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FORT RILEY. FORT RFLEY. A United States military post, established 1852, on a reservation of 19,899 acres, on the Kansas River, 3% miles from Junc- tion City, Kan.j which is the telegraph station, post-office, and station of the Kansas Pacific Rail- road at the post. This post was first known as Camp Centre, it being considered the geographical centre of the United States; but subsequently was named after Gen. B. C. Riley, U. S. A. It is the station of the United States Cavalry and Field Artillery School (postgraduate), and has quarters for 50 officers and 1350 men, with stables for 1000 horses.

FORT ROB'INSON. A United States mili- tary post, on White River, 3 miles from Craw- ford. Neb. There are post-office and telegraph stations at the post, which has quarters for 520 men, and cavalry stables for 530 horses. It was established in 1874, and occupies a reservation of 20 square miles.

FORT ROY'AL. See Foet de Feance.

FORT SAINT PHILIP. See Foet Jackson.

FORT SAM HOUSTON, hu'ston. A United States military post, established in 1865, as the post of San Antonio, Tex., and occupying a reser- vation of 469 acres, near the city of San Antonio, which is the telegraph station. There is a post- office at the post. There are quarters for 35 officers and 700 men, and stables for 520 animals.

FORT SCHUYLER, skiver. See Foet Stan- wix; and Rome, N. Y.

FORT SCHUYLER. A United States mili- tary post, which forms one of the defenses to the northern entrance to the harbor of New York. The post was established in 1856, although the fortification was begun in 1833. The reservation comprises 62 acres, on Throgg's Neck, Long Isl- and Sound, 3% miles from Westchester, which is the post-office and telegraph station. There are quarters for 9 officers and 120 men.

FORT SCOTT. A city and the county-seat .of Bourbon County, Kan., 100 miles south of Kan- sas City; on the Marmaton River, and on the Kansas City, Fort Scott and Memphis, the Mis- souri, Kansas and Texas, and the Missouri Pa- cific railroads (Map: Kansas, H 4). It is the seat of the Kansas Normal College, and has a public library, an academy for girls, and Mercy Hospital. The city is in a region of great min- eral wealth, deposits of coal, flagstone, cement rocks, clays, mineral paints, zinc, and lead being found. There are foundries and machine-shops, flouring-mills and grain-elevators, cement, pot- tery, brick, and tile works, etc. Population, in 1890, 11,946; in 1900, 10,322.

FORT SHER'IDAN. A United States mili- tary post, established in 1887, in the State of Illinois, on Lake Michigan, about 25 miles from Chicago. The reservation comprises 632 acres. There is a post-office and telegraph station at the post, which has quarters for a regiment of infantry and a battalion of field artillery.

FORT SMITH. A city and one of the county- seats of Sebastian County, Ark., at the junction of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers, and on the Saint Louis and San Francisco, the Missouri Pacific, the Kansas City Southern, and other railroads (Map: Arkansas, A 2). It has im- portant wholesale jobbing interests in groceries, meats, dry goods, drugs, furniture, leather goods.

etc.; a large trade in coal, corn, cotton, lumber, live stock, and hides; and extensive manufac- tures of furniture. There are also sawmills^ planing-mills, cottonseed-oil mills, etc. Settled in 1838, Fort Smith was first incorporated in 1842, and was chartered as a city of the first class in 1886. Its government is administered by a mayor, chosen biennially, who nominates the board of health, chief of police, and chief of the fire department, and a city council, elected on a general ticket, which controls the appoint- ments to the other municipal offices, excepting the board of school directors, who are elected by the people. The school district has a large fund, derived from the sale of lands donated by the Government; this, with the revenue accruing from taxation, has enabled the city to build a number of fine public schools, the most notable of which is the high school, costing $60,000. Population, in 1890, 11,311; in 1900, 11,587.

FORT SNELOiilNG. A United States military post in Minnesota, at the junction of the Minne- sota and Mississippi rivers, seven miles from Saint Paul and eight miles from Minneapolis. It was established in 1820, and embraces a reser- vation of 1531 acres. There are a post-office and telegraph station at the post, which was named after Col. Josiah Snelling, U. S. A., its first com- mander. It has quarters for 37 officers and 520 men.

FORT STAN'WIX. A fort built in 1758, by Brigadier Stanwix, on the site of the present Rome, N. Y., and near the spot where another fort, soon abandoned, had been built in 1756. From its location on the watershed between Lake Ontario and the Hudson, it commanded the prin- cipal line of communication between New York and Upper Canada. Here, in the fall of 1768, a treaty was negotiated by Sir William Johnson with the Six Nations, about 3200 Indians being present. The latter agreed, for the sum of $10,000 in money and goods, to surrender their title to a vast tract of territory which now constitutes Kentucky, West Virginia, and the western part of Pennsylvania. Soon afterwards the fort was dismantled; but in 1776 it was re- built and named Fort Schuyler, in honor of Gen. Philip Schuyler. In the following year Col. Peter Gansevoort, with a garrison of about 750, held it from August 3d to August 22d against Saint Leger, with a force of about 1700 British regulars, Tories, and Indians. The fort was de- stroyed by flood and fire in 1781, but was subse- quently rebuilt again as Fort Stanwix, and here, on October 22, 1784, Oliver Wolcott, Richard Butler, and Arthur Lee, acting on behalf of the Continental Congress, negotiated an important treaty with the Six Nations.

FORT STE^PHENSON. See Fbemont, Ohio.

FORT STE'VENS. A United States military post, at the mouth of the Columbia River, 110- miles from Portland, Ore. It was established in 1864, and includes a reservation of 1250 acres. There are post-office, telegraph, and railroad sta- tions at the post, which has quarters for six officers and two companies of artillery.

FaRT STRONG. A United States military post, on the east end of Long Island, Boston Har- bor, Mass. The garrison consists of two com- panies of coast artillery, and there are connected, as subposts. Forts Andrews and Standish.