TIE CHILKOCT POST -
-_Chilkoot Barracks', Hiines, Alaska._
_ Published without expense to the Government, ___
Vol. 5. - Friday, June 12th,, 1925. ---No. 23.
50^ Quarterly. $2.00 Yearly.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Three relief outfits will search the Arctic for Amundsen. At
a meeting of air chiefs and Arctic experts at Oslo, last week, it
was decided to ask Captain Roald Amundsen’s auxiliary committee in
New York to take charge in cooperation with MacMillan’s expedition,
reconnoitering West Greenland for traces of the Polar explorer.
French explorer Dr.Jean Charcot will be asked to search around
East Greenland while the Norwegian coal ship Engertre leaving for
the north will patrol in the vicinity of Spitsbergen. The Exngertre
is carrying two American newspapermen. ■
The toll of the heat wave and associated storms has caused
242 deaths up to last Saturday in the states. Ninety eight persons
died last Friday throughout the east and middle west sections. At
least two more days without relief were predicted, states the dis
patch.
A census taken on account of arguments arising from the dip
theria epidemic last winter showed the winter population of Nome,
Alaska, to be 1,574 including 950 whites.
A dispatch from Jolet Prison states that Richard Loeb has suf
fered a mental breakdown, prison physicians said, and he would
either improve or die within 43 hours. He is weakened by measles
and has tossed for two days and nights. He was strapped to his cot.
Physicians predicted lifelong insanity i f he recovered. Leopold,
partner of loeb in the murder of young Franks, has been operated
upon for appendicitis.
High government officials of Tokio, Japan, declare that a
state od war in Northern China is not imminent between Russia and
Japan. They deny that Japan is backing Chang Tso Lin financially
or morally for the conflict with General Jeng, It is said Japan is
having a hard time to back herself financilly.
Thrilled by the eloquent appeals of representative Theodore
a* Burton, head of the American delegation to the arms traffic confer
ence and Paul Boncour, of France, at Geneva, the conference went
on-jrecord in favor of framing a special pro to cal outlawing gas in
•wahen ce fo rth.
President Coolidge at Annapolis last week told the xiaval
Academy graduating class that a reduction of the nation's standing
forces to the minimum depended on the attention the average citizen
gives to military affairs. He urged the new officers to be ambas
sodors of peace but he declared adequate defense is the first essen
tial of peace with security. He asserted that defense "should be
broadly extended and borne out by all the people". He added:"We do
not believe in the wish to bear the expense of maintaining large
standing military forces as that policy threatened every genius of
& Republic”.
Theodore Burton* head of the American delegation at the Arms
Traffic Conference declared the covenant of the League of Nations
is not a "scrap of paper" and assures protection to Europe.