Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-30
ARMY NEWS ARH GOSSIP,


I Prvates William Harrolson and william
came involved In = quarrel over the owner
ship Of pair OF lcggings. Harrolson drew
his revolver and shot Chapman In the head.
an operation was performed in the hone %
saving his life, but he died at Z o'clock
SUNDAY sun mornlng hsrrolson was vas: arrested tsd
civil authorities 10 he tried for his crime.
on Monday the body Of Private Chapman
lives. The casket was draped IN the Amer
4 lean flag and horne on a gun carriage from
the hospital 20 the railroad station escorted
} by detachment OF noncommissioned ON
GERS on foot and by his troop and the Ninth
! cavalry band mounted
| Both OF the murder cases which have oc-
| CURED here this month as we'll as several
! serious alterations have been directly at
! trihutable to the use Of vile and obscene
! language and epithcts between soldiers.
| With view TO preventing further disorders
{ 81 this kind, Instructions were issued Tues
/ day by the commanding officer of the
see that article XIV of war Is made rlgldly
effective. Soldiers who use reproaching or
| provoking remarks or gestures to others, or
| make use OF vile language. will be required
! 70 ask pardon OF the soldier offended In the
| presence OF the troop commander and OF
| the troop at retreat and for a second Of
| Tense additional punishment will be pro-
| vided. Revovers will be kept locked In the
storeroOms except when needed for target
! practice,
Captains George lie r. Irwin and Edmund
! NJ. Blake, artillery corps who were re-
called to their regular station. Vancouver
| barracks, Washington, about a month ago
for duty on general court-martial, have re.
! regiment of field artillery at this post.
| Sergeant John w. I(itson, Troop u,
Eleventh f cavalry, mas purchased ms dis
position in civil life.
A pair Of new shoes was drawn from the
quartermasters storehouse last Friday by
Private Joseph McIIim. Troop c, Ninth
cavalry. and when he put them on he COM
ts shy o hSt Sorn on che me OF s
organization remarked that he could cure
the corn, and drawing his revolver he shot
cured it. He later ter claimed lair nat ne didn't
| know II was loaded" Mckim went to the
hospital and Stevens went to Jail
A new class Of bakers arrived and entered
upon their course of instruction in the
Training School for Bakers and Cooks this
try and two coast artillery recruits from
Columbus barracks, Ohio, and two cavalry
recruits from Jefferson barracks, Mssoui.
The post exchange council for the month
of November Is announced to consist of
Captain F. s. Armstrong, Ninth cavalry
Captain w. S. McNair, Artillery corps, and
First Lieutenant f. p. Amos Eleventh
cavalry.
Peyton c. March and Charles L. MenOner
of the general stan arrived here the first of
the week These officers constitute COM
mittee of the general stan appointed 70
study and report upon the two provisional
resimental organizations of tielu artillery
They came here from Fort Sill, Okl, where
Second provisional regiment, and Will re-
main here until the middle of next week
for the purpose Of studying the work of the
first regiment.
First Lieutenant w. w. Reno medical de-
partment, has invented hy podermic syr-
lnge said to be a great Improvement over
any thing of the kind heretofore made He
recently exhibited his invention to the con.
ventlon of army and navy surgeons at De,
| troit, Mich, and IL will probably be adopted
, for use in the medical department Of the
! army.
A party of officers and ladies' went &c
Chapman, Kan, last Friday to attend the
! coursng meet being held at that town. The
| automobile carrying the party broke dowr
ana before they got back no less than foul
of the machines used by them in turn werC
! smashed and put out of service for the time
being They got home very late, all very
! much in love with the horse.
J Major and Mrs. w. II. Conin entertained
! at dinner Saturday evening. The guests
! were: Major and Miss Adams, Lieutenan
and Mrs. Churchill and Captains McMahon
Lassiter and Hams.
h Information has been received that Mrs
McMahon, wife OF Captain J. h. Mcmahon
Artillery corps, Is much improved in healti
and abe to be out At the time Captain
= Meditation left Fort Ethan Allen last sum
f; mer for duty at this post she was seriousl!
, sick in the hospital at Burlington, VT.
z collection was taken up among tn
, members OF the Twenty-nintn field batter,
and the sum of 500 sent to the widow o
{ Private Albert J. Laste, who was killed II
n the recent stampede OF the battery horses
j Mrs Laste lives in New York city.
d Recent orders from the War department
8 provide that the field artillery board sra
% toned at Fort Riley, snail be composed o
o War department, to which may be referre
trom time to time all subjects pertainIn
= 10 neld artillery upon when the War de
J; artment or chief Of artillery may dsei e tn
= bUdiu opinion anu recommendation
Heretofore the board has been composed o
the field oncers of the artillery subpost an
the battery commanders stationed al thi
l., post.
! Captain w. c. Short Thirteenth oavsl,,
instructor. and Second IiRutapanta
Diliman, Sixth cavalry, kaIpn Iaibot In
Iwelfth cavalry. and William N. Hensley
% Jr., Thirteenth cavalry, members of the SD,
n clal CLASS in equation, were granted leav
X or absence for Two days ana spent last FIR
n DAY and Saturday in Kansas City attenc
" Ing the horse show.
y The post foot ball team lined up la.
- SUNDAY against the new post hOspitai teal
ma at the athletic park. The game was
- good one in some respects, but was Yer
much one-sided, resulting 70 to in fave
of the post team. The gate receipts WEI
devoted 10 paying for the new equlpmer
OF the hospital team.
q The order for the Sixteenth battery
a ing from Fort LeaVenworth to Fort Rile
q TO hold its annual target practice has bee
~ revoked. The battery was to have lie
- I-eavenworth this week arriving here abol
~ the first of next month.
e. The famous pass order" which create
- so much talk in a nearby town about
i year ago, has been amended so as TO perm
n enlisted men to be absent without pass b
- tween and D. IN.
Inv ppSN oItlpol -iDI tHllSltu men vi
open next "Wednesday. The sessions vi
be from 10 p. m. daily, Saturdays al
Sc Sundays excepted. Chaplain o. - Mile
r Thirteenth cavalry, will be in charge
IA the school,
* The october issue of the official public
re ton, known as the Army List and Dire
IN tory, received here Tuesday, gives the ST
tons of the Sixth and Nineteenth batteri
of OF field artillery, now at Fort Riley,
ev being at Fort Sam Houston and Fort Dou
m las, respectively, and of the Second al
re Twenty second batteries, now at Fort s
al and Fort Douglas, respectively, as being
Fort Riley. Although no orders changii
the stations of these batteries have be,
directory contained advance information
70 a change soon TO take place, and the neN
r. created considerable excl. ement in the art
NJ lery subpost. General orders No l2S OF I
3D. War department provide that when pra
%; ticable the tour of duty OF batteries Of hC
at artillery at the school of application
at cavalry and field artillery snail be Of thT
Is years duration, and as both the Sixth a
Nineteenth batteries have been here for
much longer period than that IL Is suppos
TO be in pursuance OF these orders that {
expected change Is 10 take place.
-e- The preliminary hearing OF Private Jan
% charged with the murder of Private Rob,
&c, Manley of the same organization, was h,
o. before the United States commissioner
Junction City. Kan, Thursday. Keeth "
- bound over for trial before the Unit
: States district court at Topeka.
The regular fall maneuVers OF the troC
m OF this command, scheduled to be held dl
~ ing October and the first half Of Novemb
have not been held because Of the artillC