The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: X
McCarthy, alaska,
SATURDAY, 19, Ui'7.
No. 8
DOCTOR GILISPIE'S
SUCCESSOR ARRIVES
Dr. Blakemore and wife
arrived on Sundays train from
New York to succeed Dr. Gilispie
Resigned as Physician and Sur
geon of the Kennecott Mining
Corporation. Dr- Blakemore in
direct from the staff of the Ros
evelt Hospital, New York and a
graduate of the Williams and
Mary iMedical College, and also
the John Hopkins University of
Baltimore Md.
PIONEER GET FEET FROZEN
Daniel B. Libby who spent
one season at Chititu and his son
Hob, attended school at. McCarthy
had r.ho misfortune to get his loot
.frozen in overflow near Kobi was
brought to Fairbanks recently
He was taken to the
St. Joseph’s hospital and after
an examination by the attending
physician it was announced that
a complete recovery would be
effected in about two weeks.
Accotnpaning Mr. Libby wore
his wife and son. The Libbys
had made camp about seven mi
les from Kobi station and were
were trapping. It had been their
intention To work over t<* Lake
Minenumina by slow stages and
after trapping there in the late
spring to float down the Kanrish
na river with the Kuskokwim eo
untry as their destination. While
adjusting a trap on a small stre
am about two miles from camp
Libby fell into an overflow and
was immersed to the armpits
He started at once for camp thi
liking he could get there before
he was frozen. Mi. Libby is a
pioneer of the Nome, Iditarod
and Fairbrnks camps. His Lab
or was the first man on record
to discover gold in Alaska.
ALASKA GAME COMMISSION
LN MARKET FOR LIVE
BEAVOli
The Alaska Game Gomniiss
ion is calling lor bids for live bea
ver males and females in proper
lion of five of the former to six
i of t he latter , The animals are wa
nted for stocking purposes and
, must be in good condition. lVrs
Ions contemplating bidding tor
i the supply of these animals shou
Id communicate with the office of
the Game Commission, Juneau,
■ before engaging in their capture
I
MUCKERS ANNUAL BALL
The Muckers Ball at Ken
1
! necott last week was a grand a IT
! uir The yeilders of the muck sr
lc.k did not intend being out done
' by any old organization and they
| spread them selves in becoration
j good eats, and service. The M us
1 ic was up to the occassion. and
dancing ended in the morning
hou rs.
j POPULAR AUTHOR PLANS
TO VISIT COPPER RIVER
VALLEY IN FALL
Gouvernor Morris one of the
most popular contributors to the
| Saturday Kvenrng Post, and an
j tlior of the recent colonial novel
j ‘ BaItisande" will visit the Copp
jer River Valley district next fall
litis learned from acquaintances
of the writer. With the novelist
and short story writer,- will come
J. V. Ritieniiouso California min
ing engineer. The pair plan t<*
come north from Pebble Beach
| Calif, in September. They plan
to go to Dawson then down the
river to Tanana and over the
Richardson highway to Chitna
I from there they will proceed
down the Copper river valley on
a sheep hunt.
PYGMIES TO DO
HOUSEWOiiK IN U. S.
I
Development of a race ol
pygmies to do the world’s light.
. est work, is advocated by Hr. P
A. Cook, Arctic explorer serving
! a sentence in the federal prison
I u , . .
; here on a charge oI fraud in eo
j unecfcion w th an oil transaction.
• nan article appearing in
i the New E,-a, prison publication
Hr. Cook suggests bringing Ur
ge numbers of pygmies from i m j
pical countries to Virgin islands ;
tor development, and training- as
serva nt s’
Dr. CiH)k said be conceived i
this plan in consider ing the pro-1
blems growing out of a declining)
birth rate among highly civilized
races, which be feared would
result in a shortage of lador in
many line*. The pygmies,
i could be employed in offices, fa
ctories and homes, for positions
where little hard lab.e is required
:
KENNKCOTT MOVIES
Sunday February 20th. 1027
LON CHANEY
in
| THKPHANTOM OF THE OPERA
i *
NEWS
MUSIC
Wednesday February 2”>d.
Anna Q. Nillson Ben Lyon
; Viola Dana
in
the Hex Beach Story
“WINDS OF CHANCE”
NEWS
DR. B. G. HARK WILL
S')ON TO ! >: \ VK
Dr. B. G. Bi'kwill. <*l i\ijir
n• eott will leave <>n Tuesday's
train for L+toueh. where 1)“ will
»eleive the the G>in|):iny Doctor
for a. short vacation and then wi*
th Mrs. Barkwill return to the
States. Dr. Barkwill has made
many enduring friends, in secti
on, who are sorry to see him lea
ve. All will join in wishing him
self and wife, success and prosp
erity where-ever they decide to
make their pernament home.
Perhaps Alaska has made sii
eh an impression on them, that
at some future time they will
return and become real Alaskans
“RARE” RUTH ASKS FOR
$100.OX) THTS SEASON
Los Angelos,— “Babe” Ruth
the home run swat king of base
ball, demanded a salary of 8100,
000 from the New York Yankees
or declared that he would quit
baseball and devote his time to a
string of gymnasiums through
out the country.
OLDEST CONVICT IS
PAROLED DY DEATH
For.du Lac, Wis., —Death
granted a paroled to old Dill
Mawell, 88, beleived to be the
oldest convict in the world. He
died in the Wisconsin state pris
on at Waupan, of old age. He
started to se^ve the fifty-fifth
year of life term last October.25.
Maxwell was sent to Waupan
for killing a man in defense of a
woman in a dance hall. His act
aroused the dancers in the hall
and he was strung up to a tree
when the sheriff arrivee, cut him
down and placed him under
arrest.
Old Bill never regretted the
act and repeatedly declared that
he would do it again under simi
lar ci rcumstances.
Old Bill was a model prisoner
and could have had a parole years
ago but he always refused aid
offered him.