Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-21

the Department of Agriculture has been
ordered here to confer with the com
handing officer as to the best methods
of doing the work.
Captain F. s. Armstrong. Ninth cavalry.
post exchange officer has been placed in
charge of the gymnasium. relieving Cap
tain George II. Cameron, Fourth cavalry.
The proposition to remove the post ex-
change to the gymnasium building is
being seriously considered.
Captain Ernest Kinds, Artillery corps.
was appointed survey officer Of the ar
tillery subpost Thursday
A class of seventeen men graduated Mon
day as cooks from the training school for
bakers and cooks. Under instructions from
the War department they were assigned
to various regiments and posts throughout
the service and left at once for their new
stations. One man failed to graduate be-
cause of his incompetence. He was as
signed to the Eighteenth infantry and sent
to Fort Leavenworth for duty as private.
Lance Corporal Joseph Howell. Troop b,
Ninth cavalry, has been promoted to be
a corporal. $50,
telegraph office in the post administration
building. The government Will furnlsh ana
set the poles.
The trial in the federal court at Kansas
City of Private James A. Keeth Of Troop
A. Ninth cavalry, for shooting and killing
October, resulted in verdict OF guilty
Keith was sentenced TO life Imprisonment
The case has been appealed TO the appel
since the hay contractor. Ed whitehair,
began work on his contract last summer he
has put up over 5000 tons OF baled nay az
the post He has completed the Work and
is Withdrawing his men and machinery
from the reservation.
A basket ball team has been ORGANIZED III
the Twentieth field battery, and new equip
ment has been ordered. The team Is now
engaged in active practice.
General Prisoner Philan died at the post
hospital last week of tubercular meningitis
and was buried in the post cemetery FRIDAY
without military honors He was mem
Der Of Troop A. Ninth cavalry.
First Lieutenant Frank |. Otis. Fourth
cavalry. who made an excellent record when
stationed at this post with his regiment, mas
been dropped from the army list as de-
Major Eli d. Hoyle artillery corps, with
his family. arrived at the pest this week ana
assumed command OF the Fourth battalion
of field artillery. He was recently ordered
here from Fort Myer, Virginia TO relieve
who is under orders to sail for the Philip
pines January g. Major Hoyle also sue,
ceeds Major Comm as a member or the held
| A telegram was received Tuesday by Cap
tain George II. Cameron, Fourth cavalry.
Informing him that his application TO sail
ing New York City February had been APP
proved. He will leave Monday. stopping
enroute to visit his father. ID. +. Cameron.
Orders were recently issued by the War
department Increasing the strength OF the
/ field batteries at this post. The total in
crease in the garrison amounts to sixty-fve
men.
/ Horse in Accident and Disease used in the
( training school for farriers and horseshoers
I and for the officers classes in hippology.
was forwarded to Washington TO be printed
i'm the government printing ONCE. The Work
of revision was done by the authors Neteri,
j cavalry, and r. II. Power. artillery corps
assisted by Captain George IL Cameron
} TbirfRpnfh cavalry.
/ ton will he embellished with many full
page pictures illustrating the text.
Miller. Thirl zenith cavalry. Is entertaining
her niece. Miss PAYNE. OF Washington, u. G
Second Lieutenants George n BARD OF
I jr. of the Thirteenth cavalry have been
before a board OF officers this week being
examined TO determine their fitness foI
promotion The commanding officer. Colone
Z. s Godfrey, Ninth cavalry IL president
of the board.
/ Miss BanistAr. daughter OF Major J. NJ
Banister, medical department, is entertain
ing Miss Henrietta Won Schrader, daughter
of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick yor
Schrader. quartermasters department, JET
- ferson Barracks, Mo.
The members OF the Kansas State Millers
association, which has been holding it'
annual session in Junction City. Kan. thii
week. came over TO the post "Wednesday
and were entertained by the commanding
oficer and Captain Murray OF the subsist
ence department. They were particularly
interested in the work of the training schoo
/ for bakers and cooks.
| The Twentieth battery OF field artillery
| has purchased a large quantity OF potteC
plants with which 10 decorate the dining
room and the amusement room in thei
Z barracks.
First Lieutenant Basil y. Rittenhouse
I Eleventh cavalry. who has been on sici
| leave for several months, is now at Atlantis
City, ~. J.
/ First Sergeant Bowers OF Troop d. Elev
1 enth cavalry, has returned from Chicago
/ where he spent ten davs' furlough.
Mrs. Shaffer. wife of Sergeant Major w
! II. Shaffer. artillery corps, left last weel
for Fort Baker Cal, tn Join her HUSBAND
at his new station.
Private Henry Harrolson. Troop G. Mint
cavalry. who shot Private William W
Chapman of the same organization at thi
post last fall. was tried in the fedora
court at Kansas City last week and foun
guilty. OF manslaughter. He was sentence
TO eighteen months in the penitentiary.
Major William II. Comm OF the artiller
corps and Captain Elmer A. Dean OF tn
medical department have been relieved a
members of the board which IS engage
in examining officers for promotion at thi
post and Major Granger Adams OF III
artillery corps and First Lieutenant W. "
Reno OF the medical department have bee
detailed AS members in their stead.
A quantity Of quartermastet propert