Show VETERANS FROM PHILIPPINES ARRIVE I Battery D 1 of the Twelfth field artil artillery I lel lery which for the past three years I has been engaged In active service In I Luzon arrived In this yesterday mornIng and took up ito quarters at Fort Douglas where It has been sta The lh b battery under the corn com command mend mand ot of Captain W D Newbill con consists stats of men toen and two officers but It ItI itis I is soon to be divided and organized Into two batteries to be recruited up to 10 men each and placed under the of Major Calif now at the Presidio In San Francisco The bat battery battery tery since It left Yash barracks at Washington D C three years ears ago has seen no less than engagements m and the t e veterans were high highly I pleased to on one e more get back Into barrack life Both and men express themselves as being with the presented by their new quarters The officers or of the battery batter at pres present present ent are arb CaptaIn W D and First Lieutenant J F Howell The battery was formerly of tim tIle Sixth ar artillery artillery tillery and left Washington barracks In August three years ars ago under corn com mend mand ot of Captain A B Dyer and Lieu tenant Howell While In Manila were engaged In active fighting most I of the time and went through some I cf f the hardest tou fought ht battles In the isi and They left Manila on en the trans transport transport I port Grant Aug 26 last and arrived In gan an Francisco a t few w days ago where they were transferred to the I Second artillery They left lert their horses I and guns gun In the Island brInging with them to this city only their side arms I The battery arrived itt In this city yester yesterday ester I day morning over the Short Line and proceeded directly to the fort Cap I fAin Newbill who Is now In command I Ihas has been transferred to New Orleans and amI Captain S D Sturgis ls will assume I command Major Calif and Captain Sturgis are to arrive here hereabout I I about the first ot of next month and then the present battery will be divIded about halt half i the men of oC the battery being taken as the nucleus for n a new battel battery which will be under the corn com mandot mandof Captain Enough men to fill out the two batterIes will then be enlisted and It Is ex expected that within a few months they will be fit fitted fitted ted out with a new equipment or of horses and guns |