- THE CHILKOOT POST -
Chilkoot Barracks. Haines. Alaska,_
Published unofficially without expense to U.S•Government.
volume 4 December 12th 1924. No.50
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NEYSS OF THE YvEEK.'
Great Britian'has notified the League of Nations that the British Gov
ernment will not recognize the protocol by which Egypt is given the right to
appeal to the League in matters connected with the Anglo-Egpptian dispute. "Great
Britian will not accept interference of anybody in matters touching the Soudan",
the note says. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, will be present
at the meeting- of the League of Nations Council, in Rome this week, to further
explain his country Vs att itude .
With decades of intensive and extraordinary successful business experience
behind him and the vantage point of head of the Federal Treasury, SecretaryAndrew
W.Mellon declared in his annual report to Congress that the country is on the eve
of repeating the active and prosperous times which followed the election of Pres
ident McKinley '
The Japanese Navy Training Squadron sailed on December 3rd. from Honolulu
for the American mainland. The Squadron will return via. Mexico.
Resolutions protesting the American Naval maneuvers on the Pacific were
adapted last week in Tokio at a mass meeting of the Kolumin-Taibai Society as a
"menace to the .-peace of the Fhr East".
■ Re oresentative H.R.Rathbone of Illinois has introduced legislation to give
a promotion, a {10,000 reward, and a Congressional Medal of Honor to each of the
Army world fliers.
With the exception of first class mail, every service conducted by the
Posjt Office Department showed a heavy loss for the year according to Postmaster
General New’s report(combination unintentional) to the Senate.
Charlie Chaplin was recently married .in Mexico to Lita Grey, leading
lady in his late screen productions. The bride is only sixteen years of age havin
starred m the movies at the age of thirteen.
The freighter, Geraldine Mary, bound from the Clyde to Newfoundland had
aboard the first radio equipped life boat to be carried on a cargo boat.
Port Townsend, ’Washington, is one of two arrry forts,the sale of which is
provided for in a bill, recently' introduced in Congress by Senator Wadsworth.
A mild stampede to Glacier Creek, sixty miles west of Dawson, resulted
this week from an assay of ore brought in by George Kenedy, noted prospector.
The ore showed forty ounces of gold to the ton from a well defined vein which
Kenedy said he had tfracdd for several miles.
Alaska's salmon pack for 1924 will aggregage about 3,333,739 cases of 4b
one pound cans according to a statement made by E.M.Bael, Assistant Fisheries
Agent. This exceeds last year's pack by 297,642 cases.
The Olympic Hotel, Seattle's newest hotel, and claimed to be one of the
best in the West, was for^gSrly opened Saturday night.
The Navy's new dirigible will no longer be known as ZR-3 under which
title sh’e flew from Germany, but as "The Los Angeles", (The angels) .
Senator Borah does try the patience of those who are trying to admire
him; he is now advocating the recognition of the Russian Soviet government.
j (The Alaska Daily Empire)
Bob La Folette now knows how a man who has tried to bump the fast express
off the track with a fliver, feels - (Cincinnati Enquirer).
ATTEND THE J.U.B.DANCE TOMORROW NIGHT - DECEMBER 13TH.
A Navy seaplane fell off the California coast Wednesday morning. The
pilot and a photographer were drowned. (Radio news dispatch).