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Show MAJOR KING SOON ! TO GOMMMfD POSTj Officer Ordered to Fortj Douglas From Camp j Talliafero, Cal. 1 Possibility That Battalion ! May Be Established Here. Major Wesley Kins. Y. S- suard, from Camp Taliaferro, Cal., has been ordered to Fort Douglas as commanding officer of the local post, accordins to an order ic-reh ic-reh ed at post headquarters yesterday. Major Kin? Is expected to arrive here any rinv now. Orders i ere also received by the post ' ominniulcr yesterday to move all tho casual eiiBincei-s now at the fort lo other camps. About ninety-four men and seven officers of C company are r repuring to leave today for Fort .Leavenworth, Kan., and it wag expected that about F0 '1m-ited '1m-ited service men left behind by the Sev-n1ieln Sev-n1ieln railway eneineers would remain here to do guard and fatigue work at th post.- Fut t he ordeis 1 eceived yesterday direct lha t they lie sent to Camp Fu list li-st on., Kan., for turlhei' duty. Hoieer, as this would leave the local post without enlisted men for post guard and fatigue duty, il is rather anticipated inat this order will bo rescinded, jt.is understood that likely these limited service serv-ice men will be retained here and trana-tormed trana-tormed into a company of I.". S. Ruards, which will be known as A company, Forty-fourth batlalion. I'nite.l Slates guards of the western department. May Establish Battalion. The fact that a major uf guards is being .sent here would indicate a plan to establish headquarters at lie local post lor a battalion of I he guards, as a major is Hie battalion commander and it is essential es-sential that the headquarters of his batlalion bat-lalion he where lie is located. It is probable prob-able that the first, company of the new batlalhm will be organised here and proh-- proh-- ablv will be retained here for guard duly at "the post for the immediate future at least. Just how long the gun i d officers and guards may be stationed here is problematical prob-lematical as ultima tcly the entire post, with exception of the war prison camp, will probanly be turned over to the army general hospital fur administration. The western department has already issued an order cli reeling the post commander io turn over the post and Its adminls-UBtion adminls-UBtion to the ommandlng officer of army Sonera I hospital .No. 27, but the hospital commandant has declined to take it over because of lack of authority frtTm the surgeon general and the adjutant general of the army. The matter has been brought to the attention of these officers hut no Instructions from them on the subject hye been received. Hubacher on Duty. In the meantime, howeor, the post command and administration has been turned ui er by Lieutenant J. J-"", tfercesci,, who has been post commander since the .Seventieth engineers left, to Captain Trail k R. Hubacher, V. fcj. guards, who was ordered here. from Fort George Wright, near Spokane. Wash. Captain Hubacher has arri ed at the post and has taken command pending the arrival of-th of-th major woo is assigned as post commander. com-mander. , With Copta in H ubacher came Second Lieutenant William C. Kautenberg, who hag been temporarily assigned as acting post adjutant under the new post administration. ad-ministration. I'ndcr orders from the chief of engineers engi-neers eight more student officers from ihe engineer officers' training school at Kort Douglas left yesterday for Camp A. A. Humphre. s, Va.. for further training in the special officers' school at that place. The officers who departed ai e Lieutenant Ralph F. Wyehutf. Captain .1 oil n K. Schoemaker, Lieutenant Louis A. Sanchez., Lieutenant. Ward Blackburn, Lieutenant Francis G- Turlington, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Howard R. Hackney, Captain Don TC: Trip and -Lieutenant Willtain W. Hendricks. |