THE
McCarthy weekly news
Entered as second class matter, ijeptem
ber 17th, 1918. at the l ost Office, at.
McCarthy. Alaska, under the Act of
March 3. 1879.
L. M. Lander Manager
R. E. Lander Editor
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Saturday June 30, 1923.
We cannot understand the apathy
of the people toward the fires raging
around McCarthy' While there is no
danger to the town, it means a des
truction of wood; and wood, as we all
know, is a vital necessity when it’s
fifty below. It may be the other fel
low’s wood; but it’s certain that we’rs
going to have to pay more for it as it
ecomes scarcer. And until coal is
more accessible, we must depend on
wood for fuel. Besides, the prospector,
the hunter and the trapper could not
do much without it.
The forestry service in Alaska is in
sufficient in numbers and equipment
to do much, so it is up to each com
munity to put out nearby fires if they
to keep their forests from becoming
charred windfall.
Too much precaution cannot be tak
en by everyone to prevent fires durind
this dry season. The danger from care
less campers or sparks from locomotiv
es is practically non existant in this par
of the country; but a fire caused by a
carelessly thrown cigarette can assume
fully as alarming proportions.
NOTICE TO PAY SCHOOL TAX
Notice Is Hereby Given that
the undersigned has been duly appoin
ted School Tax Collector for McCar
thy District in conformity with Alaska
Session Laws, 1916, and amendments
thereto.
All male persons between the ages
of twenty-one and fifty years, except
soldiers in the U.S. Army or sailors in
the Revenue Cutter Service, volunteer
firemen, paupers and insane persons,
are subject to a tax in the sum of Five
($5.0ti) Dollars.
Should you be living in Alpska pri
or to the first Monday in April, l5l3
said tax is delinquent after iMay 1st
1923. Should you arrive in Alaska la
ter than the first date above mentioned
tax will be delinquent thirty days r.'Tci
; your arrival, or ten days after notice i:
given you. ^
All persons, firms or corporation:
employing labor shall furnish list oi
employees to collector and are author
ized by law to deduct amount of tax
from Wages of employees.
Fines and imprisonment are provid
ed by the Act above quoted for thost
who neglect to pay tax or furnish list
of employees.
Dated at McCarthy,, Alaska, May 1 Oth
1923.
R. E. Landei
School Tax Collector for McCarthy
District
Now for all we know, there may bt
extenuating circumstances reasons
why these fires need not, or should
not be extinguished; but having come
from a region where forest fires annu
ally destroy millions of dollars worth
of valuable timber, as well as life and
property, we cannot view even the
smallest blaze in the wooes without
a certain degree of trepidation.
Another Fourth of July added to
the annals of Time. We can congratu
late ourselves that it was a successful
one, too, even tho our neigbors frcm
up above did take home the laurels
for the two big events of the day. Na
turally, we wanted to win; but there’s
another year coming
Even the weather was auspicious,
and our little city presented quite a gala
appearance to the visitors that throng
ed its streets.
ii McCarthy m
Si DRUGSTORE M
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SERVICE
Kveryone was in a lesiive mood;
much interest wus snown in the sports
which were conducted in a manner tes
tifying to the abm.y oi iho^e in charge.
In general’ ”a gocu time v.*iS had by
all.’’
.\ieCaithy has had a spell of rather
warm weather this week, the mercury
climbing to 9.') in the shade and close
to 110 ni the sun on several occssions.
if we’d had a palm leaf fan and a ba
nana tree to sit under’ we’d all h ave
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To l *t£e Doich, J . B. O’Neill,
heir heirs, assigns and personal
representatives:
You, and each of you,
are heieby notified that I have expen
ded five hundred dollars ($500.00) in
labor and improvements upon the
’’RAMBLER No. 4”, ’’RAMBLER
No 6”, ’’RAMBLER No. 7”, "RA
MBLER No. 8”, and ’’CAMP-SI
TE" mining claims,on the right limit
ol Dan Creek in the Nizina (unorga
nized) Mining District, Third Division
of the Territory of Alaska, as will
appear by Proof of Labor, duly sworn
to, and filed for record in the office or
the United States Commissioner and
ex officio Recorder for the McCarthy
Recording Precinct, mining district a
foresaid, on the 24th day of July, 1922,
in order to hold said premises under
been real hot. But we kept right on
Working without even trying any Coue
on ourselves, and before we knew it, e
vening had come and the coolbree*;
from the Kennecott glacier had blown
away the heat and cares of the day.
Item from a nearby newspaper—
Owing to lack of spaae and thejrush of
the Herald’s prize contest, several births
and deaths have been postponed until
next week. —Cheney Free Press
and by virtue of the provisions of Sec
tion 2324, Revised Statutes of the Uni
ted States of America, and the amend
ments thereto, being the amount re'
quired to hold the same for the calen
der year 1921, and the fiscal year 1922,
prior to the 1st day of July thereof.
And if within ninety
days from the service of this notice (or
within ninety days after this notice by
publication is completed), you, or eith*
er of you, fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of said expenditure ac
cording to your respective interests,
your interest in said claim, as co-owners
will become the property of the subscri
ber under said section 2324.
Dated McCarthy,Alaska, this 20th
day of June, 1923.
George Marhoffer
First publication June 23, 1923;
Last publication Sept. 22, 1923.