Omaha daily bee., 1905-12-30
NEWS FOR THE ARMY.

Corporal George W. West, Company 3.
Signal Corps. Fort Omaha, has been or
dercd to Fort Sam Houston Tex, for
duty.
The following enlisted men have been
honorably discharged from the army by
direction of the War department. Privates
Fort Robinson; Andrew Johnson, Company
C. Eleventh infantry, Fort Russell; Frank
n; dSe' Sharl reo NoTma S COMPANY K,
Third battalion of engineers, Fort LeaVen'
worth. -
Payment OF the troops of this department
has been ordered f.: he month of De-
cember as follows: captain A. p Bunlne-
ton to make payments at Forts Mackenzie
to make payments at Forts Riley and
Lcavenworth. Captain Claude Is. SweezeE
TO make payments at Forts hoplnson; No
Slaughter to make payments at Forts
Crook. Omaha and Des Moines.
A general court martial has been ordered
to convene at Fort Mckenzie, Wyo.. Jan
uary 3. The detail for the court is: Cap
tains X. r. Steednan, Eleventh Infantry;
tenants Woodson Hacker, Eleventh infan-
try; Verge f. SweaZcy, medical depart
ment: Second Lieutcnants j. G. Greene,
Tenth cavalry; J; e. Brozynski. Eleventh
infantry, and First Lieutenant +. r.
lie Funiak, Eleventh infantry, Judge advo.
Tho Eighth and Thirteenth batteries of
field artillery are under orders to proceed
to the Philippines. These batteries are
I now stationed at Fort u a. husseli, Wyo;
The men and material of the batteries will
sail from San Francisco February l, and
the horses will be shipped on the sam.
date from Seattle, Wash. The places OF
The departing batteries will be filled in this
depa rtment by the Twelfth and Nineteenth
batteries field artillery, from Fort Doug"
las. Utah.
General court-martial sentences have
been promulgated from headquarters OF
| the Department of the Missouri as follows:
Privates Thomas II. Chiles, SiNtieth COM
/ nany coast artillery. Fort Riley. for deser
! one-half years imprisonment; Frank Van
Meter Thirty company, coast ar
| tillery, Fort Riley. for desertion, dishonor-
! ment: John Steward, coast artillery for
| desertion, dshonorable discharge and eight
| cen months imprisonment; j. @. Sears,
! Troop NJ, Eleventh cavalry, Fort, Des
| Moines for perjury, dishonoTable discharge
and three years Imprisonment; Amel Carl
SON. Troop ID, Twelfth cavalry Fort Riley,
| desertion dishonorable discharge; Paul
| Westfall, Company n, Nineteenth infantry.
! Fort Crook for desertion, dishonorable dis
| prisonment; Guy A. Hogan, Seventh bat
leave, Fort Des Moines, dishonorabIe dis.
charge and three months Imprisonment;
| Claude H. Ramsey, Thirteenth battery,
| field artillery, Fort Russell, for conduct
| prejudicial to good order and military dis
! years imprisonment; Warren J. snyder
| Company 3, Thrtieth infantry, Fort
| Crook. for deseTIion, dishonorable dis
charge and one and one-half years impris-
onment: Sam Stone, Company NJ, Twenty
fifth infantry, Fort Robinson, absence
without leave, dishonorabe discharge and
one years Imprisonment: William r. Smith
Troop l, Tenrh cavalry, Fort Robinson
conduct preiudicial to good order, dishon
orable discharge and six months impris
onment; George McGrath. Troop I, Elev
| enth cavalry Fort Des Moines, for deser
| ton dishonoTable discharge and two anC
one-haf years imprisonment.