GENERAL MERCHANDISE
you Will Need for fhe Summer
«
A mosquito bed net, head nets, canvas gloves, & shoe pacs
WE HAVE THEM
Prices Attractive
HIGHEST QUALITY YOUR PATRONAGE SOLICITED LOWEST PRICES
R. L. H. Marshall
FOR YOUR SEASONS CANNING
KERR. WIDE MOUTH MASON JARS
CERTO
The new. sure way for better
Marmalade, Jells and Jams.
Insure success with CERTO, the Concentrated
Fruit Pectin
J. B. O'Neill
IMI y h Tt n f
u Vn 'iea? U j tt* tH 3 d
Snyder’s Style Shop
A FULL LINE OF
Ladies’ ready to wear Garments
DRY GOODS
Mrs. R. l\ Snyder
NOTIONS
Prop.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Office of the Secretary
WASHINGTON
Additional Alaska fishery
regulatk ns
The regulations for the pro- j
tection of the fisheries of Alaska
published in Department of
Commerce circular No. 251, twel
fth edition, issued under date
of Decern her 5, 1925, together
with subsequent regulations,
are hereby amended by the foil
owing regulation:
Resurrection Hay Area
Salmon Fishery - Regulatior
No- 3 prohibiting coinmercia
fishing for salmon within 1,70(
yards of the mouths of Beai
Creek and Resurrection Rivei
is hereby amended so that aftei
August 29, 192b, such fishing
is prohibited within 1,000 yards
of the mouths of these streams
Stephen Davis
Acting Secretary of Com mem
RICH ORE ON HIGHWAY
Egan Petrokov, well known
mining man, arrived in Valdez
recently, bringing a number of
specimens from a new strike
made by him near Rapids stat
ion. on the Richardson highway.
The strike was made about
I half a mile south of the rapids
i
! station, on what is known as
Gunnysaek Creek. Before locat
ing on the ground Petrokov sp
“nt considerable time prospect
jing the lead, and uncovered it in
several places over a distance
j of five claims’length, finding it
to range about 180 feet in width.
The entire lead is highly min
eralized, with only a small prop
ortion of white quartz.
Seattle, Si*pt. 17. CarlLomen
i of Nome said 5,000 reindeer will
•be s!ii[)j)ed to the states from
Alaska this year and asked for
: additional refrigerated shipment
| space for reindeer meat which
i wiil soon be marketed through
out United States and at a price
I which will undersell domestic
' meats
School Notes
John Cabot
Bud Seltenreich
11 At the time when Columbus
I (sailed on his first voyage, there
0 was another sea captain born in
• | the same city as Columbus. He
•' wanted to sail to the East Indies.
•(This was John Cabot. John Cabot
; I was born in Genoa and had his
; I home later in Venice, and then
. in Bristol, England.
He traveled very much and
was in western Asia. There he
THE
McCA RTHY WKEKEY NKWS
Entered as second class matter suptem
ber 17th, 1918 at ilie lost Office, a
McCarthy. Alaska, uiderihe Act o
March 1879.
C. O. Marwood Editor
K. Marwood Circulation Manager
Subscription Ratos
Single Copies .15
Three Months 1.00
Six Months 1.90
One Year 3.50
Payable In Advance
Saturday, Oct. 2, 1926
saw a caravan carrying spices
and silks. When he went back to
England he asked King Henry if
he could go on a voyage and the
King said “yes”.
nn Mao, 1497. he left with
one small vessel and 18 men. He
sailed to the coast of Labrador.
tie was the first man to rea
| ch the mainland of North Amer
ica. Columbus did not touch it
until his second voyage, in 1498.
When Cabot returned to Eng
land they called him tne great ad
miral. He got much honor, Now
: he dressed in fine clothes.