Show FORT DOUGLAS ITEMS Fifty Total Abstainers Among the MenThe Men-The Canteen Once More Pays Hereafter Post Gardens Will Jake Place Separate Company Gardens An unusual number of cases of colds and catarrhs the past week ono should be comfortably clad the feet as well as the body at this season of the year RILETS RIFLE The rifle taken from the guard by the prisoner Riley has been recovered It was in tho possession of a man living some three miles below the fort There is some talk of having the party brought before he United States courts THE CANTEEN PATS The post canteen is said to bo once moron mor-on a paying basis For the month of December De-cember a dividend was declared of 150 per man They expect the same for January This dividend goes to the different companies com-panies and is used for extra supplies for the soldiers here That new refrigerator for the canteen will hold a carload of beer its a hugo affair READY FOR CHILI Wo are grinding our sabers and sharpen ing our bayonets preparatory for embark ing for that 3Gt0 mile trip of sea coast in tho Pacific Suppose we turn our Sioux and Bruhles loose on them TOTAL ABSTAINERS Wo are very glad to learn there is a Fort Douglas Total Abstainers society and that it contains fifty members Let us not rest until wo have ten times fifty members PARADES POSTPONED During the inclement weather out door parades and drills are postponed Lectures Lec-tures schools lyceum and recitations in doors however are kept up ELECTRICITY IS LIFE Both of the electric roads are doing good service to and from the post and of course they are a great convenience if not sea luxury to all GOOD BTE COMPANY GARDENS Positive orders from the war department depart-ment have abolished company gardens and there will be but ono garden the posi garden Heretofore a company comma for was compelled to be an agriculturalist a cook and conversant with many thing outside of his profession The last reports from the Rosobud agency gives fifty Indians in company I of the Sixteenth infantry all young bucks the flowers and aristocracy of their tribes SkSpleys partner has got onto what hoi was doing and he had to make hims elf scarce Ah Its hs scarcity then that led his partners to offer 10100 for thu capture of so worthless a personatj Y Sun Count Grahorki a Polish nobleman shovels coal on a Pan Handle locomotive and does it so well that there is an early chance of his being promoted to handle the lever |