Show api w NEW COMMANDER OF THE department OF THE LAKES klisis pw 4 g 1 wa I 1 NN 2 say ten gen john coalter bates who has taken up his residence in chicago as commander of the department of the lakes has been in the army since 1861 1891 when he joined the eleventh in fantry as lieutenant he served on gen meade s staff until the close of the war and for thirty years was sta west of the mississippi river chiefly in the indian country gen bates was president of the board which devised the present drill and firing regulations and it was he who conducted the negotiations with the sultan of sulu he is immensely pop ular with his brother officers |