The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-05
GENERAL ELLIOTT
IS THE WHOLE CHEESE NOW
CURLY Sends All RegimentaI
Officers Back Home
from Strike Zone.
TO DISRUPT MILITIA
Order is Pronounced Unprec-
edented in National Guard
Affairs of Country.

In compliance with what is said to
be an Unprecedented order Of Ad3u-
tant General Charles d. Elliott for
all regbmental officers of the West
Virginia National Guard to leave
their command and return home in
stead of going with the troopers to
the Paint Creek strike district,
.Lieutenant5colonel n. Lynn Osborn
and Captain Edward C. Ba5ssl. com
missary. of the First Regiment; and
LieutenantLCoIonel Claude W. Gore
adjutant of the First Battalion, az
rived home on. train Mo. 10 Sunday
evening from Huntington.
The Parkersburg Dispatch News
gives the following account of this
unusual movement of the regimental
officers:
An order unprecedented in the an
mails Of military maneuvers, and one
that is likely to cause disruption In
the national guard of West Virginia.
was effected Saturday when the prl-
Yates of all the companies together
with the company commanders were
sent into the trouble zone In the Paint
Greek district. and the regimental of
Ulcers and their members of stan
were CURLY sent home on an order
from Adjutant General C. D. Elliott
through Major Pratt, the officers he
Ing informed that only the priyates
were wanted at the scene of the
trouble and the officers might return
to their homes. This did not come
out in the dispatches received from
Charleston Saturday night.
Many Officers Return.
On the Ohio River division train
which arrived in Parkersburg Sunday
morning at 4 O'clock were a large
number of members of the national
guard who had come from Hunting
ton. Among them we're Col. C. e.
Morrison. of ParkerSburg, and the
members OF his staff. INCLUDING T. r.
cowell, his adjutant; Captain r. C.
Beckwith. quartermaster; Captain
Charles S. Jackson, commlssary, all
of Parkeraburg; Captain H. ]. Sim
mons, Of Spencer inspector of small
arms practice and who issues the
ammunition to the troops.
Among the non-commissioned off,
GERS in the Second regiment sent to
their home stations were Sergeant
Major Amos S. Kenney, Of Spencer,
who Is quartermaster sergeant; Major
Samuel g. Coombs, of New Martins
willie, commlssary sergeant: Color
Sergeant Charles H. Rickets, OF
Huntington; Major John B. Payne, Of
Parkersburg, and his staff, lieutenant
Ralph c. wandling. adjutant, and
Lieutenant Lake Perkins, battalion
quartermaster. Lieutenant Perkins
was compelled to go to Paint Creek
Junction because he was not able to
get his baggage from the special troop
train. hut IT is likely he will return
home as soon as he Is able to get his
baggage.
Among the officers OF the Fist reg
lment who were sent home were
Northumberland Robert L. Os-
born. of Clarksburg. and his STAFF.
Col. Osborn was in charge of his reg
iment because of the absence on leave
of Col. C. C. Joliffe. of Littleton.
Major John H. Carnock. of Wells
burg. and staff; Major Buck" Scott,
OF Terra Alta and his stan; and the
Rev. a. NJ. IBuckhannon. chaplain, Of
Morgantown. Those mentioned are
all of the line officers OF the two reg
iments and had they been permitted
to go through TO the trouble zone
would have had charge of the maneu-
vers under direction OF the adjutant
generals office at Charleston. AS It
now stands the adjutant general and
his clerical force are in charge and
there are no regImental officers to d.
rect the company commanders in