- THE CHILKCGT POST
Chilkoot Barracks, Haines,
Published without expense to
Alaska.
t he go ve rnme n t.
VOl. v.
Friday,
October 9th.
1925.
No.39.
$2. 00 Yearly.
DU0! quarterly
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Lieut. Com.H,A, Flanagan, executive officer of the submarine base
..when informed by the Associated Press that the owners of the City
of Rome, which rammed and sank the submarine S-51 last month with
♦ the loss of 33 members of the crew of the undersea boat, claimed in
an affidavit that student officers were in command, denied that any
officer of the submarine at the time of the disaster was inexperi
enced. He- declares the survivors saw three men drown because help
did not reach them. The death toll resulting from the sinking of
the submarine stands at 33 and not 34 as has been stated previously.
Rescue work has ceased following discovery that both the stem and
stern of the sunken craft are filled with water. Salvage work will
now begin to raise the boat and the bodies of the remaining twenty
eight members of the ill fated crew will be taken from the wreck.
Lonton newspapers this week expressed a fear that the temporary
debt settlement of Prance with the United States,will effect most
unfavorable on the French debt' to Great Britain. The newspapers
generally criticise Premier Baldwin for his hasty generosity to the
United States when he arranged the British debt and declared Great
Britian was bluffed. The newspapers deplored the fact that
Great Britian does not possess a Finance Minister astute as French
Finance Minister Caillaux,
The Cliff House, Famous seaside resort of San Francisco, over
looking the Seal Rocks, has closed. It suffered death slowly hy
the passage of the Volstead Act and the patronage dwindled. In Jan
uary the place was converted into a coffee house but it could not
be made to pay.
The capture of Ambir, headquarters of the rebellious Moors, is
regarded as the greatest reverse suffered by Abd-El-Krim and is said
to be officially the marking of the end. The capture of the city
was followed by an announcement that it was the intention of the
principal rebel allies to withdraw from the fight.
Colonel W.E.Mitchell said the Coolidge Air-Board made it easy
for officers to express their real opinions which they had previ
ously been afraid to do. He called General Patrick "aregular
fellow” whose opinions differ in a degree only from his.
Billy Gibson, Manager Gf Gene Tunny, declared, last week that Tex
Rickard had offered to Harry Wills, the negro heavyweight, $150,000
for a match with Tunney in Hew Jersey. "Rickard offered Wills
$150,000 for a Hew Jersey match", Gibson said, ’’and either he is
afraid to fight or is looking for more money. If Wills means busi
ness when he talks about meeting a'*worthy heavyweight" , all he has
to do is sign up".
The death sentence of Private William Johnson, of the 75th Ord
nance Company, for the murder of William Willoughby of the same Compare
has been appro ved by President Coolidge. He will be exe cuted at Pt.
McKinley at a date to be determined. . The crime was committed last
March, resulting from long standing bad feeling between the two men.