THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second olass matter. Septem
ber 17th, 1018. at the lost Office, at
McCarthy, Alaska, under the Aot of
MarchS. 1870.
0. F. M. COLE. Manager
M. M. COLE Editor
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EVERYTHING WAS GOOD
Notwithstanding the fact that
the weather on July 4th. was
not up to McCarthy standard, a
very satisfactory day was en
joyed by all:
It was only a dull drizzle and
at no time of the day was it
stormy enough to stop the pro
gram which was all carried out
with the exception of the dril
ling contest.
The baseball game was very
exciting and the ground was
in fine shape,
Those who went to Cordova
to celebrate, found very stormy
weather, in fact no games were
played till the 5th,
So it just proves our original
contention that you can have a
mighty fine time' by spending
the Fourth or any other holiday
in McC arthy.
As for the dance in the even
ing—ask the dancers.
A Washington correspondent
writes that the President and
Mrs. Harding have entirely giv
en up the idea of the trip to Al
aska as the President does not
feel that he can be absent for
any length of time until after
the adjournment, and it looks
now as if that would not be till
the brief Alaskan summer is a
thing of the past.
'-C ’
Brief Alaska summer! — in mod
ern language ~~ where do they
get that stuff? Our summers
last till well on in September.
PIONEERS WILL RELIVE
STIRRING DAYS of LONG AGO
Years may have come and gone
swiftly or on dragging hours,
but plans of the Yukon Order
of Pioneers for a mammoth cele
bration of t&e 25th. anniversary
of the Klondike gold rush, to be
held in Seattle July 17th. have
brushed away the years like so
many cobwebs.
Pioneers, sourdoughs all, men
and women, pausing to realize
the fact that twenty five years
have sped by since they flung
their manhood and womanhood
into a vast forbidding country
and staked their very lives in
their grapple with Mother Na
ture, bave pitched into the work
of preparing for the celebration
as never have they entered any
thing before.
The growing of whiskers, the
shuffling of feet over dancs hall
floors, the clink of glasses, the
clink of the spinning roulette
wheel and ball - these the sour
doughs know are but the froth
of Alaskan memories.
They must have their place
in the coming celebration as en
tertainment just as they figur
ed in the common every day life
of Dawson times. But great
er than these things with the
Sourdoughs is the memory of
things accomplished, of the
vast territory of untold wealth
opened up to all the world by
the toil of hands and bodies and
the sacrifice of the lives of men
and of animals. Greater too is
thought of the open-hearted gen
erous race of men developed by
the open stretches of hills and
tundra and icy streams.
First thing on the program for
July 17. will be the arrival of
the gold ship ‘‘Portland”.
Aboard the gold ship the Yukon
order of Pioneers hopes to have
several hundred sourdoughs
dressed as nearly like they were
when they came back from the
North to “the states” years ago*
MITCHELL WRITES FROM
SEWARD
H, H. Mitchell, who left here
a couple of months ago, to try
bis fortune to the Westward, is
well pleased so far, according to
a letter received by James Hus
sey from him at Seward, which
says: “I thought I would
drop you a few lines to let you
know how this place is over herov
I am located at the lower end
of Kenai Lake and am making
ten bucks a day and everything
here in the way of living is very
cheap compared to McCarthy.
This is an awful nice place to
live, there is more moose than
I ever saw anywhere in this
North country and the rivers &
creeks are just full of nice big
rainbow and dolly varden trout
There are men here on Kenai
River who have been here for
twenty years and never worked
for wages. It is an easy
place to live, lots of game and
fish & a little gold in the creeks
and on the river bars. Tell the
boys if there is about this coun
try they would line to know tc
write me. Give my regards
to all the girls and boys.
PROMINENT MAN CONTENDS
What Is Sauce For The Goose
Should Be Sauce For the Gander
A reproduction of an adver
tisement in the Paris edition of
The New York Herald, announ
cing the sale of alcoholic drinks
on American ships appears in
the New York Times Current
History for June, illustrating an
article on “Prohibition’s Re
sult8,” written by Stuyvesant
Fish, former president of the Il
linois CentralRailway and now
active in a movement to revise
the Prohibition Act.
Concerning this he says:- “The
United States Government, on ,
the ships of the United States
Lines, openly sells wines, spir
its, liqueurs, beer snd ales to
those who are fortunate enough
to have the time and money to
travel to Europe, whereas the
the millions who are obliged to
stay at home are at the mercy
of spies and informers, and are
subject to searches, when on
the public highways, without a
search warrant, and all sorts of
penalties are imposed should
they be unfortunate to have in
their possession liquids contain
ing over one-half of one per cen t
of alcohol.
The people at large are grad •
ually becoming acquainted with
this state of affairs, and when
the facts are fully known there
will be an uprising that may
react seriously on the Govern
ment itself.”