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Show ABOUT FORT DOUGLAS What Is Going- on at Uncle Sam's Military Post. Capt. O. H. Jamerson, quartermaster, has been granted ten days leavo of absence. ab-sence. In tho Interim Capt. 11. R. Perry, commlBsarj'i will be In charge. Squads of men wcro employed yesterday yester-day In clearing off the snow. Their efforts. In conjunction with old Sol. will soon make snow a thing of the past at the fort; that Is. provided tho weather prophet Is agreeable; but ho Is liable to do any old thing, even at this tlmo of tho year. The stork visited tho homo of Prlvalo Merriam, hospital corps, U. S. A., at this station. A llttlo boy Is now carried on the roster at present. The man from Indiana, In the shape of Privato Lo Roy Overman Amboy. that State, a member of company G. Twenty-ninth Twenty-ninth Infantry, returned to his post yesterday, yes-terday, having spent a two months furlough fur-lough at home. I Tho flng at the fort was half-masted yesterday In honor of tho late Llcut.-Gcn. John M. Schonold. V. 3 A., retired. The gymnastic drills now In force at the post gymnasium nro proving highly Interesting. All men attondlng nre required re-quired to go through tho stunta. |