THE CHILKOCT ICST
_ Chilkoot barracks, Haines, Alaska._
Published without expense to the Government.
Vol.5--Friday, April 10th.,1925. -Ho.14.
50# Quarterly. $2.00 Yearly.
NEWS 0E THE WEEK. at Wome
The temperature went to 30 degrees below zero last week and the
snow fall was heavy. One of the winter’s worst blizzards lasted
three days and communication with outlying sections stopped, dri
vers quailing before the storm. The snow is piled to the eaves anc
made the houses snug and warm helping- in the face of the fuel fam
ine, many people having less than one sack of coal. Those having
coal are asking six dollars a sack, the regular selling price bein(
three dollars.
Peter Densrnore, former steamboat engineer on Yukon River, who
lost both hands and one foot as the result of a six days battle
with a Yukon blizzard, during which he had laid down three times to
die and arose three times and continued the battle, has been found
digging post holes at a little home in Seattle, with mechanical
hands he designed and rr ade. His wi fe is working wi th him and declares,
he is more useful than many men. with two hands and feet. Densrnore
philosophized: "The less you nave, the less you have to worry atbout.
I am happy because I am hale and healthy".
Full political and civil rights have been restored to former Gov
ernor, James B. Ferguson, of Texas, impeached in 1917. by his wife
"Ma" Ferguson. "I have signed my name hundreds of times but this is
the happiest signature I have ever written", said Governor "Ida" Per
guson, our first woman Governor.
The Dodge Brothers Automobile Company has been sold to a syndi
cate headed by the banking of Dillon, Read and Company* The price
is put at $100,000,000, practically allb cash. The Dodge Brothers
Company is the outgrowth of a small macnine shop started 40 years
ago by Horace E. and John F. Dodge, both recently deceased. The
shop through the association of Henry Ford, became the foundation
of the motor industry and one of the biggest automobile fortunes.
Mrs. Henrietta M.King, aged 93, one of the richest women in the
United States and owner of the world’s largest ranch, died on April
1st. at her home in Kingsville, Texas.
♦Former Lieutenant Osborne Wood arrived in Tampa, Florida, last
week on the freighter West Cheatic in jocular spirits. He said he
returned "to try and win back a fortune irost in gambling resorts
in Athens, Paris, Beauville ,Biarritz and Spain. .7ood says he has
enough to keep him from worry and declares he will sue the Paris
branch of A Chicago newspaper hr 3100,000 for printing the story
of his issuance of bad checks at o-te Carlo.
Knud Rasmussen, Arctic explorer and student of Eskimo customs,
arrived in New York last week on his way to Ottawa to report to the
Canadian Government the killing of Eskimo girl babies in the Upper
Hudson Bay country. He said the custom originated in the diificulty
in securing food for large families. "If there is not provender
enough the Eskimos kill the babies immediately after birth, by
smothering them. If the baby is a girl and prior to birth is pled
ged in marriage, the mother will preserve it, but if not the baby is
killed. Boy babies have the greater value and are seldom if ever
killed", said Rasmussen.