Show AT FORT DOUGLAS Getting Equipage Heady for a Summer Campaign SecondLieutenants Being Examined for Promotion Pro-motion Stieot Car Service to be incrticscd on April 1 Captain T C Woodbury Sixteenth United States infantry lately assigned to company F at Fort Duchesne loft on the 10th inst for that fort with the paymasters f oiitnt Sergeant Keller company G Sixteenth I I infantry is being examined for the position of ordnance sergeant Sergeant Keller has been in the army nearly twenty eight I years but has been a noncommissioned officer of the Sixteenth infantry some twenty years He is an excellent aud deserving de-serving soldier and there is 110 doubt but what he will receive his longlooked for promotion First Sergeant James Watkins company E Sixteenth infantry is also an applicant for ordnance sergeant and it is hoped his turn will come next He has been in the I Sixteenth infantry nearly twentyfive years and is one of the few old members of I the regiment left Gardens arc being fixed up and hotbeds I arranged for tho spring and summer vegetables An immense amount of i vegetables is raised by the labor of the I I troops alone all of which in Consumed in addition to the regular rations Barrels of tomato catsup saurerrout iuu piokios re I put up every season sufficient to last all winter Captain Henry C Ward Sixteenth infantry in-fantry and Captain Stephen Jocelyn Twentyfirst iufanuy have bean ordered to Omaha on a general courtmartial They left yesterday evening I Orders have been received to overhaul all old teutago nnd fold equipments so as Ito I-to have everything in complete readiness I for a summer campaign in the field if necessary Some three or more second lieutenants are being examined for promotion The board of examination is composed of Colonel Parko Captain Richards First Lieutenant Downing and two medical officers of-ficers ordered to convene at Fort Douglas March 113 All officers cr the army below I the rank of major must pass a mental and physical examination before promotion I Efforts are being made to reduce the fare tc 5 cents over the electric railway 1 from the city to tie post and it is reported that the officers of Lao railway will uo this by the 1st of April when the cars are to be run from 730 am until 1140 p m instead of 1030 am and 1140 pm as now Captain Palmer Sixteenth infantry arrived ar-rived homo a few days ago after a little visit to Fortress Monroe Washington and the principal cities in the east The captain cap-tain has invented a new knapsack for the army and experts pronounce it the best in the world W |