- - THE CHILKOO'1’ HOST - -
Chilkoot Barracks. Hainrs Alaska.
_ Published without expense t<* ITt S.Government.
Volume 5-------- - -January 16, 1925, -------
500 Quarterly
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*2.00 year
NWS OH THE WEEK*
Secretary rf State Charles E* Hushes has resigned after twenty years in public
life to return to private life in order to recoup his fortune and practice law,
Unit he d States A mbassador to ^reat Brita.ib, h rank B. Kellog, will succeed Hucrxies.
Charles B. Warren, Michigan attorney and farmer Ambassador to Japan, has tjoen
nominated by President Croldige as Attorney 0 eneral succeeding Harlan Eiske Stone
who has been nominated f>or the Supreme Court bench vice Associate Justice McKenna,
resigned.
Norman Selby, kn'wn in the sporting world as Kid McCoy was sentenced on Jan.Qch
from 1 to 10 years following his recent conviction • n charge of manslaughter in conne
ecti >n with the death of Mrs. Mrs, Thereda his alleged sweetheart.
~ Secretary Weeks told the House Military Committee that the Curry Eill which
wuld create a Department of Aeronautics ’’Violates fundamental principles of military
organization essential to National Defense" because it would divide control of the
arrays air forces.
The Allied A mbassad rs’ n~te Germany regarding postponement of the evacuation
of Cologne asserts that the allies have postive proof ,fshewing Germany has not fu
filled and cannct fulfill by January 10th conditions of the Versailles Treaty •
Jean Marieae Musy has been elected new P resident of the Republic rf Switzer
land* And he assumes offiee this week* His term for a year only*
"Diplomatic episodes of the past few weeks have given rise to painful d- ubts of
the sincerety rf F ranee in her dealings with the United States’ Col* George Harvey,
formerly A mericrn Ambassador t" Great Britain, decided in a signed article in a
TGashingt^n new? naner. "France considers all her debts p'*litifcalj and n t financid,
and has n-t the remotest intention of paying them", Harvey declared. ^
Amateur skiing enthusiast fr-m all s&cti'ns of the U.S. will sc tr Cent-n S.
f n Febnnary 11th/ and 12th for the 1925 National tournanent -f the National Ski
a sseciati''ncf America. Many former associate n channi'ns and Olympic c^ntester s
will appear in competition rn a new slide built last summer and declared by ski s1" r
experts to be "ne of the finest in the w^rld* Ffected on a l^ns hill '"ver 1 fking
the Sioux river, the Hide has a length *50 running feot, and a perpendicular r
from the trp of the trwer tr the foo-t cf the hill, of 275 *eet. die -rst club a
this year’s tournament is the Srux Valley Ski Club 'f Canton counting n its member
ship roll some of the leading skiers 'f the nation. Am'ng then is Lans Haugen, whr
wen the national skiing champi"nshin at the annual tournament at Brattleb''ro, V
lest year. If snow conditions pemr.it this year’s tournament will havr a new even ,
cross country ski run 'ver a course from thn to twelve miles long, ever hills and
streams and thr'ugh fences, timber-land and prairie, dfty member clubs f the na -
i-nal association will send competitors and a number o£ collegs in Vermont, *e -am
shire, Maine, Michigan, ^iscrnsin and Minnesitta which have mede skiing.a college
snort, plan t* enter men in the competitor n* A ski battalion rf the federal tr
quartered at Fort Snelling, Minn., also will be represented. The heet club^ hopes
surpass the record cf 239’competitors at the national to urnament in i inneap lis m
1922,
ABACORTES, Wash., Jan. 8.- Indicating that prices of raw fish at the traps will
be high in 1925 — supposed tc be the big ”pink"year w W. A. Lowman, he eg. r the Cree
Canning Company, announced that he had cl sed contracts f'-r the w e ca n -;
company's traps at the following prices: St ckeyes, eight cents; c-hens f silvers,
fifty cents; d'g storr n. 30 cents; Humpbacks 20 cents; spring salmon, 10 cents per
round at the traps. Buyers rf cannery fish will pay the state fis.. tax in aaditi.n*
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