THE CHILfCOOT FOST. -
__Chilkoot Barracks, Haines, Alaska,._
___Published without expense to zhe Government,_
Vol. V, -Friday, August 28th,, 1925* -No,
50^ Quarterly, $2,00 Yearly.
NEV/S 0 y THY 7/EEK,
The four walls of our big reservoir are completed and in a few
days the finishing touches will be completed. Next winter when
the snow is several feet deep and everything is covered with ice
we will have no fear of cur water supply.. In the winter time
water is cur greatest necessity because all of our buildings are
heated with steam. It has been a hard job, but the Army always
does away with difficulties.. The reservoir will stand as a mem
orial and monument of all the officers and enlisted men who have
been so untiring in their efforts toward its achievement.
Reports from Moscow, Russia state that Leon Trotsky is back in
power once more. He had been in exile for some time.
Six convicts made their escape from San Quentin but were recap
tured shortly. One will die as a result of wounds.
The boiler of the excursion steamer Merinca blew up near Newport,
R. I, , killing near cO and injuring many ethers. All the deaths
were due to breathing the steam.
General Andrews, Asst. Sec’y of Treasury, the new head of the
prohibition forces has appointed the supervisors of the twenty
four districts, Roy C. Lyle is the head of the enforcement in
Alaska.
The MacMillan expedition at Etah, Greenland exchanged greetings
with Hawaii by means of the army’s short wave radio set.
The Bcehing Navy Seaplane PN-l has started from Seattle to San
Francisco on its way for the non-stop flight to Honolulu.
Freanch experience in Mcrocco has developed the suggestion inai
future military uniforms will be camouflaged in a dazzle of vari
colored stripes and splotches as guns and s/iips were in the late
war.
Considerable developments are being made in the East in the
religious wars. The French lost 300 in Syria recently. Turkish
troops have crossed into Persia,
The three convicts who escaped from the Salem penintentary are
back in their cells. The cells are double-padlocked and heavily
guarded. Four deputies cap cured the men near Portland.
Big Aleck, Mackenzie River Indian has been sentenced to five years
for killing Atolin Mocassin, Indian lad, claimed to have exercised
witchcraft,
A San Francisco man recently jumped <e600 fee o to death near
Yosemite Falls.