The McCarthy
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Weekly News
VOL: VII
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday Mitrch i, un
No. XVII
P?.p. Punch,(Sc Hilarity
Reign Supreme
The Pioneers’ Leap Year Ball
Yesterday evening was, in every
i sped a. dandy affair from the
>,art to finish. There was the
h it* tender, with the regulation
nite apron, presiding over the
I inch howl and dealing out the
tall ones to the boys and girls;
, here was the lunch, with the
much advertised beans, cake,
s nwiches, and coffee; and best
of all, there was the Pep
and Hilarity that is ihe mainstay
if any entertainment, and that
k ipt things moving a t, top speed
throughout the eut*re evening.
About fifty people came down
on the special train from Ivenne
cott and alter everything was
« ,er not one person had any
..ick to register. In fact, every
ivie was sorry to leave so early,
as they were just beginning to
feel at home.
The younger generation’s envy
was aroused when they thought
of the old timers, who lived in
tiie territory during its balmy
d ays.
The Igloo took in :>T26.25 from
t!ie sale of punch and admittance
tickets. This money will go to
ward cancelling the mortgage on
the hall.
Wage C it Will
Be Settled By Arbitration
The C. R. it NW. Ry. and the
employees, who were to have
gone out on a strike today on ac
count of the cut in wages, which
was to have been effective March
l.have decided to settle the mat
ter by arbitration.
There has been no train th< u
from the coast since last Monday
owing to snow skdes; but it was
reported that the track is clear
and the train will leave Cordova
Chitina Brevities
The baby son ol‘ O.A. Nelson
is reported to have been blinded
in one eye with a knife in the
hands of their older son. The
babe and mother are said to be
on their way to the states to see
eminent specialists,in hopes that
the child's sight can be restored
Tiie accident, for such it was.
is to be regretted, and the News
joins the Nelson’s friends in ex
tending sympathy.
The Kennecott surgeon gave
Mrs. Nelson hope that there was
a chance to save the eye from to
to 1 blindness, even if a complete
cure is not effected.
Mrs. Drank Milliard, wife of
the A. R. C Disbursing Officer
was taken seriously ill Tuesday
afternoon and was rushed to the
Kennecott hospital on a special
train, for medical attention. The
preceeding day the doctor was
called to Chitina, but the deve
lopments of the next twenty
hours necessitated atrip o> the
hospital. The patient is reported
j to be resting easily, and barring
complications, out of danger.
Milliard returned to his duties
to-day, having taken this morn_
ing’s local to Chitina.
While very weak at present,
it is expected that Mrs. Milliard
will be up and around in a few
weeks.
A returning passenger on to
day’s local was the little daugh
tar of Comfort Joe, native, who,
has been at the Kennecott hos
pital for the past several days,
undergoing treatment for an tin
sightly eruption of the sain.
She returned to Chitina, appar ;
antly cured.
Sunday, arriving at this end of
the line Monday with mail and
freight.
Lopp Reports
Overcrowding of Ranges
|
[AnchorageWeekly Alaskan]
Scenes of strife similar to tho
se witnessed between cattle own
ers in the West in the days of
free range are more than likely
to be a part of the history of the
development of the reindeer in.
dustry in Alaska. In the opinion
of William T. Lopp. superintend J
of the Alaska Division, Bureau j
of Education, the time is fast i
approaching when the Eskimo j
and his herd of reindeer will be!
crowded outof the Seward pen in i
insula. There are no land leasing
or grazing lawo in the North. Re
gardless of the natives* prior
rights to the land, private enter
prizes are encroaching on these
rights and forcing the natives to
!
seek other feeding grounds for
their herds.
Already many of the eskimos
on the peninsula have signified i
their intention of moving their j
large herds to the Cantwell dis-1
tricf. The first to be moved be i
long to an eskimo named Simon.
He told Mr. Lopp last fall that lie j
intended driving his herd of j
5,000 animals to the Iditarod be j
fore the winter set in, and this
coming summer or fall complete
the drive to the lailroad or to
the Cantwell district. Here lies i
j
a vast belt of moss, fifty miles'
wide and many miles in length, j
over which immense herds of j
reindeer will undoubtedly swarm '
in a few years.
Mr. Lopp s . vted that the rein
deer could 1< brought there in
two ways, eithe'* by boat to An
chorage and thence up the rail
way in box cars to Cantwell, or J
they could be shipped up the Yu
kon in barges and then driven1
down to the moss belt. At pre
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'Tis Said That -
Pete* Erickson, who is employ
eel us night watchman by the
l Kennecott Copper Corporation
j was down for a few hours yester
| day attending to personal busi
ne.ss and visiting friends.
Shushanna residents are in re
ceipt of communications from
Lyle Brown a former resident of
the district, inquiring about the
possibility of hauling freight by
caterpillar from Chitina into
Shushanna by way of Nabesna.
George Comstock, who has
been game warden for this dis
trict for the last six months or
so, has resigned and letc on to
day’s train for the coast. He is
on his way to Juneau.
Jack Schultz, who has spent
the hist three months at a O. R
&NW. tie camp, came to town on
Wednesday’s train. He expects
to stay in McCarthy for a few
weeks, after which he will leave
for his home in Detroit.
X. Aubut, winter manager of
the lower camp at Chititu, was
in town this week.
Marian Wills celebrated her
tinrd birthday yesterday, Febru
ary 2h. The occasion was observ
ed with a party at the Wills’
home, and Marian was the recipi
ent of many gifts, including a
dainty wrist watch.
Joe Sommers, a Green Butte
employee, took in the Leap Year
Dance Friday evening.
James Gaskell, manager of the
Green Butte, made a combined'
business and pleasure trip to
town Friday.
Carl Anderson, who is now
working at the Green Butte,
came down for the big dance.
J. E. Barrett of the Green
Butte, was in town Friday and
was escosted to the Leap Year
Ball by Mrs. Barrett.