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Weekly News
VOL; 6.
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday
MAY 19, 1923
No. 28.
Kennecott Road to be Put in
Good Spape Immediately
Tuesday evening the McCarthy
Commercial Club met to inagur
;.!e ways and means to get the
Kennecott road in shape for sum
iiier and winter traffic.
After some discussion a com
mittee composed of Capt. Hu
• *>ick and Judge Coppernoll was
appointed to wait on Mr. Neiding
and ascertain what the Copper
Corporation was willing to do
about the upper end of the road.
Mr. Neiding stated that the Cor
poration would put on a crew to
fix the road as far as the grave
yard, on the lower end of the
Company’s(property, if the cit
izens of McCarthy would put the
rest of the trail in shape.
The committee agreed to act
upon the matter, so accordingly
as ubserip tion list was started
and three hundred dollars was
collected the first evening.
Actual work will begin during
t..e course of a fewT days.
A good road is a long felt need
both to the employees at Kenne
coitand the citizens at McCarthy
ar.d will undoubtedly increase
t r; ffic between the towns.
CV. ‘ >\ttion Off To Tae Races
While at Kennecott discussing
road ‘conditions with Mr. Neiding
Wednesday, the Commercial
Club’s committee broached the
subject of the Independence Day
celebration. The upshot of the
conversation was that the head
of the corporation pledged the
company to a $250.00 donation.
Plans for the coming festiv
’ities are under way, and from
all indications they will surpass
anything given in the past.
Collections will he made in a
short time, and present plans
matured. Judges will be chosen
from Kennecott and McCarthy.
Youngsters Have School Picnic
Yesterday dawned rainy and
sorta daunted the kids who were
all set for the annual school pic
nic, but the clouds were scared
so bad by nine o’clock, by the j
I black looks being sent in their
direction, that they left for paVJ-s j
unknown. Around eleven' the |
kidsand chaperones climbed rhto
trucks and were whirled away |
to the great outdoors.
The old-fashioned children’s
i
games were the order of the day
the grown-ups participating, ”to
amuse the kids.” We wonder if
it wasn't aother case of the whole
family taking Johnny to the cir
cus. There were about thirty
people out and everyone had a
dandy time.
Mrs. Reifer will teach l^ext
year in McCarthy and states that
she will make her home in town
during the summer vacatirn.
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The strawberry plants are in !
bloom at the Iverson ranch.
George Marhoffer tried to ford |
Young Creek a couple of days;
ago and nearly suceeded in get
ting rolled. Young is running
bank full.
Sam Means came in from his
claims on Chittu and went to
Kennecott today. Sam reports a
quite a bit.of progress in the
shaft he is sinking.
Guy Burch, president of the
Dan Creek Mining Crmpony ar
rived in town Thursday, on bus
iness connected with the com
pany. While in town he is mak
ing his headquarters at Marsh
all’s.
Capt. Hubrick has begun the
| construction of a plank walk
; from Riverside Drive to First'
j Avenue. He is also constructing
'a new street crossing at First
land McCarthy.
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Moscow May 18
Sixty one persons we^e sente
need to die and 8,500 given from
two to ten years imprisonment
for giving or accepting bribes,
today by tne Soviet courts.
Pekin May 18
The house of representatives
sitting in committee today voted
lack of confidence in the present
administration.
Moscow May 18
It is reported that a sea fight
has taken place between Russ
patrol boats and two Japan ese
steamers that were alleged to
have been poaching off the Rus
sian coast, near Vladivostok. The
report states that the Russians
tost one man, and the Japs suffer
ed three casuals. One Jap stea
mer was seized.
The following scores of the
teams playing on the Western
fields are from a delayed mes
sage, but as we haven’t seen them
printed elsewhere; here goes: —
Los Angeles 3 Portland 5. Sec
ond game Portland 3 and Los
Angeles 4.
Salt Lake 17 Vernon 9 Second
game Salt Lake 8 Vernon •!.
Sacramento 6 Oakland 0 game
played at Stockton. Second Sacra
mento 10 Oakland 5
San Francisco 5 Seattle 4.
Second game San Francisco 10
Seattle 6.
Several of the teams look like
pennant winners.
Shang Hai May 18
Confirmation was received to
day that the report that the Chi
nese bandits had thrown three
of their Chinese prisoners over
a cliff was error nous.
!iNEW PAPER IN McCarthy
The Kid’s Gazette, the latest
| publication to enter the news
| paper field in Alaska will make
its initial appearance on'the Me
Carthy streets Sunday. The pa
per will be managed by Peanie
O’Neill and Marion Wills. The
publishers of the new sheet have
made arrangements with the
News to obtain a small press
and body type. The new paper
will publish facts without ftar
or favor. It is entirely non parti
zenand will not be affiliated with
any particular brand of politics
The sheet will be about 7x9in.
! Cleveland S.C. May 18
As the result of a fire that
swept through a school building
last Light; 74 bodies of men, wo
men and children have been re
covered from ruins.
The crowd was gathered to wit
ness an entertainment given by
the school children and a kero
sene lamp exploded setting the
the building a-fire.
Shang Hai May 9
The P'oochow bandits sent in
a courier today in person of a
i
French prisoner giving final ho
tipe that all American and Brit
ish captives would be shot Tu
esday unless the demands for
ransom were met in the mean
time.
Washington May 17
The seizure of American mer
chandise by the Soviet govern
ment authorities at Vladivostok
's responsible for the closing
of the United States consulate
there and the departure of Pink
ney Tuck, American consul, Hu
gbes declared in an offi
cial statement tonight, in which
he said the U. S. regarded the
incident as unfriendly.