The Copper River's wildest Bush
man Aloe Grant came out of the
bush country long enough to get
a hair cut and to assure himself
that Chitina was still on the map.
He is gone again to Tebay Lakes
where he will spend the next
month building a cabin for the
Tebay Lakes Camps.
Our favorite cook Wes Kennedy has
been working very long hours at
the Cohoe Inn and has had very
large weekend crowds. He served
food until after nine Sat. night.
Dorothy (Chisana) Folger and her
two girls stopped over briefly in
Chitina on their way to Cordova
to join Larry. They plan to go
on to Anchorage before returning
to Chisana for the hunting season
Larry is a registered guide.
Mr. Eddy Andreson, an Alaska and
Yukon Territory prospector for 60
7 years, J. Lardy with C.A.A. in
Anchorage and Lee King of Yakima
Washington are in Chitina check
ing on some of our spooks.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Casebeer,
brother of Mrs. J. Hunsaker of
Lower Tonsina, are in the Copper
River area for a vacation from
the States.
The Survey Crew at Lower Tonsina
took a pleasure cruise down the
- Tonsina River in a rubber life
raft from Upper Tonsina to Lower
Tonsina. One of the party nearly
drowned. Too bad.
Carol, Gene, Sarge, and Larry
threw a going away party for
Reenie and Birthday party for
Bob. They had a very nice dance
although the girls were slightly
outnumbered.
Look over the stock in the Chitina
Cash Store. It is great sport
| just to browse among the cobwebs
and you will likely run into that
gadget you have been hunting for
the past 25 years.
Chitina is the only Ghost Town in
Alaska reported the have a Com
munity Smoke house for the pur
pose of smoking fish. The building
and wood were donated by O.A.
Fred Coleclough rebuilt the heat
er. From being the best Tin
Smith in Alaska even though he is
retired hasn't lost the old touch.
That strange odor you detect when
driving through is credited to
this new Community improvement.
We asked the Old Cynic what sort
of grouch was eatin ' on him today
and he said he had been mad all
day thinking about the mess the
people were making of the Pore
Indians, including him. He said '
that ever since he was chased off
the Reservation back in Missouri
for hoss stealin’ and came to
Alaska to start life anew, and
better he hoped, he had been pro
gressively distressed by the grow
ing influences that are making
hopeless bums of him and his
fellow Indians.
THE CHIEF GHOST’S COLUMN
By: The Old Cynic
When I came here 50 years ago the
Indians were a pretty good lot of
people who thought of themselves
as just some more people on Earth,
self reliant, self respecting,
capable and intelligent, honest
both in relation to other people’s
property and intellectually honest
The old untutored, unlettered In
dians knew how to raise up child
ren with force and character.
The old Indians knew that the
white man had brought them a lot
of the things they liked and a
much better way of life and they
were glad of it. A considerable
part of the succeding generations
have been made into bums by the
flood of racketeers sent here by
the good misguided people in the
States. And this nonsense was
all so silly unnecessary.
And because it was part of their
racket the Indian teachers, agents
and missionaries have taught the
Indians that they are immune from
all ordinary responsibilities
and are entitled to support from
the whiteman because they are
Pore Indians and are discriminated
against. This selfish bunk was
poured into the Indians simply
because the various groups soon
found that was the way to in
gratiate themselves with the In
dians .
Every thing the "Indians" have or
want today is something the white
man has brought them and that in-,
eludes most of their parents and
grandparents. Most of the whin
ing "Indians" in Alaska are a
lot more white than Indian by
blood .
But never mind, things in this
respect are getting worse every
day .