Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-15
ARMY NEWS AND GOSSIP.


Fort Riley.
FORT RILEY. Kan oct 14.--(Special. -
The last month OF the heid artillery en-
campment Is being devoted TO tactical prob
lens and regimental target practice. Ow-
batteries are being kept busy In order to
finish the work outlined for the provisional
IN the field every day. regardless of weather
the csnnons can be heard FOR miles in every
Major william p Duvai. Captain Charles
i. Mencher and Captain Peyton g. March
OF the general stan has been appointed to
meet In washington and make a careful
study and comprehensive report on the two
PROVISIONAL regimental organizations of field
visit Fort Riley and Fort oT sill in the near
future, In order TO famdiarize its members
with the work being done. Promptly, on
break camp and Tie Batteries ses viii be T Tel
turned 70 Quarters in the artillery subpost.
apois Kan Tuesday pane ana T Tema No there
throughout the week, having been engaged
TO furnish music for the street fair being
net1 at that town They are expected to
BY December the new garbage cream
usual delay in its construction occurs. II
Is being built Of cement, FIRE clay and iron
and the work Of construction Is proceeding
day. ~
Last Saturday night. on a back street of
junction city, KAN a soldier fired his ps-
toll three times at random and then made
his escape In the darkness. One of the bull
Ninth cavalry, badly shattering the bones
or his leg above the ankle jeffrey was
taken TAKEN to the post where his wound was
has not been found necessary.
novel feature was introduced last week
IN the instruction of bakers by Captain M,
o.. Murray. director of the training aohoOf
for bakers and cooks. In order to teach
the students field expedient, a small ex-
ravine. roof was made of boughs piast-
cred with clay and covered With earth and
o,,d hTe was built within. After the earth
raked out and the articles to be baked were
placed inside; Bread was excellently baked
captain sS nay p H Rni m aTtsry CORDS is
covering from spsi of sickness which
confined him TO his quarters for about a
Mrs. Schumm, wife Of Captain II. c,
Schumm, artillery corps, returned this week
from from prolonged visit to several eastern
Since the post exchange went into the pie
ana ice cream business early in July last
u mas sold S,H6 pies and over LOO gallons
Private V. T., Campbell, Seventh battery
neld artillery, has purchased his discharge
First Lieutenant Joseph s. Hardin, artii-
iery corps, now at Fort Monroe, Va, has
battery to the Seventh horse battery sta
toned at this post
Sergeant MoCaTrey of the Twenty-ninth
expiration of his term of enlistment. has
gone to his home In Providence, r. l.,
where he will engage in business.
Mrs. Dowd wife of Chief Farrler Eli
gene A. Dowd, has gone to her former
home in Boston, Mass, to visit relatives
Authority has been received by the quar-
tefnaste En- TO employ steam filter at the
steam plants OF the post in repair. 'e ''i'ou'
Information has been received that Pri-
yate Wesley Lockett of the. Twenty-ffth
battery, who was being carried as absent
without leave, is sick at his home in An
First Lieutenant w. w. Reno, medical de-
partment, recently transferred from Fort
Myer, Va, to this post. has entered upon
his duties in the post hospital.
Seventh battery, field artillery, has re-
turned to duty after furlough of four
months spent in visiting relatives and
cities.
G. ]. Criswell, who has for a long time
engaged in furnishing milk to the people
Of Fort, Riley, has purchased a farm in
Somanche county, Kansas, and will go
Privates James ], Britt and William
Mallon of Troop A, Eleventh cavalry, went
to Junction City. Kan, last week and while
In broad daylight and while the occupants
shall caught them while they were trying
to sell the stove at q secondhand store.
They were fined $40 and costs each
Sergeant Hayden of the Nineteenth field
battery is the proud father of baby boy,
A dancing school for enlisted men will
be conducted in the post administration
Baker, T%enteth Battery y3f Held n arti
when he was formerly. stationed at this
post as drum major of the Ninth artillery
The troops of this command were paid
last Saturday by Captain John M. Sig
worth, paymaster, of Kansas City.
Miss Bruce of California, who has been
visiting with the family OF Captain w, II.
Mccormack Of the Ninth cavalry, has gone
information has been received that First
Lieutenant Frank ]. Otis Of the Fourth
cavalry, who left here with his regiment
summer by advertising for a job in civil
life, ts~under observation at the United
so Of sa ReTe being
as to his sanity. While at this post Lieu
OTIS ,5 made COED ee%rd as an
on duty soliciting for life insurance COM
d. F. Cameron of Chicago, who has been
visiting his son, Captain George H. Cam
eron of the Fourth cavalry. left Monday
is prominently Identified with the affairs
OF the South Chicago street railway.
q. A. Miller. the expert machinist from
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here If connection with the repair work
| on the new field artillery armament. Ger
tain parts of the gun carriages have dis
closed weakness in construction requiring
much attention on his part.
Private H. w. Morgan, who deserted from
the Sixth battery some time ago, after bor-
rowing all the money he could get from
| his friends here, has been apprehended in
the east, tried at Fort Myer, Va, convicted
and sentenced to two years Imprisonment
at Fort Jay, n Y.
entertaining Mrs. SHOWS cousin, Mrs How
| ard OF Atlanta, Ca.
| number of microscopical specimens of
the blood of animals infected with surra
1 were received Tuesday by the commandant
OF the school of application for cavalry
and field artillery from the chief quarter
/ master of the Philippines division. They
| will be used In the instruction Of the Of
! icers' classes In hippology.
| The Sub-exchange building In the artillery
sub-post Is being entirely remodeled and
| repaired. The work is being pushed as
rapidly as possible, 50 as to have Il finished
| by the time the batteries move back into
their barracks from the artillery camp next
| the needs of the exchange and was In a
bad state of repair, but 1t Is now being
reduced In size and put in frst-class shape.
! Meanwhile the exchange is quartered in
the vacant dining room of the Nineteenth
Mrs Rice, wife of Captain sedwick Rice
OF the Third cavalry, who has been visit
ing friends in this vicinity for several
weeks, left this week for Fort Leavenworth,
| TO spend few days with the family OF
Captain f. II. Lawton OF the subsistence
A.v.