Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-11-19
ARMY NEWS AND GOSSIP.


battery field artillery, after tour OF
its long march TO Fort Sam Houston. Tex,
under command Of Captain @. w. Gatchen
ton by the Ninth cavalry band playing
THE Girl 1 Left Behind Me and the
streets were lined with friends OF the mem
or.
Monday evening the Twenty-second bat
terry arrived here from Fort Douglas, Utah.
Instead OF coming direct from Denver over
the Union Pacific railroad, the organize
ton was brought in on a special train
over the Rock Island by way of Clay Cen
ter and Manhattan to White city and |
over the Missouri Kansas a. Texas rail- !
way to Junction City, thence by trolley |
around Fort Riley before getting here. |
The men had been in the cars continually |
lay in arrival was very tiresome. The |
men were entertained at supper by the |
BY tuesday morning were perfectly at |
home in their barracks. First Lieutenant |
l. T Boiseau was in command Captain !
7. 3. Mott not having yet reported for |
duty with the organization.
Thursday afternoon the Nineteenth bat |
terry left for it's new station at Fort Doug
las, under command of Captain j. c. W. |
Brooks. The trip was made by rail Thie |
battery was accompanied to the railroad |
of people assembled to cheer their depart |
ing friends The train consisted of four |
nat cars. The horses and armament of |
the battery were not taken along. an ex-
change of equipment having been effected |
with the Twenty-second battery.
Recruit Thomas ONeel, a student in the !
training school for farriers and horse |
shoers, recently made application to be |
transferred to the Thirteenth cavalry band !
His application was approved by Captain |
Short who stated that as the result of
musicians ever made good hoTsemen. Or
ders were issued Tuesday making the
transfer and O'Nee left Thursday for his
new station at Fort Myer, Va.
Captain NJ. 5. Murray, commssary has
! received one of the new tireless cook stoves
made by an eastern manufacturer. He will
at once inaugurate a series of experiments
with the stove, and will compile careful
data to show the percentage of saving
which it is expected will result from its
use. The stove will be taken on two or
/ three practice marches in order to dem
onstrdte its usefulness in the field.
Private John Potts Seventh battery.
| Field artillery, has applied for his dis
charge from the service by purchase. Prl-
! Hate Potts is a son OF Colonel Ramsey d.
Potts, artillery corps, and has twice under
| gone examination for commission. but
! failed to qualify in both instances If his
! discharge is granted he will accompany his
mother who is here visiting, to their home
at Fort Monroe, Va. He has several ex-
! cellent offers of situations in civil life, but
| Is as yet undecided as to his future plans.
A letter has been received by the COM
| manding officer of the Twenty-fifth battery
| Field artillery, from Private George Davis,
| who recently left the post without per-
mission and is being carried as a deserter.
/ lie states in his letter that If transporta-
| ton is sent him he will return at once to
! duty with his battery. Corporal Evan
| Romig was recently sent to Mexico Mo-
to apprehend and bring Davis back to this
| post, but before the corporal arrived Davis
had made his escape.
| Sergeants Mailoy and Fry. recently dis
charged from the Seventh and Twenty-1fth
batteries at this post have re-enlisted i'm
the Fourth cavalry at the Preside of San
| Francisco, and will accompany their regi-
ment to the Philippine islands. Both have
been appointed corporals.
Miss Eloise Morrison, daughter of Bishop
Morrison of Iowa City, Ia. is visiting the
family of Colonel Sydney w. Taylor,
tillery corps.
Captain Guy Carleton. Thirteenth cavalry.
| arrived at the post last week and at once
entered upon his duties. He will occupy
Sweezy, recently transferred to the pay de-
partment at Omaha. Captain Cartoons
rival OF their household goods at Fort
! Riley.
Privates William o. Christi, Troop b.
Eleventh cavalry, and Charles Durr, Troop
| c, Thirteenth cavalry, were detailed this
week on extra duty in the subsistence de-
| partment assistant instructors of cooks
| in the training school for bakers and cooks.
The men who have been undergoing in
| strucuon IN the training school Tor TAR
! riers and horseshoers for the last four
months We're graduated Wednesday. They
We're assembled at the post administrator
hciency were presented to them by the
commandant of the school OF application.
tons on Thursday, about one-tRird of the
class OF nearly 100 going that day, one
thlrd OF them friday ana the remainder
today.
Governor Hoch of Kansas will visit this
post in the near future and deliver an adj
dress to the soldiers in the gymnasium
hall He comes in response to an invita-
ton extended by Chaplain oliver c. Mil
Ter, Thirteenth cavalry. This will be the
first time a governor of this state has
ever visited the, post for the purpose OF
delivering an address.
| The new garbage cremat tory was finished
and put into operation this week, and all
refuse including that from the stables is
Musician Steele of the Seventh Field bat
terry, has purchased his discharge from
Riley, where he will omen n barber shon
! The Union Pacific station is undergoing
extensive repairs and alterations One room
room for both the station agent and the
telegraph operator. and, the office farmerly
used by the agent will be converted in,o
women's waiting room.
the heid artillery drill regulations board
, has gone on to Washington, where it will
be in session during the winter.
Captain and Mrs. McNair are entertain
ing Mrs McNairs mother, Mrs Potts,
wife of Colonel Ramsey w. Potts of Fort
Monroe, Va
F. Bowen of the Sixth field battery, left
last week for San Antonio, Tex, where she
will visit with friends pending tie arrival
OF the battery at Fort Sam Houston.
Major Beverly W. Dunn the inventor OF
'dunnite," who has been here for some
time conducting and witnessing tests of his
5 for his station at the New York arsenal.
Private Robert Mcknight Troop G, Ninth
5 cavalry, was appointed corporal Monday.
a Second Lieutenant John Symington,
= Eleventh cavalry is performing the duties
of prison and recruiting officer during the
4 temporary absence of Second Lieutenant
II. A. Meyer. jr., Thirteenth cavalry.
, Corporal William Hipsher; Troop ID,
! Ninth cavalry, was promoted to be SER
o geant, and Lance Corporal Edward Thomas
, Of the same organization to be corporal, on
= | Tuesday.
The troops Of this command were paid
e last Saturday by Captain John NJ. Sig
/ worth, paymasteT, of Kansas City
The maneuvers OF the combined arms
o were finished Friday, and with the discus
o sion OF the problems today the work of
the school year l904-l0y was brought to a
| close Next Monday the new term in the
; school OF application for cavalry and field
T. Z artillery will open and theoretical instruc-
| ton will be carried on throughout the COM
! ing winter.
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