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Show HONOR IS CONFERRED i( ON CAPTAIN SMITH Special to The Tribune. jfflgffi EL. PASO. Texas, Feb. 10. Captain $M Morton F. Smith, Company M. Twen-tieth Twen-tieth infantry, has been notified of his appointment to bo commandant of cadets mm at tho West Point Military academy, with Wt- the pay and rank of a lieutenant colonel $VPi of tho line, for three years. Captain (Ms Smith came here from Fort Douglas, Jfjif Utah, where he had been since tho re- (11 ill turn of his regiment from tho Philip- of?-i f pines. He was graduated from "West l! Point in 1805 and has served constantly ' pW' with the Twentieth since that time. He Kij j was aide-de-camp to General John C Km Bates during the campaign before Santl- KtSj j ago and was also in tho Philippines. He will take his new station on March "0. |