Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-26
HOT PACE SET FOR TROOPS
Soldiers will Have 10 Do Some Tall
Walking This Summer.
SCHEDULES ARRANGED BY ARMY
Department orders show that the
Men VIII Have No Idle Time
During Their season Of
Mnneuvers.

In conformity with instructions from the
war department the troops OF the regular
army will have to do some tall walking
this summer to and from the maneuver
camps. The order requires that the In
fantry battalions will have to make
marches Of 200 miles and the cavalry $50
miles during the summer. These marches
will be taken either going to or coming
from the army maneuvers at Fort Riley
and Fort d. A. Russell.
Orders have Just been issued from de-
partment headquarters assigning the troops
to marches as follows:
Second cavalry to proceed from Fort Des
Moines to St. Joseph, Mo, and to march
from there to the maneuver camp at Fort
Riley. The command will leave Fort Des
Moines July q.
Band and the Seventh cavalry will march
from Fort Riley to the vancouver camp at
Fort Riley. Entire Sixth regiment Of field
artillery from Fort Riley to Camp Riley,
both organizations to leave the post Of
Fort Riley August 9.
Batteries d and E., Fifth artillery, to
leave Fort Leavenworth for Riley by rail
on August s.
Battery c, Fifth artillery, to march $50
miles from Fort Leavenworth by round
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Thirteenth infantry to leave Fort Leaven-
worth July 81 and march over a l4O-mile
route to Camp Riley. Three companies
Of the battalion of engineers will accom-
pany the Thirteenth infantry.
Headquarters, band and seven compan-
les of the Sixteenth infantry will proceed
by rail from Fort Crook to Lincoln and
will march from there, $50 miles. TO Fort
Riley maneuver camp. The command will
leave Fort Crook July 30.
Mnneuvers Mt Fort Riley.
The m~aneuvers at Fort Riley will begin
August 10 and continue until September 10.
The militia organizations OF Nebraska,
Iowa, Missouri'and South Dakota, will par.
ticipate in the Fort Riley m%aneuvers, but
the dates of their assignment there have
not yet been given out. The militia organ.
izations will be in the maneuver camp at
different intervals, the dates to be an
nounced by orders yet to be issued by
Brigadier General John B. Kerr. U. s. A.,
who will be in command of the Fort Riley
camp and the orders will be issued from
there regarding the militia.
The maneuver camp near Fort D.. A. Rus
sell, Wyo., will be in Of Brigadier
General Charles Morton, Commanding the
Department of the Missouri and will be
established August /, to continue to Sep
TENDER l. The troops to participate in that
encampment are:
Fourth cavalry and seven troops from
Fort Meade. To march from Fort Meade.
5. D., to Grin Junction, WYo., and thence
by rail to Fort Russell. Leave Fort Meade
July 10. The will return by rail.
Headquarters and six troops Of the
Eighth cavalry from Fort Robinson, Neb.
Will march $50 miles and thence by rail.
Will return by rail from Fort D. A. Rus.
sell. To leave Fort Robinson about July IS
Headquarters, band, field and staff OF
the Second battalion and three batteries
OF the Second field artillery to march from
Fort ID. A. Russell to the maneuver Camp
leaving July 20.
Field and staff and three companies OF
the Third battalion of the Eleventh infan.
TRY, to leave Fort D.. A. Russell about July
l Tor the camp near there and return by
a round about march of 200 miles 10 Fort
D. A. Russell.
Battalion staff and three companies Of
the Nineteeskh infantry, to march zoo miles
from Fcrt Mackenzie, Wyoming. to Casper
ana thence by rail to Fort d, A. Russell
TO leave Fort Mackenzie July s.
1.-THE Wyoming, Colorado and Utah militia
organizations will participate in the Fort
d. A. Russell camp maneuvers. and will
reach TIE camp about August IS.
Company D Signal corps, left Fort
Omaha Wednesday for Leon Springs, Tex.
where 1t Will participate in the army
maneuvers there, near San Antonio. The
NINA makes the trip by rail