Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-06
NEWS FROM The ARMY POSTS
officers and Men at Rilsy Preparing for
Entertainment for the Winter.
FORT CROOK ALSO SCENE OF ACTIVITY
Practice on the Target Range 60
Commence sOon-BattaIiOns Will
he Given the Range In
Turn.


Fort Riley.
FORT RILEY, Kan, ia 5-(speciaD.-
On Friday evening, December 18th, MaJoi
and Miss Adams gave a farewell hop at the
post assembly hall room, in honor Of theif
sSss s MSS % 70 wnien S t inc
vited. The hop room was decorated in
keeping with the season with flags, bunting,
Christmas garlands, among which were
hung red Japanese lanterns, while the glare
of the electric lamps was softened by
shades of red holly paper. Card tables
for those not wishing to dance. Following
a program of twenty dances supper was
Major Adams made the announcement to
his guests of his daughters engagement to
Lieutenant Beverly f. Browne, Artillery
corps. Following this announcement Major
Morgan announced the engagement of his
daughter, Marguerite. to Lieutenant Talbot,
Twelfth cavalry who is now stationed at
Lieutenant Hand and his family left on
Thursday for San Francisco, where he
JOINS MS new command, the Ninth battery
field artillery.
Second Lieutenant c. r. Mayo. Twelfth
cavalry, is commanding Troop L, Second
cavalry, in the absence of Second Lieuten-
ant H. J. Reilly, Second cavalry, on leave.
Second Lieutenant Clarence LinningeT'
Second cavalry, in the absence of Lieuten-
ant Harvey, on leave.
Contract Dental Surgeon John d. Mill
Ken, u. 5, A, stationed at Fort DeaVen-
worth, with his assistant, will arrive in the
post tomorrow for temporary duty not to
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The Athletic association has made pre-
paratons for a tug-of-war tournament
which 1t hopes to make an annual event.
Any troop, company, battery or school team
may enter a team Of eight men and a cap
tain. A team to win must pull the OPP
posing team ten feet and hold them over
| them one foot farther. No team shall pull
twice the same day. The tournament will
take place In the post gymnasium for
Fort Riley defeated Junction City at
! polo on Sunday afternoon by score of
| to ]. The play of both teams was fast
| but the excellent work on Rileys part
proved a decided factor in the result.
o, Captain r. @; Williams, Thirteenth cav
terred from Marinette, Wis, to Phoenix,
tucha and Loretto Howell. Mexican officers,
attending the school, were in Fort Leaven-
worth and Kansas City last week for sew
eral days while on leave.
Captains Miller Mccormick and Lieuten-
ant Bowie composed g board of officers
who were called upon to decide whether
Band Ninth cavalry, soon to be discharged
was honest and faithful The board de-
| clared that 1t had not.
Mrs. Lewis gave a reception Christmas
| morning between II and II o'clock.
Miss Hoyle entertained on Christmas ev-
ening at dinner for number Of the young
people; Following the dinner presents
were distributed from a Christmas tree,
Fort Leayenworth, has had referred to
him the bill introduced by Congressman
Curtis, for the construction of military
He is directed to make a thorough in
vestigatioh into the matter and then sub
for securing the necessary rock along the
route, ETC.
To comply with the recent order just
directs that no building, hall, street, drive
way, ETC., on military reservation Will
be named in honor Of a living officer, the
will have to be changed. Carr hall in the
cavalry garrison, is named after General
tired and now living in London, England.
General Carr was IN command of this post
when the construction OF the building was
authorized. The bachelor officers quarters
now in process of construction in the artil-
lery. post, has been named after General
Wallace F. Randolph, who was retired last
year as chief of artillery, and who formerly
commanded the artillery subpost.
The engineer battalion Is hurrying the
| construction of the bridge over the Kansas
river as fast as possible, in order that the
spans over the channel may be completed
and the false NV WORK e WfS e Psse w 5n
remaining in the river throughout the win
ter, the breakup of the Ice In the spring
would very likely result in an ice jam
which would be serious state OF at
Last Saturday evening before large
crowd Of spectators, the Fort Piley basket
ball team went up agains. the Hoosier
Athletic association team of indianapolis.
lnu. FROM pIdChAClht VI wv
before the game it looked as II the soldiers
should have walk-over but before the
first half had been completed, Riley learned
that they were up against a sttn PROPOSE
ton and that the "Hoosiers" were there
with the goods. Fort Riley played hard
game but the opposing team was too much
for them They not only had Riley out
classed in passing the ball but in landing
goals. Riley's great weakness, as shown
In previous games, was in throwing bas-
kets, but in this case 1t was also unable
to handle the ball effectively in passing
Score, 1913, in favor of the Indiana team.
The success OF the Christmas eantata
that was presented year ago in the posi-
theater was a brilliant one and 1t was the
hone of all concerned that II might De
duplicated the following year II the ex'
other year has been torn of the calendar
| and the success of the one preceding was
not only duplicated on Christmas eve, bul
II anything 1t was surpassed For weeks
the young folks selected to participate III
: the event, under the direction OF MesdameS
Godfrey, McNair, Snow and Parsons, hao
been diligently learning and pertectine
their parts. and before a record oreaklns
house composed of proud fathers ane
mothers and other spectators, almost as
equally interested, they scored Drllllan
success. - -,
Sergeant Charles 1. White. Twentieth
battery field artillery, has been reduced
to the grade of private upon his own re-
) On Saturday morning occurred the mar
riage of DR.. Charles H. jewell veterinary
Oesterhaus The ceremony was performed
by Rev. Mr.. Kaltenbach OF the German
Lutheran church.