Show MILITARY NOTES Persona Mention and Leaves from Headquarters Leave of absence for one month with permission to apply to the proper authority i author-ity for an extension of one month is granted Acting Assistant Surgeon Charles Anderson Second Lieutenant J A Penn Jr Thirteenth Infantry is appointed recruiting recruit-ing officer at Fort Stanton New Mexico relieving First Lieutenant E L Fletcher Thirteenth Infantry Smallpox has broken out among the soldiers of the Tenth Cavalry who are under command of Lieutenant Johnson at Muscal Springs in the Whetstone mountains where a quarantine is in existence ex-istence against them A board of officers is appointed to meet at Fort D A Russell Wyoming at the call of the president thereof to examine into and report upon the qualifications of such enlisted men for appointment as post quartermaster sergeants as shall be brought before it by orders from these headquarters or higher authority Quar termasterSergeant Edward Pierpont has been ordered before this board In the battalion of four companies of the Third cavalry now serving at Fort Davis Texas there is no major or captain cap-tain the only field officer present being the colonel who drills the battalion We venture to say that no such state of affairs has existed before in the history of our army in time of peace From the colonel to first lieutenant there is no one of any intermediate grade belonging to the cavalry serving with the battalion Five of the officers above the rank of lieutenant are on detached service two are on sick leave and one on leave Army and Navy Journal The following report of Lieutenant Seward Motts death has been transmitted trans-mitted to his father at Bouckville by Captain Price the commanding officer at the scene of the tragedy S R Matt Bouckville NY SAN CAn LOS Arizona March 14Your son was in charge of 120 Indians digging a ditch and building a dam Both were completed He was dividing land and there was dissatisfaction dissat-isfaction with the division A chief and the father of the Indian who did the shooting were in confinement The son was angry and attacked Lieutenant Mott who was unarmed un-armed A white man a farmer went to the rescue and was slightly wounded He went for arms and got a pistol in time to prevent Lieutenant Mott from being killed outright 3o then rode back to the agency ten miles At first your sons wounds were not considered con-sidered dangerous but it was found that a bullet had pierced the abdomen causing death He did not suffer much was conscious con-scious to the last and had the best of care and medical attendance T E PureE Captain |