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Chllkoot Barracks, Haines, Alaska.
Published withou^r~exuense to the Go vernmerfi&f'"*'
231926
Vol.6.
January 15th. , 1926
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
JUNE.^1
Li Id weather continues throughout Alaska. Reports from the
Interior state there has only "been three days really cold weather
this winter* The weather here is remarkably mild and instead of
the usual snow fall we are having rain almost daily with a temper
ature ranging from 25 to 6C above zero. Reports say it rained in
♦ Nome Xmas week and the annual sweepstakes dog races had to be post
poned on account of no snow on the ground, something unheard of
before at this season of the year. %
i Charles R. Eorbes, former Director of the United States Veter
an’s Bureau, has lost his appeal from, conviction of conspiracy to
defraud the Government in connection with contracts for hospitals
for disabled former soldiers. The Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed
the conviction of the District Court and Eorbes goes to Leavenworth
penitentiary for two years and pays a fine of $10*000.
A General Court Lartial last week at Seattle convicted Dr. Arvid
Silverberg, a Seattle physician of war time draft evasion and sen
tenced him to three years at hard labor at a place to be chosen by
Lajor General Lenoher, Commanding General of the 9th. Corps Area,
San Francisco. Dr. Silverberg claimed to be a citizen of Finland
and therefore not subject to draft, but witnesses refuted tnis
statement and conviction followed.
The Seattle assay office handled $7,295,000 worth of gold and
•' silver in 1925. Of this total, $4,474,000 was gold from Alaska,
mostly from the Southeastern section. There was gold from Cook
Inlet and the Home District. Over $1,033,000 in gold was received
from the Yukon and $999,000 from. British Columbia.
High boots and kiltie length skirts are to be the thing for
Spring, John Felton, delegate to the Shoe Convention, which met in
Chicago last week. "Women's skirts will be three inches shorter
Felton said. "Modern women believe legs were meant to be seen, ihe
fact that ankles may become unfashionable does not prevent popular
izing of the knees".
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Jack Dalton, Yakima apple rancher, last week in Seattle acciden
tally met Jack Lindsey, of Tokeen, Alaska, at the Ho
Lindsey and Dalton were former pals during the Gold Rush to tne
Klondike and it was their first meeting in a decade. Dalton s
Trail is named for Dalton, and he was at one time a.
figure among the pioneers and Lindsey is still interested m quarn
at Tokeen.
The United States Court of Appeals has affirmed the cancella
tton of the leases held by B.L. Doheney in the HIk Hills Haval Reserve.
General John J. Pershing is coming home from Tacna-Arica, where
he ha<3 been working for months to settle the iorty-year boundary
dispute between Chili and Peru. General Pershing's health is failing
haior General Lassiter, Commanding the Panama Canal lone, has
been suggested to succeed General Pershing on the Tacna-Arica Commis
sion, but the appointment has not been made ye^.