector 10 recover $175 of the money from
a servant girl employed in the family Of
one of the officers at Fort Riley
The written examination of the OFFICERS
classes in hippology, both sections, will be
held Tuesday, Feb. s21, and the prdctcal ex-
aminations will be held on Thursday and
Friday following. which will conclude the
work in the course, In hippology for this
school year. The examinations in the train
ing school for farriers and horseshoers are
also scheduled for next week, and as Veteri-
narians Plummer and Power instructors.
will be engaged with the officers classes
in hippology, 1t will be necessary TO hold
the training school examinations during the
evenings. These will. therefore begin on
the evening of the 21st and continue
throughout the week.