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Show i REFUSED TO USE 1 "E" IN ROUTING Mi H, 1'STel Grounds Made Basis for Dis-S. Dis-S. charge of Army Quartermas-ters Quartermas-ters Clerk. I JCHlCAGO. Feb, 24. "W. E. Baker, tho Brkln tho office of tho quartermaster at IUJlct Ehcrldan wno refused to apcll '.'Rout-flijtf' '.'Rout-flijtf' p',n an "B'" although ordered to do HftV his superior. LIcuL-Col. sillier, to--Jjt? received his discharge from tho Scc-1& Scc-1& .rrtirj" of War, to whom tho spelling had jfea referred Baker says ho will appeal arrwldent Roosevelt. If, 2e word was used In an order relating lis transportation of troops and Baker Mru ordered by Lletit.-Col. Miller to spell t 'Routelng,"' and ho said that he could 4 conscientiously spell It with an "c." Bri-Gen. Fred D. Grant, the commandor M ritte Department of tho Lakes, approves Vg' tU41imlal of Baker, saying that he was &k pta a legitimate order and was guilty of fir cnbordlnatlon when ho refused to carry |