--THE CHILKOOT POST
_Chilkoot Barracks , Haines, Alaska.___
_Published without expense to the Government._
Vol. 5 ---- Friday, June 19th. , 1925. -No. 24
50/ Quarterly. $2.00 Yearly.
NEWS OF THE ’WEEK.
Naval Reservists of the Thirteenth District aboard four Eagle
boats left Seattle for a fifteen day cruise to Southeastern Alaskan
points on June 13th.
The boats will take the outside passage coining north and visit
Skagway, Juneau, 'Wrangell and Ketchikan, returning south via the
inside passage. Brief stopovers are arranged and liberal shore
leave will be granted. The Reservists include representatives of
Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and Grays Harbor.
President Coolidge favors the retirement of the government
from the inheritance tax field, as suggested by U.S.Senator, Reed
Smoot, but fears Smoot's proposal that the states reciprocate by
abandoning the income tax as this would seriously curtail their
re venue.
Dorothy Ellingson, known as the San Francisco jazz girl,
went on trial last lion day for the murder of her mother. The shoot
ing occurrei in the Ellingson home on January 13. The defendant
following her release from an asylum where she was kept under ob
servation for a month, entered a plea of not guilty and says she
will fight for her liberty on the merits of the evidence.
Six thousand policemen, spurred on by Chief of Police Collins
order that every gangster must be behind the bars by Monday night
searched all day Sunday and Sunday night. The search was practi
cally a house to house search in some sections. The police were
instructed to shoot at the first sign of danger. Guns blazed and
one man was sent to the hospital. Tim drive followed a week oi
terror by gangsters in which five policemen were killed.
Two hundred alleged gangsters have been arrested and more arrests
are to follow.
Taxable personal incomes in the U.S. in 1923 amounted to
$26,336,337,843 or $5,000,000,000 more than in 1922.^ Washington
and Alaska together filed 136,507 returns and paid $4,382,757.
The railways of Great Britain have signified approval of a
que stionnai re issued by the League of Hations for the adoption of
a year of thirteen 28-day months. The alteration would involve a
fixed Easter and an extra year day would make up the total of 36b
days of the calendar. A ’’leap year” is also provided.
George A.Parks took the oath of office as Governor of Alaska
Tuesday morning, succeeding Governor Scott C.Bone, whose tenure of
office expired with the close of business Monday. > .
Judge T.l.Reed, of the Federal District Court administered
the oath at 9:30 A.L. in the Governor’s office. Tuesday evening
a public reception was held in the Governor’s Mansion under the
auspices of the Chamber of Commerce.
Robert Hill was
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