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THE CHILXOOT POST. ()Ct 2 S l£25
Chilkoot Barracks, Haines, Alaska.
Published without expense to the Gcvernment.
Vol. 5. .. Friday, October 16th., 1925. r , , , ... No. 40.
50^ Quarterly. $2.00 Yearly.
NEWS OF THE WEEK*
At the request of the Government of Panama last Tuesday, three
hatallicns U, S. troops have been rushed to Panama City and the Amer
ican Commanding General Martin has assumed complete responsibility
for putting down the disorders which started last week in riots as
a protest against high rents*
The new Wo rid*s record of 248.99 miles per hour over a two hundrd
kilometer course, was hung up last Monday by Lieut. Gyrups Bettis,
U. S.Army air pilot in the Pulitzer Trophy Race at Mitchell Field.
Private funeral services for James B. Duke, tobacco magnate, who
died last Saturday in Hew York, were held last Tuesday before the
body was placed aboard a special train for Durham, H.C.
The first snow cf the season blanketed the peaks around los
Angeles, Calif, last Tuesday.
It was rumored around Washington last Tuesday that the President
would in a few days announce the resignation of Secretary of War,
Weeks.
Discouraged by the ccntinous pressure being brought upon him by
politicians, both great and small throughout the land, it is report
ed General Lincoln, in charge of Prohibition enforcements, will
throw up the sponge in the near future.
Leon Trotsky, who has been working at high pressure, ever since
he was appointed head of the General Concessions Committee of the
Soviet Government, has been obliged on the advice of physicians to
take a rest.
Five of the seven bandits who last Thursday held up a registered
mail truck in Los Angeles are under arrest and all but nine thousand
dollars cf the five hundred thousand dollars in cash and jewelry
taken by the gang has been recovered.
Christy Llathewson, President and part owner of the Boston Braves,
died at 8 o’clock P.L. October, 7th, at Saranac Lake, 11.Y.
Dr. Edward Packard said that death was due to tuberculosis and
pneumonia. Until several days ago Itathewson was in excellent con
dition and his death was unexpected. His wife was at his bedside.
His son, Christy, was at college.
Realizing that he is dying and will never leave San ^uintin, "Big
Bill” 0 ’ Connor has agreed to divulge the hiding place of ftlOO.OO in
loot, mostly jewelry, stolen from the Provident Loan Association of
Los Angeles, California.
The Episcopal Deputies, in Hew Orleans last week, by a vote of
97 to 28, decided to eliminate the word "cbey" in the marriage
ce remony.
The War Department is confining Colonel Mitchell’s activities to
Washington and refused to let him speak in Baltimore last week.
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