Omaha daily bee., 1906-02-25
NEWS FROM THE ARMY POSTS
Fort RfIeN

FORT RILEY. kan. Feb 94.-tSpecial. -
Last Saturday Major Granger Adams of
the artillery corps was taken suddenly SICK
with appendicitis For several hours his
condition wRs thought To be serious. lie
taken to the post hospital, where an
operation was performed, and during the
eek he has been steadily improving lie
is now thought\tO be entirely out OF dan
ger.
Tao ruldal season of target practice will
be gin April . On that date one squadron
of cavalry will go into camp AZ the national
target range remaining until the END OF
its practice, when IL will be relieved 10y an
other squadron.
The 1nrn Il the Twentieth battery. field
artillery, gave q masked hall on the even
ing OF Washington birthday, al which
there was = large attendance.
A leN Class OF officers arrived this week
To take the course in the training school
for rai-ers snd cooks. The class II COM
posed Of Capt. ins Charles L. Clark, Arthur
M. Edwards, FRAN Il. Lawton and Law
renee Il; Snnq?ds. They will he under in
structiGns Iu1 sbOut Two months.
Chaplain Oliver c. Miller. Thirteenth
cavalry. vino Sc al Hot Springs, Ark, IN
dergoilg treatment in the army and navy
general hospital, writes that his health II
Somewhat improved and that ne now has
reason 70 hop, ful a complete recovery
Sergeant HenrI Robbins OF the Second
battery, rield al I,1lerH, was placed on The
retired lisI last week. He has gone 10 San
Antonio Te1.. IN, home of his family. Ser
rcan: I.cbLiHs long service in tn army
nas been ohnost continuously with the Sec
Ma 4urd. = former soldier who has
l,e..li employed a. a cook al this cost for
sutra ti'ne, IL IL. 5ail in junction City. Kan
Last l-iidnN Ilight the police Of that town
6ireif. stvd IL arrest him fof drunkenness
and upon Their al pioach Hurd opened flre
on ui,ia Hitn HI. revolver. He escaped 10
The 81 whtIc he was later placed under
arresl and 1nle0 over TO the ctvl authorl-
!.las. er,,rs aie now working on the new
hospital lIulClng and the contractors VIII
hereH f.e" ~ Engaged with the interior
Flashing. TUey expect TO turn the build
InE over 20 he government some time our
ijsn.ai su~ceu r. F. Wing has been re-
lieved from duty al this post and will pro
cead 10 Fort CnIaha foI station.
Mrs. Ho,lc. wife OF Major Eli ID. Hoyle
Of the arrhleIy. will their three daughters,
he-, arrived At the post and viii remain
hsfe urtn the major returns from Hot
Springs, Ark, where he Is Undergoing
treatment in the army and navy general
Mrs. Svrning1on . wife Of Second Licuten-
ami John Symington. Eleventh cavalry, has
[ returned from prolonged visit win
4 friends in Washington, d. &.
4 Sergeant Colonel Charleston Of Troop u.
Eleventh cavalry. died al the post hospital
/ last Sunday night His funeral was heid
4 Monday afternoon. with burial IN ihe posi-
! The officers classes in hippology finished
\ the course Monday and took the final writ
ten examination on that date Nhirty-ihree
officers were examined.
A box party was given at the Junction
| CITY thester Saturday evening by Second
4 cavalry. The guests were Lieutenant and
/ Mrs Laurson, Lieutenant and Mrs. sym
! lngton, Miss Banister and Leutenants
Baird and Amos.
/ Miss Hobbs. who has been visiting with
the family OF Lieutenant Y. r. Hennessy
left last week for California.
/ Guard mounting IL now being held in the
cavalry subpost at $50 in the morning.
a sale Of condemned horses and mules
was held last Friday afternoon by tbs
/ qua rtermasters department. Twenty-seVer
horses and eight mules were SOLD, and th'
Z prices received were unusually high. being
: all the animals We're worth
Sheriff Andrsws of GearT county caIn'
over TO the posi- last Friday and arrested
Private Stephen Gill of the Seventh felC
battery Tor horse stealing. Gill Was dis
charged in 1904 and went 10 Kentucky
where II is charged he committed the crim'
for which he WAS arrested. He re-enlistet
in November, 1903.
When Private Charles r. Mcbride wa
discharged last week from the Twentieth
battery. field artillery, his final pa yment
amounted 10 over sl-SV0. He at once re-en
listed and will leave next week for Ken
lucky, where he viii spend four months
furlOugh.
Captain Ernest Kinds. artillery corps, VIII
has been in poor health for some time. ha
been ordered to proceed 10 Hot Springs
Ark for admission TO the army and nav,
general hospital for treatment
7 Second Lieutenant J. d GlassfOrd. ar
tillery corps is entertaining his brother
Ensign W. A GlasEfOrd. who recently grad
uated from the Naval academy al Annar
oils