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Chilkoot Barracks, Haines, Alaska,_‘
Published without experise to the Government. JUNIEAl
. Friday, May 7th. , 1926.McTlT
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MEWS OF THE WEEK-:
The Post Quarteimaster received this week a telegram from the
Quartermaster at Fort Worden Washington, stating that the re
pairs on the U.S.H.B. , Captain James Fomance, will be completed by
Kay 20th,, in time for the Fornance to reach this post by June 1st.
This news will be gladly received by the entire personnel of the
post, as we feel lost and isolated without its cheering presence.
The pipe line tender, Mary Ann, Corporal Sammy Cobbler, Master,
has been substituting on the Fornance’s regular trips to Skagway, but
on account of her size is unable to accommodate those v/ho want to
visit Skagway.
Major James F. Byrom, Commanding Officer 7th. Infantry, at Anchor
age, whose foreign service expires in August, contemplates taking a
six week’s hunting trip on Kenai Peninsular before {heaving for the
states.
The American Debt Commission and Ambassador Berengen last week
agreed to settle for $4,025,000,000 the French war debt. France is
to pay $6,847,000,000 over a 62 year period, this includes the inter
est. President Coolidge has approved the settlement. The agreement
has not yet been ratified by the United States and France.
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ter transportation facilities in this great wonderland of nature.
The Federal Government is to spend $1,500,000 on these conven
iences this season. In addition seven flying fields have "been estab
lished and three more will be completed this season by appropriations
of the Alaska Legislature. Surfacing of the Haines-Pleasant Camp is
included in the program and already a force of twenty to thirty men
are engaged in the work which will last all summer. Mr. Joe McKinzie
and Mr. Franz Klitza are in charge of this work.
The tourist crop promises to be large to Alaska this summer.
There will be upward of half a dozen steamers in the Alaska
trade the coming season which will make only Southeastern Alaska
points. Of these there will be the Alameda, the Admiral Rogers, the
Queen, Princess Louise, Princess Alice, Princess Charlotte, Prince
Rupert, Prince George and the Dorothy Alexander. Passenger space on
most of these steamers has been sold months in advance and transpor
tation to Alaska without reservation will be hard to obtain.
On a larger scale than ever before, the sixth annual Citizen’s
Military Training Camps will open in June and continue through July
and August. Although 20,000 American youths already have applied,
the attendance this year will be limited to 35,000 young men between
the ages of 17 and* 24 who can pass the required physical examination.
At 49 open air posts and camps flung across the United States,
these youths will be the guests of the Government for 30 days of ath
letic, citizenship and military training. They will emerge to join
the ranks of the 126,419 other youths who have gone before them dur
ing the past five years. Opening dates vary from June 12th on to Sep
tember 4th. when the last camp closes at Plattsburg, New York.