Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-21
ARMY NEWS AND GOSSIP


| ton City and Fort Riley DRIVING club
opened at the post athletic park Tuesday
! and closed Thursday afternoon. .,-
| A board OF officers, consisting OF captains
John +. Mcmahon Of the artillery corps, X;
c. Williams Of the Thirteenth cavalry, ana
! Geo F. Hamilton OF the Ninth cavalry has
been appointed to examine and report upon
the oats being delivered at this post oy
the contractor. John r. Morris.
| Sergeants Christopher Schwalm troop L.
First cavalry, and John Clark o I%Ieintydi r0Iid,,Syd
| Wednesday from duty with the detachment
| of farriers and horseshoers and ordered 70
for duty the former at Fort Sam Houston,
Tex, and the latter at the Preside OF san
orders were issued this week prohibiting
the employment Of dishonorably discharged
soldiers on any work on TINS mllltarS M res, res
by the action Of contractors In hiring such
men for work on buildings being con-
The second year class in topography in
| the school of cavalry began its work Iues-
Walter c. Babcock Thirteenth cavalry.
The class is composed of ten cavalry ON
GERS, who will devote hve days OF three
hours each to the study and will also make make
a road-sketching trip of FIVE days duration.
All the excavation for the new post hos
pital building is finished and the walls of
the basement are now above the ground
| level The work Of construction is being
rapidly carried forward.
Privates Horace Gibson. Fred Mayse and
Fred A. Frazee, Seventh battery held ar
tiliery were agpointed corPoratsa +uesa5ay; Tss5S,
to examine into and report upon the char
acter OF Private A. J. White, troop A,
Der 5th next The board consists Of Cap
tain r. c. Williams, Thirteenth cavalry,
ana FIRST Leptenants D. E1eenm, estToraispd GsrI
) Eleventh cavalry.
Private Homer b. Battenburg, Nineteenth
battery, field artillery, has been relieved
from extra duty in the subsistence depart
ment.
partment covering the detail Of members
, ! Of the next class Of cooks in the training
school for bakers and cooks. The class
will be composed of twenty-four men, who
are to report not later than September 12
Eleven infantry and four coast artillery
racks. Ohio; five cavalry and two field ar
tllery recruits will come from Jefferson
; each viii he detailed from the Ninth and
Twenty-fourth infantry.
Major Granger Adams, artillery corps,
who is in command of a corps of the
First provisional regiment OF field artil-
| lery here, has been relieved from duty as
member of the board for the purchase
Of public animals, in order that he may
} devote his whole time to the experiment
in regimertal organization.
| The new chaplain, Captain Oliver G.
Miller, Thirteenth cavalry, has taken hold
of his work here in earnest, and is reviving
| much interest. The attendance at chapel
has greatly increased, and much good is
resulting from his earnest work and evil
l Commissary Sergeant Joseph zieslng,
Post Quartermaster Sergeant Charles 3.
FRANKIE, Ordnance Sergeant Michael Leach,
Squadron Sergeant Major Wilbur r Nor
! gan Of the Eleventh cavalry. Sergeant
l Major II. NJ Bunce of the artillery sub
: post Commissary Clerk L. r. Boudereau.
Mrs. McBain, the postmaster, Librarian O.
3. West OF the school of application and
Second Lieutenant F. 3. Hennessy of the
! artillery corps have all returned to duty
. at the post, after trip to Colorado, where
they went to register for claims in the
Uintah Indian reservation. Each took
y along soldiers proxy to register in add.
ton to his own name
Z the team from St. Marys Kan, at the
s Athletic park last Sunday, by score OF
Private Mcintyre of the Eleventh hat.
= terry, field artillery, was arrested in juno.
e | tion City last week for stealing a lantern
He is now working out his fine on the city
n A contract has been let by the commits
8 sioners Of Geary county for riprappine
d Meeting the town OF Junction City witt
= the military reservation About 500 yard,
@ | of rock will be used in the work
a Prtvates Albert H. Alvers, for the pas
: year on recruiting service at Sioux CITY
Ia, has Joined the Nineteenth battery Of
. he was recently Transferred rSh organization
First Lieutepdht William b. Gown. Third
fswatTS fsw aSy, visited friends at this post for
Il The new road in front of the cavalr,
d stables has been completed and opened foI
= provement and greatly facilitates the worl
n of caring for the cavalry mounts
Issued
orders governing the school of appiica tioI
It for cavalry and field artillery, drawn up ir
It accordance with recommendations sub
n mitted by the commandant. These order
form the most complete as well as the mos
II clear and concise set Of regulations tn
- First Lieutenant F. j. Herman, Mint
" cavalry, has been granted leave Of absence
for one month.
Much talk has been saused by the recen
2 secret marriage at Kansas City of Lieu
y tenant Claremont A Donaldson Of tn
l. Roth Of Leavenworth, the divorced wife o
George p, Kimmel, clerk I'm the quarter
masters office at this post The newspa per
have had much to say about the case, thei
SrtiSles 6rS a6oundng rb IN the
+ however, reflect much more credit upon MI
y Kimmel than upon any of the other par
Id ucipants in this army romance"
70 Squadron Sergeant Major Wilbur r. Nor
10 gan of the Eleventh cavalry, now on fur
al lQugh has taken position In the post ex
a. a. change, where he win be employed unit
rs Captain NJ. S. Murray commissary an
,r director of the training school for baker
u and cooks, has been placed In charge of IN
guardhouse mess, recently placed in opera
in ton, and he will use II in exemplifyng tn
Il course of instruction in the school Th
guardhouse IS now becoming known as tn
Murray Hin hotel.
The second class of bakers graduate
s. from the training school for bakers an
cooks Tuesday, and under orders from III
War department the members were assigne
to organizations and at once sent to thei
new stations. Recruit William Bell was as
We signed to the First infantry at Fort WAYNE
n Mlchigan Recruit Albert Kenig to tn
ed Third infantry at Fort William II. Seward
he Alaska: Recruit William McGrail to III
a Thirteenth infantry at Fort Mcdowell
TX California; Recruit Harry L. Warrell to th
Fifteenth infantry at the Preside of Monte
as rey, California; Recruit Jessie p. Hook I
ls, the Twelfth cavalry at Fort OglethorpI
a. Georgia. Recruit Andrew w. Sudduth wa
IS, sent TO Fort Monroe, Virginia, for RssigI
Mt ment TO company of the coast artiller!
n and Recruit George ID. Grunninger was ser
at TO Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for assignment to
mt battery OF field artillery.
he First Lieutenant Albert 8 Odell sQuadro
r adJutant Eleventh cavalry, has been r,
s. neNed from duty as adjutant of the cavalr
OF subpost The office is being filled, ten
TX porarily, by Second Lieutenant r. r. Low
Ninth cavalry. Lieutenant Odell has bee
granted leave Of absence and has gone eal
for medical treatment
FrlVates owen A Love, Seventh battery
Alols Mitchl, Twenty-ninth battery, an
80 Eman Romig, Twenty fifth battery, hel
1n artllery, have been appointed corporal
Corporals William w. Masters Seyent
go battery, and Howard L. Nannerson, TweT
n, | ty-hfth battery, field artillery, have bee
It promoted to be sergeants.
or In order to enable him to carry out MOI
,t- systematically the schedule OF instruCtio
for cooks, Captain NJ. s. Murray, directC
nd OF the training school for bakers and cook
he has, with the assent of the organizatio
Nc ! commanders concerned, been placed
ie | charge Of all the kitchens of the cavalT
n | troops OF this command
IL Orders have been issued from the heaC