THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second olass matter. Septem
ber 17th, 1918. at the lostOffioe, at
McCarthy, Alaska, under the Act of
Maroh 3. 1879.
C. P. M. COLE. Manager
M. M. «COLE Editor
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Saturday Auguststh 1922.
I
CABLE NEXT YEAR
Col. Soane, of the Signal Corps
has stated that he believes that
the appropriation for a new Al
aska cable will be passed at next
winter’s session of Congress,
and also says: ‘If the next
twelve months are as propitious
as the past have been, we will
see the new cable down, which
will really give us a first class
system throughout.
Big developments are under
way in the cable art and if we
do put down the new cable it
will be based upon a system en
tirely different and much super
ior to the old system.
This will make it possible to
transmit from five to ten times
as many words a minute from
Seattle to Sitka as is possible
now.”
From the above we get the
impression that Alaska is to get
the new cable it so sorely needs
~ in the near future, perhaps
next year.
We have such lots of things tc
look forward to, all to material
ize perhaps next year.
The President and his party
were terribly disappointed at
having to give up the triple
Alaska this summer: they are
coming next year.
Secretary Fall did not manage
to get to Alaska either, but will
come next year.
And we are told that the
Nizina Bridge is to be built
next year.
ALASKA HAS OVER ONE
THOUSAND AUTOMOBILES
There are 340 automobiles op
erated within the confines of
theTongass forest reserve in
Alaska and the total number of
autocars in Alaska will run ov
er one thousand.
The list shows that Juneau
has 185 autos, Ketchikan has 88
cars, Cordova 16, Valdez 52
Seward 30, Petersburg 12 Hydee
S, Wrangell 4, Anchorage has
probably 50 cars. McCarthy
holds her own with seven pleas
ure cars and four trucks.
|33 of Juneau’s cars are pleas
ure cars. 52 are trucks owned by
business houses and industries
Ketchikan has 41 pleasure
ears and 47 trucks Seward 24
pleasure cars and 12 trucks:
Cordova 4 pleasure cars and
12 trucks.
CHILBERG IS BANKRUPT
While the Sourdoughs were
marching down Second Avenue
Seattle, celebrating the twenty*
fifth anniversary of the steam
er Portland with the first gold
from the Klondike, attorneys
for J. E. Chilberg, one of the
most noted Yukon pioneers were
filing in the federal court a vol
untary petition in bankruptcy.
Chilberg confessed debts to the
amount of $1,705,981, against
which is balanced assets $25,745
some of which is of doubtful
valug.
Chilberg’s presidency, finan
ciers claim, brought on the fail
ure of the Scandinavian Amer
ican Bank at Seattle, through
the making of huge loans to
shipbuilders and others which
turned out worthless.
TRAFFIC COPS HAVE
BIG SUCCESS AS VAMPS
Stuebensville, Ohio, July 20th.
Deputy sheriffs patrolling high
ways into this city have become
so wellknown by speeders that
the latter drive slowly so long as
the officers are in sight but cut
loose as soon as they know they
are safe.
To catch the speeders Deput
ies Campbell and Yost, dressed
as “flappers” and started out
on their motorcycles.
The net result of their efforts
was brought to light when four
teen motorists were called in
Justice Gorman’s court and ass
essd $14.75 each. The motor
ists who thought they were
flirting with “flappers” soon
learned they were flirtiug with
the law.
Deputy Campbell said that
his henna wig set off his feat,
ures so well that he made a
dozen “dates.”
PORT OF MISSING MEN
information is asked for
concerning the whereabouts of
Robert Alexander, who is be
lieved to have been in this part
of Alaska in the last years.
Communicate with the McCar
thy Weekly News, or direct to
Miss Florence Lange, Route 5
Columbus, Wisconsin.
ANOTHER PROOF THAT
BEARS ARE NOT HARMLESS
(Hyder Miner)
With one side of his face re
sembling a hamburger steak &
a nose looking like anything ex
cept a nose, but still undaunted
in his determination to continue
pursuing the elusive grass root
prospect, J.O.Stenbraten,known
in every mining camp on the
North American continent as
“Stampede John” returned on
Saturday morning from a pros
pecting trip to the head waters
of Georgia River.
Which is a preliminary to the
statement that has emerged vic
torious from his first and only
battle with a bear, winning from
Madam Bruin by deft strokes,
of his prospecting axe and out
feignting the lightening swipes
of his formidable front feet.
John was working round the
brim of a deep box canyon with
a fifty pound pack on his back
and an axe in his hand.
As he clambered out of a
small gully an immense black
bear struck down at him from
her ambush behind a clump of
brush.
The blow glanced down the
right side of his face, closing
the eye, tearing his nose open
and lacerating his face from
eyebrow to chin.
Simultaneously with her at
tack John struck blindly with
his axe and cut a deep gash in
the upper part of her neck,sev
erlng some tendons.
When he was capabl e of con -
scious thought, John was "all
riled up, so he waded into that
bear with his axe and ruined
a perfectly prime hide.