-- THE CHJTJrOOT POST — “
Chilkoot Barracks', , Haines, Alaska.- _
Published Weekly without 'expense' to the U. S. Government.
Vo 1. 57 —— February 27 th. ,1925. ■ - —---- No . 9.
50# Quarterly $2.00 Yearly.
NEWS OF THE ’WEEK.
In North Philadelphia 4000 people haT-e been placed in quaran
tine and ordered vaccinated due to an outbreak of small pox.
^ Five hundred girls of The Northwestern University Chicago are
l quarantined due to a case of small pox developing in the dormitory.
The Dirigible Los'Angeles sailed for "ermuda on the 21st. from
Lakehurst, N. J. , carrying forty passengers and the Mayor of the citj
The distance between the two points is 681 miles and it was expected
the round trip would be made in forty hours.
President* Coolidge will not name a new Ambassador to Germany
before March 4th.
Woman suffrage on a vote in the British Parliament was defeated
220 to 153. This affects all women over twenty one years of age.
It is reported from Moscow that the two human skeletons reputed
to be 50,000 years old we re unearthed.
In Washington, D.C.,there is a man who has engraved forty four
letters on the head of an ordinary pin. It requires an eighty eight
power magnifying glass to read the. letters.
Gloria Swanson is seriously ill in Paris. Another operation was
^(eeessarjr.
The nomination of Charles C.Warren to be Attorney General was
favorably reported by the Senate. • •'
It is reported from Tokio that the rice crop is short and great
suffering is predicted.
From Paris comes the news that the Inter-Allied Conference will
be held the latter part of March to act upon the disarmament of Ger«
many.
Joe Benjamin, voxer, by defeating a recent opponent is entitled
to contend for the light weight championship of the world.
David Loyd George who has been seriously ill in Birmingham Eng
land is improved.
Full diplomatic relations were resumed with Mexico this week.
The former boy Emperor of China fled from Pekin to safety at
Tientsin.
President Egbert of Germany is back to normal after an operation
for appendicitis.
Captain George W.Steele states the dirigible Los Angeles will
make one flight ^becoming summer which will equal the distance from
the United States to Germany.
Harry Wills and Tommy Gibbon are challenging^ Dempsey for a
fight to take place the comingssummer.
SHORT STORY AND POm COIEPETITIOIT.
The manage ment of the CHILKOCT POST will conduct a Short Story
and Poem Competition. Spring is almost here and who knows hut what
there may he some hud of a writer ready to hurst forth in full bloom
of a literary genius. There may he right here another Rex Beach,
Jack London or Robert Service. Here is a chance to blossom out,
Eor the best Short Stcnrry of not more than 500 words this paper
will pay $2.00 - for the second $1.00, and the third 50^.
Winning stories will be published in the first issue of this
paper in April. A like sum will paid for the three best goems
of not more than sixteen lines. The winners of the Poem Contest
will appear in the first issue in ^ay. Contest limited to Enlisted
Personnel of this Post, Get busy you would be writers.*2