The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-08-24
Army and
Navy News
Denny Denies Report.


SAN FRANCISCO, August 14.-Col.
Frank Denny, Z. S. Marine Corps, who
arrived in the city Friday evening to
assume charge of the quartermaster' S
depots and construction work of the
Marine Corps on the Pacific Coast, ex-
pressed great delight at once more be
ing among his many friends on this
Coast. When asked by representa-
tive of the Chronicle whether he had
ented the idea of coming to this
city, as intimated in certain dispatches
purporting to come from Washington,
he said:
'|That is ridiculous. In the first
place it would be insubordinate for an
officer to resent any order from the
secretary of the navy. Secondly, the
secretary has honored me by asking
my preference, and l requested this as
signment because of my many friends
here
New Sherman @. M.
Capt. James D. Tilford, quartermas
ter. has been relieved from duty at
Newport News and is ordered to duty
in this city as quartermaster of the
transport Sherman.
Defense in Cooke Trial.
SEATTLE, Washington, Angus 10.
Capt. Leroy S. Upton began the ar
guments for the defense today in the
trial by court martial of Col. George f.
Cooke, e. S. A. retired, on charges of
neglect of duty and misconduct in con
nection with the disappearance of $l5,
900 from the paymaster s safe at Fort
Gibbon. Alaska. while Colonel Cooke
was commandment there. Captain Up
ton urged that even if Colonel Cooke
had committed the acts of which he
was charged. he could not be held ac-
countable as he was mentally and
physically untitled for the post assign
ed to him by the government
The veracity of Lieut.. Jacob Schick
one of the principal witnesses against
the accused officer. was questioned by
the counsel for the defense. 1t was
claimed by the defense that Lieutenant
Schick had personal AK to grind
Much weight was attached by the
defense to a conversation held in the
mess room at Fort Gibbons. in which
the junior officers discussed the advis-
ability of placing the commandment un-
der observation and treatment for
mental and physical weakness.
Gibson Pau in Pacific.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 15.-The
well-known ship Alex Gibson has bid
den farewell to Pacific waters, having
left the Coast on what is to be the last
voyage she will make under her own
canvas. The old windjammer sailed
from the Sound last week laden with
huge tlmberS, some of them the largest
ever shipped from this Coast. The Glib
| son Will be sold on her arrival at New
York, and will join the barge feet Of
| the Atlantic, which is composed of
| many once-famous clipper ship. Capt.
| F. f. Southland, who Will command the
Gibson on her last voyage, has long
| been identified with the sailing fleet of
| the American merchant marine and has
! a wide acquaintance at Pacific Coast
ports.
| For the past thirty-three years the
| Alex Gibson has been familiar figure
| IN the American merchant marine and
the old vessel has seen many years Of
service on the Pacific. Her departure
adds another chapter to the gradual
| disappearance of the once large feet
Of American sailing vessels. The Glib
son was built at Thomaston, Ne, in
| 1877. She Is d stanch wooden ship al
2o43 tons net, and is 247 fet in length
- feet beam and q feet deep. She has