Buchanan

The defendant is charged in the indictment filed in this court with the offense of applying to his own use certain subsistence and supplies furnished and to be used for military service. The facts as charged in'the indictment are: That at Eureka, in Humboldt county (which is in the Northern division of this district), he agreed at a recruiting station that upon his being furnished with transportation and subsistence to the recruit depot at Ft. McDowell, in this (the Southern) division of the District, he would, upon passing all requirements and being accepted for enlistment, enter the service of the United States Field Artillery, and that in pursuance thereof, and upon an application blank furnished him by the recruiting officer, he declared in writing that he had had no previous service in the army, that he had never applied for enlistment before, and that he knew that if he secured enlistment by any false statement he was liable to trial for fraudulent enlistment. On the back of said blank he also signed a declaration to the effect that he fully understood that if he was accepted for enlistment, and accepted from the recruiting officer such bounties' as meals, lodging, or…