The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL. 3.
McCarthy, Alaska. Saturday August 7th 1920
NO. 41
TOWN TOPICS
Todays train brought the first
hunting party of the season.
Messrs, T. .T. Oliver and J. E.
McKieJooth of Texas. They will
leave on an extensive trip tome
row, going first to Chisana, on
to Nabesna. where they will hunt
bear, then to the Sing, the
place for sheep and goat.
They will then proceed to the
Beaver, the home of the bit
moose, and expect to return to
McCarthy in about sixty days
with a fine collection of trophies
Jimmy Brown is in charge of
the party,with John Nickell also
as guide, Con Miller as cook &
Bill Weyers as packer.
Andy Tiydor arrived from
the Tjosevig property today
and is now preparing for a hunt
ting trip which party will ar
rive about next Thursday.
Big Outside mail arrived to
da.y and another one tomorrow
off the Watson.
The survey party, with Fred
Dahlquist in charge,have moved
camp from Sourdough Hill to
mile 186. From there t hey w i 11
work on tit rough Long Late
and Strelnaand finish up their
season's work ; t Cbitina.
TRAVEL BY MANY MEANS
TonyGrisko arrived on todays
train. Since leaving here the
last of March, when he started
out on a fur buying trip, he
has been to Chisana and the
White River by dog team, on
down to Fairbanks by boat,then
to Chitina by automobile, and
here by rail.
TELEGRAPHIC
(c (acini to the y pm ‘ )
ALASKA FLYERS on the WAY
P rince Gcoijie. Captain Street
has arrived from Jasper to join
the resu of the party. Land
ing during a storm they over
shot the field, wrecking the ma
chine and it is urceitain wheth
er repairs can be made.
HOME PEACE MOST NEED.
Marion, Ohio. • August 5th.
Senator Harding said in
«
another iront porch speech to
day that he would rather have
ndustrial rest at home than
be able to command the inter
national peace of the world.
BOLS HEVIKI A D VA NCE
London, Aug.3. The Bolsh
eviki are continuing to advance
and are now within sixty miles
i' Warsaw.
WAR TO BE DECLARED
Lxmdon. August 5th. Lloyd
George’ told the Bolsheviki rep
resentatLes today that unless
immediately cease invading Po
land, -Britain would declare war.
Paris. Britain has mobilized
two divisions for service in
Poland.
LARGE ARMY in IRELAND
London, Aug. 3. The British
have an army of seventy thous
and in Ireland.
GOING UP
It is rumored that on the 1st
oi September the railroad and
steamship fares are to be ad
vanced again
TRAIL NEWS
Everybody is up to the neck
in work this summer in Ohisana
there are no men to hire, and 1
all the owners are'•shovelling in
as much as they can themselves
in order to move the ground.
A prospector named Myers,
who has been prospecting and
trapping in the Chisana and
Scotty Creek country for some
years, is reported missing. He
was last seen in March, when
he had a considerable amount
of money and furs in his poss
ession. One of his dogs showed
up recently and it is feared that
something serious may have > ap
pened its owner; U. S. Commiss
ioner McGettigan has gon down
river to enquire into the case.
Mike Knowles is making
poor lime to Whitehorse, where
no is to join Charley Baxter on
a hunting trip, on account oi
losinu his horses en route. Toe
last report, he was still hunt
ing them.
Jack h>olan is building a cabin
at the mouth of the Snag, with
the assistance of Bill Carden.
According to late papers re
cent u from there, Anchorage
i.> suffering from a pest of rats
and the city is taking steps for
a campaign to put the rodents
out of business.
Read about your Sourdough
friends in the Pathfinder. Read
of the development that has
been done already in this great
territory.
The July number of the Path
j finder is the Cordova issue. It
j consists of 2000 copies profuse*
! ly illustrated and devoted al
| most entirely to the Copper city
i
PERSONAL
Mr. A. F. Trim writes that he
will he in the interior prospect
ing all summer.
Mr. Malcolm Brock, president
of the First Bank of Cordova, is
here on a business visit.
Mrs J. P. Hubrick entertain
ed Messrs. T. J. Oliver and J. E
McKieand Jimmy Brown at din
ner this evening.
H. Park, who came into town
from Dan Creek recently with
a poisoned hand, had t:> have
one finger amputated at Kenn
ecott Hospital this week. He is
staying at Mrs. Pete Johnson’s.
Pete Erickson came down to
town on Wednesday from Ken
necott, and is now preparing for
a journey to his cupper proper
ties, where lie intends to spend
a number of weeks.
Mrs.J. Stevens of Juneau,wTho
represents the Grolier Society
for the sal« of the “rook of
Knowledge”, spent several days
in McCarthy and Kennecott
this week and was very well
pleased at the number of orders
received while here.
OLDTIMERS RETURN
After an absence of over a
year Nels Tiosevig and Bill God
frey returned today.. They
were formerly associated with
the Mother Lode, and have been
taking long vacations. Mr. Tjo
sevig has been on a visit to Eur
ope and to see his mother in
Norway.
Bill Godfrey has taken in the
sights of Seattle, San Francisco.
Salt Lrke and Denver but is
mighty glad to be back in his
home town. The hometown
folks are glad to see them back.