Omaha daily bee., 1906-01-28

FORT RILEY, Kan, Jan. 27.-tSpeciaL)-|
for the War department to detail from the
service at large six sergeants of cavalry or
| field artillery for duty as noncommissioned
officers in charge of the students of the
training school for farriers and horseshoers
| at this post, these noncommissoned Off
| nually. This method having proved UNI
| satisfactory and expensive, application was
| certain organizations and to have the extra
men thus provided for permanently as
signed to duty at this post. This applica,
! staf and additional strength of four SER
| geants in the second battalion of engineers
| and six corporals in Troops l. * and l., of
the Thirteenth cavalry. has been author
| ICED, these men not to change station with
their o,rganizations, but to remain per
| The positions thus created are to be filled
| only upon the recommendation of the COM
cavalry and field artillery Sergeant Evan
| w. Suddarth of the Sixth cavalry, who has
been on duty Tor year as FIRST sergeant
| shoers and who is about to be discharged,
| will be the first man to be appointed to one
in the engineer corps, authority having
received by telegraph to re-enlist him for
| that branch of she service. Recruit Frank
Wallace now al assistant instructor in the
| training school, will also be appointed.
The pass order which created such a
| furorc in a nearby town when IL was issued
| about year ago, has been amended as
| to permit enlisted men to leave the post
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| when not on duly. In granting this privi-
| lege the commanding officer states that the
| intolerable conditions prevailing at the post
| at the time the pass order issued seem
no longer to exist and that he is pleased to
grant greater liberties to the men when OF
| duty, and that. relying upon the self-respect
of the soldiers of the garrison, he hopes
| that there may never again be necessity
for applying the restrictions then imposed
South, who have been on duty for some
time as students in the training school for
Instruction and assigned TO organizations.
they having proved themselves incapable of
ration. sebring was assigned TO the Eight
| zenith infantry at Fort Leavenworth and
South TO the Seventh company of coast ar
tillery at Fort Barrancas, Fla. They were
! sent to their new stations on Monday.
Last Saturday Major William II. Coffin,
artillery corps, and Mrs Comm left for San
| Francisco, where the ma jor will assume
| command of the Sixth battalion of field ar
tillery which sails for the Philippine Islands
| sembled at the railroad station to see them
of; Major Coffin has been on duty at Fort
| Riley Tor many years and during his tour
here has made many warm and lasting
| friendshps4
The work of inspecting and surveying
the national target range to do which
First Lieutenant Arthur Williams of the
engineer corps was sent here some time
ago: has been finished and Lieutenant
Williams will make a report concerning
the amount OF work and thc cost involved
in increasing the number Of targets TO fifty.
When his report reaches Washington il
! Is expected that prompt action will he
taken looking to the permanent location
Of the national smallarms competitions n
this post.
The work of remodeling the south half OF
the uuartermaster's storehouse and fitting
it up as offices for the quartermaste 5
department has practically ceased for lack
will not be finished for several months.
1t is being done by quartermasters labor
instead of by contract as is usual in such
cases.
Captain George II. Cameron, Fourth
\ cavalry. accompanied by Mrs. Cameron,
and two of their children, left Monday for
Chicago, where they spent the week in
for New York today and will sail from
that port February ! for the Philippine
islands. The youngest daughter will re-
General and Mrs ]. @. Tiiford at Fisher )
Island. n. Y. her health not warranting
them in taking her TO the islands.
New wheels for the field artillery equip
ment were received from the Rock Island
arsenal last week to replace those sent
with the guns last summer which proved
TO be too light to stand the strain OF field
exercises The old wheels were returned
TO the arsenal this week
Second Lieutenant T. Il. Cathro. Thir-
teenth cavalry. has been appointed pest
librarian during the absence on sick leave
of Chaplain oliver G. Miller.
Sergeant Robert l.. Dennis, Of Troop A,
Eleventh cavalry, has been detailed on
special duty in charge OF the punishment
Captain Ernest Kinds, artillery corps
has been appointed surveying offioef OF the
artillery sub-pOst.
The annual ball Of Troop b. Thirteenth
cavalry. was held at the post "Wednesday
The examination of Second L!eutenants
George III. Baird Eleventh cavalry and
l Henry A. Meyer Thirteenth cavalry, 10. de
teTmine their fitness for promotion, wa