The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-04
CEN. WESTON
On SHERIDAN
Notes of Army and Navy News
Fifth Cavalry About
Ready to Come.

The transport Sheridan is due today
from Manila via Nagasaki, en- route to
San Fransico. Among the passengers IS
Major General Weston, who has been
assigned to the command of the De
partment of California. On arrival he
will relieve General Smith, who was
placed in temporary command. The
change at San Francisco may result IN
a general shake-up of commanders OF
departments, and rumor has it that the
growing Importance of Oahu as a mill
tary post may cause the War Depart
ment to assign General Smith to COM
mand here. The Chronicle of Deeem-
Der % has the following concerning
/ the transport service:
The transport Sheridan, which sailed
from Manila December Is for this port,
has the following officers on board:
| Maior-General J. f. Weston, Captain
Fl. F. Rethers, aide de camp to General
Weston; Captain J. W. Blanchard, Cap
tain Junius l. Boyle, Philippine Scouts;
/ Captain Wilson B. Burtt, Eighteenth
| Infantry; Lieutenant Charles E. Free
yer, signal corps; Lieutenant Charles E.
Freeman, medical corps; Lieutenant j.
| NJ. Holmes, Eighteenth Infantry; Lieu
tenant s. Hayward, Major w. B. Ladue,
engineer corps; Lieutenant H. B. Nc
Intyre, medical corps; Lieutenant 0. C.
Nichols, Thirteenth Infantry.
The Sheridan is also bringing 25
sick, 20 general prisoners, and II
casuals
The transport Thomas, which is to
sail for Manila January 5, will go load
ed to the guards with troopers and
supplies for Honolulu and Manila.
Two squadrons of the Fifth Cavalry
will go to Honolulu, and besides the
cabin passengers there viii be one hum
bred marines for the navy and $50 re-
cruits for the infantry forces in the
Philippines.
Shake-Up in Military Circles.
The Call of December % says:
| Advices from Washington, which ar
rived yesterday at the Preside, por-
tend great shake-up on this Coast in
military circles. The coming arrival
| of General Weston is to be in a meas
ure the signal for the changes.
As starter in the upheayal Briga-
dier-General John j. Pershing, who is
now in Washington, has asked to be
sent to take command of the depart
ment of Missouri
As General Pershing married Senator
Warren daughter the request of
Pershing will evidently be met with
approval by the War Department.
In order to make way for Pershing s
demands General Charles Morton, now
in command of that department, has re-
! ceived notice that he must be ready to
come to this Coast to take command
here
| General Morton is expected to arrive
here before the end of the year. At
the Preside, it is expected, General
Morton will take command of the de-
partment of the Columbia. This will
cause the transfer of General Daniel
Fl. Brush, at present in command of
that department, to another post
The future of General F. A. Smith s
movements are entirely unknown to
himself. As a prominent officer at the
Preside said yesterday, Everything
is very much up in the air regarding
| the changes that are to be made at
these posts and also at the Philippines.
will be solution to the uncertainty
now existing.''
Army and Navy Notes.
The Army and Navy Journa, of
December 19 has the following military
and naval items of local interest:
The fact that commission com
posed of Col. j. B. Bellinger, Cap. w
S. Scott, of the Quartermaster De
partment, and connected with the trans
port service, has been engaged in an
examination of the three Oceanic
Steamship Company liners, Sierra, So
noma and Ventura, formerly on the
Australia run, has given rise to the
report that the Panama Canal Commits
sion is considering the purchase of the
vessels named. The inspection was fol
| the purpose of chartering vessel tc
carry the 9Th Cavalry and its horses to
Hawaii
Lieut.. Col. Adam Shaker, Coast Art
[. S. A., promoted colonel vice Green
ough, retired. was born in Illinois
March 1, 1855, and is graduate OF
the U. 5. NJ. A, class of 1877, wher
as an additional second lieutenan he
was assigned to the 9Th Artillery. He
was promoted second lieutenant, Isl
Artillery, Oct. Is, of the same year