The McCarthy
Weekly News
VOL: X
McCarthy, alaska, Saturday,
MiU'. 2t>, 1.^7.
STEAMER HUMROKDT
HAS R1NANC1 AL WOE
Tht* following u! t.icU» appear
ed in the San Francisco Evam —
iner.
Gone are the adventures
and the Klondike “kings” of 'OS.
hut the ship that carried more
passengers and gold outof Alaska
than any other live vessels on the
coast, is lying today in tic* H tnlon
shipyards along the Gakland wat
erfront as trim and seaworthy
as she was thirty years ,igo.
And the man who too'c her
north for the first trip, who <juell
od the gun fights of the madden
ed miners, settled the disputes of
their angry camp following mist
jesses and lost only $100,000 out
of SlOt),000,000 worth of gold dust
and bullion that comprised his
cargo, is in command of the Hum
bold t today.
' „ I
t ’apt E.G. Baughman is still
master of the most historic ship;
that sails thru the Golden Gate,
these da.\ s, the slim, white craft
made .">05 trips into northern wa j
ters and was nick-named "the
treasure ship."
r xcit mg da.\ s and dang -
erous, those gold i ush days, ’ de j
dart'd i la captain, the tall white
haired and unsmiling master
whose word was the only law a —
mong the roughest outfit that
ever ihton-ged north at the smell 1
o! "gold..l lie.y di nnk champagne
like water and every morning
after breakfast there’d he 75 or
100 empty Dottles lying on tine
table."
Among the famous kings of
the Klondike who shipped aboard
Vile liumboldtand uei e puta;shore
oil the rocks ftt hike owe the pas
ses to the Yukon, weie such men
as Charlie Anderson, the “Lucay
Swede,” who sat up in Ins cabin
every trip south to guard the
piles ot gold bars stacked all
around him; “Kings” McDonald
LaDne and "Soapy" Smith, ring
leader of the Skagway “had men.
SKWAI ID'S HATCHERY
DESTROYED HY KIRK
The Kish Hatchery at Sew
arc], was recently destroyed by
fire, this is one of thiae that is
being maintianed by the Territ
ory, and cost approximately Si.".
000.
I lie value ol hatcheries have i
become an recognized fact all ,
t h rough t he State*, and it sh hi Id j
»e nre',■(| upon on*- Territorial
Legislature, the necessity ol
establishing more hatcheries
through out Alaska.
The are long since
gone ami their gold spent ami
stolen and hidden away and it
now appears that the famous old
Humboldt is also about to pass
from the picture. In the vei n
aeular of the shipping world she
lias been “plastered” for debt.
Until Flyer Line became finan
cially involved the Humboldt was
making regular trips between
San Francisco and Los Angelos.
There is a fantastic tale
that sailors tell about the craft,
that some where in the dark
depths of tier hold are bars of
gold to the sum ol’S^O.OOO. Of the
5100.000 that was stolen on a trip
from Alaska in 1910 $20,()()() was
recovered ashore, out the thieves
were not able to land the rest, so
the story goes, and so slipped'
the bars into the hold of the ship, j
Be th it as it may, the ship!
that earned sled dogs and pet
bears, wild Women and wild wol
ves, along with her treasure car
go m the old days, is slid sturdy;
her captain and only commander
since she was launched in Hum
boldt Hay thirty-one years ago,
is the only member of the crew
remaining.
The clothing industry tops
: all others in New York with
115.000 employes.
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INDIANA DACK WOODS
UNCHANGED IN CKNTrDY
I m.iiinapolis,— Imii inn. !->
1 r;i|»i• Il.v becoming mi industrial ;
(joinmunwenltd, Out within mij
hour’s l ido of the* Hoosier <*;i|)ir.;i]
j the tra.Veler in.i\ encounter m j
| community almost us piimiiivol
as when I ho state belonged to!
t ho northwest territory.
Log caiiins, auoiont well
swoops and horse d r i.wn vehicles!
typify the mode of life in Drown j
county's wooded hills. Kxn pt (
for one railroad which cuts a"ro!
ss a comer of the county and a!
state highwiy which intersects!
it. i he region is much the same |
as when \’;m Duren was piv.sul-!
ent. |
And its history runs farther j
Kick than that, for an abandoned j
giaveyard at Nashville, inland
county seat, contains blackened j
and fallen headstones recording!
deaths as early as 1^37. I util
lately the only .jiil in the county
was a two story log structure
built in 183
southern uacific cuts
TIME PORTLAND TO KRIS' O:
San Francisco.--The South
ern Pacific announces the open
in*4 of the new Cascade line on
\pril 17. This will cut S1/^ hours
off the schedule between San
Francisco and Portland and seven
hours between Portland and Los
Angeles.
The new train will make the
! Portland —San Francisco run in
i 2e hours and 150 minutes.
ANOTH ER IN V ENTION
A Frenchman has invented!
an umbrella handle in which ai
fountain pen may be carried by
• women who feel the lack of
l pockets.
•A CHI CKLE WILL A(;/ IN
PKOUlT( K FILM COMEDIES
Los Ai—Tin* Examiner
s;l)s KOSCOE ‘‘Eatr.v’’Arbuekle,
W I lose film (• 11'(*e1 WHS ci|! short
ill 112 ! \* ill'll lie was ;ii11si*>I of
tlic death t>j' Virginia. I.i 11>(>«-•, has
signed a five .you- contract, to
produce comedies for Abe Car’,os,
independent producer. Ii is esti
mated the contract will net Si\
:>o' 00J.
A; buckles wile, formerly
I)ori> Dome, is t.o appear with
him in the comedies. Filming
si,i i ts ()crober 1 in Bet lin. All
pictures will be produced abroad
and shown in the United States
after shown in foreign countries.
A i buckle lias also signed a
1(*> week vaudeville contract
starting in San Francisco on
A pril 9,
KEXXK('()TT 10VIES
Sunday March 27th
Reginald Denny
i n
“Skinners Dress Suit”
Pable News M usic
Wednesday March 30th
Lue Cody Gertrude Olinstead
in
“Monte Carlo”
Comedy News
LIZARD PORRIDGE
Leicester, Eng.; Central
African native wives have a firm
belief in lizard porridge as a food
for errant husbands, according
to the Rev. A. S. D. Ranger, who
lias returned home after many
years missionary work in Central
Africa.
The consumption of elec
tricity in Prance is more than
doubling itself every four years.