The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: VII
McCarthy.
ALASKA, SATURDAY December 1, 1928.
No. TV
New Telegraph Station
Opened On Highway
The new telegraph station tha
has been under construction for
some time past, has been com
pleted and is now ready for occup
aney. The new building, which is
located at mile 126,the site of Our
home roadhouse will takr the piac
of the Hogan station,that was de
molishe d by lire last summer.
The new station is the best
constructed of any building the
government has so far erected
along the trail. All the rooms j
large and comfortable and pres
ent plans call for regulation bar
ack furnishings.
When the telegraph system
is abolished and telephones sub
stituted, the phones will beinstal
led in the roadhouses, thus elim
mating the need of many of the
present stations. It is rumored
that stations thus vacated, will be
either burned or sold to the high
est bidder.
The build mgs are all located
well and could be used for road
houses, should traffic increase
sufficiently to warrant more es
tablishments of that nature.
His Feet Got Tired
Louis Bergouze has a cold stor
age ])lant. and a good cold stor
age plant’tis. Across the street
Louie owns a fine little cafe Both
establishments are in Chitina and
both are conducted by Louie.per
sonally.
When a customer came to the
cafe and ordered a T bone,Louie
would do a hundred hi nothing
flat,return with the steak, throw
it on the range and find that he
had a customer waiting for pork
chops, or some lady wanted ten
cents worth of dog meat.
Finally Louie decided that the
present method of doing busi
I
doss was too hat'd on his pedal j
extremities,so he has bought the;
| old restaurant site back from |
Oscar Hreedmanand is now in
i
shape to do business at ins lor
mor stand.
Chitina To Have New
School For Natives
Mr. Mozee district superintend
of Indian education, spent a few
days in town last week on bust
ness connected with his depart-1
rnent. Plans are being formulat
ed lor the erection of an Indian
school near Chitina n txo spring
The natives of the village near
here will do most of the work, as !
they are very skilliul carpenters j
having built comfortable houses J
for themselves and done consi
derable carpenter work in town.!
While up tins way, Mr. Mozee
also made a trip to Copper Cen
ier to visit Lite native school at
that place.
CHITINA
Word lius been received from
A. W. Longaker, A. R. C. engi
neer, that bis headquarters for
the present will be Juneau, in,
stead of Cnitina as planned.
|
Gus Wilson; who was charged j
with assaulting an officer a short
while ago, was cleared and set
free, according to information
from Valdez. Gus has done time
in the local jail and paid a fine
for various offenses.
Siush ice is still running in
Copper River, and Oscar Olsen
who is trying to get logs across
it to build the Gokona bridge for
| the A. R. 0. is wondering if it is
ever going to freeze. a3cording to
| freighters.
Houses are at a premium in
Chitina at present Mr. D. F. Mil
i ard, of Valdez, and Mr. Veitch,
Continued on page 3, column 4.
Town Talk
Share an’ the Irish are strong
for Mei 'arthy. Not long ago a
subscriber who has his mail ad
dressed to either McCarthy or
Kennecott said that a relative of
his scorned the latter name when
a good old Irish one like MeOar
thy could adorn the envelope.
Now this tfrom Chitina. A resi
dent of that town wrote his re
latives in Ireland that he would
be either at Chitina or McCarthy
ana his mail should be so ad
dressed. When the letters came
they were addressed: Chitina,
"In care of Mrs. McCarthy.”
Ai Jackson,who has been down
the river helping Martin Harris
sink a prospect hole, returned
-o town, for a short while.
Al Doze, who has been em
ployed at the Breen Butte for
the past summer, has quit and
will be in town for the next few
months. He will probably work
his farm during the coming sea
son.
Ed Briggen arrived in town
tiie first of the week from the
Green Butte, where he is now
employed. Alter a couple of
days in town he returned to the
mine.
Bill Hair arrived in town yes
terday for an overnight visit
rom Kennecott. This is Bill’s
first visit in several months.
Dad Baxter of Kennecott ar
rived in town yesterday for a
short business and pleasure trip
He returned home on the train
today.
Carl Anderson, better known
as Big Carl, is down from the
Jumbo.
Furnished Cabin for Rent. —In
quire at Marshall’s.
Winter Stage
Service to Kenncott Assured
l
; That we are to have a regular
I stage service to Kennecott is due
| wholly to the efforts of Bill Her
| ry and Henry Olsen to
obtain the cooperation of the bus
| iness men and other persons of
I the town.
The following firms contrib
I
I uted toward the upaeep of the
stock, it is understood that the
contribution is to be a monthly
institution, shuld the stage not
make out as well as expected.
The Fountain $10 00
The Fountain Barber Shop $5.00
I The Alaska Cafe $5.00
The Alaska House $5.00
McCarthy Drugstore $15.00
Miner’s Home $10.00
J. B. O’Neill $15.00
The Golden $10.00
The Golden Barber Shop $5.00
McCarthy Club $10.00
R.L.H. Marshall $10.00
McCarthy News $5.00
Donations from private individ
uals amounted to $20.00
Total amount contributed$125.
00
The men in charge of the new
stage line intend to break down
the snow and put Fords over
the road during the winter. If
wind or fresh snow blocks the
trail at any time, they will plow
it out and drag a car over the
route to make a new rut.
as there is not a big snowfall
in this vie inity, it is not unreas
onable to suppose the plan will
work out as well as expected.
Vannie Anderson resigned at
O’Neill’s the first of the week
and is now on a vacation. Sig
Wold has tilled the vacancy, as
sinning his new duties the latter
part of the week.
New Stock of Hickory and
Ash Skeis —At Marshall’s