Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-03
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Army Orders.

First Lieut. Maxwell Murray, Coast
ARTILLERY Corps. is relieved from duty with
the 54th Company and will report. on
United States Army mine planter Cen
Henry J. Hunt for duty, relieving First
Lieut. Haldan L. Tompkins, Coast Artil-
Iery Corps. Lieut.. Tompkins will assume
command Of the United States Army mine
planter Maj. Samuel Ringgold. relieving
First Lieut. Robert c. Eddy, Coast Art1l-
lery Corps, who will return to ms proper
station.
Leave of absence for fourteen days is
granted Capt. Robert f. Callan, Coast Ar
tillery Corps.
First Lieut.. William E. Shedd. jr., Coast
Artillery Corps. is relieved from duty
with the saith Company and will report
on United States Army mine planter Gen.
Henry Knox for duty.
First Lieut.. George c. Mullen. United
States army, retired. is detailed as pros
lessor OF military science and tactics at
st. Matthew's Military School, Burlin-
game, Cal.
First Lieut. Charles 8. Dulin. Medical
Reserve Corps, recently appointed, is Or
dered to active duty in the service Of the
United States and is assigned to duty at
his present station.
Capt. Charles S. Wallace. Signal Corps,
will proceed to Fort Wood, N. Y, for
temporary duty pertaining to the work
of the Signal Corps.
The leave Of absence granted Capt:
Frank Parker, nth Cavalry. is extended
one .month and fourteen days on
surgeons certificate of disability.
Leave of absence for one month on
surgeons certificate of disability is grant
ed Maj. James A. Nancy, 18th Infantry.
Leave of absence for twenty days is
granted First Lieut.. Smith A. Harris,
The leave of absence granted Contract
Surgeon Clarence A. Treuholtz. is extend
ed one month.
ward A Goodwin, 14th .Gvalry. is ex-
tended one month and fifteen days.
BY direction of the President, and upon
the application Of rergt. Henry Rohrbach.
sth Recruit Company. that soldier will
be placed upon the retired list.
First Lieut.. Augustus F.. W. Mac
manus. U.S.A. retired, at his own re-
quest is relieved from duty at the Pea
cock Military School, San Antonio, Tex,
and will proceed to his home.
Naval Orders.
Lieut.. T. L. Johnson, to duty United
States Naval Academy. Annapolis. Md.
Passed Assistant Paymaster E. NJ Dob
son, from navy yard. Puget Sound, Wash,
to the naval station, Key West. Fla.
Passed Assistant Paymaster r: B. Lup-
ton. from naval station. Key West, Fla,
to the United States Pacific fleet.
Assistant Paymaster ]. H. Knapp, to the
Wolverine.
the Wolverine to temporary duty, navy
yard. Puget. Sound, Wash; thence to the
Wheeling.
Chief Boatswain H. Seedorf, from the
Osceola to the Potomac.
Boatsxain T. James, from the Potomac
to duty connection fitting out navy barge
No. 123 for service; thence duty Cape
Cruz Casilda survey expedition.
F.. j. Hoffman, appointment pay
masters clerk In the navy. duty naval
station, Key West. Fla, revoked.
Naval Movements.
The Pacific fleet has arrived at Homo
lulu, the cruiser Prairie at Philadelphia.
the battleship Mississippi at Boston. the
tug Rocket at Norfolk and the tug Po-
tomac at Manzanillo.
The cruiser Des Moines has sailed from
Guantanamo for Puerto Cortez and the
gunboat Albany from Acapulco for San
Francisco.
Funeral Of Capt. Merriam.
The Navy Department is informed that
Merriam. L. S. N. who died at Ports
mouth, n. H., yesterday. will be held at
Annapolis next Saturday morning at 10
o'clock, and that the interment will be
in the Naval Academy cemetery. Full
military honors will mark the occasion.
Death of Brig. Gen. De Witt.
The adjutant general of the army has
been advised of the death from heart fail
ure of Brig Gen. Calvin De Witt. United
States Army. retired. which occurred at
Fort Yellowstone. Wyoming, yesterday.
Gen. De Witt was born in Pennsylvania
May PC. 1910; was appointed captain of
the 10th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry