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- - THE CHILKOOT POST - -
•Chi Ikoc t Harrac^b . Haine s. Alaskaa
Publisher v/ithout expense to the Government,
Friday, October 30th., 1925.
Vol. 5.
3TEWS OE THE WEEK.
A general court-martial was convened in Washington on October
28th. to try Colonel William Ltitchell on a charge of violating
the 96th. Article of War. President Coclidge directed the issue
of the order.
major General Charles P. Sumrrerall, Commanding the Second
Corps Area, has been appointed President of the court-martial,
which is the result of the recent charges made by Colonel hitone11
on the air Service of the Army and Wavy.
President Coolidgo says: "Lawlessness is too prevalent. There
is lack of respect for government conventions by an enligntened
society. It is too apparent that if there are general failures
in the enforcement of law, it is because there have first been
general failures in a disposition to observe the law. I can
conceive of no adequate remedy for the evils that beset society
except through the influence of religion”.
Pishing boats arriving in Prince Rupert last week report the
Admiral Rogers wirelessed for help during a storm in Clarence
Straits, off Ketchikan, on October 20th. When the storm abated
the ship proceeded on her way to Seattle apparently undamaged.
Observance by Alaskans of American Education Week, November
16 - 21, is urged by Gov. George A.Parks in a proclamation issued
last week. It is the first formal proclamation issued by him
since he took office last June. Governor Parks asks that all
citizens observe the week by ’‘visiting the schools and encourag
ing a closer and more cordial co-operation between the home and
the institutions, thus promoting the progress of education that
is so essential to the welfare of the Territory".
Ex-Lieut.Osborne Wood, son of Governor-Gener3. Leonradtd Wood,
of the Philippines, arrived in New York last week from Florida,
and announced he had accumulated $100,000 by dealing in Florida
real estate since last April, when he came from Europe with only
a few hundred dollars. This amount was what remained of an $650,
000 fortune which he cleaned up in Wall Street, by telegraph in
structions, while in lianila, and lost in gambling in Europe.
The Western Publisher was incorporated at Atascadero, Calif.,
last week. Scott C.Bone, former governor of Alaska, was made the
company’s Vice President. The company will publish several mag
azines including the Americanization Imagazine.
The Alameda sailed for Seattle from dome last Sunday with
242 passengers and is the last mail steamer south from there tnis
season. She carried $500,000 in gold bullion and 1000 reindeer
carcases. Reindeer meat shipments from Nome this season more than
treble any former year, 1,000,000 pounds having been shipped from
there alone.
Capt. Victor Jacobsen, known as the "Scurvy Kid", master of
the Ram, left for the states last week with a fortune in beads
and ivory which he hopes to sell to the Tovie Actresses.