- - THE CHILKOOT POST - -
---- _Chilkoot Barracks, Haines, Alaska,-_
Published without expense to U.S«Government.
Volume January 2nd*, 1925. ------
50^ Quarterly
news of the ®k.
The pump house on the Post caught fire Tuesday night but was promptly extin
guished because Private Webster, night watchman, was on the job.
The following recommendations are contained in the annual report of the Seer
tary of War:- * '
1. Use of funds derived from sale of surplus Army properties for construction
of permanent quarters for the 40,000 members of our array now housed under flimsy
shelter. * • •
2. An authorized strength of 13,000 officers and 150.000 men instead of 12,C’
* and 118,750, as at present.
3. The promotion by selection of not to exceed one grade of officer* below
grade of Colonel up to 2% of the number advanced by seniority.
Julius Kahn, Congressman of California, and honorary pragideht 0? the N&tiehs'.
Defence League, died last month. Representative Morris of Penna. will probably fill
the chairmanship of the House Military Affairs Committee ma.de vacant by Mr. Kahn's
death.
The Juneau Chamber of Commerce states that the herring industry will be practi
cally wiped out and the halibut fishing materially crippled if the recently promul
gated orders of Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce are carried out.
William Green of Ohio was elected president of the A.F.L# and not Mr. Ring, as
reported by radio in last week's issue.
A total eclipse of the sun will be visible in eastern U.S. on the 24th. of this
month-. The winter^ shortest day was the 22nd. of last month.
52,000 tickets were sold for the Stanford-Notre Dame game played yesterday in
-- No.l
$2 .00 Yearly
Pasadena•
Governor Bone issued a formal invitation to the Governors of the 48 states at
their convention in Jacksonville, Florida, to visit Alaska this cominm summer.
The government of Soviet Russia, has protested because in 1920 The Coast Guard
Cutter "Bear" affixed a plate to a rock in Bering Sea for scientific purposes. The
note cals this act "a gross violation of sovereignty of the Soviet Republic".
A report from Nome as of December 26th. states that there has been very little
snow so far and that autos are still being operated there. Santa Claus drove his
reindeer (real ones) through the streets and distributed gifts to the whites and
Eskimos. A freak in temperature occured when the mercury dropped in a few hours fro
4o degrees above zero to 21 degrees below on Christmas Eve.
Fhom Dawson comes the news that Charles Ruiter of that town lost one of the
finest teams of horses ever brought into the Territory when they broke through the
ice on the Yukon River and were swept beneath the ice by the swift current and
drowned *
Life sentence was imposed upon 3Sff, Suzuki, the Japanese who shot Margaret Andri
anoff, pretty 16 year old ca.nnery worker in Petersburg last July 24th.
Delegate Sutherland has selected Jacob Britt of Skagwry .a.nd Peter McEvoy of
Douglas as candidates for Anna.polis and West Point, respectively.
Sneeze gas is being effectively used to prevent stowaways from hiding in the
holds of U.S.Arny transports in the Orient.
The Missouri Pacific R.R. has thu the acquisition of the Gulf Coast Lines and
the Great Northern Railway, become the largest transportation System in the U.S*
Mfc . Rainier was named in 1792 after the English Admiral Rainier who as Captain
in the British Navy captured an American ship and crew.
START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT*.