- - THE CHII/'OCT POST - .
Chi'lkoot Barracks, Haines, Alaska. _
Published without expense to the'U, S>•Government
Vol.5. - - - - - - Friday, liarch 20th. , 1925. ------ Ho. 12.
50^ Quarterly. $2,00 Yearly.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
President Coolidge in a proclamation has called upon the state
governors to cooperate in observance of the week of April 27-liay 3
as American Forest Week, and recommended that wherever possible,
Arbor "Day be celebrated within that week. American Forest Week
will replace the period heretofore designated as Forest Protection
Week and its observance will be directed by a national citizen’s
committee headed by former governor Frank O.Lowden, of Illinois.
The committee is to include 100 representatives of national organ
izations which are being enlisted in an effort to make observance
nation-wide.
Charles W. Carter has been nominated Postmaster at Juneau.
Enrollment in Alaska schools shows increase for the year 1923
1924 64 per cent larger than enrollment 1917-1918 with a total of
3,983 students enrolled in high and elementary schools. The pro
portionate cost of school operations did not show the same rate of
increase, the cost in 1923-24 being approximately thirty per cent
more than the cost in 1917-18.
$80,000 has been allotted for road and trail construction in lit.
McKinley National Park and represents the culmination of five
years of cordial negotiations between the Alaska Hoad Commission
and the National Park Service11, says Colonel James G. Steese. "It
part of a total of $272,700 authorized for this purpose during the
last days of the long session of Congress last June. The project
calls for about 37 miles of automobile road and about 100 miles of
pack trails, to be performel as a cooperative project by the Alaska
Road Commission.
Mrs. Ida Hughes, of Atlanta, Georgia, convicted and sentenced
to death for the murder of her mother-inlaw, krs.M. C. Hughes, must
hang unless the governor intervenes. The Supreme Court of the
state has refused to grant her a new trial.
Bill Shannon, ex-soldier musher in the second relay race with
serum to Nome on February 27th..covering 6C miles between Nenana
And Tolovana in temperature averaging 62 degrees below zero, an
nounces he is leaving Alaska to live in the states. He left on the
Alaska with the remnant of his dog team and leader Blackie and will
enter the Movies at Hollywood, carrying his original outfit of dogs.
Three dogs died on the relay trip. Shannon is blackened and scared
from the frost showing the intense strain and biting cold. Shannon
came to Alaska as a Quartermaster Sergeant of the 14th.Infantry
and later was a prospector and miner. His parents live in Consta
ble, New York..
A Jermane dispatch to the Seattle Daily Times says President
Coolidge would not visit the Pacific Northwest or Alaska this year.
Mrs.Coolidge, who noted the tragedies of Wilson and Harding in the
West, has stronglt counseled against the journey.
Congressman Harry St.George Tucker, Democrat, has refused to
accept a $2500 increase in salary, voted by the last session of
Congress, declaring that members of Congress were chosen to posi
tions paying only $7500. His grandfather, Henry 3t.George Tucker,
member of the 14th Congress, refused an increase for the same rea
son and the money has remained to his credit in the U. S. Treasury
for 108 years.
L.D,Henderson has been re-elected Commissioner of Education,