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Chilkoot Barracks, Haines^’ Alaska..
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Vol. 5
50^ Quarterly.
Friday, April 3rd., 1925.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK. /
Gunnar Kasson, including his dog team led by Ealto, has gone
to Mount Rainier and is waiting for a blizzard to re-enact his anti
toxin run on the last lap $0 Nome, under direction of Colin Campbel l
of the Principal Pictures Corporation. Thss is intended as an edu
cational movie.
Completely recovered from her recent illness, but coming home
to recuperate, the Marquise de la Falaise, Gloria Swanson of the
screen, accompanied by her titled husband, arrived in New York last
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*0n ad ’/ice of ’’Fatty” Arbuckle’s attorney in Paris, who said
the divorce of Minta Durfee , the screen comircdian ’s first wife, was
not fully effective until April 8th, Arbuckle and Doris Dean’s wed
ding tost week was postponed.
President Ccolidge has appointed a woman, Mrs.Jeanette Hyde 0
Salt Lake, to be collector of customs for Honolulu. She is the fir
woman to be appointed collector of customs in the United otates.
Confronted by an order of the United States Public Health Ser
vice, effective a week ago, that all pcarsons entering from the Un:tea
States must be vaccinated, the city of Vancouver, B. C.has ordered
everybody to be vaccinated free. Resisters will be sent to a seg
regation camp which will be established.
James M.Rouke, aged 71 years, died March 26th.in Seattle. He
was conductor on the White pass & Yukon Route between Skagway and
Whitehorse, for 23 years. He retired from the railroad three years
ago on account of ill health and lived in Seattle during the past
year.
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The Interior department nas announcea xnao v-vo ^
|20,000 each, will he erected at Eklutina, near Anchorage, and one
costing $10,000 at White Mountain, near Home, as a nucleus for the
industrial vocational system for Indians and Eskimos. This made pos
sihle by the last Congress authorizing the Bureau of Education to
use the unoccupied government buildings and military reservations.
Fort Gibbon is expected to be taken and also used for school
purposes.
Dr. Frederick Cook, former Arctic explorer, has abandoned his
\ Supreme Court appeal and sent to Leavenworth iJc,nite.ntiary to begin
serving his fifteen year sentence.
Workmen digging up a scuttled German destroyer beached at Mill
Bay, Orkney Islands, discovered ttebodies of five German officers
and* a sail!or who were apparently not warned when the German crews
sank the fleet on June 21st. ,1919.
Dr.H. C.DeVighne , Territorial Health Gfficer at Juneau, has
wired the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company at Vancouver, 3.C.,
that passengers from Vancouver will not be permitted to land at Alat
kan ports unless vaccinated, owing to prevalency of smallpox at Van
couver. _
Jerry C.Murphy, •pormer Attorney General of Alaska
25th. in Anchorage, of heart failure. He was well known
timers in Alaska who regret his passing away.
died March
to many old