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Show FORT DOUGLAS NOTES Today is the great day at the fort muster day when every soul belonging to the poBt must be accounted for. On account of the inclemont weather the ceremony will lack its imposing aspect, and the troops will be mustoredby baU tahons by the respective battalion commandos- la.i. Pendleton of tho regi- ?r?nt lT,1Ims?e5t 'the. Fim and Maj. Hirst the Third battalion. The remaining remain-ing organizations will be mustered bv their respective commanders. fte"r muster the inspection of the nost will be gone through. There are eomo forty men at the fort who will bo discharged within a few days, immediately re-enlisted for the r-wonty-ninth and given furloughs of from two to three months. When hon-orablv hon-orablv discharged the soldier is civn his deposits with Uncle Sam, plus per cent per annum, an allowance of 4 centa per mile to place of enlistment, which is sometimes several hundreds of imles away, for only God knows were a soldier winds up in a form of throe years, and over and abovo whatever what-ever credit is coming to him through savings on clothes; as a rule, then, the boy in blue, when ho gets his discharge, has a pretty fair grub stake. Telegraphic advice is to hand from department headquarters at Denver to the effect that, in accordance with recent re-cent orders of the War department company E of tho Twentv-ninth infantry, infan-try, which was formerly" stationed at the iort, will Boon leavo Whipple barracks, bar-racks, whero It in now stationed, and come to Fort Douglas. Its arrival is nxpepted In tho very uoar future. Two companies of tho Twenty-first, at Fort Logan, Colo., havo been ordered to V hippie barracks, Ariz. Thus tho garrison gar-rison at tho fort will bo augmentedbv wmpiuijr.jnalinij. a. total of ten i |
