The San Francisco call., 1908-07-26
MARKSMAN MEDALS
ARE UHDISTR|DUTED
National Guardsmen Complain
About SIOwness of Headquar-
ters in Awarding Prizes
Though Target Practice Was
Held Nine Months Ago, Men
Are Still Without Bars

annual target shoot of 1907 are won
6erinR what has become of the medals
they won for craftsmanship The
shoot closed in October Of that year,
nine months ago, and up to this time
not a word has come from headquar-
ters in Sacramento as to when the
medals and bars viii be ready for dis
tributiOn.
i wonder" said a member OF the
guard yesterday, why IT is that head
quarters wants company commanders
and others who must report in writing
there to be prompt to the day in trans
hitting papers. If an officer is few
days behind he gets q showing up in
orders-that is, when they are pub
iished. once in a while and commits
sions four and five months old are an
announced-but when the Office up in
Sacramento has not at the expiration
Of nine months published the scores OF
the winners Of medals it is safe TO say
nothing will be said about the slow
ness of the superior office in orders.
The members of the guard are anxious
10 know who were the winners Of
medals all over the state, and there Is no
good reason why such a report should
not have been published In orders
within three months after the last re-
port was received, and why the medals
should not have been distributed to
the men who won them. Some Of the
winners. know, have died since the
close of the target season Of 1907 and
others have left the state. Prompti-
tude in military matters is something
10 be admired. but il seems as If the
motto in the superior Office is do not
do today that which you can put off till
tomorrow
1T looks as if the season of 1908
viii be over before the report Of 1907
Will be sent out"
The commanders OF the several or
ganizations have been notified that be
fore July 81 each must make a reQuisi-
tiOn for drab shirts so to have them
delivered in time for the camp in Atlas
cadero next October.
There was q school for officers Of the
FIRST battalion of the Fifth infantry at
the armOry of Company A, Oakland.
last week and later there was one for
the officers of the second battalion in
the armOry in this city, at Buchanan
and Waller streets.
Z. J. Butler first lieutenant elect Of
Company u. Fifth infantry, San Rafael.
passed a successful theoretical and
practical examination before the full
board last week.
The various organizations OF the
guard in the state have been notified
TO send TO headquarters at Sacramento
3 list Of any members who served dur
ing the Spanish-American war and are
entitled TO back pay which they have
not drawn
Superior headquarters at Sacramento
wants TO know of the existence of any
relatives Of c. c. Bettencourt, who
served in the Spanish-American war
and who died since the war. His re-
mains were buried in the Catholic
cemetery at Fresno.
The members Of Company l., Second
infantry, Captain Duncan commanding,
located at Bakersfield, left the armory
at that place recently for a practice
march and over night camp. The COM
pany was divided into two squads un-
der Sergeant Morgan and five squads
under Captain Duncan. The former
left at o'clock and the latter an hour
later. After marching in the canyon
in the vinicity of the range near the
city Captain Duncan discovered the
sergeant and his men in conceaIment,
attacked and routed them The COM
pRny then assembled at the camp site
and the following day had target shoot
ing and drill
Company II, Second infantry, at Napa,
was out for target practice last week.
Following were the best scores at the
three distances:
Sergeant Hoover, 90. 40. 42-11s; Sergeant
Gardner, 80, 43, 45-l27: Private Camron. 40,
vate Neuenschwander. 81, 81, zI2lIb; Private
Camron. 81. q. 38-i2S; Private Bird. 80. ~
81: Private Arnitz. 81 25-57; Private Phillips
81, %, 2I-7s; Private Evers. 90. p. e-e6.
The following promotions in this
company are announced:
Corporal J. y. Mount TO be sergeant: Private
G. c. Gardner, 70 be sergeant; Private F. o.
ford. to be corporal; Private W. Hedden, 70 be
corporal
Reports from Woodland are to the
effect that Company F, Second infantry.
which was in danger Of being mustered
out because Of shyness as to the mini
mum numerical strength, 1t having
only at inspection 13 commissioned Of
ficers and IS enlisted men, has been
picking up Of late and now has all but
four TO reach the 81 mark, rank and
file, as required by the war depart
ment
Colonel d. A Smith. commanding the
Fifth infantry, visited Company Z at
Santa Rosa last Monday night, where
he selected Sergeant Eli Jacobs and
Sergeant George Moore TO go to the
tryout for the choosing Of the state
team for the international match at
Camp Perry. These are TO accompany
Lieutenant Claude Sanborn and Private
Guldner to the shoot. The colonel ad-
dressed the meeting, expressing his de-
light for the encouragement that the
tlAlLtUS OF the GllH OF Roses nave
given Company f I'm the recent past.
Upon recommendation of their re-
spective company commanders the fol-
lowing appointments Of noncommis-
stoned officers in the Fifth infantry
have been made:
Corporal Fred SeabOrn and Private Henry Er-
win Wright sergeantS. and P.fvate Malcolm
Stuart Burgess and Private William Cay Rug
giles, corporsls Of Company c. Corporal VII
liam Hsrt, Corporal Agusto Florencias Pa
checo and Corporal Richard Perinoni ser
geants, and Private Jose Rodugues Henrioues,
Private lsidore Plerte. Private Charles Ephraim
Marion. Private Charles Alvsh Mccoy. Private
George Malcolm Holms and Private Parnell
Shcehy, corporals Of Company d; Corporal Carl
Alfred Nelson. sergeant. and Private Oscar Nor
geneie- Private Alta r. Mast Private Iestre
Stanley Baxter. Private Ralph Augustus McKip-
stry and Private John Henry Haub. corporals Of
Company r; Corporal Lewis McCrosky Negley
and Private Francis Gould Watson, sergeants
aud Private Victor Hoffman, Private John Ash
bury Hance and Private Russell Albert McFar-
land. corporals OF Company @: Corporal Chris
tien Wynman and Corporal John James Roberts
sergeants. and Private Harold Norman Patter-
son. corporal OF Company II.
The following details by commanders
OF companies have been approved by
the regimental commander of the Fifth:
Company c, Sergeant Louis John Ms
sen. first sergeant; Company D. Ser
geant William Hart, first sergeant;
Company Z, Sergeant Francis Lester