—THE CHILKOOT POST—
Chdlk^nt Barracks. Haines, Alaskaj._ - -
Published without expense to U.S.G-overnnent »•
Volume 5 - January 23rd., 1925. - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- No*
50^ Quarterly $2.00 1 early
NE'.7S OF SHE SEEK.
In compliance with S.O. *^2 dT.D.Washington, D«C. Jan. Srr1., 1925, Captain
R.L.bovine, Post Surgeon, will be relieved by Captain Malcoln C.Grow, M.C., who ie
due to sail fron Seattle for Chilkoet Barracks by the first available transport a-»
tion in April. Captain Loving has been ordered to Captain Crow's present staomr
Camp Eewis, ,'Tashingt'>n. Capt * Grow is a Pennsylvanian. He was graduated iron Jr
f erson Medical College in 1909. During the World ' -ar he rapidly rose t~ the gr&t
of Lt.Col.M.C.in the National Any.
A Washington news dispatch declares that President Coolidge desires t'
a trip to the Pacific Coast in June, if business permits, and aims to be gone fro
the Capital for two months. Alaska is included in his iteneran if possible.
A United States Any ei nlane will race the shadow of the noon nearly 40l
miles across New York strte during the eclinse of the sun tomorrow, Jan.24th,1925<•
The mlrre, equipped with a Specially designed camera, will laave Buffalo shortly
before tve eclipse is visible diving at top speed southeastward tower duMont auk
Point, L.I. . The oun^se of th* experiment rs worked out by Dr.David -tod-d of Am
herst College is to permit photo^r-enhing *or a longer period th^n would otherwise
be available.
jpmp—ir'sey, heavy **rf>lr*bt c^nwpgon o-r the world, states that he is thru
’**ith v-ri-i{- unless se ^ne along for a fight before he marries Estelle.
Teylo-4 ril^ pt-r. time in ? Vv or June.
,G.?~~e ’ no— " g ^he Ec-rde**. Air Tail
*il«t four.d the body ~ r Charles
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^ilhert, his buddv in the servic r, ■*r tcm a corrch be~un "*ien Gilbert •- iled t
report at C>—^. “iimort’s nl*sn~ -"-C'"*'* " '’er-vi^r c at. and ,h. pil". 6
killed. Page retrieved the mail from tne wrecked plane, clasps 1 the lifeless hany
of Gilbert and then continued An the latter-1 s- route cross-country.
Mr.Sigmund Eisner ™ell known manufacturer cf military uni^-rs died recently
at his hone in Red Bank N.J. ■
The appoint:;:ent of Harlan Fiske Stone t*j be a Justice of the Supreme
makes the membership of that body .as follows!- ^hief Justice Taft from Conn.;
Justice Butler from Minn.; Justice Vandesmrter from myr.,* Justice Sutherl nd fro
Utah; Justices McReylolds and Sanf-rd from Tenn; and Justices Holies, Brandeis an
Stone (one third Court’s membership) from Mass.
The Board, of Tax Appeals has ruled that all winnin os of any kind in ga
are subject to income t~x.
Col.A.'d.Bjomstad1 s nomination to the grade of brigadier -eneral, U.S.A. i,;
being held up in the Senate pending t ie settlement of charges made against him by
Senator Elkins of W.Virginia who served a.s adjutant of the 13th *nf.Brig.7th iv.,
in France. . . ,,
Governor Bone’s Executive Offices in Juneau have Veen n-veo. iron the sha,,.
house where they -'ere formerly l:cnted to a suite of five ro—s on the fifth fl'
the modern Goldstein bull din-'!.
Three Unite A States destroyers left Manila for Shanghai as the result * *.
recent fiahtina in Chine* e civjl w*r. . __ A tT _ ,, .. r> .
n the. TT.S.cable shin ^ellw
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Mj .Alfred E.Larabee Sic;, ^rps, actin'!
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says in part in his 1924 report t~- The Qu-rtern-ster General:- "The crossing o.
Prince of Tales Island involved a stretch -f wilderness seven -dies 1-nrr thr-ush
almost impenetrable iunale, marshes and tun Am swamps, ' Under the term's of their ,
shipping articles not a man in the quartermaster c^rps c^ulA be require* tr A a
on shore yet when volunteers ’•’■ere called f*r the response mas almost unanincus e.
n^e ^ifficultyx* was experienced in retting ?;1en to A- the necessary work on
ship than in securing volunteers f or the task on sh're‘. The work w.s Aisa-reea* ■
beyond description, involving plunrin~ headlonp into icy torrents, floundering; v
deep in black mud, pulling and tupainr at stubborn-cable, all in pouring rain.