Show THE MILITARY CITY CASE OFfclETJT COWLES FORMERLY FORMER-LY QUARTERMASTER Abandonment or Small Posts From LieutGen Sehoficld Gossip at Fort Douglas The formal charges against lieutenant lieuten-ant Cowles have not yet been receded but it is known tHat they are m regard fa irregularities m the of to the alleged irregularites 1 quartermaster The flee of regimental are expected very soon I is likely martial will be called in that a court martal wIl caled four days Carter Harrison formerly of Corn forer reenlisted in Isev York pane D has reenlsted with a He may have taken this step wIh3 view of straigtening out some of his crooked debts in this post e Major Robinson will pay the troops this month for the last time Hereafter payments will be made by check forwarded for-warded to the post commanders and distributed by captains of companies Private Ed T Mass alias Eli T Baxter Bax-ter of Company D now 07 furlough in the east will be discharged from the service Oct 25 Thus another society 7 soldier gives up the blue Company B the pioneers will go ito i-to the canyon tomorrow to rebuild the road a short distance below the reservoir reser-voir This will leave but four companies com-panies for duty in the post Guard duty du-ty will come often The bullet proof coat has been thoroughly thor-oughly tested by the authorities of the army and proved to be a failure This fact the inventor will learn when he gets his samples back shot full of holes Since the consolidation of regiments the Sixteenth infantry has been stationed sta-tioned as follows Eight years in the southern states to 1877 three years in Kansas and Indian territory to 1SSO eight years in Texas to 1888 seven years in Wyoming and Utah to May 1895 < The secretary of war thinks a great point has been gained by the abandonment abandon-ment of small posts and the concentration concen-tration of troops at larger ones A few years ago there were some one hundred posts in all About twentyfive of I these have already been abandoned leaving sixty that are absolutely neces sary As a result of this concentration the troops are better housed and better bet-ter disciplined All the posts are looked upon as permanent Many of the smaller er ones in old days were put up temporarily porarily and it did not seem worthwhile worth-while to spend much money upon them Now all the posts are pretty comfortable comforta-ble places and there is a decided improvement im-provement in the character fjf the fj troops Recently it has been found that the army was hardly large enough to suppress domestic violence to say nothing of a foreign enemy The National Na-tional Guard will prove an invaluable auxiliary in case of war Lieutenant General Schofield who retires from the head of the army in a few weeks evidently does not relish the criticisms lavished upon him since his visit to Fort Meade Through tne medium of the acting adjutant seneral he has this to say An officer is deserving de-serving of severe censure for spreading spread-ing throughout the army and giving to the public at large censorious comments com-ments whether just or unjust upon a department of the public service to which he belongs His conduct is particularly par-ticularly reprehensible when i extends to personalities The public press is not the proper medium through which officers should invite attention to what they may deem defects or abuses in the service Among intelligent officers who care for the public interest it is well Understood that official suggestions made with a view to the welfare of the military establishment have habitually hab-itually received due consideration and that it is conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline for officers to appeal to the public press instead of to the war department for redress of what they believe to be wrong All discipline and subordination would be overturned by yielding to the view that the army can be made a public debating society to discuss the I official acts or measures of superior authority and convey censure respecting I res-pecting others in the military service Intelligent and fairminded officers concede to their brother officers in other I oth-er departments of the military service the same honest zeal which they claim for themselves and do not allege Impositions Im-positions of one department upon another an-other Honest differences which must arise should be fairly stated for the decision de-cision of the secretary of war or the I president whose final judgment should tion be accepted with soldierly subordina tionFuture publication containing animadversions I an-imadversions of a character as em braced in the communication now un tier consideration will be cause for charges against the officer and his trial by court martial a The troops were mustered Saturday I being a warm day and the command com-mand having to stand an unusually long time at attention one man fainted Every man who enters the army nowadays must be a bona fide citizen of the United States a The colored troopers left for Fort Duchesne Saturday The army is at last well fed except now and then when some fiend of a company commander appropriates his companys share of the canteen dividend divi-dend by dropping it into the company com-pany fund instead of using it immediately imme-diately as per regulations for tho improvement of the table fare of hig company m Private Hashtired of cigarette fame will spend today visiting friends in Kaysville < Captain Callumdown is making a good showing with his company in the new tactics The following words to the quicK notes of reveille have been applied by a regular soldier unknown to fame Oh I cant get em up I cant get em upI up-I cant get em up in the morning I cant get em up I cant get em upI up-I cant get em upat all The corporals worse than the private The sergeants worse than the corporal cor-poral The lieutenant is worse than the sergeant ser-geant And the captains worst of all Oh I cant get em up I cant get em upI up-I cant get em up in the morning I cant get em up I cant get em upI up-I cant get em up at all Soldiers who enlisted for five years and who have availed themselves of the three years law must remain out of the service sixty days before they can reenlist They are not as stated permitted to reenlist the day after receiving their discharge though the secretary of war may sometimes rule in favor of the applicant applcant reenlisting reen-listing immediately after the expiration expira-tion of the three years and three tree months if it is shown that the soldier sol-dier is a benefit in some special way to the service I was Private Finke late of Company Com-pany A Sixteenth Infantry who received re-ceived the prize cake for making the most satisfactory reply under the circumstances cir-cumstances to the inquiry of the offi cer of the day as to what that crowd was doing in there at that time of night There were a dozen soldiers shut up in a room in the rear of one of the barracks deeply interested inter-ested in the fascinating game of poker Some fellow had gone and I left the door unlocked The officer happened to be nosing around in the neighborhood and saw him gi > I out Rushing in at the door before I could TKS fastened he asked what the gathering was about His sudden appearance ap-pearance was so astounding that there was no answer He repeated thE question and the silence was growing very painful until Private Finke brokE the ice Sir he said we are yoost playin a Itidle game only fur a few checks yoost fur a leedle while This brought down the house also the officers stiff attitude and instead of running the whole crowd into the disperse guard house he commanded them to |