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- THE CHILKOOT POST. -
Chilkoot Barracks. Haines. Alaska ♦
An unofficial periodical published weekly without expenae to United States,
Vol.4 December 5th ♦ , 1924. «o 7
500 Quarterly, *2.00 Yearly,
NEWS OF THE WEEK. ^ ...
Army won the Arny-Navy game played at Baltimore last Saturday by a score c
21 «* 0* (See Sporting Page)
The Egyptian situation has quieted'down according to a recent dispatch fro..
Vicount Allenby» The Egyptian Chamber of Deputies had previously insisted on com
plete independence and h^d solic it at ed intervention by the League of Nations.
Senators Robert M*La Fblette of Wisconsin, Edwin F* Ladd of North Dakota,
and Smith W. Brookhart of Iowa wore practically read out of the Republican Party at
the conference of Republican Senators last week, though the resolution which limited
the recognized Republicans to those who surported President Coolidge declared that
the committeeships would not be disturbed during the coming short session*
The West will be in control of the present Senate session* Senator Charles
Curtis of Kansas was elected Republican * floor leader and Senator James E*Watson of
Indianna, party whip* Not only has the West control of the floor .strategy and lead
ership but thirteen of the. most important committee chairrfenship9 will be held by
Western Senators against five for the Eastern. The Western chairmanships include
Senator Francis E.Warren of Hfyondng, Appropriations, and Senator William E.Borah of
Idaho, Foreign Relations. Among the Ehstern chairmanships are Senator James
Watswnrth of New York, Military affairs, and Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, Naval
affairs
Samuel Gompers, leader of the American Federation of Labor since that organ
ization was founded in 1881, was unanimously re-ellected President at El Paso, Texas
25th. The Cableship Dellwood left Petersburg latt week enroute north. All Juneau
cable trouble south has heretofore been near Cape Fanshaw where the Dellwood has
just completed the laying of new cable, Maj}* Gen. Squiers, Chief of Signal Corps,
U.S«A. featured the work of the Dellwood in his recent annual report to the Secretary
of War.
By act of July 11th., 1924, the name of the Norwegian capital will oe c mm gen
from January, next, from Christianna to Oslo which is the old name of the city*
General Elias Calles, successor of General Ohregon, took the oath a9 Preside...
of the Republic of Mexico at noon December l9t • At a recent dinner in New York
General Calles said: "There are .12,000,000 people in my country who are .only on the
fringe of civilization, who neither know nor enjoy the material gifts and the spir
itual advantages which are the patrimony of the American people, when education
comes to these people - our direct need is schools - when they have learned to ap
preciate and enjoy a better standard of living,then the already considerable trade »
Mexico with the United States will have become truly tremendous.
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Emm Goldman, former anarchist and later communist wno was aopur^ou
United States as an "undesirable’* and returned to her native Russia, signaled the
beginning of her crusade in Great Britain by a speech at a banquet given in her
honor, in which she denounced the Russian Soviet "as more autocratic and subversive
of liberty than Czarism ever was. She declared that there is no freedom of speech
in Russia, and that life and liberty are- constantly in danger. It has been a change
of masters, she contended, and a change for the worse.
Responding to a resolution of enquiry, Secretary Weeks informed the ouse on
December 1st. that the War Department had land reservations estimated at a value ci
$2,000,000 which are no longer necessary for military purposes and should be sold.
Late Dawson papers tell of the invasion of the town of ifeyo by roving herds
of caribou and the residents are busy laying by a supply of winter meat • It is the
first time in more than twenty years that caribou have visited that section of the.
country, their trek usually being nearly one hundred miles farther north.