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Show SUPPLIES FOR ARMY. Clothing and Equipage for Ft,-Doug-las From San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. CO.-Quartor-mastor Maj. Dovol said today to a rop-rcscntatlvo rop-rcscntatlvo of the Associated Press that tho orders ho has Just received from Washington regarding supplies for tho army, will greatly lncreaso tho importance impor-tance of tho army post in this city. According to nn official communication from the War department, "all posts In tho Department of tho Columbia, including includ-ing Alaska, California and tho Colorado, together with Forts Asalnlbolno, Harrison, Harri-son, Missoula and Yollowstone In tho Department De-partment of Dakota will bo supplied from tho depot at San Francisco." "This," said Maj. Dovol, "Includes approximately ap-proximately 14,710 men, not Including those In tho Philippines, which will doubtless also obtain their supplies hero, The order applies only to clothing and equipage, which, howovcr, aro very Important Im-portant factors." |