Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-14
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Army Orders.

Leaves or absence have been granted as
follows: Lieut.. Col William D. Beach.
4th Cavalry, two months extension; Capt.
T. A. Hickman. LIST Cavalry four months:
Capt. Joseph Wheeler jr.. Coast Artillery:
First Lieut.. p. II. Worcester. Coast Ar
til,ery Corps: First Lieut. s. c. Leasure.
Signal Corps. and First Lieut.. A. ]. Coop
er. Coast Artillery Corps, each seventeen
days.
First Lieut.. William NJ Colvin, Coast
Artillery Corps now unassigned, is as
signed to the 10th Company.
Naval Orders.
Capt. G.. l.. Fox. when discharged treat
ment t. S. Naval Hospital. Mare Island.
Cal. to home and leave three months.
Commander r. T. Jasper, retired, to
navy yard, Norfolk. Va.
Lieut. Commander X. Bennett. when
discharged treatment United States Ma
val Hospital, New York, n. Y, granted
sick leave two months.
Ensign J. S. Dowell, jr, to Mayf1ower.
Surg. G. Rothganger, transferred to the
retired list of officers of the navy.
Asst. Surg. F. II. Brooks, from navy re-
cruiting station, Cleveland, Ohio, TO
Franklin, navy yard. Norfolk, Va.
Gunner II. j. Palmer and Warrant Ma
chinist b. Heggenhaugen have been
transferred to the retired list Of officers
or the navy.
Capt j. NJ Moore, detached from the
Algonquin and ordered to command the
Apache.
Capt G. L. Garden, period of duty in
connection with the Department of Conn
merce and Labor extended until June L,
1909
First Lieut. S. B. Winram. detached
from the Manhattan and ordered TO com
mand the Algonquin and granted thirty
days leave route.
First Lieut.. of Engineers C.. r. Nash,
granted ten days leave en- route under
orders of the I'd instant.
Naval Movements.
The Atlantic feet has arrived at Col
ombo. the Pacific fleet at Panama, the
gunboat Castine at Philadelphia, the
yacht Eagle at Port au Prince and the
collier Lebanon at Boston.
The scouts Chester and Salem have
sailed from Boston for Rockand. Me-: the
MacdonOugh and torpedo flotilla from
Charleston for Key West. the torpedoboa
Rowan from San Diego for Mare Island.
the battleship Maine from New York for
Hampton roads. the auxiliary Glacier
from Auckland for Talcubuano.
The old cruiser Ranger has been put out
of commission al Boston.
The converted yacht Inca has been
stricken from the naval list and ordered
sold.
Retirement Of Col. Harvey
BY direction of the President Col
Philip F. Harvey of the medical corps has
been placed the retired list of the
army. Col. Harvey entered the medical
corps from Iowa in November, ISIS, and
reached the grade of assistant surgeon
general with the rank OF colonel in Au-
gust, 1903 For short period during the
Philippine instruction he served as lieu
tenant colonel and chief surgeon in the
volunteer establishment. He has been
recently stationed at Chicago.
Naval Yacht Inca Condemned.
The converted yacht Inca has been con-
demned for naval purposes and ordered
sold. She is a wooden schooner of 12o
tons displacement and was built by
George Lawley & Sons at Boston in 1898
At the outbreak of the Spanish war she
was purchased by the government and
converted into d cruiser with light bat
terry. For many years past she has been
used by the naval militia of Massachu-
sets. but Is no longer available for that
service The old cruiser Ranger, which
has recently arrived at Boston from d
cruise from the islands In the mid-Pa-
ciflc. will be fitted for the use of the