--THE CHILE OOT
Chilkoot Barracks / Haines
Published without expense to"
. Friday, April 30th. ,
TERRITORIAL
HISTORICAL
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NEWS OF THE WEEK:
Major F.M.Maddox, Commanding Officer, at Chilkoot Barracks
for the past three years, has received orders to report to the Com
mand ant, at Fort Benning, Georgia, Infantry School, on September 6th,
for the Advanced Officers Course.
Major Maddox has so endeared himself to the personnel of the
post and Haines by his ever broadminded and just administration,
that they are loath to see him leave, and wish him and Mrs.Maddox
a pleasant tour at Fort Benning. He has asked for a two months
leave upon his arrival in the states about June 15th. , his first
leave in six years, and expects to visit California, Alabama, Ken
tucky and Washington, D. C.
Major Thornton Rogers, Infantry, State Armory, Springfield,
Mass., has been assigned to the Seventh Infantry at Chilkoot 3arracks
and will sail from New York May 19th. and probably reach here June
12th. Major Rogers will succeed Major Maddox as Commanding Officer.
The publication of the Chilkoot Post has been temporarily
suspended forlthe past three weeks caused by a break in our memeo
graph machine,1 which had to be sent to Seattle for repairs.
The Editors apoligize to our readers and promise to try not
to let it happen again.
Major L.E. Oliver, Engineer Alaska Road Commission, came up
from Juneau last Sunday on the Queen and inspected the new post l&i
reservoir, and expressed himself as well pleased with the work.
The reservoir was completed last summer with the exception
of a few minor details and was filled v/ith water and the concrete
stood the severe strain well during the winter with only a few
minor cracks in the cement lining which are being rapidly repaired
by a detail of men under the personal direction of the Commanding
Officer, Major F.M.Maddox. The post now has a reservoir that will
supply sufficient water for several weeks in case of a break in the
intake pipe line and will stand as a monument to the untiring efforts
of Major Maddox and the enlisted men of the post who worked so hard
to complete.this Herculean task on record time notwithstanding the
inclement climatic conditions encountered.
Arguments have been completed in the courtmartial of Colonel
Williams, Marine Corps. Shortly after 12 o'clock on the 19th., the
members of the court left the building where the trial has been
held indicating a verdict of guilty but not stating what sentence
had been imposed.
Rear Admiral Thomas Washington, President of the court, said:
•'It' s all over". Gen. Butller said his action against Col. Williams
was not based on the Eighteenth Amendment, but Naval regulations
Congress passed in 1872 forbidding drunkenness. GeuButler Said?In
their frantic but futile efforts to gain their ends, sympathizers
with lawbreakers, have twisted the facts in order to loudly invoke
the code of social ethics".
Mr. Joe McKinzie and Mr. Hans Klitza, foremen Alaska Road Com
mission, received a lot of supplies on the Queen Sunday for the
Commission and will start work next Monday repairing the Haines
Wells-Porcupine road with a gang of twenty or thirty men.
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