The San Francisco call., 1906-12-31
California Guardsmen
Desire Appropriations
Legislature Will Be Urged to Set Aside
Funds for Improving the Service


make the arrangements Invitations
Will be extended to all the regimental
officers
Following is the score made by mem
bers of Company G Of the Sixth, located
at Bakersfield, which entities them to
wear medals.
Lieutenant E. S. Kent I3O Captain A. S.
critics l2s, Private Daniel Durham l2s first
class rinemen-Lieutenant f. B. Duncan 1875;
Charles A. Hare III, Private John r. Higdon
III, Private Walter Parent 108 Corporal G. r.
Corporal Ear Reynolds ios. Private si F. E. stowe
lu9 Sergeant CaIrtzwiler 105 Lieutenant J. Z.
gesnt r. r. Allen ios, Private At 4. 1. B Howard
zoo, 1 rd pr9ate va Wesley D. Brown 100, Private g;
W. L. Bolender 95.
COMPLETE FINE ARMoRY
A new armory has been completed in
1 San Diego, which will be occupied by
Company B Of the Seventh Infantry and
the Third Division of the Naval Militia.
1t is said that this will be one of the
best arranged armories in the State.
Louis Chapplear, one time captain of
Company f Of the Seventh, located at
Los Angeles, has been commissioned
captain of the Ninety-first Company
United States Artillery at Jackson Bar
racks, New Orleans.
A few evening since Brigadier Cen
eral Roster and Brigade Inspector Ma
Jor T. V. Keesling paid a visit to the
armory of Troop A Cavalry, Captain
Greeninger commanding. and found a
large number of the members of the
troop present. The quarters and prop
erty were examined and were found in
good condition The troop then went
on the street and had drill which
proved satisfactory.
Every paper in the State published
where there is located an organization
of the National Guard has had some
thing to say In regard to the order
mastering out Company B, and in more
or less direct terms Colonel R. K
Whitmore, commanding the regiment.
has been charged with having brought
about the mustering-out order because
his military pride was hurt by reason
Of the failure of two officers elect of
the company to appear before the ex-
amining board for examination as to
their qualifications The colonel, in a
letter to the Modesto Herald, published
IN the town in which he lives, says in
explanation of the mastering out order:
While the members of Company B claim
which is true. that there were six companies in
the brigade which showed lower rating at the
remembered that that was last March, nine
months ago, and If inspection were to be
found 10 exist While 1t is true that Company
ID OF Modesto stood last on the list at inspec-
tion, 1t has recently elected one of the very
best men In all the National Guard for cap
tain, and viii no doubt. if given reasonable sup
port by the citizens Of Modesto, have a very
what # had at the last. On the contrary, Com
pany B has no captain and no first lieutenant
and the officers elected 10 fill those positions
refused TO take the examination when the ex-
amining board went to Stockton on December
TO examine them as TO their qualifications for
commissions. There was unmistakable evidence
also, that field ammunition had been used in
the armory for gallery practice instead of
hat Tlr
pose, and although both companies occupy the
Informed and believes that this act So dans
gerous TO life was committed by members OF
Company B. From the fact that there seemed
10 be no one willing to take command Of
the company. and from the evident lack of in
terest In the organization by the citizens Of
no other way than to recommend its musfer-out
The company would have been mustered out
efforts Of the regimental commander~a fact
well known to the members of the company as
wen as 10 the citizens OF Stockton
Since the publication of Colonel
Whitmore's letter, the officers and
members of the company that is to be
mustered out tomorrow have openly
charged him with having procured an
order mastering out Company B so as
to cover UP delinquency on his part.
The Stockton Mail in a recent issue
adds the following chapter to the case.
which has been discussed by almost
every member of the guard in the
State:
Private George D. Graham company clerk show
that the election Of James T, Haddow captain
apd Leroy Kreider first lieutenant was held
on the l1th of last October.
CLAIM RULE VIOLATION
At e:30 p. m. on the Sd of December a noti-
fcation was received by the proper officer of
Company to have the elected officers on hand
ouaIifcations to iii the Offices to Which tbev had
The Rules and Regulations of the National
Guard of California. page 1877, section 749. ex-
pressly state that within twenty days after the
notification that an election has been held the
examining board must examine the elected Of
fcers, notifying them Of the time and place.
In failing to do this. # is declared that Colonel
the regulations of the State military Company
Clerk Graham said to a Mail reporter:
is that Colonel whitmore mustered out Company
to cover up his own neglect of duty. To make
the company present on the night of the election
we discharged all,members absent from the city
leaving thirty remaining. We had prevailed
upon First Lieutenant Haddow Of Company A to
resign that office and take the capfaincy of
Company 3, as we recognized in him an efficient
as Haddow became captain Colonel Whitmore
campaigning for the Assembly in stanislaus
County and was too busy to attend to any af-
fairs Of ours.
NEGLECT Is CHARGED
with the aid of Captain. CLARK of Company A
we had had plans adopted for new armory for
the two companies, and ten-year lease had been
building exclusively for military purposes The
papers only needed the signature Of Haddow as
commander Of Company B. Because Of the neg
leet Of Colonel Whitmore, however, Haddow
growing tired Of the delay accepted position
In Oakland at increased pay, refusing to remain
here and wait upon Whitmores pleasure. He
would have remained however. had the exam
ination been held within the required time
Through the neglect of the regimental com
mander we lost our new armory and COM
pany.
I'm bis report to headquarters Colonel Whit
more gave inefdciency the reason for muster
ing us out, though there were several other com
panies lower in the list. At 10:30 o'clock D. m
OF April 10 Companies and B were ordered to
San Francisco for duty during the days following
the earthquake. At midnight less than two
hours later, ready 10 20 TO the train
with fifty men, We IN San Francisco the
following morning at o'clock. Colonel Whit
more's own company at Modesto did not arrive
until two days later, and then with only twenty
men, No comment appears necessary
Leroy Kreider, elected first lieutenant could
not be present at the examination as he had
been ordered out on the telephone line that night
only stopping in for a minute to leave word
that he could not be on hand.
Company G of the Sixth Infantry was
to have had field day near Bakers
field January 1, but it has been aban-
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