Omaha daily bee., 1906-08-26

Schools at Fort Riley" written by c, 8,
West. clerk and librarian OF the Scnooi OF
Application
tillery corps. after being on duty with the
Twenty-fftn neio battery since the Vaca-
envy, left on Friday for the east on a ten
days leave, after which he returns there
Mrs. Armstrong. wife Of Captain Arm
strong, with her guest, Mrs. walsh, Is now
in Colorado, where the remainder OF the
veterinarian Charles II. Jewell. Thir-
teenth cavalry, Is at New Haven, Sonn.,
where he is attending The annual s %sS,sai
association. DR.. Jewell goes under orders
of the War department as the representa-
there will address the convention on The
Army veterinary Service -,-,,
Clerk John NJ. Dathrop, at provisional
brigade headquarters, has been sent back
TO his station at Governors Island, n. T.,
on account OF ill-health.
Miss BRnster, daughter OF Lieutenant
Colonel Banister. medical department, and
Mrs. Banister entertained in very de-
iightful fashion on Friday evening With an
were In red. Her guests were the Misses
Howell, Adams, Boynton and Morgan and
Lteutenants Honeycutt, Howell, Glassford,
Hoyie. Brown and DR., Bloomberg.
Miss Mary Weston of Marysville, Kan, is
here as the guest Of her cousin, Mrs. w. 9.
artillery corps.
First Lieutenant F. NJ Jones, Ninth cav
airy Win MS family mas TeluTneO 10 lne
garrison after leave of q month and If
teen days, passed at Lindborg, Kan.
Lieutenant Jones is now on duty with his
troop in the maneuver camp
The school of application has received
four Lantakas. moro cannen), from
Watervliet arsenal, to be used for decor
alive purposes, as the commandant may
see TT The pieces are of ancient make
and are inscribed with Arabic characters.
cellent ornaments after being polished and
placed on pedestals. The pieces were cap
tured by our troops in the Moro country.
The engineer battalion has already begun
work on the construction of the bridge
that will span the Kaw at this point In
% q se WAY be- o Sx6 5os
and will be 40 feet long, resting on nine
steel abutments filed With concrete. The
grading OF the, approaches has been COM
pleted, The bridge will be open to trafIic
Colonel ?; s: Godfrey, Ninth cavalry.
is considering the feasibility Of establishing
ahd bDdSs "a
found It is his intention to place the mat
ter before the general staff of the army
about ffteen or twenty men could be
turned out every four months, capable of
doing all the necessary repair work in
The following officers will leave the first
Of the week for Sea Grit N. j., where they
national match: Second Lieutenants NJ L.
Love, Ninth cavalry; s. A. Howard, Thir-
tieth, infantry; A. w. Hclderness, Ninth
The street car line is already making
preparations to extend Its line to Chenille
creek. on the Pawnee Flats, as the maneu-
vers have demonstrated the fact that such
an Improvement ls sadly needed. AS 1t Is,
those in camp must walk over a mile to
to town. A preliminary survey OF route
will be made at once and work commenced
of h. IL
cal department has relieved Contract Sur
geon Roberts as surgeon of the battalion
Of .sr nn an Snd aug s
at the reserve hospital, which is located in
the post
Veterinarian George A. Harvey. jr., ar
Eleventh battery from Fort Adams. r: l..
viii accompany the Seventh neld artillery
upon its return there for sta ton this fall.
First Lieutenant L. c. Lewis of the
fer with First Lieutenant s. A. Campbell
OF the Eighteenth Infantry.
The Second squadron of the Second cav
airy won the base ball prize offered the
winning team in the post league.
Chaplain Axton's amusement tent in the
center Of the camp is proving an unauali.
equipped with ample writing material, Q
piano, moving picture machine. steoeopti-
CURED quiz i to maintain the tent $500 is con-
sidered necessary, has been contributed
by the Womens Christian Temperance
Union societies OF Kansas. Nebraska, Iowa
and Missouri, while the national associa-
ton, through its president, Mrs. Ella N.
Thatcher, has also contributed. Mrs.
Thatcher is expected TO pay the camp
visit about September ].
Governor Hoch Of Kansas will arrive in
camp on Friday afternoon and will review
the Kansas troops, weather permitting on
the morning Of the following day. Ac-
Communications for himself and stan have
already teen arranged for az Kansas head
quarters.