Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-08

FORT RILEY, Kan, July 7.-(Special)-
Independence day was appropriately %.
necessary stable, guard and police, were
suspended for the day. There was base
athletic park and at noon the salute to
the union, one gun for each state was
fired by a battery of held artillery. In the
evening the Ninth cavalry band went TO
Junction City and gave an open air con-
cert in the city park.
During the band concert in Junction City
Wednesday evening Corporal Thomas A.
Reddard of Troop II, Thirteenth cavalry,
| committed suicide while standing on the
edge of the crowd of people by shooting
himself through the head The body was
brought TO the post and was bruied yester-
day In the post cemetery. He served In
| the English army through the Boer war,
| In which he won several medals for gal
liant aud meritorious conduct .
Captain tanning Parsons, Ninth cavalry,
has been appointed reglmental quarter
master. He was relieved on Monday from
the command Of Troop D OF his regiment.
session at this post. The board consists
| Of Majors s. Z. Allen and c, G. Treat and
! Captain w. L. Kenny OF the Artillery corps.
/ The Second and Twentieth batteries were
| examined this week.
| Captain d. b. Case of the subsistence de-
/ partment has been designated as assistant
| TO the chief commissary OF the maneuver
division to be mobilized here next month
! Captain r. d. Walsh, Ninth cavalry. will
| be the chief Quartermaster OF the division,
with First Lieutenant G. c. Smith. Second
| cavalry, assistant. Orders were issued
! Wednesday detachlng Lieutenant Smith
from this command and ordering him to re-
| port TO Captain Walsh for duty.
! Captain Fox Conner, Artillery corps, re-
ported at the artillery subpost for duty
| "wednesday and was at once appointed au-
tutant For over year there has been
no captain Of artillery available for this
position and various subElterns have been
detailed 10 act as adjutant OF the subpost
/ Post Commissary Sergeant Leblanc, re-
tired, who many years ago served at this
post and who is now a clerk in the depot
quartermaster oftice In Philadelphia. Wis
tied here last week. Sergeant lehane I
family lives In Junction City.
A test OF the American stock food has
been conducted at this post for the last
four weeks, The officers who conducted
the test have made somewhat unfavOrable
The announcement is made that the pos,
exchange will soon declare a dividend for
monthly dividends will be declared ms
STOCK OF the exchange is now worth about
Captain w C. Babccck. thirteenth cav.
airy, Is sick in quarters with a pau cas-,
OF asthma.
secretary OF the school Of application iol
cavalry and field artillery, left July 1 foI
Atlanta, Ga, where he will Join Mrs snow
and SR thence TO f New YORK 10
they will visit his father. They will re
turn TUT, TO Fort Riley August & During Cap
Ninth cavalry will act ds secretary OF -
school.
Mrs. Miller, WHO OF the late Chaplain
oliver c. Miller Thirteenth cavalry MAJ
gone TO California. where she viii max,
her ho.ae.
The sixteenth siege battery has complete,
its target practice for the season, ana hal
moved its camp 10 the Republican riv.
bottoms, near the target range, where (
viii remain until the BEGINNING Of the man
euver encampment on Fawnee hats.
Lieutenant Colonel James Parker, Thir
teonth cavalry, returned this week frJn
leave OF absence spent 1 ntne east. dur NJ
which time ne attended his dauEnte.
wedding In New York City
Mrs. Armstrong, wife Of Chaplain + S
Armstrong Ninth cavalry, IL VISITING
friends at Fort LeavenwoTth.
stand will be placed in operation at tn
! street car station. under the management
Of the post exchange.
Major George II. Morgan ninth cavalry
was detailed Wednesday as IRE mars a
! Of the cavalry subpost. relieving Ma So
H.. J. Slocum Second cavalry.
Troop ~ Nlnth cavalry. marched TO Ola!
Center, Kan, this week % participate II
the citizens OF that community in the l.
! bratiOn OF the Fourth OF Iuly
Recruit Sam ID McRae, a student In IN
training school for bakers and COOKS wa
relieved from duty at the school Monda,
and sent 20 Fort Crook Heb, for ssgn
ment TO the Thirtieth Infantry.
Second Lieutenant J. r Taulbee. Secont
I cavalry. was detailed on SPECIAL duty Men
day as Instructor OF recruits In the cavalr
subpost.
First Lieutenant J. W. When. Thirteenth
cavalry, has returned from a months leaV
Captain r. &. Williams, thirteenth cav
airy. having been detailed en- recruiting
service, was relieved on Monday from IN
command Of Troop A Of his regiment an