Evening star., 1909-08-21
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS.
Army Orders.

/
| Leave of absence for three months on
surgeons certificate of disability is grant
ed Capt E. Holland Rubottom. 9th Cav
! airy
! Leave of absence for fifteen days is
I'd Cavalry.
Maj. Henry D. Snyder, Medical Corps.
| at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt, will proceed to
/ ST. Louis, No. and assume charge of the
medical supply depot in the latter city,
| relieving First Lieut.. Ferdinand Sch1nit-
| ter, Medical Corps, who will return to
Jefferson barracks, Mo.
| Maj Eugene o. Fechet. Signal Corps,
| will proceed to his home, await retire
! ment from active service.
BY direction of the President. and upon
| the application of Cook William II. Dorr.
| Troop d. 9TH Cavalry, that soldier will be
| placed upon the retired list.
! Leave OF absence for twenty-one days
is granted Capt. Louis NJ. Nuttman. COM
missary.
! Capts. john f. Ii. Hannay and Robert
! III. Rolfe. auartermasters. will proceed
! to the Massachusetts cotton mills Lowell.
Mass. on official business pertaining to
| the manufacture of olive drab cotton
| cloth.
| Leave of absence for one month is
| granted First Lieut.. Richard P. Winslow,
Coast Artillery Corps
Capt. Elisha G.. Abbott, Coast Artillery
| Corps. Is transferred from the 9Th Com
pany to the 11sth Company.
| BY direction of the President. and upon
/ the application of Chief Trumpeter VIII
[ liam q. Twitty. band 9TH Cavalry. that
/ soldier will be placed upon the retired list.
| Capt. William p. Plat, ordnance depart
ment will proceed to Fort Rosecrans.
! Cal. on official business pertaining to the
s; inspection of the armament in the artil-
lery district of San Diego.
Naval Orders.
! Capt. H. T. Mayo. from duty naval
secretary lighthouse board. Washington.
D. c.. to command California.
| Capt. v. L. Cottman, from command
California, to navy yard. Puget sound,
Wash.
Lieut.. Commander S. S. Robson. from
Pennsylvania to bureau of equipment,
| Navy Department.
Lieut.. Commanders NJ ST. c. Ellis and
E. p. Jessop have been commissioned,
| Lieut.. j. d. Wainwright. from Naval
Academy, Annapolis. Nd. to fourth di-
vision. United States Atlantic feet. on
| Ensign b. L. Canaga, from fourth di-
vision, United States Atlantic fleet. to
| Virginia.
retired list:
| Surgeon A. E. Peck. from marine re-
| cruting station. New York. to marine re-
cruiting station, San Francisco.
| Surgeon ]. A. Murphy, from Olympia
to marine recruiting station. New York.
| ME, from Rhode Island. to navy recruit
Ing station, st. Louis Mo.
| Passed Assistant Surgeon G.. c. Grieve,
from Naval Hospital. Sitka, Alaska, to
| Independence.
| Passed Assistant Surgeon J. NJ. Brister,
from Independence. and wait orders.
| Assistant Surgeon J. A. b. Sinclair. to
command Naval Hospital, Sitka, Alaska
L IN
navy recruiting station. Omaha, Neb.
| Assistant Surgeon c. F. Sterne. from
4 navy recruiting station, St. Louis. Mo-,
to Naval Hospital. Puget sound. Wash.
| Assistant Surgeon G. c. Thomas. from
| navy recruiting station, Omaha, NOD, To
| Rhode Island.
Assistant Surgeon W. G. Steadman, dis
charged treatment Naval Hospital, Nor
! folk, Va; sick leave six weeks.
| Assistant Surgeon T. w. Reed. from
marine recruiting station. San Francisco,
to examination for promition and walt
| orders.
Chief Carpenter F. A. Itrich, trans
ferred to the retired list
| j. L. Jones has been appointed q
carpenter in the navy.
Pharmacist J. T., Oursler, from Naval
| Academy. Annapolis. Md. to Army and
Naval General Hospital. Hot Springs,
| F. d. Foley has been appointed pay.
masters clerk in the navy, duty South
1 Dakota.
| Naval Movements.
! The auxiliary Supply has arrived at
| Honolulu the collier Justin at California
City, the gunboat Tacoma at Colon, the
| gunboat Dolphin at Gloucester, and the
cruisers Charleston. Galveston. Denver,
| Cleveland and Chattanooga at Weihai-
| wei.
/ The cruiser Prairie has sailed from
| Newport for Hampton roads. the collier
| Hannibal from Newport News for Bos-
| ton, and the collier Alexander from
I Hongkong for Nimrod sound.
Resignation Of Lieut.. Thomas.
!, The resignation OF First Lieut.. William
| Thomas Philippine Scouts, has been ac-
cepted by the President, to take effect
!, August 81 1909 Lieut. Thomas Is from
Texas and was formerly an enlisted man
| in the regular army. He was appointed
second lieutenant, Philippine Scouts, in
December, 1905, and was promoted to be
first lieutenant in September, 1908.