Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-04
NEWS FROM ARMY POSTS


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Fort Riley.
FORT RILEY, KAN Nov. 3-(Speciat j.
The Fort Riley Card club met last Saturday
evening for the first time this season at the
post exchange, where a number Of games
were played, the winner of each receiving
prize. Immediately after the card con-
tests a dance vas given, the music being
furnished by the Ninth cavalry orchestra
The club consists Of officers and their tami-
lies exclusively.
The school Of application for cavalry and
field artillery has added to its course Of in
struction military map making and map
The old pontoon bridge over the Kansas
river which has been quite an attraction
at Fort Riley has been torn down and is
being replaced by a wooden one.
The work on the new stone barracks,
which are going up in the artillery subpost,
is progressing very rapidly and II no further
DELAYS are met with the buildings Will be
completed some time in January. II is re-
ported that the Twenty-ninth battery now
stationed at Fort Leavenworth, will occupy
these quarters, The artillery suhpost Will
then consist Of six batteries of field artil-
! lery, larger number than any post in the
| United States contains.
Captain ]. b. Mcdonald, uuartermaster' 5
department, Fort Leavenworth. and Captain
Tyree r. Rivers, Fourth cavalry, Washing
ton, n. c., arrived In the post last week
and are preparing to take the examination
Lieutenant Barnard at Carr Hall, while
the latter is stopping with Captain and Mrs
The plans and specifications for the new
riding hall that is TO be erected In the
cavalry post on the site selected In front
ceved from Washington and are now IN
the hands of Captain Whitman, construct
| ing quartermaster, who Is preparing 20
about S32 feet long and 143 feet wide, will
! be a great Improvement on the present 9ne
and will be constructed. along the most In
proved lines that have been adopted by the
! quartermaster generals office.
The request of Colonel Godfrey Tor an
other bachelor officers hall has received
the approval of the quarternaster general
and plans prepared In Washington have AL
ready been received by him in order that
| he may recommend any changes that he
The The observing tower which was erected
| by the engineer corps near the infantry
when that work is bombarded by the artil
! lery was taken away few night ago ana
no trace Of it can be found A thorou! .fi q
search of the post has been made, but with
lout result. This is quite puzziing proposi-
ton. However the investigation will not
gySe aan up fo Sn a tn BToughP ITO to trial
Mrs Godfrey is back from StoNestown,
N j.. where she spent the summer with
'e Contract is Surgeon Leon Garcia, u s. A.,
arrived here the first OF the week ana re-
pIieTtenant Joseph Barnard Fifth cavalry,
visited Fort Leavenworth kan.' while on
leave last week.
Captain Miller, Ninth cavalry, recently
relieved as adjutant upon the completion
of his four years term, will take the school
Of equitation course, which begins NO"
The polo team of this post brought baol!
a silver loving cup, which was onereo
as the consolation prize by the kansas
City Journal. They also won set or polo
malets of the best English make Ths
| team won these trophies when II defeated
Fort Leavenworth last Saturday by score
The Agricultural college at Manhattan
wants a game with the post on Tnanks-
vng day to be game az W be
ranged for at the post on that day.
The artillery examining board has beer
busy the last week examining captains
Berry, Sturgis, Conklin, Mott and McMa-
hon FOR promotion. The examinations were
GsHnerai 4 A. McAlpin and Mrs McAlpir
Of New York City are the guests Of Mrs
McAlpin's sister Mrs, Slocum, wire o.
Major slocum' SECOND cavalry ana %no i
McAipln has been one of the most prom.
inent figures in the National guard Of the
prominently mentioned in 1901 as a candi
date for vice president on the republican
The ouarter1naster's department has re.
celved a chemical hand engine which viii
make a valuable addition to the post nr'
The residence Of DR.. and Mrs. Melchoi
Gist Cockey, South Jefferson street, Juno
ton City, Kan, was the scene OF q very
pretty but quiet home wedding last Thurs
day evening, when their niece Miss Edna
Beverley Mclean, was united in marriage
to Lieutenant Thomas Earl Cathro or tn
Thirteenth cavalry, now stationed at For
Fort Fort Riley's foot ball team played I'll
initial game on Wednesday afternoon a
Topeka, where 1t went against the Wash
burn college eleven, which, by the way
is rated as about the fastest proposition
in this section OF the west; We were de
An interesting, but one-siqed game wa
played here last Saturday afternoon be
tween the teams of Fort Riley and st
Johns Military academy, in which For
Riley won out by a score of IL to o.
The polo game which took place on tn
Fort Iuley athletic field Sunday AFTERNOON
between the officers of the cavalry and ar
tillery corps of this post resulted In
Pbe Mexican officers are engaged in get
ting accustomed TO their surroundings anC
are taking great interest In the driul
through which the batteries are now going
But one Of them speaks any English bu
undoubtedly all will be more or less pro
flclent I'm It's use before they have com
pieted their course. A number of thu
garrison offioers who speak Spanish ar,
looking after and assisting them. Thel
have already become interested in polo anC
are learning the rudiments OF the game.
First lieutenant James d. Tilford, FRS
cavalry, from Fort Clark, Tex, Is VISITING
with Captain and Mrs. Cameron while Of
leave of absence. Lieutenant Tilford, WHIT
Is a brother OF Mrs. Cameron, is unde
, order to appear before the cavalry ex
aiming board for promotion.
A post has been placed on the road be
tween here and Junction City for the pur
nose of searching all wagons for liquo
. and government property For the las
. few months quite a lot of whisky has beef
brought into the post and 1t Is hoped tina
with this system closer watch can b.
kept over the liquor proposition.
Mrs Kernes and Mrs. Laundy, both o
Junction City, Kan, and who are arden
Woman's Christian Temperance unloI
workers and who have the welfare OF tn
enlisted men at heart, are DESTROYS OF con
Quoting meetings on Sundays I'm the guard
house, and the former has written Colone
| Godfrey asking for the necessary permits
sion Mrs. Ella N Thatcher, who Is II
, charge of the soldiers and sailors depart
: ment of the Woman's Christian Temperate
union and who was a visitor in the camp o
instruction at this post last summer 4
also interested in the movement and ha-
addressed Colonel Godfrey on the subject
These women have been informed b!
| Colonel Godfrey that he will be glad TO ali
them in any way that he can.
Clearing House statement.
| Ayuryu WnRK Nov n