Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-05
ARMY NEWS AND GOSSIP,


FoEN fhleNs
FORT RILEY. Kan. Nov. 4-(SpeciaI)-
with the end OF October came the end Of
the artillery enCampmcnt. Promptly at
noon Tuesday the soldiers broke camp and
Provisional regiment of field artillery be
came a thing Of the past The committee
OF the general stan appointed to study and
report upon the work done has gone on to
Washington to continue Its labors. Its re-
port will be presented to the secretary Of
war and, should he so recommend IL will
remain for congress to determine whether
the field artillery branch Of the service
shall be organized into regiments or not
and II so organized in what form. Through
out the entire period Of the encampment
the weather has been ideal for the expert
ough. All the officers sent here especially
TO take part in the experiment have re-
turned to their proper stations.
Early Wednesday morning the Twenty
ninth battery which has been here for
three months as a part of the Provisional
regiment. left the post on its proposed rec
ord-breaking march to its proper station at
Fort Leavenworth. First Lieutenant Paul
s. Halloran, assistant surgeon at Fort
Icavenworth, arrived here early in the
week and, with two privates of the Hos
pital corps and an ambulance from this
post, accompanied the battery on its march,
Last Saturday evening the officers and
ladies' OF the artillery gave a hop to those
of the garrison, the final social function
before the dissolution of the regimental or
Hon. Wayne Parker, member of con-
gress from New Jersey, has returned 70 ms
nome atter spending Week mere NiSllilS
his brother Lieutenant Colonel James Par
ker Thirteenth cavalry.
Private Dannie Brown, Twentieth bat
terry, field artillery. has purchased his as
charge from the service.
Information has been received that George
J. Criswell, who for years iurnlSheu tIe
families at this post with milk and cream,
is seriously sick at Langdon, Kan lie
was en- route to the farm recently pur,
CHASED 6X him N IN s his G9up parents
! While there he suffered an attack OF typholu
malaria. -
begun work on the new double set OF non,
| commissioned staff officers quarters, and
will push the work as rapidly as posslple'
| as the building is urgently needed. ~,
| on account of the incement weather tne
| orders for a review and inspection OF the
| troops of this command on Pawnee nasI
| Tuesday were revoked and the uSuSi
| monthly muster and inspection was held
dismounted under arms
| The new commissary storehouse was
| finished and turned over to the government
| by the contractors this week and the com
| missary force is busiy engaged In moving
| Captain Stephen NJ. Foote, artillery corps
| having completed his duties at this post
| left early in the week for Fort Monroe
| Va. Captain FOote Will soon be oTdereS
up for examination to determine his htnes'
| for promotion, and will spend several week:
at Fort Monroe preparing for his examina
Telegraphic orders were received by the
| post commander last Saturday Afternoon
|
teries OF field artillery from duty at this
post on November J. the former to go tC
Fort Sam Houston, Tex, and the latter tC
| Fort Douglas, Utah. for station. They are
| to be replaced here by the Second anC
Twenty batteries. AS the batteries
are to proceed TO their new stations 10y
marching. hurried preparations for thu
start were at once begun. The great diff
culties to be encountered by the organiza
tons in marching over LOCO miles, one Q
them having to cross the continental divide
on route, seem almost unsurmountable, bu
the attempt will be made in obedience e
orders. These will be the longest marches
ever made by artillery i'm this country.
Second Lieutenant and Mrs. marlborough
Churchill are entertaining Mrs. ChurchillI
sister. Miss Esther Smith Of Andover. Mass
Chaplin Oliver 9. Miller of the Thirteenth
cavalry has returned from Emporia, Kan.
where he attended the convention of tn
Evangelical Lutheran synod Of Kansas. 4
which he has transferred his membership
from the southwest Virginia synod.
A case. of scarlet fever has developed il
the family of First Lieutenant +. Nj. Jone
0f the Ninth cavalry. A quarantine Of hi
t~quarters was at once ordered
Cook Amos e Patterson of the Sixt
battery of field artillery has purchased hi
discharge from the service and will engag
in the restaurant business in Junction City
Kan.
.Commissary Sergeant Joseph zieslng |
again at his desk after a weeks sickness
resulting from fall His left eye is still
badly blaCkened and-a large cut in his seal
will not be healed up for week or more
Miss Parker, daughter of Lieutenan
Colonel James Parker, Thirteenth cavalry
has returned from weeks visit wit
friends at Fort Leavenworth.
Although the new garbage crematory
located on low ground its cement staci
, which has been raised to a height Of eight
feet, is a conspicuous landmark and can b
seen for long distance. The cremator
, will soon be finished and put in operation
and thereafter all refuse about the post in
Guiding the stables of nearly 1000 horses
= will be burned, and the old dump on tn
I bank of the Kaw river will be no more
Second Lieutenant Marlborough Churchill
Artillery corps, was relieved Monday 9
T ordnance, range and engineer officer of tn
artillery subpost, and Second Lieutenant 7
NJ, Danford, Artillery corps, detailed i'm HI
stead.
Private Philip A. Grotevant, Nineteent
o batter, Field artillery, was relieved Tues
day from extra duty as school printer
70 order that he might join his organizatio
= and accompany 1t on it's long march
Q Salt Lake City. Private Kelsey Cox. Troc
, b, Thirteenth cavalry, was detailed on e.
: ira duty as printer Wednesday, taking Il
4 place vacated by Grotevant.
Z Elmer A. Johnson of Omaha visited Fo
. Riley this week and was shown about Il
post and reservation by c. S. Yves
e librarian of the school of application.
n Paragraph SS3 of the army regulations
, recently amended, was read to each organ
= izaton in this command at retreat last SUI
day and Monday evenings. This is the para
{ graph requiring officers and enlisted men
stand at attention and render the prescribe
salute whenever the band plays 1.-THE ST,
| Spangled Banner"
q The new subexchange quarters in the a
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