- ~ THE CHILKOOT POST - -
_Chilkout Barracks, Haines, Alaska,._
Published w11hout expense to the Government.
vol. 5.
Friday, July 31st,,
1925
No.6U.
f^.uu leany.
ovp quarterly.
NEWS OP THE 'MEEK.
The first formal event of the Thirty-Sixth Triennial Conclave
of the Grand Encampment of the Knight Templars took place in
Seattle last Saturday night with the arrival of Leonidas P.Newby,
of Indiana, Grand Master of the Order. 150 officials in uniform
and hundreds of local Knights marched to the Northern Pacific
station to meet the Grand Master.
Seattle is bedecked for the Conclave in the most elaborate
fashion resembling a camp of the Crusaders in the medieval days,
and 50,000 Knight Templars are in attendance.
James A.Drain, National Commander of the American Legion
has announced the organization has obtained more than $3,000,000
of the $5,000,000 endowment fund which it seeks for the care of
disabled veterans and orphans of the World War.
Capital punishment, unknown in Cuba since 1906, is to have
a revival. President Lachada, recently stated that all future
death sentences will be executed.
Rain during the past week at Nome revived mining activities
in the region surrounding the camp and every workman is employed.
Cold water experiments were hampered by the drought but are
working to full capacity now on the big holdings. The new system
is cutting down operating expenses officials state.
George Beaupaire, a negro leper, of New Orleans, charged
with wife murder, is expected to go to trial as soon as a glass
cage, in which he will be confined, with speaking tubes, is built.
The trial has been postponed from time to time for fear of
spread of the disease.
Ex-Governor Scott C.Bone, of Alaska, speaking at a luncheon
of the Chamber of Commerce, of Puyallup, Washington, said: "Pub
licity is Alaska’s greatest need, especially directed against the
gross error formerly implanted years ago that Alaska is a vast
upheaval of ice and snow".
A court in Washington, D.C, has ordered the Treasury officials
to show cause why salaries of school officers in the District of
Columbia, should not be withheld because of the teaching of scien
tific doctrines alleged to reflect on the Eible.
The suit is based on the provisions of the last District of
Columbia appropriation bill that no part of money appropriated
should be used to pay salary of any superintendent who permitted
teaching or any professor who teaches disrespect to the Holy Bible,
Rounding out the first month of his vacation at Swampscott,
Lass., president Coolidge let it be known he believed that his
absence from Washington of himself and most of his Cabinet members
was giving the public a welcome opportunity to pay attention to
business instead of having attention forced on the Capital.