Show 1 FORT UOUGLAS ITKMS Meat Contracts to be Lst The Post Gardens Look well Sioux Soldiers All the troops were inspected and mustered mus-tered at 9 oclock a m Saturday Captain Wood inspected and musteaed the First battalion Captain Richards the Second battalion The electric roads are doing excellent service from tho city to the fort and the cars go loaded During the month of May the Rapid Transit road runs directly behind the tar jet ranges The troops will be firing from 030 u m until noon each day during the month except Sundays Concert by the Fifteenth infantry band at 4 oclock this p m in the band stand No now cases for court martial the past few days and the number of prisoners has gotten bflow the minimum The flagstaff is graced with a new post flag It was very much needed A lot of recruits are expected for the Sixteenth Six-teenth in a few weeks Next week is the time for the city butchers to put in their bids for supplying tIn rinof with frt h bnpf the nnvf llcnctl year commencing July 1 There will be more rivalry this year than we have over had before The contract price the past year was over 9 cents per pound Lieutenant Vance is not lotting the grass row under the feet of his gardeners at ito present time He has charge of all tho gardens at the foot of tbe post and already tho onions peas radiance andlet tuce aro in a smiling condition We always beat the city on gardening But very little work seems to be in progress pro-gress hero duttng this season Probably Uncle Sam has an economical lit on Wo see that the b l for the right of way through Fort Douglas reservation for two electric tramways has passed Congress All the barracks have had a good renovating reno-vating the past week painting calsoinin ing scrubbing and refitting I ia reported that n necktie is to bo issued I is-sued the soldiers as a part of tho uniform The Sioux company now are very well drilled and they have their now rifles They take considerable pride in their military tary duties Somo six of the company will have their wives and children here next week as quarters for them have been lilted up |