OCR Text |
Show LIEUTENANT COLO NEL FRANK L. GRAHAM, cavalry, j new executive oficer of the Third : war prison camp Who arrived at. Fort Douglas yesterday. : i f : j ! : : j jfi i v j . I S..&X- I I f : COLONEL Gil REPORTS FOR OUT! New Executive Officer of War Prison Reaches Fort. lieutenant Colonel Frank I-. Graham, cavalry, new executive officer o:' the Third war prison camp at 1'ort Douglas, arrived ar-rived yesterday afternoon and reported to Colonel George . By ram, commandant of the prison, for duty. Colonel Graham is accompanied by his wife. That the colonel had been ordered here as executive officr of th camp was known some days ago, but the time of arrival of the new official was not known until he put in an appearance. During the past summer Colonel Graham, Gra-ham, who was recalled from the retired list for duty during t he emergency, "was executive officer at Camp Perry, where the great government rifle range is be-' ing constructed. The colonel is an expert ex-pert shot and had supervision over the range. This range will probably be the largest iu the world when completed. The range, about two by four miles in extern. Is as level as the top of a table, and there are some 2,000 targets, with a firing line rome '1000 yards In length. The order directing Colonel Graham to report to the commandant of the Third war prison or duty as executive officer was sent lo him at Camp Perry, but in the meantime the colonel had sta rted hy motor to Columbus, Ga., where the orders overtook him. He took the train at Columbus and readied Salt Lake yesterday yes-terday afternoon after a trip of nearly "iOOfl miles. Colonel Graham is an old Indian scout and fighter and served first with the American army as ajscout In the early Indian war days, lie wears t he Indian wars campaign ribbon. Me ' worked his way from the ranks to a commission in the cavalry and served during the Spanish-American war. lie was also with the guard of the District of Columbia, and for some years was connected in an official of-ficial capacity with the United Slates weather bureau, when t hat was under tha jurisdiction of the signal corps of the a rmy. Colonel Byram and Colonel (Iraham are old friends and it was u pon the request of the former that the latter was assigned hy (he war department as executive officer of-ficer ;i i the local prison camp. Caplain rCmil Korjan, who has been acting executive execu-tive officer since the departure of f lieutenant lieu-tenant Colofepl Kmery S. West, will te-lunuish te-lunuish this work to the new executive officer. |