The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL; VIII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday, February 14 1.^5
OF INTEREST
TO TOWN AND D' STRICT
Jas Hussey mushed out to!
the River on Monday to look over
the saw mill. He says lie likes
McCarty pretty well after all.
Mr and Mrs. Hancock and son
left Me Carthy on Wednesday’s
train en route to Seattle on a
short business trip.
Howard Foster departed on
a short trip to Seattle Wednesday
but reports that he will return
soon to begin operations at. tne
We stover.
John Lucky finished his
wood contract this week and is |
turning over his sawmill to Carrol!
Overlander and Co.
Ed. Bassett says Chititu
Creek is Loo lonesome altogether
so lie took a run in to see our
village for a day or two.
While engaged in the* worn
of getting the derailed engine
back on the track Julius L’fahl* ri
had the misfortune to freeze his
heel and Was taken to Ivennecoit
hospital for treatment.
The Green Butte Mine was
forced to close down for a couple
of days tins week owing to a
shortage of powder. Many of the
bays toon the opportunity to run
in and say “Hello” to McCinhy.
Among ihose present were,
E.nar Olson, Fred Carlson,
Enoch Carlson, Shorty Briggen,
Charlie Olsen, Ed. Barrett, Lou
Anderson, and Gust Tnanos.
Warren Nelson came into
town from his diggings on Tiles
day.
,1. B. O’Neill took' a run up
from Chitina on Thursday to look
the town over.
DEMPSEY DENIES HE
WILL QUIT RING.
i
Green Butte Radio.
Jan, Hi — li is reported that
Jack Dempsey is to quit the
roped arena and take on a Now
Manager in the person of Estelle
Taylor, movie actress.
Eeh.3 -Dempsey lias come
out anti emphatically denied the
statement that he will quit the
prize ring. On the coni raj y lie
says that lie will take on a.i
aspirants incluuiing Tommy
Gibbons.
Tommy Gib >ons has laid
cl iiin to the heavyweight till *.
RESULTS PROM GREEN
BUTTE RADIO.
Tlie Green Butte report?* that
the installing of their radio set
has been a decided success. Since
getting tlieir set put up some
two or three months ago they have
been gradually increasing it’s
efficiency until, at the present
time, they are getting stations
over the entire Eastern Stales
and Canada.
The best results are oldenied
from Oakland where two stations
ma.\ be heard, and from Los
Angele.-, also broadcasting from
two stations. Ln addition to these
they have tuned m on San Fran
cisco, Porll md, Huston (Texas)
Denver, Seattle, Calgary and
Vancouver.
The broadcasting ranges from
; musical concert* to speeches and
Associated Press News and Roy
Lynch, who is responsible for
: the installing of the set, wants to
Know woo said Alaska was
isolated.
The success of the Green
Butte set encouragedBen Jackson
to buy one while on lus jaunt out
i side and on his return he set it
! up in the rear of his drug store
, and tuned in while the spectators
I
looked on with bated breath.They ,
are still living i>i hopes blit so tar
the only thing Ben tuned in on;
Green Butie Telephone. He heaul
a fellow t liking to the store clerk l
and Mrs Kennedy’s light plant
engine.
LOOK FOR BIG ST A M PEDK
TO GOLD FIELD
l
A gold rush is expected to
.theCissiar field in April. The
H nisou Bay Company is shipping !
j a giant caterpillar on the iirstj
steamer to travel the trails Eistj
a.tu North Irom Telegraph Creek, j
! whi 11* the Cassi ir-Gol Mining Com
pany is report 'd to have arrange
for fin airplane fly from the head
ol navigation on the Stiokine
river to the goid camp of the
Dominion Yukon Company. A
tel.-grapnoffice is being open on
Telegraph Creek and mail will
be delivered weekly while many
| radio sets are going into th new
district. Ii took four months for
prospectors to reach the Klondike
from Skagvvay, via Ed nun ton, in
while it is but a three day’s
go to Telegraph Creek from
Victoria.
AMERICANS MAY BE
BARKED OUT
It was announced today that the
l Mining Bureau will hold a special
meeting to consider a request
that British Columbia mines
should be owned only by Britiah
citizens. It is declared already
business men of Wrangell and
Seattle are arranging to capture
the Cassiar business.
Some wonderful samples of
rose quartz with free gold show
ing have been taken near Gold
Pan Creek in the Cassiar,
according to a telegram received
here by J. Frank Callbreath of
Telegraph creek.
WANT TRAILS BUILT INTO
CASSIA K DiST.
William Sloan, provincial
minister of mines for British
Columbia, has received several
petition from the residents m the
Cassiar mining district asking
for road construction for property
opening up the district to mining
development. A big rush into the
newly discovered gold fields
there is expected in the spring.
Sloan declared today that it was
already possible to drive an auto
mobile from Teleggraph Creek to
Dease Lake. He expressed the
prediction that a thousand pros
pectors would enter the Cassiar
as soon as the weather permits.
He also declared that some pros
pectors were going in on foot, and
with aog teams from the mouth
of the Stikine river in February
and Marcli.
Andy Taylor and A E Trim
made a start Wednesday on
f weighting supplies for the Mount
Logan Expedition. They took
aouut 5,o00 pounds ol' supplies^
equipment ana feed which they
will freight with horses as far as
the Chitistone Glacier and return
fur the remainder. Frem thence
it will oe distributed with three
dog teams along the route to
the foot of Mount Logan in pre
paration for the dash to the peak
next summer.
Dan Person, blacksmith at
Erie Mine, was badly burned
about the hands and forearms
when a gas torch set fire to a
can of gasoline and exploded it.
It was revealed authoritat
ively today that President Cool
idge prefers Prohibition agents
to give attention to bootleggers
and not to toters of hip-pocket
flasks.